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Category: Crime, Maryland, The Transgender Cult

Rahmanullah Lakanwal ‘Should Have Never Been Allowed to Come Here’

Posted on | November 28, 2025 | No Comments

Rahmanullah Lakanwal

The alleged Afghan terrorist accused of executing one National Guard soldier and critically wounding another just blocks from the White House should never have been allowed into the US, the CIA director said Thursday.
Rahmanullah Lakanwal and his family were welcomed into the US four years ago after serving in a CIA-backed elite Afghan commando “Zero Unit” that was accused of torture and the brutal murder of civilians.
After his war-torn country fell to barbaric Taliban rule, the 29-year-old was given a $2,000-per-month apartment in the quiet town of Bellingham, Washington, neighbors told The Post — along with, reportedly, a contracting gig at Amazon.
“This individual — and so many others — should have never been allowed to come here,” CIA director John Ratcliffe said in response to the shooting, revealing that Lakanwal previously worked for a unit tied to the spy agency.
“Our citizens and servicemembers deserve far better than to endure the ongoing fallout from the Biden Administration’s catastrophic failures. God bless our brave troops.”
Following the attack, the Department of Homeland Security announced it would stop processing immigration requests for Afghan nationals pending a review of security protocols and that “all” Biden-era asylum cases would be scrutinized. President Trump also directed a sweeping review of green card holders from 19 countries of concern.
Lakanwal served in the elite NDS-03 counterterrorism unit in Afghanistan, one of at least five paramilitary “Zero Units” that worked with the CIA, according to the nonprofit group #AfghanEvac.
Lakanwal was vetted by the CIA and checked through the National Counterterrorism Center, a senior US official told CNN. “He was clean on all checks,” the official said.
Asked how an Afghan cleared to work with the CIA could commit such a heinous attack in the United States, Trump replied: “He went cuckoo. I mean, he went nuts.”

Yes — Crazy People Are Dangerous., and when you’re shipping in tens of thousands of “refugees” from one of the most backward countries on the planet, you’re likely to get a few hundred lunatic killers in the bunch.

Category: Aghanistan, Crime, Terrorism

In The Mailbox: 11.26.25

Posted on | November 27, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Probably going to take the day off tomorrow on account of Thanksgiving.
Meanwhile, the 2025 Black Friday/Cyber Monday Based Books sale is on!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Illustrated Laptop From Hell Part VII,
357 Magnum: CBS is Scared of 3D Printers, also Self-Defense Is Legal in Oregon
EBL: Tuna Bloodline, also, Ramen Shop
Twitchy: Trump Reacts To Shooting Of Two National Guardsmen, Senator Klobuchar Posts The Most Devastating Anti-Biden Chart – And Blames It On Trump, and Seditious Sen. Slotkin Trips Over Recent NG Warning During Today’s Mega-Ratioed Reaction
Louder With Crowder: Trump pardons turkeys, leaves you laughing with why he didn’t name them “Chuck” and “Nancy”, also, Man dresses as turkey to protest you enjoying Thanksgiving with your family instead of going vegan
Vox Popoli: Clown World is Agreement-Incapable, An Objective, Achieved, and Based Books on Sale
Cedar Sanderson: Sat On A Tuffet,

