In The Mailbox: 09.24.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Weather’s getting cool enough that sometimes you have to put some extra clothes while you’re waiting for the furnace to kick in. Thanks to Rule5Tweets on X.
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EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Little Dorrit, Joanne Froggatt, Breakfast At Tiffany’s, Drawn Together, Constitution Day, MAGA AI, A Golden Age of Westeros, Pulaski Day, El Cid, The German, The Brink of War, The Wisdom of Hayek, and Katherine Jenkins

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Jules Aurora, US Poverty Hits All-Time Low, Fish Pic Friday – Unhinged Outdoors, Thursday Tanlines, That Thing That Never Happens Happened Again, I’ll Take Some Natural Intelligence Please, The Wednesday Wetness, Maryland Gets Money for Blue Catfish Control, The Return of the Murder Turtle!, ADHD, The Monday Morning Stimulus, 2025 Was a Good Year for Bay Grass, and Palm Sunday

BACON TIME: If It’s Rule Five, It’s Russia

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FMJRA 2.0: Finally, A Winning Week

Posted on | September 20, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The Senators went 3-2 this week, getting swept by the Yankees in a two-game set before beating the bejesus out of the A’s for a sweep and getting a rare couple of wins from Wilbur Wood and Joe Coleman. This week, it’s off to Minnesota for a three-game set with the Twins (15-16) and then to Oakland for a rematch with the A’s (13-23). Right now we’re at 13-20, half a game behind Boston and three in back of the division-leading Twins.
For those of you uninterested in baseball, particularly in Dynasty League Baseball, here’s the College Football Marble Rankings, because f*** you, AP.
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This week, Ted actually smiled.

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FMJRA 2.0: Can’t Blame The Offense
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In The Mailbox: 09.15.26 (Afternoon Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 09.15.26 (Evening Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 09.18.26
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The Zero-Sum Logic of Racial Hatred

Posted on | September 20, 2026 | No Comments

Many years ago, I realized that it is a mistake to think too much about race. The evidence is sufficiently grim, the trend so discouraging, that dwelling on the subject involves a risk of utter madness, until you end up like Kurtz in Heart of Darkness: “Exterminate all the brutes.”

“Colorblindness” is a trap, Nikole Hannah-Jones asserts and I agree with her — but not the sense she means it. Hannah-Jones was criticizing the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision that ruled racial quotas (in the name of “diversity” or “affirmative action”) to be unconstitutional:

[Conservatives] are using civil rights law to claim that the Constitution requires “colorblindness” and that efforts targeted at ameliorating the suffering of descendants of slavery illegally discriminate against white people. They have co-opted both the rhetoric of colorblindness and the legal legacy of Black activism not to advance racial progress, but to stall it. Or worse, reverse it.

The tendentious wording — the implicit assumption that “descendants of slavery” are suffering, and that “ameliorating” the aforesaid suffering is a political imperative — functions as intended, portraying opponents of racial quotas as heartless opponents of “racial progress.”

There are so many things wrong with that single paragraph that I could write an entire essay exploding her errors, but that’s irrelevant to the larger point, namely that racial obsession is at least as dangerous for black people as it is for white people. Whether it’s Nikole Hannah-Jones pushing an idealistic commitment to “racial progress” or some kind of crypto-Nazi devotee of Aryan supremacy, there will be such a vast distance between reality and your racial ideal that it will drive you crazy.

We are more than 150 years past the end of slavery in America, and yet Nikole Hannah-Jones is more obsessed with race than any of the Confederate leaders whose likenesses are carved upon the side of Stone Mountain. At some point, the craziness of racial obsession becomes so obvious everyone can see it. Nikole Hannah-Jones has passed that point.

