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Better Late than Never

Posted on | September 11, 2026 | No Comments

— by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

I picked a bad decade to give up smoking and drinking

You would think that after a year or so of lugging my Surface tablet around the continent, including too many runs to Vegas to remember without the use of my phone’s calendar, that I’d have a checklist of stuff I’m going to need while on the road: syringes for insulin, magazines for my pistol…and necessary cables for the Surface. Which is all by way of admitting that this week’s linkagery was derailed by the fact that I absent-mindedly left a 4″ USB-B/USB-C cable sitting on my desk at home when I headed down to Las Vegas this week for an NSSAB meeting, which is why I’m scrambling to get caught up tonight and tomorrow. Probably not going to be able to link everything that deserves attention, but at least I’ll get all the Substackery included and most of the other important stuff. As always, I recommend that you follow the links to the home pages of the various and sundry blogs, because it’s just not possible to link to everything, especially for blogs like Behind the Black, Legal Insurrection, and Power Line who put out more content than any five linkmonglers could cover.

Speaking of the Nevada Security Site Advisory Board, we’re going to be closing up shop at the end of fiscal year 2027 since the environmental management & remediation that we’re providing oversight for is almost done, a year ahead of schedule. I’m going to miss being on the NSSAB; it’s been very educational in quite a few ways, and while the drive to and from Las Vegas is exhausting at my age (I’ll be 67 next month) it is nice to have the Department of Energy reimburse me for mileage, a couple nights in a decent hotel, and per diem. Guess I’ll just have to write and sell more fiction to make up for it.

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Late Night With In The Mailbox: 09.11.26

Posted on | September 11, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The Kickstarter for The Hawk, The Fox, and the Princess, my fantasy novel, is live!
Also, the BasedCon Based Books Sale is on! I have a couple of books in it, and there’s also a whole bunch of other books by authors who don’t hate you, for supercheap prices!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

h/t Sensurround on X

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: They Buried Trump’s Accomplishments, So We Drew Them, Who’s Really Responsible For Palestinian Suffering? The Day The Earth Swallowed Lisbon (1755), and The Democrat Plot To Delegitimize The 2026 Election & SCOTUS,
357 Magnum: Massachusetts Still Ignoring SCOTUS Bruen Decision, Disrespect Their Authority – Get Set on Fire, and Your LG Smart Television IS Spying on you
EBL: Laura Mennell, Swordfish Steaks, Iceland says no to the EU, Mamdani gives 9/11 pen to Al Qaeda lawyer, and Is This Protected Free Speech or Criminal Call For Violence?
Twitchy: Kurt Schlichter Dismantles Marc Elias & His Overseas Voter Scare BS, Clancy Juror Said It Was “Disgusting” That Lone Holdout Reenacted Stranglings, and Bill Kristol Whines About Trump’s “Anti-American” Arch
Louder With Crowder: 9/11 families demand Emir Mamdani, stay AWAY from the 25th anniversary ceremony, Fake Hospice Complex Is Now Entirely Empty After Nick Shirley Exposed Alleged Fraudsters, Nike has REDEFINED “get woke, go broke” as stock crashes by 78%, Lindsey Clancy’s attorney BEGS Donald Trump for a pardon, he just misses one key detail, and Trump Throws Down Gauntlet As Canada Secretly Starts Military Collaboration with China
Vox Popoli: A Portrait of Decline, The Best and Brightest, The Misoponerists, Why Russia Can’t Stop, and There is No Free Press
Born Lucky: “The Future of Journalism” Is Here!
John C. Wright: Not Tired of Winning Yet Part CCLXII, also, Diversity & Dr. Strange
Cedar Sanderson: Eat This While You Read That – B.K. Gibson, Mixtape Monday – Rite In The Rain, and Fool’s Prayer,
Upstream Reviews: Love at First Bite, Chalk, and Joy Shall be In Heaven
Defending The Wood Perilous: Memorable Articles, also, Great Books for Less!
Ammo.com: What Prevents Mass Shootings?
Mazelit Airaksinen: We Raised Nearly $7000 For Norman

