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In The Mailbox: 04.09.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | April 9, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.09.25 (Afternoon Edition)

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: What Happens After You Defund the Police?
EBL: Lawrence…Lawrence of Arabia, also, How are the markets today?
Twitchy: Navy Admiral Refuses To Hang Trump & Hegseth Portraits, Gets Fired, She Must Have A Colt Following, and Straight Fire Thread Shows How Trump Exposed Politicians & Pundits
Louder With Crowder: CNN forced to admit Donald Trump is a “soaring eagle” delivering on his promises to Americans in “historic fashion”, Democrat leader Jasmine Crockett DEMANDS more illegal immigration because, quote, “we done picking cotton”, Teen athlete gives emotional testimony over trans student replacing her, being told her protest was like wearing a swastika, Scott Jennings calls out CNN’s hypocrisy on the economy, reminds them of Biden’s recession, and Meta engineer ADMITS company abuses H-1B Visa to favor foreign applicants over Americans
Vox Popoli: Recognizing Churchianity, Disinformation on US Tariffs, The Last Librarian, The Ultra-Rich Condemn Robin Hood, and 104 and Counting
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Speed Warping
Jim McCoy: Toil & Trouble
Gab: The Case For Bringing Back American Grit

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: G7’s Looks To Sea
Dana Loesch: RUMOR MILL – Is A Hot-Tempered Florida RINO Targeting A Charitable Organization?
Don Surber: Media uses an Army bash to bash Trump
Matt Taibbi: Timeline – A Recent History of Tariffs, also, Take The NPR “That’s Not Funny!” Challenge
STUMP: RIP Val Kilmer – Revisiting “How Young Is So Young To Die?”

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In The Mailbox: 04.07.25

Posted on | April 8, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.07.25

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

“Truth is, kid…the game was rigged from the start.” – Benny, Fallout: New Vegas

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Stand and Deliver – A Movie You Probably Haven’t Seen, also Another Wrong-House SWAT Raid
Director Blue: When Lisa Met Pete
EBL: MAGA : Markets Continue To React To Trump Tariffs, Winsome Sears for Governor of Virginia, Bohemian Roberts with Norm Eisen, Interesting things you might not have known about Olivia Newton John, and The First Dire Wolf Howl in Over 10,000 Years?
Twitchy: An Assassination Culture Is Developing On The Far Left, Dollar Store Obama Claims MAGA Extremists Are Starving Tots For Tax Cuts , and Bill Maher & Andrew Cuomo Say The Quiet Part Out Loud About Jasmine Crockett – Cue The Screeching
Louder With Crowder: Two men shatter glass ceiling, make it to finals of WOMEN’S billiards tournament, Lunatics protested in American cities against Donald Trump and Elon Musk and here’s who funded them, JD Vance goes beast mode on Democrats who care more about illegal aliens than they do their American victims, California legislature axes two bills aimed at protecting women’s sports in spite of Trump’s executive order, and Pro-life journalists gets viciously assaulted by pro-abortion activist enraged over a basic question
Vox Popoli: Globalization is Over, Unthinkable Evacuations, It Was Roger All Along, I Did Warn Them, and The Seventh Librarian
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Ackshualllly Tariffs May Work
Upstream Reviews: The Big Sheep, 
Draw & Talk Comics: Something I Need To Open Up About
Defending The Wood Perilous: Part One – We Live In a Fairytale
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Ugh. Monday. 