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— Thomas Chatterton Williams (@thomaschattwill) September 20, 2026

“In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?” is the headline on her New York Times article, which is paywalled, but can be summarized briefly: Believing that majority-black public schools in New York City were unfairly disparaged, Hannah-Jones decided to send her daughter to such a school. When it came time to make a decision for high school, however, the daughter insisted on attending one of the city’s more prestigious public schools, which are majority-white. In other words, her daughter had ideas about “racial progress” that were more in line with old-fashioned liberal ideas about integration, rather than the separatist vision of “Black Power” radicals. Everybody’s laughing at this irony.

I don’t want to take a victory lap here, because NHJ could have simply never written this article, and it’s incredibly important that she did.

You have a duty to your children. It is wrong to use them as vehicles for activism instead of fighting for their interests. https://t.co/mXeRoiZBQK pic.twitter.com/XKfTDWaMGS

— Jack (@tracewoodgrains) September 20, 2026

Nikole Hannah-Jones Just Wrote the Best Case for School Choice She'll Ever Publishhttps://t.co/18EtjeAtON

— RedState (@RedState) September 20, 2026

We could endlessly victory-lap here, or we could learn something useful. Racial hatred involves a zero-sum logic. That’s true no matter which groups are involved, or where the conflict occurs. The hater develops an Us-versus-Them mentality of permanent conflict, and magnifies the group differences so that the hated Them is conceived as demonic.

From this worldview emerges a zero-sum belief that anything bad that happens to Them is good for Us; anytime They win, it’s a defeat for Us. It is this deranged mentality which explains Nikole Hannah-Jones’s belief that she must reject “colorblindness” in favor of a vision of “racial progress” that contradicts whatever the conservative Them may advocate.

One sees that, in her view, “conservative” is simply a synonym for racist — white Republicans are the demonized Them — and she apparently never considers alternative explanations, including the possibility that a commitment to colorblind meritocracy in education policy might actually benefit black people, including her own daughter. It is wrong to assume that all our problems are due to the malicious intent of others.

One of the great lessons from the Bible is the story of Joseph, who was sold into slavery because of his brothers’ jealousy. Joseph became a mighty ruler in Egypt. Famine brought his brothers to Egypt seeking help, and when he revealed the truth to them — that he was the brother they’d sold into slavery — they were afraid of Joseph’s wrath, but he said, fear not: You meant it for evil, but God meant it for good.

Even the malice of our enemies can ultimately benefit us. Life is not always a popularity contest, so we are not entirely dependent upon whether or not other people like us, and thank God for that. If we correctly discern the right thing to do, we should not fear to do it, merely because we are slandered by our opponents. Nikole Hannah-Jones has devoted her life to slandering others as “racist,” and like Joseph we may answer her: You meant it for evil, but God meant it for good.

By their folly, progressives have demonstrated the idiocy of supposing that white racism is the source of all the “suffering” that Hannah-Jones considers definitive of the black experience in America. For years I have said there are five A’s in “RAAAAACIST” — the bogus accusation hurled at conservatives, for which evidence is not necessary — but you see it doesn’t actually matter whether or not these accusations are true. You may be unfairly prejudiced, or not, but the question is, how could the mere prejudice of white people explain everything that Nikole Hannah-Jones says it explains? She lives in one of the most liberal cities on the entire planet. Kamala Harris got 68% of the vote in New York City, so where is the evidence of pervasive racism that supposedly explains the poor performance of black students in New York City schools? And why should Trump voters like you or I, who don’t live anywhere near New York City, be made to feel responsible for this? It’s absurd.

Hannah Nikole-Jones is an answered prayer, if you pray like I do: Dear God, always give me fools for enemies! Deo vindice.

