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Hometown News

Posted on | October 14, 2025 | Comments Off on Hometown News

A typical Friday night in Atlanta nowadays:

Atlanta Police need the public’s help with identifying two women they say are suspects in a shooting that involved a Burger King employee.
Officers responded to a shooting call shortly after 8 p.m. on Oct. 10 at a Burger King at 1130 Moreland Ave SE. When they arrived, they found a woman suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest.
Police say the victim was alert, breathing, and conscious.
Early investigations show that this altercation started from a verbal dispute over a food order in the drive-thru. It turned physical when the two suspects entered the restaurant, spat at the victim, and threw items.
One of the suspects then pulled out a gun and shot the victim.

Gosh, when I was a kid growing up in Atlanta, nobody ever got shot in Burger King. Of course, when I was a kid, Lester Maddox was governor of Georgia, but correlation is not causation.



 

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In The Mailbox: 10.14.25 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | October 14, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.14.25 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Greetings from Cheyenne, Wyoming. Dashing this off before I head out to Wall Drug.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Don’t Bring a Knife to a Gunfight
Director Blue: The Illustrated Spygate Scandal Part XXVI
EBL: The Red King, Hamas Hostage Release Imminent, and “I Really Like Sea Men”
Twitchy: Cathy Young & The Bulwark’s Bitter Spin, Law School’s Generous Scholarships Magically Match Trump’s $50,000 Student Loan Cap, and Middle East Expert Harry Sisson Says Trump’s Peace Plan Doomed To Fail
Louder With Crowder: “I’ve already concluded you’re a lunatic”, JD Vance embarrasses George Stephanopoulos so severely that the fake news merchant pulls a punk move, and Man who identifies as a mermaid won’t calm down over being banned from the women’s locker room
Vox Popoli: Denninger on Heresy, A Response to an Irrelevance, and The Left Discovers the Deep State
Defending The Wood Perilous: A Problem of Language
Upstream Reviews: Disney Goes In Search of an Audience They Rejected

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Baldilocks: Provision
CDR Salamander: Happy 250th!
Don Surber: This is the best Democrats can do?

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In The Mailbox: 10.13.25

Posted on | October 13, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.13.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Behold, it is once again time for the Annual Admiral of the Ocean Sea Appreciation Post! Unfortunately, nobody has made a new, epic movie about Christopher Columbus, so I’ll content myself with posting a link to last year’s post.
I spent the day (all eight hours of it) driving along I-80 from Salt Lake City to Cheyenne, and didn’t see even one fluffy murder cow except for the ones on the Wyoming State Flag. So disappointing. Anyway, I’m pretty beat, so you get the short version today. Tomorrow I’ll try to get caught up, since I’m just going to drive to Wall, SD and that’s only six hours away…but a lot of it is over US highways, not interstates, so we’ll see how long it actually takes. 
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Illustrated Spygate Scandal Part XXV, also, Carr vs. The Censorship Cartel
EBL: Porter Potato Love, Snapper Ceviche, Diane Keaton RIP, Letitia James Indicted, and Pray for Nigerian Christians
Twitchy: Egyptian President Thanks Trump For Bringing Peace & Presents Him With Order of the Nile, Hoodrat Crockett Whines It’s Diabolical To Call Trump President of Peace, and Ayanna Pressley Whines About Stolen Land But Keeps Mansion On Martha’s Vineyard 
Louder With Crowder: “This all ends when enough of us say no”, Bride uses her wedding speech to rant about trans rights, and it’s even more cringe than you think, NZ Parliament gets shut down when member virtue-signals with bizarre tribal ritual, JD Vance Blasts Church of England For “Really Ugly” Display Honoring “Marginalized Communities”, and Chicago Resident Shocks Don Lemon With Stance On Anti-Ice Protestors
Vox Popoli: Another Sign of the Inevitable, The Charlatan’s Veil, BIH Ian Watkins, China Warns the USA, and Definitely Fake, Usually Gay
Cedar Sanderson: The Erogenous Zone, also, Shadows Like Birds 
Stoic Observations: Incels Aren’t Fathers 
The Bugscuffle Gazette: The Nobel Peace Prize
Upstream Reviews: Dracoheim Confidential

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Midrats October Melee
Elizabeth Nickson: We Hurl Our Most Precious Treasure Into The Maw of the Beast
STUMP: The Week In Meep – Chopin, Sumo in London, and RIP Patricia Routledge

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Are You Tired of All This #Winning Yet?

