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In The Mailbox: 03.05.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | March 5, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

We’re dropping American Conservative from the roster effective tonight. I grow weary of their Reich-wing bullshit. Also, Amazon is acting wonky today, so if you could toss a buck or two at the tip jar, it would be very much appreciated. 
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Meanwhile in Spain…

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Iran’s Martyrs With Nukes, also, Predicting The Endgame In Iran
357 Magnum: 3D-Printed Gun “Factory” Discovered in Brazil
EBL: Dan Crenshaw Loses His Primary, Hail To The Chief, Tuna Fish Tuesday, John Thune Has No Intention Of Passing Save Act, and Wait, Pritzker and Clinton on Epstein’s Island?
Twitchy: GOP Holds Its Own Accountable, Democrats Blame His Republican Brother But Fetterman’s Just Listening To Pennsylvania Voters, and Katie Couric Asks Gov. Hairgel If He Has A “Zoolander Problem”
Louder With Crowder: Turns out your tax dollars are STILL paying for Kamala Harris’s security, Democrats vote for a mediocre white guy over Jasmine Crockett…so of course she’s blaming the GOP, That “military wife” blasting Trump on TMZ while her husband is serving overseas? You’ll never guess who she worked for, French Women’s Rights Advocate On Trial For “Transphobia” After Advocating For Female-Only Spaces, and Canada hits morbid record as assisted suicides surprasses EVERY other country
Vox Popoli: That Was Fast, The Exhaustion Timeline, Welcome to 5GW, SIGMA GAME is Available, and Spain to Join BRICS?
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: The Great Miscalculation, 
The Bugscuffle Gazette: We come to you with a plea
Incensepunk Magazine: Interview With Ray Irmgrund
Upstream Reviews: Heroes Fall
The Abbey of Misrule: Walk Away From The Sea
Cedar Sanderson: On A Subway Express
Defending The Wood Perilous: “No More Thinking Thoughts!”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: LUCAS’ Coming Out Party, also, Nations Have Agency & Sovereignty Over Their Territory
Dana Loesch: Trump’s Power Move Over The Strait of Hormuz, 
Don Surber: The Gingerbread President, also, Who Really Shut Down The Strait of Hormuz
Racket News: Activism Uncensored – The War In Iran, Who’s That Source?, 
STUMP: Here Comes The (Little) Killer – Daylight Savings Time,

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Violence Against Women Update

Posted on | March 5, 2026 | No Comments

Clyde McLemore is ‘mostly peaceful’

Wow, has it been nearly two years since I used that headline? I created the Violence Against Women category specifically for the kind of “violence against women that feminists will ignore.” You can call it “intersectionality” or just call it hypocrisy, but if you pay attention a while, you’ll notice that there seems to be a double standard regarding this issue that feminists claim to care so much about. If the perpetrator of “violence against women” happens to be a Democrat, or a member of a key Democratic Party constituent group, then there will be no headline-making protests, no angry speeches in Congress, etc. Like everything else liberals in America claim to care about, this issue only matters when they see an opportunity to exploit it as a vote-getting trick for Democrats.

The problem with conservatives is that it is impossible for most of us to imagine how utterly cynical liberals really are. Everything they do is ultimately about trying to help Democrats win elections, without regard for whether Democrats actually do anything that helps the people liberals claim to care about. Because I was born and raised a Democrat, of the old-fashioned New Deal-era Yellow Dog type, this cynicism was never apparent to me until Bill Clinton (whom I voted for in 1992) became president, and proceeded to betray everything I’d ever believed in.

That experience was not only sufficient to drive me out of the Democratic Party, but it put me wise to the whole “caring” act that liberals had for so long been using to deceive chumps like me. Since becoming an ex-chump, I have tried to enlighten others about the nature of the Great Liberal Swindle. For the latest lesson, my friend Stephen Green at Instapundit called attention to recent events in Lake County, Illinois:

