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Father’s Day: An Extremist Agenda

Posted on | June 21, 2026 | No Comments

The cast of ‘Father Knows Best’ (1954)

One thing about the passage of time is that, as you grow older, you begin to notice the shift of values. What was once widely accepted — the expected social norms of your childhood — come to be viewed as quaint, old-fashioned or perhaps even barbaric. When I was born in Atlanta in 1959, Dwight Eisenhower was still president, and the South was still governed by Jim Crow segregation. By the time I started first grade in 1965, the passage of the Civil Rights Act had eliminated segregation, although of course, the customs and attitudes of the Jim Crow era did not magically evaporate overnight. Because I was just a schoolboy at the time, the politics of all this was completely over my head. My parents’ generation, being raised with a stoic temperament and a concern for civility and courtesy, didn’t talk in front of the children about the various social upheavals of the 1960s, so I really can’t say with much certainty what their attitudes were. They were staunch Democrats (as everyone was in that time and place), and reasonably liberal as such things were reckoned in that era, but I don’t know much more about their beliefs.

By the 1990s, when I was married with a family of my own, and was viewing politics through adult eyes, the message of conservative Republicans had a lot to do with traditional family values.

John F. Kennedy and family, circa 1960.

How was it that what had been taken for granted in America just three decades earlier had become a right-wing political agenda? The standard answer is “the Sixties,” a reference to the multitudinous changes that destabilized our national culture during that tumultuous decade.

When I was a boy growing up in Douglas County, Georgia, practically all of the kids came from “traditional families.” Divorce was considered scandalous in my parents’ generation, and none of my childhood acquaintances were from “broken homes,” to use a quaint term. Whatever other problems we had, at least most kids in my generation didn’t have to deal with the confusing welter of household arrangements — stepfathers, stepmothers, stepbrothers, half-brothers, etc. — that had become so commonplace two or three decades later. No-fault divorce was one part of the problem, but by the 1990s, America also had a rapidly growing number of bastards, to use a word now considered taboo.

Some of y’all may be old enough to remember when Hillary Clinton’s 1996 book It Takes a Village was in the headlines, criticized for what it really represented, i.e., an argument for expanding government bureaucracy as a substitute for functional families. Living inside a cocoon of like-minded liberals, it is likely that Hillary Clinton never bothered to read the most important social policy book of the 1980s, Charles Murray’s Losing Ground. What Murray demonstrated was that the social welfare programs created (or vastly expanded) in the 1960s (LBJ’s “Great Society” agenda, the so-called “War on Poverty”) had actually harmed the poor people that liberals said they meant to help, by incentivizing behaviors that increased poverty, while discouraging behaviors that could lead to a better life. Contrary to what Hillary and other liberals believed, the best thing to do for poor people was to stop “helping” them this way — cut the welfare budget and eliminate the programs.

Ralph Reed (left) and Pat Robertson (right) in 1997

The arguments made by Charles Murray in Losing Ground were aimed at policy wonks, but the way the “family values” agenda entered the mainstream of Republican Party politics was via a popular TV preacher, Pat Robertson. Beginning in 1966, Robertson began co-hosting a weekday TV show, The 700 Club, which I remember my Grandma Kirby watching regularly in the 1970s. The 700 Club became the foundation of Robertson’s cable-TV channel, the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), which launched in 1977. Robertson had a large nationwide following by the time he announced his candidacy for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination. Even though he stood no chance against George H.W. Bush, the incumbent vice president, Robertson made a fairly respectable showing, collecting 115 delegates and more than a million votes during the primaries. Along the way, Robertson also developed a core group of grassroots volunteers (particularly in Iowa) and, most importantly, a mailing list of campaign donors.

The donor list from the Robertson 1988 campaign became the financial basis of the Christian Coalition, which in 1989 hired young Republican operative Ralph Reed to be its executive director. Reed’s success as a political organizer and strategist was crucial to the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994. While the lion’s share of credit for that belongs to Newt Gingrich — who himself praised the role of Rush Limbaugh in the 1994 campaign — a lot of the conservative “foot soldiers” who made that campaign a success were part of the army of activists that Ralph Reed had helped recruit and train. Thus you have a very condensed explanation for how “traditional family values” came to be seen as a right-wing agenda.