Posted on | October 13, 2025 | Comments Off on Are You Tired of All This #Winning Yet?

The Gaza War began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas fired more than 4,000 rockets at Israel, then sent 6,000 terrorists across the border, where they murdered nearly 1,200 innocent Israelis and kidnapped another 250. Joe Biden was president at the time, and respect for the United States was at an all-time low. For the next 17 months, while Democrats pandered to the pro-Hamas protesters, nothing was done to end the war. In January 2025, Donald Trump took office for his second term as president and now, less than nine months later, there is a peace deal with the remaining hostages returned to Israel.

Hamas has been defeated and thoroughly humiliated. At Instapundit, Ed Driscoll cites this pithy summary by Ed Morrissey:

“Trump won this war in June, when he made an unapologetic decision to intervene with military strikes in Iran. Those strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities completely shook up the order in the region, which had settled into an Iranian track toward dominance. Israel had already done most of the damage by wiping out Hezbollah’s upper echelons and their banking system, which led directly to the fall of Bashar al-Assad and the rise of a new Syrian regime that detests the mullahs in Iran. However, the strikes by Trump on Iran forced everyone to reconsider their assumptions and recalculate for a president who had no problem ordering military force to defend and protect American interests.”

Also from Ed at Instapundit, here’s an important point made by retired Col. Kurt Schlicter: “If you start a war, you need to be prepared to lose it.”

Gen. John Bell Hood (left), Gen. William T. Sherman (right)

Knowing me to be a native of Atlanta, perhaps some readers will be surprised to discover that I’m willing to admit that General Sherman was right about certain things. In September 1864, after the Yankees had captured Atlanta and Gen. John Bell Hood’s Confederates had retreated south of Lovejoy Station, Sherman wrote to Hood, explaining his plan to evacuate the civilian population of Atlanta (a plan detailed in Special Field Orders No. 67). Hood replied harshly, declaring to Sherman that “the unprecedented measure you propose transcends, in studied and ingenious cruelty, all acts ever before brought to my attention in the dark history of war.” Sherman replied vehemently and at some length, defending the necessity of the evacuation, and laying the blame for war on Southerners who, “in the midst of peace and prosperity, have plunged a nation into war, dark and cruel war; who dared and badgered us to battle, insulted our flag, seized our arsenals and forts,” et cetera.

The point that Sherman sought to make was that those who choose war must accept the consequences of that choice. At the time the Confederates opened their bombardment of Fort Sumter in April 1861, and for quite some time thereafter, neither North nor South expected the war to become what it did — a four-year ordeal that took the lives of more than half a million soldiers, to say nothing of the other destruction and hardship involved. My ancestors fought for the Confederacy, and I’ll brook no insults of their honor, yet an important lesson is to be learned from the Sherman-Hood correspondence, which the inhabitants of Gaza and their sympathizers ought to study. How many times have you seen the pro-Hamas crowd on X posting before-and-after pictures of Gaza and trying to blame Israel for the destruction? Well, boo hoo hoo.

Atlanta in 1864

To quote General Sherman: “Talk thus to the Marines, but not to me.”

Oh, they want to complain about the occupation, do they? They send us an invitation to their pity party, and pout when we don’t R.S.V.P.

They slaughter the innocent, then try to say they’re victims.

Can’t speak for anyone else, but I resent the insult implied by people who tell me such things as if I am fool enough to believe them. Of course, Southerners are very sensitive to insults, but I’ve learned to resist such provocations. History teaches some hard lessons. Anyway . . .

If Democrats had their way, Trump would now be in prison. Instead, he’s a hero, and I’m not yet tired of all this winning. Are you?



 

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Rule 5 Sunday: Terrain Features

Posted on | October 13, 2025 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Terrain Features

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Was going to post BYU cheerleaders but didn’t find anything suitable after a cursory search (look, it was a seven-hour drive from Tonopah, okay?) of the intertubes. Instead, enjoy this young lady, who invites us to enjoy her scenic mountains.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

The dog is cute, too.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Civil Unrest Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Good Boy, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, MAGA Gaza Peace Deal, Robin Hood (1973), Humans, “This October”, Pride of the Yankees, Ballerina, “Jerusalem”, Good Cop Bad Cop, Brave New World, and Autumn Soup Time.

