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In The Mailbox: 02.24.26

Posted on | February 25, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I’ll be on the road for the next couple of days en route to Confinement, Mike Williamson’s mini-convention/house party outside of Nashville. Blogging may be sporadic, but I think Rule 5 Sunday and the FMJRA will get done on time. I mean, that’s what you guys are paying me the big bucks for, right?  😉
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

I mean…are openAI, Anthropic, and Google even trying?

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: What’s the Opposite of Diversity?
EBL: Queen Snapper, also, Street Sicilian Food
Twitchy: Trump’s Hilarious SOTU Dig At Pelosi Makes Her Wish She Could Rip Up His Speech All Over Again, Trump Gets Democrats To Reveal Their Main Priority With “Stand Up” Request, and TN Democrat Gov Hopeful Lies About Sen. Blackburn’s Olympic Hockey Congrats – Scores Own Goal
Louder With Crowder: Texas voter reduced to literal tears she felt forced to vote for a white man over Jasmine Crockett, California fire victims can’t rebuild, but they did receive FINES for not clearing their brush in time, Sheriff loses it after California parole board releases serial child predator serving three life sentences, Father opposed transitioning his ten-year-old son, so Iceland’s government took the kid away, and AOC and Mamdani join forces to promote taxpayer-funded childcare for illegals, and of course, it’s in a foreign language
Vox Popoli: The Pieces are in Place, The Art of War in the Taiwan Strait, You Can Be Effectively Smarter, 2 Billion Generations of Nothing, and The Ineducable Meets the Inevitable
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Non Permissive Environments
Born Lucky: A Strange (But Nevertheless Typical) Story
Jim McCoy: Writing Diverse Characters
Incensepunk Magazine: Office of New Evangelizations

