In The Mailbox: 01.09.25

Posted on | January 10, 2025 | No Comments

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Soft-on-Crime NYC Sees Rise in Repeat Offenders
EBL: The Death of Nelson, President Jimmy Carter at U.S. Capitol, and President Jimmy Carter Memorial Service at National Cathedral
Twitchy: DEI Literally Dangerous! Jemele Hill Throws Hissy Fit At Matt Walsh For Noticing The Obvious About LAFD, and “You Can’t Fight Fires With Platitudes, Pronouns, & Politics”
Louder With Crowder: DEBUNKED: Biggest Myths About Homeschool, Top Leftist Slogans Debunked, Mayor Karen Bass goes silent when grilled over her policies causing LA to burn down, Senate Democrats Start The New Trump Admin With The World’s Cringiest Video, and The warning a fireman gave Joe Rogan of how bad Los Angeles could get is eerily accurate
Vox Popoli: Gomorrah Burns, also, There Could be Another Reason
Stoic Observations: A Part of the Main
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Firefighting By Kristen, also, Rapes & Race Riots
Cedar Sanderson: The Madoc Rhys Mysteries
Bugscuffle Gazette: Throwback Thursday
Toni Airaksinen: Study Shows 72% Of False Rape Accusers Were In Therapy When Accusations Were Made

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American Conservative: Will Chrystia Freeland Be Canada’s Rishi Sunak?
American Greatness: MTG Says Biden Administration ‘Despicable’ for Funding Foreign Wars Yet Providing Little Help for U.S. Storm Victims, ‘Matter of Importance’: Lip Reader Reveals What Trump and Obama Talked About During Jimmy Carter’s Funeral, Biden Considering Preemptive Pardons for Fauci, Cheney, Others, Merrick Garland Plans to Release Jack Smith Report on Trump Before Inauguration, and We, the People Affirm American Greatness
American Thinker: The Sinking of the USS Agility
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Red Thursday News
Babalu Blog: Cuban dictatorship hands farmland over to Vietnam to grow rice, The Castro family dictatorship and its expanding international business empire: Part 1, Families of soldiers missing after munitions explosion denounce Cuban dictatorship’s carelessness and callousness, and Cuban YouTuber unmasks deep flaws of new dollars-only apartheid supermarket in Havana
BattleSwarm: Banks Zero Out NetZero
Behind The Black: JPL shuts down due to threat from California fires, DeSantis: Put NASA headquarters in Florida, Correction: SpaceX DOES NOT launch 21 more Starlink satellites, The new conservatives who have been mugged by a wildfire, and The biggest members of ESA cut their annual contributions to the partnership
Cafe Hayek: Sloppy Statistics Make for Sloppy Analyses
Chicago Boyz: California, Angela Merkel, and Dancing With a Train
Don Surber: The Founding Fathers would be proud
The Geller Report: Huge Victory for Women & Girls
Hollywood In Toto: Indie Darling Jim Jarmusch Blames LA Fires on Climate Change, also, The Last Showgirl Shares Uncomfortable Truths
The Lid: L.A.’s Fire Hazard Mayor Who was in Africa when Wildfires Hit Caught in Embarrassing Social Media Attack
Legal Insurrection: Five Fires in Los Angeles Leave Five Dead, Thousands of Homes Burned, Supreme Court Denies Trump’s Request to Halt Hush Money Sentencing, Historically Black University’s Marching Band Scolded by Leftists for Agreeing to Perform at Trump Inauguration, Democrats Reach the ‘Republicans Pounce’ Phase of LA Wildfire Story, and As Iowa Regents DEI Vote Looms, Equal Protection Project Challenges Discriminatory U. Northern Iowa Scholarships
Nebraska Energy Observer: Fingers crossed!
Outkick: Ohio State Fans Reportedly End Up In Miami For Orange Bowl Due To Brain Fart, While Buckeyes Play In Dallas, Carson Beck Planning To Enter Transfer Portal, After Declaring For NFL Draft. He’s About To Get Paid, Quinn Ewers Comes Full Circle, Leans On Faith As Texas Prepares For Ohio State, CFP Semifinals: Texas Battles Ohio State In Cotton Bowl, While Notre Dame And Penn State In Orange Bowl Fight, and The Real Pressure Heading Into The Orange Bowl Is On The Girlfriends Of The Notre Dame & Penn State QBs
Power Line: When Elvis met Nixon, The Fire This Time, and Adolf Hitler, Communist
Shark Tank: Rick Scott Introduces Bill To Guide Venezuela Back To Democracy
Shot In The Dark: The Way You Groove, Labor Dispute, and The Real Problem
STUMP: In Memory Of President Jimmy Carter
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Eco-Overlords: Rights Of Nature Tribunal; Eco-Marxist Education; Reshaping Your Diet
This Ain’t Hell: SM assaulted by college mob due to TikTok, also, Elon Musk aims for $2 trillion in federal budget cuts
Transterrestrial Musings: The Cloak Of Deceit In The UK
Victory Girls: Are Bass And Newsom Watching Their Political Careers Burn?
Watts Up With That: Europe’s Energy Debacle Is a Warning for U.S., Mann FINALLY has to pay, and Trump Reportedly Mulling EO To Shield Americans’ Gas Stoves From Bureaucrats
The Federalist: Here Are All The Ways DEI-Crazed Officials Made The LA Fire More Deadly, Court Strikes Down Biden’s Title IX Tranny Overhaul Nationwide, Lawfare Against Trump Flares For Final Time, If Karen Bass Isn’t Recalled, Prosecuted, Or Forced To Resign, Democracy Is Wasted On L.A., and Supreme Court Chief Roberts Just Defended The Censorship-Industrial Complex
Mark Steyn: Morning in Canada