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The BBC’s Left Turn Has Endangered Its Own Existence
American Greatness: Georgia Prosecutor Drops 2020 Election Interference Case Against Trump and Allies, Insurrection Chic, and Under Trump Administration, State Dept Has Revoked 80,000 Non-immigrant Visas In 2025
American Thinker: ‘How’s the Economy?’ – It’s Harder Than Ever To Say
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Cornyn Now Running Third In Texas Senate Race
Behind The Black: More glaciers on Mars, South Korea successfully launches its Nuri rocket for the third time, New study claims to have detected dark matter inside the Milky Way, Thirty Meter Telescope is finally considering a move to the Canary Islands, and European Space Agency faces reality: Its partnerships with NASA are fading
CDR Salamander: The SECNAV Delivers Your Takesgiving Turkey
Chicago Boyz: When All Is Revealed, also, Thanksgiving…and the Supervirus of Resentment
Da Tech Guy: North Korean Defectors Can Still See What We Americans Should be Thankful For
Don Surber: The creepy songs of our youth
First Street Journal: Journolism: CEO of Lenfest Institute for Journalism worries about Freedom of the Press when his own newspaper censors the news
The Geller Report: CAIR & Muslim Brotherhood Money Laundered Taxpayer Dollars To Run Thousands of Muslim Candidates in America, Screaming “ALLAHU AKBAR!,” Muslim Migrant Shoots Two DC National Guard Troops Near White House, CASE DISMISSED – Fani Willis Bogus Election Case Against Trump and Allies is DROPPED, and Screaming “ALLAHU AKBAR,” Muslim Slits Throat of German Holocaust Survivor For “Holy War Against Infidels”
Hollywood In Toto: Movies for Men: Sideways (2004)
Legal Insurrection: Hegseth Tells Navy to Review Sen. Kelly Regarding ‘Potentially Unlawful Comments’, Three Levels of Manipulation on X – Only Two Of Which Are Addressed By “Location” Disclosure, Oklahoma U. Student Claims She Failed Psych Essay on Gender for Citing the Bible, Two National Guardsmen Shot Near White House, and Chicago Mayor Claims Incarcerating Violent Criminals Is ‘Racist, Immoral, and Unholy’
Outkick: NFL Teams Up With White House For Salute To America 250th Anniversary, Lane Kiffin’s Potential Exit Could Greatly Impact Ole Miss In The College Football Playoff Rankings, George Pickens Flirts With Trouble By Posting Brittany Mahomes Pic, Then Deletes It, Oregon Coach Calls Out SEC For Playing ‘Chattanooga State’ Before Rivalry Games, and Nikki Glaser Is America’s Hottest Housewife, Sydney Sweeney Gets An OnlyFans & Jamie Lee Sobs About Trump
Power Line: Two Guardsmen Shot in DC [Updated with Identity of Shooter], Jury nullification, Lefties Lose It Again, and Fraud? What fraud?
Shark Tank: Libertarian Scott Jewett Takes On Florida’s Insurance “Disaster”
This Ain’t Hell: Shots fired in D.C. – For real
Transterrestrial Musings: “Public Education”
Victory Girls: Eric Swalwell Claims Military Will Keep Trump ‘In Check’
Watts Up With That: Thanksgiving Prices Fall Because the Green Agenda Lost, New York’s 2030 climate target is impossible, IEA Publishes Climate Era’s Obituary, and Dem Sen. Whitehouse is very upset that the State Dept didn’t pay for his junket to UN climate summit in Brazil
The Federalist: The ‘Seditious Six’ Publicly Beg Rogue Spooks For Another Russia Hoax, Two National Guardsmen Shot After Democrats Dubbed Their Presence In DC An ‘Occupation’, New Jersey Governor’s Special Election Trick Is ‘Blatant Political Corruption’, National Guard Shooting Suspect Came From Afghanistan Through Biden Program, and Why The ‘Seditious Six’ Should Be Prosecuted Swiftly For Urging A Military Rebellion
Mark Steyn: Ambush in America, also, Live Around the Planet – Uttar Pradesh Calling

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Category: Linkagery

In The Mailbox: 11.25.25

Posted on | November 26, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Sometimes one little typo changes the whole meme.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Top 20 Insights From Mike Benz On Soros & The Blob
EBL: Friends With Benefits, Flatfish, The Last Waltz, and Woody the Woodpecker Theme Song
Twitchy: Alarming Posts From Army JAG Show How Dangerous “Seditious Six” Video Is, Aspiring Governor Eric Swalwell Posts Video Featuring His Unimpressive Staff, and Eugene Vindman Thumping His Chest About Returning To Active Duty To Defend Mark Kelly Goes Badly Wrong
Louder With Crowder: Chicago mayor goes on unhinged rant, claims putting violent criminals in jail is racist, Eric Swalwell runs from black lesbian exposed by “trans” male in women’s locker room, Greta Thunberg banned from Venice with other lunatics, and NYT demands you feel sorry for an illegal who stole another man’s identity
Vox Popoli: Let Experience Be Silent, The Romans Didn’t Learn, and KU Question
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Publishing Stuff!
Cedar Sanderson: Temporary Duty

