In The Mailbox: 02.04.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | February 5, 2026 | No Comments

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OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Discombobulator
357 Magnum: The FGC-9 is a Proven Firearm
EBL: THE SOPRANOS Ending – The Reveal No One Explains, Dry Aged Tilefish, Minnesota update from Border Czar Tom Homan, and The Neanderthal Problem That Scientists Don’t Want To Discuss
Twitchy: Sen. Ted Cruz Lays Waste To Officers From Netflix & Warner Brothers (And Billie Eilish), For The Cost of a Cup of Coffee You Can Keep An Ex-WaPo Journalist From Starving, and Dear Diary – Ex-CNN “Journalist” Jim Acosta Says He’d Fire Scott Jennings
Louder With Crowder: Tim Walz attempts to make an issue out of “missing” migrant children, Drag queens invade Utah capitol over new bill and demand some respect , Mayor gets called out for taxpayer funded luxury vehicle, so of course, he cries raaaaacism, Jasmine Crockett is (shocker) lying about border patrol whipping a migrant with a story that’s been DEBUNKED since 2021, and Did This Mom Say She Would End Her Kids’ Lives Instead Of Risking Them Being Taken Into ICE Custody?
Vox Popoli: The Collapse of the Liberal Order, Jeffrey Epstein is Still Alive, Veriphysics: The Treatise 002, Dennis McCarthy’s Round 2, and The Reproducibility Crisis in Action
Cedar Sanderson: How Did You Die?
The Bugscuffle Gazette: It’s Hypocrisy
Wright’s Writing Corner: Make Science Fiction Great Again!

