In The Mailbox: 04.01.22 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | April 2, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.01.22 (Evening Edition)

Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Cry harder.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Will The FBI Ever Be Held To Account?
EBL: Pedo Democrat Teachers Are Trying To Groom Your Kids, also, BBC Reports On The Spaghetti Harvest In Ticino
Twitchy: Disney Heiress Says The Devil Mouse Has The Power To Crush “That Little Punk” Christopher Rufo & Other Critics Of Disney Values
Louder With Crowder: Karma Strikes As Toddler-Murdering Convict Killed By Group Of Inmates
Vox Popoli: But OUR Public School Is Great, Devil Mouse Goes Full Evil, and Red China Stands Against Globohomo
According To Hoyt: Positioned For Success, also, Paper Targets
Monster Hunter Nation: WriterDojo S2E13 – Character Growth & Development, also, Current Events Catchup Post For April 1
Stoic Observations: Ralph Lauren & The Old School

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Drone War & Turkish Delight, also, The Magic Kingdom Is Coming For Your Kids
American Greatness: More Scandals Envelop The Already Scandal-Ridden FBI, also, Bad Orange Woman To Flee Sinking Biden Ship In May, Possibly For MSNBC
American Power: The Lynching Of Justice Clarence Thomas, also, Florida Legislators Consider Revoking Law Giving Disney Effective Self-Government On Its Property
American Thinker: Were You Better Off With Trump? also, Biden, The Ersatz President
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Dying Giants Friday
Babalu Blog: Another Top Baseball Prospect Escapes Cuba, also, The Infinite Loop Of Communism
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For April 1
Behind The Black: Pushback – University’s Attempted Blacklisting Of Student Abruptly Ends When Lawyers Get Involved, Will XCOR’s Lynx Spaceplane be Reborn As Smallsat Launcher? and How To Replace Blinker Fluid
Cafe Hayek: It’s Impossible For Any Country To Be The Low-Cost Producer Of All Outputs
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Worthwhile Reading & Viewing
Da Tech Guy: I’m Proud To Be A Nonconforming Nonconformist…, And Now For ~~Something Completely Different~~A Monty Python April Fool’s Joke, and April Indulgence Calendar
Don Surber: Biden Remarried Russia & Red China, DeSantis Gets It Done, and There Are No Defenders Of Western Civilization
First Street Journal: The Washington Post Makes Itself Ridiculous
Gates Of Vienna: Culture-Enriching Ukrainian Refugees In Munich, Zelensky Converts To Islam, and The Sweden Syndrome
The Geller Report: School Nurse Fired For Exposing That School Put 11-Year-Old On Puberty Blockers, also, Appeals Court Rules Oberlin Must Pay $31 Million To Bakery It Defamed As Racist
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, Tonight’s Sky, and Coal-Fired Teslas
Hollywood In Toto: The Bruce Willis Film His Die Hard Fans Overlooked, Variety Shows True Colors With Biased Take On Daily Wire’s Disney Coverage, and Richard Dreyfuss – Woke Will Kill America
The Lid: The Strategic Petroleum Reserve Is Going Down Biden’s Drain
Legal Insurrection: VMI Alumni Fight Plans For DIE Programming, Biden Admin Endorses Puberty blockers, Hormone Therapy, & “Gender-Affirming” Surgeries For Children, and Former Yale Medical School Admin Admits Stealing $40 Million From School
Outkick: Arch Manning’s NIL Valuation Expected To Be In The Millions, Bryce Harper Jacks a 112 MPH Homer, and Tennessee Called For Using Illegal Bat And Tony Vitello Goes Off
Power Line: The Latest Trump Scandal – Never Mind, Return To George Floyd Square, and Goodbye Disney
Shark Tank: DeSantis Teases Removing Disney’s Self-Governing Status
Shot In The Dark: Can The Center Hold?, Democracy Is Strangled In Darkness, and Hunter The Mighty Nimrod
STUMP: Updating Sean Bean’s Mortality Rate
This Ain’t Hell: Food Insecurity Stipend Coming To Aid Troops, Valor Friday, and Russian Troops Suffer From Acute Radiation Sickness
Transterrestrial Musings: Quitting Disney, Government Schools, and Russia’s Debacle
Victory Girls: Energy Independence Shot Down Again By Democrats
Volokh Conspiracy: Two Illiberal, Unjust Zelensky Policies The West Should Pressure Him To End
Watts Up With That: Germany Pays A Horrible Price For Decades Of Green Energy Insanity, also, Solar Energy Explains Fast Retreat Of Antarctic Ice
Weasel Zippers: Energy Secretary Granholm Suggests You Buy A $55,000 EV If You Don’t Like High Gas Prices, Judge Rules NY State Must Redraw Redistricting Map That Gave Democrats Three More House Seats, and Senile Old Man Endorses Children Having Genitals Amputated
The Federalist: Biden’s Lack Of Ukraine Strategy Shows He Doesn’t Have One For America Either, Working-Class Americans Should Refuse To Fight Utopian Feminists’ Foreign Wars, and How Liberalism Ruined Sex & Degraded Women
Mark Steyn: Lessons From A Won War, also, Every Dog Should Have His Day

