In The Mailbox: 10.17.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | October 17, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.17.25 (Afternoon Edition)

First time since Monday I’ve woken up and not immediately had to pack all my stuff up. What a relief.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Hollywood Tries to Blame Lockdowns in 2025
EBL: John Brown leads the Harper Ferry Arsenal Raid, North Carolina Democrat Representative Cecil Brockman Charged With Sex Crimes Against A Child, ‘It eats up your flesh’, Charlie Kirk Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, and Is it time for Mars?
Twitchy: Now Why Oh Why Would They Do That? Hakeem Jeffries Is Very Upset For Katherine Leavitt For Pointing Out Who The Dems Prioritize, and Fairfax County Schools Hide Behind Damning Burn-Book Style Post About Alleged Minor’s Abortion Coverup
Louder With Crowder: Nancy Pelosi FREAKS OUT on a reporter, sticks her finger in their face when asked about her involvement in January 6th, In response to ICE raids, Los Angeles declares a state of emergency… to protect illegals, AOC tricked into saying the quiet part out loud, Scoop: Democrats CONSPIRING to get rid of John Fetterman, and Democrat governor lashes out at law enforcement, now threatens to PROSECUTE ICE agents for doing their job
Vox Popoli: A Special Interview, Leave the Dead Where They Lie, On Facing Age, The Next Serial, and Rediscovering Van Creveld
Stoic Observations: Six Seven,
Gab: The Cancer on the Right

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The Persistence of History
Dana Loesch: The Young Republican Chat Log Leaks Are Stupid,
Don Surber: Bye-bye, congressional ghettos
Matt Taibbi: Note to Readers,
STUMP: Falls Are Dangerous – RIP Ace Frehley & Watch Out, Senator McConnell!

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In The Mailbox: 10.16.25 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | October 16, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.16.25 (Morning Edition)

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Greetings from Sioux Falls, South Dakota!
The Based Books Military SF Sale Is On!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Illustrated Spygate Scandal Part XXVII
EBL: Night On Bald Mountain, Lucrezia Borgia, and Candela Saitta
Twitchy: Miranda Devine Explains Why This J6 Question Sent Pelosi Over The Edge, NBC News Layoffs Prompt Reminder of Bias & Malpractice, and Bernie Sanders Erupts In Wild Rant After Occasional Cortex Is Asked About Schumer Primary
Louder With Crowder: Keira Knightley laughs at reporter’s attempt to get her to bash JK Rowling over anti-trans views
Upstream Reviews: Outlaw of the Outer Stars,
Cedar Sanderson: For Vengeance She Rides
Incensepunk Magazine: Yuval Kordov Interview
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Of Scorpions
Postcards From Barsoom: Fields & Energy
Jim McCoy: Lori Janeski’s Phoenix

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The Best Point in the Great 2025 Battleship Battle
Don Surber: They lied
Matt Taibbi: Gain-of-Function Monetary Policy

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In The Mailbox: 10.14.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | October 15, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.14.25 (Evening Edition)

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Greetings from Wall, South Dakota, home of Wall Drug!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: This Guy is Certainly Guilty of Felony Stupidity
EBL: President Trump in Egypt for Peace Treaty Signing, Naked Protesters outside Portland ICE Facility, Magic City, MAGA Gaza Israel Peace Deal and Giorgia Meloni, and Rest of the Fish
Twitchy: Illegals Unable To Renew CDLs After Trump Closes California Loophole, “At Least She Didn’t Crap Her Pants”, and YouTuber Claims Trump & Netanyahu Signed “The Exact Same Deal Biden Brokered”
Louder With Crowder: Obama lashes out at Hispanics who voted for Trump, Indicted NY AG pumps her fist in the air as she faces mortgage fraud charges, Muslim Charity Run promises an “inclusive atmosphere” while banning all women and girls older than twelve, Massachusetts Couple Lose Foster License After Declining to Sign Gender-Affirming Policy, and Soon-to-be communist mayor of NYC goes all in on illegal immigration
Vox Popoli: Asymmetric Economic Warfare, Floating on the Sea of Retardery, Why the Gazacaust Ended, and Digging Out the Deep State?
Weird Catholic: Bread for Beasts
Gab: Why We Must Build Our Own Future
Stoic Observation: Rude Questions

