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In The Mailbox: 03.06.26

Posted on | March 7, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I missed a few days at the beginning of the week thanks to Confinement and never really caught up. Sorry about that. SOTD. 
Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Award for Stupid Police Officer of the Year Goes to …, also Microsoft Got Their Knickers in a Twist
Director Blue: What Iranian Negotiators Told Witkoff, A Day At The Gates Of Vienna (1683), and The FBI’s Ghost Files
EBL: Friday Fish Fry, Scallops, “Ballad of the Alamo”, Texas Primaries, and Jasmine Crockett Goes Full Stacey Abrams in Election Night Meltdown
Twitchy: Illegal Immigrant Nashville Reporter Nabbed by ICE, Polygamy Isn’t Liberation – It’s Lindy West’s Humiliation Ritual, and Democrat Candidate Graham Plattner’s Fresh Red Flag
Louder With Crowder: The left’s favorite podcaster goes on anti-Trump, anti-ICE tirade during the GLAAD awards, UK Government launches new creepy ad campaign to shame your kids from sharing the “wrong” content, Biden Official Admits That They Were Turning The Maps Gay, Jemele Hill lashes out at Middle America, implying everyone’s raaaaaacist for wanting safe borders, and The Most Insane “Young Adult” Book Ever Written + Exclusive BTS Footage (Sources)
Vox Popoli: Killing Isn’t Winning, Two Weeks, Service and Sales Disrupted, Even Judas Got Paid, and Who Gave You the Right?
According To Hoyt: The So Called Career, All We Are Saying Is Give Peas A Chance, Delivering us Bound to Our Foes, Late Posts, etc., and Apparently, We Can Just Do Things?
Weird Catholic: A Purgatorial Procession
Mazelt Airaksinen: A Reflection on the Past Year
Upstream Reviews: Hellgate
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Green Treason
The Bugscuffle Gazette: The Alamo
Ammo.com: U.S. Gun Facts