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Trump’s Ukraine Proposal Is the Least Bad Option
American Greatness: Report: DOJ and FBI to Interview ‘Seditious Six’ Dems Over ‘Refuse Illegal Orders’ Video
American Thinker: Ken Burns Is Off To A Hard-Left Start With His American Revolution Series
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Placeholder News
BattleSwarm: Won’t Someone Think Of The Country Clubs?
Behind The Black: Predicting dust storms in the Starship candidate landing zone on Mars, The smooth and extremely calm methane lakes of Titan, Russia launches classified military satellites, NASA releases images during Osiris-Apex’s fly-by of Earth in late September, and A Midnight Repost: Farewell to America
Cafe Hayek: Facepalm
CDR Salamander: Nigeria’s Jihad Is Only A Problem If You Try To Stop It?
Don Surber: Will Vlad and Volod kiss and make up?
First Street Journal: Will these bad guys finally do some serious time?
The Geller Report: Minnesota Democrat Judge Shockingly Overturns Guilty Verdict of Abdi Fatah Yusuf, also, Mideast Envoy Steve Witkoff Says Hamas Promised Me It Would Disarm
Hollywood In Toto: Is This Why L.A. Is Losing So Many Movie Productions?
Legal Insurrection: Duffy Threatens to Withhold Millions From PA After Terror Suspect Received CDL, 24 Years Ago Today – Johnny “Mike” Spann – CIA Officer And First American Killed In Afghanistan Post-9/11, Auburn University Admissions Officer Resigns Amid Scandal Over Race-Based Practices, Report: FBI Wants to Interview Democrats Who Told Military to Refuse Illegal Orders, and Trump Moves to Designate Muslim Brotherhood Chapters as Terrorist Groups
Matt Taibbi: Yes, Both Sides,
Outkick: NFL Suspends Tre’von Moehrig For Nutty Way He Punched Jauan Jennings, Brian Kelly Claims Ongoing Battle With LSU Regarding Buyout Has Prevented Him From Finding Job, Major Big Ten University Has Outrageous Web Page Dedicated To The ‘Whiteness Pandemic’ In The U.S., Baseball’s Richest Team Is Once Again Crying Poor, and Twerking Video & Thirst Trap Allegations At The Center Of Drama In The Poker World
Power Line: Ruben Gallego Says What You Think, Feeding Our Fraud – Nur sentenced, Elon Exposed the Fake Activists, and Ukraine Peace Deal Close?
Shark Tank: Florida Tourism – $133.6 Billion In Financial Impact, Nearly $2000 In 2024 Tax Savings
The Political Hat: The One Piece Revolts
This Ain’t Hell: Cory Mills in the spotlight, also, Recall to Active Duty?
Victory Girls: Laura Loomer Needs a Disclaimer – Literally, also, Aftyn Behn (D) Hopes Voters Overlook Her Ugly Words
Watts Up With That: UK Climate Change Minister Claims COP30 Victory, Dissecting Scotland’s economy-wrecking Net Zero plans, Rising Electricity Prices? Blame Green Energy Policies, Not President Trump, and How Much Asbestos Do Wind Turbines Contain?
The Federalist: Why Trump’s Obesity Drug ‘Deal’ Will Help Big Pharma Most Of All, Documents Show Jack Smith Ignored Constitutional Standards To Target GOP Senators In Arctic Frost Probe, Copy Our Neighborhood Pie Night Tradition If You Want To Build A Better Community, An Illegal Alien Stole An American’s Identity For 15 Years But NYT Says He’s A Victim Too, and Undermining America’s National Security Is Nothing New For Mark Kelly
Mark Steyn: From Pussyhats to Peninas

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This Is Joe. Don’t Be Like Joe.

Posted on | November 25, 2025 | No Comments

Why do some fools get the idea that a traffic stop is a good time to hold an impromptu hearing about their constitutional rights?

Joe got pulled over by a cop in Portage County, Wisconsin, and could have gotten off with a mere traffic ticket — or perhaps just a warning — but he was defiant, looking for trouble. If you’ve watched a lot of police body camera videos on YouTube (it’s a hobby of mine), you’ve become familiar with this scenario, the routine traffic stop that “escalates,” sometimes fatally. It often begins with a motorist’s refusal to give the officer a driver’s license, proceeding to the demand that the officer summon a supervisor, etc. Joe ended up in handcuffs in the back of a squad car, charged with assault and other crimes, adding to his already lengthy history of run-ins with the law.
What causes these unnecessary confrontations? In a word, equality — or, as I’ve previously pointed out, Equality, with a capital “E,” denoting the quasi-religious faith in Equality common among liberals. “All men are created equal,” as our Declaration of Independence famously proclaimed, and that simple five-word phrase has become the foundation of a dangerous cult, which threatens to wreck the very nation that the Declaration announced our ancestors’ intent to create.
Equality, as conceived by liberals, is not merely a political ideal, but a moral principle, so that any sort of inequality is to them a sort of sin. . . .

