Posted on | March 12, 2026 | No Comments
Not every day I quote the King James Bible in a headline, but it seems that some people don’t understand why the Ninth Commandment is so important that God felt the need to include it in the Top Ten.
Making false accusations is both a sin and a crime, and it can also be a tort — libel or slander — although as a society we have allowed this sin to go unpunished so often that some people think they can get away with it. If you’re wondering about the mug shot at the top of this post, she once broke the Ninth Commandment without suffering any consequences, but then she later broke another commandment, and was sent to prison.
She walked out of the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women last month, having served her time. When I saw the news of her release, I checked the calendar and discovered that tomorrow, March 13, is the 20th anniversary of a notorious event in North Carolina:
March 13, 2006, was a Monday night, and one might suppose that the Allure Escort Service in Durham, North Carolina, would have had many adult entertainers available for the occasion. For some reason that was never adequately explained, however, while the lacrosse team captains had reportedly requested white strippers, the two performers sent to 610 North Buchanan Boulevard were a 31-year-old mixed-race woman, Kim Roberts (half-black, half-Korean), and Ms. Mangum, a black woman who was then 27. This contributed a racial aspect to the subsequent controversy that had a magnetic effect in attracting national media attention. . . .
You can read the rest of my latest column at The American Spectator.