A VIIEW FROM THE BEACH: Sheridyn Fisher, Flathead Cats Claim Top Spot at Bottom of Susquehanna River, Fish Pic Friday – Brianna Taylor, Tattoo Thursday, The Wednesday Wetness, Tuesday Tanlines, The Monday Morning Stimulus, and Palm Sunday

BACON TIME: Rule Five – A Trip To Hooterville

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FMJRA 2.0: Opening Day 1974

Posted on | October 12, 2025 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Opening Day 1974

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The draft in Pete’s league finished up Wednesday; I dropped out a little early because I have a solid lineup and at least one bench player who can fill in if somebody gets crunched; likewise, I have a solid starting rotation and an absolutely deadly bullpen. Can I beat the 1974 Rangers record of 84-76? That’s what we play the games to find out…and regardless of how Pete sets up the schedule, I’ll be playing my first three (and maybe four) series on the road to & from Minnesota. 
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

This is not Jim Sundberg.

Typical Democratic Voter Inadvertently Explains the Great Mystery of Our Time
Battleswarm Blog
Instapundit
Issues & Insights
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Draft Day 1974
EBL

The Thrill of Victory: Niners Upset Rams; Mac Jones Now 3-0 as S.F. Starter
357 Magnum
EBL


Rule 5 Sunday: Harvest Season
Animal Magnetism
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 10.06.25 (Afternoon Edition)
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 10.06.25 (Evening Edition)
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 10.07.25
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 10.08.25
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 10.10.25 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 10.10.25 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

 

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The Deadly Tautology of Antifa

Posted on | October 11, 2025 | Comments Off on The Deadly Tautology of Antifa

There are a lot of things I’d rather be paying attention to than politics. The Alabama Crimson Tide is facing an unbeaten Missouri team today, and the San Francisco 49ers — with my boy Mac Jones at quarterback — are currently the No. 1 seed in the NFC going into Sunday’s matchup against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Yet the duties of citizenship require me to pay attention to politics at a time when it is literally a matter of life and death. Charlie Kirk was assassinated in broad daylight by a demented leftist who believed his crime was justified as fighting “fascism,” and a similar motive inspired Joshua Jahn, the 29-year-old who opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Texas.

People are literally killing because they believe what “Atheist Girl” believes — if you do not support Antifa, you are a fascist. This belief is obviously flawed as a matter of logic. It is a tautology, a circular argument where the first premise is identical to the conclusion. It asserts as fact a proposition which it fails to prove. The supporters of Antifa expect us to accept without question that any person or organization that they label “fascist” actually is what they say it is, and then use this “fascist” labeling to justify lawless violence. What this logic represents, in other words, is a claim to moral authority to kill anyone who disagrees with them.

Question: Where is the evidence of Antifa’s moral superiority? If these people are qualified to make such judgments — to act as a de facto revolutionary tribunal, deciding who is a “fascist” and therefore deserving of violent death — then shouldn’t they present their credentials, so that we may be assured of their bona fides? What we find instead is that Antifa thugs conceal their identities while committing their terrorist deeds, and on those occasions when their identities become known, there is nothing in their biographies to suggest any sort of superiority at all. Antifa militants are not more intelligent or more virtuous than their opponents and, in fact, are quite generally the scum of the earth.

If any of those freaks moved into your neighborhood, you’d immediately put your house up for sale and start loading your furniture into a truck, whereas by comparison, having someone like Charlie Kirk as a neighbor would actually enhance your quality of life. Far from being self-evidently superior to others, the typical Antifa militant is more like proof of the “spiteful mutant” hypothesis. If, as “Atheist Girl” claims, anyone who opposes Antifa is a fascist, then we should all be fascists.

The movement that now calls itself “Antifa” can be traced, properly, to the anarchists who staged the 1999 “Battle in Seattle” riot. If you covered the protest scene in the late 1990s and early 2000s, you recognize the “Black Bloc” garb and provocative tactics of those so-called “direct action” anarchists as continuous with those now employed by “Antifa,” which started in Portland in 2007. It’s the same movement by a different name, and the only reason that “Antifa” has in recent years become so prevalent is because Democrats have insisted on labeling Donald Trump and his supporters fascists (or Nazis or authoritarians), thereby promoting the delusion that the 77 million Americans who voted for Trump are all fascists and thus deserving of death. And therefore . . .