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The GOP Is About to Relive Its Worst Immigration Failure, also, For Zelensky, Is Losing the War Better Than Losing the Peace?
American Greatness: The Countdown to Iran’s Liberation Has Begun, The National Extremist Association, Speaker Johnson Says Weakening Immigration Enforcement and Amnesty Off the Table in DHS Funding Negotiations, Virginia Judge Halts Democratic Plans to Redistrict State Before Midterm Elections, and Slouching Towards Fort Sumter?
BattleSwarm: Illegal Chicom Biolab – The Sequel, also, The “No Hire, No Fire” Economy
Behind The Black: One of Saturn’s many weird moons, A nice summary of all space-based research of reproduction in space, Commercial changes at France’s French Guiana spaceport, Isaacman: SLS stands on very thin ice, and SpaceX wants revisions to federal rural grant program that has awarded it $733 million
Cafe Hayek: Let’s Tax Economic Ignorance
CDR Salamander: We Need A Plan B For The Battleship
Chicago Boyz: When Ideology Trumps Everything Else
Da Tech Guy: Oh Please PLEASE Br’er Democrats Don’t Force a Party Line Vote on Funding ICE!
Don Surber: Antifa, the wholly owned subsidiary of a billionaire
First Street Journal: The losses at The Washington Post
Gates Of Vienna: A Message From the Australian Stasi, also, The Muslim Brotherhood in France, Part 15
The Geller Report: VOTER ID OR RESIGN – Thune Refuses to Force the Vote on SAVE Act, U.S. Fighter Jet Shoots Down Iranian Drone Headed for the USS Abraham Lincoln, “THIS IS THE END FOR ICE”, 16 DEAD in Cold Front After Mayor Mamdani Prohibits Clearing Out Homeless Encampments, and Schumer Threatens GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN To Block Voter ID
Glenn Reynolds: Is The Singularity Here?
Hollywood In Toto: Liberal Free Speech Warriors Fall Silent (Again), Melania Gets Review Bombed (And Media Outlets LOVE It), ‘Dracula’ Pumps New Blood into Tired Vampire Template, Why ‘Daily Show’ Just Skewered Gov. Gavin Newsom, and Could Billie Eilish’s ‘Stolen Land’ Debacle End Land Acknowledgements?
Legal Insurrection: Project Vault – Strategic Reserve is Next Step in U.S. Shift to Self?Reliance in Critical Minerals, Feds should bring “a good, strong case against a mayor or a governor interfering with ICE operations”, Massachusetts Auditor Discovers Almost $12 Million in Public Assistance Fraud in 2025, Ryan Routh Sentenced to Life in Prison for Attempting to Assassinate Trump, and TPUSA Students at Ohio U. Face Gun Threat and Harassment
Nebraska Energy Observer: Turley and Kelly on Current Legal Problems, also, The Collapse of Competence
Outkick: Netflix’s Miracle On Ice Documentary Is A Punch Straight To The Emotions, Is Must-Watch For American Patriots, I Didn’t Think It Was Possible For The NFL’s Pro Bowl To Be This Pathetic, Are The Dodgers Bad For Baseball? Their Biggest Rival Has An Answer, US Skating Star Ilia Malinin Rocks Alex Ovechkin’s Yellow Laces At 2026 Olympics, and MLB Network’s Lauren Shehadi Enjoyed Dubai In A Bikini, Hottest Women In Congress & Vrabel Would Cut Off What?
Power Line: SDS on ICE, The Senate Takes On Minnesota Fraud, I read the news today oh boy, The shutdown that wasn’t, and Who’s the most fabulous fabulator of them all?
Shark Tank: Jennifer Jenkins To Challenge Randy Fine in FL-6
Shot In The Dark: Time Capsule
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Woke Schools vs. Parents: Legally Hiding Transgendering From Parents; Affinity Groups For BIPOC Parents Only; Private Organizations In Canada Siding Against Parents
This Ain’t Hell: Minneapolis paymaster, Staff Sergeant Michael Ollis Awarded MOH, and Splash One MiG
Transterrestrial Musings: Surprise, Surprise, Surprise, Lawrence Of Arabia, The Remaking Of Alex Pretti, Gen Z Students, and America’s Industrial Infrastructure
Victory Girls: Bad Bunny Is A Uniter Per Roger Goodell, also, How Soon Will Crockett/Talarico Texas Senate Race Get Ugly
Watts Up With That: One Reason Only For Germany’s Heating Gas Crisis – Its Hardcore-Dumbass Energy Policy, Climate Alarmists Are Often Wrong But Never in Doubt, World Cereal Output Hit Record High In 2024, Germany’s Chemical Reckoning – How Europe is Dismantling its Industrial Core, and Polar Bear Numbers Rising And Health Improving In Areas With The Most Rapid Sea Ice Decline
The Federalist: Don’t Assume Your Church Is Prepared To Stop Threats Like Active Shooters And Left-Wing Mobs, SCOTUS Rejects Bid To Block California’s ‘Racially Gerrymandered’ Congressional Map, AI Rejects Truth And Virtue Because Our Culture Taught It To, Turns Out The Left Loves Borders — Just Not America’s, and New Mexico And Utah Target ‘Homewrecker’ Laws That Protect Cheaters’ Spouses And Kids
Mark Steyn: Shared Interests, Live Around the Planet – Why Is This Happening? and Who’s Doing This to Us?

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In The Mailbox: 02.04.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | February 4, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Day of the Golden Spike – The Transcontinental Railroad (1869)
357 Magnum: International Suicide Rates versus Gun Ownership
EBL: Handling of Salted Codfish, Big Lure…Big Fish, The Jimi Hendrix Experience : Purple Haze, and Don McLean : American Pie
Twitchy: Maxine Waters And Fellow Democrat Ranter Greg Meeks Fail To Silence Scott Bessent, Eviction Lawyer Does The Funniest Thing After Billie Eilish’s “Stolen Land” Comment, and Dr. Oz Reveals Minnesota Is Spending 1300% More On Autism Than Planned
Louder With Crowder: Scott Jennings accurately calling illegals “illegals” is causing a struggle session among woke CNN staffers, LOL! CNN forced to admit Nicki Minaj is RIGHT and the entire Democrat Senate is WRONG, CNN data guru sounds alarm over Democrats’ dire electoral future, Woke judge blocks Trump’s deportation order of Haitians, not on legal grounds but just because she doesn’t like it, and Leftists Scream Racial Slurs At Black ICE Agent After Questioning Man’s Gender
Vox Popoli: Jeffrey Epstein – RUSSIAN Agent, An Interesting Week Ahead, The 51st State: Alberta, Veriphysics: the Treatise 001, and Diversity Will Hunt You Down
Weird Catholic: Light A Candle For St. Blaise
Defending The Wood Perilous: Election Fraud 101
Upstream Reviews: Blooded