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Minnesota State Employee Who Vandalized Teslas Last Year ‘Punished’ With 1-Day Suspension, Nothing to See Here: House Blocks Release of Congressional Sexual Misconduct Reports, The Asymmetric Advantages of Environmentalist Zealotry, Supreme Court Hears Challenge to Federal Prohibition for Marijuana-Using Gun Owners, and The Digital State of the Union: America’s Networks Are National Infrastructure
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 77 – We Have Grouse of All Sizes
BattleSwarm: The Liberation of Iran Has Begun, Iran Strikes: Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6, Texas Primary Election Results: Toth Topples Crenshaw, Huffines Romps, Cornyn/Paxton, Middleton/Roy, Gonzales/Herrera Head To Runoff, and LinkSwarm For March 6
Behind The Black: Dart changed the orbit of the Didymos/Dimorphos binary asteroids around the Sun, Curiosity looks uphill at its upcoming travels, South Korean rocket startup Perigee signs deal to launch from the Philippines, ESA loses contact with the coronagraph satellite of its dual-satellite Proba-3 mission, and Rocket Lab completes another launch yesterday
Cafe Hayek: A Chronic Deficiency of Understanding, No, Trump’s Tariffs Are Not Justified Because The President Has Foreign-Policy-Making Powers, and Yet Another Open Letter to President Trump
CDR Salamander: The Sinking of the Dena Was Textbook, also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: The US Finally Goes to War With Iran, March Indulgence Calendar, and The Bright Side of Tucker et/al for Israel
Dana Loesch: The Cornyn-Paxton Dilemma, Islamist Green Party Candidate Misuses Marine Uniform, 
Don Surber: Red China is the big loser in Iran, also, Democrats go to war
First Street Journal: World War III Watch – Maybe this wasn’t the best idea, #TrumpDerangementSyndrome, and The War Powers Resolution of 1973 and Iran
Gates Of Vienna: Our Muslim Troubles – Part Four and  Part Five, It’s Steen, Not Stine! Silencing Ourselves, Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others, and Kafirs Must NOT Speak to Muslimas!
The Geller Report: CHECKMATE: Ken Paxton Calls Cornyn’s Bluff, Says He’d Consider Dropping Out of Senate Runoff If Republicans Pass Voter ID Bill, Tehran’s Trojan Horse: Iran’s Agents of Influence Embedded in Washington, Newsom’s Nazism, Trump Kicks Tucker Carlson out of MAGA Movement, and Trump rates Iran war as ’15 out of 10?
Hollywood In Toto: This One Thing Separates Arco from the Animated Pack, Dolly Gets Under Your Skin (And Stays There), Woke Bride! Feels Like Blast from Cancel Culture Past, The Mastermind Keeps Director’s Maddening Streak Intact, and Will Lorne Doc Ask the One Question We’re All Wondering?
Legal Insurrection: New ‘NASA Force’ Aims to Rebuild Core Competencies for Artemis Moon Push, Republicans Love Trump – His Primary Picks Keep Winning, Cal State Bakersfield Men’s Basketball Coach Allegedly Moonlighted as a Pimp, Democrats and Media Drop New Talking Point About the Cost of Trump’s Iran Operation, and Noem’s Response to Lewandowski Question Reportedly the ‘Final Straw’ for Trump
Nebraska Energy Observer: Patton and Montgomery: American v. British War making, The Revised New World Order, A Coalition War, Iran and Beyond, and What a Week!
Outkick: Aaron Judge Homer Powers Team USA To Dominant Win Over Brazil, Despite Shaky Pitching Performances, Las Vegas Raiders Were Absolutely Keeping Maxx Crosby — Until They Didn’t, Team Israel Forced To Hide Logos And Use Bomb Sniffing Dogs For Protection At World Baseball Classic, Donald Trump Says Executive Order Coming Within A Week To Address NIL And NCAA Lawsuits, and Modern Family’s Ariel Winter Goes Shirtless To Boost Morale, Look At These Patriots In Iran & AI Bill Clinton!
Power Line: A Stunning Revelation, Mixed jobs report for February, Overdrive, Department of lost and found, and Is the Queer Fad Over?
Racket News: The FBI’s Secret Stash Finally Uncovered, Fifty Years Of Secrets, and Kash’s Cache – Locating The FBI’s Secret Files, 
Shark Tank: AG Uthmeier Charges Seven In Organized Retail Theft Scheme
Shot In The Dark: The Balloon, Lab Rat, and The Scooby-Doo Episode I’d Like To See
The Political Hat: California Will Now Mandate Permission To Use Any Operating System, Utah vs. “Social Emotional Learning”, Our Heritage of Purported Abstractions, and Firing Line Friday: The Future of Spain
This Ain’t Hell: A Florida nurse calls on foreign countries to attack the United States and to overthrow ‘the regime’, Valor Friday, Army vet Lou Holtz passes, Boots on the Ground, and Is the US going to drop a big one on Iran?
Transterrestrial Musings: The First Day Of The War, Great Space Policy News, The Fall Of The NGO-Administrative Complex, and Is College Making People Stupider?
Victory Girls: Obama Takes Pot Shots At Trump During Jesse Jackson Eulogy, Twisted Scripture In Texas Talarico Style, and Megyn Kelly Disgraces Herself Over Iran And Deaths Of American Soldiers
Watts Up With That: Televised! CDU Candidate Tells Schoolchildren CO2 Makes Sun Hotter, Another Confusing Story Highlights Why Climate Hysteria and Far-Left Media Are Reaching Their End, Ghostwriters for the Courts – The Climate Litigation Network Behind a Withdrawn Judicial Manual, UK LibDems Promise to Cut £600 Energy Bills by £800, and Britain is Trying to Censor Americans – But America is Fighting Back
The Federalist: How The Left Threatens Citizens Instead Of Pressuring Politicians To Achieve Its Goals, While Thune Slacks On SAVE America Act, His Home State Passes Its Own Version Of The Bill, The Paramount Purchase Could Revive American Excellence In Hollywood, What’s Next In The Fight To Stop Schools From Transing Kids After SCOTUS Victory, and Blue State Failure Is Destroying Federalism And The Constitution
Mark Steyn: Stanley Kramer brings down the curtain in On the Beach, Spelling It Out, Delilah, Live Around the Planet – Day Five, and Making History

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