The Other McCain

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

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 […]

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Karl ‘Evie’ Amati in 2015, after sex-change surgery in Thailand. Karl Booth Amati grew up in privileged circumstances, the son of two senior labor-union representatives, and graduated from prestigious Shenton College in the suburbs of Perth, Australia, with top grades in 2009. Amati moved across the country to Sydney where, through family connections, he obtained […]

Gang of Black Teenagers Mercilessly Beat White Tourist at D.C. Hilton Hotel

Is this a “hate crime”? Police are hunting for 14 teenagers caught on video brutally beating a tourist outside a renowned hotel in Washington, DC. Disturbing surveillance footage recorded at the entrance to the Washington Hilton Hotel at around 1am on July 14 shows the group of girls and boys believed to be around 13-14 […]

Guatemalan Girl Was Smuggled to Iowa and Repeatedly Raped, Feds Charge

Last month — on June 5 — police in Sioux City, Iowa, found a girl wandering the streets, saying she had been raped. It turned out the girl and her father had been brought from Guatemala by a couple who had been helping smuggle illegal aliens into the United States, according to an arrest affidavit […]

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