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In The Mailbox: 04.17.26

Posted on | April 18, 2026 | No Comments

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Based Author Battles Cancer
Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

President Trump nails THE ART OF THE DEAL to the door of St. Peter’s Basilica.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: A Day With Patton At The Battle of the Bulge
EBL: Ribbonfish, The Lucky One, Swalwell’s Wing Man Democrat Ruben Gallego Under Scrutiny for Sexual Misconduct, The Assassination of Fleet Admiral Yamamoto, and “Sir Thomas More”
Twitchy: Drunk Republican & Others Troll The UK Mercilessly After Finding Out How Poor The Brits Are, NYT’s Attempt To Rally Sympathy For Illegal Who Snuck Back In To Deliver Anchor Baby After Deportation Backfires Badly, and Ilhan Omar’s “War Survivor” Charade Exposed – Her Father Was Colonel In Genocidal Regime
Louder With Crowder: Baby cries for his mother, and his two dads think that it’s hilarious, Philadelphia mayor FREAKS OUT on voters for “daring” to question how she taxes more of their hard-earned money, Jasmine Crockett breaks her silence, lets her fans know what’s next for her career-wise, The Friday Show: Examining The Mystery of the Modern Woman, and Purple-haired Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) has a cow over raw milk as she screeches at RFK Jr.
Vox Popoli: KMT-CPC Initiatives, also, The Kiso Scroll
According To Hoyt: Two Worlds, A Small Pause For Self Promo, False Preferences, Creativity, Markets and Blindness, and Writers who don’t hate you, Extraordinary Promo Post [there are actually six or seven of these, go check them out!]
Upstream Reviews: Night Machines
Cedar Sanderson: The Jaiya Series
Stoic Observations: Hands-On America

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Trump Says Strait of Hormuz Fully Open – Iran Has Agreed to Never Close It Again, NY State Loses $73 Million in Federal Highway Funding Over Failure To Revoke Illegals’ CDL, House Approves Short-Term FISA Spy Powers Extension, Cook Political Report Claims Four Key Senate Races Shift Toward Democrats, and Tax Invasion
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For April 17
Behind The Black: The space agencies of Canada and Europe agree to exchange classified information, The space station startups say NASA’s new space station plan is mistaken, and Two launches since yesterday, by Russia and China
Cafe Hayek: White House Brags About Using Imports Dumped in America, John Tamny Is Mistaken About Government Debt, and American Housing Today Compared to American Housing in the Mid-1950s
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, 
Chicago Boyz: The effect of education on ideology, Relationship advice, and Losers gotta lose
Da Tech Guy: Pintastic NE 2026 Videos of the Day: Four Quick Clips
Don Surber: Brits poorer than Mississippians 
First Street Journal: Lawfare!
Flopping Aces: The Week in Radical Leftism, also, Virginia Democrats are Getting Nervous
Gates Of Vienna: Appeals Court Upholds Sentence for Audrey Mondjehi
The Geller Report: “Tell That To The Pope”, Corrupt California Democrats Passed Bill to Criminalize Investigative Journalism, Hezb’Allah Official Brags “We Have Muslim Students Agitating, But It’s the Western Students Themselves Who Will Destroy Their Own Countries.”, Justice Clarence Thomas Warns of Progressivism’s Incompatibility With the American Experiment, and California Gubernatorial Democrat Candidate Tom Steyer Reveals Plans to Jail ICE Agents
Glenn Reynolds: The Future Belongs To Those Who Show Up
Hollywood In Toto: Johnny Carson Warned Us About Jimmy Kimmel, also, R-rated Comedy Revival Running on Empty?
Legal Insurrection: Justice Clarence Thomas Declares Progressivism ‘Incompatible’ With America’s Founding Documents, Taxpayer-Funded Electric Buses in Miami Remain Out of Service Since Last Year, Utah Valley U. Drops Graduation Speaker Who Smeared Charlie Kirk as ‘Bigoted’ After His Murder, Utah Leaders Investigating Alleged Relationship Between Supreme Court Justice, Redistricting Lawyer, and Minnesota Attorney Charges ICE Agent With Assault for Allegedly Pointing Gun at Motorists
Nebraska Energy Observer: Lucy Amongst the Rebels
Outkick: San Diego Padres Closer Mason Miller Is An Insane Human Cheat Code Destroying Major League Baseball, IndyCar Star Pato O’Ward Rips The ‘Artificial’ Racing In Formula 1, Here Are 6 Of The Best Moment From the Flyers-Penguins ‘Battle Of Pennsylvania’, Will Anderson Jr. Getting Paid Like A QB To Sack QBs Will Have Ripple Effect On Texans’ Actual QB C.J. Stroud, and Paige Spiranac Ditches Everything For Maxim, Kay Adams Blows Kisses While Her Peers Bicker & Major 12U Update!
Power Line: S&P 7100, Hezbollah Is Iran, Waiting for the Star Tribune, The left versus the Declaration, and Was the Strait ever ‘closed’?
Racket News: The Ford Is Getting Tired
Shark Tank: Rep. Cammack Introduces Bill Improving Mental Health Services For First Responders
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Bobby Kennedy and Other Mixed Blessings
This Ain’t Hell: Disenfranchised? You betcha, also, Valor Friday
Transterrestrial Musings: The Latest From Jared
Victory Girls: A Ceasefire Between Lebanon And Israel While Iran Possibly Caves On Uranium Enrichment
Watts Up With That: Want to Know Climate Truth? Believe the Opposite When the Media Says Something Is False, Schadenfreude Of the Week, Forget Climate Activism – the Grauniad is Now Pushing AI Activism, Heartland right over the target with triumphant climate change conference, and Breaking: Major Under-the-Radar SCOTUS Decision on Climate Lawfare
The Federalist: New Docs Reinforce The Newest DC District Judge Is A Legal Hack Skilled In Abusing Power, Trump Admin To Stop Taxpayer Funding Of Worthless College Degrees, How Reforming Stock Market Rules Would Dramatically Boost America’s Middle Class, From Immigration To Gerrymandering, Democrats Keep Using The Word ‘Temporary’ To Mean ‘Forever’, and The Media’s Pulp Fiction Hegseth Hoax Is As Dumb As It Gets
Mark Steyn: Pick Your Poison – Droned? Or Raped and Stabbed?

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