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In The Mailbox: 02.16.26

Posted on | February 17, 2026 | No Comments

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Spring 2026 Based Book Sale Top Ten…So Far
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Day of Pickett’s Charge (1863), Rubio’s Munich Speech – The Graphic Novel, and A Day On Moonbase Alpha (2034)
357 Magnum: California Hydroelectric Failure on Friday the 13th, also Self-Defense in Washington, DC?
EBL: Robert Duvall RIP, The Rest of the Fish – Salmon, Horrific – Olive Garden Worker Deep Fries His Head, The (Imposed) Silence of the Trans, and Whitefish in Great Lakes
Twitchy: Deranged Troon Shoots Six At Rhode Island Youth Hockey Game, Gov. Hairgel Gets Torched For Playing Victim After Ted Cruz Jab, and Occasional Cortex Stuns Munich Crowd With Her Geographical “Knowledge” of South America
Louder With Crowder: Father goes off on school board after finding out they forced his son to protest ICE, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins claims with a straight face that CNN covers Trump fairly and has no bias against him whatsoever, White woman films herself harassing an ICE Agent outside of a school…except he was just a cop, Nick Shirley strikes again, uncovering homeless illegal alien kids living on the streets of Gavin Newsom’s California, and Trans lawmaker has to correct himself when she/them misgendered a “boogeyMAN”
Vox Popoli: The End of Deep Time, Why Journalism Can’t Survive, The Summons of the Sleeper, The Convergence of D&D, and The Missing Verse in Matthew
Cedar Sanderson: Getting Somewhere, also, Cookbook Wisdom – Introduction
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Conspiracies, also, Pocket Litter
Stoic Observations: The New AI God Botherers
Mazelit Airaksinen: CUNY To Host Talk On Hamas Tunnels As “Resistance To Oppression”
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: AI – Taking Your Job Or Your Pension?
Upstream Reviews: Twelve Months
Defending The Wood Perilous: Pathways & Feminine Thinking

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: ‘Nothing to Fear but Keir Himself’, also, Who’s Afraid of an Iranian Refugee Crisis?
American Greatness: AOC Facing Ridicule After Series of Embarrassing Gaffes on World Stage, Leftists Hold ‘President’s Day Flip Off’ , House Judiciary Chairman Jordan Considering Legislation to Counter Sanctuary Cities, Election 2026 – California Republicans Have a Chance, and How Deep Is the Deep State?
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 75 – Double Feature
Baldilocks: Some Personal Black History, also, Not Trying To Get Rich
BattleSwarm: Labour – The Pedophile Party, Microsoft AI Head Claims Most White Collar Jobs Will Be Automated In 18 Months, and Texas 2026 Primaries: Mayes Middleton Vs. Chip Roy For Attorney General
Behind The Black: A sinuous Martian ridge of uncertain origin, Fairing from India’s Bahubali rocket launched in December found in Maldives, Rocket Factory Augsburg getting close to launch, SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites, and Only the power-hungry truly lust for war
Cafe Hayek: Trump Aims to Repel Global Capital and Make the U.S. More Like the E.U., also, Protective Tariffs Are Designed to Obstruct Citizens’ Access to Imports
CDR Salamander: February Free For All – On Midrats, also, The Seven Sons of China Are Stealing Our Stuff
Dana Loesch: Three Very Stupid Things
Don Surber: Our presidents
Elizabeth Nickson: This Is Armageddon Energy – For Them
First Street Journal: A kerfuffle over Altar Girls
Gates Of Vienna: Valentine’s Day in Rotherham, Two Quotes on Cultural Enrichment, Trump’s Islam Policy Remains Incoherent, and Beaten to Death by Antifa
The Geller Report: SCOTUS Hands Trump Huge Foreign Aid Victory, Racist Spike Lee Wears Jihadi Outfit To NBA All-Star Game, Mass Protests Against Mullahs Reignite In Iran, Muslims Burn Nigerian Pastor & Wife Alive In Their Church, and UN Official Calls Israel “Common Enemy” Of Humanity
Hollywood In Toto: Consider Elizabethtown as a Valentine’s Day Treat, How Close Encounters of the Third Kind Special Edition Changed Hollywood, Kathy Griffin’s Comeback Captures Moral Collapse in Real Time, ‘Free Speech’ Bullying Shows Sorry State of Hollywood, Journalism, and Wake Up, Hollywood – Audiences Want Romantic Movies
Legal Insurrection: Japan Nets Chinese Trawler as Global Backlash to Beijing’s Fishing Raiders Grows, Rubio’s Munich Speech: A Powerful Message Delivered With Grace and Diplomacy, Maryland Woman Tells School Board She Called Child Protective Services Over TPUSA Meeting, Congress Demands Answers From ATF Over Backdoor Gun Registry, and Potomac Interceptor Rupture Poised to Become the Largest Sewage Spill in U.S. History
Nebraska Energy Observer: Amelia on G. K. Chesterton, and life now in the formerly free world, McClintock, and Rubio
Outkick: Dramatic Bubba Wallace Acted Unbelievably After The Daytona 500, Driver Quits With Two To Go & We’ve Got BEEF!, Here’s How NBC’s Disastrous Investment in the NBA Could Cost Network the NFL, Stephen A. Smith: The Dunk Contest Died On LeBron James’ Watch, Losing A Hockey Fight To A Frenchman Should Be Grounds For Automatic Expulsion From Olympics, and MLB Network’s Abby Labar Melts Brains In An Upside-Down Dress, ESPN Had A ROUGH Weekend & AOC Knows Geography!
Power Line: Elon and the Engineers, Why Khanna can do it, In re Presidents Day, Day No. 2 of ‘shutdown’ No. 3, and When all men are paid for existing
Racket News: The Swamp Log
Shark Tank: DeSantis Touts Success Of State’s Iguana Removal
STUMP: The Week In Meep
This Ain’t Hell: Army veteran Robert Duvall dies aged 95, Cuba’s Impending Collapse, and President Donald Trump says Voter ID will be in place for midterms, with or without Congress
Transterrestrial Musings: Ice Dancing, About That Wet Dress Rehearsal, and The Manchurian Candidate
Victory Girls: Valentine’s Day at the 2026 Winter Olympics: Milan’s Olympic Village Runs Out of Condoms, Hillary Clinton’s “Women’s Rights” Panel Featured a Man, and TSA Takes The Brunt Of Latest Democrat Government Shutdown
Watts Up With That: AI and Air Conditioning are Allegedly Threatening Renewable Energy Dominance, The University of East Anglia Discovers the Urban Heat Island Effect, WUWT Leads The Way Again, The hidden impact of polluted snow, and Models Gone Wild: The Ionosphere Triggers Earthquakes?
The Federalist: From Chuck To AOC, Here Are The Worst People Of The Week, EXCLUSIVE: Chip Roy Lays Out How Senate Can Vote On SAVE Act Without Nuking Filibuster, Andrew Sullivan Is A Trump Supporter, But As With Most Things Political He Just Doesn’t Know It, Rooting Against Anti-American Olympians Is The Patriotic Thing To Do, and Ed Crane Was Right About Free Speech And The Iraq War Years Before The Country Caught Up
Mark Steyn: The End Game, If It’s Tuesday This Must Be the Belgian Stabber, Dead Man Walking: Lee Marvin in Point Blank, On the Town: In the Pink, and A Presidential Medley, Part One

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