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In The Mailbox: 08.01.25

Posted on | August 2, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.01.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in July. I do appreciate you!
Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Brandon Herrera on the Sig P320, also Don’t Bring a Machete to a Gunfight
Director Blue: Clinton Cash – The Graphic Novel
EBL: THE MOST RELUCTANT CONVERT – THE UNTOLD STORY OF C.S. LEWIS, Mashed Potato Time, Can GOP gain seats in the midterms? Will A.I. lead to Human Extinction? and Is Bigger Better? 
Twitchy: Democrat Neera Tanden Says Donks Should Be Trusted On “New” Immigration Plan, Oklahoma’s New “America First” Teacher Test For Blue State Refugees Is A Bold Plan To Keep The State Red , and Trump Dumps Biden BLS Hack For Fudging Job Numbers
Louder With Crowder: Failed candidate Kamala Harris shocks Stephen Colbert with word salad on why she won’t run for office again, also, Liberals are delivering caskets to GOP congressmen’s homes, and yes…their reasoning is stupid
Vox Popoli:Castalia and the Cost of Tariffs, I Stand Corrected, CIA vs FBI, and Shadows Ride mix
According To Hoyt: The Dreams Of The Past, Two Realities Not Even Vaguely Alike In Dignity, No Scapegoats, and In The Name Of Freedom
Jim McCoy: War Demons

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Truth About the Indo-American Relationship
American Greatness: President Trump – Recognize Somaliland, Senator Cotton’s Bold Plan to Reform an Overstaffed Intelligence Behemoth, Biden-Appointed Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Revoking Protected Status From Migrants – Plays Race Card in Ruling, White House Press Secretary Slams Press Corps Over Silence On Russia Collusion Hoax Bombshells, and Police Officers Disciplined in Colorado For Sharing Info With ICE
American Thinker: Submission Accomplished – Europe Blinked. Trump (and America) Won
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Bad Ideas Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For August 1,
Behind The Black: B1M – Building the newest biggest neutrino telescope, Echostar issues contract to build satellites for direct-to-phone constellation, Russia desperately lobbies the U.S. to continue and expand its space partnership, and Endeavour launched successfully, carrying four astronauts to ISS
Cafe Hayek: More on Phil Gramm’s and My Book, “The Triumph of Economic Freedom”, also, There Was No “Spike” In the U.S. Trade Deficit That Could Legitimately Have Prompted Trump’s “Liberation Day” Punitive Taxes on Americans
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Don Surber: When I was young
First Street Journal: Even a Participation Trophy is Too Big a Burden for the Special Snowflakes™
Gates Of Vienna: Game of Thrones, Southeast Asian Style, also, We Don’t Want ’Em Back!
The Geller Report: Muslim Guard at U.S. Embassy in Norway Charged With Spying for Iran, Victims of UK Muslim Child Rape Gangs Were Then Victimized by Police, Trump Announces Sweeping New Global Tariffs, Media Censors Brutal Cincinnati Racist Beating While Democrats Cheer Savage Attackers, and EPA Chief Lee Zeldin to Repeal Obama’s $1 Trillion Green-Reg Machine
Hollywood In Toto: David Zucker Ends Personal War Against Naked Gun Reboot, Why Fantastic Four Fizzled the First Time Around, Variety, Hollywood Reporter Decry Left’s Sweeney Ad Outrage, and Fallon’s ‘Tonight Show’ Welcomes Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld?
Legal Insurrection: NY Times Essay Notes That Trump Isn’t the One Defying the Supreme Court, Exposing The Movement To Undermine MAGA, with James Lindsay, U Wisconsin-Madison Suspends SJP Chapter After Protest Causes Disruption, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Which Funds NPR and PBS, Will Close its Doors, and Judge Blocks Ending TPS Protections, Claims Trump Admin is Telling Illegal Aliens to ‘Purify Their Blood’
Matt Taibbi: No Doubt Left – Russiagate Was A Coverup, The NYT Can’t Stop Sucking, and FOIA Files, Russia Edition
Outkick: Kenny Dillingham’s Epic Rant After Arizona State Practice Would Make Nick Saban Proud, Could Diminutive QB McCae Hiilstead Win The BYU Starting QB Competition? It Happened Again – Another Dildo On The Court Stops Play In A WNBA Game, Josh Allen Praises Scottie Scheffler, Contradicts Tom Brady, and Paige Spiranac Wears PJs That’ll Have Boob-Hating Libs Sweating, Kay Adams Turns On Target & Kamala Said What? BONUS: Ranking Gas Stations Based On Sketchiness After Recent Wawa Shooting
Power Line: CPB is no more, Another fraud done gone, Lefties Losing It, and Thoughts from the ammo line 
Shark Tank: FSU Coed Suspended After Harassing Jewish Student In Viral Video
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, UK knife control laws – gardener arrested in his own garden, More evidence of Team Hillary’s fabrication of the Russian collusion hoax, and Democrats keep having bad luck with polling
Victory Girls: Tim McBride in Congress: When Fantasy Gains Political Legitimacy
Watts Up With That: The Hill Allows a Clinton Crony to Lie About Climate Change Tearing Our Nation Apart, The Ongoing Fiction of Cheap Wind and Solar, Grid on the Brink – PJM’s Record Auction Proves We Must Keep—and Build—More Coal Plants, and Misuse, Misquote, or Just Misunderstood?
The Federalist: Immigration Crackdown Protects Americans From Murderers And Rapists Biden Released Into The Streets, Everything Damaging To Democrats Is ‘Russian Disinformation’ To The Media, Georgia Secretary Of State’s Office Hooks Up With Democrats To Disparage Election Integrity Grassroots, Justice Kavanaugh Highlights Separation Of Powers Issue Congress Keeps Making Worse, and Don’t Believe The Lies From NYT Russia Hoaxers About The Durham Annex
Mark Steyn: A Baroness on Barrenness

