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In The Mailbox: 04.08.26

Posted on | April 9, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Next week is Tax Day.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Art of the Deal That Reset The World, 
357 Magnum: Liberals Apparently Don’t Think the Law Applies to Them
EBL: Halibut Recipe, Make American Immigration Great Again, and “Band on the Run”
Twitchy: Tucker Guest Seth Harp Burns Source Like An Amateur, Nuns Sue NY State Over Law Requiring Them To Affirm “Gender Identity”, and Harmeet Dhillon Trolls Marc Elias (and looks FABULOUS)
Louder With Crowder: Proposed law would force California taxpayers to pay legal fees for illegal aliens, College bans men and non-binary students from the school gym to make women more comfortable, Mamdani’s new “racial equity” plan is based on him thinking white people are making too much money, New York won’t let nuns care for the terminally ill unless they abide by trans ideology, so they’re suing, and Breaking Down Trump’s Iran Ceasefire – Triumph or TACO?
Vox Popoli: US Military Revolt, Unification is Coming, The Irony Goes to 11, The End of the COVID Psy/Op, and Declaring Victory
Upstream Reviews: The Vixen War Bride
Cedar Sanderson: The Star-Spangled Banner
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Situational Awareness Part 2
Stoic Observations: Refining The DE Tool Suite

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Legal Immigration Is Bad – We Can Stop It, Repeat Offender Who Murdered Iryna Zarutska Found Incompetent to Stand Trial, Indicted Florida Dem Lawmaker Facing Bipartisan Calls For Expulsion After Ethics Committee Guilty Ruling, NYC Mayor’s ‘Racial Equity Plan’ Would Direct City Resources to ‘Black and Brown New Yorkers’, and Jane Fonda, ‘Hail Caesar,’ and the False God of History
BattleSwarm: Russia Cracks Down On VPNs, Brings Down Banks
Behind The Black: China launches 18 more Qianfan internet satellites, Update on SpaceX’s Starship/Superheavy launchpad improvements at Boca Chica, Spanish rocket startup PLD borrows $35 million, Orbital repair startup Starfish raises $100 million in private investment capital, and Astroscale to fly mission to rendezvous and inspect two different satellites
Cafe Hayek: On Jamieson Greer On the World Trade Organization
CDR Salamander: I Hate Being Out-Innovated By <checks notes> The Portuguese Navy
Chicago Boyz: Nasrudin’s Pipeline
Da Tech Guy: Voices of the 2026 Worcester Catholic Men’s Conference: the Hosea institute Elaine DeGrandis & Cathy Parsons
Dana Loesch: No, Trump Didn’t Cave On Iran, also, Broadcast Person Is Upset Over Defense Person’s Use Of Words From Soldier’s Creed
Don Surber: Trump trolls the world
Gates Of Vienna: Jihad Attacks on the Homeland Intensifying
The Geller Report: Iran Defies Cease-Fire, Threatens to ‘Destroy’ Hormuz Traffic, Continues Attacks Across Region, Hamas Officials Funding Private School in Dallas, Europe Surrendering to Islam, An Ultimatum to Hamas: Agree to Disarm by Week’s End, and Republican Clay Fuller Wins Special Georgia Election
Hollywood In Toto: “King of the World” Gets New Marching Orders, also, Sicko Michael Moore Praises Iran, Trashes U.S.
Legal Insurrection: Former SJU Prof Targeted for Opposing Reparations Settles Lawsuit With Some Defendants, Hamline University Discriminatory Scholarships Challenged By Equal Protection Project, Israel Launches Massive Strikes on Hezbollah Terrorists as Iran Ceasefire Takes Hold, Arrest Made in Brutal Rape, Murder of Elderly Oklahoma City Grandmother, and Kanye West Blocked from Entering the UK Over Antisemitism
Nebraska Energy Observer: The Plantagenets
Outkick: Oregon Coach Koa Ka’ai Explains Why Ice Cream Choice Defines Quarterback Recruits, Dodgers’ World Series Hero Miguel Rojas Suffers Tragic Personal Loss, Even Major Winners Aren’t Safe – Augusta Tosses Calcavecchia For Cell Phone Violation, White Sox Are Giving Fans Pope Hats, And I Really Need One, and Sophie Cunningham Had A White-Hot SI Swimsuit Debut, Kay Adams Is On Bikini Time & MLB’s Violent Night
Power Line: On the “Green” Gravy Train, Michelin Guide – Rust Belt Edition, Delusions of Relevance [Updated], The Iran “Agreement” and More, and Help wanted
Shark Tank: DeSantis Says Florida Should Put An End To First Cousin Marriages
Shot In The Dark: NATO
STUMP: Testicular Cancer Awareness Month
This Ain’t Hell: Dakota Meyer Graduates BRC
Transterrestrial Musings: What A Time To Be Alive
Victory Girls: Liberal Women and Their Obsession With Tearing Down Traditional Values
Watts Up With That: New York’s Climate Activists Not Backing Off, For Minnesota, Climate Obsession Is Just Another Fiscal Disaster, Climate Industry Intersectionality, “Eco-Friendly” Energy Is Slaughtering Wildlife, and Climate Change Allegedly Killing all the Amazon Dung Beetles
The Federalist: Trump Should Expand Waiver Of 100-Year-Old Shipping Law Hurting Americans , Here’s How The Media Are Lying Right Now: Painting DOJ Abusers As Trump’s ‘Political Foes’, Virginia Democrats’ Power Grab Is A Giant Middle Finger To Rural Americans, Worst Thing GOP Could Do For Midterms Is Embrace Amnesty, So Of Course They’re Doing That, and Another Leftist Wins, But The Rule Of Law Prevails In Wisconsin
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet – The Peace That Passeth All Understanding, also, Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss