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In The Mailbox: 04.01.22

Posted on | April 1, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.01.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Longer post late tonight; in the meantime, thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in March.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Don’t Rely On Pepper Spray
EBL: St. Balbina Of Rome
Twitchy: “Water Carrying DOLTS”
Louder With Crowder: Daily Wire Announces $100 Million Investment To Compete With Disney Kids’ Entertainment
Vox Popoli: The World’s Evil Factory
Urban Scoop: A Crisis Of Trust

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Two Views On The Ukraine War
American Conservative: Christians Lead The Way At NatCon Europe
American Greatness: Ariz. Governor Signs Bill Requiring Proof Of Citizenship To Vote
American Power: WSJ Poll – Bidenflation Taking Heaviest Toll On Non-White Workers
American Thinker: What The Forever Crises Are Really About
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Smoking Gun News
Babalu Blog: Cuban Protester Gets Five Years In Jail For Holding Up Homemade Sign
BattleSwarm: What New Hunter Biden Revelations Are Coming Down The Pike?
Behind The Black: New Shepard Completes Another Commercial Suborbital Flight
Cafe Hayek: Quotation Of The Day
CDR Salamander: People Died For What You Can Get In A Click
Chicago Boyz: Done With Disney
Da Tech Guy: Things That Make You Go Hmmm In Ukraine
Don Surber: A Star Rises In West Virginia
First Street Journal: A Public Service Homicide
Gates Of Vienna: North Africans In Spain Consider Ukrainians Fair Game
The Geller Report: Biden – “I’m Committed To Advancing Transgender Equality…Everywhere”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Better But Still Not Good
Hollywood In Toto: When Will Comedians Stop Protecting Kamala Harris?
The Lid: View Co-Host Sunny Hostin Says Biden Should Rule Like A Dictator
Legal Insurrection: Disney Employee Says Cast Members Supporting Parental Rights Far Outnumber Those Opposing It
Nebraska Energy Observer: Not Only For Canada
Outkick: Rachel Campos-Duffy Goes One On One With Outkick
Power Line: How Fake Can You Get?
Shark Tank: Cory Mills Targeted By “The Squad”
Shot In The Dark: Resetting The Reset
The Political Hat: A Is B – David Hume Is George Floyd, Terrorists Are Social Activists, and Men Are Women & Women Are Men
This Ain’t Hell: RIP General Charles Boyd
Transterrestrial Musings: Eating Plastic
Victory Girls: Is The Culture War On Abortion, CRT, & LGBTQ Worth It?
Volokh Conspiracy: Today In Supreme Court History
Watts Up With That: A Peer-Reviewed Statistical Analysis Of The 2020 Election
Weasel Zippers: Pelosi – We Can’t Let Higher Gas Prices Be An Excuse To Produce More American Energy
The Federalist: Democrats & Media Enablers Overlooking Child Sex Crimes To Protect Judge Jackson
Mark Steyn: Reality Over Normalcy

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Florida Man Shot to Death After Attacking Cops at His Niece’s Wedding Reception

Posted on | April 1, 2022 | Comments Off on Florida Man Shot to Death After Attacking Cops at His Niece’s Wedding Reception

“This is why we can’t have nice things,” as they say. When your wedding reception turns into a brawl and somebody calls 911? That’s not good. Then the bride’s uncle punches the cops and gets shot to death?

