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In The Mailbox: 01.16.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | January 17, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
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Personally, I can’t help thinking Bobby Lee would have had these theater kids shot out of hand.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Why Most Countries Ban Mail-In Ballots
EBL: 4-hour marine spectacle, Grilling Golden Tilefish, Insurrectiony Democrat Mayor Jacob Frey, Bobby Hull, and Cubera Snapper
Twitchy: Seattle Jury Frees Illegal Alien After He Rams ICE Vehicle Head On, Michael Knowles Makes Kyle Kulinski Look Like A Frothing Moron, and DOJ Probing Walz & Frey For Shielding Illegals & Threatening ICE
Louder With Crowder: Minneapolis city hall gets employees “therapy goats” to deal with the stress of ICE enforcing immigration law, “You’re a left-wing hack”, Scott Jennings is fed up with everything CNN gets wrong about Minneapolis and ICE, Alleged “doctor” can’t tell GOP senator whether or not men can get pregnant, and Are you part of the white, middle class? Mamdani’s advisor calls YOU a problem for their agenda
Vox Popoli: Historic Rigor, The H1B Disaster, The Land of the Free, The Intellectual Razor, and Ted Cruz and the Stink of Sulfur
According To Hoyt: Front Seat For the Ghost Dance, Time Travelers, Narrative Lock-In: When Belief Becomes Bulletproof, What do you know? and It’s January 16 Do You Know Where Your Year is?
Cedar Sanderson: Tomato Wyrm Part 4
Ammo.com: California Homicide Rate
Postcards From Barsoom: Amelia Sans Merci

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: On Foreign Policy, Trump 2.0 Is Dangerously Unrestrained, also, Is Trump Winning Bigly on the World Stage?
American Greatness: Trump Warns Minneapolis Agitators: ‘If and When’ Forced to Act, Insurrection Will be Crushed ‘QUICKLY and EFFECTIVELY’, Myth, Narratives, and the Death of Renee Good, Philly DA Larry Krasner and Sheriff Rochelle Bilal Threaten to Arrest and Jail ICE Agents, Trump Mulls Insurrection Act After Leftwing Insurrectionists Loot and Destroy DHS Vehicles in Minneapolis, and Treasury Secretary on Tackling Minnesota Fraud: ‘Our Generosity Has Been Taken Advantage Of’
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 70 – Double Feature
Baldilocks: Twister Life
BattleSwarm: Hey Anti-ICE Morons – “Texas Is Not Minnesota”, “President Trump Has Joined The Revolution”, Illegal Aliens Cost Texas Hospitals $1 Billion In 2025, Abrams M1E3 Tank Prototype Unveiled (Sort Of), and LinkSwarm For January 16
Behind The Black: Gravity – Rocket Size Comparison as of 2024, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s high resolution camera is showing its age, Astronomers detect a bar of iron in the center of the Ring Nebula, The recent computer hack of the European Space Agency was bigger than it admitted, and China launches four satellites for another Chinese constellation
Cafe Hayek: Maybe Trump Is Indeed Shrinking U.S. Trade Deficits, Kuttner’s Clunker of a Defense of Tariffs, Full Text of Gramm and Boudreaux: “World Trade Grows Without the U.S.”, Open Letter to David Lay Williams, and Nor Can the 2025 Poor Job-Creation Number Be Explained Away By Pointing to Deportations
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: “The Law Cannot Fix a Broken Culture”, Of Minneapolis and Wildfires, Today’s Sermon: Paul of Tarsus vs. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reality Bites, and Needed: “Digital Literacy”, or Plain Old Literacy?
Da Tech Guy: The Obvious Conclusion that (Almost) Nobody Seems to Want to Say Aloud about National Democrats in General and Blue States in Particular
Don Surber: What Trump wants from Greenland
First Street Journal: Larry Krasner beclowns himself, (Purported) canon lawyer is very upset that infants can be baptized without their consent, Ilhan Omar Mynett claims the Minnesota fraud investigations are all just PR, and You in a heap o’ trouble, boy!
Gates Of Vienna: Brigitte Bardot: “I Do Not Want to Die in an Islamized France”, Islam’s Rape Gangs — As Instructed in the Mosques, Culture-Enriching Throat-Slicing in Mogliano Veneto, The Cultural Enrichment of Dortmund, and Did Somali Fraud Money Make Its Way to Al-Shabaab?
