The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Judge Bans Woman From Twitter

How to lose your First Amendment rights: A suburban Philadelphia woman has been banned from using Twitter as part of her sentence for a stalking conviction. Montgomery County Judge William Carpenter barred 34-year-old Sadiyyah Young of Pottstown from tweeting for at least five years. Authorities say Young used derogatory and harassing tweets against people involved […]

Police Seek Drug Trafficking Network Inside New Mexico Man’s Rectum

A guy named David Eckert of Deming, New Mexico, was suspected of concealing an entire drug cartel in his colon. Or maybe he just ran a stop sign and some cops with nothing better to do decided they had probable cause to get all up into David Eckert’s ass: Eckert’s attorney, Shannon Kennedy, said in […]

Teachers Arrested for Child Pornography

Sunday, after reporting the arrest of a youth football coach for allegedly raping an 11-year-old cheerleader, I did a Google News search and quickly compiled a list of five other recent cases where cheerleaders were molested by coaches. My young friend Christine Rousselle objected that I was unfairly tainting an entire profession for the acts […]

Youth Football Coach Charged With Raping Cheerleader When She Was 11

The Philadelphia Inquirer: A Bucks County man was charged Friday with allegedly raping a girl when she was between the ages of 11 and 13. Authorities said they are concerned about the possibility of more victims. Keith Peschen is a former football coach and is the board president of the Levittown Lions, a youth football […]

‘A Lengthy Criminal History’

Is anyone really surprised? Aurora police arrested a man they suspect kidnapped an 8-year-old girl from her bedroom on Monday. John Stanley Snorsky, 26, of Aurora has been charged with first- and second-degree burglary and second-degree kidnapping, according to Aurora police. . . . Snorsky has a lengthy criminal history, including armed burglaries and violent […]

LAX Shooter: Some Kind of Kook

There’s this weird little game going on between the Justice Department and the media where bits and pieces of LAX gunman Paul Ciancia’s one-page manifesto keep getting leaked out, and yet it seems no one has the entire note. So the shooter supposedly ranted about the “New World Order” and “fiat currency,” which is being […]

Suicidal 23-Year-Old NJ Guy Who Hated ‘Pigs’ Reported as #LAX Shooter

Multiple sources have confirmed Paul Ciancia, 23, of Pennsville, New Jersey, has been identified as the gunman in the shooting at Los Angeles International Airport. Pete Williams of NBC News characterized Ciancia as motivated by “strong anti-government views” and a lot of us who have seen this media pattern for years just rolled our eyes. […]

Texas Appeals Court: It’s OK to Talk Dirty to Kids, Because … Shakespeare!

Apparently, the Court sees no distinction between Shakespeare, a Miley Cyrus video and obscene text messages: Talking dirty to minors, just like Miley Cyrus “twerking” on MTV or Janet Jackson having a “wardrobe malfunction” during prime time, is constitutionally protected free speech, the highest criminal court in Texas ruled Wednesday. The Texas Court of Criminal […]

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