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Trump Declares Ceasefire in Iran

Posted on | April 8, 2026 | No Comments

During Tuesday’s liberal freakout, Democrats were denouncing President Trump as a genocidal maniac because of his threats to destroy Iran. Then, about an hour before the 8 p.m. deadline he’d given the Iranian regime, Trump announced that a deal had been reached for a ceasefire:

President Donald Trump and the Islamic Republic of Iran both announced on Tuesday evening just before the U.S. president’s deadline for a deal that they have agreed to a two-week ceasefire while negotiators finalize a deal between the warring nations.
Trump took to his Truth Social platform to announce that he has agreed to the ceasefire urged by the Pakistani Prime Minister . . .
Israel has also agreed to the ceasefire, per CNN, which quoted a White House official. “Israel is part of the two-week ceasefire President Donald Trump announced just an hour and a half before his deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face escalated military attacks on civilian infrastructure, a senior White House official tells CNN,” CNN reported. “Israel has agreed to also suspend its bombing campaign while negotiations continue, the official said.”

More background from Beege Wellborn at Hot Air:

I have a feeling there were several things moving the Iranians along in this direction if they wanted to have any hope of saving their miserable, murderous skins. The US and Israelis started smacking industrial installations this evening, for one thing. . . .
B-52s were also noted leaving RAF Fairford within the flight window to arrive over Iran at Trump’s ultimatum zero hour. . . .
Jesse Watters reporting that China begged Iran to take the deal because it [i.e., the shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz] was cratering their already shaky economy.

Hat-tip: Instapundit, who adds: “Word is that one of the targets struck today was a collection of airplanes the mullahs had set up for fleeing the country. That may have had something to do with this.” We now have two weeks of a conditional ceasefire, while negotiations continue for a permanent peace agreement. What will happen during those two weeks?

Recall that Trump had already begun sending combat troops toward the region (“Guess What Time It Is, ‘Iranian Leaders’?”), including a Marine battalion and elements of the Army’s 82nd Airborne and 10th Mountain divisions. We can assume that those troops will continue to deploy, while we wait to see whether the Tehran regime is serious about ending the war. If Iran doesn’t negotiate in good faith, then we can go back to fighting, having used the two-week pause to resupply the Navy and Air Force with bombs, etc., and with ground troops ready to go.



