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In The Mailbox: 07.29.26

Posted on | July 30, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: A Day With An English Peasant Family (1280), also, Fauci Meme Storm
357 Magnum: You Cannot Fix a Problem You Don’t Admit Exists
EBL: The Horror of Event Horizon, Why Predators Feared Ancient Humans, Swordfish Cookout, $50 Shots of Tequila, and Blue Skies
Twitchy: Madison Agitators Use Nail-Studded Boards To Defend Their Encampment & The City Is Helping, Tampon Timmy Of All People Tells Elon Musk “See You In Court, Creep”, and Brandon Gill Asks X if Jim Talarico Still Plays With His Dr. Fauci Doll
Louder With Crowder: Zohran Mamdani calls for reparations because of what he claims was NYC’s alleged role in slavery, PhD Student has her Research SUSPENDED because of her science-based belief that transitioning children is bad for them, Remember the illegal immigrant elected mayor of MN? Employees accuse her of sexual harassment, looking for a ‘good Weinering’, Seattle Police Chief Under Fire For Visiting Texas For DEI Conference During Shooting, and Debunking Candace Owens’ latest “bombshell” in under two minutes
Vox Popoli: Red on Red, Why Castalia Library Matters, and Success is Fake
Cedar Sanderson: What A Baby Costs
John C. Wright: Robert Heinlein’s Famous Predictions
Jim McCoy: A Parade of Horribles

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Anti-ICE Mayor of St Paul Under Investigation For Sexually Harassing Police Chief With ‘Weiner Wednesday’ Text, Fauci Facing Contempt of Congress Citation After Pleading Fifth at Contentious Senate Hearing, Immigrant-Led Business Group Sues NYC Over Mayor’s Taxpayer-Funded Grocery Stores, Global and U.S. Reliance on Fossil Fuel Unchanged in 25 Years, and The Misplaced Fixation with Israel’s ‘Image’
BattleSwarm: ICE Dismantles Criminal SIM Farms
Behind The Black: Starship from last week’s launch still afloat in Indian Ocean, Rocket Factory Augsburg has “issue” with rocket, forcing its removal from launchpad, China launches classified satellite, and European rocket startup MaiaSpace delays first orbital launch
Dana Loesch: News We Missed, Republicans Shouldn’t Be Dumb About Ken Paxton,
Don Surber: What a trillion dollars buys
Flopping Aces: El-Sayed declares jihad on Donald Trump
Gates Of Vienna: The Glass is Falling Hour by Hour, also, Shootout in Berlin
The Geller Report: Texas Is America’s Final Battleground Against Islam, New Audio Tapes Confirm What America Saw: Biden Had Significant Cognitive Decline, The Raging Islamization of California, Senator Bernie Moreno Obliterates Fauci in Blistering Senate Showdown, and ‘Ideally You Put One OGRE ON A PIKE, and Then Everyone Else Gets the Message’
Glenn Reynolds: Why Fauci Matters
Hollywood In Toto: Spider-Man: Brand New Day – Holland’s Heart Carries MCU Sequel, How Alex P. Keaton Changed Young Washington Scribe’s Life, and Is Tom Holland the Best Spider-Man Yet?
Legal Insurrection: China Hits U.S., Europe With New Rare Earths Export Controls, New U.S. Policy Seeks to Restrict High-Risk, Gain-of-Function Biology Research, Colleges Extend Admissions to Welcome Students Unenrolled by Howard University, Oregon Measure to Ban Hunting, Fishing, Ranching Fails to Make Ballot, and WI Gov DSA Candidate Says She Never Called for Abolishing the Senate – Except She Did
Nebraska Energy Observer: About That Scamdemic
Outkick: Storm co-owner suspended after incident with Sophie Cunningham fans, WNBA yanks Bueckers/Reese betting post, Pochettino nearing deal to stay as US coach through next World Cup, LIV Golf maybe not dying after all, and What happened to leaving the groom at the altar like an adult?
Power Line: You can’t handle the truth, Gender Storm In Seattle [Updated Again], When you say nothing at all, Iran attacks, and What is Democratic Socialism?
Shark Tank: Rick Scott Berates Fauci For Destroying Americans’ Trust
STUMP: Alternative Assets In Public Pensions – July 2026 Update
The Political Hat: Max Horkheimer & Critical Theory
Transterrestrial Musings: The Autopen Pardons, The Gross Bias In American Universities, The Turning Point, and Starship’s Heat Shield
Victory Girls: The Curious Case of Mitch McConnell’s Disappearing Act
Watts Up With That: The Case for EVs Has Failed, The Impending Collapse of California’s Transportation Fuel Infrastructure, Spain to Assemble a Panel of 10 Climate Emergency Experts to Guide Public Policy, Cheap Renewables? Reuters Recycles the Myth, and Hydrogen plane pioneer seeks lifeline funding
The Federalist: State Department Report Reveals How Cuba Equipped The American Radical Left For 60 Years, Craziest Part Of New Biden Tapes Is That Media Who Covered For Him Still Have Jobs, GOP Senators Use The Filibuster As An Excuse To Do Nothing For Voters, Texas Public Universities Join Growing List Of Colleges Welcoming Classical SAT Alternative, and NeverTrumpers Are Banking On Iran War To Drive MAGA Into Extinction
Mark Steyn: The Islamist Spectrum, Convergence and Transition, All Quiescent on the Western Front, Live Around The Planet: Wednesday July 29th, and Fauci and the Fifth