Daniel Patrick Knight, 39, had a criminal record dating back as far as 1998, when he was 15. According to the Florida Department of Corrections website, in 2006 Knight was sentenced to state prison for the charges of: Robbery, Grand Theft Motor Vehicle, Burglary, Trafficking in Stolen Property, Burglary of a Dwelling, Fleeing and Attempting to Elude a Police Officer and Felony Driving While License Suspended. He was released from state prison in 2013. After he was shot to death at the February 19 wedding reception for his niece, the family claimed police were lying about what preceded the shooting:

Daniel Knight’s family held a news conference in Lakeland on Tuesday night alongside representatives from Black Lives Matter Restoration Polk Inc.
The 39-year-old’s family said Knight was not belligerent or violent during the reception at the Winter Park Events Center on Saturday.
“He was never harmful, he was never aggressive,” said Knight’s niece, Janisha Knight, the bride.
Winter Park police released the 911 call that led to police responding to the venue, in which the caller said a man was “grabbing people by the neck” and “shoving people to the floor.”
In audio released Monday, the caller said, “He’s grabbing an older woman and shoving her.” He was described as “violent” and “very drunk.”

Well, not only was there audio of the 911 call, but there was also (a) surveillance video of the scene and (b) police bodycam video. Police this week released the videos that completely confirm their account:

If you watch the whole video, you’ll see that the officer who was knocked unconscious by Knight repeatedly tells backup officers, “He knocked me out.” Knight then attacked the second officer, knocking him to the ground, and continued punching the second officer until the cop shot him. All of this happens very quickly after the first two cops arrived on the confusing scene, and you see the cops trying to defuse the situation — “step back” — and figure out what’s happening. “Move out of the way,” the cop tells Knight’s sister, who is interfering with the officers’ attempt to arrest Knight. When the cop tries to physically move her, Knight says, “Don’t you snatch my [obscenity] sister.” Twenty-three seconds later, while other guests are trying to restrain him, Knight punches the cop. About 10 seconds later, after the second cop deploys his taser (which had no effect), Knight gets fatally shot by the second cop.

This was entirely justified, and no grand jury in America would indict a cop for this incident. While it is likely that Winter Garden will end up paying Knight’s family to settle the inevitable wrongful death lawsuit, such settlements — which have become routine in such cases — don’t change the legal facts. It is always a crime to attack a cop. Danny Knight was probably facing no more than a misdemeanor drunk-and-disorderly charge that night, and if he would have cooperated peacefully, it’s unlikely he would have spent more than 12 hours in the county jail. When he punched the cop, however, that was almost certainly a felony, which would have sent him back to prison. From there on out, Knight’s actions can only be understood as a “suicide-by-cop.”

A civilized society must have rules, and these rules must be enforced. When a wedding reception turns into a drunken brawl, this is not the fault of police. When the police show up to arrest the disruptive guest, interfering with the police is not going to make the situation better.

Could anything have prevented this? I don’t know. Maybe don’t invite your jailbird uncle to the wedding? Or maybe do something to keep your jailbird uncle from getting so drunk at the reception? Or here’s a completely wild idea: Teach your kids to have respect for the police.

That cop has a pistol on his hip for a reason, you know.

The police officer is a representative of the community, sworn to uphold the law, and authorized to use force in the pursuit of that duty.

Disrespect for the police is disrespect for the law, and disrespect for the law should be offensive to every law-abiding citizen. We live in a representative form of government, and thus have the power to change our laws, and to choose those responsible for the job of law enforcement. However, when law enforcement officers show up to the scene of a reported crime — even a misdemeanor, like drunk-and-disorderly — the citizen has a duty to comply with the officer’s lawful orders.

When a cop tells you to “step back,” that’s not merely a suggestion.

If you punched a cop and got shot to death, don’t expect me to join any “social justice” protests in your memory. That’s your fault.