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American Conservative: Assassination in American Zion, also, Trump’s Pressure on Sanctuary Cities Is Working
American Greatness: Indictment of NY AG Letitia James on Felony Bank Fraud Sparks Partisan Debate, The Pieces of Trump’s Peace, Letitia James Accused of Harboring a Fugitive in Norfolk, Virginia House Amid Mortgage Fraud Cases, WA Teen Faces Civil Rights Complaint for Refusing To Play Basketball Against Male Athlete, and Trump Receives Multiple Standing Ovations As He Addresses Knesset and Declares ‘Age of Faith, Hope, and of God’
American Thinker: If I Lived In Virginia, I’d Vote For The Dark Green Marine, Tylenol and Autism: More to the Story, The Citizenry Can No Longer Tolerate America’s Authoritarians, Zohran Mamdani’s New York City is Your American Nightmare, and From Oslo To Obsolescence: The Death Of The Nobel Peace Prize
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, also, Animal’s Daily History Made News
BattleSwarm: Federal Layoffs Begin, UT To Host Seminar On Evils Of Communism, Loon Launching Loving Lasso Lacks Legitimacy, Lands Litigation, and Was The 2020 Census Algorithmically Polluted?
Behind The Black: The hurricane season in 2024 confounded the predictions again, Three launches in the past day, PLD issues detailed update on its preparations for first launch in 2026, Swarm satellite constellation detects changes in the Earth’s magnetic field during the past decade, and Eleventh Starship/Superheavy a complete success
Cafe Hayek: The Illogic That Is Protectionism, Sorry, But Pope Leo Is Mistaken, and On Securing Sources of Supplies
CDR Salamander: Shipbuilding, Shareholders, & National Asynchronization
Chicago Boyz: Novels and Movies About Manufacturing, Make Columbus Day Great Again! and Where Were You in ’92?
Da Tech Guy: The “Unexpectedly Chronicles” No Jews No News explained in one Image
Don Surber: Of course it’s God’s will
First Street Journal: The hostages have been released, but some on the left are just very upset that Hamas have been defeated, The pro-Palestinian demonstrators would never see the evil of Hamas, no matter how much evidence was presented to them, and I check Bluesky so you don’t have to!
Gates Of Vienna: I Get The Chair, The Would-Be Drone Bombers of Antwerp, The Punishment for Progressive Ridda, Raped, Beaten, and Lost an Ear — But at Least She’s Not a Racist, and The Normanization of the English
The Geller Report: Hamas Openly Violates Ceasefire, Vows Not to Disarm or Give Up Power, Conducts Mass Executions, While Trump Orchestrates Unprecedented Mid-East Peace, Democrats Continue to Punish Americans With Shutdown, Muslim Lawmaker, Far Left Radical Try to Disrupt Trump’s Historic Speech to Knesset, PRICELESS HOMECOMING, and Sexual Exploitation of Gazan Women by Palestinian Aid Workers, Including UNRWA Staff
Hollywood In Toto: The Bride Is a Totally ’80s Misfire, Michael Rapaport Defies Woke Mob in Denver, How Wes Craven’s Cursed Felt Hollywood’s Wrath, Why RiyadhGate Spells Bigger Problem for Trump-Era Comics, and Trump Ends War, Artist Cancellations Continue
Legal Insurrection: Newsom Signs Law Authorizing “Reparations” for Black People, Israeli Cornell Student Who Prevailed On Discrimination Complaint Against Anti-Zionist Prof. Eric Cheyfitz Doxxed, Obama Education Secretary Miguel Cardona Joins Yale School of Management, California’s Democratic Drought: Only 190 New Voters After Months of Effort, and Vance Destroys Elizabeth Warren Over Her Post on the Hostages
Outkick: No NFL Team Celebrated Columbus Day On X, But Three Celebrated Indigenous People Day, NFL Fans Demand George Strait Do Super Bowl Halftime Show, Petition Goes Viral, Angry Rockets Star Amen Thompson Picks A Fight With Much Smaller Pelicans Guard, Milwaukee Brewers, MLB’s Best Team, Are Absolutely Insufferable, and Kylie Jenner Drops A Beat, Katy Perry Smooches Justin Trudeau & Things Are Getting Hairy For Kim Kardashian
Power Line: Polyanna never looked prettier, Crimes of existence, Veep thoughts on “genocide”, Civil war talk, and Who Will Disarm Hamas?
Shark Tank: FL Bill Would Require Teachers To Swear Oath To Constitution
Shot In The Dark: Dad, also, Existence
The Political Hat: The Aberration And Lies Of Nostalgia, also, Smashing the Duo-Normative Diarchy In Canada: Three Men And A Kid
This Ain’t Hell: Purple Heart for “Lifesaving Actions”, Troops Will Be Paid, Multiple military relief societies report increased request for financial assistance, SECWAR on Barracks Conditions, and President Trump cuts Democrat programs as government shutdown continues
Transterrestrial Musings: Crazy Busy, The Final Version 2 Test, and Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!
Victory Girls: “Real” Americans Are Naked And “Dying”, also, Trump’s Peace Deal And The Foreign Heads Who Tried Wreck It
Watts Up With That: NYISO Weighs In On The New York State Draft Energy Plan, The Slowly Mounting Mineral Shock, Conventional Climate Science Threatens Civilization, One Daily Beef Chipolata and a Small Nibble of Cheese: Eco Nutters Reveal New Planetary Health Diet, and The Technocrats Are Falling as Their Ideology Fails
The Federalist: Spanberger Refuses To Say If Men Should Be Allowed Into Girls’ Locker Rooms — Again, Alito Scolds Lower Courts For Dodging Cases On Schools ‘Transing’ Kids Behind Parents’ Backs, Democrats Don’t Care That Mamdani Allegedly Broke Election Laws Because He’s One Of Them, Records: Blue States Can’t Provide Any Evidence To Defend Anchor Baby Citizenship, and Valor, Virtue, And Manliness Can Rescue Civilization
Mark Steyn: Someone Left the Cake Out, Some New Thing: A Fistful of Dollars and the Birth of the Spaghetti Western, They All Laughed, The Uncowardly Lioness, and “God Bless The Peacemaker”

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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

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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

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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.