Most of what people think of in this context is opposition to (a) abortion and (b) “gay rights.” This is a very narrow and negative understanding of what has motivated Christian conservatives since the 1990s, namely, a desire to maintain (or restore) the middle-class married household as the defining institution of American life. As Charles Murray showed in Losing Ground, it was the decline of married-family households (or, viewed from the opposite end, the increase of children growing up in non-traditional households) that was largely responsible for a lot of other things that had gone wrong in America by the mid-1980s.

If there were any one thing I would like to stress in discussion of Christian conservatives and the so-called “Culture Wars,” it would be this: We cannot vote our way into heaven, nor can mere politics restore America’s “traditional family values.” Now let me tell you a story.

Gen. George B. McClellan

‘But You Must Act’

When he was first appointed to command the Union army defending the nation’s capital after the Yankees were defeated at Bull Run in July 1861, George McClellan was hailed as a heroic figure, destined for greatness. He set about training and equipping the rabble of raw recruits streaming into Washington, D.C., and began formulating a bold plan. Rather than marching out to fight the Rebels camped near the old Bull Run battlefield, McClellan instead would mount a massive amphibious project, transferring his army to the Virginia peninsula between the James and York rivers, thus to attack the Confederate capital of Richmond from the east. This would reverse the strategic picture; instead of the Union army being forced to defend the capital in D.C., instead the Souterners would be compelled to defend their own capital. The theater of war would be transferred from Abe Lincoln’s doorstep to Jefferson Davis’s backyard, so to speak. Lincoln approved this plan, but in consideration of concerns from Cabinet members and congressional leaders, stipulated that McClellan must leave behind in the vicinity of Washington enough troops to make sure that the Rebels didn’t make a leap at the capital while McClellan was busy shipping his army down to the Virginia peninsula. McClellan agreed to this, and as part of his arrangements, decided to transfer some troops that were then stationed in the Shenandoah Valley eastward to become part of the force defending the capital. With this problem taken care of, McClellan and his army of more than 100,000 men set sail from the wharves of Alexandria on March 17. The army disembarked at Fort Monroe, on the tip of the peninsula, and began moving inland, when disaster struck more than 200 miles away — disaster in the form of Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.

Confederate Gen. Thomas J. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson

Jackson commanded barely 4,000 troops in the Shenandoah Valley, and when he discovered that part of the Yankee army opposing him was being withdrawn, he resolved to attack the remainder immediately. It turned out that Jackson had underestimated the Union force that had been left in the Valley, and he suffered a bloody repulse when he attacked them at Kernstown on March 23. Despite this, however, Jackson’s aggression had a major strategic impact. Lincoln and others in Washington could not believe that Jackson had attacked with such a small force, and figured he must have at least 10,000 men in the Valley. McClellan being all the way down at Fort Monroe, Lincoln and his advisors set about to counter this perceived threat and, in the process, took a hard look at the actual number of troops that McClellan had left to guard Washington. What they found struck them as completely inadequate to the task — the capital seemed very vulnerable, and there was fear that Jackson’s attack at Kernstown might herald a Confederate offensive — which led Lincoln to withdraw from McClellan’s command an entire army corps, so as to make sure that D.C. was safe. Public criticism of McClellan’s slow progress in his Peninsula campaign was widely heard in the capital, as Bruce Catton narrates in Mr. Lincoln’s Army:

The clamour against McClellan deepened, became a clamour against Lincoln for keeping him in command. Lincoln tried to give McClellan an understanding of this increasing pressure as a factor which McClellan would have to keep constantly in mind when he made his plans; tried to show him that it was a pressure which, political conditions being what they so regrettably were, even the President of the United States might finally be unable to resist. On April 9, Lincoln wrote him: “And once more let me tell you, it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow. I am powerless to help this.” He concluded the letter by assuring McClellan that he would sustain him as far as he could: “but,” he added, “you must act.”

“You must act” — that is the essence of the message I would share with young people on this Father’s Day. However much anyone might hope to accomplish through politics, in terms of preserving “traditional family values” in America, what matters more is what we actually do in our everyday lives. Many millions of dollars in campaign contributions have been spent, and untold hours of labor by activists has been done in terms of electing candidates and promoting legislation that might advance a conservative agenda. What have I done? Well, I’ve stayed married to the same woman for 37 years, sired and raised six children to adulthood, and occasionally do what I can to help with the grandkids.

