The Other McCain

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

‘Assange Told Him He Didn’t Care How the Information Was Obtained’

Siggi Thordarson (left) with Julian Assange My colleague Ali Akbar called my attention to this Rolling Stone story about Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson, the hacking wunderkind who at age 17 became Julian Assange’s most valuable assistant. Thordason reveals the reckless ambition and cult-like paranoia inside the WikiLeaks freak show, and this 600-word excerpt is pretty brutal: […]

In Which @AmandaHess Locates the Problem of Online Harassment

She wants to believe that it is about sexism or misogyny, but as a guy who has experienced online harassment myself, I know this is false. Yes, women are in many ways particularly vulnerable to this — ask Michelle Malkin, Dana Loesch, Ann Coulter or Katie Pavlich — but the fundamental problem isn’t really about […]

Democrats and the Murder Vote

Ann Althouse was shocked by this quote: “There are thousands of murderers walking around who haven’t been brought to justice…. It’s horrifying.” But how else could Democrats get elected? Jail survey: 7 in 10 felons register as Democrats Maybe somebody should write a book about this . . .  

Florida: The Crazy State

Yes, I’m aware I used the same headline yesterday, but our national lunatic asylum continues to earn its moniker: A Palm Bay man was arrested after police say home surveillance video caught him in sexual acts involving his family’s dog. Joshua Werbicki, 22, was charged last week with animal cruelty and sexual acts involving animals. […]

Florida: The Crazy State

News from our national lunatic asylum: A man who shot a trucker to death in 1992 but was judged to be criminally insane seemed nervous Saturday when stopped for speeding east of Gainesville, a deputy reported. David Harris Dunaway, 58, was wanted by federal authorities, the deputy learned. A grand jury in Tampa had indicted […]

Game Hackers Launch DDOS, Target @PhantomL0rd for SWATting
UPDATE: In Video, Gamer Describes Police Raid With Automatic Weapons

@PhantomL0rd is a popular videogame blogger who last night got SWATted by a gang of hacker trolls: A group of hackers going by the name DERP has launched DDoS attacks on a number of big games and websites today, bringing a number of them down, including the homepage of Electronic Arts. The attacks have been […]

Gay Student Charged With Felonies in Weird Sexual Extortion Scheme

In an unusually elaborate example of media bias, the only way you would realize the perpetrator of this crime was gay is if you carefully scrutinized the pronouns in the Columbus Dispatch story: An Ohio University student is set to go on trial in February on felony charges of blackmailing another student into having sex […]

Kaitlyn Hunt’s Probation Page

The World’s Most Famous Sex Offender™ was released from the Indian River County Jail Dec. 20 and will remain part of Florida’s “supervised population” until Oct. 1, 2016. WPTV reported: VERO BEACH, Fla. — Kaitlyn Hunt, the Sebastian-area teenager who was arrested after police said she had a sexual relationship with an underage girl, was […]

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