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In The Mailbox: 07.31.25

Posted on | August 1, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.31.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Is Anything In Your Car Worth Your Life?
EBL: Code Of Silence, Martyrs of Syria, Media Matters Delenda Est, and The Underrated Fish Locals Love
Twitchy: WaPo’s Glenn Kessler Squeezes Out One Last Turd“Fact Check” And X Rapidly Responds With The Truth, Liberal Woman Asks What MAGA Men Find Attractive So She Can (Continue) Doing The Opposite, and Scott Jennings Wrecks Richard Quest Over Trump’s Economy Using Quest’s Own Quotes
Louder With Crowder: An 80s TV icon is offering hilarious video critiques of those AWFL anti-Sydney Sweeney meltdowns, Doja Cat SALTY AF Over Sydney Sweeney’s Great ‘Genes’, and Scott Jennings remembers every CNN “expert” claiming Trump’s tariffs would cause a recession… and he’s dropping RECEIPTS!
Vox Popoli: The Return of the Redskins, also, Short Fat Trump Gets Stroppy
Cedar Sanderson: Time For A Brain Reset
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Peter Kyle – Bansturbator of Limited Intellect

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Betrayal of the Innocents by Ted Cruz Christians
American Greatness: Kamala Harris Says She Won’t Run for Governor of California in 2026, Newly Declassified Durham Records Show FBI Sat on Intel in 2016 Indicating Clinton Scheme to ‘Smear’ Trump With Russia Hoax, 65,000 Unanswered Calls to Biden Era Safety Hotline for Unaccompanied Migrant Children, The Cincinnati Cop-outs, and California Law Requiring Background Checks for Ammo Declared Unconstitutional
American Thinker: Elect Curtis Sliwa New York City Mayor, also, The Two-State Solution Died on October 7
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Red Thursday News
BattleSwarm: Trump Halts Biden-Era Texas Land Grab
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches 19 more Starlink satellites, New data raises doubts about exoplanet having chemicals that on Earth come from life, Smithsonian opposes order to transfer space shuttle Discovery to Houston, Russians say air leak on ISS reduced but still ongoing, and The word that best describes our present NASA lunar program is “delusional.”
Cafe Hayek: Thanks to TFAS’s Roger Ream, also, A Note On Today’s Oral Arguments In V.O.S. v. Trump 
Dana Loesch: Cincy Music Festival Beatdown – What Really Happened?
Don Surber: 3% Growth? Not bad, Donald, not bad
The Geller Report: Diabolical George Soros Ties to Russia Collusion Hoax Exposed in Explosive Declassified Annex of Durham Report, REWARDING MASS MURDER – Canada Will Recognize a “Palestinian” State, PM Carney Says, Kash Patel Announces Discovery of ‘BURN BAGS’ Full of Trump Documents in Secret Room at FBI, Passengers Tackle Muslim Screaming “Allahu Akbar!,” “Death to Trump!,” “Death to America!” Also Threatened to Blow Up Plane, and US Economy Takes Off – Economic Growth at 3% for 2nd Quarter 
Hollywood In Toto: When Hollywood Went All In on Russian Collusion, Seth Meyers Thinks “Americans Should Get Their News from Us”, King of the Hill Reboot Pokes Overdue Fun at Woke, The Naked Gun Shovels More Dirt on Woke Comedy’s Grave, and SweeneyGate Proves Left Is Losing Culture War
Legal Insurrection: Trump’s DOE Ditches 400 Climate Cultists, Taps 5 Experts for Balanced ‘Climate Assessment’, Gordon Klein v. UCLA Trial Update – Dean Bernardo’s Testimony Wraps Up, President Trump Says Trade Deal at Risk After Canada Backs ‘Palestinian Statehood’, Media Distorts German Statement on Recognizing ‘Palestinian State’, and Newly Declassified Appendix To Durham Report Ties George Soros to the Deep State Plot
Matt Taibbi: New Whistleblower Report Drops As Pressure Mounts In Russia Case, also, Another Major Document Release
Outkick: Donald Trump Vows To Help Save Women’s Sports, Smaller College Programs That Are On Chopping Block, Best Way To Solve The Washington Redskins Controversy? Ask All Native Americans, Braves, Reds Spark 16-Run Inning Surge in Wild Showdown, Minnesota Twins Basically Empty Their Roster – Who Were The Deadline Winners And Losers? and NASCAR Mom Natalie Decker Washes Ashore In A Mermaid-Kini, MLB’s Abby Labar Works Up A Sweat & Kamala’s Book!
Power Line: Starving for the truth, Darien gap closed, and More Anti-Woke Ad Blowback
Shark Tank: Appeals Court Rejects Miami Election Delay, Gonzalez Celebrates Victory
Shot In The Dark: What Joe Voted For
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Not-so-medical Aid In Dying: Vermont via Zoom; Washington Qualified Providers; Condemned To Death By Artificial Intelligence
This Ain’t Hell: Trump goes golfing, Critics say that President Trump’s order on homelessness negatively impacts homeless veterans, Current polling shows Zohran Mamdani with significant lead in mayoral race, and Korea Duty Assignments Extended
Transterrestrial Musings: Tom Lehrer, Why And How To End SLS Now, Militant Islam, and The Classified Appendix To The Durham Report
Victory Girls: Mamdani Backs Off Defunding Police, NYPD Families Call Him Out
Watts Up With That: Midsummer Madness, Full Posting of A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate, and Poland’s Pragmatic Energy Approach Pays Off
The Federalist: Dems Claim Republicans Are ‘Rigging’ Midterms After Crucifying Anyone Who Used The Word ‘Rigged’ In 2020, Corrupt DC Bar Moves To Disbar Jeff Clark After Restoring License Of Russiagate Felon Kevin Clinesmith, NYT Author Who Destroyed Her Marriage Wonders Where The Good Men Went, Docs Show Clinton Team Denied Knowledge Of Russia Hoax Despite Email Saying She ‘Approved’ Plan, and Dems Sweep Census Problems Under The Rug In Meltdown Over Republican-Led Redistricting
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet – As The World Turnberries, Trump’s Triumph, Hypocracy, and Hard to Get Through on the Phone

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What Causes Racism?

Posted on | July 31, 2025 | 1 Comment

The answer in two words: Cornell University.