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Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 102 – Double Feature
Baldilocks: No More X, also, Disappeared
CDR Salamander: The PRC’s “Coercion, Bullying, & Aggression” – Red In Tooth & Claw,
Da Tech Guy: 100 Word Fan Fiction: A Familiar Descent, also, Five One Line Thoughts on “He had the hardest time getting over the fact that Lindsey viciously killed her children” Under the Fedora
Dana Loesch: Clancy Trial Ends In Mistrial, also, Don’t Make Welfare Queens Out of American Moms
Don Surber: Baghdad NYT, Bitter Old Women Against MAGA, and Infanticide in Massachusetts
Glenn Reynolds: Another Burger Review

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Rule 5 Sunday: Black Denim Shorts & Braces

Posted on | September 7, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Another fine pic from @Rule5Tweets on X.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, MAGA Spice Must Flow, Martini Culture, When They Sound The Last All Clear, Eighties Girls, SCOTUS Ballroom Blitz, Maia Reficco, Diana Princess of Wales, and Spoorloos – The Most Terrifying Movie

BACON TIME: Rule 5: A Trip To Hooterville

Fritz is dodging the Syrupean fish & game wardens somewhere in Ontario.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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How Minnesota Became a Crime Magnet

Posted on | September 6, 2026 | No Comments

Carlton Johnson II died Wednesday in a shootout with police at an apartment building in downtown Minneapolis. Johnson killed two people and wounded five others, including two police officers.

The Shoreline Plaza apartment building, formerly known as the Loring Towers, offers “affordable housing,” subsidized by taxpayers. Johnson paid only $105 a month for his apartment, and guess what? He wasn’t even from Minneapolis! He was from Chicago.

This is what’s wrong with Minnesota, generally. It’s why Somalis collected millions of dollars in fraudulent benefits. The state is so liberal, so generous in terms of giving out various kinds of welfare, that it naturally attracts scum, including criminals from Chicago who move there and get ridiculous “affordable housing” subsidies.

Taxpayer subsidies to support a public menace:

Carlton Johnson II had a long history of threats and violence that ended Wednesday when he allegedly shot six people in downtown Minneapolis, killing two and wounding two police officers.
In June, Johnson, 35, allegedly walked around Shoreline Plaza — where Wednesday’s mass shooting occurred — waving a gun and threatening to kill someone, according to court records.
That and other menacing behavior had led Shoreline Plaza’s owner to launch eviction proceedings the same month.
One man who lived in the building even went to police and accused Johnson of threatening him with a gun on June 25, though no charges were filed.
Johnson, who police say was killed in an “exchange of gunfire” after Wednesday’s rampage, was also hit with a restraining order in 2023 for allegedly sexually assaulting and threatening a woman, Hennepin County court records say.
In that case, he allegedly sent the woman a string of 120 text messages and pretended to be a police detective. “I was terrified by his numerous explicit death threats,” the woman said in a court document. . . .
Johnson racked up 34 separate criminal cases in the Twin Cites. Most of those cases involved traffic violations but he was also charged in two assaults and two misdemeanor drug cases.
In 2018, Johnson told his sister he “was not afraid to shoot people in the face” when she booted him out of her apartment. He was charged with domestic assault after his sister complained he had roughed her up.
The domestic assault charge was dropped after Johnson pleaded guilty to misdemeanor property damage. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail, but 86 days of the sentence were stayed under the terms of his probation agreement.
At the time of this week’s shooting, Johnson was subject to an ongoing child protection matter involving the 4-year-old daughter of the same woman who filed for the 2023 harassment order, Hennepin County court records show. Johnson was the girl’s father.
A 4-year-old girl who is Johnson’s daughter was in the apartment complex Wednesday, and her mother was one of the shooting victims. The girl was not physically harmed and was evacuated from the scene, according to people familiar with the investigation.
Court records indicate that Johnson had two daughters with different mothers, and it remains unclear which mother was the victim in Wednesday’s shooting.

The combination of generous welfare benefits and a lenient criminal justice system have turned Minnesota into a magnet for criminals. And as long as the people of Minnesota keep electing Democrats, the problem will keep getting worse. Amy Klobuchar is running for governor of Minnesota to continue this disastrous policy. Lisa Demuth is the Republican opponent who wants to put an end to it.