The Geller Report: FOUR ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT Filed Against Corrupt Governor Tim Walz, 81 Traitorous Republicans Vote With Democrats To Fund Anti-Trump NED Targeting MAGA and the Constitution, Democrat Rioters in Minneapolis Break into Federal Vehicle and Steal FBI Rifle and Ammunition, Israel Warns Iran: ‘If You Attack Us, We Will End You For Good’, and Trump Moves to Deport Somali Criminals, Including Ilhan Omar, After Billions In Fraud Exposed
Hollywood In Toto: Ethan Hawke Makes Blue Moon Magical, Iranian Filmmaker Calls Out Hollywood’s Silence on Protests, Hollywood Honors Renee Good, Ignores Hundreds Killed in Iran, Wake Us Up from Dreamy Sound of Falling, and Carolla Called It: Palisades Fire Anniversary Sees Little Rebuilding
Legal Insurrection: ‘Strange Bedfellows’ The Protean Alliances of the American Left, Department of Education announces probe into ‘gender identity’ policies at 18 institutions, HHS May Have had No Choice but to Restore Planned Parenthood Funding, Uh Oh: Mamdani Under Fire for Excluding Black Leaders From Top City Roles, and Colorado Congresswoman Says Democrats are Planning to Impeach Trump Again
Matt Taibbi:  The Weaponization of the Weaponization of Government
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scott Adams, Tyson, Part Two, Multipolar World, The Nickel Tour, and David Starkey Laments the Coming Death of Free Speech in the UK
Outkick: Ole Miss QB Trinidad Chambliss Files Lawsuit Against NCAA Seeking Sixth Year Of Eligibility, Majority Of NFL Teams Are Busy Hiring Their Next Ex-Head Coach During This Cycle, Big Ten Has Passed SEC Thanks To Coaching Advantage, With Kyle Tucker Signing, Are The 2026 Los Angeles Dodgers The Best Team Ever? and Louisville’s New Volleyball Coach Has America’s Attention, Sofia Vergara Covered In Coffee & MLB Is Toast
Power Line: Anatomy of an insurrection, Meet Raul Gutierrez, We Are Shopping Elsewhere, What’s the matter with MN? and What is to be done?
Shark Tank: Uthmeier Announces Arrest of Illegal Aliens In Organized Retail Theft Scheme
Shot In The Dark: Ritual Groveling, Quid Pro Quo, Whither Greenland, and Mostly Peaceful Weapons Theft
The Political Hat: Gender Eunuchorn, Quick Takes – Not Dead Yet: Cash For Rebranded DEI At Harvard; Cornell’s Zombie DEI; Banned Iowa DEI Continues, and Firing Line Friday: The Uses of the United Nations
This Ain’t Hell: Defense team for Charlie Kirk’s assassin tries to disqualify the prosecution team, Greenland and National Security, Valor Friday, Sailor Sentenced Selling Secrets, and We almost lost the Unknown Soldier?
Transterrestrial Musings: A Mass Hostage Situation In Iran, Starfleet Academy, Light Posting Explanation, Scott Adams, and Certain Women
Victory Girls: Democrats Need Remedial Home Ec STAT, Kamala Harris’s turn as Marie Antoinette, and Ilhan Omar Claims Fraud And ICE Investigations Are Just PR Stunts
Watts Up With That: New York’s Ridiculous Energy Policy Way Off The Edge Of The Cliff, Update on Australian NetZero efforts, A Good Mix of Sunlight and Rain is Now “Climate Whiplash”, BBC Fact-Checking Show More or Less Gets its Climate Facts Wrong Again, and New York Nuclear Plan
The Federalist: Florida Joins Texas In Ending American Bar Association’s ‘Gatekeeper’ Grip On Law Schools, Exclusive: Child Abusers Top ICE’s Latest List Of ‘Worst Of The Worst’ Illegal Aliens, Criminal Illegal Alien Who Led Des Moines Schools Looking To Make Plea Deal, Leftists Play-Acting At Revolution Are Mad The Cops Won’t Play Along, and Parents Must Actively Opt Out Of Turning Their Kids Into Digital Age Zombies
Mark Steyn: Kathy Shaidle on the Damaged Left, The Home Front and Beyond, Butch and Swingin’, A Bumpy Night: Bette Davis, Kathy Shaidle and All About Eve, and Greenland

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