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In The Mailbox: 09.18.26

Posted on | September 19, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Kickstarter’s up to 27%! Woot!
Also, some fanfiction on the substack. Why should Pete have all the fun? 😉
Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
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OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: Benghazi 911
357 Magnum: Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0
EBL: Chuletas Can-Can, Triggerfish Throats, Karl “The Architect” Rove is all in on Team Talafreako, Joanne Froggatt, and Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Twitchy: WH Drops A Brutal Reality Nuke On CNN’s Defense Of Their “Fair & Accurate Reporting”, It’s “Orangeland” Now, and Stepstool Abdul Challenges JD Vance To Beard Inspection & Weightlifting Duel
Louder With Crowder: Hasan Piker, the conscience of the Democrat Party, declares America WORSE than Al-Qaeda, Florida Democrat makes bonkers claim that parents are murdering their children because of the job market, Lone holdout juror breaks his silence, explains why Lindsay Clancy was obviously GUILTY, A Diabolical Dating Grift & The Most Insane Ad Campaign You’ve Ever Seen, and Republican Congresswoman SELLS OUT Trump with campaign ad blasting ICE, demanding we give amnesty to illegal immigrants
Vox Popoli: A Mathematician’s Review, also, He Never Read the Book
According To Hoyt: A Quiet Summer, The Mommy Standard, A Vast Wasteland of Prosperity, Attention Huns, and Shaking!
Upstream Reviews: Reincarnated Into A Game As The Hero’s Friend
Cedar Sanderson: Housekeeping The ‘Stack
Sensurround: America Needs Better Xenophobia
Jim McCoy: Savage Wars
The Bugscuffle Gazette: One hour yesterday evening
John C. Wright: Blistering Space Oaths!

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American Greatness: Clancy Holdout Juror Issues Statement: ‘I Didn’t Have Any Doubts’, Hollywood Titan Paramount Threatens to Pull Out of California, Move to Nashville, Adult Film Stars Join Left-Wing Voter Registration Push Ahead of Midterms, Jobless Claims Plunge to 196,000 as U.S. Layoffs Remain Historically Low, and 22 States Sue Trump Administration to Block Immigration Rule
American Thinker: Strangers On Native Soil, When Antiwar Commentary Reflects the Kremlin’s Narrative, The Second-Worst-Case Scenario For AI, LBJ – 60 Years Of The Not-So Great Society, and Milei’s Foreign Policy: Trump or Xi Jinping?
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For September 18
Behind The Black: A galaxy not what it seems, NASA awards SpaceX three more manned Dragon missions to ISS, Albania to sign Artemis Accords, and Nelson Aerial Pros – 11 Implosions; 3 Minutes; All From Above
Cafe Hayek: Trump’s Statements About Trade are Unsalvageable
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: 100 Word Doctor Who Fan Fiction: A disappointing Revelation
Don Surber: Paying UK Back
First Street Journal: You in a heap o’ trouble boy, also, You in a heap o’ trouble mom and dad
