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Agents began dismantling a massive Southie drug factory yesterday where MIT graduate Kevin McCormick was found dead after an apparent wild weekend sex romp gone wrong. Police say they found hundreds of chemicals used to concoct club and date-rape drugs such as crystal methamphetamine and “Special K.” “This is probably the largest (meth) lab we’ve seen in the Northeast in the past 10 years,” said an investigating agent from the Drug Enforcement Administration who refused to give his name. “This is not a small lab. This is not a mom and pop lab.” Investigators found chemicals used to manufacture crystal...

the clinton-clinton-Broaddrick kind of rape, according to Susan Estrich by Mia T, 10.21.05   Susan Estrich is the Democrat political operative who put Dukakis in a tank and would put hillary in the White House. Amazon.com sales rank suggests another tank for Susan: Following her sales pitch on Hannity and Colmes tonight, her book, The Case for Hillary Clinton went from bad to worse, (It instantly sustained a 10% decline to #8517.) Ms. Estrich also wrote Real Rape, a book about the clinton-clinton-Broaddrick kind of rape. But that was before she was tapped by the clinton machine to cover for......

Beth Holloway Twitty tends to hug reporters. She asks about their families and seems to mean it. In interviews, she rarely breaks eye contact and begins every few sentences with the reporter's name, as in, "Dan, it's just been a nightmare," or "You know, Larry, I can't tell you how frustrating this is." Twitty talks daily by phone with Greta Van Susteren, the Fox News personality who practically moved to Aruba to report the story that has captivated people around the world and turned the grieving mother into a peculiar kind of superstar. Natalee Holloway, Twitty's 18-year-old daughter, disappeared May...

OCALA - After spending weeks in Aruba investigating the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, a Marion County man says he knows exactly what treachery befell the Alabama teenager, and begins a call for American justice on a national platform today. Arthur Wood, a retired Secret Service agent living in the SummerGlen community southwest of Ocala, has been on the front line of trying to solve the mystery surrounding Holloway's May 30 disappearance during her high school graduation trip to the tiny southwest Caribbean island. Acting first as an unpaid consultant for two Aruban newspapers, Wood put 21 years of investigative skill...

ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) -- A court ruled Wednesday that three suspects in the disappearance of a U.S. teenager can remain free without conditions -- overturning an earlier decision that restricted their travel and required them to remain available to investigators. The appeals court ruled there was a "lack of sufficient grounds and serious suspicions" to keep the restrictions on Joran van der Sloot and two Surinamese brothers, Deepak and Satish Kalpoe, the Aruban prosecutor's office said. The three young men remain suspects in the May 30 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, the prosecutor's office said in a statement. Holloway,...

The Aruban incident ticks me off on three levels: 1. The total obfuscation coming from the pencil neck geek Aruban teens, from the Frankenstein-like Dutch punk and from his lawless lawyer father. As macabre and irreparably dented as the BTK killer is, at least when he was caught, he came clean. Not so with these palm pilots. 2. The incredibly decrepit Aruban Keystone cops and their banana republic judicial system who have handled this case like MC Hammer handled his finances during the 90’s and . . . 3. The fact that this could have been avoided if . ....

Petaluma police and federal drug agents were amazed this morning by the size of a weekend drug bust that netted as much as 15 gallons of a substance believed to be the “date rape” drug GHB. Thomas Miller, a 35-year-old personal trainer from Santa Rosa, remained jailed in Sonoma County this morning in lieu of $50,000 bail, charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell. Investigators got wind of the shipment Friday night when officials at DHL called Petaluma police to report receiving a 110-pound steel keg that had arrived from China. “We got a call from...

"IN SEDUCTION, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine," proclaimed radical feminist Andrea Dworkin in 1976. If you're a woman born 20 years ago, you probably don't even recognize Dworkin's name. Yet, there's a good chance you've had some seriously frustrating dates with her unwitting progeny: the guy who waits until date three or four—not to grab you, throw you up against the wall and suck face—but to politely inquire, "May I kiss you?" Equal pay for equal work? It's a beautiful thing. Equal opportunity? Thrilled to have it. We women owe an enormous debt to Susan...

More than one in four sexual assaults occur after a woman has been drugged by her assailant, according to new Canadian research. The study, published in the Canadian Journal of Public Health, shows that the incidence of so-called ''date-rape drugging'' has increased dramatically in the past decade. It also reveals that the vast majority of those who are drugged, then raped, are teenagers aged 15 to 19. The study, conducted by a team led by Margaret McGregor of the Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia, is believed to be the first to measure the extent of...

The mainstream media has made a huge blunder in failing to report the basic allegations of the Kerry intern matter that has just been released by The Drudge Report. Ultimately, the media's treatment of this matter will result in more people going to the Internet and talk radio for their news. The networks and the mainstream press will continue to lose viewers and readers as more Americans realize that their news is filtered, massaged, packaged and shaped by the mainstream media before it is broadcast to what they undoubtedly view as the unsophisticated rabble in this country. My first reaction...

SO FAR unscathed by rumours of a two-year-long affair with a 24-year-old journalist, the United States senator John Kerry could be just 24 hours away from sealing victory for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. His crushing victories in the Nevada and Washington DC caucuses on Saturday, have tightened his grip on the nomination. Tomorrow’s primary in Wisconsin may be the last realistic chance Senator John Edwards and Howard Dean have of stopping his march to victory. It is likely that only a major crisis or embarrassment can now prevent Mr Kerry from winning the right to challenge George Bush this...

BRING IT ON Feb 14 2004 Kerry: I'm not worried about claims of affair From Anthony Harwood, US Editor PRESIDENTAL hopeful John Kerry yesterday rubbished claims he had an affair with an intern - and vowed to "fight back" against smears. And he accused the Bush campaign of doing "anything" it could to deflect from the president's poor showing in the polls. Kerry, 60, was accused on a right-wing website of a relationship with journalist Alex Polier. NOTHING TO HIDE: Kerry There is no evidence they had an affair but her father, Terry, 56, has branded Kerry, dubbed the new...

WILLIAMSBURG -- A 16-year-old Middle Peninsula girl says a College of William and Mary student raped her at a fraternity party Saturday night. While the city prosecutor is preparing to take the case to a grand jury, the college's president has asked for an internal review of social functions and alcohol on the campus. [snip] ...Campus police were notified about the incident early Sunday, when they were called to Riverside Walter Reed Hospital in Gloucester, where the girl had gone for treatment, according to a police officer's sworn statement. The statement says the girl told police she attended a party...

Campos: The new politics of rape July 22, 2003 How much evidence do you need to convict somebody of rape in Colorado? It would appear the answer is, "not much, under the right circumstances." Consider the following case from August of 2000. Two University of Denver students went on a date. Both agreed that they drank alcohol and smoked marijuana, that the woman invited the man back to her room, that they engaged in intimate physical contact, and that she allowed him to spend the night with her. Then their stories diverged. The woman claimed that, when the man attempted...

A Kaiser Permanente anesthesiologist has admitted to ordering controlled substances over the Internet that when mixed together produces gamma hydroxibutyric acid, or GHB, better known as the "date rape drug." In a complaint filed in U.S. District Court yesterday, Dr. Peter Edward Fong told federal authorities he used the drugs to help him sleep. He claimed he thought it was legal to order the drugs. Fong, who works at the Moanalua Medical Center, was arrested yesterday for importing quantities of gamma hydroxibutyric acid lactone, or GBL, and butanediol, or BD -- both industrial solvents closely related to GHB. He was...