 

Category: Crime, Minnesota

FMJRA 2.0: More Misery At Home

Posted on | September 6, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Well, it could have been worse for my Senators. We got swept by the Reds at RFK, then got on the train to Philly and took two out of three from the Phillies at Connie Mack Stadium. That leaves us at 8*15, half a game behind the Red Sox, five games behind the division-leading Twins. Next up is a two-game set against the O’s (10-13) and three games against the Cubs (16-9), which marks the start of a home stand in which we’ll face the Yankees and the A’s. Here’s hoping the mythical home field advantage makes an appearance in there somewhere.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.
How You Got Hasan Piker: It Started With Cowardice in the Public School System
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FMJRA 2.0: Embracing The Suck
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Rule 5 Sunday: More Coffee, Please
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Police Bodycam Video Shows Response to Antifa Terror Attack on Texas ICE Facility
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‘Uncle Vicha’ and the Doom of California
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In The Mailbox: 09.02.26 (Morning Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 09.02.26 (Evening Edition)
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Crazy People Are Dangerous
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In The Mailbox: 09.03.26
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In The Mailbox: 09.04.26 (Early Evening Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 09.04.26 (Evening Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 09.04.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | September 5, 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
Doug Ross: A Day Escaping The World Trade Center (2001),
357 Magnum: Darwin Award Near Miss on Mt. Shasta
EBL: Sardine Linguine, Michigan Judenfrei – Tucker Carlson and Abdul El Sayed, Lindsay Clancy Mistrial and Emergency Stay, Elliot Page Seeks Work, and Moses the Prophet
Twitchy: Disgruntled Former Fetterman Staffers Launch X Dump Account, Reporter Describes Some Clancy Jurors As Mistrial Declared, and DA Croggled By Reporter’s Insane Question About Prosecution of Lindsay Clancy
Louder With Crowder: If you’re not disgusted yet, here’s Lindsey Clancy’s attorney bragging about how “fantastic” and “wonderful” she is, “Is that an extreme fringe example, or...“, Teen pleads guilty to making a bomb to blow up ICE officers, so of course the woke judge gives him probation, Clancy Trial Hits Climax: One Man Is Holding the Line, and Turns out fewer migrants are attempting to come to America because Trump, ICE are scaring them off
Vox Popoli: History and War, also, The Abuse of “Reasonable Doubt”
According To Hoyt: A Day of Days, Down With Technocracy, Dealing, The King’s Horoscope, and There appears to have been…cats?
John C. Wright: Army Brats & Navy Juniors
Ammo.com: Top Ammunition Manufacturers of 2026
Sensurround: The Three Biggest Lies (Flock Edition)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Mistrial Declared in Lindsay Clancy Trial After Jury Fails to Reach Unanimous Verdict–Thanks to Lone Holdout, Trump Administration Warns Smithsonian It Could Lose Help From Federal Agencies, Pentagon, HHS Investigating Whether COVID Vaccines Contributed to Military Deaths, House Cancels Final Two Weeks of September Session With Major Issues Unresolved, and Elon Musk’s America PAC Pours Money Into Key Senate Races, Backs Paxton in Texas
American Thinker: The Great Tariff Mystery, The German Blueprint for Wealth Redistribution, Freedom Is Much More Important Than Democracy, Trump, Venezuelan Oil, and National Security, and Can We Throw Off the Yoke of Government?
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 101 – Alaska and Dolly Parton
BattleSwarm: Fed Up With Flock, Talafreako Is A Socialist Weasel, When I Say Stop, Continue, Talarico’s “Paxton Is Crooked” Attack Debunked, and LinkSwarm For September 5
Behind The Black: Katalyst’s Link gets to within 7.5 miles of Gehrels-Swift, BepiColombo successfully completes first phase to insert two spacecraft into Mercury orbit, The EU’s proposed Space Act is why the White House asked American companies to not go to a French space summit, India launches its first geosynchronous Earth observation satellite, and Dawn Aerospace gets 100-flight contract to fly its as-yet unbuilt Aurora spaceplane