Cornell University causes racism:

I applied to countless tenure-track positions across the country in 2019 and 2020. One of those applications went to Cornell, for a position in their Neurobiology and Behavior department. Unknown to me, a few months later Cornell initiated a separate search for a faculty member in evolutionary biology—my exact field—but kept it confidential. Internal emails now show this was no accident.
Last month, the America First Policy Institute released internal Cornell emails showing the university conducted an effort to recruit what the search committee referred to as a “diversity hire.” One committee member described the process bluntly: “What we should be doing is inviting one person whom we have identified as being somebody that we would like to join our department and not have that person in competition with others.” That “somebody,” who is black, was selected not because of research excellence, but because of race. I was denied the chance to compete—so were other academics who might have been qualified.
This discriminatory practice, conducted in coordination with Cornell’s Office of the Provost—led at the time by current Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff—violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race. That’s why, with representation from the America First Policy Institute, I’m taking legal action against Cornell.
What makes this worse is the university’s continued dishonesty. This year, Mr. Kotlikoff wrote: “We do not exclude anyone at Cornell for reasons irrelevant to merit, neither do we admit or evaluate students, hire or promote employees, award chairs or tenure, or make any other merit-driven decisions at Cornell based on race, ethnicity, or other attributes not relevant to merit.” The leaked documents show otherwise.
In addition to orchestrating the discriminatory hiring scheme, Cornell created other racially filtered hiring pipelines, including a $16 million National Institutes of Health-funded initiative called the Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation program. or First. This program, the stated purpose of which is “enhancing compositional diversity,” required hiring committees to revise applicant lists repeatedly until they were diverse enough. If the applicant pool wasn’t diverse enough, the process was paused for “additional robust outreach.” . . .

You can read the rest from Colin Wright.

To be white is to be persona non grata at Cornell and other Ivy League universities. They hate white people, and will engage in illegal discrimination to prevent white people from being hired. As I’ve been saying for years, The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved.



 

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In The Mailbox: 07.30.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | July 31, 2025 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

