Category Archives: Freedom of Speech and of the Press

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Cornell University channels Faber College "You can’t hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn’t we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn’t this an indictment of our educational institutions in general?"

My good friend Robert Stacy McCain wrote:

No national controversy is complete until Amanda Marcotte has made a fool of herself about it, and the feminist writer has gotten a good head start on the so-called “Cornell 7” case. The sordid tale of an Ivy League orgy that devolved into accusations of sexual assault prompted Marcotte to indict “Trumpism” as somehow explaining skeptical reactions to the story.

That is an absolutely true statement, and Mr McCain was hardly the only person to make fun of Miss Marcotte’s Salon post blaming the (alleged) rape of Lucy Craig — her identity has been widely disseminated, so I will not use the “Jane Doe” identity concealing pseudonym — on evil, reich-wing conservatives. There are plenty of rape accusations which have been real rapes, but for some strange reason, the author picks the ones which are highly questionable to try to make her case. Remember: she tried to make a case against the falsely accused members of the Duke lacrosse team two decades ago, only to have to eat her words — not really — as the truth came out. Continue reading →

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That thing that never happens has happened again

We have been saying this for a while now, and it seems that every passing day reaffirms the truth of it: if a person is, in the characterization by Colonel Batguano in Dr Strangelove, a “deviated prevert” in one thing, the probabilities that he will be a pervert in something else are very high.

Woman accused of sexually abusing minor during North Fort Myers house showing

by Layza Pinero Resto | Thursday, October 8, 2026 | 1:13 PM EDT

NORTH FORT MYERS, Fla. — Deputies with the Lee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a woman accused of inappropriately touching an underage victim during a house showing.

Note that the Gulf Coast News referred to the suspect as a woman, and uses the feminine pronouns in reference to him further down in the story, but the suspect, one Uriel Santiago Perez, is actually male, and is so listed in the police report. Continue reading →

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There’s some major irony in Amanda Marcotte telling other people to shut up She doesn't want anyone to judge the alleged victim, but loves judging the accused men

It’s perhaps telling that Amanda Marcotte’s old Twitter biography photo was taken in a bar, and that it advertises Bud Light, though it does predate the Dylan Mulvaney s(tuff).

We suggested, on September 30th, that perhaps the very lovely Amanda Marcotte had learned something from her full-throated accusations against the Duke lacrosse team in 2006, that jumping the gun wasn’t necessarily the wisest thing to do. It took her until October 2nd to weigh in on the case:

In 2017, the #MeToo movement took the nation by storm. A veritable flood of women, and some men, spoke out about their own experiences with sexual abuse, leading to a slew of firings, lawsuits, arrests and social opprobrium of the accused, especially since so many accusers produced compelling evidence. Despite this, it was barely weeks before the backlash began, with countless articles about how #MeToo had gone “too far,” despite scant evidence that innocent men were getting entangled. That response swelled until it overcame #MeToo, which has largely faded into the background. Continue reading →

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Democrisy! If Tim McBride and Will Thomas can be accepted as women, why can’t Hannah Gann be accepted as black and ‘Palestinian’?

The credentialed media amuse me greatly , and none of them more than The Philadelphia Inquirer. After an article on Monday attempting to normalize transgenderism, which included a hyperlink to the newspaper spending “several months chronicling the lives of two transgender women making their way in rural Dauphin County,” Tuesday saw the editors tweeting about having given OpEd space to Rann Miller, an educator and freelance writer based in South Jersey, telling us, in the words of John Prine singing about Dear Abby, “You are what you are and you ain’t what you ain’t.”

Sorry about that convoluted sentence, but I missed the article last Friday!

Hannah Gann’s deceit makes the work of Black and brown justice activists harder

If Gann had truly been committed to the justice movement, she would have known the troubling history of white infiltrators in Black organizations who attempted to sabotage the struggle for freedom.

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I admit it: I never knew that Glenn Greenwald was a rabid anti-Semite!

I confess: I had previously thought of Glenn Greenwald as a journalist and a strong advocate for Freedom of Speech and of the Press. I never knew that he was a raging anti-Semite.

Mr Greenwald tweeted:

What was this IDF soldier doing in the West Bank?

The journalist knew, of course, exactly whet the “IDF soldier” was doing in Samaria, because the CNN article he linked told him: Continue reading →

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The editors of The Philadelphia Inquirer believe that illegal immigrants should be above the law

The Editorial Board of The Philadelphia Inquirer have always been concerned with legality, at least as far as it concerns Donald Trump. They were late to the table to ‘question’ whether the city’s George Soros-sponsored, criminal-loving and police-hating District Attorney, Larry Krasner, should remain in office due to his legal problems. But now it seems that they support law-breakers:

Pennsylvania’s shameful contribution to President Trump’s immigration crackdown | Editorial

Gov. Shapiro should seize the opportunity to counter a cruel attack on the state’s communities.

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You in a heap o’ trouble, mom and dad! So much stupidity involved in this case.

We have previously noted the murder of William “Billy” Schmidt over pure stupidity, a street theft of a cell phone. It took the Philadelphia Police a few weeks to identify the killers, but once they were, one of them fled the state. The alleged killers are minors, but now the parents of one of them are in trouble:

Parents accused of driving teen charged in Penn State student’s killing to Colorado ordered to stand trial

The judge’s ruling came after prosecutors presented evidence on how they allegedly helped their son evade capture following the June killing of William “Billy” Schmidt.

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Denial is not just a river in Egypt Jill Biden says she's still clueless about her husband's condition

The Democrats used a picture of a smiling, robust-looking Joe Biden in their tweet proclaiming President Biden the winner of the debate, but their problem is that he was exposed as not robust, but a faltering and confused elderly man who is visibly sinking into dementia. Even The New York Times couldn’t hide the truth:

A Fumbling Performance, and a Panicking Party

President Biden’s shaky, halting debate performance has Democrats talking about replacing him on the ticket.

by Peter Baker | Thursday, June 27, 2024 | Updated: Friday, June 28, 2024 | 2:35 AM EDT

President Biden hoped to build fresh momentum for his re-election bid by agreeing to debate nearly two months before he is to be formally nominated. Instead, his halting and disjointed performance on Thursday night prompted a wave of panic among Democrats and reopened discussion of whether he should be the nominee at all.

Well, that was then, and this is now, slightly over two years later, and everything has been settled out. Millions of words have been written, including more than a few on this site, as well as Jake Tapper’s and Alex Thompson’s tell-nothing book claiming that they just didn’t know. Continue reading →

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Journalism differences between the Lexington Herald-Leader and Philadelphia Inquirer. ** Updated! ** When a poor newspaper outclasses a wealthy one

The First Street Journal has twice reported on the mass shooting in Charles Young Park in Lexington, Kentucky. We also noted the murder of a 78-year-old man in North Philadelphia Tuesday afternoon.

But there’s a significant difference in coverage between two newspapers to which we subscribe, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Lexington Herald-Leader. The Lexington newspaper is, to put it frankly, dying. Staff have been cut, there have been three General Managers in just a few years, and the paper, which once covered most of eastern and southeastern Kentucky, is a mere shadow if its former self, almost entirely restricted to Lexington now, and print publishing only thrice a week. Continue reading →