What I have done is to live “traditional values,” rather than merely to talk about them, or to vote for them. Once upon a time, living this way wasn’t considered political at all. People fell in love, got married, had kids, etc., and because almost everybody was living that way, there wasn’t anything controversial about it. Nowadays, however, to live that kind of life — husband and wife, mom and dad, “till death do us part” — makes you some kind of right-wing extremist. The SPLC might even put you on their “Hate Map” for suggesting that this is the best way to live.

Be an extremist, and have fun doing it. Certainly, I’ve had a blast.

Happy Father’s Day to all you right-wing extremists everywhere!



 

Category: Culture, Family, History

FMJRA 2.0: Checking Out The Free Agents

Posted on | June 21, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Most of the managers have their keepers in, which means I can scroll through the free agent list and start wondering if any of the desirable players are going to last until the 9th round when I pick. We have four openings in Pete’s league, so if you wanted to scratch that general manager/field manager itch, now’s your chance.
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The Terrorist ‘Dreamer’: End DACA Immediately, and Deport Them All

Posted on | June 20, 2026 | No Comments

The standard application fee for a B-2 tourist visa is $185, a sum that most Americans would consider trivial. In poor Third World countries, however, $185 might be more than a week’s pay, and that’s just for the application — paying $185 doesn’t guarantee the visa will be issued.

Keep that information in mind, as we discuss Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, a Mexican who arrived in the U.S. in 2001 at age 6 along with his family, traveling on B-2 tourist visas. They never went back:

Federal officials say Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, identified in court documents as the alleged ringleader of a plot to attack the White House UFC event this past weekend, was in the country illegally after overstaying a visa, according to information from Fox News Digital.
According to Homeland Security information in the documents, Alvarez came to the United States as a child and received deportation relief through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in 2014 after failing to leave when his B2 visa expired in 2001.
Five co?conspirators have been arrested this month in what investigators describe as a plan to use explosive?laden drones to force an evacuation from the event, followed by sniper fire aimed at the fleeing crowd. Federal authorities say Alvarez was responsible for planning, organizing and directing the planned attack.
Court records identified Alvarez as a foreign national after he consented to consular notification following his arrest this weekend, though the documents did not specify his immigration status or country of origin.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has lodged a detainer for him following his arrest by the FBI in Omaha, Nebraska, on the day of the event. . . .
According to the Department of Justice, Alvarez used the name “Shepherd” in a group chat dedicated to planning the attack and allegedly responded “as many and as deadly as we can get” when asked about making drones with explosives.

Andrew R. Arthur explains an important point about B-2 visas:

Lauren Bis, DHS acting assistant secretary for media relations, had the following to say about Alvarez and his alleged involvement in this purported plot:

This illegal alien from Mexico should never have been allowed in our country. He was the ringleader of a failed terror attack targeting UFC Freedom 250 at the White House. … He and his co-conspirators now face charges of conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to commit violence on White House grounds. He will face justice and swiftly be removed from our country.

Given that Alvarez was about six years old when he came to this country in 2001 on a B-2 tourist visa (likely with family), I wouldn’t go so far as to state that he “should never have been allowed” into this country, but (assuming the reporting is true), the fact he never left suggests that whoever brought him didn’t have the appropriate “nonimmigrant” intent, i.e., the intent to return home. …
And when nonimmigrants — and B-2 tourists in particular — fail to depart as promised, it makes it more difficult their fellow countrymen to come here temporarily, but legally, in the future. Let me explain.
Section 214 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) governs the issuance of nonimmigrant visas at consular offices abroad, and subsection (b) therein states that an applicant for such a visa is “presumed to be an immigrant” — that is presumed to be coming here permanently, not temporarily — “until he establishes to the satisfaction of the consular officer … that he is entitled to a nonimmigrant status”.
That “214(b)” ineligibility is the most common ground on which consular officers deny nonimmigrant visas, and when nationals of a specific country have high nonimmigrant “overstay” rates, consulates tighten up their nonimmigrant-visa issuances.
While I haven’t handled an immigration case in over a decade, I remain an attorney in good standing and receive calls from U.S. citizens and green card holders who are attempting, unsuccessfully, to secure tourist visas for their parents and other loved ones to come to this country for a visit.
It breaks my heart, but there is usually nothing I can do. “Once bitten, twice shy” doesn’t just apply to unfamiliar canines. Untruthful and noncompliant nonimmigrant visitors ruin others’ hopes, plans, and reunions.