 

Category: Donald Trump, Iran

In the Mailbox: 04.07.2026

Posted on | April 8, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

From the fertile mind of Sensurround.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Day Of John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry (1859) 
357 Magnum: More Microslop News
EBL: Bird Songs, Pompano Heads, MAGA Airman Rescue and Iran Deadline, “Rags To Riches”, and Lewis and Clark
Twitchy: From Tampon Timmy To Hypocrite In Chief, James Woods Calls Out Jennifer Newsom For Telling Prisoners Their Crimes Were Probably Accidents, and “I’m With Iran” – John Pavlovitz & The Left’s Long Tradition Of Siding With America’s Enemies
Louder With Crowder: Democrat Candidate Calls For Government to Take Away MAGA Voters Internet Access, Boston Deploys Mental Health Expert To Confront Man With Sword -Things End Very Badly, Proposed Canadian Law Could Criminalize Biblical Speech, I couldn’t disagree with Tucker Carlson and the “Marxist right” more, and Minnesota defies Trump mandate, restarts program performing gender altering surgery to minors
Vox Popoli: The Hobbit 1977, This is Not Winning, It Wasn’t a “Rescue Mission”, The Edo Scroll, and No Deals
Stoic Observations: The Evolution of Data Warehousing In The AWS Cloud, also, The Era of Compute Chaos
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Situational Awareness

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Eric Swalwell About to Be Hit With ‘Shocking’ Number of Sexual Harassment Allegations, DHS Sec. Markwayne Mullin Taking ‘Hard Look’ at Removing CBP Officers From Sanctuary City Airports, Hegseth Cuts Military Education Ties With Elite Universities, Democrats Plot Third Impeachment of Trump, and Peru and Polling – Will Another Latin American Country Move Toward the U.S.?
BattleSwarm: Iran Strikes – Big Week Starts
Behind The Black: Orion completes short 15-second burn to refine its return-to-Earth, Feathery eroding layers on Mars, Northrop Grumman’s Minotaur-4 rocket launches three payloads for War Department, and Firefly signs deal with modular sea launch startup Seagate
CDR Salamander: Escalation Traps & Off Ramps
Chicago Boyz: The Perfect Enemy (Updated)
Da Tech Guy: Voices of the 2026 Worcester Catholic Men’s Conference: Rebecca Urban of Visitation House
Don Surber: Who needs Europe?
Elizabeth Nickson: Why The F*** Isn’t Melania On The Cover Of Vogue?
First Street Journal: Has The Philadelphia Inquirer changed its policies on publishing photos of accused sex offenders?
Gates Of Vienna: There Are No Hills to Head For, also, Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff Reports From the USA
The Geller Report: Marco Rubio MOVES TO AX 80% OF EUROPE BASES, Florida Passes Law to EXPEL Student Supporters of Terrorist Groups, Muslim Driver Rams Loader Truck Into Christian Procession in Pakistan, Over 60 Wounded, Muslims Slaughter 26 Christians, Churches Burned, Women and Children Kidnapped in Nigeria, and SLEAZEBALL Eric Swalwell To Face Multiple Sexual Abuse Allegations By Shocking Number of Staffers, Former Employees
Hollywood In Toto: Why Comic Book Creator Refused to Give Up on Childhood Dream, Alan Ritchson CLEARED?! Colbert’s Gollum and More! and Can Judd Apatow ‘Comeback’ from Trump Derangement Syndrome?
Legal Insurrection: Virginia Voters Shocked That Spanberger Governs Like a Democrat, Eighth Circuit Rules Schools Don’t Owe Kids Access to Sexually Explicit Books, DOJ to Review Mamdani’s ‘Racial Equity Plan’ for New York City, Iran Accepts Trump’s Ceasefire, Opens Strait of Hormuz for Two Weeks, and Tucker Qatarlson Launches Full Frontal Attack on Trump – “Who Do You Think You Are?”
Nebraska Energy Observer: ’50s Houses
Outkick: Red Sox Owner John Henry Embarrassed As Fans Loudly Chant ‘Sell The Team’ At Fenway Park, An NHL Team With Less Than 20 Regulation Wins Is About To Make The Playoffs, And That’s Just Wrong, Masters Tee Times Announced And There Are Some Interesting Pairings, Angel Reese Hits Barbados With Victoria’s Secret & A Day In The WAG Life Of Ring Girl Marissa Ayers, and Paige Spiranac Dumps Out Her Masters(piece) To Remind Us Why She’s World’s No. 1, ABS Challenge Results & MEAT
Power Line: Anticlimax, Strait is the gate, Sodom and Gomorrah return, Talking about CBS News, and That shrinking middle class
Racket News: Swamp Log, also, Trump’s F-Bomb On Iran Joins America’s Rollicking History of Presidential Profanity, 
Shark Tank: Patronis Wants Answers From OpenAI After FSU Shooting Allegations
This Ain’t Hell: The Right to Repair, Mamdani rolls out ‘racial equity plan’ favoring minorities over Whites, Australian SAS Victoria Cross recipient arrested for war crimes, California’s $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers backfired, and President Trump delays big Iran attack and provides two-week extension
Transterrestrial Musings: Convenient BS, also, A Turning Point?
Victory Girls: Left Livid Trump Got Win In Iran
Watts Up With That: The lost gas fields that could power Britain for decades, Curtain Opens on the Dress Rehearsal for the Net Zero Calamity, Environmentalists are fighting our living standards in court, and India Helps US Repair ‘Green’ Wreckage
The Federalist: 60 Minutes Undersold The Madness of California’s Train-Building Disaster, California Is Trying To Save The Pediatric Trans Industry Because It’s Dying, There’s A New Name For Those Pierced, Weird-Looking Internet Addicts You Keep Seeing, Lawsuit Seeks To Stop People Who Have Never Lived In Virginia From Voting There, and ‘Zuckbucks’ Cities’ Ballot Blunders Hit Badger State Election Day
Mark Steyn: The New Way of War

