It turns out the UMass-Dartmouth student who said he was visited by Homeland Security agents after checking out a copy of Mao’s “Little Red Book” made the whole thing up. I can claim vindication to my editor, who had seem slightly displeased earlier when I wasn’t able to nail down the story.
[…] Via OpinionJournal, here the Sacramento Bee credulously repeats the hoax about a U-Mass student being visited by the feds after ordering Mao’s “Little Red Book” via interlibrary loan … the same story the Standard-Times acknowledged as a hoax three days ago. […]