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Companies Are Skeptical of Venezuela’s Oil Fields, also, Is the Nationalist Revolution in Britain Real?
American Greatness: The Left’s Elastic Principles On Judicial Authority, White House Blasts CNN & MSNOW For Ignoring Angel Family Remembrance Ceremony, Former Obama White House Counsel Kathy Ruemmler Resigns From Goldman Sachs Amid Epstein Fallout, The Bigger Problem that the Tim Walz NGO Scandal Has Exposed , and AOC’s Ignorance Is No Laughing Matter
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 76 – An Alaskan in Texas
BattleSwarm: Texas 2026 Primary Election Roundup, American Drone Alternative To Chinese Drone Is Chinese Drone, LinkSwarm For February 20, China: Four Years Of Crashing Margin, and EPIC City Update – More Lawsuits!
Behind The Black: The weird landscape of Mars’ death valley, The exterior of Gaudí’s church masterpiece now complete after 144 years of construction, Chinese astronauts provide their perspective on the cracked Shenzhou-20 window, Webb tracks Uranus’ atmosphere over 15 hours, and NASA to return SLS to assembly building tomorrow
Cafe Hayek: Doug Irwin on Trump’s Punitive Taxes On Americans’ Purchases of Imports, Enough With the Misleading Mercantilist Language, Another Open Letter to Scott Bessent, Talking with Scott Atlas, and The Data on 2025 U.S. GDP Are Now In
CDR Salamander: The Russo-Ukrainian War Hits Four
Da Tech Guy: The Democrat Tom Hagen Math Congress & Canine (Or the “Dog that Didn’t Bark”) Edition
Dana Loesch: SOTU Recap
Don Surber: The California Mafia
First Street Journal: That thing that never happens has happened again, This is what country people do, No one is above the law, and that includes our immigration laws, and World War III Watch: Yet another leftist wants to send Other People off to war
Gates Of Vienna: Our Muslim Troubles – A Video Series, Part One, The Truth is Fungible, “A Black Hole of Marginalization and Degradation”, Rupert Lowe: “It Has to Be That the People in Charge Are Villains”, and How to Eat an Elephant — One Islamic Bite at a Time
The Geller Report: “We Did Not Come Here To Coexist. We Are Superior to Everyone Else. They Have to Worship Allah”, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer Blocks US From Using RAF Bases for Strikes on Iran, Virginia Democrats Move to Slash Mandatory Prison Time for Rape, Manslaughter, Child Porn Crimes, Susan Rice Threatens -“IT’S NOT GOING TO END WELL FOR THEM”, and Mamdani Begs Residents to Shovel the Snow and DEMANDS FIVE IDS To Pick Up A Shovel
Hollywood In Toto: Here’s Why U2, Springsteen Joined Anti-ICE ‘Resistance’, Ethan Hawke Does Stunning 180 on Political Talk, Gutfeld Defends Silence of the Lambs While Actors Stay Silent, Dead Man’s Wire Does ’70s Era Filmmaking Proud, and Why Midwinter Break Is Unlike Most Faith-Based Films
Legal Insurrection: White House Prioritizes Domestic Phosphorus, Glyphosate Production for Food Security, Villanova U. Prof Says Academia Should be Used as a ‘Trojan Horse’ for Socialism, NYPD Officers Pelted With Snowballs; Leftists Shrug ‘So What’, Democrats Skipping State of the Union for Progressive Rally, and ‘Snow Hurricane’ Energy Reality Check – You Can’t Heat Homes With NetZero Promises
Nebraska Energy Observer: Meanwhile, in Europe, Reordering the World, The Suicide of France, Reflective Friday, and Bearing Down
Outkick: Trump Says US Women’s Hockey Team Will ‘Soon’ Visit White House, Team USA Goalie Named Presidential Medal Of Freedom Recipient During SOTU, Boomer Esiason Shredded Team China’s Eileen Gu – Totally ‘Insufferable’, Diversity In Basketball Continues To Trigger Players And Commentators, and Olivia Culpo Sets The Offseason Standard For The 49ers WAGs During Their Annual Bikini Vacation
Power Line: Shadow government, The Real State of the Union, Following the “Science” on Gender, Dumbest Spin Ever, and Thanks, we needed that
Shark Tank: Rep. Fine Brings Service Dog To SOTU To Highlight “Protecting Puppies From Sharia Act”
Shot In The Dark: George Wallace On Line 2, Volunteer Criminals, Mexico – A Modest Proposal, and  Innovation!
STUMP: 2024 U.S. Top Causes of Death by Sex and Age Group – Finalized
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Green Madness, Firing Line Friday – Resolved: That the Marketplace Is Not a Social Enemy, and Colorado vs. BOTH The 1st & 2nd Amendments
This Ain’t Hell: France Demands US Ambassador’s Presence – Snubbed, New NASA contract available, Armed man who illegally entered Mar-a-Lago secure perimeter gets shot and killed, Airman and his husband indicted for defrauding millions from the War Department, and Respects to Mr. Uecker
Transterrestrial Musings: Making Space Important, Brutal, Business As Usual, and How Long Can This Go On?
Victory Girls: USA Hockey Gets Gold Medal Honors At White House And SOTU, Gavin Newsom’s Atlanta “I’m Just Like You” Moment, and JP Morgan Admits They DID Debank President Trump’s Accounts
Watts Up With That: Recognizing Failure, Some Liberals Are Reshaping Their Climate Messaging, United Nations Launches New IPCC for Artificial Intelligence, Bernie Sanders Issues Dire Warnings, Wrong, Oceanographic Magazine, Sea Level Rise in Hawaii Is Not a Looming Catastrophe, South Fork Wind Malinformation, and After the Endangerment Finding, States Must Prove CO2 Harms – Wisconsin Can’t
The Federalist: It’s Not Racist To Say Muslims Can’t Tell Us To Reject Dogs, Cheap Gas, Less Crime, Lives Saved, And 4 Other Victories Dems Refused To Cheer At SOTU, Biden-Appointed Judge Has No Idea What Easy Words Like ‘Shall’ Mean, Abigail Spanberger Is Playing Blindfolded Darts With Her Lame SOTU Response, and Newsom Spox Indicates He Will Only Talk To Journalists Who Agree With Him
Mark Steyn: Romancing the Stone, A Presidential Medley, Part Two, Remembering Rush: Five Years On, The Non-Far Left and its Friends, and When They Go Low… He Goes High

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