Flopping Aces: They Told Us the Plan – Bankrupt America, Buy the Voters, Seize Control, The Week in Radical Leftism, 09/18/2026, and El-Sayed: A Straight Face and a $57,800 Ask
Gates Of Vienna: The Allison Inquiry – “Don’t Tell Them It’s a Vaccine Injury”, “Only a Coalition of Marxists and Islamists Can Destroy the United States”, The Allison Inquiry – “It’s Driven by Money, Power, and Greed”, and Allison Inquiry – “Using Health Crises to Remove the Rights of Individual People”
The Geller Report: President Trump Bans Fake News Outlets From the White House, TRUMP EFFECT – US Poverty Hits All-Time Low, Archbishop of Canterbury Forced to Withdraw Award from Osama bin Laden Imam Given on 9/11 Anniversary, Infamous Anti-Trump Obama Judge Boasberg Was Nine-Time Host for Communist China Exchange, and Democrat Spokesman Hasan Piker Says America Is Worse Than Al-Qaeda
Hollywood In Toto: Hollywood Reporter Says Late-Night TV’s Demise Is Nigh, also, Run Hide Fight: Infidels Director Claims Hollywood Ignores Real-World Threat
Legal Insurrection: Three “Students of Color” Programs At Bentley University Challenged By Equal Protection Project, “Crybully” UCLA Law Faculty Erupt At Chancellor For Comments About 9/11 Event Featuring KSM Lawyer and CAIR, Multi-Faith Groups Back Orthodox Jewish Man’s Fight to Host Prayers at Home, Washington State Democrats Say There’s No Room for Criticizing Transgender Ideology, and TPUSA Chapter at Colorado College Struggles to Grow Amid Retaliation Fears
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday: September Surprises
Outkick: Caitlin Clark Returns After FIBA Break & Kelsey Mitchell Sets WNBA Scoring Record As Fever Top Tempo, Aaron Judge Heads Back To The DL, Ole Miss Students Rip Lane Kiffin As LSU Coach Prepares To Face The Hate, Olympic Swimmer Rips Gov. Spanberger For Withdrawing Womens Sports Regulation, and Reaction To “Ted Lasso” Shows Leftist Critics Are Never Satisfied
Power Line: Speaking of misdirection, Trump Announces Greenland Agreement, Fraud all the way down, and Free Speech – An American Oddity
Shark Tank: Rick Scott Introduces Subterranean Border Defense Act
The Political Hat:Firing Line Friday: Civil Rights and Foreign Policy
Transterrestrial Musings: Solar Events
Victory Girls: College Republicans Cleared After Erika Kirk Sends Legal Help
Watts Up With That: Another Big Step In The Removal Of Destructive “Climate” Regulations, Global Drought Shows No Detectable Recent Acceleration Under Climate Warming, Heartland Institute Experts Applaud EPA’s Repeal of Strict Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rule for Power Plants, U.S. Military Confirms Deployment of Weapons in Space, and Brussels is Building a Climate Protection Racket in the Name of ‘Climate Insurance’
The Federalist: Parents Who Wanted to Abort Their Children Should Not Have Custody Of Them, Trump Bans ‘Fake News’ CNN, MS NOW, Politico From White House, California Spirals Down Into Constant, Soul-Destroying Fraud, The Kennedy Center Is A Shrine To The D.C. Decadence. Tear It Down, and New Records Suggest Act Blue Opened The Door Wide To Foreign Donors
Mark Steyn: In and Out, also, The Crooked Man

