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In The Mailbox: 02.07.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | February 8, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.07.25 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
In case you were wondering, Babalu Blog seems to have vanished from the Intertubes, which is unfortunate since it was the best blog for Cuban and Latin American affairs.  
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

How the USAID flap looks from Spain, thanks to Kukuruyo.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Germans Beginning to Feel the Results of Mass Immigration
EBL: MAGA and DOGE : Sunlight Is The Best Disinfectant, Bill Belichick and Jordon Hudson, Democrats Are The Party of Choice: Sorry Joe and Jill Biden! Mad Maxine Meltdown at the Department of Education, and Michigan Rep. Democrat Laurie Pohutsky gets a major award!
Twitchy: Twitter Celebrates Based Security Guard Saying No To Screechy Democrats, Tape Over Takeover – USAID’s DC HQ Has Signage Covered Or Removed, and Let The Inappropriate Giggling Begin As Elon Wants To Fund “Hard Hitting” News Show On X
Louder With Crowder: Remember the woke bishop who scolded Trump? Turns out her “ministry” got $53 Million of YOUR tax money to resettle illegals, Get a load of this one: A Democrat official hates Donald Trump so much that she got herself sterilized, CNN seethes over “Big Balls,” the teen exposing the government with Elon Musk and DOGE, Gavin Newsom declares part of LA that burned down needs to be rebuilt… with climate change considered, and Katt Williams tells Mexican heckler what he can do to himself if he hates America so much, then gets patriotic
Vox Popoli: The Case of the Gold Buddhas, They Cannot Lose, The Game was Always Fake, Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias, and These are Not Our Principles
According To Hoyt: Deals With The Devil, Surreal, and Revolution!
Monster Hunter Nation: Heart of the Mountain, available now in eBook and Hardcover
Upstream Reviews: The Romanov Rising
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Money Laundering The NGO Way
Stoic Observations: Nietzsche Warns America
Cedar Sanderson: The Hole Potential
Gab: How The Government Funded The Smear Campaign Against Gab