Category: Crime, Florida

In The Mailbox: 03.30.22

Posted on | March 31, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.30.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Mr. Whitfield has a warning for the NYT.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1672
357 Magnum: COVID Lockdowns & Good Intentions
EBL: Why Does Biden Want To Be LBJ?
Twitchy: Here’s How The Networks Covered The Hunter Biden Story That They Can’t Ignore Any More
Louder With Crowder: Ron DeSantis Continues His Dominance Of Disney
Vox Popoli: A Direct Challenge, ALT*HERO As Spoiler Alert, and Die Hard, Die Silent
Granite Grok: Thought Splinters, Part 1
Stoic Observations: Talkin’ Religion & Politics

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Too Thirsty For The Chicks
American Greatness: GOP Senators Provide Receipt Of $100,000 Payment By Red Chinese Oligarchs To Hunter Biden, also, Cutting Through The Noise In Ukraine
American Power: Disney Admits It Wants To Queer Your Kids, also, Rural Voters The Key To Battleground Races In November’s Midterm Elections
American Thinker: America’s Truck Driver Shortage, also, Thomas Sowell – Monument To Intelligent Insight
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Court Rules Pan American Health Organization Must Face Human Trafficking Lawsuit by Cuban Doctors, also, Not Enough Notaries To Serve The Thousands Of Cubans Leaving The Country
BattleSwarm: Why Russian Technology Is Screwed, also, Austin-Bergstrom Airport Running Out Of Jet Fuel?
Behind The Black: Another Update On the Lie That Was COVID, Active Volcanoes On Pluto? and Red China’s Long March 11 Launches Three Satellites
Cafe Hayek: What’s Worth More, $1000 Of Microchips Or $1000 Of Potato Chips? also, On Economic Sanctions
CDR Salamander: Losing The Solomons
Da Tech Guy: Twelve Chris Rock/Will Smith Thoughts & My Standing Orders Story
Don Surber: Ukraine’s Human Shields, also, Biden Slaps Families With A $100/Week Tax
First Street Journal: Another Problem For Joe Biden’s Plan To Eliminate Emissions From Electricity Production In 13 Years
Gates Of Vienna: The West’s Goals In Ukraine, Europe Says Nyet To Rubles – Would Rather Freeze Next Winter, and Z Is for Zeitgeist
The Geller Report: FEC Fines Clintons & DNC For Russian Dossier Hoax, also, Pelosi Insists Democrats Will Pick up Seats In Midterms
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, Sunlight On The Sea, and The Narrative Has Changed
Hollywood In Toto: TDS – Gaffigan & Stern Blame Smith’s Oscar Slap On Trump, also, How Morbius Misses The MCU Mark (By A Country Mile)
The Lid: Why So Many Foolish Gaffes Were Crammed Into Last Month
Legal Insurrection: Occasional Cortex Threatens Justice Thomas With Impeachment, Judge Prevents Syracuse NY Mayor From Removing Columbus Statue, and Sen. Collins (RINO-Me.) Says She’ll Vote To Confirm Judge Jackson
Nebraska Energy Observer: Lupus Tenebrosus Chapter 20
Outkick: Bruce Arians Stepping Down As Bucs Head Coach, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Mad At Will Smith for Perpetuating Stereotypes, and Throw The Damn Towel – Cardinals Score 29 Runs Against Nationals
Power Line: More Evidence Of 2020 Voter Fraud, Hunter Biden – First The NYT, Now The WaPo, and On The Yale Law School Debacle
Shark Tank: Poll – 52% Of Florida Democrats Back Anti-Grooming Bill
Shot In The Dark: Might Might Make Right, Foreign Relations, also, What A Difference A Week Makes
The Political Hat: Equity – Theory Vs. Reality
This Ain’t Hell: Stolen Valor Fruit, also, Biden’s “Deterrence Strategy” Failed
Transterrestrial Musings: Brownian Motion
Victory Girls: Disney Has Frightening “Not At All Secret” Gay Agenda
Volokh Conspiracy: 21 States File Suit Against CDC Public Transportation Mask Mandate
Watts Up With That: Crisis – Soaring Costs Of Energy In UK & Europe, also, Wind Turbines Out West, Part 1
Weasel Zippers: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries Thinks Biden Has “Done A Very Good Job”, Fla. Kindergarten Teacher Upset He Can’t Talk To Kids About His Boyfriend, and Bruce Willis Retiring From Acting Due To Aphasia
The Federalist: Partisan Federal Bureaucrats Selectively Enforce The Law, Twitter Locked My Account For Telling The Truth About “Rachel” Levine, and Finnish Court Rebukes State Prosecution of Christians
Mark Steyn: Walking It Back, also, Batley’s Blasphemer

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‘OK, Groomer’: Democrats Go All-In on Promoting LGBTQ to Young Children

Posted on | March 30, 2022 | Comments Off on ‘OK, Groomer’: Democrats Go All-In on Promoting LGBTQ to Young Children

As a midterm campaign platform, I’m not sure Democrats have a winning issue with the “Drag Queen Story Hour” agenda, which is essentially how they’ve reacted since Florida passed its Parental Rights in Education bill. Deliberately misrepresenting the bill with the “Don’t Say Gay” slogan, Democrats at the same time insist that public school teachers have a right — nay, a duty — to indoctrinate children with pro-LGBTQ ideology.

