The Other McCain

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

Criminal Tendencies: ‘Poorly Spelled, Profanity-Laced Text Messages’

It starts with stupid people who can’t spell. Next, they discuss their porn careers on Twitter. Inevitably, this leads to murder: A pair of porn actors are starring in a real-life murder mystery. The X-rated boyfriend and girlfriend stabbed and pummeled a Florida tattoo artist with a sledgehammer, detectives said Friday. Amanda Logue, a lingerie shop owner who […]

Dream Date: Youth Prison

From the Department of You Can’t Make This Stuff Up: The New York State Commission of Correction says top officials and staff were irresponsible when they authorized and failed to supervise a party at a youth prison where some violent offenders had sex with dates. The commission faults the Office of Children and Family Services […]

Who Is Todd Gaziano?

That’s the question raised by the Ben Smith column at Politico in which Abigail Thernstrom accuses her fellow Republican members of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission of exploiting the Black Panther voter-intimidation case in pursuit of “their fantasies about how they could use this issue to topple the [Obama] administration.” Thernstrom herself is well-known as a […]

Duke Lacrosse Rape Accuser Headed to Court on Attempted Murder Charge

Thanks to Bob Owens for this update on Crystal Mangum: A Durham woman who falsely accused three Duke University athletes of rape four years ago will be in court Monday on a separate case in which she faces multiple charges, including attempted first-degree murder. . . . Police said she assaulted her boyfriend, Milton Walker, set […]

Roman Polanski Freed By Switzerland

Because Europeans are “sophisticated” like that: Switzerland said on Monday it would not send Roman Polanski back to the United States to face sentencing for unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977, freeing the Oscar-winning director from 10 months arrest. Swiss Justice Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf said she had decided against extradition because of potential […]

Who Commits Crime?

When I was about 15, I read Helter Skelter, prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi’s account of the Manson Family and the Tate-LaBianca murders. One fact that struck me was that Manson was, for most of his life, a small-time hoodlum who compiled a record for relatively minor crimes like burglary, car theft and foregery long before he became notorious as […]

Subversive Newspaper Columnist

No, not Paul Krugman or Dave Weigel. I’m talking about Vicky Pelaez, a columnist for the Spanish-language El Diario for more than 20 years, who was among the suspected Russian agents rounded up by the FBI yesterday. Patrick Ishmael at Hot Air Green Room: Dig around the Internet and you’ll find a few choice nuggets written by […]

VIDEO: Al Gore Sex Scandal

KGW-TV in Portland, Oregon: The masseuse told investigators about an evening massage session during which Gore allegedly became enraged at times and tried to gain sexual favors from the woman. “I was shocked and I did not massage beyond what is considered a safe, nonsexual area of the abdomen,” she said. “He further insisted and […]

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