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In The Mailbox: 07.28.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | July 29, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Faster, please.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: A Day With Christa McAuliffe & Challenger (1986),
EBL: Cheeks and Collars, Fake Jake Tapper and Dr. Fauxi, “Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On”, Bison Dude Arrested in Yellowstone, and Steve Hilton for Governor of California
Twitchy: Gavin Newsom’s Former Mistress Admits She Wet The Bed On Their First Night Together, Man Who Dislikes Concept Of Capitalism Just Wants Be Be In his Garden Making Art, and “Deported US Citizen” Hysteria Dies Screaming
Louder With Crowder: Immigrant group of grocery store owners sue Mamdani over his plan to put them out of business, Democrat Gubernatorial Candidate Claims Jesus Totally Would Condone Transgenderism, Joy Reid says Elon Musk is the dumb one, Chicago Has A Novel Way To Combat Violent Crime: Remind Criminals It Is Illegal, and Mother Calls Out School Board After School Assigns They/Them Pronouns For All Students In Her Daughter’s Yearbook
Vox Popoli: Why Everyone Hates the Boomers, TRANSLATION: Gerona, Those Who Gnaw, 3X and 3 Weeks to Go, and Che Cavalo!
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Pangram and Substack – why the whining?
Sensurround: The Great Communist Ice Cream Confusion
John C. Wright: Sometimes You Can Tell A Book By Its Cover, Four Steps of Deception, and Philip Pullman Is No Hero of Mine
Cedar Sanderson: Toast & Gidget
Stoic Observations: Tell Me What You Really Think

