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In The Mailbox: 03.31.26

Posted on | April 1, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Yuval Kordov has a cool new SF horror book out. Grab it wile it’s cheap. 
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Mutiny on the HMS Bounty, 
357 Magnum: Self-Defense in Indianapolis
EBL: Never Forget Iryna Zarutska, Grilled Mackerel, and “I Want You To Want Me”
Twitchy: TDS Crowd Doesn’t Like Trump/Hegseth Response To Army Flyby Of Kid Rock’s Home, David French Whines Trump is Worst Free Speech President of His Lifetime, and Rubio Tuesday
Louder With Crowder: United Methodist “Church” Supports Sex Changes for Children, Democrats demand removal of mural honoring Irina Zarutska, Ilhan Omar makes silly claim voter ID would “disenfranchise” half of the population, SCOTUS issues MAJOR 8-1 ruling against the LGBTQ agenda, and you won’t guess who was the lone dissent, and Entitled female ‘influencer’ whines old man is ruining her livestream, he lets her know how little he gives a rip
Vox Popoli: THE KAMIGATA SCROLL, Winchester, Interview with the SDL, Q and Israel, and That Sounds like Anathema
Cedar Sanderson: The Hunter’s Suit
The Bugscuffle Gazette: The Unhinged Dads Podcast

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: California Prisoner Rights Activist Pleads Guilty to Possessing Child Sexual Abuse Material, Pelosi Tells MS NOW GOP May Try to Hack into Election ‘Technology’, Supreme Court Strikes Down Colorado Ban on Conversion Therapy for Minors, ‘End of the Road: Inside the War on Truckers’, and Trump Unleashed – The First 14 Months of Our 47th President
BattleSwarm: Epic Stupidity (Or, Another Nail In EPIC City’s Coffin)
Behind The Black: Countdown begins for the Artemis-2 mission around the Moon, Voyager-2 discovered Neptune to be a planet of quickly changing weather, A 2nd Starlink satellite since December fails catastrophically, and India’s space agency requests proposals for building landing legs for its next new rocket
CDR Salamander: You Don’t Think There’s A Plan? Really?
Da Tech Guy: Voices of the 2026 Catholic Men’s Conference: Author Jacqueline Johnson
Dana Loesch: Podcastistan Railed Over Jerusalem Closures But Still Silent On Christian Genocide In Nigeria
Don Surber: Hitler’s final days – the 2026 version
Gates Of Vienna: Rémi Brague: Islam is Above All a Legal Religion
The Geller Report: Hamas Isn’t Disarming — The Narrative Is, “THE USA WILL REMEMBER”, Minnesota Judge Gives Somali Fraudster Who Stole Millions Just ONE YEAR, The Legislative Vanguard – The Sharia-Free America Caucus, and Palm Beach International Airport is Now Officially “President Donald J. Trump International Airport”
Hollywood In Toto: Skibidi Toilet Movie Captures Worst Hollywood Impulse, Supergirl Adopts Insane Lady Ghostbusters PR Push, and Super Mario Galaxy Movie Delivers Bare Minimum Delights
Legal Insurrection: Mysterious Nighttime Hum Haunts Communities in New Jersey, Ohio, and Connecticut, Trump Signs Executive Order Limiting Mail-In Ballots, ‘No Kings’ Protester’s Explanation of Low Black Turnout Triggers Outrage, Providence Mayor Bullies Club Into Taking Down Ukrainian Refugee Mural Tied To Elon Musk, and Can Rahm Emanuel Win the 2028 Democratic Presidential Nomination?
Nebraska Energy Observer: The Left Doesn’t Understand
Outkick: We’ve Already Seen One Of The Worst ABS Challenges Ever — While Catchers Are Mastering The System, NFL Makes Wise Decision To Ditch Dual Monday Night Football Games, Has Ice Cream Gone Too Far? New York Yankees Drop Bizarre Creation, NASCAR Reinstates Daniel Dye, But He’ll Need A New Team, and Alix Earle Launches New Business Venture In Her Underwear, Abby Hornacek Gets Suplexed & SNAKES!
Power Line: Defanging the Mullahs, King Dem goes down, Breaking news from 2017, Clint Eastwood’s long run, and Motive clear?
Racket News: Activism Uncensored – No Kings In LA
Shark Tank: “Not Involved” – DeSantis Addresses Tomkow’s Loss In SD14
STUMP: Problem Gambling – Addicts, Lotteries, Sports, & Pensions
The Political Hat: Law & Morality
This Ain’t Hell: 82nd Airborne Division is in the Middle East
Transterrestrial Musings: Things Are Starting To Happen, also, “There Is No Plan”
Victory Girls: Jaden Ivey Said What He Believes. The NBA Showed Him the Door, also, SCOTUS To Hear Birthright Citizenship Case: What’s At Stake
Watts Up With That: QLD Hospitals to Tackle Climate Change by Not Discarding Precious Metals, No, NPR – Climate Change Didn’t Cause the Recent Heatwave, Lets push past ALL the Fake Global Warming Limits, and Paul Ehrlich and Michael Mann – Both Used the Media to Hide Their Misanthropy
The Federalist: You’re Asking The Wrong Question About The Roman Empire, ‘Blessed Are Those Who Are Persecuted’: Christian Pro Athletes Stand Behind Jaden Ivey, New Book Exposes Soviet Russia As A Parasitic Regime Built On Plunder, Blue States Withhold Voter Rolls From DHS While Giving Them To Leftist Orgs For Free, and Virginia Redistricting Battle Will Test Republicans’ Post-2024 GOTV Operation
Mark Steyn: Strait Man

