The Other McCain

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Cleveland ‘House of Horror’ Neighbors Called 911; Police ‘Didn’t Take It Seriously’

Cleveland kidnap suspects Ariel Castro, 52, Onil Castro, 50, and Pedro Castro, 54 The first reports about the rescue of three Cleveland kidnap victims suggested that nobody in the West Side neighborhood ever saw anything out of the ordinary at 2207 Seymour Avenue. Wow “neighbors reported seeing naked women on leashes crawling on all fours […]

‘House of Horrors’: Kidnapped Sex Slaves Held in Chains by School Bus Driver

Amanda Berry (left); Ariel Castro (center); Gina DeJesus (right) Emerging details about what happened at 2207 Seymour Avenue in the West Side home of Cleveland kidnap suspect Ariel Castro: “I’m not the only one on the block that feels ashamed to know that we didn’t notice anything,” neighbor Juan Perez told Cleveland ABC-TV affiliate News […]

To Quote Inspector Harry Callahan …

“Well, I’m all broken up about that man’s rights.” Mississippi is set to execute a man Tuesday night without testing available DNA evidence from a hair sample in his case. ThinkProgress reported last week that a 5-4 court upheld the decision not to test the evidence, in spite of a prosecutor’s inconclusive logic linking the […]

Death by Heartbreak: TV Psychic Told Mom Her Missing Daughter Was Dead

The dramatic rescue of three missing women in Cleveland is all over the news this morning, but amid the joy that they have been found alive, there is a heartbreaking loss to be remembered: The cases of the missing Cleveland girls took heartbreaking turns over the years. In 2004, Amanda’s mother Louwana Miller went on […]

Like Many Other Liberal Activists, @Political_Bill Doesn’t Like Police

Of course, if you had gotten busted for possession of drugs and child pornography, maybe you’d hate cops, too: William “Bill” Talley aka @Political_Bill on Twitter … is a convicted sex offender who has managed to delay going to prison through evidentiary appeals. During that time, he has emerged as a progressive voice on Twitterand even briefly enjoyed board status in a […]

Jeff. G. Heroically Resists

The epic saga of Meg Lanker-Simons continues to yield rich and varied opportunities for the deployment of vicious satire: Last night, a bit tipsy on Tullamore Dew Irish Whiskey, I’ll admit, I was subjected to (but nevertheless was able to rebuff) a sudden and violent attempt to hate fuck myself. Unfortunately, the rebuff made me quite angry, […]

No Wonder They Couldn’t Find Her

For 11 years, police in Pennsylvania searched for a woman who had disappeared. It’s easy now to understand why they could find her. She had hitchhiked to Florida, and the photo on the “missing” posters didn’t look anything like her after 11 years of hard living: People thought Brenda Heist had been murdered. Her ex-husband […]

The Burqa as Crime Accessory: Woman Indicted for Kidnap, Rape of Girl

This is one of the most strange and horrible crimes imaginable: A 19-year-old woman has been indicted for the January kidnapping and rape of a 5-year-old Philadelphia girl. Prosecutors say Christina Regusters wore an Islamic veil and pretended to be the mother of Nailla Robinson when she checked the kindergartner out of school in January. The girl […]

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