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It Would Be Wrong to Say Democrats Are Going Completely Crazy Today …

Posted on | April 7, 2026 | No Comments

. . . because obviously they’ve been crazy for many years. Trump said that tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern is some kind of deadline for Iran, and this morning he turned the volume all the way to 11: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.” Do you know what that means? Neither do I.

Maybe it’s thermonuclear Armageddon, or maybe not, but the Democrats are running around with their hair on fire, screaming like lunatics, even more than their usual hair-on-fire lunacy. Krystal Ball, the Democrat whose failed 2010 congressional campaign resulted in a 29-point GOP landslide, has become frighteningly unhinged over this.

She’s basically repeating Iranian propaganda here, demanding a military coup d’etat against the President of the United States. To repeat what I previously said, nobody knows exactly what Trump’s rhetoric signifies, and while we could speculate about what Trump intends to do, my hunch is that it’s nothing that would justify the “military revolt” that Krystal Ball is calling for. Unlike her, I am completely sane, and not locked into an obsessive fear/rage cycle, so my plans for this evening are to attend my grandson’s Little League game. Maybe the world will blow up tonight, but let’s hope it doesn’t happen before the seventh inning.



 

Category: Democrats, Donald Trump, Iran

In The Mailbox: 04.06.26

Posted on | April 7, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Ugh, again?

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Liberty vs. Tyranny – Charting The Course of Human Freedom, A Day With Crispus Attucks At The Boston Massacre (1770), How To Black Out Tehran For Thirty Days, and  Gavin Newsom’s Empire of Fraud Illustrated, 
357 Magnum: The Insane World of High-End Watches, Part 2, and The BBC Looks at Guns in America
EBL: “Dark Side of the Moon”, The predator that almost wiped out humans, Dry Aged Salmon, “Waterloo”, and Siege of Constantinople
Twitchy: John Konrad Blisters Europe In Post About The Real Reason NATO Is In Trouble, Eurotard Mocks Spiking Of Military Aircraft “To Save One Guy”, and Rep. Dan Goldman (D-Nepo) Attempts To Carry Anti-Billionaire Torch For “Working Families” & Fails Hugely
Louder With Crowder: Female Inmates Report Harassment By Trans Predator Housed In Women’s Prison, Mamdani Announces New Racial Equity Plan Mandated Under The “Whole Of Government”, Pathetic Megan Rapinoe Bashes International Olympic Committee For Acknowledging Biology, Woke congresswoman declares housing not only a human right, but “eviction is an act of violence”, and Shocking investigation reveals California’s skyrocketing gas prices are because of Democrat policies
Vox Popoli: Nationality is Real Again, The Absence of Evidence, The Hard Problem, Lots of Rumors, and Happy Easter
Cedar Sanderson: Friction, Basic Biscuits, and Going on an Adventure!
Defending The Wood Perilous: This Is Exciting! also, Two Days Left
Upstream Reviews: More Than Just Ripley, also, Blood on the Sand
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Happy Easter! 
Ammo.com: Gun Ownership By Gender
Stoic Observations: When It Hurts To Be Decent & Smart, 
Jim McCoy: The World Ender