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His Ex-Girlfriend Was Driving the Bus

Posted on | January 9, 2025 | No Comments

The Los Angeles Department of Transportation operates a fleet of buses called DASH (Downtown Area Short Hop). Two days before Thanksgiving, 911 received a call that one of the DASH buses was being followed by an armed man driving a white Maserati. The caller told the 911 dispatcher there was a “domestic dispute” between the Maserati driver and the woman driving the bus, who was his ex-girlfriend and the mother of one of his children. He brandished a gun at the bus driver, and then began following the bus — a Maserati chasing a bus.

As I was watching a recently-released YouTube video of the incident, I was mystified by this bit of information. A Maserati is a pricey Italian sports car. New models sell for as much as a quarter-million dollars, although Maserati offers lower-priced models that can be had for as little as $60,000. Still, it’s a prestigious high-status luxury brand, so how is it that a bus driver’s ex-boyfriend is driving a Maserati? Like, if you’re tooling around LA in a Maserati, shouldn’t you be dating movie starlets or fashion models? Instead, you’re hooking up with bus drivers?

Perhaps you see why my curiosity was aroused.

Multistate Drug Organization
Dismantled; 31 Defendants Face
Federal Drug and Firearms Charges

That was the headline on a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas in September 2018:

This drug-trafficking organization is alleged to be led by Eric Baldwin, 29, and Nicholas Robinson, Jr., 23, both of Little Rock. The indictment named 23 defendants from the central Arkansas area — where the drugs were distributed — and eight defendants from southern California, which is alleged to be the source of the drugs.
“This criminal organization stretched from Arkansas to California, and was responsible for distributing large quantities of illegal drugs here in our neighborhoods,” U.S. Attorney Hiland said.

Among other things, authorities seized more than 40 pounds of methamphetamine as part of the investigation. The ringleaders in Arkansas had been using wire transfers to send money to California as payment for the drugs, which were sent via the Post Office.

Aundre Lamar Jones of Los Angeles was among those indicted, and in November 2021, Jones “was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Brian Miller to serve eight months in federal prison”:

Aundre Lamar Jones, 34, of Los Angeles pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering for his role in the drug ring . . .
Under U.S. sentencing guidelines, Miller said, the recommended sentence for Jones ranged from six to 12 months in prison, a fine of $2,000 to $20,000 and a term of supervised release from one to three years. Probation from one to five years was also listed as an option.
Jones’ attorney, Darrell Brown Jr. of Little Rock, asked Miller to consider a sentence of probation, saying Jones’ primary problems were caused by a longtime addiction to drugs.
“He does need assistance with the drug issue,” Brown said, “which has caused him additional problems here.”
Brown pointed out that Jones, at 34 years old, is the father of three boys and that he had accepted responsibility for his actions and was trying to make positive changes. . . .
But Miller, considering Jones’ circumstances, said he was troubled by additional charges Jones had racked up since his indictment, including a weapons charge.
“He’s 34 years old, he lives with his mother, and I think he gets $1,500 in unemployment,” Miller said. “The job he was working, for which he is receiving unemployment benefits, he didn’t have it very long.”
Miller pointed out that Jones had worked for 12 years for a temporary staffing company, which he said at best provided only sporadic employment.
“It doesn’t, except for the time he had his own business, look like he’s ever had long-term gainful employment,” he said. “Living in Los Angeles with no gainful employment and making what it appears you’ve been making, it begs the question what do you do for income, and if you’re not working and you don’t have any money, you still have to live. It requires you to find other ways to make money. I don’t know if that’s true but I’m telling you what it looks like.”
Miller said based on Jones’ criminal history, he had been close to some significant crimes, including a murder, for which he was not charged.
“What this smells like, or what it looks like, is that you’re out here doing things you probably shouldn’t be doing and this time you got caught,” he said. “That’s what it looks like.”