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Because You Asked: ‘What in the Actual Hell is Happening in North Carolina?’

Posted on | March 31, 2026 | No Comments

Charlotte stabbing suspect Marvina Butler-Hardy

The headline question was asked in the wake of this:

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is searching for the woman who stabbed a pregnant woman outside the Harris Teeter [grocery store].
It happened on Wednesday [March 18] around 11 a.m. in the Cotswold Village Shopping Center.
The 38-year-old pregnant woman told Channel 9 she was getting her toddler out of her car when the woman who pulled out of the space behind her stopped her car, got out, cursed at her, and attacked her with a knife.
“I was facing my toddler, getting him out of his seat, and thankfully turned around, and she was coming at me with a steak knife,” the victim, who asked not to be identified, said.
The woman was stabbed in the sternum, but she is okay. So is her unborn child. She tells Channel 9 she has never seen the woman who attacked her before and has no idea why this happened.
“I pushed and kicked and screamed, and thankfully I think that scared her off,” she said.

The suspect was arrested in Florida today:

Marvina Marie Hardy-Butler, of Waxhaw, has been arrested in Florida in connection with the stabbing of a pregnant woman in a Cotswold shopping center parking lot, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police announced on Monday afternoon.
The arrest comes two weeks after the initial attack was first reported.
Hardy is currently in custody in Flagler County, Florida, and awaiting extradition back to Mecklenburg County, where she will be charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill/inflict serious injury, and battery of an unborn child.
She has an extensive criminal history.

Gosh, what could they mean by “extensive criminal history”? How about 24 prior arrests? And this was what prompted the question:

What in the actual hell is happening in North Carolina?
I feel like every day I hear about another horrific crime that’s been committed either by a repeat offender an illegal alien

Readers will recall that Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr., who fatally stabbed 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska on a light rail train in Charlotte, also had an extensive criminal history. It is natural that readers wonder why such leniency toward habitual offenders — a “revolving door” policy — has become standard practice in North Carolina. One word: DEMOCRATS.

