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"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

In The Mailbox: 01.06.26 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | January 6, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Whipping this out before I head for Las Vegas; should be back Thursday. We’ll see how much posting I get done.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Modified from a wonderfully dark cartoon by @CenturiiC on X

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: A Day At The Boston Tea Party 1773, States With No Voter ID Pay 16 Times More Welfare For Illegals, and The Great Molasses Flood of 1919
357 Magnum: Which Is More Disturbing, A Deliberate Attack or Crumbling Infrastructure? also More Than 1,000 Cars Burned in France
EBL: Americana, Poor Man’s Lobster, Venezuelans Celebrate Maduro Arrest, The “Biological Cost” of Ozempic and Mounjaro, and “As with gladness men of old”
Twitchy: Gov. Hochul & Mayor Mamdani Literally Chased Off After YMCA Press Conference, We’ve Got Mamdani’s Tenant Director’s Old Tweets And YIKES, and Harmeet Dhillion Officially Puts Mamdani On Notice Regarding Discrimination
Louder With Crowder: AWFL TikToker melts down over Trump’s Venezuela “war”, Tampon Tim Walz drops out 0f Governor’s race, says it’s all Trump and a YouTuber’s fault, Republicans seize on Margaret Brennan’s face as she barely hides her disdain for Marco Rubio, Tom Cotton, and Mamdani’s new housing executive demands private property be seized, calls home ownership “white supremacy”
Vox Popoli: The Five Sigmas, Another Year, Another War, About the KOKORO Translation, A Novel and Vital Contribution, and The EU is Monitoring
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Maduro Adios?, also, Yes It Is (Partly) About The Oil
Cedar Sanderson: Forensics For Writers Part 4, also, Noise Pollution
Stoic Observations: Whose Hemisphere? Not Worrying About China, and The Limits of Principle
Postcards From Barsoom: The Domes of Calrathia
Upstream Reviews: Herd Immunity
Ammo.com: Why Do Americans Own Guns?
The Abbey of Misrule: Going Under & Coming Up

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The Venezuelan Raid – On Midrats, also, The Maduro Raid – Early Reports & Cautions
Dana Loesch: Starting 2026 With A Bang, also, Trump Invades Venezuela & Captures Maduro
Don Surber: The Three Hour War In Venezuela, also, Enjoying The Three Hour War
Elizabeth Nickson: Remigration NOW
Glenn Reynolds: Trump, Maduro, & What’s Next
Matt Taibbi: Note on a Lawsuit
STUMP: The New Year In Meep!

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