MAGA in 4D

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Electric Buses Catch Fire at Orlando Theme Park
EBL: The Queen of The Sea, Oh to be in England, Philby, 8.7 Earthquake Rocks Russia Kamchatka Peninsula, and National Wing Day
Twitchy: Dunkin’ Joins The “Gene” Ad Game – Triggers Woke Wave Of Whining Wusses, Mollie Hemingway & Sean Davis Shred Brennan & Clapper’s Lying NYT Op-Ed, and Harrison Ford Decries The Economics That Made Him A Multi-Millionaire
Louder With Crowder: Fitness influencer gets cyberbullied into apologizing for Hulk Hogan praise, learns hard lesson, If you think this week’s Sydney Sweeney controversy is ridiculous, remember when she threw her mom a “MAGA Party?”, WNBA player needs a time out when her wig falls off, but what the ref does to a fan is the real embarrassment, and Kathy Hochul’s pathetic excuse for Zohran Mamdani’s vile anti-cop attacks needs to be marveled at and studied
Vox Popoli: 12 Days and Counting Down, Seas of Blood (Hold the Line), The Globalist Charade, and Europe’s Coming Lost Decades
Incensepunk Magazine: Event Horizon
Defending The Wood Perilous: The Based Books For Male Readers Sale, A Labor of Love, 
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Well
Cedar Sanderson: Where Had The Rum Gone?
Jim McCoy: Seriously, Narcissa Malfoy Is Not A “Strong Woman”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Time Has Come for Trump’s America-First Realism
American Greatness: Coalition of Dem AGs Sue Trump Administration Over Effort to Wean Noncitizens Off of SNAP Program, House Appropriations Bill Includes $315 Million For Pro-Censorship ‘Democracy’ Org Trump Wants Defunded, Senate Confirms Trump Nominee Emil Bove to Seat on Third Circuit Court of Appeals, When the Guns Go, So Does Gotham: Mamdani’s Dangerous Dream, and Michigan Dems Propose Bill Seeking to Prosecute and Jail ICE Officers Who Wear Masks to Protect Their Identity
American Thinker: Donald Trump Versus The Epstein Smear, Public Records Lead To Allegations About ActBlue Mortgage Chicanery, Trump Tames Europe, Not Cutting or Unwinding – Trump is Refocusing Medicaid, and Today’s Democrats – Progressive, Prosperous, and Deeply Unhappy
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, Animal’s Daily Poor Excuses News, and Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Hellcat Mike Catches A Dime, Australia Wants To Jail Man For Holding Blank Sign, Texas Samsung Fab To Build Tesla Chips, The Case Of The Playboy Monk, and Sig Sauer P320 Root Cause Found?
Behind The Black: India and China complete launches, Curiosity looks back, A Webb false color image of a planetary nebula, Next Starship moves to launchpad for static fire testing, and Thales Alenia ships the orbit insertion module for the Mars sample return mission
Cafe Hayek: Trump’s Tariffs are Protectionist, Not Revenue, Protectionists’ Command of Facts and of Theory Is Weak, On U.S. Trade Deficits and Global Demand for U.S. Dollars, and Canadians Are Putting America First!
CDR Salamander: A Death In The Pacific
Chicago Boyz: Minerals and National Power, Bring Back the Socratic Method, and Grocery Customers of New York City Unite!
Da Tech Guy: DaTechGuy’s 1st Rule for the use of any AI: Sources & Links (Must credit DaTechGuy)
Don Surber:  How Sydney Sweeney got the job
First Street Journal: If you are not calling on Hamas to surrender and release the hostages, your cries about people suffering in Gaza are worthless, The “Affordable Housing” Problem, and Democrisy! Democratic congresscritter, a brave fighter for the Little People, shows off her privilege