Because North Carolina is a “swing” state that has shifted back and forth in presidential elections, and because it’s in the South, many Americans probably think of it as a moderate, and perhaps even conservative sort of state. The problem with that belief is that, first of all, Democrats have a pretty good record in statewide elections, having controlled the governor’s office for all but four years since 1993. Even though 10 of the state’s 14 members of the U.S. House of Representatives are Republicans, therefore, Democrats are much more influential in the state government than their congressional representation would suggest. Secondly, much of the crime in North Carolina — including both of these recent horrific stabbings — is concentrated in the urbanized “Triangle” region of the state, which includes includes Mecklenburg County (Charlotte), Wake County (Raleigh), Durham County and Orange County (Chapel Hill).

In the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump carried North Carolina by a three-point margin, 51% to 48%, over Kamala Harris. However, Harris got 80% of the vote in Durham County, 75% in Orange County, 65% in Mecklenburg County and 62% in Wake County. In these four counties, Harris got a combined 989,332 votes (66%) to Trump’s 478,164 votes (32%). If you subtracted these four counties from the statewide totals, Trump would have won by a 17-point margin, 58% to 41%.

What you have, then, is a Democrat-dominated “blue” urban area plunked down in the middle of a conservative “red” state. And in the urban “Triangle” counties, the attitude toward crime looks a lot more like San Francisco or Chicago than it does the fictional “Mayberry.”

The grocery store where the pregnant woman was stabbed is in one of the “nice” parts of Charlotte, and the suspect is from Waxhaw in Union County, about 20 miles south of the grocery store, near the South Carolina state line. So you could be shopping in what seems like a perfectly safe neighborhood, and be attacked with a knife by a criminal maniac with 24 prior arrests who traveled 20 miles to choose you as her “random” victim. Nobody is safe, when Democrats are in charge.

CORRECTION: Charlotte is not part of the “Triangle.” Thanks for the commenter who pointed out my clumsy error. Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill are the “Triangle,” while Charlotte is nearly 150 miles to the southwest. My apologies for the error.



 

Category: Corruption, Crime, North Carolina

In The Mailbox: 03.30.26

Posted on | March 31, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.
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OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: A Day at Pearl Harbor With Cornelia Fort (1941), No Kings – Except for Hamas,  and Daniel Boone & The Shawnee Encounter (1769)
357 Magnum: Chicago Cannot Afford Its Pensions, also Drugs and Alcohol Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
EBL: Red Snapper, “Voltaire”, Sicilian Vespers, Palm Sunday Dinner, and Was Helen Keller a Hoax?
Twitchy: Daily Beast Claims New Investigation Corroborates Claims of Woman Who Claims Trump Abused Her At 13,  Did “Coach” Walz Write It?, and Bill Melugin’s “Inflammatory Framing” Of Mich. Synagogue Attack Causes Butthurt
Louder With Crowder: DOJ sues Minnesota For Allowing Males In Girls’ Sports, The shrill harpies on “The View” lash out at conservative influencer who says having lots of kids is good, The BBC is now asking if people are going “a bit too far” loving and owning dogs, Democrat Senate candidate caught on audio dismissing Ayatollah being killed because people in Dearborn were sad about it, and This Weekend’s No Kings Protests Were Cringe, Organized, And Dangerous
Vox Popoli: Literary Relevance is Not Guaranteed, An Inauspicious Start, Sad, Out of Missiles, Out of Men, and Truly Hard Science Fiction
Upstream Reviews: What’s Wrong With The New Harry Potter?, Rogue Ship, 
Cedar Sanderson: Insights & Opinions Please, A Rock In Time, and State of the Author
Bugscuffle Gazette: American Kabuki Security Theatre, also, Welcome Kelly Grayson!, 
Born Lucky: Is Ukraine Winning Now?
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: What Serious Countries Do
Defending The Wood Perilous: Observations on the Empty Tomb
Weird Catholic: The Nails of the Crucifixion
Stoic Observations: Jobber – An Agentic Job Search Platform
Jim McCoy: Penguicon AAR