Judge Miller is a shrewd observer. How are you supporting three children by “sporadic” employment through a temp agency? The circumstances were suspicious, even if the judge didn’t know that Aundre Lamar Jones was driving around LA in a Maserati, which brings us back to that incident two days before Thanksgiving this year:

A man has died a day after he led Los Angeles police on a chase and engaged in a gun battle with officers in West Adams, officials said Wednesday.
Police identified the suspect as 37-year-old Aundre Jones. Jones had been hospitalized after the shooting that occurred Tuesday afternoon in the 3000 block of West Boulevard, but he was pronounced dead on Wednesday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
The violent series of events unfolded around 12:17 p.m. Tuesday when police were called about a domestic violence suspect in a white Maserati who was apparently following the driver of a city DASH bus in the San Pedro area.
According to police, the bus driver and Jones previously dated and had a child together.
Responding officers spotted Jones’ vehicle and attempted a traffic stop, but he sped away, beginning a chase that headed north on the 110 Freeway, police said.
They chased him along the freeway and into the West Adams area and eventually into a residential neighborhood near West and Jefferson boulevards.
The suspect pulled into a driveway, parked behind an apartment building and walked toward the street, where police were approaching.
“The suspect in the driveway pulled out two guns — one in each hand — and opened fire on the officers,” LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell told reporters Tuesday. “Officers returned fire, striking the suspect.”
LAPD says Jones and officers fired multiple rounds at each other.
Jones was treated at the scene and taken to a hospital, where he died Wednesday.
Two 9mm semi-automatic handguns were recovered next to Jones at the scene, police said.
The suspect’s mother, who police said approached Jones during the shooting, was struck by gunfire on the arm and brought to a local hospital. She was treated for her injury and is expected to make a full recovery.

Now you can watch the YouTube video with police body camera footage of the incident in which Aundre Lamar Jones died in the proverbial “hail of police gunfire.” Toward the end, you see cops pull a woman away from Jones’s bullet-riddled body — that’s his mother. Apparently the whole point of that lengthy police chase was so he could make it to his mother’s apartment, so she could watch him go down with guns blazing.

My favorite part of the video is at the beginning, where they play recordings of 911 calls, and you hear the dispatcher repeating what the caller has just told her, to confirm that she’s got the correct information: “A Maserati is chasing the DASH bus?” Like, you’re kidding me?

Just incidentally, none of the news media coverage of this November shootout included the background information I gave you about Aundre Jones being busted by the feds for drug trafficking. Apparently nobody in the world of LA journalism has the kind of natural curiosity that would lead them to ask the obvious question, “Who is this guy driving a Maserati, chasing a bus and shooting at the cops?” The spelling of his first name was unusual enough that I figured Google might turn up some information about his previous criminal activity because, let’s face it, nobody begins their criminal career this way. While I didn’t expect what I found — a federal prison sentence for an interstate drug-trafficking operation — I knew I’d find something, because there had to be some explanation for why the bus driver’s ex-boyfriend was driving a Maserati.

Are you driving a Maserati? Because I know that I’m not driving a Maserati. Apparently, the only people who can afford to drive a Maserati are the kind of criminals who die in shootouts with police.

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In The Mailbox: 01.08.25

Posted on | January 9, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

After firing over 100 firefighters for refusal to take the jab, LAFD is begging for volunteers to help fight the uncontrolled fires. (Photo via Gateway Pundit on X)

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Hydrogen As a Power Source versus Reality
EBL: MAGA Greenland, Soros Operatives Now Control Wikipedia, and CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS HELP BURN DOWN THE STATE
Twitchy: No Words – LA Mayor Karen Bass Stands Silent As Reporter Bombards Her With Questions, UK Dads Tell of Being Arrested For Trying To Save Their Daughters From Grooming Gangs, and Bulwark Toady Sam Stein Tries Blaming LA Fires On Trump & Gets Rekt
Louder With Crowder: Justin Trudeau attempts to be a tough guy about Trump, but one sentence from Elon Musk puts him in his place
Vox Popoli: The End of an Era, The Crisis of Clown World, The Only Skull, Burn Hollywood Burn, and Reject Diversity
Bugscuffle Gazette: Maintain The Rage
Stoic Observations: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
Cedar Sanderson: The Land of Beyond
Toni Airaksinen: JewHateDatabase Deletes Post On Falsely Accused Boca Raton Prof – “I Am Innocent”
Ammo.com: Mass Shooters By Race 1966-2024