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: No Kings, Hegseth Confirms Downed Airman’s First Words to U.S. Forces From Inside Iran Were ‘God is Good’, Slain Iranian General’s Niece and Grandniece in ICE Custody After State Dept. Strips Them of Legal Status, Trump to Announce End of Operation Epic Fury and Express ‘Disgust’ With NATO in Tonight’s Address to Nation, and Trump Gets Unexpected Boost As Jobs Growth for March ‘Crushed Expectations’
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 82 – Being American
BattleSwarm: How Texas Kicks Europe’s Ass, Iran Strikes – Day 37, and Taking A Sick Day
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches 25 Starlink satellites using new first stage, Orion completes small mid-course-correction engine burn as it prepares to swing around behind the Moon, Japan’s lunar lander startup Ispace wins contract with Korean rover startup, ULA launches 29 Leo satellites for Amazon, and Cracked bedrock on Mars?
Cafe Hayek: On Bernie Sanders on AI
CDR Salamander: So While You Still Have CSAR In Your Scan
Da Tech Guy: Voices of the 2026 Worcester Catholic Men’s Conference: Holy Family Candles
Dana Loesch: Britain’s Betrayal, “We Got Him!”, 
Don Surber: A rescue worth $390 trillion
Elizabeth Nickson: The Seditious Global Censorship Project Tightens Its Noose, 
First Street Journal: The seriousness of the surge in Catholic conversions
Gates Of Vienna: Rima Hassan Goes on Trial, The Tomb is Empty, and Rémi Brague: “The Problem of Islam is That it is a Legislation”
The Geller Report: Trump Declares War on Leaker Who Blew Airman Rescue, “They Put Lives at Risk”, Gov. DeSantis Signs Law Banning Sharia Law in Florida, $655M Verdict Against Palestinian Authority Reinstated – Holds PA Responsible for Terror, Cardinal Sarah Gives Us a Warning, and Israeli Commando Units Reportedly Assisted U.S. in Rescue of Downed US Airman
Glenn Reynolds: The Iran Operation
Hollywood In Toto: Moby’s ICE ‘Boycott’ Even Weaker Than Horror Sequel Blowback, Media Declares War on  The Drama, Free Expression, ‘SNL’ Audience Cheers Trump Assassination Joke, Gripping and Smart – Faces of Death Revives Cult Horror Classic, and Now, It Can Be Told! ‘The Comeback’ Star Slams Cancel Culture
Legal Insurrection: DEI Means Never Having To Say You’re Sorry – Ibram X. Kendi Fails Upward, WI Judge Hannah Dugan, Convicted Of Helping Illegal Evade ICE, Denied New Trial, Anti-ICE Minneapolis Police Chief has 22 Open Misconduct Complaints Against Him, Democrats Blast Trump’s Easter Ultimatum to Iran in Typical, Homogenized Messaging, and Teacher Unions Sounding Alarm Over New AI-Driven Classroom Model
Nebraska Energy Observer: White Ensign and Navy Jack, One Little Word, and Monday Miscellany
Outkick: Michigan’s Final Four Title Win Sends Message, Michael Wilbon Left Disgusted By ‘Classless’ Geno Auriemma, What’s Happening To The Tennessee Lady Vols Is A Tragedy, Kate Upton Was In Blue & Orange Bikinis For The Tigers Home Opener This Weekend Thanks To SI Swimsuit, and Sabrina Carpenter Recruits Madelyn Cline & Margaret Qualley To Dance In Lingerie With Her For New Music Video
Power Line: Refugees, Daring Rescues and War Crimes, Trump and the polls, On Our Side, and In case you missed it
Racket News: The Top Ten Symptoms of Conspiracy Brain,
Shark Tank: Jimmy Patronis Slams “Knucklehead” Senate Democrats On DHS Funding
Shot In The Dark: The Thing About Americans
This Ain’t Hell: Brig Gen Bud Anderson, triple ace, laid to rest, Rubio revokes green cards for Qasem Soleimani relatives, President Trump drops expletive in ultimatum post directed at Iran, Hardware Monday, and Rescued!
Transterrestrial Musings: An Open Letter To Western Europe, Newsom Is Gruesome, and With The Success (So Far) Of Artemis 2
Victory Girls: Gavin Newsom’s Wife “Educates” Us On Trump And The Patriarchy, Democrats Trying to Gaslight Voters On Their Trans Advocacy, and President Trump Reveals Details of Easter Weekend Miracle
Watts Up With That: Coal, The Fuel We Ignore But Cannot Replace, Wyoming wind farms are ecological death traps for eagles, An Inconvenient Tree, Net Zero France Capitulates to an Iranian Safe Passage Fee for Gulf Oil, and The California Refinery Crisis is a national security risk for America
The Federalist: Neighbor State Peer Pressure Is A Terrible Reason To Legalize Weed In Indiana, Maine Supreme Court Shoots Down Dems’ ‘Unconstitutional’ Ranked-Choice Voting Scheme, Politico Tortures FEMA Data To Pretend Trump Is Denying Disaster Relief In Blue States, Iranian Rescue Mission Underscores Hegseth’s Predecessors’ Incompetence, and Planned Parenthood Lackey Seeks Seat On Wisconsin Supreme Court
Mark Steyn: Fools and Farewells, Destiny’s Child – George C. Scott in Patton, The Whole Earth Is Our Hospital, “Easter Parade”, and Stone Age Showtime