Newly obtained police records and body-worn camera footage shed additional light on a physical altercation involving Black Lives Matter organizer Clyde McLemore and a woman who worked with him at the Black Lives Matter Resource Center in Waukegan.
The incident prompted a police response on Jan. 12, 2026, at the center located at 668 Lenox Ave., after officers were dispatched for what was initially reported as an unwanted subject but later classified as a battery investigation.
According to a Waukegan Police Department report, officers arrived shortly after 12:30 p.m. and spoke with McLemore, who told police the confrontation began when the woman entered his office asking for money. McLemore said he told her he had no money and asked her to leave. When she refused, he said he attempted to leave the office but the woman grabbed him by the hood of his jacket and struck him, leading to what he described as a “tussle.”
Police observed a scratch on McLemore’s forehead and lip and noted that the office appeared disheveled, consistent with a physical struggle.
The woman involved in the altercation told officers a different version of events. She said she had been working on grant projects for the organization and had come to McLemore’s office asking about payment related to those grants. She alleged that McLemore became angry when she asked about money and shoved her in the chest, after which the two began pushing and shoving each other. . . .

Let us pause the narrative here, friends, to point out that this “tussle,” as Clyde McLemore called it, involved grants that his organization had received to do “projects,” and that the “woman who worked with him” believed she was owed payment for her work, but by his own admission, McLemore said “he had no money.” A quick check reveals that, in 2023 (the most recently available year) Black Lives Matter of Lake County collected more than $180,000 in contributions. For some reason, however, McLemore can’t pay this woman for her work.

And now let’s return to the narrative:

Officers observed that she had a small cut on her lip and several broken fingernails, which were captured on body-worn camera footage.
Body camera audio from the incident shows the two giving conflicting accounts to police. McLemore told officers the woman “stole on” him and that he wanted her removed from the property but did not want to press charges.
During her conversation with officers, the woman said arguments over money had occurred multiple times before and described the altercation as escalating from an argument into “tussling,” which she said involved pushing and body-slamming.
Police ultimately made no arrests, citing conflicting statements and injuries to both parties. Officers instead separated the two and advised them to have no contact.
Investigators later documented that a video circulating on social media showing McLemore involved in a physical fight was from a separate incident on Nov. 2, 2025, according to statements McLemore gave to detectives.
That footage has since spread widely online, including being shared by the popular social media account Libs of TikTok.
McLemore is no stranger to controversy in the region. The Waukegan activist previously gained attention in Kenosha following the 2020 unrest and has faced multiple legal battles in both Wisconsin and Illinois. Kenosha County Eye previously reported on McLemore’s arrest while on bail in a Kenosha riot-related case and his later conviction for taking photographs inside an Illinois courtroom, which resulted in a 40-day jail sentence.

So there was similar “altercation” in November before this “tussle” in 2025. The woman’s name is Nyesha Hill, and there is police bodycam video of her telling her side of the story:

“I told him, ‘It’s not fair that I come here and I work and you running around taking care of other things that don’t got nothing to do with Black Lives Matter with Black Lives Matter money,’” she later told cops. “I’m the one that make this joint work.”

What the woman is really saying is, McClemore is scamming. He’s collecting money in the name of Black Lives Matter and instead is “running around taking care of other things” unrelated to the stated mission of this tax-exempt “charitable” organization. The reason she’s upset is because she’s not getting her share of the grift.

It was a “mostly peaceful” argument.



 

Category: Illinois, Violence Against Women

In The Mailbox: 03.04.26

Posted on | March 4, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links last month!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Day World War I Began (1914), The Day Sam Houston Broke An Empire (1836), Iran’s Top 20 Attacks On The West, and A Day With Stonewall Jackson (1861)
357 Magnum: The Great BAFTAS Kerfuffle of 2026, also What’s the Opposite of Diversity?
EBL: MAGA Iranian Freedom, “King Kong”, Marshals, Five Fish Sauces, and Romulus and the Sabine Women
Twitchy: Commie Posterboy Forced To Eat Crow & Retract Wild Lies About Kevin O’Leary’s Boating Accident, Leftist Trans Couple Arms Up Against Fascists & Shoots Their Own House, and What Gives The US The Right? “The B-2 Bomber”
Louder With Crowder: Gangs now charge the homeless rent on the streets of Gavin Newsom’s Los Angeles, “Nonbinary Bat Biologist” sues Trump Admin after being fired attempting to trans one of our national parks with a flag, CBS reporter gets told not to focus on the rally supporting Trump’s actions in Iran, but he goes viral doing it anyway, Eric Swalwell makes mistake of starting beef with Dave Portnoy, and Is Donald Trump a foreign policy genius, or did he just start a new forever war?
Vox Popoli: A Triveritan Political Analysis, Israel Tries to Force Trump’s Hand, Round Two, Phase 1, Anomalies of the Air War, and Jerry Pournelle Would Be Pleased
Cedar Sanderson: In The Morning, also, Catching Up
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Well, Whack-A-Mullah, and Sepah-e Qods
Stoic Observations: Least Favored Nation, also, Identity Perfection 
Defending The Wood Perilous: Fanfic vs. Real Fiction
Jim McCoy: The Last Marine
Ammo.com: Mass Shooters By Gender
Mazelit Airaksinen: Vermont Hospital Worker Calls Jews “Hooknoise Hymies”, “Pathetic”
Postcards From Barsoom: The Camp of the Living Dead