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Old & Busted – Air Supremacy. New Hotness – Orbital Supremacy
Don Surber: Trump – The Wizard of Ours
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Chicago Head Tax Redux

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‘End of Watch’ for a Georgia Cop

Posted on | February 3, 2026 | No Comments

When you think of law enforcement in Georgia, you might think of guys named Bubba or Roy, but probably not Pradeep Tamang, a native of Nepal, a small country wedged between India and Tibet. More than 10 years ago, when Pradeep was still a child, the Tamang family came to America and settled near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he later worked as a corrections officer at Dauphin County Prison. About a year ago, Pradeep got hired as a cop in Gwinnett County, Georgia:

A cop has died and another has been left seriously injured after they were shot allegedly by a serial criminal in what police described as an unprovoked attack in a Georgia Holiday Inn hotel room.
Pradeep Tamang, 25, died of his injuries after he was shot allegedly by Kevin Andrews, 35, on Feb. 1.
Tamang and his colleague Cpl. David Reed rushed to the Holiday Inn Express hotel in Stone Mountain, around 20 miles from Atlanta, as they probed suspected credit card fraud, according to WBRC.
The officers were invited into the room but were allegedly shot at when they tried to arrest Andrews over an outstanding warrant.
“The suspect produced a handgun and in an unprovoked attack, fired at our Gwinnett County police officers,” cops said.
Both fired back in self-defense but Tamang, who was born in Nepal and was engaged, died.
Andrews, who has a lengthy rap sheet, was left with non-life-threatening injuries.
JD McClure, the Gwinnett County police chief, hailed the officers’ bravery.
“These officers are heroes. They go out to the road every day and face uncertainty,” he said.
“They also understand that at the end of the day, they provide a very valuable service and that is safety.”
Brian Kemp, the Georgia governor, alluded to the dangers cops face in the line of duty.
“This is the latest reminder of the dangers law enforcement face on a daily basis, and we are grateful for every one that puts themselves in harm’s way to protect their fellow Georgians,” he said.

More about the suspect:

The man accused of killing a Gwinnett County police officer and injuring another in a shooting has been charged, according to the sheriff’s office.
Kevin Andrews faces charges of malice murder, felony murder, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and two counts of aggravated assault against law enforcement.
Andrews had his first appearance on Monday. He did not receive bond.
On Sunday, Officer Pradeep Tamang and Cpl. David Reed were called to a Holiday Inn Express off Park Place Boulevard in Stone Mountain, where Andrews was suspected of fraudulently renting a room.

The location is about 20 miles northeast of downtown Atlanta. With nearly a million residents, Gwinnett County is the second-most populous county in Georgia, and very diverse — more than 35% of the residents area Latino or Asian, and more than 25% are black.

Here is just a little more about suspect Kevin Andrews:

Police said he has an extensive criminal history, including prior felony, robbery, gun and narcotics convictions, as well as an active warrant out of DeKalb County for failure to appear.

How many times must we see different versions of the same basic story before we do something about the “revolving door” problem in the criminal justice system? Seldom does a criminal begin his career with murder. Rather, habitual felons tend to rack up this kind of “extensive criminal history” prior to finally buying themselves a ticket to permanent incarceration. The “failure to appear” warrant from neighboring DeKalb County indicates that they had him behind bars and let him out on bail, despite his prior history of violent felonies. So two cops show up at Holiday Inn where the suspect had fraudulently used a credit card (perhaps stolen) to rent a room and, after discovering he’s got an outstanding warrant, they try to put the cuffs on him and get shot because, although it’s illegal for convicted felons to possess firearms, you don’t become a convicted felon by obeying the law, do you?