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Dem County Chair Arrested in Florida After Allegedly Attacking Disabled Vet During ‘No Kings’ Event, ‘Something Dark is Going On’, Hispanic Mass Migration and Remigration (Part 1), ICE Agents Deployed at Some U.S. Airports as TSA Shortages Create Long Security Lines, and Philadelphia DA Threatens ICE Agents Patrolling Philly Airport with Arrest, Prosecution
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 81 – CPAC Wrapup
BattleSwarm: Tab Clearing Video Roundup, Followup: Fort Bend Democrat KP George Convicted Of Money Laundering, and Iran Strikes – Day 31
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches first stage for record 34th time, passing shuttle Atlantis, Brownsville’s mayor says SpaceX has brought billions of dollars to the region, Voyager-2’s view of clouds on top of clouds on Neptune, A soft barred galaxy with an active nucleus, and Another rocket startup in India hopes to launch from its own spaceport
Cafe Hayek: Coasean Light on Economic Reality, On the Great Recession, and And Yet Another Open Letter to Oren Cass
CDR Salamander: End of 2QFY26 ONSTA Report, Base Defense – How Many More Warnings?
Da Tech Guy: Voices of the 2026 Worcester Catholic Men’s Conference:  Julian Brossard of Sophia Press
Don Surber: NYT tries to divide the nation
Elizabeth Nickson: Note To China – Bye Felicia, Our Invisible Chains, Our Stolen Votes, 
First Street Journal: What The Philadelphia Inquirer told us . . . and what they didn’t, also, Why don’t the left at least want to get rid of the really bad guys who are here illegally?
Gates Of Vienna: Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission Goes Off the Rails, It Couldn’t Happen to a Nicer Guy, Expect Delays, Part V, Islam: Extinguishing Freedom of Speech, and Rules-Based Order 101
The Geller Report: PALM BEACH SHOCKER: GOP STRONGHOLD FLIPPED BY 797 VOTES AFTER DEMOCRAT “TECH NERD” STEALS ENCRYPTED VOTER KEY, CHRISTIAN PALM SUNDAY MASSACRE, “This Is Your Fate, O Worshipers Of The Cross”, Saudi Crown Prince MBS Says OBAMA’S Iran’s Cash Funded Terror— Regime Built MISSILES, Not A Single Road, and Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi Tells CPAC A Free Iran is Within Reach Right Now
Hollywood In Toto: Media’s War Against J.K. Rowling Will Never End, Are Audiences Sick of ‘Eat the Rich’ Movies? Ex-Amazon Studios Head Slams Woke Hollywood, ‘John Rambo’ EP Says Audiences Crave ‘Masculine Alpha Males’, and Is Ryan Gosling the Next Keanu Reeves?
Legal Insurrection: Adam Carolla Explains Why So Few People Trust the Legacy Media, 45 Years Since Reagan’s Assassination Attempt, Hundreds of College DEI Officers Attend Conference to Complain About ‘Chaos’ Caused by Trump, Newsom’s Wife Brought Children to Red States to See Racism, Sexism, and Bullying Firsthand, and IDF Eliminates Senior Commander of Hezbollah’s 1800 Terror Unit in Beirut Strike
Nebraska Energy Observer: Disinformation, Propaganda, and Why the MSM is Dying, Palm Sunday, Triumphalism, and Leadership, and CPAC, Canada, Nihilists, and VDH, oh my!
Outkick: Michael Soroka Marked His Arizona Diamondbacks Debut With A Filthy Immaculate Inning, Ravens President Tries to Dodge Bad Optics From Maxx Crosby Fallout, Brandon Aiyuk’s 49ers Future May Not Be Over After All, Anaheim Ducks Captain Returns From Injury So He Can Get The Crap Beaten Out Of Him, and Rockies Reporter Gianna Girardi Tries To Fire Up The Fellas In A Bikini, Hurley’s Headbutt & Yes Kings!
Power Line: Minnesota In the Crosshairs, AI legal follies, Secretary Rubio explains, Democrats In Decline, and What is Vance talking about?
Shark Tank: FL House Republican Campaign Committee Endorses Jon Maples In HD 87 
STUMP: The Week In Meep – Palm Sunday Thoughts
The Political Hat: Leviathan’s Hardware
This Ain’t Hell: Korean War era Navy Vet James Tolkan , 94, passes, Legal Monday, and not-nice charity, and Fair Weather Friend
Transterrestrial Musings: Arrogance Unjustified, also, Stock Up On Popcorn
Victory Girls: Pramila Jayapal Demands Reparations For Illegals Here Illegally, “No Kings” Cosplay Day – Send in the Clones, and Can Ilhan Omar Be Extradited To Somaliland?
Watts Up With That: Wrong, Chicago Sun Times – Climate Change Isn’t Causing High Insurance Cost in Illinois, $2 Trillion Later, The Green Revolution Collapsed, The Biased Oxford University Report That Claims Renewables Are Cheaper Than Gas, New York retreating on its Climate Act, and Does Low Snowpack Increase the Chances of Washington State Wildfires?
The Federalist: Popularity Of Girls’ Wrestling Signals Death Of Femininity In Red America, [Senate] Republicans Would Rather Cede Power To Democrats Than Their Own Voters, Ivy League Ideological Monoculture Is Useless To The U.S. Military, The Only Midterms Strategy Lamer Than ‘No Kings’ Is GOP Plan To Do Literally Nothing, and The Latest ‘No Kings’ Protest Is The Sound Of A Tired Old Thing Trying To Not Die
Mark Steyn: Month Two Begins, A Mesmerising Muskrat, Marriage of Inconvenience – Preston Sturges and The Palm Beach Story, Day Thirty-One, and “Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town”