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Operation Epic Fury Free For All On Midrats, also, The Rise of the Punitive Expedition & The Repudiation of the Era of Errors,
Dana Loesch: Operation Epic Fury
Don Surber: A bombing nine years in the making, also, MAGA’s best weekend since Trump’s re-election 
Elizabeth Nickson: It’s A 75% Trumpian World, and That Means Global Renaissance
Glenn Reynolds: Cutting Off The Head of the Snake
Racket News: The March To War With Iran, also, The Swamp Log
STUMP: Chicago Watch – Bond Downgrades & Secret Borrowing

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Category: Linkagery

Rule 5 Sunday: Redhead in the Snow

Posted on | March 2, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Probably from kbdabear on X, but I honestly don’t remember.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

EBL: Dracula – A Love Tale, Saturday Night Girls With Guns, A Bar at the Folies Bergere, Nigella’s Pasta with Anchovies, Vanished, MAGA SOTU, Snowday, The Little Drummer Girl, Canada Sadz, and Fred Astaire & Rita Hayworth

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Mayra Veronica, Fish Pic Friday – Andy Hines, “These People are Crazy”, Tattoo Thursday, SOTU and Beyond, Wednesday Wetness, Oregon, My Oregon, Tuesday Tanlines, MD Oystermen Want Federal Bailout, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News, and Palm Sunday 

BACON TIME: Rule Five – Butt Its Friday

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

 

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FMJRA 2.0: Maintaining the Balance

Posted on | March 2, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Confinement VII went well. Almost certainly coming back next year.
It was an okay week for the Senators fans too: we lost two of three to the Giants before Jim Kaat salvaged Game Three by holding the Jints to two runs while the boys scored three off Buzz Capra. Next, we went to LA and won two out of three before Tom Seaver held us to two runs while the weak Dodger offense managed to scratch out three runs against Pat Dobson. That makes us .500 on the week, still 6.5 behind the Twins and 1.5 ahead of the Brewers. Good enough to hang on to second place in the division.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.
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FMJRA 2.0: Still Winning
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Rule 5 Sunday: Mustang Gal
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In The Mailbox: 02.23.26
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In The Mailbox: 02.24.26
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An Odd Sequel to the Bubba/‘Brittni’ Saga
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The Worst People in the World (Part II)
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In The Mailbox: 02.27.26 (Morning Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 02.27.26 (Evening Edition)
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ISLAMIC TERRORISM IN TEXAS? UPDATE: ‘Property of Allah’ Shirt

Posted on | March 1, 2026 | No Comments

Please note the question mark in the headline, because officials are not saying that it definitely is terrorism, but it kind of looks like it:

The Federal Bureau of Investigation says it has discovered evidence at the scene of the mass shooting at a popular Austin nightclub that indicates a potential nexus to terrorism. During a press conference held in Austin early Saturday morning, FBI Acting Special Agent in Charge Alex Doran of the San Antonio FBI office said the evidence was discovered on the shooter and in his vehicle.
As reported by Breitbart Texas, at least three people have been killed and 14 injured after shots rang out at a popular Sixth Street bar in the Texas capital city of Austin early Sunday morning. According to authorities, the shooter was killed by police officers who responded to the location of the shooting within a minute of the first emergency call.
Speaking at the latest press conference, Doran told reporters that the FBI is working with the Austin Police Department to collect and process evidence at the scene, including the agency’s evidence response team and digital forensics specialists. Commenting on the nexus to terrorism, Doran said, “It’s still way too early in the process to determine an exact motivation, but there were indicators that, on the subject and in his vehicle, indicate potential nexus to terrorism.” . . .
The suspect . . . left the scene and travelled farther down Sixth Street, where he was encountered by Austin police officers who engaged the suspect and killed him less than one minute later.