Now a young immigrant from Nepal is dead and perhaps the saddest part is, nothing will change. The courts will continue letting dangerous criminals out on the street, again and again, because as a nation, we’ve simply forgotten how to protect public safety. God help us.

Category: Crime, Georgia

In The Mailbox: 02.02.2026

Posted on | February 3, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in January.
Call for Writers!
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OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Day When The City of Halifax Exploded (1917), The Democrat Smurfs, A Day With John Wilkes Booth (1865), The Distinguished Andrew McCabe Of George Mason University,
357 Magnum: Euthanasia as Practiced in Canada Is Horrifying, also Good Guys 2, Bad Guys 0
EBL: The Smashing Machine, Ultimate Bouillabaisse , “Groundhog’s Day”, Federal Court Rules – ICE WINS! MN LOSES! PLUS Federal ID Order, and French fish!
Twitchy: CNN Staff Annoyed Scott Jennings Calls Illegal Aliens “Illegal Aliens”, Nurse Says Hospitals Can’t Have MAGA Nurses Treating Patients, and Ana Navarro & The View Suddenly Sour On The Judgement Of Grand Juries
Louder With Crowder: Add Ben Stiller to the list of anti-immigration law celebrities lashing out with these comments attacking ICE, Lady Gaga cries to a foreign audience about how mean it is for Trump, ICE to enforce immigration laws, Based internet troll gets unsuspecting leftist to realize she’s the actual fascist, Elie Mystal claims Don Lemon getting arrested for violating a church’s First Amendment rights is totally the same thing as slavery, and Comedian summarizes the obnoxious anti-Trump, anti-ICE Grammy Awards with a single perfect tweet
Vox Popoli: WhatsApp is Not Secure, MITTENS and the Monkeys, Oh no! Anyway, Wartime Powers, and Richard Dawkins’s Running Shoes
Cedar Sanderson: Forensics For Writers Part 8, Empty Nest Considerations – Meals, and 2025 Retrospective
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Bunny Hunting, Keys Aren’t Defense Tools, and The Reactionary Gap
The Abbey of Misrule: How to build a goddess
Born Lucky: Two Flavors of the Same Poison
Upstream Reviews: Ship of Spells
Defending The Wood Perilous: Rachel Is Recruited!