If anyone ever doubted that most public-school employees are left-wing activists, that doubt has now been eliminated:

A Texas teacher claimed that 20 of her 32 fourth grade students came out to her as LGBTQ, according to internal messages from the district reviewed by the Daily Caller.
Austin Independent School District’s Blackshear Elementary School hosted a Pride parade for elementary schoolers, which the school’s principal dubbed a “Wellness Walk,” according to internal messages originally obtained by the Twitter account, LibsofTikTok. One teacher launched into a tirade against having a “Wellness Walk” during Pride week.
“[It] takes away from the experience of celebrating Pride,” the teacher said in internal messages.
“I feel that it is inappropriate to call our parade this morning a ‘Wellness Walk’ at all. While I understand that Wellness Walk is something that was previously in motion to promote health and fitness and is something we want to continue, it really takes away from the experience of celebrating Pride to couple the two,” the teacher said.
“The first Pride was a riot. It was not enough to just ‘welcome,’ ‘love,’ and ‘celebrate’ Queer folx,” she continued. “Your allyship should always lead you to activism – speaking up and fighting for what is right, even when it feels uncomfortable. We can’t choose in and out of our protest spaces.”
The teacher went on to say that of the 32 students that she teaches, “20 of them are LGBTQIA+ and have come out to me.”
“I feel that we need to do better – for them,” the teacher said. “To affirm our students, I think it would only be appropriate and right to publicly announce [that] what we had this morning was a PRIDE Parade.”

These people are insane. They should be in mental institutions, not in public schools. In fact, in a sane country, they would be prohibited from having any contact with children anywhere. Ace of Spades calls attention to a kindergarten teacher in Florida who complains that the new law will interfere with his ability to talk about his gay sex life with 5-year-olds.

Florida Kindergarten teacher worries he can't discuss his love life with his students anymore. Why is a teacher, discussing his love life with his students? pic.twitter.com/rNE1Bc2C76

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) March 29, 2022

Every single one of these teachers are doing nothing other than proving DeSantis right and how important this bill actually is https://t.co/d1Xf53UJaS

— Ahmed Al Assliken (@assliken) March 29, 2022

People who think this is normal? They’re abnormal.

Everybody can probably agree that, even in the most homophobic regime imaginable (e.g., Iran) some percentage of people will still be gay and, while we wouldn’t advocate throwing gay people off roofs (like they do in Iran), neither do we believe that homosexuality should be publicly celebrated as a special source of “pride,” as Democrats do. That is to say, while a majority of people are not intolerant gay-hating fanatics, neither are most people ready to endorse the rainbow-flag identity-acronym agenda that Democrats are promoting. And yet Democrats, apparently having learned nothing from Terry McAuliffe’s defeat in Virginia last year, and seemingly indifferent to polls showing them headed for a historic midterm defeat in November, have decided to double-down on the most controversial position possible — promoting LGBTQ identity to the captive audience of public school children.

This is why “OK, groomer” trended on Twitter the other day.

By the way, am I the only one who sees the connection between this and Judge Ketanji Jackson thinking child pornography is no big deal? There is a certain common theme here, namely the idea that only “right-wing extremists” are concerned about protecting children from sexualization, so that turning loose pedophiles with light sentences (a mere three months, in one of the cases Jackson was questioned about) is not really something to worry about, the same way a gay teacher indoctrinating your 5-year-old is not something to worry about.