Cafe Hayek: Bessent Gives Me the Blues, Pettis Flails Again, Trying to Make the Unseen Seen, To Presume That Trump’s Goal Is Free Trade Is Preposterous, and What Say You, Financial Markets?
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: The Guns of Montgomery County, Data centers are your friend, September 2 1945, A new orbital telescope, and Why are buildings so ugly?
Da Tech Guy: September Indulgence Calendar, also, Today’s Book Quote: Putting “Good Morning America’s” Spin in perspective 18 from Fitchburg vs 18 from the entire US
Don Surber: Journalists learn what a job is
First Street Journal: That thing that never happens has happened again, You in a heap o’ trouble, boy, Denial is not just a river in Egypt, Sometimes you just have to be an asshole to do things right, and You in a heap o’ trouble, boy (II)
Flopping Aces: The Week in Radical Leftism, 09/03/2026 – Washington Post Still Dying in Darkness, The real 9-11 death toll continues to mount, That boy ain’t right, Corporate Charity’s Dirty Little Secret, and Facts are not Islamophobic
Gates Of Vienna: “I’m Going to Kill You, Dirty Faggot”, The Dutch Narco-State, “It is a Freedom Fight”, Support Palestine! Stab the Infidels! and Islam vs. LGBTQ: Who Will Win?
The Geller Report: In Historic Shift DOJ Threatens Billions in Cuts to States Refusing to Report Illegals, Philadelphia Public Schools Bring in Convicted Felon to Teach Seventh Graders ‘Liberation’, A Son Converts to Islam, and a Year Later Murders His Father, NATO’s Trojan Horse: Erdogan Eyes China-Russia Bloc While Lobbying for America’s F-35s, and MEDIA SILENCE After Muslim Gunman With LGBTQ Target List Kills Two Outside Tucson Gay Bar
Hollywood In Toto: Samurai and the Prisoner Offers Smart Historical Whodunit, The Sun Never Sets – Strong Cast, Tepid Love Triangle, Wait…George Clooney Is Defending Free Speech NOW? Mayday – Reagan’s America Gets Glorious Shout Out, and What in the World Was Ryan Reynolds Thinking?
Legal Insurrection: Teachers Can’t Plaster Walls With Pride Flags, Second Circuit Rules, ‘F*** you…hurry up and die’, Israel Captures Hezbollah’s Main Terror Command Center in South Lebanon, Nepal Wants a $5 Billion Climate Handout from UN for a Himalayan Bedrock Collapse, and Chicago Cardinal, Catholic Nuns Sue Illinois Over Assisted Suicide Law
Nebraska Energy Observer: This is Excellent, What Happens, Moving Power, Carney and the Midterms, and Interesting
Outkick: LSU holds off on adding players with NFL ties as SEC lawsuit looms, Williams sisters much-anticipated return to U. S. Open ends in heartbreaking loss, Engelbert will be remembered as commissioner who made WNBA deeply political & divisive,  Sabalenka stops U.S. Open match due to overwhelming weed stench, and Eva Shockey reports receiving “thousands and thousands” of death threats from anti-hunting activists
Power Line: America First, The life and times of Carlton Johnson II, Agents of Chaos, A glimmer of light, and How Deep the Rot?
Racket News: Note on a Mistrial
Shark Tank: Florida Education Commissioner Announces Leadership Changes
Shot In The Dark: QED
The Political Hat: Is Opposition To Flock Cameras Doubleplusungood, People, The Economy, and Control, The New Anti-Reagan Myth, Quick Takes – The Future Of Euthanasia, and Firing Line Friday – Terrorism Viewed from Abroad
Transterrestrial Musings: Incompetence And Bigotry, The Business Of American AI, The British Caliphate, Creatine, and Data Centers: Pro Or Con?
Victory Girls: Milo Yiannopoulos Nabbed By ICE And Deported After Ignoring Immigration Hearing, Jelly Roll’s Monologue And “Apology” Were Not Ok, SCOTUS Rules Plaintiff Had ZERO Standing In Ballroom Case, Birthright Citizenship EO Gets Injunction From Federal Judge, and Gloria Steinem dead at 92: Left-Feminist Icon With Troubled Legacy
Watts Up With That: Reality Check for PA’s Failed Green-Energy Mandates, RGGI Update and the Auction Clearing Price Question, Climate Regulations Crushed Western Oil Refineries – Now Goldman Sachs Predicts a Diesel Crisis, The Ghoulish Race to Turn Nepal’s Flood Victims Into a ‘Climate Crisis’ Talking Point, and Betsy “Code Green” Rosenberg – Emotional Climatism
The Federalist: Roy Cooper Is The Latest Dem To Campaign Like A Moderate And Govern Like A Socialist, Livestreaming Trials Emboldens Lawyers Like Lindsay Clancy’s To Act Out For Clicks, How The U.S. Can Use Maritime Prize Law Against Iranian Oil Tankers, SCOTUS Overturns Blockade On GOP Access To Low-Cost Ad Rates, and Why Hollywood Has No Successors For Dolly, Curry, Or Cullen
Mark Steyn: Ladies First – Joe Mankiewicz’ A Letter to Three Wives, “I Will Always Love You”, Water(Over)Board, Improper Influencer, and Look Out, World!