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: ICE’s Latest ‘Worst of the Worst’ Arrests Include Illegals Convicted of Child Molestation and Other Sex Crimes, Fauci Diary Entry Reveals He Suffered Common COVID Vax Injury Five Months After Getting Jab, Trump Orders Warning Signs Be Posted at Smithsonian Museum, Trump Administration Asks SCOTUS to Revive Mail-In Voting Order Ahead of Midterms, and  The GOP Is Fighting to Hold the House, And It Just Might Do It
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 97 – Double Feature
BattleSwarm: The Woman Who Wasn’t There, Maine Mess – There’s Not A “Ha Ha” Big Enough, Tech Giants Voltron Up Against AI Safety Threats, and Austin’s Secret Amazon Land Grab
Behind The Black: Problems with Katalyst’s Link rescue spacecraft, Astronomers discover the first mid-sized black hole wandering outside of a galaxy, Amazon files FCC application to launch 5,105 upgraded Leo phone-to-satellite satellites, FCC overhauls its licensing process, and D-Day: A vast plan built on a grand heritage
Cafe Hayek: A Letter to a “Young Socialist”, also, The Myth of a Monopolizing Standard Oil Will, Unfortunately, Never Die
CDR Salamander: The Modern Deep Battle
Chicago Boyz: Niall Ferguson On AI, Algorithms, & Anti-Semitism
Da Tech Guy: Repeats Under the Fedora
Don Surber: Diary of a felon named Fauci
First Street Journal: Yet more conspiracy theories about Mitch McConnell, We should never release murderers until their victims come back to life, and You in a heap o’ trouble boy!
Flopping Aces: The Lawfare Tough Guy Suddenly Needs Lawyers, Cable News, & A Sympathy Tour
Gates Of Vienna: Tattoo You, Hate, Hate, Hate! Islam Hates Women, Going Postal, Axe, and It Shall Be Given You, and Knife Jihad in the 17th Arrondissement
The Geller Report: Deep State In “Fight To The Death” To Defend Voter Fraud, Six Muslims Arrested in Foiled Islamic Terror Plot Against Paris Synagogue—Media Blackout Ensues, Minnesota Public Schools to Start Using ‘Transgender Dolls’ – Gender-Swapping Dolls to Four-Year-Olds, EU Rejects Anti-Mass Migration Citizen Initiative, and Mamdani Regime Publishes ‘Doxxing Database’ of NYC Property Owners Targeted for Pied-à-Terre Tax Shakedown
Hollywood In Toto: Motor City – Silent Action Romp Delivers Big Thrills, Mixed Results, Evil Dead Burn Is Better Than Rise Not Raimi-Level Mayhem, Bright Eyes Singer’s Trumpian Writer’s Block, Explained, How to See Sneak Peek of Passion of the Christ Sequel, and VOD, Streaming Haven’t Killed This Horror Sensation
Legal Insurrection: Sen. Rand Paul Releases Document Trove Detailing Pre-Pandemic Biosecurity Breaches, NYC Democrat Socialists Say They’re Coming For The School Kids, ‘F*** ICE’: Illinois Liberal Judge Keeps Bench While Conservative Judge Fights Removal, Cotton Wants Investigation of China Funding at Harvard, Other Schools, and ‘Devil in a Skirt’: Medjugorje Virgin Mary Vandalized, Altar Set on Fire
Nebraska Energy Observer: The 1654 Project, Sunday Matinee, Reinventing Basketball – Again, and Guard the Margin, Lose the Farm
Outkick: Caitlin Clark Erupts For 32 Points As Fever Complete Season Sweep Of Storm, Brent Bielema Roasts SEC & Nick Saban At Big 10 Media Days, Sophie Cunningham Rally Rocks WNBA Game As “Save Women’s’ Sports” Activists Face Backlash, Ole Miss Files Suit Against Football Players Who Left For Lane Kiffin’s LSU, and Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” Spends 15 Weeks At #1 On Billboard Hot 100
Power Line: Dear Diary, Anatomy of a Police Shooting, “Local man steals rifle”, Blowing the Whistle on the Blindingly Obvious, and At SPA, Ottley is out
Shark Tank: Miami Celebrates 130h Birthday
The Political Hat: Grand Frère Électronique
Transterrestrial Musings: Starship Flight 13, Communism’s Missing Reckoning, It’s True, The Great MAGA Reversal, and Starship’s Heat Shield
Victory Girls: The Smithsonian Is Erasing Our Founders And Reinventing American History, Omar Family Fraud Plot Thickens, Carville Thinks David Hogg Could Save The DNC’s Bacon, The Fauci Diary Reveals More Obsessed Narcissism, and MI Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Maligns PA Senator John Fetterman
Watts Up With That: New UK PM Andy Burnham Has Supported a 90% Cut in Hydrocarbon Use Within 10 Years, Elena Kagan Gave Bogus Science a Blind Endorsement, Comments on golden eagle errors in Wyoming’s wildlife action plan, Wildfires in France, and Are the Recent Northwest Wildfires a Sign of Global Warming?
The Federalist: Transparency Should Apply To All Forms Of Medicare Insurance, Poynter Rewards Chuck Todd’s Activism With Journalism Honor Days After Diary Reveals He Strategized With Fauci, Trump’s Antitrust Pick Adam Candeub Fought Big Tech Censorship Before It Was Cool, D.C. Circuit Court Hands Trump Win In Battle Over Mail-In Voting Order, and Catholic Nuns Take On New York’s ‘Coercive’ Physician-Assisted Suicide Law In Court
Mark Steyn: Death in Jordan, Strictly Literal, Rigoletto Most Ridic, Boys to Men – Rourke, Bacon, Barkin and More in Diner, and “Summertime”

