The Other McCain

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

His Ex-Girlfriend Was Driving the Bus

The Los Angeles Department of Transportation operates a fleet of buses called DASH (Downtown Area Short Hop). Two days before Thanksgiving, 911 received a call that one of the DASH buses was being followed by an armed man driving a white Maserati. The caller told the 911 dispatcher there was a “domestic dispute” between the […]

Vindicated: Britain’s ‘Grooming Gangs’ Finally Get the Attention They Deserve

Because Elon Musk decided to remind people of the role that Britain’s Labour Party played in the “grooming gang” scandal, suddenly millions of people who never knew about the scandal — particularly in the United States — are talking about this as if it were breaking news. And while I suppose I should be grateful […]

Terrorism on Bourbon Street

It was nearly 4 in the morning on New Year’s Day, but crowds of people were still celebrating on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, because celebrating until dawn is what you do when you’re in New Orleans, unless the reason you’re in New Orleans is to kill people: The suspect accused of plowing a pickup […]

A Product of the Crazy-Making Factory

Notice the slogan on Natalie Rupnow’s T-shirt: “KMFDM,” a reference to Kein Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid (“no pity for the majority”), a German rock band whose fans included Columbine High School gunman Eric Harris. Lyrics to KMFDM songs were posted on Harris’s website, and fandom of KMFDM was part of Natalie Rupnow’s obsession with mass […]

Radicalized: Ivy League Boy Reads ‘Unabomber’ Manifesto, Becomes Killer

The headline is your “tl:dr” summary of what might otherwise seem mysterious: Why would the handsome young scion of a prominent Maryland family decide to murder the CEO of a health insurance company? Meanwhile, here’s the New York Times story: Luigi Mangione, the online version of him, was an Ivy League tech enthusiast who flaunted […]

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Say hello to Daniel Escalera and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because Escalera was shot dead by police last Sunday when he went crazy and attacked an Illinois nursing home: A chainsaw-wielding man was shot and killed by police Sunday morning in the west suburbs, officials said. The officer-involved shooting happened […]

Antifa Assassin? Health Insurance CEO Gunned Down on Manhattan Street

A masked man using a pistol with a silencer murdered a health insurance CEO near the Hilton hotel on 6th Avenue in midtown Manhattan this morning, and Ace of Spades speculates that the gunman was Antifa, which might be the only political motive that makes sense, but I have no reason to suspect that this […]

Probably Not Wearing a MAGA Hat

This has not yet been classified as a “hate crime” and I don’t expect CNN viewers will hear a word about it for some reason: The gunman who allegedly shot an Orthodox Jewish man walking to synagogue Saturday morning in Chicago has been identified as 22-year-old Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi. Abdallahi reportedly shot the 39-year-old victim […]

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