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Rule 5 Sunday: From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor

Posted on | April 5, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I suppose I could have used the pic of Kamen America in her American/Japanese flag bikini, but this seemed more appropriate.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

“I know she looks sixteen, but she’s actually a 20,000 year old dragon goddess, officer!”

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Women on the Moon, MAGA National Address & Easter, Tarzan The Ape Man, Sisu: Road To Revenge, Never Forget Iryna Zarutska, “I Want You To Want Me”, Musique La Cour, Mermaid Monday, Sicilian Vespers, and Mercy

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Nicky Whelan, Fish Pic Friday – Jenny Barrett, Thursday Tanlines, The Wednesday Wetness, Katfish for Kiddos?, XXXHIBITIONIST, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday

BACON TIME: Rule Five Red Hot

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: O’s, Yeah!

Posted on | April 5, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Before I get into This Week With The Senators, I’d like to direct your attention to The eponymous widget in the sidebar where we recognize fellow bloggers who link us on the regular. William Teach at The Pirate’s Cove throws us links every week, but because of the strictures of the FMJRA posts, you seldom see him mentioned in the links below or (before I gave it up) in the Top Linkers list. So thank you, Mr. Teach!

This was a very good week to be a Senators fan. Yes, we lost two out of three to the Royals in KC, winning only the opener after Mike Cuellar left early and was replaced by John Morlan, who we teed off on for six unearned runs on our way to a 10-1 blowout. Then it was off to Baltimore, where despite my expectations we swept the Birds in all three games: a 7-2 win for Carl Morton where Jim Kaat came in for four innings of relief to get the save; an agonizing 14-inning second game where we scored two in the top of the 14th and Charlie Hough held on for the win; and finally a rare start by Steve Hargan that earned him a win and Jim Shellenback a save. So here we are 69-72, 6.5 games behind the Twins and five games ahead of the Brewers, and with a real shot at reaching .500 even if we don’t make the playoffs.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

4-2 is very good indeed.