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‘Suburban Teens’ Make Headlines

Posted on | July 28, 2026 | No Comments

Everything is ultimately about media bias. What would be the point of any conservative blogging, if the news media were remotely objective? And so it is that I encountered this headline:

Four suburban teens killed in Chicago crash; victim’s father questions police pursuit

The phrase “four suburban teens” immediately makes you think of some John Hughes movie from the 1980s, as if Anthony Michael Hall and Molly Ringwald went joyriding in Chicago, but alas, no:

A 14-year-old girl who was preparing to start high school was among four teenagers killed in a high-speed crash Sunday morning in Bedford Park, according to Chicago police and family members.
The teens, who ranged in age from 14 to 19 years old, were all from Chicago’s north and northwest suburbs. Police said the driver of the pickup truck was fleeing law enforcement just after 2:15 a.m., when the vehicle left the roadway near Cicero Avenue and 69th Street and plunged into a train yard below.
Surveillance video showed the vehicle flying off the bridge and into the air.
Among those killed was Vanessa Morales. Her family said she would have attended freshman orientation at Palatine High School on Monday.
“She was so excited. She was going to get her tablet and meet her teachers today,” Morales’ father said in Spanish.
Chicago police said officers were responding early Sunday to a report of an unidentified suspect pointing a weapon at another person while in a vehicle. Police said the vehicle matched the description of the pickup truck in which Morales and the others were riding.
According to police, officers attempted a traffic stop and briefly pursued the truck before ending the chase. Police said the crash occurred shortly after Illinois State Police made their own attempt to stop the vehicle. . . .
Woodstock High School said one of those killed graduated from Woodstock High School last May and another last attended Woodstock High School about two years ago. . . .
Another graduated from Crystal Lake Central High School.

In addition to Vanessa Morales, whose father doesn’t speak English, the other “suburban teens” killed in the crash were identified as Cristofer Lopez Montan, 19, and Yuarem Garcia-Pena, 18, both of Woodstock, and Yaritza Martinez Villeda, 17, of Crystal Lake. So these kids weren’t exactly the cast of Sixteen Candles or Pretty in Pink. On the one hand you can understand that, on those rare occasions when the perpetrators of crime in Chicago aren’t “urban youth,” the local media are eager to convey the message that it wasn’t the usual suspects this time.

On the other hand, what’s up in the Chicago suburbs? Woodstock and Crystal Lake are both in McHenry County, while Palantine, where Vanessa Morales lived, is on the north end of Cook County.

Map showing McHenry County, Illinois (upper left)

It’s 60 miles from Woodstock, Illinois, to downtown Chicago, so to call Woodstock a “suburb” of Chicago is kind of like saying Bowling Green, Kentucky, is a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee. Meanwhile, what do we know about McHenry County? In 1980, it had fewer than 150,000 residents, but now has more than 300,000. Also, according to Wikipedia, “McHenry county has the highest percentage of non-Hispanic whites amongst the five collar counties of Chicago (McHenry, Lake, DuPage, Kane, and Will).” Comparatively speaking, it’s the Vanilla Valhalla.