Gates Of Vienna: All Your Flower Are Belong to Us, The Swedish Church Shills for the Palestinians, Vox Says “The Muslim Brotherhood is a Real Threat to Europe”, Nice Little Country You’ve Got Here – Be a Shame if Anything Happened to It, and Youths on the Rampage in Limoges
The Geller Report: Der Stürmer Lashes Out By Declaring Support for Terror State, Harvard Offers to Pay $500 Million to Settle With Trump Administration, Muslim Candidates and the Threat to American Freedom, UCLA Will Pay Over $6 Million to Settle Lawsuit Over Anti-Semitic Discrimination In ‘JEW EXCLUSION ZONE’, and Trump’s New Weapon to Slash Spending Without Congress
Hollywood In Toto: How Penn’s Crossing Guard Brought Out Best in Nicholson, Oh, Hi! Takes Rom-Coms in Bracing New Direction, New Progressive Play Castrates, Murders David Mamet, Legacy Media Journos Enter Final Stage of Colbert Grief, and Will Media Cover Jewish Comedians Canceled in the UK?
Legal Insurrection: Nation’s Largest Teachers’ Union Erases Jews From the Holocaust, Trump’s EPA Poised to Slam Stake into Heart of Obama’s Climate-Grifting ‘Endangerment Finding’, Cops Nab Three Suspects in Cincinnati Brawl, Cincinnati Police Chief Chastises Journalists: Social Media Videos Depict Only ‘One Version’ of Attack, and Kamala Harris Not Running for California Governor
Matt Taibbi: Hoax on Hoax?
Outkick: Buford High School Builds Magnificent $62 Million Stadium That Should Have College Football Teams Jealous, Don’t Let The Flying Green Dildo Distract You From Angel Reese’s Laughably Bad Night, Eugenio Suarez Lands With Seattle Mariners Hours Before Trade Deadline, Dodgers Curse Strikes Again – Shohei Ohtani Exits Start With Trainer, and Danica Patrick Wears A Microkini That’ll Melt Libs, Another Sydney Sweeney Ad & Angel Reese Vs. The Backboard
Power Line: A Rogue Judge Begs For Reversal, Endangerment endangered, Washington Post backs Trump, and How Liberal Prosecutors Subvert the Rule of Law
Shark Tank: Moody Blasts Democrats Continued Refusal To Confirm Trump Nominees
Shot In The Dark: Hacked, Pick Yer Poison Or Peggy Will Pick It For You, and Journalism Today
The Political Hat: Empowering “Family Friends” In California, The Untraditional Right, and Stakeholder Capitalism Isn’t
This Ain’t Hell: Return of Fort Hood, Donald Trump gives Vladimir Putin 10 to 12 days to ‘end the killing’, Why Details Matter, Bill Maher admits to getting it wrong about President Trump’s tariffs, and Sydney Sweeney jeans/genes advertisement triggers the woke brigade
Transterrestrial Musings: Starship’s Fate, The Beginning Of The End, The Climate Movement, “Journalists” Covering The Middle East, and Indicting Barack?
Victory Girls: Booker Blows Up: Calls Party Complicit
Watts Up With That: Young people are growing tired of climate alarmism, The Climate Change Cult Is Encountering More Resistance These Days, Judith Curry’s Take: New Climate Assessment Report from US DOE, and FWS is violating its own eagle-kill regulations
The Federalist: The Democrat Party Has Always Been As Foul As Jasmine Crockett, EXCLUSIVE – Clapper Crew Threatened Whistleblower Who Refused To Sign Off On Fabricated Intel Assessment, Administration Finds Millions of Individuals Double Enrolled in Taxpayer-Funded Coverage, Thousands Of Russia Hoax Documents Found In FBI Secret Room In Burn Bags, and Deranged Claims That Sydney Sweeney Jeans Ad Is ‘Racist’ Are Why No One Trusts The Corporate Press
Mark Steyn: Words That Jangle in Your Head – The Songs of Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Who’s Got Troubles? Bob Hoskins in The Long Good Friday, Summertime, Britain on the Brink, and The State as Liar

