‘A Perfectly Good White Boy’

Posted on | February 7, 2026 | No Comments

Travis Duane Lovett

Citrus County, Florida, is a scenic place if you like trees draped with Spanish moss. Although it sits on the west coast of Florida, about 75 miles north of Tampa, Citrus County isn’t a place with hotels lining beaches, because there are no beaches to speak of. The coastline of Citrus County is defined by two bays — Crystal Bay in the north and Homosassa Bay in the south — into which empty two rivers. Despite its lack of beachfront, Citrus County has experienced tremendous growth in the past 50 years, exploding from less than 20,000 residents in 1970 to about 170,000 now. This background is by way of introduction to Travis Duane Lovett, who at age 22 made headlines — not in a good way.

Lovett is from Bushnell, in neighboring Sumter County. On the morning of April 28, 2019, an F-250 pickup truck was reported stolen in the Citrus County community of Floral City. Two hours later in Inverness, which is the Citrus County seat, a tip led sheriff’s deputies to the truck’s location:

A high-speed chase through Citrus and two other counties ended Sunday morning with authorities ramming a stolen truck driven by a Bushnell man, who earlier had fired on pursuing troopers.
Medics airlifted Travis Duane Lovett to Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point after the 22-year-old was ejected from a burgundy 2007 Ford F-250 pickup truck off of Sumter County Road 476 near Southwest 41st Terrace, outside of Bushnell, according to the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP).
As of Monday, he was still being treated at Tampa General Hospital for his injuries, FHP spokesman Sgt. Steve Gaskins said.

The reason I mentioned those “trees draped with Spanish moss” in Citrus County is because the pursuit of Travis Lovett was captured on a Florida state trooper’s dashcam, and it’s one of the most harrowing chases you’ll ever see, despite the verdant scenery:

If you don’t want to watch the whole frightening (but scenic) chase, you can click here to see the moment the trooper finally rams the truck off the road into a brutal rollover crash. Afterwards, you can hear the trooper and deputies talking about Lovett being “in bad shape,” as might be expected after being hurled from a truck at 90 mph. You can actually hear Lovett in what sounds like “agonal breathing,” which is almost always an omen of impending death. But more about the chase:

Working off of a tip, sheriff’s deputies at 9:15 a.m. went to a property on the 5300 block of East Muzzleloaders Court in Inverness and found Lovett in the truck.
Lovett drove the truck toward one of the deputies, who had to jump out of the way. Lovett continued to drive through a fence and accelerated towards another responding deputy’s cruiser, which swerved to avoid a collision, the sheriff’s release states.
A neighbor told a Chronicle reporter she saw several people sitting at the front porch warn the getaway driver about the approaching deputies, who had parked their patrol cars to block the driveway and much of the front yard when the truck backed up through chicken-wire fencing to escape. . . .
Lovett got onto South Great Oaks Drive and travelled south, leaving the roadway near the intersection with Bayberry Lane to travel on the Withlacoochee State Trail, according to CCSO spokeswoman Jodi Sanders and FHP.
Lovett continued driving on-and-off the trail for roughly 1.6 miles, almost colliding with several pedestrians, before going south on Istachatta Road.
Troopers kept pursuing Lovett into Hernando County and eastbound onto County Road 476.
Troopers said Lovett pointed an unknown object at them before he fired three gunshots from a handgun through the truck’s rear windshield, with one round striking the right side of an FHP cruiser’s front windshield, according to the agency.

If you watch the video, you realize that the Withlacoochee Trail is for walkers and bicyclists — no motorized vehicles permitted — and Lovett’s 60-mph race down that narrow one-lane trail is one of the scariest parts of the chase, no matter how much you enjoy seeing that lovely Spanish moss hanging from the trees. Considering how many lives he endangered, not to mention shooting at the state trooper who risked his life during that pursuit, I found myself actually hoping that Lovett was killed in that final crash. Alas, he survived, but fortunately you are unlikely ever to encounter Lovett, as he is currently in the Sumter Correctional Institution, from which he will not be released until 2065.

Because most of the criminals featured in my blog are either black or illegal immigrants, it’s important occasionally to emphasize that I have zero sympathy for white criminals like Travis Lovett. The headline features a line from the 1985 dark comedy Better Off Dead, which has become a sort of cult classic. The movie is about a high school kid played by John Cusack, who becomes suicidal after his girlfriend dumps him. In one scene, Cusack decides to end it all by jumping off a highway overpass, only to land in the back of a garbage truck. Two black men, in a bucket lift trimming trees beside the road, look down and see Cusack sitting in the garbage truck and one says to the other, “Man, now that’s a real shame when folks be throwing away a perfectly good white boy.”

