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In The Mailbox: 04.18.25

Posted on | April 19, 2025 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

…and [He] cried out, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
This was more than the centurion could stand. He snatched the pilum from Balba’s hand and drove it with all his strength into the rabbi’s heart. Then he pulled it out, but all that came from the terrible wound he had made was a little blood and water. He knew at once that the rabbi was already dead and his gift of death, which was all he had to give, had come too late.
At that, he wept.
– Leonard Wibberley, The Centurion

“And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.”

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Alligators in the News, also Don’t Bring a Knife to a Gunfight – Belize Edition
Director Blue: Email Received From Paul Revere
EBL: Good Friday, also, The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
Twitchy: Daily Caller Shares Top Five Scott Jennings Takedowns Since Trump’s Return, David Hogg Declares “Democracy Is What Put Us Through School Shooter Drills”, and Deranged Leftist Female Screams At Man Wearing MAGA Hat In Restaurant
Vox Popoli: We Thought Wikipedia was Bad, also, DEATH AND THE PLACE OF THE SKULL
According To Hoyt: This Can’t Go On, Political Weather, The Last Spaceship — Reading The Future of the Past, and Sympathy For the Devil
Upstream Reviews: Review & Thoughts on The Lord of the Rings – The Faces of Fantasy, 
Postcards From Barsoom: And Then There Were Two?
Early Warning Network: National Intelligence Bulletin

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: To Protect America, Fix our Defense Industrial Base
American Greatness: Government Watchdog Files Ethics Complaint Against Sen. Van Hollen Over Trip to El Salvador to Meet With Alleged Gangbanger
American Thinker: For Ordinary People, Trump Is The Man Who Will Save The West
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Joke Candidate Friday
BattleSwarm: School Choice Finally Passes Texas House, also, LinkSwarm For April 18
Behind The Black: Two different states in India announce space policies, Curiosity drill cores suggest there are more carbon-based minerals on Mars than previously believed, China launches six technology test satellites, and NASA’s useless safety panel suddenly notices that there are leaks on ISS
Cafe Hayek: America’s Economy Today Compared to Three Periods in the (Relatively) Recent Past, The Anti-Tariff Declaration, and Tariffs Are Bad Medicine
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Kilmar Abrego Floyd, also, Past Forgetting
Da Tech Guy: I’m Old Enough to Remember When People Didn’t Get Rich Off of Murder
Don Surber: Did Katy Perry just kill feminism?
Gates Of Vienna: Violent Jew-Hatred in Villeurbanne
The Geller Report: Italian PM Meloni to Trump: We Can ‘Make the West Great Again’, “Disgusting and Dangerous” Senator Warren Attacks RFK’s Research Into Spike and Origin of Autism, Non-Orthodox Jewish movements sign letter standing with campus Hamas supporters, Senator Van Hollen (D-MD) Sips Margaritas With Violent Gangbanger in El Salvador, and SecState Rubio Says US Will Abandon Ukraine Peace Efforts In Days If No Progress
Hollywood In Toto: Celebrities Dehumanize Trump, MAGA in Worst Ways Possible, Jimmy Kimmel Is Right* About Cancel Culture, Gutfeld’s ‘What Did I Miss?’ Sounds Bonkers, Why Mission to Mars Failed to Launch, and Could Meryl Streep Crush ‘Narnia’ Reboot?
The Lid: Supreme Court to Hear Case on Ending ‘Birthright’ Citizenship — Here is Why They Should Do It
Legal Insurrection: MN Gov. Tim Walz Still Claiming He Retired as a Command Sergeant Major, Federal Covid Website Redirects to White House “Lab Leak” Page, Self-Described Communist Instructor at Washington State U. Allegedly Assaulted Student Over Trump Hat, Sen. Van Hollen Meets with Abrego Garcia, Forgets Cameras Exist , and Female Fencer Punished With 12-Month Probation After Refusing to Compete Against Male
Matt Taibbi: The Harvard-Government Divorce Is A Feel-Good Story For The Ages
Outkick: Deion Sanders Calls Out ACC School For Trying To Poach Current Colorado Player With NIL Offer, Lane Kiffin Is Not Wrong About The Nico Iamaleava Situation, But The Supporting Cast Hasn’t Helped The Story, Donald Trump Meets With MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, Edmonton Oilers Jeff Skinner Says He Broke His Taylor Swift Curse, and Full House Icon Candace Cameron Bure Wraps Herself In A Robe, Maggie Sajak Stuffed In A Dress & Corso Letter!
Power Line: “Justice” without end, Another shocking poll result, Make me wanna Van Hollen, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Six Wounded In FSU Attack
Shot In The Dark: Headline 2027
STUMP: Good Friday – The Rest Is Silence
This Ain’t Hell: Dakota Meyer reups with the USMCR, Valor Friday, DOD DEI Purge, Self-Loading Luggage, and PhD student suggests liquidating President Trump and “a whole class of people”
Transterrestrial Musings: The Proposed “Science Budget Cuts” At NASA, This Should Terrify The Corrupt NGOs, Asian Languages, and The American Gun Debate
Victory Girls: No, Katy Perry Is Not An Astronaut
Watts Up With That: No Beef, Lamb, Milk and Cheese Within 25 Years Under Net Zero, Government-Funded Report Confirms, Help a Mann Out, New York Just Can’t Catch A Break On The March To Climate Utopia, and From Refineries to Fiefdoms: Is Newsom Orchestrating a State Takeover of California’s Oil Industry?
The Federalist: Here Come The Hypocrites Of The Week, Fauci Refuses To Take Media Questions At Protested Florida Speaking Event, Elon Musk’s Children Need Him — Not Just His Money And His DNA, Ridicule Is The Final Frontier For The Ladies Of Blue Origin, and Last Of Us Season Premiere Punctures The Obnoxious Girlboss Trope
Mark Steyn: When the Police Switch Sides, The Girl That Married Dear Old Dad, Fire and Faith, The Passion Of The Christ, and It’s On!

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