Austin shooting suspect Ndiaga Diagne

Suspect is an African immigrant:

The shooter, who is reportedly a Senegalese male with American citizenship, opened fire on a crowd of patrons with a handgun and an “assault rifle.” He has been identified as Ndiaga Diagne. He was described to be wearing “Islamic garb,” according to the New York Post. It was also suggested that his undershirt may have had an Iranian flag printed on it.

Maybe the guy was just crazy — crazy people are dangerous — but on the other hand, the timing seems perhaps not coincidental.

UPDATE 2:10 p.m. ET: Kind of a large hint about the motive:

UPDATE 3:15 p.m. ET: The motive is so mysterious:



 

Category: Crime, Islam, Senegal, Terrorism, Texas

Behind Enemy Lines In NOVA, The Fairfax County GOP Met Today

Posted on | February 28, 2026 | No Comments

by Smitty


The lower half of the Fairfax High School auditorium was full, as just over 400 delegates from the various districts met. The population of the county is over a million, and votes +20D, but that is no excuse for failure to participate, especially for State-wide contests.

Proceedings opened just ahead of 0930 with prayer and parliamentary flourishes. Springfield Supervisor Herrity gave a keynote; County Chairman candidates spoke, including incumbent Katie Gorka (husband Sebastian present also). Voting was orderly. Various other local and State candidates, including November hopefuls. We heard from Senatorial primary candidates:

I’ve seen road kill that is more useful than Senator Mark “Bucky” Warner. A dead deer is a non-negative thing. Bucky, on the other hand…

Also a couple of House of Representatives hopefuls for Virginia 8:

The reason for my presence (not having had bandwidth for the Fairfax GOP since the Tea Parties (or blogging, for that matter)) came in the form of the second keynote: Virginians for Fair Maps, whose server appears to have been slashdotted at the moment.
Not unlike what happened to Winsome Sears last November in the Gubernatorial race. The victor was someone who, at the risk of hyperbole, seems like she fell out of Revelation Chapter 17.

Finn Lee spoke in lieu of Mike Young against the 21Apr referendum.

  • Tazwel County submitted a lawsuit. VA Supreme Court allowed both the case and the referendum to continue. Nice double bind: if the measure fails on 21Apr, VA Supreme Court is all “Never mind.” If the measure succeeds, “The people have spoken.” We did speak, in 2020, in favor of a non-partisan commission to do this thing, but Grabby Abby is unconcerned with these pesky details.
  • RNC has submitted a suit, as well.

Here is their ad:
Here is there 30sec YouTube ad:

Estimated turnout for this referendum, according to Lee, is around 20%. Polls show over half of voters are opposed, but a phone sample does not qualify as a vote.
TPUSA, he continued, is planning on knocking doors. But it’s up to everyone to get the word and the vote out. Finally, Lee cautioned against relying upon USPS to deliver anything. Put your ballot into a box or, better still, feed it into the ballot scanner on 21APR.

I left the meeting intact, which is more than can be said of the IRGC. But the Democratic Party is very much a wounded, cornered animal right now, if not as bad off as their fellow anti-Trump buddies in Iran.

We can expect the Democrats to fight tooth and nail for every last scrap of political power they can retain. 2028 is a vastly important mid-term, conceivably the “most important mid-term of our lifetimes”. Why would I trot out this tired cliche? Because the 120th Congress that gets sworn in next January will be priming the Census Bureau for the decennial census. And if that census is conducted honestly, and illegal aliens (the modern 3/5 Compromise for the Democrats) are omitted, then they stand to lose double digit seats in Congress.

Forward this post and get every Virginian who can legally cast a ballot to participate.

P.S.: Yes, I haven’t been doing much beside gag jokes on X in years. Grabby Abby in general, and this referendum in particular, are some scary stuff. Ron Wilcox pinged me to attend the meeting today. Will have to see if he’s going to do a rally or something.