An Unjustified Arrogance
A View From The Beach
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FMJRA 2.0: August Blues
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Rule 5 Sunday: Out Like A Lamb
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‘A Massive Problem’: Free Speech for People Who Don’t Want Open Borders 
Western Rifle Shooters Association
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‘Retribution for Their Sacred Blood’: Hezbollah Inspired Synagogue Attack
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In The Mailbox: 03.30.26
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Because You Asked: ‘What in the Actual Hell is Happening in North Carolina?’
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In The Mailbox: 03.31.26
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‘Subject to the Jurisdiction Thereof’
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In The Mailbox: 04.02.26 (Evening Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 04.03.26
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Lifestyles of the Rich and Shameless: The Family Had ‘Great Satan’ Green Cards

Posted on | April 5, 2026 | No Comments

Guess where they were living?

State Department press release:

[Friday night] the niece and grand niece of deceased Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Major General Qasem Soleimani were arrested by federal agents following Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s termination of their lawful permanent resident (LPR) status.
Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter are now in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. As identified by both press reporting and her own social media commentary, Soleimani Afshar is an outspoken supporter of the totalitarian, terrorist regime in Iran.
While living in the United States, she promoted Iranian regime propaganda, celebrated attacks against American soldiers and military facilities in the Middle East, praised the new Iranian Supreme Leader, denounced America as the “Great Satan,” and voiced her unflinching support for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a designated terror organization. Afshar Soleimani pushed this propaganda for Iran’s terrorist regime while enjoying a lavish lifestyle in Los Angeles, as attested to by her frequent posting on her recently deleted Instagram account.
In addition to the termination of Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter’s LPR status, Afshar’s husband has also been barred from entering the United States.
Earlier this month, Secretary Rubio also terminated the legal status of Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani, daughter of former Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran Ali Larijani, and her husband Seyed Kalantar Motamedi. Both Ardeshir-Larijani and Motamedi are no longer in the United States and are barred from future entry.
The U.S. Department of State extends its appreciation to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for their continued partnership and collaboration in keeping Americans safe.
The Trump Administration will not allow our country to become a home for foreign nationals who support anti-American terrorist regimes.

So if you hate America, support our enemies and think of the United States as “the Great Satan,” where else would choose to live except in Gavin Newsom’s California, “enjoying a lavish lifestyle” among the liberal Hollywood snobs who hate America as much as you do? But why bring up Robert De Niro at a time like this? More details via the New York Post:

The glam grandniece of slain Iranian terror mastermind Gen. Qasem Soleimani frequented several US hotspots and lived a lavish life in LA before being scooped up by ICE Friday.
Sarinasadat Hosseiny, 25, and her mother, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar, were arrested after the State Department terminated their permanent resident status and had their green cards revoked due to her ties the terrorist Iranian regime, the agency announced Saturday.
The 25-year-old terror scion’s social media showed she’s enjoyed a luxurious, vacation-centric lifestyle while living in the country her mother referred to as the “Great Satan.”
Hosseiny shared photos of her jetsetting on private planes, sunbathing on yachts, and dancing at music festivals while showing no signs of gainful employment.
Instagram posts show that Hosseiny has recently traveled to Miami where she posed with drinks; to Alaska, where she still managed to take snaps in a bikini; and Las Vegas, where she attended an F-1 race.
Other posts show Hosseiny donning skin tight dresses, barely-there bikinis, and skirts well north of the knee. . . .
Hosseiny was first admitted to the US on a student visa in 2015 and was given a green card by the Biden administration in 2023.

Terror-spawn socialite Sarinasadat Hosseiny

Some younger fellows might lament that we’ve deported an attractive young Persian woman, despite her terrorist ancestry, but why should American hotties have to deal with this foreign competition? The Obama administration shipped pallets of cash to the mullahs in Iran, and then Biden gave green cards to relatives of the Islamic regime, just so the aforesaid relatives could drive around in $200,000 Land Rovers and hobnob with the Hollywood snobs. Good riddance to all that.



 

Category: Immigration, Iran
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