When we hear the phrase “illegal immigrant,” we tend to think of someone wading across the Rio Grande or being smuggled over the border, but these “visa overstay” cases are also a huge part of the problem: Foreigners get into the country on tourist visas, student visas or temporary work visas, and then just never go back. And as explained, these cheaters make it more difficult for honest people to get temporary visas. They pay their $185 application fee and then get turned down for a tourist visa because some State Department staffer at the embassy suspects they won’t return after their visa expires. Dear reader, I am personally familiar with such a case, and it makes me angry.

Speaking of angry, here’s Andrew R. Arthur on DACA:

For more than two decades, congressmen from both sides have tried to pass some form of “DREAM Act”, that is, an amnesty for aliens living in the United States illegally after arriving here — with and without their parents — as children.
And for nearly a quarter century, they’ve been unsuccessful, and regardless of how it turns out, this case is unlikely to further their cause.
The failure of DREAM Act legislation led the Obama administration to create DACA, which provides quasi-legal status to aliens who entered the United States while under the age of 16 before June 15, 2007, who were born after June 15, 1981, who meet certain educational standards, and who have not been convicted of certain crimes.
DACA was not created by Congress, or even by executive order or executive action, for that matter. Instead, it’s the product of a memo issued by then-DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano on June 15, 2012 (five months before that year’s presidential elections), that has become a political football ever since.
As its name suggests, DACA is a unique flavor of “deferred action”, an “inherently discretionary” exercise of “prosecutorial discretion” to which applicants have “no legal right”, though aliens granted deferred action don’t accrue periods of unlawful presence in the United States while in that status and are eligible to apply for employment authorization.
ICE is quick to add that “deferred action does not confer lawful immigration status upon an individual”, meaning that an alien granted DACA exists in a nether zone between legal and not.

How the hell has DACA survived? It’s not a law passed by Congress, nor is it an executive order. DACA exists because of a mere memo issued by Janet Napolitano 14 years ago, which ought to have been canceled the very day President Trump was first inaugurated in 2017, yet we still have many thousands of these DACA recipients in the country. Even if we stipulate that some of these people are potentially good citizens — having arrived here as children, through no criminal intent of their own, etc. — they have now had more than a decade to get their paperwork straightened out and obtain permanent legal residency (i.e., “Green Card” status) and go through the seven-year naturalization process.

The point here is that foreign lawbreakers make it more difficult for everybody else, in part because abuses of the immigration system make us Americans so angry that we start saying things like, “Mass deportation is the moderate option.” (Don’t ask about the extreme option.)

When politicians start using gimmicks like DACA to rig the system, it only compounds the anger among those of us who are smart enough to figure out that we’re being lied to, and who refuse to be guilt-tripped by a lot of “diversity is our strength” rhetoric or excerpts from the poetry of Emma Lazarus. Americans historically have been a pragmatic people, willing to apply practical common sense to any problem we encounter, but our leaders have taken advantage of our good nature by offering phony “reforms” and allegedly temporary measures like DACA that, upon closer examination, are really amnesty. Politicians know amnesty is unpopular, and therefore engage in attempted deception about what it is they’re doing. When we see through their charades and call them out, they then accuse of us of xenophobic bigotry: “RAAAAACIST!”

There is a certain handsome young fellow — an athlete and scholar from a fine Christian family — in a Latin American country famous for soccer and beef, who would very much like to visit the United States. About three years ago, this gaucho of the pampas was working in a coffee shop to earn his tuition when he made the acquaintance of an American girl who was spending her junior year of college studying abroad in a Spanish-language immersion program. Because the girl was very beautiful, of course the fellow at the coffee shop fell deeply in love with her. After she returned to America, the handsome young fellow went through the ordeal of trying to obtain a visa to come visit her (in order to meet the girl’s father, as is proper). He paid that $185 application fee and was turned down by some State Department hack at the U.S. embassy.

“Do not worry,” said the girl’s father. “This is the Biden administration. Once Trump gets in office, he’ll make Marco Rubio the Secretary of State, and my friend Marco will fix this problem.” The lovebirds are still waiting for this Hallmark Channel movie to reach its happy ending, but perhaps you understand my resentment of the status quo, where we’re expected to feel sorry for illegal aliens, even while the system makes life difficult for those who obey the law and follow the rules.

My interest in this issue is quite personal, and calling me a xenophobic bigot is only going to make me even angrier than I already am.