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Biden Set to Announce Parting Gift of $500 Million in Military Aid to Ukraine, Trump Blames ‘Governor Newscum’ For Nightmare Firestorm in Southern California, Climate Hustle: EPA Advisor Admits Sending Billions to Climate Groups Before Trump Takes Office, Senate Democrats Attempt to Delay Tulsi Gabbard Confirmation Hearings, and Conspiracies Too Awful to Imagine?
American Thinker: The Necessity of Heroes
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Explosions rock Cuban munitions depot in Holguin, 13 soldiers missing, Apartheid hotel in Cuba throws lavish Orthodox Christmas party while Cubans are starving, What Fidel Castro’s ‘revolution’ has stolen from the Cuban people, and Guess who’s angry with the New York Times?
BattleSwarm: Why Is Diet Root Beer Up 131% Even Though Aluminum Is Down?
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites; delays 7th Starship/Superheavy launch several days, India appoints a new leader for its space agency ISRO, Blue Origin fined by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection for using its launch deluge system, Oman plans three more suborbital launches in ’25 from its proposed spaceport site, and Japan identifies a Chinese hacker group as the source of 210 attacks since 2019
Cafe Hayek: Another Strawman Slain
CDR Salamander: Permission Structures, A PSYOP Against The American People, & The Big Man Theory
Chicago Boyz: At Long Last
Da Tech Guy: Who’s Responsible for the Situation in California in one Devastating Tweet
Don Surber: Zuckerberg goes full Musk
First Street Journal: I check Bluesky so you don’t have to
The Geller Report: “APOCALYPTIC SCENES”: Los Angeles Wildfires Rage Out of Control Due to Catastrophic Failure of Democrat Policies
Hollywood In Toto: Adam Carolla’s DEI Firefighter Story Goes Viral, also, Why Blade Runner Ruled the ’80s
The Lid: CNN Finally Reveals that ‘Jan 6’ was Meaningless to Voters in 2024
Legal Insurrection: FBI Investigating Threats Against SpaceX Launch Site, Palisades Fire Incinerates Future Career of Mayor Karen Bass, Gavin Newsom’s Presidential Aspirations, U. Texas at Austin President Leaving School After Trying to Implement a More Conservative Vision, Canadian Leaders Not Too Happy After Trump Posts Map Showing Country as Part of U.S., and Couple That Threw Firebombs at U. Pittsburgh Michael Knowles Event Sentenced to Prison and Fined
Nebraska Energy Observer: Leading the Way
Outkick: Brittney Griner Says New 3-On-3 League Will Put Pressure On WNBA To Pay Players More, Michele Tafoya Blasts Mark Zuckerberg For Damage Facebook Has Done In Wake Of Fact-Checker Program Ending, Lions Coach Makes Media Explode With Just Six Words, Jamie Lee Curtis Stripping Turns On Gen-Z, Kay Adams Tries Raw & The Media Meltdown Over Black NFL Firings, and Cotton Bowl Ticket Prices Plummet: Weather, Travel Expenses Weighing On Minds Of Texas And Ohio State Fans?
Power Line: MPD consent decree: Note 2, Two Steps Forward, One Step Back, and Is Newsom to Blame for California’s Wildfires?
Shark Tank: Coral Gables City Manager Resigning?
Shot In The Dark: Turning Of The Tide, also, Method
STUMP: Geeking Out – Picking Apart A Chicago Pension Actuarial Report From 2024
The Political Hat: Breaking Free from Political Polarization?
This Ain’t Hell: Tarawa Marine to be laid to rest
Victory Girls: Pocahontas Proclaims Pete Hegseth Unfit!
Watts Up With That: Grid battery cost issue storm looms in Massachusetts, Why California Wildfires are NOT Climate Driven: A Historical and Meteorological Perspective, And Then There Were NONE! JPMorgan becomes last of the Big-6 U.S. banks to quit Net-Zero Banking Alliance, and A Country With No Wind Turbines?
The Federalist: Canadian Doctors Suggest Harvesting Organs From Euthanasia Patients Before They’re Dead, Navy Veteran Suing CNN For Defamation Breaks Down At Trial, How Trump Can Deter Red China From Ransacking Taiwan, LA Already Shipped Firefighting Equipment To Ukraine, And Now Biden Is Planning Another Handout As California Burns, and Trudeau Leaves A Legacy Of Failure And Electoral Discontent In Canada
Mark Steyn: The Ghosts of Charlie Hebdo

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Vindicated: Britain’s ‘Grooming Gangs’ Finally Get the Attention They Deserve

Posted on | January 8, 2025 | No Comments

Because Elon Musk decided to remind people of the role that Britain’s Labour Party played in the “grooming gang” scandal, suddenly millions of people who never knew about the scandal — particularly in the United States — are talking about this as if it were breaking news. And while I suppose I should be grateful that this gruesome tale is finally getting the attention it deserves, excuse me for asking: Where were these people 10 or 15 years ago, when I was frequently calling attention to this?