Category: Census, Congress, Democrats, Politics, Republicans, Virginia

‘Major Combat Operations’ in Iran UPDATE: Is the Ayatollah Dead, or Not? UPDATE: He’s ‘Pining for the Fjords’

Posted on | February 28, 2026 | No Comments

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

UPDATE 5:10 p.m. ET: The Associated Press:

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a major attack on Iran launched by Israel and the United States, Israeli officials told The Associated Press on Saturday. There was no immediate comment from the U.S. or Iran on his status.

The old Monty Python parrot sketch reference via Aaron Walker at Twitchy. It is elsewhere reported that pretty much the entire military leadership of the Tehran regime has been eliminated and, if indeed the Ayatollah himself has now shuffled off this mortal coil, the Islamic Republic is done, finished, kaput. War is over, we win.

We do not know what comes next, of course, but the Left’s predictable noise about a long war in Iran appears to be immediately void. In a one-day lightning strike, the U.S. and Israel have destroyed the Shiite theocracy, and whatever happens now, the future in Iran will be different.

But the protesters already had their signs printed!

 

* * * PREVIOUSLY (8:36 a.m. ET) * * *

A couple of weeks ago, it was noticed that roughly one-third of the U.S. Navy was within striking range of Iran, at a time when Iran was “negotiating” over their nuclear program with the Trump administration. One must put “negotiating” in quotation marks, because Donald Trump clearly had in mind a specific outcome — the elimination of Iran’s nuclear threat — and the Iranians did not seem to understand the consequences of not giving Trump what he wanted. That was the fuck around stage of the process, and we have now reached the find out stage:

The US and Israel launched airstrikes against Iran Saturday morning in response to the regime’s refusal to dismantle its nuclear program after weeks of negotiations — targeting military infrastructure and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s compound in Tehran.
The attacks — which the Department of War called “Operation Epic Fury” — follow a massive US military buildup in the Middle East and come after President Trump repeatedly warned Tehran that it would face consequences if it didn’t make a deal with the US.
Iran then launched missiles towards Israel in a retaliatory attack as officials claimed the response would be “crushing.”
“Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime,” Trump said in an eight-minute video address on Saturday.

In addition to the expected outcries from Democrats, who are not just anti-Trump but objectively pro-Iran, this event will trouble many of Trump’s most loyal supporters, whose ideas of an “America First” foreign policy certainly do no include a joint U.S.-Israeli strike against Tehran. What Trump is doing now is very much the kind of thing neoconservatives have advocated for many years, and yet the most prominent neocons have been anti-Trump since 2015. In other words, Trump is disappointing many of his friends by doing what should please many of his enemies. My own concern is for the U.S. troops involved, wishing them success, decisive victory being the shortest route to peace.

UPDATE 12:55 p.m. ET: So you were promised updates and updates ye shall have, but confirmed facts are unfortunately scarce:

Initial indications from intel sources are that Ali Khamenei has at least been hit in the attack, and that the IRGC’s top commander has been killed. The Times of Israel followed up on a report from KAN:

Israel “assesses” that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was likely killed in an Israeli strike earlier today, Channel 12 says, citing unnamed Israeli sources. It says there are “growing indications” to this effect.
There is no official confirmation of the report.
The TV station had minutes earlier said the Israeli assessment was that Khamenei was “hurt at the very least, ” and that this was not an assessment based on satellite imagery showing Khamenei’s presidential compound being flattened, but rather on information from unnamed sources.

The Jerusalem Post corroborates that report, albeit with a bit more caution:

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has been cut off from contact, and there is no certainty about his fate, Israeli officials told Walla on Saturday afternoon. Iranian officials promised to release a recording from Khamenei soon after Israeli strikes targeted his Tehran compound.
The preliminary assessment among Israeli officials was that Khamenei was hurt in the strike. No official confirmation has been received by Israeli, American, or Iranian sources. …
Iran’s Defense Minister Amir Nasirzadeh and Revolutionary Guards commander Mohammed Pakpour are believed to have been killed in Israeli attacks, two sources familiar with Israel’s military operations and one regional source said.
Israeli and Iranian sources said earlier on Saturday strikes on Iran killed several senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commanders and Islamic Regime political officials.

Unless and until we see a mob of enraged Iranian civilians dragging the Ayatollah’s corpse through the streets of Tehran, we’re unlikely to have actual confirmation. What we can confirm, however, is that a lot of Democrats are busy making jackasses of themselves.

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Category: Donald Trump, Iran, Israel, Military
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