Nevertheless, there has been demographic change in McHenry County, which went from being 97% white in 1980 — when Hispanics were just 2% of the county’s population — to 77% white in 2020, when Hispanics had increased to 15%. That doesn’t explain why these four teenagers were riding around downtown Chicago at 2 a.m., allegedly brandishing a firearm and leading cops on a high-speed chase, but would any white kids from McHenry County be in downtown Chicago at that hour?

Probably not. The whole point of being from McHenry County is to be far, far away from the kind of dangers that lurk in Chicago. The media don’t want to talk about any of this stuff, which is why the burden falls on me.



 

Category: Chicago, Crime, Illinois, Media Bias

In The Mailbox: 07.28.26 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | July 28, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

A collection of sundry substackeries and whatnot.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: The Day Mary Jemison Was Captured By The Shawnee (1758), The Day The Barbary Pirates Met Stephen Decatur (1804), and A Day Fighting On The Shores Of Tripoli (1805)
357 Magnum: I’m Not in Favor of Vigilantism
EBL: The Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Italian Fish Recipe, Pan Seared Sea Bass, Summer Fishing, and Robespierre
Twitchy: Catherine Herridge Adds Disturbing Context To Biden Sharing Classified Info With Ghostwriter, Sen. Fetterman Tells Democrats “If You Don’t Want Me Just Say So”, and Twilight Zone Politics – Snakehead Carville Backs David Hogg To Run Dysfunctional DNC
Louder With Crowder: Kissing lawyers, and should it be legal to punch influencers in the face? Hakeem Jeffries thinks Americans are idiots, claims with a straight face no Democrat wants to abolish ICE, DSA co-chair triples down on their batsh*t crazy, anti-American agenda, Member of Germany’s “Islamist Scene” commits act of terror at LGBTQ parade, but this dingbat is sad he wasn’t a “white Christian”, and James Talarico claims sending violent criminals to prison is the real violence
Vox Popoli: The EU is a Pirate State, Escalation in the Red Sea, The Byron Project and Byronics, Immigration Economics, and Guns or Gas?
Cedar Sanderson: The End…Or Is It?, also, Smoked Chicken Salad
Sensurround: Why Are You So Determined To Win This Conversation? also, I Have A Confession To Make About AI,
Mazelit Airaksinen: FIRED – Nurse Who Called Jews “Hooknose Hymies” & Said They Prayed To “Satanic Star”
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Travel By Air, also, Air Travel With Firearms

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: NATO Summit Debrief With Jorge Benitez – On Midrats, also, Squinting At The Iran Decision Brief
Dana Loesch: Looking For Truth In Israel
Don Surber: Journalism 2026
Elizabeth Nickson: Are We In Time? Is The Left Gearing Up For the Biggest Genocide In Their Bloody History?
Racket News: History’s Most Preventable Terror Attack?,
STUMP: Public Pension Watch – No, 85% Funding Ratios Aren’t Great

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Rule 5 Sunday: Everything Stops For Tea

Posted on | July 27, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I really wish Samsung’s Gallery allowed me to tag these pics so I could remember where I got them.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Pressure, The Last Anniversary, Critical Drinker’s Odyssey – Meh, Helen of Troy, MAGA Kamala Kamalot, The Acali Raft Experiment, Shakira’s World Cup Halftime Show, Chimichurri & Spanish Mackerel, and Lady Jane

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Smelling the Roses with Chelsea McGehee, Fish Pic Friday – Jessica Marie White-Page, Thursday Tanlines, The Bay Has More Oysters and Watermen Want Them, The Wednesday Wetness, Wasted Year, Manic Monday, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Smoke on the Water, Palm Sunday, and Is the Bay Ready for The Thrilla from Manila

BACON TIME: Rule Five Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Batgirl!