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In The Mailbox: 09.17.26

Posted on | September 18, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Kickstarter for my fantasy novel is now at 26% funded – three weeks left to get on board!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: A Day In New York City (1790)
357 Magnum: Concealed Carry and Self-Defense in Illinois Caught on Camera
EBL: Harriet Tubman, also, Constitution Day
Twitchy: In The Middle of the Clancy Trial, Jurors Were Considering A Press Conference, Zoinks! Courtroom Sketch of Terror Defendant Has X Making Cracks About “Scooby Snacks”, and The Economy’s Dead? Somebody Tell Toys R Us
Louder With Crowder: Lindsay Clancy juror giggles about the case, says jurors were making their PR plans WHILE the trial was still happening, Ron White can’t fix these stupid comments blasting Texas Republicans, James Talarico’s lesbian minister admits he’s lying, Microsoft teams with radical left teachers’ union to “regulate” AI in the classroom, and we’ve seen this movie before, and Outgoing Democrat congressman attempts feeble dunk on the GOP, but forgets how walls work
Vox Popoli: The Cost of the Codex, The Front End Isn’t the Back End, The Math is Too Hard, Odessa Confirmed, and The Translations List
Cedar Sanderson: Toast – Household Rankings
John C. Wright: The Trinity and Aristotle

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: The Democrat Party and Its Supporters Are a Hive – Part Three, University of Utah Drops Case Against College Republican Who Posted Viral ‘Kirkiversary’ Cake Photo on X, Minister at Talarico’s Austin Church Says Woke Senate Hopeful is Shifting Positions to Win Over Moderate Voters, 12 Immigrants Charged by Feds in $10 Million California Daycare Fraud Plot, and Outside Groups Say Trump Administration Has Disrupted $177 Billion in Federal Grants
American Thinker: Blowhard Obama Is Back to Stoke AI Fears, The 50-State Strategy for America’s Competition with China, The Mysterious 9/11 Apology By Condoleezza Rice, The Smoke of September 11, and The Terrorists’ Real Victory Wasn’t The Towers – It Was Much Worse
BattleSwarm: Murder Charges Dropped Because Travis County Missed Deadlines
Behind The Black: SpaceX delays 14th orbital test flight of Starship/Superheavy to September 28th, Gale Crater in morning light, Documenting the first time a solar flare impacted Earth technology, FDA in 2020 knew its COVID jab monitoring system didn’t work, yet used it anyway, and Next manned Dragon mission to ISS now targeting an early October launch
CDR Salamander: Too Small U.S. Navy – Cliffs Notes Edition
Dana Loesch: Cornyn & Rove Back A Marxist To Control Texas Oil & Gas
Don Surber: Making Sydney Sweeney a sports billionaire
The Geller Report: Kamala Harris to Campaign in Michigan with Abdul El-Sayed, Kuwait Quietly Moves Toward Israel Amid Iran threat, Trump Effect – Hitachi Deepens Commitment to U.S. Manufacturing With $528 Million Mississippi Transformer Factory, Democrats’ $19 Billion ActBlue Money Machine Accused of Knowingly Accepting Illegal Foreign Cash, and Muslim Labour MP Calls for UK ‘Military Action’ Against Israel
Hollywood In Toto: The War on Run Hide Fight: Infidels Begins (As Expected), Ethan Hawke Can’t Lift All Too Familiar Weight, and Run Hide Fight: Infidels – Red Dawn for Academia’s Insane Woke Culture
Legal Insurrection: Nigerian National Accused of Voting in Federal Elections, Charlie Kirk’s Family Begins Legal Proceedings Against Utah Valley University, Anti-Israel Protesters Who Caused $1 Million in Damage at U. Washington Get Community Service, Paramount Threatens to Leave California Over Warner Bros Merger, and Detroit News Endorses Mike Rogers, Raises Concerns About El-Sayed’s Deleted History
Nebraska Energy Observer: AI is Coming
Outkick: Bills cruise past Lions to christen new home, Brutal collision leaves Mets 1B Jared Young motionless on field, Pats’ TreVeyon Henderson explains siding with family over DCF in gender dispute, Va. Gov Spanberger quietly undoes Youngkin’s plans to protect girls sports, and Charlie’s Angels actress claims co-star invited her to threesome/Contraband bra for love/No harm, no foul
Power Line: The rule of judges, How krass can you get? A note on the Omar investigation, A Booming Economy – Who Cares?, and Who Defends the Decline in Higher Education?
Shark Tank: Anna Paulina Luna Issues Cease & Desist Against Democrat Leela Grey Over Donor Allegations
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Madness In The Anglosphere, also, Happy Constitution Day!
Transterrestrial Musings: The Attention It Deserves, Getting Used To Tyranny, and AI Doom
Victory Girls: Sydney Sweeney Has Everyone Remembering What A Woman Is
Watts Up With That: Economic Sooper Genius SPD Suggests Taxing Productivity Gains Stemming From Using AI, The Anti-Nuclear Playbook Comes for Data Centers, Capitalists and their “Intellectual Enablers” Allegedly Responsible for the “Climate Crisis”, and Natural Gas Is Cheap So Why Is Your Bill So High?
The Federalist: There Is No Such Thing As A Moderate Democrat Anymore, Texas Schools Like UT Austin Use This Rule To Artificially Boost ‘Diversity’ Instead Of Merit, California Drags Pro-Lifers To Court For Crime Of ‘Offering Hope’ And Abortion Pill Reversal, ‘I Would Do It Again’: Rep. Chip Roy Reflects On Years Of Service And Previews What’s Next, and Why Trump’s Plan To Stop Noncitizens From Rigging The Census Might Work This Time
Mark Steyn: Desecration

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