The Other McCain

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

About the @EllenPage #Lesbian Thing …

Found full text of Ellen Page's speech on @HRC Tumblr: http://t.co/ocbWxbkv2L It's pretty hard to make me cry but this did. #LoveIsLouder — Tippi McCullers (@ali_steventon) February 16, 2014 I already loved Ellen Page, and after that amazing speech I love her more! Congrats, @EllenPage! http://t.co/MiiGgEYOVW — Overstuffed Bookcase (@OverstuffedBook) February 16, 2014 While the […]

Police: Arizona Teacher Had Sex on ‘Multiple Occasions’ With Her Son, 13

A Tucson TV station has now edited its story to remove references to the fact that Christine Mazzarella’s alleged 13-year-old victim is her own son, but other news outlets have been less discreet: A Tucson, Ariz., special education teacher faces sexual misconduct charges after police said she had a relationship with her own son. Christine […]

‘If It Was a Rape, It Was Good Rape’

“One of the contributors [to a 1993 feminist essay collection], Doris C. DeHardt, a feminist therapist . . . thinks that ‘feminist marriage is, like military intelligence, an oxymoron.’ . . . [M]ost of the lesbian contributors took no pains to conceal their sense of superiority at living perfectly coherent feminist lives.” — Daphne Patai, […]

Intellectuals and the Total State: @JAMyerson’s Dilettante Marxism

Left to right: Leon Trotsky, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Lavrenti Beria. “Lenin, at every passing opportunity, emphasized the absolute necessity of the terror. . . . “We heard such tirades from him a dozen times a day and they were always aimed at some one among those present who was suspected of ‘pacifism.’” — Leon Trotsky, Lenin […]

Boy-Crazy Teacher Meredith Powell Raped Tacoma Teenagers, Police Say

A 24-year-old Lincoln High School math teacher was charged Thursday with “two counts of third-degree child rape and communication with a minor for immoral purposes via electronic communication,” and on Friday she pleaded not guilty: Meredith Powell performed oral sex on a 15-year-old student in her Tacoma classroom last month and sent him nude photos […]

Whose Children Are They?

Tell you what: How about me and Harvard University Professor Paul Reville go on one of those tacky tabloid TV talk shows where they DNA test children? I’ll bet $100 — no, make it $1 million — that Professor Paul Reville is not the father of any of my children, no matter what he has […]

Lesbian Teacher Could Face Life Sentence for Molesting Two Girls in California

Andrea Michelle Cardosa, 40, was arrested Monday in Riverside County, California, and charged with 16 felony counts after two former students accused her of sexually molesting them. One of the victims, Jamie Carrillo, made headlines last month when she posted a YouTube video of a phone conversation in which she confronted the teacher she said […]

Police: Ex-Teacher Tonya Drueppel, 33, Had Sex With 13-Year-Old ‘Girlfriend’

The headline at the Sioux Falls (S.D.) Argus Leader: Former Sioux Falls teacher accused of raping female student, 14 The headline is misleading because (a) the girl was 13 when the “relationship” began in 2012, and (b) it was “consensual.” Or, as Whoopi Goldberg might say, “It wasn’t rape-rape.” The quality of news coverage on […]

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