The Other McCain

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

What Happened to Patrick Crusius?

Last week, I pointed out that: The parents of El Paso mass murderer Patrick Crusius claimed he had been “raised in a family that taught love, kindness, respect, and tolerance — rejecting all forms of racism, prejudice, hatred, and violence.” Crusius’s father John Bryan Crusius “is a licensed professional therapist . . . [who] described […]

Texas Psycho Killer’s Parents Claim They Taught Him ‘Love, Kindness … Tolerance’

  The emerging profile of the accused El Paso gunman shows him to be the spoiled and incompetent offspring of clueless parents: The family of accused El Paso mass shooter Patrick Crusius has released a statement that says he was raised to love and accept others. “Patrick’s actions were apparently influenced and informed by people […]

Dayton Mass Murderer Had More Red Flags Than a May Day Parade in Beijing

  While the media have spent the past 72 hours screeching about “white supremacy” and blaming Donald Trump for the El Paso massacre, the facts emerging about the mass murderer in Dayton, Ohio, have presented a classic case of missed warning signs of dangerous craziness: The man who killed nine people Sunday morning in Dayton’s […]

Two Mass Shootings in 14 Hours: Thoughts on ‘The Gamification of Terror’

  Saturday night on The Other Podcast with John Hoge, we opened the show discussing the shooting at an El Paso Wal Mart that left 20 people dead and 26 injured. The gunman, 21-year-old Patrick Crusius, evidently drove more than 600 miles from his family’s home near Dallas to commit this atrocity. He posted online […]

How Dangerous Is Baltimore?

It’s worse than the countries from which “refugees” are fleeing: WJZ reviewed data from 2018, the last full year for which data is available. Data from the U.S. State Department’s Overseas Security Advisory Council lists El Salvador’s murder rate at 50 per 100,000 residents in 2018. The council’s report listed Guatemala’s 2018 murder rate at […]

The Poison Fruit of Radical Seeds

  Last weekend a gunman opened fire on the annual Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California, killing three and injuring 12. The shooter was soon identified as Santino Legan, 19, and as to his motive, there was a cryptic Instagram reference to Might Is Right by Ragnar Redbeard. We cannot ask the killer what he intended […]

‘Florida Man’ Strikes Again

  Just another random coincidence: A Florida man who had sex with two women while knowingly withholding his HIV positive status was sentenced to a decade behind bars. Rasheem Ikey Bodiford, 27, was sentenced Friday after being found guilty on three felony counts of having sex with another person without notifying that person of his […]

Crazy People Are Dangerous

  In 2009, a Washington State judge granted Trevor Allen Thompson’s petition to change his name to “Paige Adele Thompson.” Thompson’s family had moved from Arkansas to the Seattle area when he was a boy and he decided to remain there after his family moved back to Arkansas. Thompson was emotionally disturbed and had been […]

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