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Trump Sets Course for Regime Change in Cuba, also, Commander-in-Tired
American Greatness: Indoctrination 101 – Teachers Lead Student Walkouts & Protests Over Immigration Enforcement, The Left’s Revolutionary Confusion, The War on Terror Came Home, The Tragedy of Alex Pretti, and Democrats Using Shutdown Threat To Rewrite Immigration Enforcement
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 73 – Double Feature
BattleSwarm: Austin City Council Tries Sneaking $2 Million AI Camera Contract Onto Meeting Agenda Again, MQ-25 Stingray – A Carrier Based Refueling Drone, and Ian McCollum On SHOT Show Vaporware
Behind The Black: Fuel leaks cause Artemis-2 dress rehearsal countdown to terminate at T-5:15, several minutes early, Musk merges xAI with SpaceX, A galaxy’s swirling dust lanes, SpaceX launches 25 more Starlink satellites; uses 1st stage for 31st time, and Blue Origin shuts down New Shepard suborbital tourist flights
Cafe Hayek: Bogged Down In Bad Justifications for Trump’s Tariffs
CDR Salamander: Budgets, Ships, & The CBO – On Midrats, also, So – How Bad Do You Really Want A Battleship?
Chicago Boyz: When Your Primary Skill Becomes Obsolescent (or Worse), also, Random Thoughts (15): The Democrats’ Digital Devilry
Dana Loesch: Rent Moratorium…Because of ICE?,
Don Surber: Lawsuits will end the trans fad, also, America shrugged
Elizabeth Nickson: I Didn’t Hear An Apology From The World Economic Forum. Did You?
First Street Journal: Please, leave the government out of trying to ‘fix’ the ‘affordable housing’ problem
Gates Of Vienna: Protesting a Plastic Pig in Padua, Murder/Suicide by Train, Dan Eriksson: “What Do We Call This, If Not Evil?”, and “These Are Not Demonstrators. They Are Guerrillas.”
The Geller Report: IMMINENT COLLAPSE: Trump’s Boycott Leaves UN ‘on Brink of Bankruptcy’, Says Secretary-General, In Iran The Mosques Are Burning—and So Is the Lie of the Islamic State, Lying Mamdani Invents Budget Emergency to Justify Massive Tax Hikes, The Danger of Leftist (and Muslim) Medical Professionals, and STAGGERING CALIF-FRAUD: Almost 20% of ALL U.S. Home Health Activity Comes From Just One Place: Los Angeles
Hollywood In Toto: Mel Brooks Does Shocking 180 on Blazing Saddles, Feminists Silent as Media, Critics Savage Melania & FLOTUS, Grammy Nominee Shames Singers for Ignoring Iranian Protesters, and Film Critic Torches Melania – Admits He Didn’t See It
Legal Insurrection: NH Lawmaker Pushing Campus Carry is Also a Student at UNH, New York Times Flips Out Over Supposed New Supreme Court NDAs, Agents Arrest Two More in Connection With Minnesota Church Ambush, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Asks Police to Surveil ICE, Report Them For Prosecution, and Judge Temporarily Blocks DHS Rules for Congressional Visits to Detention Centers
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday Ramblin’, Sunday Miscellany, and An outsider’s view?
Outkick: Roger Goodell Suggests Bad Bunny Won’t Use Super Bowl Stage For Activism, Black Coaches Shut Out Of Hiring Cycle And Enraged Media Will Make Goodell Answer For It As A Result, White Sox New Addition To Clubhouse Could Change The Game, Kid Rock Headlines Turning Point USA Alternative Super Bowl Halftime Show Lineup, and Sydney Sweeney Does Yard Work In Lingerie, Tosses Bra Out The Window In Her Latest All-Out Assault On Industry
Power Line: The Havoc Wrought By Illegal Aliens, Inside the fraud, Trade Deal With India, A fair trade, and AP McLovin Star Tribune
Shark Tank: Associated Industries of Florida Endorses Ingoglia For CFO
STUMP: U.S. Finalized Mortality 2024 – Highlights, also, The Week In Meep – Winter Is Deadly
This Ain’t Hell: Elon Cancels Putin’s Starlink Account, Washington Crash Report, and Demond Wilson passes
Transterrestrial Musings: The Second Amendment, No, LA Times, Catherine O’Hara, and Ameliamentum
Victory Girls: Nurses Union Holds Secret Training Sessions To Combat ICE, Melania Was Supposed To Flop And It Didn’t, and How Guilt Politics Turned Gullible White Liberals Into Activists
Watts Up With That: Aussie Green Radicals In Despair at Media Ignoring Their Warnings, Biden’s Push for Renewables Funding Trump’s Push To ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’, Re-evaluating the Concern of Climate Change, Utility Scale Lithium Based Energy Storage Systems, and Poor nations won’t follow Europe, UN in economic suicide
The Federalist: Here Are 10 Great Justice Alito Quotes To Mark His 20 Years On The Supreme Court, Poll Shows Likely 2026 Midterm Voters Support Deporting Illegal Aliens By 2:1 Margin, Here’s How To Cook Good Food On $15 A Day Or Less , Media Silent On KBJ Attending Anti-ICE Grammys After Inventing ‘Scandals’ About Her Colleagues, and Senate GOP Can Fix Elections, Boost Trump, And Wreck Dems With The SAVE Act
Mark Steyn: On the Town: What a Day This Has Been, Tortured – Doris Day in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much, Paedos All the Way Down, and Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine

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Rule 5 Sunday: Extra Value Meal