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‘Retribution for Their Sacred Blood’: Hezbollah Inspired Synagogue Attack

Posted on | March 30, 2026 | No Comments

Thought of headlining this post “Dearbornistan Update”:

Federal investigators said Monday that the man who crashed his pickup into a Michigan synagogue earlier this month was inspired and radicalized by Iran?backed terrorist group Hezbollah and reportedly sought to kill as many Jewish people as he could.
Officials noted that Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, who attempted to launch a full-scale, mass-casualty assault on March 12, deliberately targeted a location filled with more than 100 children in West Bloomfield before he was fatally shot by officers. Local officials previously reported that the assault came after several of his family members were killed in Lebanon during the country’s war with Israel.
In the days leading up to the attack, Ghazali allegedly rigged his truck with booby traps, fireworks, explosives, and large amounts of gasoline. Just before ramming the building, he reportedly sat in the Temple Israel parking lot and sent videos to his sister in Lebanon — some showing him holding a weapon while listening to upbeat militant battle anthems.
“This is the largest gathering of Israelis in the state of Michigan in the United States. I have booby trapped the car. I will forcibly enter and start shooting them. God willing, I will kill as many of them as I possibly can,” he said in one of the videos, according to the FBI Detroit Special Agent in Charge Jennifer Runyon.
James Gorgon, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, added that had the attacker survived, he would have been charged with providing “material support” to Hezbollah for effectively providing himself as the weapon aimed at Michigan’s largest Jewish temple.
According to investigators, Ghazali reportedly consumed pro-Hezbollah and Iranian militant propaganda for months leading up to the attack, ultimately planning what he called a “special operation” aimed at causing mass casualties.
He allegedly created a Facebook album titled “Vengeance,” filled with images of Hezbollah leaders and militant quotes, and also sent his sister a photo of an Israeli flag covered up with yellow paint, a color often used to represent loyalty and sacrifice to Hezbollah.
“You killed the Ali and Hussein of our time. We will avenge their blood,” one of his Facebook status posts said hours before the attack, referencing the overseas deaths of his family members.
“We will seek retribution for their sacred blood,” another post said. “Israel is a cancerous, malignant growth. Israel is pure evil and the oppressors will soon know what kind of end they will meet.”
Within three days prior to the attack, Ghazali researched local synagogues . . . He reportedly purchased an AR-style rifle, 300 rounds of ammunition, and more than $2,200 worth of fireworks.
He filled collapsible containers with roughly 35 gallons of gasoline across multiple trips to use as an explosive accelerant in his truck, adding fireworks to booby-trap the vehicle before ramming it into the synagogue. . . .
During the attack, the suspect ultimately exchanged gunfire with synagogue security and ignited the explosives inside his vehicle after ramming into the temple doors at a high speed. . . .
“I’ve seen some odd attempts to explain away or even lessen this terrorist attack by claiming that he was an isolated lone wolf, but that is misleading,” Gorgon said. “Terrorist propaganda is designed to activate the so-called lone wolf to act on behalf of the terrorist organization.”
“I am convinced that my office would prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he committed the federal crime of providing material support to Hezbollah,” he added.
Officials noted that the attacker was not on any terrorist watch list and had never been the subject of an FBI investigation before the attack.