Nov. 26, 2010: Muslim Men Led U.K. Girl-Rape Gang
Nov. 27, 2010: Report: ‘Issues of Culture, Ethnicity and Identity’ Raised in U.K. Rape-Gang Case
Nov. 30, 2010: Muslim Columnist: U.K. Rape Gang Case Exposes ‘Disgusting Cultural Beliefs’

That was my first spate of coverage, nearly 15 years ago, and in 2014, I wrote extensively about “The Rotherham Horror”:

Imagine if more than a thousand girls, some as young as 11, were sexually exploited by members of a fundamentalist religious cult. Now imagine that authorities refused to act to stop this heinous abuse of young girls because of their fear of offending public opinion.
Except you don’t have to imagine this. It actually happened.
And the fundamentalist religious cult? Yeah: Islam.

Subsequently, I wrote about Emma Jackson, who was pimped out by these gangs beginning at age 13. What is amazing about all this is how the problem was widely known for years and yet was ignored, as I remarked when activist Tommy Robinson was arrested in 2018:

Class prejudice was clearly a factor in this. Most British journalists are from the college-educated upper classes, while the girls being raped and pimped out by these Muslim gangs were mostly from a class that Americans would call “white trash.”
It’s not as if the “grooming” gangs were a big secret, after all. Young Pakistani men were parking their cars in front of schools to pick up their 14- and 15-year-old “girlfriends” and, because these girls were generally from the welfare-dependent lower classes, nobody seemed to care. Police, educators and social-service agencies ignored what was going on, and as for the media, well, they wouldn’t want to be accused of “racism” or “Islamophobia” for reporting on this phenomenon.

Radical feminist Julie Bindel was actually the first to write about the so-called “grooming gangs” in 2007, and it was also covered at great length by my friend Pamela Geller. It was a “fringe” concern back then, and to see the story surge to the top of the headlines because Elon Musk slammed the British Prime Minister — well, welcome to the party, pal.

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In The Mailbox: 01.07.25

Posted on | January 8, 2025 | No Comments

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Wrong Kind of Crime for Media, Politicians, or Police to Take Notice
EBL: When Introducing INVASIVE Species Actually Works, Je Suis Charlie : How the Charlie Hebdo attack changed France, The Victims of the NOLA Terror Attack ??? Never Forget, and Blake Lively
Twitchy: Laken Riley Act Passes House Despite 158 Votes Against From Pro-Illegal Democrats Daniel Penny Files To Dismiss Lawsuit From Jordan Neely’s Father, and Brian Stelter Claims Meta’s “MAGA Makeover” Will Lead To More Lies And Confusion
Louder With Crowder: McDonald’s Is Latest Company To Ditch DEI Quotas And We’re Lovin’ It, REEEEEEE! The insufferable CNN duo of Brian Stelter, Jim Acosta cry over Zuckerberg ending Meta’s censorship, 159 Dems vote against a bill to detain illegals guilty of murder, because that’s who they are, Mark Zuckerberg makes MAJOR changes to Facebook, credits Trump’s reelection for bringing back free speech, and That sports bar hailed for only showing women’s sports? Shut down after only a few months
Vox Popoli: Swastikas in London, Trudeau Doesn’t Actually Resign, Babylon Babbles, Sen. Graham Demands Mass Deportations, and Achieving Faster Fixation
Defending The Wood Perilous: Some Prayerful Thoughts
Stoic Observations: Remembering Charlie Hebdo

