The Other McCain

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

Al-Qaeda on the Offensive in Iraq

This was entirely predictable: Insurgents seized control early Tuesday of most of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, including the provincial government headquarters, offering a powerful demonstration of the mounting threat posed by extremists to Iraq’s teetering stability. Fighters with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), an al-Qaeda offshoot, overran the entire western […]

Lesbian Charged With Statutory Rape

A Tennessee woman has been charged with five counts of statutory rape for allegedly having sex with a teenage girl. Stephanie Kaye Stanton, 22, of Lawrenceburg is being held on $100,000 bond: Lawrenceburg police Capt. Don Laws . . . said Stanton is accused of having an “unlawful sexual relationship” with a teenage girl. Laws […]

‘This Feminist Community That I’d Like to Consider Myself a Part Of’

The pathetic phrase quoted in the headline was spoken by Daniel Kopin in an interview with Cathy Young. Kopin, 21, is a Brown University student who was suspended after a school disciplinary proceeding in which he was found responsible for “sexual misconduct” with his ex-girlfriend and fellow Brown student Lena Sclove. It’s an interesting story: […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.10.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Taliban Takes Credit For Karachi Airport Attack Seven more bodies found in airport cold storage unit Qatar World Cup Sponsors Warn FIFA Of Damage From Corruption Visa, Adidas and Sony demand bribery allegations be taken seriously President Al-Sisi Reappoints Prime Minister To Fix Economy A signal of stability and […]

The Politics of Blame

After five years of excuses, straw-man arguments and scapegoating, the Obama administration’s incompetence and irresponsibility have exhausted the patience of many Democrats, Ron Fournier reports: The email hit my in-box at 9:41 p.m. last Wednesday.  From one of the most powerful Democrats in Washington, a close adviser to the White House, the missive amounted to an […]

FBI + IRS = S-C-A-N-D-A-L

Ho-hum — another day, another Nixonian revelation: The Internal Revenue Service may have been caught violating federal tax law: In October 2010, the agency sent a database on 501(c)(4) social-welfare groups containing confidential taxpayer information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to documents obtained by a House panel. The information was transmitted in advance […]

Craigslist Rapist Arrested

Remember the “Craigslist Killer,” Philip Markoff, who was charged with killing a woman he met through a Craigslist ad and was suspected of having robbed two other women? More recently, a 19-year-old Pennsylvania woman, Miranda Barbour, has been called a “Craigslist killer” after police say she murdered a man. Just in case Craigslist did not […]

Like Margaret Thatcher Said

“The problem with socialism is, sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.” Venezuela is learning that lesson the hard way.  

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