The Other McCain

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

Banjo Player Caught in Child-Sex Sting

Abraham Spear: Banjo-playing pedophile When someone told me about this story, my first thought was, “Well, of course he’s a banjo player.” IYKWIMAITYD: A country musician has been sentenced to 17 years in prison after pleading guilty to trying to have sex with a woman’s seven and nine-year-old daughters. Abraham Spear was arrested at a […]

Sex Charges Against Two Basketball Coaches at Same Nevada Middle School

In August, police in Clark County, Nevada, arrested Alphonso Washington, 47, and charged him with “misdemeanor lewdness . . . alleging he inappropriately touched female students” at Lied Middle School, where he was coach of the girls’ basketball team. Friday, the boys basketball coach at the same school, 44-year-old Michael Barclay, was “charged with attempted […]

Lesbian Pedophile Molests 3-Year-Old Girl, Faces Federal Child Porn Charges

Sex offender Angela D. Martin was arrested again last week. FBI press release, Sept. 20: Wallingford Woman Charged with Producing and Distributing Child Pornography Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Rhonda M. Glover, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that Angela […]

Texas Democrat Student Group Leader Exposed as Convicted Sex Offender

Convicted sex offender Billy Johnson A convicted sex offender is the leader of a Democrat student group at a Texas university, Katherine Timpf of Campus Reform reports. Billy Johnson, who is president of the Young Democrats chapter at the University of Texas-Pan American (UTPA) campus in Edinburg, Texas, was convicted in 2003 of “indecency” with […]

The Homeless: A Criminal Menace

A 21-year-old woman was seriously injured Wednesday in White Plains, N.Y., when a homeless man who had been panhandling at the train station pushed her in front of a commuter train: The suspect — Howard J. Mickens, 39, who lives in a White Plains shelter — was charged with second-degree attempted homicide, police told 1010 […]

News Flash: Crazy People Are Dangerous

This isn’t really surprising, is it? The man who killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard 10 days ago left behind electronic documents saying that the government had been attacking his brain for the past three months using “extremely low frequency” electromagnetic waves created by the Navy . . . The documents provide the […]

William Bratton, ‘Broken Windows’ and the Importance of Public Order

While writing about the Matthew Shepard case, I mentioned how a crackdown on fare-beaters in the New York City subway system turned up a number of criminals wanted on warrants for serious crime. Someone on Twitter asked for more information about this, so I found this article at City Journal featuring William Bratton, the police […]

The Sorelian Myth of Matthew Shepard: Petty Criminals and Liberal Media Bias

Matthew Shepard’s killers Russell Henderson (left) and Aaron McKinney (right). When I was a freshman in college, Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood was an assigned reading and one of the lessons of the book — perhaps not a lesson the author intended, but one I’ve since seen replicated over and over — is how notorious […]

« go back — keep looking »