Posted on | February 2, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to @kbdabear on X.
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EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, It May Be Cold In Scandinavia, MAGA Panama, Riot Women, Epstein Files – Bill Gates Asks A Question, Catherine O’Hara RIP, Dolly Parton, Sinners, Bill Belichick Denied, The Running Man, Amelia’s Dream, Kate Bush, and Amelia’s Farewell Song

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Katharina Nahlik, I Suspected As Much, Fish Pic Friday – Abbey Edwards, Tomorrow’s Anthem, The Wednesday Wetness, Tattoo Tuesday, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday

BACON TIME: Rule 5 – A Trip To Hooterville

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FMJRA 2.0: One Big Crunch

Posted on | February 2, 2026 | No Comments

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After the last couple of weeks, this was a particularly bad week to be a Senators fan. First we got swept by the Cardinals at Busch Stadium, and then we came home to get whipped by the Expos, winning only one game: a comeback against Paul Lindblad that earned Roger Nelson a 5-4 win in relief of Pat Dobson. So we were 1-5 on the week; we played Pittsburgh tonight instead of Tuesday and picked up a couple of games to make us 42-51, 4.5 games behind the division-leading Twins in second place. We’ll face the Red Sox (40-50) Friday at RFK and hope for the best.
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THIS! THIS! I VOTED FOR THIS! 100%

Posted on | January 31, 2026 | No Comments

If the Trump administration never accomplished anything else, this would be sufficient cause to call it an overwhelming success:

The Department of Justice (DOJ) charged former CNN host Don Lemon with federal civil rights crimes after he live streamed anti-ICE protesters storming a church in Minnesota.
Lemon, who was arrested on Thursday, was charged with “conspiracy and interfering with the First Amendment rights of worshipers during a January 18 protest at the Cities Church in St. Paul,” according to the Associated Press:

The veteran journalist is charged with conspiracy and interfering with the First Amendment rights of worshipers during a Jan. 18 protest at the Cities Church in St. Paul, where a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official serves as a pastor. Another journalist and two protest participants were also arrested in Minnesota.

In a post on X, CNN’s Jake Tapper posted photos of the “DOJ indictment v Don Lemon.”
“The DOJ indictment v Don Lemon et al was just unsealed,” Tapper wrote, adding that it was 12 pages.
Lemon, along with Nekima Valdez Levy-Armstrong, Chauntyll Louisa Allen, William Scott Kelly, Jamael Lydell Lundy, Trahern Jeen Crews, Georgia Ellyse Fort, and two others were charged with two counts, according to the photos of the indictment posted by Tapper.
The defendants were charged with Conspiracy Against Right of Religious Freedom at Place of Worship, and “Injure, Intimidate, and Interfere with Exercise of Right of Religious Freedom at Place of Worship.”

Lemon’s lawyer is trying the “But Journalism” defense:

“Don has been a journalist for 30 years, and his constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis was no different than what he has always done,” [defense attorney Abbe] Lowell said. “The First Amendment exists to protect journalists whose role it is to shine light on the truth and hold those in power accountable.”>”Instead of investigating the federal agents who killed two peaceful Minnesota protesters, the Trump Justice Department is devoting its time, attention and resources to this case,” Lowell said, calling the arrest an “attempt to distract attention from the many crises facing this administration.”
Lowell called Lemon’s arrest an “unprecedented attack on the First Amendment” and said the journalist “will fight these charges vigorously and thoroughly in court.”

Everybody’s joking about the insane argument that being a journalist provides carte blanche to defy any law whatsoever.

"It's okay I'm a journalist" is my new truck-crash-into-liquor-store alibi https://t.co/Vi4hjlpeUr

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) January 30, 2026

In 1986, I talked my way into my first newspaper job and instantly acquired immunity from prosecution for any so-called “crime” I might be accused of committing. Being a professional journalist (just like Don Lemon) means that your laws don’t apply to me, peons!

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) January 30, 2026

“Sure, officer — I admit I was doing 110 mph through a school zone, but you see, I’m a journalist and that’s why we have the First Amendment, so that I can drive as fast as I want. ‘Freedom of the press,’ see?”