The Other McCain

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

Girl Found Alive After Being Kidnapped by Man Who Murdered Her Parents

  Thirteen-year-old Jayme Closs escaped with her life Thursday after being held captive for nearly three months by the man who police say murdered her parents James and Denise Closs. The suspect, 21-year-old Jake Thomas Patterson, specifically targeted the Closs home Oct. 15 with the intention of kidnapping Jayme, according to authorities in Wisconsin: Barron […]

Crazy People Are Dangerous: Florida Stripper Had Mass Murder Fantasies

  News from The Crazy State: An exotic dancer in Florida was arrested Wednesday after writing about her “urges” to undertake a mass shooting in a crowded area, police said. Brein Basarich, 31, who worked at the Showgirls Men’s Club in Plant City, admitted to posting the threats on her Tumblr account under the username […]

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 […]

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