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In The Mailbox: 07.30.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | July 30, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.30.25 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Based Books for Male Readers Sale!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg HATES Self-Defense
EBL: Black Cod, Lockheed claims it has something “magical” up its sleeve, Trump message to Putin – FAFO, and Kuroda Bushi
Twitchy: Gov. DeSantis Tosses Miami Herald’s Alligator Alcatraz “Drive-By Attempt” Into Fake News Shredder, Hilarious Jarvis Thread Of New Sydney Sweeney Movies Is The Comedy Relief We All Needed, and Socialist “Defund The Police” Hypocrite Zohran Mamdani Glad He Has His Own Personall NYPD Security Detail
Louder With Crowder: Jasmine Crockett throws hissy fit over glowing profile of her out of fear it wouldn’t praise her enough, NBC News lashes out at Sydney Sweeney and her, quote, “cultural shift toward whiteness”, and WNBA player needs a time out when her wig falls off, but what the ref does to a fan is the real embarrassment
Vox Popoli: What a Fine Idea, The “Brigitte” Macron Scandal Explodes, Cracks in the Pedocracy, Never Go to Ground, and Europe’s Century of Humiliation
Defending The Wood Perilous: Tropes vs. Life
Jim McCoy: The Great 99 Cent Starter Sale
Weird Catholic: What Happened to Lazarus?
The Bugscuffle Gazette: I miss clocks
The Abbey of Misrule: The Life Exchange

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Dana Loesch: The Moronic Backlash Against Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle Ad
Don Surber: Harvard Trumped
Matt Taibbi: European Censorship Accelerates

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Reluctantly, I Add My Two Cents to the World-Historic Sydney Sweeney Discourse

Posted on | July 30, 2025 | Comments Off on Reluctantly, I Add My Two Cents to the World-Historic Sydney Sweeney Discourse

This seemed like it was going to be one of those weird social-media episodes that would get a few laughs and disappear before I could be bothered to write about it, but then ABC’s Good Morning America felt the need to weigh in on the Sydney Sweeney Nazi Jeans Scandal, and so here we are, on a Wednesday, still talking about it.

Making a sophomoric double-entendre — “jeans”/“genes” — American Eagle employed This Year’s It Girl to promote their product: “Great jeans,” get it? And were it not for the fact that Donald Trump is president and half of our fellow citizens are in a state of panic-stricken hysteria, this not-remotely-clever ad campaign would never have become such a thing as to attract scrutiny from Major National News Organizations. But the same deranged mentality that justified baseball taking the All-Star Game out of Atlanta because Joe Biden called their election law “Jim Crow 2.0” continues to prevail among the kind of people who voted for Kamala Harris, so I find myself on a Wednesday being compelled to comment on an advertising campaign for overpriced blue jeans.

YOU PEOPLE NEED TO GET A GRIP!
GO OUTSIDE AND TOUCH GRASS ONCE IN A WHILE!