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: At Last, The Draft

Posted on | July 26, 2026 | No Comments

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Son of Silvercon IV went well – Tim Powers was a fantastic guest, and everybody had a good time – but I came home with a terrible cold (or some kind of virus) and I’m only now starting to bounce back from. Meanwhile, since we couldn’t agree on a good day to hold the draft in Pete & Lance’s Excellent Dynasty Baseball League, we just started drafting on Slack, and so far it’s going pretty well. I’m looking at a vastly improved starting rotation, and am now filling in the backups and bench players.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Knife-Wielding Psycho-Tranny Is Former Arizona Democratic Party Official
A View From The Beach
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Communism, the Palestinian Death Cult and the Pro-Terrorism Red-Green Axis
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Rule 5 Monday: Redhead in Denim
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In The Mailbox: 07.20.26
A View From The Beach
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The Pro-Hamas Socialist Democrats
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In The Mailbox: 07.21.26 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
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Of Lawyers, Samoans and Journalism
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In The Mailbox: 07.22.26
A View From The Beach
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Friedrich Nietzsche vs. Robert E. Lee
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In The Mailbox: 07.23.26
A View From The Beach
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In The Mailbox: 07.24.26
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My Own Tucker Carlson Theory

Posted on | July 26, 2026 | No Comments

Does this look like a sane man to you?

Raise your hand if you have a beef with the Republican Party establishment. Everybody’s hand is up, am I correct? Now, keep your hand up if you feel that the Official Conservative Movement is often ineffective and sometimes not really conservative at all. Pretty much everyone still has their hand up, I believe. It is fair to say that, the more conservative you are, the more discontented you are with the institutions and “leaders” who are supposed to represent your point of view.

At the same time, however, what are you going to do? We try as much as we can to steer things in the right direction, and occasionally express our outrage at the ballot box — hat-tip to those Texans who finally dumped John Cornyn — but we know that it’s bad tactics to form circular firing squads. Keep your fire aimed downrange is always good advice in politics, and there are always plenty of liberals targets to aim at.

Notice how I’ve avoided getting into the intramural skirmishes over the Iran War, J.D. Vance, etc.? Y’all want to argue over that stuff, go ahead, but it seems to me there are more important battles to fight, so I’ve mostly stayed out of it. Likewise with the ongoing Tucker Carlson drama. Except for one post last November — “Has Tucker Carlson Lost His Mind? (And Is This Kind of Insanity Contagious?)” — I’ve permitted that saga to continue without adding any commentary of my own. Why publicize such an embarrassment? He was “our guy” for a long time, now he’s become a divisive figure, and I don’t think there’s anything to be gained by constantly spotlighting this unfortunate situation.

Some of my friends, however, haven’t chosen to emulate my example, and spend a lot of time “monitoring the situation,” with daily updates on the latest outrage. In the process, they tend to engage in speculation about Carlson’s motives. Is he “Tucker Qatarlson,” bribed by Arab money to promote anti-Israel messages? Or, as some have suggested, was he always secretly a Jew-hater who has in recent years finally decided to reveal The Real Tucker Carlson? My friends debate these theories often enough that I feel the need to state clearly my own beliefs.

Can we rule out the possibility that Tucker Carlson is exhibiting symptoms of organic brain damage or a degenerative neurological disorder? “Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive brain disease linked to repeated head injuries, causing memory loss, behavior changes, and mood swings.” I don’t know if Tucker has suffered “repeated head injuries,” just like I have no idea whether he might have contracted syphilis many years ago and is now in the dreaded tertiary stage of that terrible disease. Has he been experimenting with hallucinogenic drugs? Psilocybin has become a trendy treatment for depression, but its crazy-making potential should not be ignored.