Remember: Mass deportation is the moderate option.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers! It has been pointed out by commenters that Trump tried to end DACA, but that got overturned by a 5-4 Supreme Court, as if Cabinet secretaries can just determine immigration policy and, once such a policy is established, it can never be changed by any future administration. Exactly how that’s constitutional, I can’t understand. Neither could Justice Thomas:

DHS created DACA during the Obama administration without any statutory authorization and without going through the requisite rulemaking process. As a result, the program was unlawful from its inception. The majority does not even attempt to explain why a court has the authority to scrutinize an agency’s policy reasons for rescinding an unlawful program . . .

DACA was “unlawful from its inception,” and yet somehow it’s against the law to end it? It’s a mystery wrapped in an enigma.



 

Category: Immigration, Mexico, Terrorism

In The Mailbox: 06.19.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | June 20, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
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OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: The Day That Ended The Roman Republic (44 BC),
357 Magnum: Modern Entertainment Destroys Another Franchise
EBL: Emancipation, The Defense Witness Who Folded In The Karmelo Anthony Trial, Father’s Day Fish Wings, The “Illegal” Pink Pineapple, and The Critical Drinker takes on Anita Sarkeesian
Twitchy: Harry Truman You Ain’t, Jokes About Michelle Obama Apparently Give Black People Heart Disease, and Seattle Lefties Vow To Sit Out World Cup Because Trump – Stadium Goes Full Bald Eagle CAW CAW Instead
Louder With Crowder: Fat preacher claims fatness is a virtue, and that you are a fatphobic sinner for calling fat people “fat”, Michelle Obama lashes out at who she claims are real Americans, AWFL mom infests free neighborhood library with leftist propaganda, all over a single Trump flag, Send Them Back: Europe Is Finally Done with The Immigrant BS , and Minor league baseball players stood up and refused to wear Pride merch, so the team did something embarrassing
Vox Popoli: Natural Partners, The Understanding, Players Unions vs Pride, Deboomering the Slow Way, and The Banned Article
According To Hoyt: In Praise of Work, The Mean Girls, The Muse is Tired, The Still Small Voice of Trumpets Again, and The Color of Your Head
Monster Hunter Nation: Join me and special guests at the American Paladin Launch Parties-Salt Lake, Austin, Nashville
Cedar Sanderson: Old Glass, New Stories – Why I’m Shooting Digital Retro
Postcards From Barsoom: Why Don’t British Men Do Something?

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American Greatness: Tulsi Gabbard Releases Bombshell Files Alleging Fauci Helped Spark COVID Pandemic, Obama Center Opening Ceremony Land Acknowledgement Draws Ridicule & Mockery, Baseball Team Forfeits Game After Players Decline to Wear Pride Night Jerseys, Cook Political Report Shifts Seven House Races Toward Democrats, and Democratic Socialists Gain Ground in Major City Races
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Behind The Black: Texas Supreme Court rejects beach closure lawsuit against SpaceX, Problems during first drop tests of Europe’s Space Rider prototype, SpaceX launches classified payload for National Reconnaissance Office, Final results from Lucy’s 2025 fly-by of asteroid Donaldjohanson: A tumbling peanut!, and The real history of the United States
Cafe Hayek: Open Letter to Charles Benoit, How Serious Is Trump About National Security? and Who Puts “Profits Over People”?
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Memory Hole, Sometimes the system heals itself, When the Democrats Treat Parents as Terrorists, Movie Review – Pressure, and Danielle Pletka on Trump’s Iran Deal
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Shark Tank: AG Uthmeier Issues Subpoena Against MLB For Alleged Religious Discrimination
Shot In The Dark:  Do They Ever Listen To Themselves?
The Political Hat: Celebrating A Triumph Of The America Way: Juneteenth And The End Of Slavery, Quick Takes – Euthanasia, Dueling Big Brothers In Ohio, The Semiquincentenial Question: Why Is America The Best? and Artificial Eggs Means One Thing – Bird Girls!
Transterrestrial Musings: Elon Musk Is A Genius, “The Left Took Total Control”, Harvard Students, and Vance’s Dubious (And Delusional) Diplomacy
Victory Girls: The Left’s Greed And Envy Is On Full Display, Trump Announces Iran Peace Deal, But The Devil Is In The Details, Washington’s Mayoral Race Shows How Mainstream Socialism Has Become, Archdiocese of San Francisco on MLB Rainbow Kerfuffle -Christians Are Allowed to Be Christian in Public, and The United Kingdom is a Caliphate in All Ways But Formal Name
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The Federalist: I Want To Be The Loudest Man In Church, Just Like My Dad, Corporate Media Can’t Be Bothered To Investigate Fraud And Crime, They Have An Algae Bloom To Track, California Shows Exactly Why Having The Right Election Laws Is So Important, New York Times Writers Are Mad About The War Ending. That Means Trump Is On The Right Track, and Court Filing: Democrat AGs Behind Lawfare Coordinated With Leftist Groups About ‘How To Stop Trump’
Mark Steyn: Print the Legend: The End of it All in John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Rock On, An Odyssey to Ignore, Part IV, Signed, Sealed…Delivered, and Restoring Britain (and the rest of Europe?)

