The Other McCain

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

Anti-Police Rioters Storm Police Headquarters in St. Louis

“Protesters”? No, this is what a riot looks like: In what was slated as a peaceful “March to the Arch” by Ferguson demonstrators, more than two dozen people were arrested and pepper spray was used by police. The melee unfolded as protesters tried to storm the St. Louis Metropolitan Police headquarters building. About seventy-five people […]

Canada Mass Murder: Gunman Kills Eight, Commits Suicide in Edmonton

His life was falling apart, the Daily Mail reports: A crazed gunman killed six people — two of whom were children — then committed suicide in a Canadian town, police believe. The man, thought to be 53-year-old Phu Lam, was found dead after an alleged rampage in which he attacked his victims in two different […]

But He’s Not a Catholic Priest

Whenever a news story about sexual abuse by a public school teacher makes headlines, Pete Da Tech Guy is always quick to point out that the major media doesn’t see a trend — a pattern of systemic abuse — because the suspect is not a Catholic priest. Sexual abuse is only a newsworthy trend when […]

Feminism: Equality in Misery

Miriam Mogilevsky (@sondosia) is allegedly a human being, although manifestly lacking in empathy and filled with a hateful appetite for sadistic revenge, which is to say she is a feminist. Her numerous efforts to destroy civilization include her advocacy of atheism, because those who hate humanity usually begin by hating God. She developed advanced skills in intellectual […]

‘Operation Stalk My Girlfriend’

Kevin D. Williamson has a column about NSA employees who were caught using the agency’s surveillance technology for personal purposes: Thanks to a Christmas Eve document dump, we learn that agents of the National Security Agency, the spookiest spooks in all our vast spookocracy, are a bunch of stalkers, using the effectively boundless surveillance powers […]

Worse Than Dinkins

The tenure of David Dinkins as mayor of New York City is universally remembered as the absolute nadir of that city’s history, but Bill de Blasio is making a strong claim to the title Worst Mayor Ever: NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of officers outside the church where a funeral was held for a policeman killed along […]

The Fraternity Initiation Rape Story

“Weeks into my undergraduate career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), a friend told me she had been raped a few days earlier as part of a fraternity ‘initiation process.’” — Annie E. Clark, Feb. 28, 2013, Huffington Post When I saw that sentence, it struck me as weirdly similar to […]

Merry Christmas, Haters

Reuters reports: Protests flared into early Thursday in the St. Louis suburb where a white policeman fatally shot a black man who brandished a gun at a gas station on Tuesday night. A group of protesters marched onto Interstate 170 in the city of Berkeley, Missouri, around 7 p.m. on Wednesday, blocking traffic for roughly […]

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