BINDERS FULL OF WOMEN

The Huffington Post has a thorough review of the details of the Cleveland "house of horror" and the kidnapping, raping and torturing monster who lived there, Ariel Castro.

A police report brought to light more disturbing details of the kidnapping of three Ohio women imprisoned in a squalid house for about decade.

Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight vanished from the area within two years of each other, and were recovered Monday from a home on Seymour Avenue in Cleveland after neighbors heard Berry screaming for help. Ariel Castro, 52, is accused of having abducted, imprisoned and abused the young women, all of whom gave statements for the police report, which was obtained recently by several news outlets, including the the Cleveland Plain Dealer, NBC local affiliate WKYC and The New York Times.

Among the information in the report is an account from Michelle Knight, abducted in 2002, about how she was impregnated by Castro at least five times. Knight told police Castro caused her to miscarry by starving and beating her.

Amanda Berry, abducted in April of 2003, also became pregnant while being held in the house. Knight told police that she served as Berry's midwife, and that Castro threatened to kill her if the baby did not survive.

Castro allegedly ensnared his victims by luring them into his car. Berry told police that she was walking home from work at Burger King when Castro pulled over to offer her a ride home, claiming that his son also worked at the restaurant.

Gina DeJesus, who vanished in 2004 while she was walking home from school, told police that Castro initially approached her in his car with his daughter, whom DeJesus reportedly knew well. DeJesus said Castro later returned in his car alone and said he would drive her to his house so the girls could hang out.

At the time they were rescued, the women were living in separate rooms on the second floor of the house. Earlier in their captivity they had been chained in the basement of the house.

But as Oleg Atbashian writes, there is one detail of Castro's life that probably won't make it into any of the articles.  According to voter registration records, Castro, the owner of the house at 2207 Seymour Avenue, is a registered Democrat.

Why is this important?  Well, just like liberals everywhere were hoping that the Boston bombers were white anti-government extremists rather than what they turned out to be (Islamic terrorists), they would prefer that monsters like Castro turn out to be inbred white racists - and, of course, Republicans.  A Hispanic Democrat voter in Cleveland who plays in a meringue band disrupts The Narrative.

In today's divisive climate, the identity of a perpetrator is always a political issue, especially when a crime is committed by men against women.  According to the Daily News, "What the neighbors saw was terrifying and dehumanizing: Naked women on dog leashes, crawling in the dirt. A lady clutching an infant and pounding on a window for help."

If any of the brothers were a Republican, this news would have been trumpeted by the mainstream media as tangible proof of the Republican War on Women - a narrative invented by Democrat strategists and maintained by the media in a successful effort to defeat Republican candidates in the 2012 election cycle.

However, when a real act of war on women is perpetrated by a Democrat voter in the manner that even the most zealous Democrat strategist couldn't have dreamed up in their worst nightmares - involving abduction, imprisonment, rape, torture, malnutrition, beatings while pregnant, and killing babies - the media doesn't think the party affiliation is relevant.

I'm not saying that in this case it is.  What's relevant is the relentless media bias, taunting, and bullying of conservatives and Republicans.

In other words, nobody is implying that Ariel Castro's political affiliation has anything to do with his actions.  The point here is to illustrate the absurdity of using terms like "war on women" in a political context in the first place.