How is the Hezbollah propaganda that radicalized this guy any different from the rhetoric of Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the Democrat who represents Dearborn in Congress? (See “The Terrorist and the 12th District.”) Some have taken notice of the fact that Ghazali “was not on any terrorist watch list” to suggest that the FBI wasn’t doing its job, but you must realize that if you’re targeting Jew-hating radicals Muslims, basically the entire population of Dearborn would be on a terrorist watch list.



 

Category: Islam, Michigan, Terrorism

‘A Massive Problem’: Free Speech for People Who Don’t Want Open Borders

Posted on | March 30, 2026 | No Comments

Max Wilkinson is member of the British House of Commons, one of 72 members belonging to the Liberal Democrats, currently the third-largest party behind the ruling Labour majority (which holds 404 seats) and the Conservatives (Tories, with 116 seats). In December, Wilkinson “enjoyed a lively debate at the Demos Collaborative Democracy Network event,” where he made the following comments:

“We obviously have social media, which is a massive problem at the moment for engagement. I’m tempted to say, you know, how you make your voice heard as a citizen in 2025 in the UK: set up an X account and start writing some sort of nativist content and it will go ’round the world really, really quickly. Your voice will be heard as quickly as you want it to be, not in a way that I would be comfortable with, and I would suggest not in a way that most people on the panel this evening would be comfortable with, either. But that is a really easy way to get your voice heard: Get some content about how you think immigration is too high, or immigration is the big thing that’s tearing the country apart, et cetera, and that goes around the world because social media, run by the world’s richest man, X, is now making sure that you can have your voice heard in a really easy way that you couldn’t in the past.”

If you’re my age, you may remember when the Left actually claimed to support free speech, and were opposed to censorship. But the U.K. nowadays is like Orwell’s Oceania, where the Left has become so dominant as to make England effectively a one-party regime, and people are literally being arrested for “problematic” Facebook posts.

Wilkinson, like the vast majority of politicians in the UK, despises actual English people, and advocates flooding the country with Muslim foreigners. As he said during the Demos discussion, Wilkinson is not “comfortable with” hearing from anyone who disagrees with that position, so he considers it a “massive problem'” that X allows critics of the open-borders agenda to express themselves.

We can point and laugh at this idiot, but if Democrats win the next election, guess what? They’ll enact censorship and you’ll be at risk of prison if you dare express disagreement with their policies.