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: National Front Godfather Jean-Marie Le Pen Dead at 96
American Greatness: Trump Vows to ‘Terminate’ Joe Biden’s ‘Costly and Ridiculous’ Executive Orders, Including His New Ban on Offshore Drilling, Zuckerberg Announces META Will End Fact-Checking Program and Move to Community Notes Model to ‘Restore Free Expression’, Golden Globes Red Carpet Event Dominated by LGBTQ Actors, Trump Puts Hamas on Notice, and Pope Francis Appoints Left-Wing Cardinal to Lead D.C. Archdiocese
American Thinker: Trump’s Arctic Policy Is No Folly
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily S.O.B. News
Babalu Blog: Swiss airline Edelweiss Air to cancel all flights to Cuba, Operation Pedro Pan and Cuba’s First Lady, Cuban dissident Oscar Elías Biscet arrested this morning, and Mexico overtaking Venezuela as prime supplier of oil to Cuban dictatorship
BattleSwarm: Tom Homan: We’re Deporting Venezuelan Illegal Aliens. Venezuela: We Don’t Want Them Back. Homan: Tough.
Behind The Black: China completes its first launch in 2025, NASA is considering two options for getting Perseverance’s Mars samples to Earth, Toyota invests in rocket startup, BepiColombo to fly past Mercury again on January 8, 2025, and The members of Trump’s NASA transition team
Cafe Hayek: As Compared to What?
CDR Salamander: Is Trump A Navalist?
Chicago Boyz: Alternate History
Don Surber: Coverage of CNN’s trial softer than Trump’s
First Street Journal: The left can’t see an obvious fact right in front of their faces
The Geller Report: SCORCHED EARTH: Biden Regime Releases 9/11 Al Qaeda Terrorists From Gitmo – Including Two Alleged Bin Laden Bodyguards
Hollywood In Toto: Bill Maher Bursts Jon Cryer’s Progressive Bubble
The Lid: Psychiatrist Warns Parents that Smartphones are Dangerous for Children
Legal Insurrection: NY Times Reporter Admits Regret Over Role in Kavanaugh Smear Campaign, China’s Hospitals Report Surge in HMVP Respiratory Virus that Causes Cold-Like Symptoms in Most People, Outrage Ensued After GOP Senator’s Husband Didn’t Shake Kamala’s Hand, Illegal Alien Accused of Burning Woman Alive Allegedly Makes Damning Statements, and Captured Hamas Terrorist Admits Gaza Hospital Doubled as Operational Base, Weapons Depot
Nebraska Energy Observer: Laughing
Outkick: WWE Debuted On Netflix Monday: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, Minnesota Vikings Lineman’s Wife Says She Was ‘Heckled, Touched And Called Names’ During Lions Game, College Football Team Brutally Destroyed After Posting Team’s GPA, U.S. Senators Will Have To Declare Position On Males In Women’s Sports, and No Love For Vikings WAGs In Detroit, Bill Belichick Joins X & Brittany Mahomes Dishes Up Snow Cones
Power Line: CNN Goes on Trial, Warren on the Warpath Against Hegseth, and Is it something I didn’t say?
Shark Tank: DeSantis, Undecided – Gov Declines To “Referee” Field Of Hopefuls For Rubio Seat
Shot In The Dark: If The Facts Are Against You & The Law Is Against You
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday- Congestion Pricing Finally Comes To New York
The Political Hat: Defining Woke
This Ain’t Hell: 11 GITMO Detainees Freed, also, Six shooters? Pah?
Transterrestrial Musings: The Criminal Fraud Behind Biden’s Presidency, Good Tidings, and The Fires
Victory Girls: Can Trump Get Hostages Released Before Inauguration Day?
Watts Up With That: The BBC is Wrong, Individuals’ Sacrifices Will Not Save a Planet That Doesn’t Need Saving Anyway, California’s Exxon Lawsuit Is Guided More By Symbols Than Actions, UN Climate Rapporteur: “Climate change has created impossible conditions for one of the most resilient people in the world”, and Is Wind Power Cheaper Than Gas?
The Federalist: The Legacy Of Jan. 6 Should Be Massive Reform Of The FBI And DOJ, NC Supremes Block Elections Board From Certifying Democrat As Winner For High Court Seat, Democrats’ ‘Ethics’ Smears Against Thomas And Alito Are So Embarrassing They Buried Their Own Report, We’re Still Waiting For Facebook To Atone For The 11 Times (We Know Of) It Censored The Federalist, and Mark Zuckerberg Just Admitted To The Big Tech-Government Censorship The Supreme Court Ignored
Mark Steyn: The Gatekeeper, also, A Small Victory

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In The Mailbox: 01.06.25

Posted on | January 7, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

One of our favorite authors, artists, and generally cool person M.C.A. Hogarth is having a Three Kings Sale! 15% off everything on her site through January 10!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

