The Other McCain

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

Alabama vs. Oklahoma Tonight

  Did you know that tonight’s national championship semifinal between Alabama and Oklahoma will match the two best quarterbacks in the country? Seldom do a Heisman winner and his runner-up meet after the winner is crowned. Even given that rarity, this may be the best postseason clash of college quarterbacks we’ve ever seen. Both are […]

Worst Santa Ever

  Elwyn Crocker Sr., 50, once worked as Santa Claus at the local Wal-Mart in Effingham County, Georgia, but that’s not why he’s in the news this holiday season. The bodies of two of his children, Elwyn Crocker Jr. and Mary Crocker, were found buried in the backyard of his home: As expected by authorities, […]

Happy (High) Holidays

Or perhaps Merry(juana) Christmas: OAKLAND, Calif. (KTVU) — 73-year-old Judy gave the gift of pot to herself, unafraid to vape and smoke inside the lounge at the Magnolia dispensary in Oakland. She said she has been smoking marijuana since the 1960s, and thought the perfect way to relax on Christmas Eve was to buy some […]

Kulaks of New York

If you have studied Soviet history, you know that Josef Stalin waged a campaign of economic warfare against the kulaks — peasants who resisted the Bolshevik agenda of agricultural collectivization. The Democrats who control the state government of New York are doing something similar to their own “class enemies,” deliberately destroying the economy in Republican […]

The Devil’s in Alabama

  Yes, I know Charlie Daniels said the devil went down to Georgia, but that was years ago, and he’s been headed west since then: An Alabama police department has been criticized for blaming recent violence on the community ‘rejecting god and embracing Satan’. The post from the Opp Police Department comes as two gunshot […]

Teacher Pronounces Education Secretary DeVos ‘Completely Under-Qualified’

Hannah Parisa Siboyeh (from her Facebook page). In a video posted to YouTube in February 2017, Hannah Siboyeh provided “a list of reasons why I believe that Betsy DeVos is completely under-qualified to be” U.S. Secretary of Education. Siboyeh at that time was 23, a college student who was also working as a substitute teacher […]

Pro-Choice Activist of the Year

  Close the nominations. I think we have a winner: An Indiana high school football player told investigators that he killed a 17-year-old schoolmate because he was angry that she waited so long to tell him she was pregnant with his child that it was too late to get an abortion, authorities said Monday. Aaron […]

Grandfather’s Transgender Lover Charged With Murdering 1-Year-Old Girl in Texas

Shawn Vincent Boniello, 30, is charged with murdering Annie Rader. Police in Rockdale, Texas, say 20-month-old Patricia Ann Rader was beaten and crushed to death Dec. 3, and “an autopsy showed the girl had extensive internal injuries and broken bones throughout her body.” Police were called to a trailer park where the girl, known as […]

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