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In The Mailbox: 06.19.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | June 19, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
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EBL: Nitsuke, Their Finest Hour, and Waterloo
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Louder With Crowder: Is Trump’s Iran deal really just Obama 2.0? Ro Khanna tries telling female Fox host that women are too dumb to get voter ID and gets rekt, Los Angeles is one step closer to letting illegals vote in American elections, Joe Rogan opens up about scary time when sitting and FORMER presidents tried to have him canceled and destroyed over COVID, and “What the f*ck?” Jack Osbourne hits back at losers who claim Ozzy is rolling in his grave over Jack going to UFC at the WH
Vox Popoli: The Demolition of Disclosure Day, Cancelled by the Customers, The Opposite of Boomer, A Tale of Two Inevitabilities, and Overton in the UK
Cedar Sanderson: The Groundskeeper – Fen Dead #11, also, Lightly Toasted Marshmallow Strip #6
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In The Mailbox: 06.18.26

Posted on | June 19, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Father Protects His Daughter, also,  UK Rape Gang Report Is So Much Worse Than You Think
Doug Ross: “Protecting The Children” – The Censorship Con Coming To America, also, A Day the Sun Fell from the Sky (1917)
EBL: Gordon Ramsey Fish Technique, Corrupt Jennifer and Gavin Newsom, Soccer Fans, Vlad the Impaler, and Southern Poverty Law Center boss funneled $1.2 million to her Neo Nazi Lover?
Twitchy: JD Vance Calls Out The Absolute Cowardice Of The GOP Senate over the SAVE Act, Muslim Texan Who Wanted To Participate In The GOP convention Leaves In Tears, and Poster Explains how Bible Verses Are Overt Religious Symbols But Pride Hats Aren’t
Louder With Crowder: The Only Bank Account James Talarico Has Is Shared With His Mommy, New CA Bill Would Allow Kids To Divorce Parents Without Cause, New Poll Shows How Much Democrats Hate This Country, 250,000 British Girls R*ped by Muslim Grooming Gangs Uncovered in New Shocking Report , and Joe Biden comes out of hiding to brag about how he tried to destroy the oil industry
Vox Popoli: An Editorial Update, Taleb, Anti-Fragility, and Evolution, The Gold Demon, A Passing Thought, and The True Name of Things
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Mirepoix, also, “You know, in certain older, civilized cultures…”
Jim McCoy: The Covenant of the Forge
Cedar Sanderson: Lightly Toasted Marshmallow Strip #5, also, Shangri-La
Upstream Reviews: Lessons in Etiquette
Stoic Observations: Trump Goes to the G7
John C. Wright: Leftism Is Lies

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Baldilocks: Katiana
CDR Salamander: Requiem for a Frigate, also, (mis)RULE (of) BRITANNIA(‘s armed forces) II: Electric Boogaloo,
Don Surber: Victory in Iran, also, Winning the culture
Racket News: Post-Trump, Will Snobbism Still Work As An Electoral Strategy? also, Editor’s Note on the UFC Bash
STUMP: On Chicago Pension Reform – Paul Vallas…and some High Schoolers,

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Perfection: Ex-SPLC Boss Heidi Beirich Gave Money to Her Neo-Nazi Boyfriend

Posted on | June 16, 2026 | No Comments

Oh, man, is this a beautiful irony or what?