Ted Cruz pulls out his white board to illustrate how in child pornography cases, Ketanji Brown Jackson gave the defendants an average 47.2% less sentence than what the prosecutors recommended. pic.twitter.com/7VUnbdAg2E

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 22, 2022

By the way, have you heard of Kegan Kline? In 2017, Indiana police raided Kline in a child pornography investigation. That was less than two weeks after the bodies of two girls — Libby German, 14, and Abby Williams, 13 — were found in a park where they had gone hiking. True-crime podcasters Áine Cain and Kevin Greenlee obtained the transcript of a police interview with Kline that reveals he had a “catfish” account which contacted one of the girls prior to their disappearance. In other words, the guy with the massive stash of kiddie porn is also a suspect in the murder of two girls. But there’s nothing to worry about, say the Democrats supporting Judge Jackson, who gave slap-on-the-wrist sentences to child pornography defendants.

Probably the parents of those two girls have a different opinion, and maybe voters will make Democrats understand in November.

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— Evi L. Bloggerlady (@MsEBL) March 30, 2022

Category: Crime, Education, Gays

In The Mailbox: 03.29.22

Posted on | March 30, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.29.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: It’s Not Just Property Crime
EBL: On This Day In 1867
Twitchy: “I Was Just Wherever I Could Adding Queerness”, also, Forbes – Don’t Talk About Will Smith’s Slap Without Discussing White Supremacy
Louder With Crowder: Ron DeSantis Exposes “Hollywood Degenerates” Attacking Parents Over Anti-Grooming Bill
Vox Popoli: The Four Eras Of Villainy, Polishing The Library, and The Russians Are Panicking
Stoic Observations: Against Fetishizing Hierarchies

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Bush-Biden Doctrine
American Greatness: GOP Must Promise Inquisitions, Not Meaningless Task Forces, also, The IRS Sent $64 Million In Stimulus Checks To Dead People
American Power: Occasional Cortex Realizes The Democrats Are In Trouble
American Thinker: CDC & FDA Guilty Of Clinical Malpractice & Scientific Fraud
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Too Little Too Late News
Babalu Blog: German Diplomats Blocked From Visiting Sick Citizen Sentenced To 25 Years For Filming 7/11 Protests, also, Cubans Waiting To Buy (Rationed) Diapers Turn On Police When One Of Them Is Violently Arrested
BattleSwarm: Dear Joe – Do You Think You Could Avoid Saying The Quiet Part Out Loud? also, Russo-Ukrainian War Roundup
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, NASA Wants More Money In 2023, and Red China Successfully Launches Long March 6A
Cafe Hayek: Serfdom Looms
CDR Salamander: We Chose Decline
Da Tech Guy: Report From Louisiana – A Real Food Crisis, Bye Bye Philly! and Donald Trump Is No Ham Sandwich
Don Surber: Jon Stewart Boldly Takes On Mueller – Four Years Too Late, Never Trumpers Roll Out Their New Egg McMuffin, and Russia Has NATO Over A Barrel
First Street Journal: Ford’s Plug-In Electric F150 Lightning Could Cost More Than Your House, also, Killadelphia
Gates Of Vienna: The German People Must Suffer For Ukraine’s Sake, Certain Truths Must Not Be Spoken (At Least Not In Sweden), and “Listen, Viktor!”
The Geller Report: DeSantis Hits Back At Hollywood – “I Wear That [Criticism] Like A Badge Of Honor”, also, Biden’s Approval Ratings Plunge To Lowest Of His Presidency [So far]
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, Coming To A Lagrange Point Near You, and Quote Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Kim & Kanye Explained, also, Comedy, The (Not So) Hidden Victim Of Slapgate
The Lid: Too Much Lake Water Is Climate Change/Not Enough Lake Water Is Climate Change
Legal Insurrection: MIT Reinstates SAT/ACT Requirement For Future Admissions, Lamestream Media Ignores New Details In Hunter Biden Scandal, and Rep. Gaetz Enters Hunter Biden’s Laptop & Repair Receipt Into Congressional Record
Michelle Malkin: Never Forgotten – The Lies About Terry Schiavo
Nebraska Energy Observer: Can’t Define “Woman”
Outkick: Bomani Jones’ HBO Show Tanks Again, Loses To Infomercial, NFL Adds Women To Rooney Rule, and Robert Kraft Not Pleased With Pats’ Playoff Skid
Power Line: Biden’s Gaffes – A Postscript, Biden Still Falling, and Dean Gerken’s Gabble
Shark Tank: Author Of Anti-Grooming Bill Returns All Donations From Disney
Shot In The Dark: Don’t Grab The Handle, also, CNN – “The Oscars Were Mostly Peaceful”
This Ain’t Hell: Biden’s Proposed Budget Would Make Army Smallest Since WW2, Tuesday With The Libs Of TikTok, and Biden Says He’s Not Walking Anything Back
Transterrestrial Musings: Mark Judge, also, Clogged Arteries
Victory Girls: Ukraine Drops Alleged List of Russian Spies, also, Mayor Groot Gets Special Secret Security Detail
Volokh Conspiracy: Choosing A Russia Of Pushkin Over A Russia Of Putin
Watts Up With That: The Madness Of Our Worship Of Wind, also, The People Promising us “Net Zero” Have No Clue About The Energy Storage Problem
Weasel Zippers: French President Macron One Of Several Leaders To Express Concern Over Slow Joe’s Gaffes, also, Russia Says It Will Withdraw From Kiev Region
The Federalist: Senators Release Receipts Showing Direct Payments To Hunter Biden By Foreign Oligarchs, ABC Doesn’t Want You To Know The Kids DeSantis Is Protecting From Groomers Are Five, and Will The GOPe Enable Another Disastrous Iran Nuke Deal?
Mark Steyn: Hunter & The Hunted, also, Food for Thought