 

Category: Great Britain, Immigration

Rule 5 Sunday: Out Like A Lamb

Posted on | March 30, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

There’s still snow on some of the ski slopes and mountains. Somewhere. Pic thanks to @kbdabear on X.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Star Trek Could Be Great Again, Really, “Ain’t No Way”, Bridge On The River Kwai, “Begin the Beguine”, The Breakfast Club, “Take Me To Church”,  Wuthering Heights, Soccer Time, Crossing the Pool, MAGA Airport ICE, and Sakura Cherry Blossoms

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Hope Beel, Can Oysters Save the Crabs?, Fish Pic Friday – Crystal Beachy, Tattoo Thursday, The Wednesday Wetness, Virginia Seeks Women Huntresses, Fisherwomen, Tuesday Tanlines, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday

BACON TIME: Rule Five – Butt It’s Friday

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FMJRA 2.0: August Blues

Posted on | March 29, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Well, it could have been worse. The Senators got swept in a two-game series against the Orioles last Tuesday, thanks mostly to the O’s powerful lineup, but then the Phillies arrived, and we whipped them in two out of our three games, losing only to Steve Carlton, who almost had a no-hitter against us into the fifth inning but left with a 4-1 win. So now we’re 65-70, eight games behind the Twins and five ahead of Pete’s Brewers. This week, we have three-game series at Kansas City and Baltimore, and I am not optimistic.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.
baseballD.E.I. + A.I. = O.M.G.!
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Scandal-Plagued Former FBI Chief Robert Mueller Dies in Disagrace at Age 81
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FMJRA 2.0: On An Even Keel
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Rule 5 Sunday: Late Night With Daisy Dukes
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In The Mailbox: 3.23.26
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Why Is Lindy West Getting Cancelled?
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In The Mailbox: 03.24.26
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Guess What Time It Is, ‘Iranian Leaders’?
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In The Mailbox: 03.26.26 (Afternoon Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 03.26.26 (Evening Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 03.27.26
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Thinking About Mogadishu

Posted on | March 29, 2026 | No Comments

Last night, I was inspired to watch Black Hawk Down again, although I’ve seen it many times before, including during its original 2001 release. Perhaps you’ve forgotten this from 2022:

Staff Sgt. Robert McCain wanted to be in the Army for as long as his mother can remember. But McCain remembers exactly when he knew he’d be a soldier someday: The first time he watched “Black Hawk Down.”
“I was like nine and I saw that movie — which you should not show a nine-year-old that movie — and I wanted to join the Army from then on,” he told Task & Purpose on Sunday.
Not only did McCain go on to be an infantryman in the Army like he’d dreamed, but over the weekend he competed in the 2022 Best Ranger Competition, a brutal battle of grit and skill among elite Airborne Ranger-qualified service members. . . .

That story still makes me smile. The intensity of that movie, which I took Bob and his twin brother Jim to see when it first came out, sort of caught me by surprise at the time. I grew up watching war movies like The Longest Day, and the TV series Combat, and playing with G.I. Joes, and so the thought of taking my kids to see a war movie seemed like a great idea. The graphic realism of Black Hawk Down was, as Bob later told that reporter, maybe too much for a 9-year-old, even if it did inspire his future career ambitions. In case you haven’t subscribed to my Substack newsletter yet, you may not understand why I bring that up now, given that I start today by talking about the war in Ukraine:

How closely have you followed the war in Ukraine lately? There was as a time, in 2022 and 2023, when I regularly kept track of developments in that war, but then it settled down into a de facto stalemate — trench warfare, with little change in the front lines — and I lost interest. Most Americans were even less interested in the war than I was, except perhaps as a partisan talking point for the kind of people with Ukrainian flags in their social-media profiles. After the dramatic events of early 2022, when Ukraine defeated the initial Russian effort to capture Kyiv, there just wasn’t enough battlefield news to maintain public interest. Incidentally, nobody has any idea how many casualties there have been in the Russia-Ukraine war. Propaganda by both sides has made it impossible to ascertain how many troops have been killed and wounded, although it seems certain that the death toll is in the tens of thousands.
Just this past week, however, I happened to see a report that Ukraine has driven the Russians out of Kupyansk, a city straddling the Oskil River, nearly 400 miles east of Kyiv. . . .

You can read the whole thing at Substack, and if you haven’t subscribed yet, please do so now. Also, please pray for peace.



 

Category: Donald Trump, Iran, Military, Somalia, Ukraine
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