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OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Fauci Files
357 Magnum: Building Backdoors Into Communications Is a Bad Idea
EBL: Democrat Party Song: We Will Safeguard the Leadership of the Revolution, Ashli Babbit, RIP, Justin Trudeau Set to Step Down As Canada’s Prime Minister, Nicole Arbour, and This Furry Potato ? Is An Evolutionary Mystery
Twitchy: The Votes Are Counted – Congressional Closeup Music Video Judged Hilarious, White House Tries To Post Snow Day Pic, Gets Roasted By Internet, and NYC Council Member “Warns” Commuters About Disabling Traffic Cams With Laser Pointers
Louder With Crowder: End of an error? Justin Trudeau expected to make shocking decision about his political future, also, Kamala Makes History, Is First Woman Of Color To Certify Her Loss
Vox Popoli: She Has to Go Back, We are the Elendilans, The Self-Destruction of Brandon Sanderson, Darwin’s Dead, and The Thumb on the Scale
Toni Airaksinen: Kent State Prof Says “The Children Of Israel” Will Be So Humiliated By The Arab World, also, “I Am Innocent,” Says Boca Raton Prof Accused Of Living A “Nazi Fantasy”
Upstream Reviews: Tenure
Stoic Observations: Injustice Anywhere
Jim McCoy: White Ops

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Adam Piggott: The Great Christmas 2024 H-1B War, Racism is not a Sin, and You do know that the media lies, right?
American Conservative: Britain’s Long-Overdue Reckoning With ‘Grooming Gangs’ , The Rape of Britain, and Can Trump Stop the ‘Baby Factories’?
American Greatness: An Absolute Disgrace: Joe Biden Adds to His Shameful Legacy, Trump Vows to ‘Terminate’ Joe Biden’s ‘Costly and Ridiculous’ Executive Orders, Including His New Ban on Offshore Drilling, Golden Globes Red Carpet Event Dominated by LGBTQ Actors, Canada’s Embattled PM Justin Trudeau Announces Resignation Ahead of Likely Defeat in Upcoming Elections, and Trump Administration Must Begin Restoring American Values on Day One
American Power: The ‘Progressive Moment’ is Over
American Thinker: The FBI’s Oblivious Terror Agenda
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday!
Babalu Blog: The day the Three Wise Men came to Cuba and infuriated Fidel Castro, Leak exposing the Cuban dictatorship secret stash of billions may indicate a crack in the regime, Member of Cuban dictatorship oligarchy praises new dollars-only apartheid supermarket as Cubans express outrage, and New York correspondent for Cuban dictatorship’s propaganda rag Prensa Latina defects
BattleSwarm: Poland Won’t Import Your Troubles (But Will Import American Weapons), LinkSwarm For January 3, I Have Heard The Bots Singing, Each To Each, Apple CEO Tim Cook Donates $1 Million To Trump Inauguration, and UBI Hurts Recipients
Behind The Black: FBI investigating reports of an effort to bomb SpaceX’s Boca Chica Starship facility, ISRO delays its unmanned docking in orbit two days, Italy’s military negotiating with SpaceX to use its Starlink constellation for communications, SpaceX launches 24 more Starlink satellites, and Trump administration considering major positive changes at NASA
Cafe Hayek: Getting the Effects of Protective Tariffs Straight, Frank Taussig on the McKinley Tariff, Michael Pettis Gets History and Economics Wrong, Globalization Is No Unique Source of Economic Change, and How Strong Is the Case for Retaliatory Tariffs?
CDR Salamander: Midrats 15th Anniversary Show, also, The PRC Is Signaling Its First Moves,
Chicago Boyz: Joe Awards Some Medals, Random Thoughts (6): Cam Skattebo Edition, and Enslaved by Devices, 1920s Version
Da Tech Guy: Waivers Picks for the Dynasty 1973 League (Updated as they Happen), Jerod Mayo vs Bill or What a Difference 18 Weeks Makes, and The Missing Point on the British Grooming Scandal Pushback and Incentives Matter
Dana Loesch: Las Vegas Was NOT A Terrorist Attack, Democrats Try To Make A Holiday Of J6, Justin Trudeau Resigns, Global Shift To The Right Continues
Don Surber: Out of chaos, Trump
First Street Journal: Big Brother is watching you, The Democrats new ‘It Girl’ is actually a guy, and Paranoid much?
Gates Of Vienna: James Simpson: Communists Attack Us Through Our Institutions, Jihad in Alicante, Indicators, Culture-Enriching Gang Rape in Kristianstad, and Meanwhile, in Milan
The Geller Report: Odious Biden Swears at Reporters in Unhinged Exchange, also, Did The Feds Aid and Abet The New Orleans Jihad Terror Attack?
Hollywood In Toto: Anti-Trump Hollywood Fundraiser Starved for Stars, Don’t Believe The Last Showgirl Hype, Michael Rapaport Shreds Michael Moore Over Pro-Palestinian Doc, Whitney Cummings: ‘The Left Became the Party of Censorship’, and Remember the OTHER Melania Trump Documentary?
The Lid: Biden Takes Action To Ban Energy Drilling On Both Coasts, Biden’s Strangest Medal of Freedom Award, and Hypocrite ‘Green’ Pushing New York Gov. Kathy Hochul Spent $415K on Private Jets
Legal Insurrection: Young Progressives are Embracing Antisemitism Based on Lies, Biden’s Energy Agenda Boils Over: Natural Gas Heaters Banned, Biden Shames Presidential Medal of Freedom Even Further by Giving it to “Science Guy” Bill Nye, Thune Reportedly Told Trump He Believes Pete Hegseth has Enough Votes for Defense Secretary Confirmation, and Is TikTok Brainwashing Young People?
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, also, Monday History Basics
Outkick: USA Hockey Belts Out National Anthem After Winning Gold At World Juniors Yet Again, Ohio State Should Bring Their Shovels, San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Attacks ‘Transphobic’ Women’s Sports’ Supporters, Massive Buck Killed, Photo Of Its Rack Is Incredible, and Shakira’s Hips Don’t Lie In The Gym As She Prepares For Upcoming Tour
Power Line: The Final Biden Disgrace? Who Needs Communists When You Have Home-Grown Progressives, Political Corruption In Minnesota, Meta Goes MAGA [Updated], and Thoughts from the ammo line
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Notes from a cluttered mind
Shark Tank: Steube Reintroduces Bill Protecting Womens’ Sports
Shot In The Dark: For Those Who Observe, Stop Pouncing!, “Best, Fairest, Most Transparent Election System In The US”,
STUMP: Social Security Tinkering- No, It’s Not Been Made Fairer
The Political Hat: Blogroll Cleanup 2024, Firing Line Friday: Oil: The Issue of American Intervention, For Whom, The Inheritors, and Happy New Year!
This Ain’t Hell: About Iran’s Bombproof Missile Facility in Syria, Dutch name 400K+ supposed Nazi supporters, An MSNBC host claims that US military personnel are bigger threats than illegal aliens, Hillary Clinton and George Soros among Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients, and Gary Farmer Jr. – Fake Green Beret / Special Forces
Transterrestrial Musings: A Complete Unknown, also, NASA’s Future
Victory Girls: Chuck Schumer – Minority Leader Of The Biden Acuity Delusional, A Charter School With No Human Teachers, and Plaskett wanted her 15 minutes of fame–or is it infamy?
Watts Up With That: The Little Fish That Could, Michael E. Mann Calls on Rap Artists to Fight Climate Change (Parody), Unshackling Nuclear Energy: The Case Against the NRC’s Overreach, and The Climate Agenda’s March Through the Institutions: Can It Be Stopped?
The Federalist: Trump Is The Right Man To Walk Us Back From The Brink Of Nuclear War, Here Are The Best Moments From The Jury Selection For CNN’s Defamation Trial, Court Filings Reveal More Government Lies About Censorship, Seek Deeper Investigation, From Covid Fascism To Mass Migration, Justin Trudeau Leaves Behind A Legacy Of Ruin, and Joe Biden Is And Always Was A Massive Jerk
Mark Steyn: The Shame of England, Woe Unto Us, and The Conformist: How to Make a Fascist

