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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)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

— 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

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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
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Rule 5 Sunday: Harvest Season
Animal Magnetism
357 Magnum
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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
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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
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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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