Excuse me for shouting, but there is actual important news that I would much rather be commenting about, were it not for the major media pandering to the psychiatric foibles of neurotic leftists and thereby forcing me to express my opinions regarding Sydney Sweeney and her unusually large, pendulous breasts. Stop twisting my arm, guys.

Sydney Sweeney is “ugly and startling”? What?

The internet has been quick to condemn the advertisement as noninclusive at best and as overtly promoting “white supremacy” and “Nazi propaganda” at worst. These critics point to the copy and the implication of calling a white person superior because of their genes. . . .
The advertisement, the choice of Sweeney as the sole face in it and the internet’s reaction reflect an unbridled cultural shift toward whiteness, conservatism and capitalist exploitation. Sweeney is both a symptom and a participant.

DO YOU NEED ME TO START SHOUTING AGAIN?
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?

Deep breaths. Calming down now. What this reminds me of is how, during the height of the 2020 George Floyd Summer of Love, there were a lot of SJW types promoting concepts of “structural racism” and “systemic oppression,” so that traits like good grammar and punctuality were condemned as symbolic expressions of white supremacy. And this is supposed to help black people how? Stigmatizing good behavior as “racist” was unlikely to have the effect that progressives imagined. Plenty of people after hearing such claims might reasonably conclude that if, e.g., showing up for work on time is “white supremacy,” then maybe white supremacy isn’t so bad after all. But even if they didn’t reach that conclusion, you’re still not helping matters by making such far-fetched accusations of white supremacy, as in Aesop’s fable of the boy who cried “wolf.” If you run around calling everybody a Nazi, nobody’s going to pay attention to you if you ever do succeed in finding an actual Nazi.

It has been pointed out, by the way, that the CEO of American Eagle is Jay Schottenstein, who is most certainly not a Nazi. In fact — it should not be necessary to say this, but it’s 2025 — you’re not endorsing Nazism, or white supremacy, or eugenics, merely by acknowledging the hereditary nature of such traits as blue eyes, blonde hair and enormous gazongas.

Jeff Goldstein: “Genes are a real thing. It’s ok to acknowledge them. Heredity isn’t Nazi.” Where did anyone ever get the idea that simply recognizing biological reality — children resemble their parents — is some kind of dangerous “hate speech”? What really inspires these hysterical denunciations of Sydney Sweeney? Is it mere ignorance, or is it some kind of emotional disturbance rooted in envy and insecurity?

We may have reached Peak Godwin’s Law this week, and I would hope that the Serious Journalism People are so embarrassed by this that they will re-think their life choices and repent of their sins. As for me, it’s Wednesday, so I’ve got to get working on the Anschluss before I demand the Sudetenland, and I think you know what comes next.



 

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In The Mailbox: 07.29.25

Posted on | July 30, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.29.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Catching up is hard to do, and I don’t think it’s going to happen today.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Hunter Biden 2028: Hookers and blow for everybody!

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Top Five Scenarios For The Future of the EU
357 Magnum: Armed Citizen Stops Mass Stabbing
EBL: Sydney Sweeney, The Biggest Shrimp I’ve Ever Seen, The Mulligan, MAGA Trade Deal with European Union, and Tom Lehrer – Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
Twitchy: “Spartacus” Booker Having Another Tantrum On The Senate Floor About Everything, AFT Passes Resolution “Protecting Public Education Against Right-Wing Extremism”, and Cincy Police Chief (Who’s Being Sued For Discrimination) Blames Social Media For Mob Violence
Louder With Crowder: Stephen Colbert’s legion of loyal fans takes to the streets to protest his cancellation – all twelve of them, also,  Too many Americans love Sydney Sweeney, so of course, AWFL TikTokers think she’s fascist propaganda
Vox Popoli: France Recognizes Palestine, More Talk Talk, Clown World Calls Time, Euro 2025 Women’s Final, and What Strength?
Cedar Sanderson: Writing A Love Story
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Warrants & Oaths, also, Warrants & Writs
Defending The Wood Perilous: Men’s Reading Club? 
Upstream Reviews: The Reluctant King
Jim McCoy: The Golden Age of the Solar Clipper