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Rule 5 Sunday: Smoke Break

Posted on | January 6, 2025 | No Comments

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Ladies and gentlemen: Lynda Carter.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Gorilla Fireworks Friday, and the Saturday Blondeocalypse.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, anti MAGA Merchan, Got Milk? Jenna Davis, Laid, “The Best Things In Life Are Free”, “Auld Lang Syne”, Trading Places, What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? Dayle Haddon RIP, Speak No Evil, and The Midwich Cuckoos

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Yuliia Levchenko/Pam Bardot, Farming for Forever Chemicals?, Fish Pic Friday – The Life of Linda Lee, Baby It’s Cold Outside, Sweet Child of Mine, The Wednesday Wetness, Happy New Year, Tattoo Tuesday, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News, Palm Sunday and Professor Proves Offshore Wind Kills Whales

BACON TIME: Rule 5 – The Weather Outside Is Frightful

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FMJRA 2.0: Giant Killers

Posted on | January 6, 2025 | No Comments

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Well, we lost the series opener at the Polo Grounds (Carl Morton getting stuck with his second loss) but came back strong in the second and third games. Even without the designated hitter, the Senators beat the devil and the living God out of Mike Corkins and Matt Wilcox for eleven runs and added one more off Steve Mingori while Spaceman Lee held the Jints to just three runs and went the distance for the wind. Game Three wasn’t as hit-happy; we only scored six runs off Dick Bosman and Charlie Hudson, but it was good enough for Jim Kaat to get his first win and Bob Johnson his first save. We’re 3-6, one game behind the Red Sox in the cellar of the AL Beta Division, but a lot more optimistic than we were last week.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.