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Ukraine: Irpin Mayor Says Town Is ‘Liberated,’ Others Say … Eh, Maybe

Posted on | March 29, 2022 | Comments Off on Ukraine: Irpin Mayor Says Town Is ‘Liberated,’ Others Say … Eh, Maybe

Before explaining the map above, showing the locations of Ivankiv, Borodyanka and Bucha, let’s first get this news out of the way:

Oleksandr Markushyn, the mayor of the city of Irpin, just 8km from the Ukrainian capital ofKiev, confirmed on Monday, March 28, that “Irpin has been freed from the evil of Moscow!”. His announcement came after Ukrainian military forces recaptured the city that had been besieged by the Russians.

This is not the first time Mayor Markushyn has claimed this, however. He said the same thing a week ago, but his pronouncement was followed by a week of fierce fighting in Irpin. According to the New York Times, other sources say there may still be Russian troops holed up in Irpin, and the Ukrainian forces will have to do a house-by-house search to clear the town. At any rate, Irpin is the closest the Russians have come to Kyiv, and if they’ve been driven out of there, the remainder of the Russian advance force would be hunkered down in Hostomel and Bucha. And this gets us to what that map is about: In order to supply their troops in the vicinity of Bucha, the Russians must be able to send convoys of trucks from Belarus via Ivanik and, while their are alternative routes available, the crossroads town of Borodyanka is crucial to this Russian supply line. Ever since last week, when some observers began to speak of the Russians around Bucha being trapped in a “pocket,” I’ve been searching for news of fighting near Borodyanka, with little success.

The other avenue of attacking the rear of the Russians around Bucha would be up the western bank of the Dnieper River, via Demydiv, but I haven’t found any reports about fighting there, either. So the tactical situation in Ukraine remains unclear, and this report by Barbara Morrill at Daily Kos expresses more certainty about what’s happening — including maps — than I can endorse. Meanwhile, in cleaning up after his gaffes last week, Joe Biden may have made a new disclosure:

President Joe Biden appeared to reveal that the U.S. is training Ukrainian forces in Poland — stating for the first time since the war began that American troops are actively teaching Ukrainians to fight and kill Russians.
The United States has been providing billions of dollars in weapons and other assistance to Ukraine, with much of that aid going through Poland. The president spent part of last week in the country, meeting with U.S. troops stationed in the southeast and delivering a speech about the West’s unity in the face of Russian aggression.
But to date, the Biden administration has painstakingly made the case that that is as far as they’ll go. On March 22, Jake Sullivan denied that Americans were “currently” training Ukrainians. “We do, of course, have U.S. troops defending NATO territory,” he continued.
That’s not what Biden said Monday. After delivering remarks about the White House’s new budget request, Biden answered a reporter’s question about comments he made when meeting the 82nd Airborne in Poland, in which he implied American forces would be going to Ukraine. Biden denied that’s what he meant, adding: “We’re talking about helping train the Ukrainian troops that are in Poland.”
Pressed again, Biden said, “I was referring to being with, and talking with, the Ukrainian troops that are in Poland.”

Are Ukrainian troops being trained in Poland, and are U.S. troops training them? Seems like an important question.