What did they expect? Did the geniuses who applauded the murder of Charlie Kirk believe that there would no consequences? Did they think they could go on rioting and advocating assassination without ever provoking a response? Did they imagine that a majority of the American people would agree with their faulty logic and hateful rhetoric?

The FBI arrested a 69-year-old California man who sent a threatening letter to my friend Benny Johnson. Here is that letter:

(Click here to see it full-size.) On Friday, Attorney General Pam Bondi flew down to Tampa for a press conference where the arrest was announced and, I think we must admit, the person who sent this letter is probably not a legitimate threat to Benny Johnson. However, there was no way for Benny to know who had sent this to him and, in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, it was prudent to take the threat seriously.

However, in support of my thesis — i.e., that the people calling us “fascists” don’t have any claim to moral superiority — I noticed some interesting information about the man who sent that letter. George Russel Isbell Jr. is the owner of a San Diego porn shop:

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I rest my case.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to get ready to take my wife to the airport, as she’s going to visit some of our grandchildren for a week. Meanwhile, I’ll be cheering on Alabama — Roll Tide! — and getting ready for Sunday’s big game in Tampa Bay. And I’ll once more remind you that the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

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In The Mailbox: 10.10.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | October 11, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.10.25 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

Meanwhile on Reddit and Bluesky

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Left Is Suddenly Worried About Free Speech, also This Is What Evil Looks Like
EBL: Good Boy, FEDERAL WORKER RIF LAYOFFS BEGIN , The Ultimate Fish Burger, Nobel Peace Prize Winner María Corina Machado Dedicates Her Award to Donald Trump, and When Only One B-17 Came Home
Twitchy: Don Lemon Gets Owned By Two Chicagoans As He Trips Over His Own Lies, Scott Jennings Wrecks Leticia James With Her Own Social Media Post About Mortgage Fraud, and Hakeem Jeffries Erupts After Reporter Tells Him The Schumer Shutdown Is Hurting Military Families
Louder With Crowder: Donald Trump declares that Italians are so back as he signs a proclamation returning glory to Christopher Columbus, Scott Jennings OBLITERATES CNN’s pearl clutching over Tish James, JB Pritzker celebrates what a great summer Chicago had (despite, you know, all those bloody murders), and CNN runs to Leticia James’s defense, claiming EVERYONE does what she was just indicted for
Vox Popoli: Rebuking the Fake Pope, THE MEDITATIONS available, and Irrelevant Europe Wants In
According To Hoyt: For The Sake Of Women, It’s All Out! The Neolithic Flex, Oh Deary Me. Clankers Again, and That’s Not How Any of This Works!
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Your Handlers Don’t Know People
Postcards From Barsoom: Poastocracy