A top Southern Poverty Law Center official is accused of helping funnel $1.2 million in donor money to an informant in the National Alliance white supremacist group — who was also allegedly her lover.
The Department of Justice filed a superseding indictment against the SPLC accusing it of funneling donor cash to hate groups they were then telling donors they were fighting.
One figure, referred to as “Employee-2” in the indictment, is described as a “person who would become Director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project.”
It also describes how “Employee-2” wrote an article based on material stolen from National Alliance headquarters in 2014 and then paid off an informant to take the blame for the robbery.
Based on the details in the June 2 superseding indictment, “Employee-2” is believed to be Heidi Beirich, a 58-year-old fascism expert who was the director of intelligence at the Alabama-based anti-extremism nonprofit between 2012 and 2019.
The indictment alleges Beirich was very close to the informant known only as “F-9” who “infiltrated the neo-Nazi organization National Alliance.”
“[Beirich] was also in a romantic relationship with F-9. During this relationship, [Beirich] and F-9 shared a house and two bank accounts,” the indictment alleges.
“Between 2015 and 2021, approximately $140,000 in donors’ money flowed from the SPLC operating account … and was ultimately deposited into the joint bank accounts held by F-9 and [Beirich].
“This amounted to approximately 66% of all money ever deposited into their joint bank accounts. [Beirich] then used donors’ money to pay the couple’s personal living expenses.”
The indictment also claims that while getting paid by the SPLC, the unnamed informant was also raising money for the National Alliance and helping to “carry out its extremist activities.”
In 2015, Beirich wrote an article allegedly based on the stolen materials for her group’s “Hatewatch” section of its website. That article, “Chaos at the Compound,” is still available.
The indictment then describes how the SPLC tried to cover up who their informant was by paying a second informant “approximately $6,000” to take responsibility for the burglary.
Beirich and SPLC did not respond to requests for comment from The Post.
“I knew it was that fat, ugly hog Heidi Beirich,” National Alliance chairman William White Williams, 78, told The Post from his home in east Tennessee. He also confirmed the details of the indictment match what happened to the group.
“I think some of those cluckers wanted to get out of the movement and they went to the SPLC for help. But instead of helping them, [the SPLC] said, ‘Why don’t you stay in and get paid?’” he added of the informants. . . .
Alabama-based SPLC has been charged with wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering conspiracy for allegedly engaging “in the active promotion of racist groups at the same time that the SPLC was denouncing the same groups on its website,” acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel announced on April 21.
Patel charged that far from using spies to dismantle the hate groups, the SPLC gave them over $4 million to keep promoting their ideologies, thus giving them something to point out and seek donors to fight against.

In case you were wondering, it was Beirich who tagged me as a “neo-Confederate white supremacist” more than 20 years ago, but unlike her, no one has ever accused me of literally sucking Nazi dick.



 

Category: Racism

In The Mailbox: 06.16.26 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | June 16, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: Time Surfing Chicago, Oops! Turns Out Rich Families Actually Get Poorer, and A Day With A Nurse In The Civil War (1862)
357 Magnum: The Truth about Australian Crime
EBL: MAGA Iran Deal, The Magna Carta Song, Flag Day, The Black Donnellys, and  “You’re A Grand Old Flag”
Twitchy: Details Released On Alleged Organizer Of UFC White House Terror Plot and YIKES, Scott Jennings Reacts To Ana Navarro’s Rant on DeNiro & “Manly” Michelle Obama, and Gutfeld Shreds Jessica Tarlov After She Scolds Trump For UFC Fighter Calling Michelle Obama A Man
Louder With Crowder: Robert De Niro claims America is being “abused,” and he can’t love a country where people have different opinions from his, Watch: What Exactly Is In Trump’s Iran Deal? It’s Hard To Say, CNN analyst is shocked – SHOCKED – that southerners are being hospitable to foreigners in town for the World Cup, Democrats counterprogram the unbridled patriotism of the UFC at the White House with old people yelling, and Another major hospital stands on the right side of history
Vox Popoli: Immigration is the End of a Society, Switzerland 1, Qatar 1, Preparing for the Inevitable, The Nightmare is Worse Than They Fear, and A Total Failure
Cedar Sanderson: You Are What You Read, also, Raspberry Mojito
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Bachelor Chow
Born Lucky: Education and the Tyranny of “Equality”
Stoic Observations: The Definitive Funk
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: One IPO Achieved, Two Flameouts Likely
Upstream Reviews: Red State Mars
John C. Wright: Note on the Madnesses Of Crowds

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Dana Loesch: The Iran Deal Is Part Of Vance’s POTUS Audition
Don Surber: Musk Beware
Elizabeth Nickson: #WHITEBOYSUMMER – Revolution, Restitution, Restoration
STUMP: Deaths From Heat in the US – Update To 2025

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