Less than a day into the Manti Te’o revelations, we’ve heard more about a fake dead girlfriend of a Notre Dame football player than a real dead girl. Lizzy Seeberg committed suicide, not long after being intimidated by Notre Dame football players for reporting a sexual assault by one of their teammates. A second woman who was taken to the hospital for a rape exam declined to formally accuse another Notre Dame football player after getting a series of bullying texts from players.The handful of people who immediately took note of the contrast in the attention — both by the press and by the university — are absolutely right to be angry. But no one should be surprised.Continue Reading… … Read More
Sandusky victim speaks out about abuse
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“Climategate” scientist sues National Review for libel
Michael Mann, a climatologist and professor at Penn State, is suing the National Review for defamation, in connection with the trumped-up “Climategate” controversy that began in 2009.Mann filed his complaint against the National Review Inc., the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and journalists Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn for articles in July that the complaint says made “utterly false and defamatory statements against Dr. Mann — accusing him of academic fraud and comparing him to a convicted child molester, Jerry Sandusky, the disgraced former football coach at Pennsylvania State University.”In one article in question, Steyn compared the Penn State investigation to its investigation of Jerry Sandusky. “And, as with Sandusky and [former football coach Joe] Paterno, the college declined to find one of its star names guilty of any wrongdoing,” he wrote.Continue Reading… … Read More