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In The Mailbox: 09.04.26 (Early Evening Edition)

Posted on | September 4, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The Kickstarter for my fantasy novel launches next week. Get in on the ground floor!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

It’s just one of those days.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Arizona Homeowners Are Heavily Armed, also Why I (Almost) Never Watch Sequels
Doug Ross: Cocaine, IEDs, Obama, & Hezbollah,
EBL: Fish filets and cuts, MAGA Spice Must Flow, Penicillin, Russians having a problem defending the capital? and How is that Lindsay Clancy trial going?
Twitchy: Lying Ted Lieu Pushed Fake News About Where The GOP Convention Link Goes, Scott Jennings Feels Bad For Ratchet Crockett And A CNN Panelist Thinks He Crossed A Line, and Wajahat Ali Nods Along As Rula Jebreal Disses Temu Obama As “Monkey” and “Errand Boy”
Louder With Crowder: Court Demands Christian Mom Stop Taking Daughter To Church In Custody Dispute, Lindsey Clancy’s lawyer shows off the massive (and disgusting) amount of fan mail his murderous client is getting, The left wants you to believe Trump is deporting abused children – here’s the truth,  America’s “Rusty” Carrier – The Alliance Working To Spread the American Decline Narrative, and CNN misses the point reporting that illegals murdering Americans is NBD because Americans kill people too
Vox Popoli: You Can’t Hate Boomers Enough
Cedar Sanderson: Lightly Toasted Marshmallow – Axis of Allies
Stoic Observations: A New Brotherhood
Upstream Reviews: A Study In Slaughter

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The CNO Sees the Light
Da Tech Guy: 100 Word Fan Fiction: The Adolf Hitler Biltmore, also, Five Thoughts Under the Fedora
Don Surber: Donald “Jed Clampett” Trump
Glenn Reynolds: In Which I Ask The Machines for Criticism

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In The Mailbox: 09.03.26

Posted on | September 4, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Today was eaten by snakes (and bills)
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: They Buried The Good News – We Drew It,
EBL:  Fish Recipes, Martini Culture, “Ah! Ça Ira”, When They Sound The Last All Clear, and Georgia Cop on Leave After Shooting Baby Donkey
Twitchy: Temu Obama Says SecWar Hegseth Will Be Held Accountable For “Lawless” Strikes On Drug Boats, Dana Loesch Dismantles & Dogwalks Abdul El-Sayed For One of His Old Posts & People Love It, and Teen Who Built Bombs to Blow up ICE Agents Gets Probation
Louder With Crowder: Woke Judge Throws Out Trump Lawsuit Fighting For Women’s Sports In California, “People are out of their minds”, Mamdani has a 200-person influencer army to push his propaganda, and he’s using your tax dollars to pay them, “Crime Junkie” is facing 20 years after attempt to intimidate Lindsey Clancy jurors, and Democrat-run city spends $82M on new park, and it’s already being ransacked with crime
Vox Popoli: The Corpocracy Isn’t Capitalist, The End of the Global Technocracy, Alien Enemies, It’s Litricha, and How Does the Fed LOSE Money?
Upstream Reviews: Lifebinder
Cedar Sanderson: Texas Legacy Poems
John C. Wright: Quotha, Not Tired of Winning Yet CCLXI,  and Causes of the Iran War
Sensurround: Vaccines – Now With 37% More Terrifying Chemical Words
Jim McCoy: Chris Kennedy’s Galactic Merc Series
Postcards From Barsoom: The Dominion Society Conference of 2026

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: GOFO Accountability, Russian Style
Don Surber: Trump succeeded where FDR failed
Glenn Reynolds: Demons in the Walls
Racket News: Down With Freedom!

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