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American Conservative: Senate Effort to Curtail Trump’s Venezuela Strikes Fails, also, College Basketball Loses Its Patron Saint
American Greatness: Dems Dig in on Shutdown, Believe They’re ‘Winning Messaging War’, Reactionary, Neo-Confederate Portland, Indictment of NY AG Letitia James on Felony Bank Fraud Sparks Partisan Debate, Visa Students – Non-Citizens Are Guests and Should Not Have the Same Rights as Americans, and Trump Says ‘We’re Only Going to Cut Democrat Programs’ After Senate Rejects Clean Funding Bill For 7th Time
American Thinker: A Wisconsin Judge Requires Proof of U.S. Citizenship to Vote in State Elections, also, The Democrats Are Not as They Appear
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Red Thursday News, also, Rule Five Civil Unrest Friday
BattleSwarm: NGOs Funneling Tax Money To Domestic Terror, also, LinkSwarm For October 10
Behind The Black: New research confirms the steady decline of Martian ice with each glacial cycle, Orbital tug company Momentus gets two NASA contracts, Astronomers take first radio image of the supermassive binary system OJ287, Canadian rocket startup Nordspace signs deal for its mission control center, and Is Trump considering re-nominating Jared Isaacman for NASA administrator?
Cafe Hayek: Trump Imposes Punitive Taxes on Americans, also, What If Trump Ran Mar-a-Lago’s Trade As He Wishes To Run America’s Trade?
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Book Review: True Crime, by Andrew Klavan
Da Tech Guy: I’ll Believe it When I See It
Don Surber: Trump Earned The Nobel Before Gaza
First Street Journal: My response to the Trump Peace Plan, also, Are you tired of winning yet?
Gates Of Vienna: Away From My Desk
The Geller Report: Corrupt NY AG Letitia James INDICTED for Fraud, Elise Stefanik Surges in New York Poll After Kathy Hochul Endorses Jihadi Mamdani, And the Nobel Peace Prize Goes to…Venezuela! No Seriously, Trump Gives Hamas a New Lease on Life, and Democrat California Gubernatorial Candidate Katie Porter MELTS DOWN in CBS interview
Glenn Reynolds: The Insurrection Act
Hollywood In Toto: Bad Bunny’s ‘SNL’ Debut Bombs in Ratings Race, Tron: Ares Offers A.I. for Dummies, Arachnophobia Remains King of the Spider Thriller, Roofman Flexes Power of Christian Redemption, and Post-Cancellation Jimmy Kimmel Won’t Stop Lying
Legal Insurrection: U. Tennessee Chattanooga Approves Creation of TPUSA Chapter, Overriding Student Govt Association, 58 Years Since the Death of “Castro’s Favorite Executioner”, Abigail Spanberger Refuses to Withdraw Support of Jay Jones Over Violent Texts Scandal, Senate Leaves DC After Passing Defense Bill and With Government Still Shut Down, and Can JK Rowling Become the Game-Changer in the Clash of Civilizations?
Outkick: Loyola-Chicago Icon Sister Jean Dies At 106: Beloved Team Chaplain Who Captured College Basketball’s Heart, The Jaxson Dart And Cam Skattebo Show A Big Hit On Broadway, Mariners Overcome Tarik Skubal To Advance To ALCS With Walk-Off Winner In Insane 15-Inning Game, Could A Network Produce An Alternative Super Bowl Halftime To Counter Bad Bunny? and Charley Hull’s Bikini Made Waves In Hawaii, Gracie Hunt Busts Out For Red Friday & The Tush Push Stinks!
Power Line: Parting thoughts from the ammo line, Nobel Peace Prize winner speaks, Shrinkage, and The battle for Chicago rages
Shark Tank: State Sen. Rodriguez Introduces Bill To Make Flamingo Official State Bird
Shot In The Dark: The Very Special Session, also, Social Opportunity
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – MAHA: Ghost Studies; Psychic Powers; $1000 Supernatural Blessings (For A Limited Time Only!), also, Firing Line Friday: Is the Anti-Terror Bill a Danger to Civil Liberties? Part II
This Ain’t Hell: Qatari Emiri Air Force facility to be hosted on a US Air Force base, Jussie Smollett Booted from Special Forces Reality TV, Valor Friday, Stolen Valor Vet Awarded Jail for Wire Fraud, and Unsurprising donation
Transterrestrial Musings: He’s Had Enough, also, Back In Good Graces?
Victory Girls: Yes Virginia, Antifa is Real and Democrats Fund Them, also, Leadership Looks Like Winsome Sears
Watts Up With That: Climate Barbie’s New Book on Why Her Big Idea was Cancelled, Greenies Wage War with Trump Admin Over Biden Solar Program, Utility-Scale Solar – The Grim News Begins (Blue Ridge “Wind-Down’), Trump Reloads an ‘America First’ Energy Agenda While Reasserting Sound Science, and ‘Green’ Antoinettes Preaching Austerity From Private Jets
The Federalist: Attorneys ‘Very Optimistic’ SCOTUS Will Make It Easier To Challenge Bad Election Laws, Spanberger Won’t Condemn School Board Member For Sympathetic Emails To Sex Offender Using Girls’ Bathroom, The Rainbow People Are Not Going To Leave Your Kids Alone, Democrats Are Giving Up On Democracy, and A Criminal Illegal Alien Superintendent Is The Inevitable Result Of Leftists Controlling Public Schools
Mark Steyn: The Masters’ Plan, also, Peace!

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