The Just Plain Crazy Theory has to be considered, but I will leave it to psychiatric experts to explore that possibility. It seems to me that the most obvious explanation for Tucker Carlson’s recent “issues” (as we may diplomatically phrase it) is this: Whatever his grudges against the Republican Party and the conservative movement may have been prior to April 2023, this was the decisive turning-point:

On the morning of Monday, April 24, 2023, Fox News dismissed Carlson and the executive producer of his evening show. . . .
Fox did not provide a reason for Carlson’s termination. The Los Angeles Times wrote that Chairman of Fox Corporation Rupert Murdoch was responsible for the firing, and that a pending lawsuit from former Fox producer Abby Grossberg and Carlson’s coverage of the January 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection both influenced the decision. The Wall Street Journal wrote that Carlson was dismissed due to private messages in which he criticized Fox’s management, using vulgar and offensive language. In May, The New York Times reported that in one such message Carlson expressed racist views by criticizing three Trump supporters who were beating one antifa activist: “It’s not how white men fight.”

For six years after he replaced Bill O’Reilly in the 8 p.m. time slot at Fox News, Tucker was the draft-ox of the network’s primetime lineup — the most-watched man in cable news, the biggest media star of the MAGA era, and he lost his job because of (a) a disgruntled former producer’s lawsuit and (b) some rude text messages? If Carlson felt himself to be the victim of an injustice, certainly many would agree he had grounds for feeling that way. Fox News settled Grossberg’s lawsuit for $12 million. She claimed that the network set her up to “take the fall” in the Dominion voting systems defamation lawsuit against FNC.

At any rate, my basic theory is that Tucker Carlson’s trajectory for the past three years is basically his revenge against Fox News and, as collateral damage, also against the conservative movement.

Imagine how it feels to have been the King of Cable News, then suddenly to be hurled into the exile of podcasting, by a bunch of corporate assholes freaked out about a couple of lawsuits. Anyone might be discombobulated by such an experience, and I return to what I explained at the start — all of us have our own gripes with the Republican Party and “mainstream” conservatism. Getting fired from Fox News gave Tucker Carlson an excuse to “go nuclear” and air all the grievances he might previously have kept quiet about for the sake of his career ambitions.

Less than months after Carlson’s unceremonious ouster from Fox News, Hamas launched the deadly October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, and instantly American university campuses were overrun by radical students accusing Israel of “genocide.” To be anti-Israel was now The Current Thing™ for cool kids, at a time when Tucker was eager to build his online audience. We may further surmise that it did not escape Carlson’s notice that his downfall at Fox News involved a person named Grossberg.

Ex-FNC producer Abby Grossberg appears on MSNBC in 2023.

You may say that this was just a coincidence, and I might agree, but what matters — the relevant factor — is what Tucker Carlson thinks. Many people have been shocked by the rapidity with which Carlson turned into a peddler of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, but as the old feminist saying goes, “The personal is the political.” And it seems to me that such strictly personal grievances, related to his being fired from Fox News in 2023, make much more sense in explaining what happened to Carlson than any speculation about secret payments from Qatar.



 

Category: Conspiracy Theories

Criminal Carnival in Madison, Wisconsin

Posted on | July 25, 2026 | 2 Comments

Amy Curtis: “If you don’t know Wisconsin, let me explain that Madison is so left-wing it flies in circles.” Indeed. Kamala Harris got 75% of the vote in Dane County, which is a higher percentage than Harris got in Fulton County, Georgia. The fact that a drug-addicted career criminal fresh out of prison was wandering the streets of Madison is not surprising. What is surprising is that, when the aforesaid criminal was accused of stealing bicycles and attempting to burglarize vehicles in broad daylight, the Madison police actually tried to arrest him:

