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In The Mailbox: 05.15.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | May 16, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: A Conversation About Firearms, also News Flash – EV Range Drops Cold Weather
Doug Ross: Fauci’s WMD
EBL: Shucking Scallops, Donnie’s Angels, and “Viva Las Vegas”
Twitchy: Rep. Angie Nixon Arrested After Storming DeSantis Office, U.S. Delegation Dumps Every Single Gift, Badge, & Burner Phone Before Leaving Beijing, and NYC’s Islamist Mayor Honors When Arabs Tried & Failed To Finish Hitler’s Work
Louder With Crowder: Ken Paxton forces Texas Children’s Hospital to pay back the $10 Million they billed Medicare for child sex change operations, Drag Queen Demands Access To Youth After Officials Ban Pride Month At Libraries, Spencer Pratt drops new banger LEGO-themed ad to say “Karen Bass is Awful”, Kamala Reveals The Left’s Plan For America, and It’s No Joke, and Spencer Pratt drops the PERFECT response to his socialist opponent’s attempt to ban you from BBQing in your backyard 
Vox Popoli: The Real Reason, Owen on Tucker, The Strategic Cost of War, Mr. Tubcuddle’s Last Ride, and The Irrelevance of Acclaim
According To Hoyt: Kingship By Consent, The Blind Leading The Blinkered, The Great Water Conspiracy, Knowledge of the Ancients, and You Impostor!
Stoic Observations: The End of Western Thinking, also, Ending WAF Paranoia

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Texas Children’s Hospital Compelled to Create Nation’s First Detransition Clinic in Landmark Settlement with AG Paxton, Justice Department Alleges Yale Medical School Discriminated Based on Race, CIA Director Meets With Senior Cuban Regime Officials in Havana, DHS Pushes Forward With Large-Scale Immigration Detention Hubs, and How to Persuade Iran to End War…and Give Up Its Nuclear Program
BattleSwarm: Followup: Flashy Car Daycare Commie Fraudster Indicted, LinkSwarm For May 15, and Who Is Behind Pro-Cornyn “Association of Texas Conservatives”?
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches cargo Dragon to ISS, The barren hills west of Jezero Crater, Intuitive Machines buys British ground station company, Northrop Grumman completes successful test of new nozzle for its solid-fueled boosters, and Virgin Galactic releases ’26 first quarter financials; stock at new low under $3
Cafe Hayek: A Small Step Toward Saving More Lives of People In Need of Kidney Transplants, The Hollow Ring of “Hollowed Out”, An Old and Tired Movie, and Competition Soars
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Good news about Tina Peters, History Friday – Mr. Mulholland’s Big Oops!  and Paxton Shines
Don Surber: Trump conquers Red China
First Street Journal: Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen, Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen (2), and Propaganda from the credentialed media will not change reality
Flopping Aces: Is it time for the base to go nuclear on the GOP Senate?
Gates Of Vienna: Jihadis In Our Midst: It’s a New Ballgame — More Americans Refusing to Go the Way of Europe, R.I.P. Takuan Seiyo and Max Denken, Jihad Attack on the Louvre Thwarted, Catastrophic Failure, and Service Restored
The Geller Report: Muslims Outside Of A London Mosque Threatening to Behead Jews, Bernie Sanders and Occasional Cortex Propose Legislation To Kill AI Data Centers Construction, “SHOCKING LEVELS OF FRAUD”, Iran Strikes, Sinks Indian Vessel Near Oman, Seizes Tanker, and Speaker Mike Johnson Warns of ‘Mini Mamdanis’ Taking The Country ‘Far, Far Left’
Hollywood In Toto: When Late-Night Rivals Fought Like Cats and Dogs, This Five for Fighting Musical Duet Will Melt Your Heart, The Free Speech Fight That Kimmel, Legacy Media Ignore, Goodbye, Stephen Colbert: Let Them Eat Cake, and Mandalorian and Grogu Faces Even More Box Office Woes?
Legal Insurrection: Venezuela Presses Guyana Land Dispute at U.N. as U.S. Secures Nuclear Material, Cornell President Cleared of Wrongdoing In Parking Lot Incident, Texas Military Vet Leaves Penn State Law School Over Mandatory Anti-Racism Course, US Supreme Court Unanimously Rejects Stay Of Virginia Supreme Court Redistricting Ruling, and Newsom Reveals Democrats’ ‘Break the Glass’ Plan to Stop GOP Sweep in Governor Race
Nebraska Energy Observer: The American Way of War Part 2, Hmmmm, and Anglosphere DNA
Outkick: Caitlin Clark honored for massive career milestone before Fever fall to Mystics, Nationals unveil latest exciting/horrifying snack, Golden Knights’ Mitch Marner doing the funniest thing with postseason explosion, Horse dies at finish line in first race during tragic start to Preakness weekend, and Jena Sims covers her butt with a ribbon – NFL saves us from Tony Romo – Is Star Wars dead?
Power Line: What Happened In China, The Supremes decline, Our Violent Democrats, Pope Leo doesn’t make a statement, and A Political Revolution?
Racket News: Note From Editor – Translator Needed
Shark Tank: DeSantis Expands School Guardian Program to State Colleges & Universities
Shot In The Dark: Avenging…What?
The Political Hat: The Non-Jewish Roots Of Marxism, Quick Takes – Nature Can Do Anything: Co-Author A Paper; Get Married; Be A Politician’s Constituent, and Firing Line Friday: Resolved: That We Should Move towards Privatization, Including the Schools-Part II
This Ain’t Hell: Caution…may just p*** you off, Royal Navy to Provide Force Package to SoH, Right to Repair, and Valor Friday
Transterrestrial Musings: The New Democrat Party, Hamas’s Failure, SpaceX’s Louisiana Purchase, Blue Origin’s Finances, and The New Anti-Semitism
Victory Girls: Minnesota: Different Day, More Fraud, Occasional Cortex Is Not Kamala Harris — And Republicans Should Notice, and Kamala Harris Lost The Election. Now She Wants To Redesign The Country
Watts Up With That: Climate Pseudoscience Debunked: Livestock Methane Fears are Baseless, The Electricity Myth: Data Centers Aren’t the Villain, Ed Miliband vows permanent shutdown of the North Sea, Disaster? NYT Op-Ed on Demoting the Climate Pitch, and Wildebeest, Buffalo, and Cattle, Oh My!
The Federalist: Nebraska’s Homeschool Crackdown Is Harming Kids And Infringing On Parental Rights, Paxton Scores A $10 Million Victory In The Fight Against The ‘Trans Kids’ Industrial Complex, Here Are The Plug-And-Play Templates Your State Needs To Pass Secure Election Laws, There’s Nothing MAGA About 500,000 Student Visas For The CCP, and Worst Prosecutor In America Struggles To Explain Why Democrats Keep Protecting Illegal Alien Murderers
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet – The Twain Meet, The Frog Slog, and A Society Entirely Without “Division”

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