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: All The Expanded Shipyard Capacity Won’t Help If We Don’t Do This First
Dana Loesch: Trump Delivers Trade Deal With EU, also, Five Dead Including One NYPD Officer In NYC Shooting, 
Don Surber: Hoist The Flag
Matt Taibbi: Private Equity & Insurance – You Bet Your Life…And Maybe Your Pension! also, The End of an Era – Conventional Wisdom Is Dead,
STUMP: 2024 Top U.S. Causes of Death by Age – Preliminary

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WaPo Finally Dumps Dishonest Partisan Propaganda Merchant Glenn Kessler

Posted on | July 28, 2025 | Comments Off on WaPo Finally Dumps Dishonest Partisan Propaganda Merchant Glenn Kessler

Today is a glorious day of celebration, and if you want to know why I call Glenn Kessler a “dishonest partisan propaganda merchant,” this Breitbart thread on X is a good place to begin, although of course it could never contain every bullshit “fact check” in Kessler’s long and odious career of bullshit fact-checking. When future historians examine how the mainstream media lost all credibility, Glenn Kessler’s career at the Washington Post will certainly deserve its own chapter. The man is to media credibility what Gavrilo Princip was to the empires of Europe.

Ace dowses Kessler in gasoline and lights him on fire:

As you know, the Washington Post sent out an email telling its woke staffers that they should accept the “voluntary” buyout package if they felt they could not “align” with the Post’s new non-woke agenda. The not-so-subtle implication was: Either take the buyout or you’ll be fired and just get the customary two-weeks’ paycheck.
All of the left-wing propagandists are outing themselves, resigning because they know for a fact they cannot be objective and do not wish to be. They wish to be paid propagandists.
The Washington Post will not be replacing Kessler with another “fact” checker. Apparently the Post’s new management has realized that left-wing “fact” checking is just Democrat-Communist propaganda dressed up to look like neutral reportage.
Kessler made that fact painfully clear, even to the water-heads of the Washington Post. . . .
Kessler wanted the buyout because he knew he would be fired in August if he didn’t take it, but “offered” to keep doing left-wing “fact” checks until they found a replacement for him.
And management told him “No thanks, we’re good, clear out your desk.” . . .

In other words? Exit, lying.

After the news broke of Kessler’s departure, I considered writing up a Short History of Fact-Checking as an American Spectator column, and might still do so, but that’s likely to be a 3,000-word opus and there was no way I could do the topic justice in a single day. To condense it severely, however, “fact-checking” began after a series of events, beginning in the mid-1990s, which caused mainstream media to become concerned that they were losing control of the narrative-building function that is essential to their value as “Democratic operatives with bylines.” After the 2002 mid-term elections (when Democrats lost seats, where historically they should have gained seats), David Brock launched Media Matters to try to discredit alternative media, and it was just around that time that “fact-checking” became a thing. Here is a brief snippet of something Glenn Kessler wrote in 2014:

The [fact-checking] trend kicked off in the United States, largely in response to the domestic media’s failure to properly vet the Bush administration’s claims about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in the run-up to the 2003 invasion. There are now three main fact-checking organizations based in the United States: FactCheck.org, founded in 2003 in affiliation with the University of Pennsylvania; PolitiFact, created in 2007 by the Tampa Bay Times; and The Fact Checker, created in 2007 by The Washington Post. Countless local newspapers and television channels run their own on-air fact-checking programs, especially during election seasons.

In his telling, then, it was opposition to the Bush administration’s Iraq policy which inspired the creation of “fact-checking,” which is to say, it was a partisan political effort to help Democrats, period. Never mind the errors of Bush’s Iraq policy. When did the major media ever feel the need to organize against any Democratic administration’s policy, foreign or domestic? What pissed them off was the Republicans were winning elections — remember John “Swift Boat” Kerry? — and the liberal media believed “right-wing” media (Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, etc.) was to blame for this. “Fact-checking” was about attacking Republicans and defending Democrats, and it was never about anything else.

Anyway, I might expand that brief summary to a detailed 3,000-word column, but not right now. I’m exhausted from all this dancing in glee. We are so #winning and the liberals are so #losing.



 

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