Read the rest of my latest column at The American Spectator, but let me warn you it’s 2,400 words. This topic gets me so angry that I can’t help myself, and I start preaching: Y’all need Jesus.

Category: American Spectator

Jared Loughner Is Newsworthy Again

Posted on | November 25, 2025 | No Comments

Psycho killer Jared Loughner

Remember this guy? On January 8, 2011, Jared Loughner used a Glock-19 with a 33-round magazine to kill six people and wound 13 others, including Democratic Rep. Gabby Giffords, at a political rally in Tucson, Arizona. In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, Democrats tried to blame the Tea Party movement generally, and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in particular, for the shooting. These claims turned out to be false — as I will explain in a moment — but that 2011 shooting is back in the news because Giffords married Mark Kelly, now a Democratic senator from Arizona, and Kelly tried to leverage that fact to silence his critics:

Senator whose wife was shot fears for safety after Trump sedition accusation
Senator Mark Kelly — whose wife, Gabrielle Giffords, narrowly survived an attempted assassination while she was in Congress in 2011 — says he is worried about “increased threats” to his family’s safety after Donald Trump accused him and other Democratic lawmakers of “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH”.
“This kind of language is dangerous, and it’s wrong,” Kelly said on Friday on MS NOW’s Morning Joe . . .
“My family has suffered from political violence,” Kelly said on Morning Joe. “My wife … was nearly assassinated — shot in the head at a political event. We have rising political violence in this country, even the president — two assassination attempts. He should understand that.”

Leaving aside Trump’s bombastic rhetorical style, and Kelly’s role in the “Seditious Six” video, let me instead call your attention to the man who shot Gabby Giffords, and what we know about his motive.

It matters, because I covered the story back in 2011:

The two-hour video is anti-Christian, anti-American and anti-capitalist, and Jared Lee Loughner became obsessed with it. Zeitgeist, a conspiracy-theory documentary released in 2007, has spawned its own cult following. According to Loughner’s friends, the accused Tucson gunman was one of the cult’s most zealous converts. And many of Loughner’s otherwise inexplicable obsessions — from his fascination with currency to his rantings against illiteracy to his paranoid fears of “mind control” — parallel ideas promoted in Zeitgeist. . . .
“I really think that this Zeitgeist documentary had a profound impact upon Jared Loughner’s mindset and how he views the world that he lives in,” Zach Osler, 22, told ABC’s Ashleigh Banfield. Osler’s father confirmed that influence in an interview published Sunday by the Arizona Republic. “He wanted to watch [Zeitgeist] all the time,” George Osler told the Phoenix newspaper. “It was cool at first. But then it got weird. It was all he wanted to do.” . . .

You can read the rest of that article I wrote for The American Spectator in January 2011. Doing a critical analysis of that fringe conspiracy-theory video struck me at the time as work that was above my pay grade. Given the nationwide media attention to the Tucson shooting, and the fact that ABC News had reported about Loughner’s Zeitgeist obsession, wouldn’t you expect that someone on the staff of the New York Times or the Washington Post would have done that work? But for some reason, none of them did, and the only journalists who spent any time researching Zeitgeist were me and Jesse Walker of Reason magazine.

Threats against public figures should be investigated and the persons responsible should be arrested and prosecuted, but what Kelly has done here — invoking his wife’s shooting as a way to deflect criticism — needs to be called out as the cheap trick it is. “This kind of language is dangerous,” Kelly says, after recording a video implying that the President of the United States is giving “illegal orders” to our troops. As if that kind of language is not dangerous? But none of this had anything to do with what Jared Lougher did in 2011. It was not “dangerous” political rhetoric that motivated Loughner, it was a weird conspiracy-theory video and, of course, his own psychotic condition: “After his arrest, two medical evaluations diagnosed Loughner with paranoid schizophrenia and ruled him incompetent to stand trial.” Crazy People Are Dangerous.