This line crossed my mind after reading about the December 2020 hearing where a Florida judge sentenced Travis Lovett to prison:

Bushnell resident Travis Duane Lovett was handed a 50-year state prison sentence Thursday stemming from a multi-county vehicle chase with law enforcement last year, which one prosecutor in court described as “blood curdling.”
Circuit Judge Richard “Ric” Howard sentenced the 24-year old man after agreeing with state prosecutors that Lovett was a habitual offender, already having amassed five felonies and 10 traffic violations. Lovett had been released from prison in 2017 before the high-speed pursuit in 2019.
The April 2019 chase involved three counties, including Citrus and Sumter, and portions of the Withlacoochee Trail, during which he nearly struck two cyclists.
Before the chase, Lovett stole a truck, and when a Citrus County Sheriff’s deputy was identifying the license plate not knowing Lovett was inside, Lovett reversed the vehicle, nearly striking the deputy.
During the chase, Lovett also forced a second pursuing deputy off the road.
In March [2020), a jury found Lovett guilty of two counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, felony fleeing and grand theft of an automobile.
During the sentencing hearing, Lovett’s court-appointed lawyer, Edward Spaight, presented a court psychologist who oversaw counseling efforts for Lovett when Lovett was 14 years old and 16 years old.

(Permit me to interject that if “a court psychologist” was counseling Lovett when he was only 14, he was already a criminal by the time he was in middle school.)

Psychologist Patrick Ward told Howard that Lovett had been exposed to a drug environment during his early childhood and shown how to make and use drugs, which he often did with his mother and father, often using methamphetamine.
Ward said Lovett “bonded heavily with a model that was very negative” and was never shown how to control impulses and live normally in society. . . .
In a rambling effort to try and explain what he had done, Lovett told the judge that his intent in stealing the truck and running was to force law enforcement officers to kill him. He said his grandmother had committed suicide a few years before and his mother was threatening to do the same and the stress was too much.
During the time of his arrest, both his parents were in prison. Lovett said his life and recent events caused him to mentally come apart.
Spaight asked Howard to show Lovett mercy in sentencing, saying “if he had been raised by wolves it probably would have been better.”
But Howard declined, saying that the chase and near misses was one of the most frightening things he’d ever seen.
While Howard sympathized with Lovett’s troubles as a youth, he told him “but you made your choices.”

“Raised by wolves”! Both of his parents were in prison! He had just gotten out of prison himself two years before the stolen truck chase! He started doing meth as a child! His grandmother committed suicide!

No sympathy for white trash — 50 years in prison.

Civilization requires us to reject the appeal to sympathy that would have us treat dangerous criminals leniently on account of the difficult circumstances of their lives. The Vice President of the United States grew up in the kind of white trash millieu that produced Travis Lovett, but because of the intervention of his grandmother, J.D. Vance didn’t go down the road that leads to prison. As they say, it’s a shame to “throw away a perfectly good white boy,” but some of them are just trash.

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In The Mailbox: 02.06.26

Posted on | February 7, 2026 | No Comments

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Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
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Cafe Hayek: Unfortunately, AI Won’t Cause Massive “Unemployment”
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Don Surber: Translating Marxism into English
Gates Of Vienna: We Had to Destroy the Truth in Order to Save It, also, What Does a Child Bride Go For These Days?
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In The Mailbox: 02.05.26

Posted on | February 6, 2026 | No Comments

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357 Magnum: Electric Buses Versus Winter Weather
Director Blue: A Day Discovering Tutankhamen’s Tomb (1922), Benz Warns The EU Censorplex Could Impact 2028 Elections,
EBL: Sicilian Seafood, also, Riefenstahl
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Louder With Crowder: Anti-ICE leftists build a wall to keep certain people out of their community, apparently don’t see the irony, Trump’s sassy Treasury Secretary calls on low-IQ Maxine Waters to show a little dignity, and her response is priceless, Kamala Harris announces her return to social media, and it’s more cringestastic than you can possibly imagine, and Even MS NOW is hitting Chuck Schumer with facts about Voter ID laws, causing him to short-circuit with talking points
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Jim McCoy: City In Chains
Ammo.com: Gun Ownership By Political Party
Cedar Sanderson: Art Book Recommendation

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American Greatness: Midterm Palpitations, The National Miseducation Association, Newsom Won’t Cut Ties to Homeless Fraudster Firm, ‘Antifa Kyle’ Arrested in Minneapolis on Federal Threat and Cyberstalking Charges, and Four Amish Men Killed in Crash Caused By Kyrgyzstani Semi-Truck Driver Paroled into US Under Biden
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Chicago Boyz: A Response to ‘More Perfect’, also, A Response to ‘More Perfect’
Da Tech Guy: Indulgence Calendar a tad late Plus Shrove Tuesday Breakfast
Dana Loesch: A Note From Management, No, Texas SD9 Is Not A Bellwether For Midterms
Don Surber: Results matter
First Street Journal: The subscription losses at The Washington Post say more about the subscribers than the newspaper itself
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Shark Tank: David Jolly Suggests He Wouldn’t Enforce 287(g) ICE Agreements As Governor
Shot In The Dark: Where There’s Smoke
This Ain’t Hell: Legal Thursday, also, Hearts and Minds
Victory Girls: Scott Bessent Breaks Mad Maxine’s Broom
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In The Mailbox: 02.04.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | February 5, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Discombobulator
357 Magnum: The FGC-9 is a Proven Firearm
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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
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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!

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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
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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
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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.