The man who was killed by police in Madison, Wisconsin, a shocking caught-on-camera shooting — sparking protests — was a violent ex-con with a lengthy record, including for assaulting cops, The Post can reveal.
Corey Durrell Ruiz, 38, was identified by local officials and his family in social media posts.
State Rep. Shelia Stubbs, a Democrat, said Ruiz “should still be alive.” Brandi Grayson, the head of the Madison-based black community advocacy group Urban Triage, decried the shooting as, “Another black man is dead on a Madison street.”
Protesters have flooded the streets of Madison, Wisconsin, where the shooting happened and local black activists have seized on the killing.
Ruiz had recently been released from prison, and had knifed a cop moments before he was fatally shot, according to authorities.
Prison records show that Ruiz was Hispanic, and not black — though court records listed him as African-American.
Online court records show at least 25 criminal cases dating back to 2007. In 2023, he was convicted of battery to a law enforcement officer and resisting a law enforcement officer. He most recently was convicted in 2025 of retail theft and resisting police.
The Wisconsin State Journal quoted friends as saying that he was homeless and had longtime problems with drug addiction.
He was released from prison in May of this year and was listed as having absconded from supervised release.

Lots to chew over in that brief excerpt, but the main thing is that Ruiz had only been out of prison for a few weeks and was in violation of his parole (which is what “absconded from supervised release” means)

Corey Ruiz (left); his final arrest (right).

Also highly relevant is that “friends” of Ruiz said “he was homeless and had longtime problems with drug addiction.” If you fell on hard times, would you become homeless? Almost certainly not, because you have friends and family who would take you in until you got back on your feet. However, if you’re a drug addict with a violent criminal history, even your own family won’t let you stay under their roof. Anyone who’s dealt with drug addicts understands this — a junkie will steal everything that’s not nailed down if he can sell it to feed his habit, which is why the junkie is not welcome even at his family members’ homes. But then the junkie gets shot by a cop, Ben Crump shows up to “demand justice,” and suddenly those very same relatives — lured by the scent of a generous wrongful death settlement from the city — turn out to praise the deceased felon they turned away when he got out of prison:

The family of the man shot and killed by Madison, Wisconsin, police during a confrontation spoke out Friday about their grief during an emotional news conference and called for justice.
Corey Ruiz’s mother, daughter, partner and siblings joined attorney Ben Crump, expressing their sadness and frustration about his death.
Elsa Ruiz briefly spoke before breaking down in tears.
“He loved his daughter. He loved his family. He did not deserve to be taken out like that,” she said, referring to death of her son, which was captured on video by bystanders.
Madison Police Chief John Patterson said officers were responding to a call Wednesday afternoon about a person allegedly checking parked vehicles when they confronted Ruiz and, police said, he fled on a bicycle. . . .
After Ruiz fell from his bicycle, Patterson said, a struggle ensued between Ruiz and four responding officers and Ruiz allegedly pulled out a knife, injuring one officer. That officer fired the shots that killed Ruiz, he said. . . .
Crump contended there was no reason for the police to chase Ruiz in the first place.
“This was a suspicion of a property crime, there was no property crime,” he said. . . .
Veronica Ruiz, Corey Ruiz’s older sister, said the public should not judge her brother by his past.
“His criminal record tells a tale of trauma, of pain, of struggle. It does not define who my brother was,” she said. . . .
Marjorie Aliomar, the mother of Corey Ruiz’s 13-year-old daughter Kah’Liyah, told reporters that she saw the video of the shooting before she was told that it was Ruiz. She noted that it took place close to their home and her daughter’s school.
“I hate that she has to walk past this every day, and … I hate that he will never see her graduate,” Aliomar said.

Yeah, but Corey wasn’t living with you, was he, ma’am? He wasn’t living with you, or his mother, or his sister. He had been on the streets ever since he got out of prison, because he was a junkie and a criminal, and you couldn’t do anything about that, could you? Now that there’s a chance at collecting some slice of a settlement payout from the city, however, you’re standing up there in front of the TV cameras telling us how much you loved him, and nobody in the media is even asking the obvious question: “If you loved him so much, why was he homeless?”

What a constant humiliation it must be, working as the police chief in a city like Madison, where the protest mobs turn out demanding “justice” when a criminal gets shot after stabbing a cop. How can you enforce the law in a community where the citizens believe it’s acceptable to stab police officers? I’m sure every officer on the force in Madison would gladly resign if they could get a job anywhere the people are sane enough to realize that nobody deserves a second chance to stab a cop.



 

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