The Other McCain

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

Anonymous Compares Bradley Manning to Nelson Mandela (Irony Alert)

#Anonymous is circulating this. pic.twitter.com/jnAYvuHgfL Irony much? — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) December 12, 2013 In that analogy, President Obama is P.W. Botha and laws to punish disobedient soldiers are apartheid. Remember that Bradley Manning was the emotionally disturbed Army private who illegally provided classified U.S. documents to Julian Assange’s Wikileaks. Conservatives are often accused of […]

‘Teacher of the Year’ Learns a Tough Lesson: Always Take the Plea Bargain

Ethel Anderson, 31, was once voted “Teacher of the Year” in Riverside, Florida. You might have thought that when prosecutors offered her a 15-year-sentence, the former language arts teacher at Mango Elementary would have known it was the best she could hope for: A female teacher found guilty of having sex with a 12-year-old student […]

‘They Started to Fight Over Her and I Knew She Was Going to Be Raped’

  Maybe if it had been committed by the Duke lacrosse team, you would have heard of this atrocity by now, but it happened five years ago in another country. Amanda Marcotte probably didn’t notice: Jamie Paterson, 17: “I was lying down and I could hear them undoing the TV and then throwing it across […]

Lunenburg, Massachusetts: Mother Suspected in Fake Racism Hoax?

A supposed hate crime that made big news in Massachusetts now appears to have been a hoax — but still, perhaps, a crime: The investigation into who spray painted a home with racist graffiti last month has turned toward the woman who lives there. Police said on Wednesday that Andrea Brazier is now considered a […]

Public Education News Updates

Colorado Springs, Nov. 22: A Widefield High School teacher accused of sexual assault apparently had the habit of talking to male students about homosexual sex, grabbing their nipples and touching their crotches in a way that several students referred to as “cup checking,” according to an arrest affidavit. Lee Edward Riddle, a 29-year-old German language […]

Perhaps It’s Time to Ask Again, ‘What Does a Social Disaster Sound Like?’

The infamous ‘Group of 88’ ad in the Duke Chronicle, April 6, 2006. Michael W. Chapman at CNS News: When Crystal Mangum falsely accused several Duke lacrosse players of rape in 2006, there were 160 major television news stories in the first five days after the players were arrested, but in 2013, when Mangum was […]

Happy #FreeKate Thanksgiving: Lesbian Cheerleader Spends Holiday in Jail

Of the many strange stories I’ve covered in my 27-year career, none of them — not even the 2012 Iowa GOP caucus campaign — was quite as bizarre as the Kaitlyn Hunt story, which originally struck me as sort of a joke: “You deviant weirdos thought Jailbait Lesbian School Girls was just a popular DVD title, but […]

What #FreeKate and Brett Kimberlin Have in Common (Besides the Obvious)

‘Speedway Bomber’ Brett Kimberlin was sentenced to 50 years in 1981 “It is very easy to decide ‘this isn’t any of my trouble’ and permit vicious behavior. “Who wants to get involved? Easier, and surely safer, just to duck one’s head and hide, and hope the danger visits someone else. . . . “And why […]

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