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Not My MAGAza
American Greatness: Schumer Under Investigation While Trump Reshapes Washington, Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy Accuses Hillary Clinton of Lying to Cover Up Family’s ‘Obscene Grifting via USAID’, The Left-Wing Episcopal Church Embarrasses Itself—Again, 15 State Attorneys General Pledge to Defend Trans Surgeries for Minors, and Attorney General Pam Bondi Halts Funding for Sanctuary Cities
American Thinker: J.D. Vance’s Bold Step to Reclaim Robert E. Lee’s Legacy, DOGE Walks Among Us, Trump Drains the Swamp, and Cold Winters Mean Global Warming? In What World?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News, Animal’s Red Thursday News, and Rule Five Alaska Voters Friday
BattleSwarm: Paxton Joins Lawsuit Against Child Mutilation, Taxpayers Paying For The Systemic Preference Falsification Scam Being Run Against Them, and LinkSwarm For February 7
Behind The Black: The weird landscape in Mars’ glacial country, Arthur Clarke in 1964 predicts the future in 2000, SpaceX to use older Dragon capsule for next manned launch because of issues with new capsule, Vast delays launch of Haven-1 space module to May 2026, and SpaceX withdraws from process to bring Starlink to South Africa
Cafe Hayek: The World Is Increasingly Topsy-Turvy, Negative Externalities Exist Only When People Suffer What Are Legitimately Classified as Losses, and There Is No Economic Justification for Protective Tariffs
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: A Swarm of Sinecures, DOGE is an Oxymoron: Unchecked “Democracy” is the Problem, History Friday: The Handcart Saga, The Last Temptation of WIRED, and Is ChatGPT Just A Fancy News Aggregator?
Don Surber: Hey waiter, this whine tastes like liberal tears
First Street Journal: Credit where credit is due, Former Penn women’s swim team members are finally speaking out, and I check Bluesky so you don’t have to
Gates Of Vienna: When Der Führer Says, also, The Motor Wagon is on the Move
The Geller Report: Nazi Collaborator George Soros Received $260 MILLION from USAID, INCOMING TAX RELIEF – Trump Outlines His Sweeping Tax Policy Demands to Congressional Leaders, and WOKE WSJ Reporter KATHERINE LONG who DOXXED DOGE Staffer Has Ties to USAID
Hollywood In Toto: Hollywood, Media Silent as Crocodile Dundee Gets Censored, The Truth About Kinda Pregnant Will Surprise You, Love Hurts (But Not As Much As This Movie), Companion Announces a New Genre Name to Know, and Hollywood Strikes Out on Valentine’s Day?
The Lid: Trump is Elected and BAM: Best Military Recruitment Rate in 12 Years, CA Gov. Newsom Quietly Weakens Financial Disclosure Rules for L.A. Officials in Aftermath of Devastating Fires, and Black Voter Disavows Democrats as Liars and Thieves
Legal Insurrection: Another Revealing Moment From That 2024 Kamala Harris ’60 Minutes’ Interview, Trump Revokes Biden’s Security Clearance, Access to Daily Intelligence Briefings, Hurricane DOGE Sweeps into the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, House Passes Bill Blocking Presidents From Banning Oil, Gas Drilling, and Students for Justice in Palestine at Bowdoin College Form Encampment, Occupy Campus Building
Nebraska Energy Observer: Keep ’em Rollin‘, In case you missed it, and Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Shane Beamer Says SEC Needs Auto CFB Playoff Bids After Disastrous Bowl Season, Patrick Mahomes Talks 2025 World Series At Super Bowl Media Days, Power Conferences Taking Authority From NCAA On Athlete Compensation, Canada’s 4 Nations Face-Off Goalies Get Stamp Of Approval From Price, Fleury, and Kay Adams Wraps Herself In A Robe, The Mob Attacks Josh Allen & Casey DeSantis Makes Republicans Hot Again!
Power Line: Meltdown at the NY Times, In Accordance with the Prophecy, We Are Winning, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: After Marijuana Amendment Failed, New Bill Would Let Floridians Grow Medicinal Weed At Home 
Shot In The Dark: Hours of Fun! Going Whole Hogg, In Their Own Words, Happy Reagan’s Birthday! Things That Snuck Up On Me, OMIGAWD, Behold #Blueanon, and Workfare
The Political Hat: Ironic Equality of Critical Race Theory, Quick Takes – Guess Who Is A Person: A Mountain; A River; An Elephant, and Firing Line Friday: Feminism
This Ain’t Hell: USNA DEI Offices Closed, Valor Friday, U.S. Army shatters recruiting records in 2024, December was the most productive, Floaty Friday, and Tuskegee Airman, 100, passes
Transterrestrial Musings: The Handwriting On The Wall, Kevin Hassett, Thoughts, Donald Trump, and To Sue, Or not To Sue?
Victory Girls: DOGE Staffer Causes Media Freakout Over “Big Balls” Nickname, Democrats Have Entered The Cartoon Phase Of *TDS*, and Ilhan Omar Doesn’t Understand Our Republic Or Freedom
Watts Up With That: Trump’s Energy Secretary Comes Out Swinging with Plan That Takes Sledgehammer to Several Biden-Era Policies , There Is Nothing Green About the ‘Green’ Agenda, and False, Washington Post, Climate Change Isn’t Causing a Rat Crisis
The Federalist: Oh SNAP! Millions Of Taxpayer Dollars Blown On Free Food Fraud, Watchdog To DOJ: Investigate Oregon For Destroying Voter Records, We Still Need Answers To The Many Unanswered Questions About Jan. 6, Judges Issuing Lawless Bans On Trump’s Clearly Legal Executive Actions Have Extremist Records, and Democrats More Panicked About DOGE Accessing Feds’ Computers Than Chinese Hackers
Mark Steyn: One-Man Stan, Live Around the Planet: Trump vs. The Rest, The Winning Continues, America Alone…Again, and Gaz-a-Lago!

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