The Other McCain

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

Claudio Neves-Valente Identified as Brown University Gunman, Found Dead

It was a wild and sudden finish to a mysterious case Thursday night. A press conference had been scheduled in Providence, Rhode Island, after it was reported that police had finally identified a “person of interest” wanted in connection with last Saturday’s deadly shooting at Brown University. However, the press conference was then cancelled, as […]

Finally: ‘Person of Interest’ Reportedly Identified in Brown University Shooting

After six days of double-talk and obfuscation, at last authorities in Rhode Island claim to have gotten a clue about the killer: Law enforcement is investigating possible connections between the mass shooting at Brown University on Saturday afternoon and the targeted killing of an MIT professor two days later, sources tell CBS News. Prior, multiple […]

What ‘White Privilege’ Looks Like

This was one of those “viral video” stories that I was going to let pass by without comment, until I got the details from Miranda Devine’s column in the New York Post. First of all, you have to know that this incident took place at “the upscale Clarke Cooke House,” which just happens to be […]

Massachusetts Man Arrested for Kidnapping Teen Girls for Prostitution

Derek Miranda was arrested in Rhode Island: Three missing girls from Massachusetts were being held against their will in Providence to be sold for sex by an 21-year-old Dorchester man, according to Providence police. Their whereabouts were discovered late Thursday night when one of the 14-year-old girls managed to escape the third-floor apartment at 95 […]

The Vocabulary of Professor Erik Loomis: ‘Motherf–ing F–kheads F–king F–k’

Dishonest academic defenders of University of Rhode Island assistant history professor Erik Loomis have repeated the professor’s false assertion that he was criticized merely for using “metaphor” in his unhinged Dec. 14 attacks on the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre. One critic has decscribed the petition on behalf of Loomis, although ostensibly a defense of free speech rights, as […]

#Metaphor: Academics Sign Their Own Death Warrants by Defending Loomis

It’s a formula: [Thing you’re angry about] [epithet] [Republican you blame] [obscenity] [heinously violent death wish] #metaphor @jimmiebjr — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) December 19, 2012 For example: “Barbara Walters should be eviscerated by machete-wielding crackheads! #metaphor” — bingo, you’re a tenured Ph.D.@jimmiebjr — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) December 19, 2012 Professor Erik “Head on […]

University President Repudiates Professor’s Violent Anti-NRA Messages UPDATE: Associated Press Article Whitewashes Loomis Scandal

University of Rhode Island Professor Erik Loomis An assistant history professor whose angry Twitter rants against the National Rifle Association caused an online controvery this week “does not speak on behalf of the University [of Rhode Island],” the institution’s president declared yesterday. Erik Loomis, a progressive blogger who teaches history at URI, was widely criticized […]

Is It ‘Metaphor’ to Suggest Erik Loomis Should Be Sodomized by Orangutangs? UPDATE: Is Professor ‘Head on a Stick’ Now Under State Police Protection?

Who knows? Maybe he’d enjoy it. At any rate, University of Rhode Island Assistant Professor of History Erik Loomis seems to consider colorful language acceptable in political discourse, so that it’s OK to say that the National Rifle Association is a “terrorist organization” and that he wants NRA chief Wayne LaPierre’s “head on a stick,” among other […]

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