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Ukraine and Gaza Bring Shame to America
American Greatness: The Poverty of the Criticism of Trump’s Agenda, Supreme Court Rules Trump May Use 1798 Law to Deport Illegal Alien Gang Members, DOGE Reports 2.1 Million Social Security Numbers Were Issued to Illegals in 2024–and Many of Those People Voted, Actions v. Words, and Trump Trolls California’s Democrat Senators During Dodgers White House Visit
American Thinker: We Didn’t Start the Trade War—We’ve Just Finally Joined It, The Fruits of Trump’s Audacious Policies, Trump’s Tariff Play – The Art of the Economic Reset, The Least Dangerous Branch No More, and The Hill of Lies
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Tank Cannon Vs. Head, Two Big Booms, and Are Trump’s Tariffs Working?
Behind The Black: Space Force awards SpaceX, ULA, and Blue Origin $13.7 billion in launch contracts, SpaceX launches another 28 Starlink satellites, Soil bacterium from Earth can both make and repair bricks made from Moon-materials, The mighty scale of Mars’ geology, and British MP proposes his government’s vast bureaucratic skills be given the power to regulate all space
Cafe Hayek: Freer Trade Would Satisfy Neither Trump Nor the NatCons, also, And Yet Another Open Letter to Oren Cass
Chicago Boyz: Tariffs and the Industrial Distribution World, also, James “20%” Carville
Da Tech Guy: Fan AI Fiction: Hogan’s Heroes in “The Desert Rats Great Escape” , also, It’s Amazing What You Can do if You Don’t Give a Damn What Your Enemies Think
Don Surber: Stay the course on tariffs
First Street Journal: The death of the Lexington Herald-Leader, also, That thing that never happens has happened again
Gates Of Vienna: Everybody Must Get Stoned, Welcome to Sharia City, Texas, Appomattox: Lest We Forget, Overthrowing Ludwig the Last, and The Wonderful Smell of a Burning Koran
The Geller Report: Introducing Hamid Patel, Britain’s New Education Boss, Enemy Within: Bombshell Study Reveals ‘Assassination Culture’, China’s Stock Market Sees Worst Crash, Largest One-Day Decline Since 1997, Massive Ramadan Terror Attack in Jerusalem Foiled, and CNBC FAKE NEWS HEADLINE Sends Markets Soaring Then Spiraling 1000s In Just Minutes
Hollywood In Toto: SNL Mocks Elon Musk But Not Democrats Torching Teslas, Neil Young – Poster Child for Free Speech Hypocrisy, Pro-Jewish Documentaries Wake Sleeping Culture, The Spirituality of White Lotus, or Why [Censored] Had to Die, and Indie in Name Only?
The Lid: Despite Media’s Attack on Tariffs Trump’s Approval Rating Rises, also, The Meaning of Aliyah: A Journey Toward Freedom and Responsibility
Legal Insurrection: U.S. Military Opposition to the Trump Administration A Matter of Concern, Missouri AG Threatens to Seize China-Owned Assets to Enforce $24B Judgment for Covid Pandemic, Five International Students at UMass Have Their Visas Revoked, SCOTUS Vacates Judge Boasberg’s TROs As To Tren de Aragua Under Alien Enemies Act, and D.C. Appeals Court Blocks Trump From Firing NLRB, MSPB Employees
Nebraska Energy Observer: Did you know about this?
Outkick: Caitlin Clark Effect Still Being Felt, As UConn’s Final Four Title Game Ratings Show, Florida Gators Overcome More Than Just Expectations To Win National Championship, Stephen A. Smith Running For President Is More Real Than It Sounds , HS Girl Gives Powerful Testimony About Being Replaced By Transgender Athlete, and Paige Spiranac Dusts Off Her Tiny Green Jacket, Nancy Mace Debuts A Crop Top & Tiffani Amber Has A Stalker
Power Line: Margin Call, Goodbye to Venezuelan Gang Members For Now, and Hands Off What?
Shark Tank: DeSantis Labels FL House “Obstructionists” In Latest Infighting
Shot In The Dark: Outbreak of Reason, also, Missing The Forest For The Dust
The Political Hat: Blog Downtime
This Ain’t Hell: Congressional Democrats demand answers regarding book bans at service academies, Spirits on the Footprint of Freedom, Navy vet passes on, Bloated University staff contributed to tuition changing to $93,064, and Don’t want Chinese on US Posts?
Transterrestrial Musings: Jurassic Park, Here We Come, Thoughts On The Current Market Chaos, and Britain Is Lurching Toward A Civil War
Victory Girls: Savannah Craven Assaulted—Because Facts Hurt Feelings, also, The Left Is Finally Telling the Truth: They Justify Violence
Watts Up With That: Court Delivers Massive Blow to Famed Climate Scientist Who Sued Critics, Climate Change Driving California’s Golden Road to Decline, The Hill Misleads – Trump’s Energy Policy Won’t Damage the Climate and Will Advance American Interests, Ecologists Question Renewable Energy Sprawl, and Fresh Evidence Emerges That Global Vegetation Growth Reaches New Highs Due to Increased CO2 Fertilisation
The Federalist: SURVEY: 55% Of Self-Identified Leftists Say Killing Trump Is Justifiable , 5 Dems Who Voted For Election Security Reform Won’t Say If They’ll Support The SAVE Act Again, 3 Pennsylvania Officials Plead Guilty To Election Fraud – And 2 Are Still In Office, Why Transhumanists Like Elon Musk Can Never Be Conservative, and If Congress Doesn’t Step In, Rogue Judges Will Trans The Military
Mark Steyn: April in Paris (Naked), also, Mack the Knife

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Hitler, the Nobel Prize and ‘Grease’

Posted on | April 7, 2025 | Comments Off on Hitler, the Nobel Prize and ‘Grease’

Truth is stranger than fiction, it is proverbially said, and such is the course of history that events and people can be connected in ways that you never imagined. Certainly I never dreamed that the hit musical Grease could be connected to a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and a World War II military intelligence officer, until yesterday I fell down one of those research rabbit-holes into which I’m so prone to stumble.

In 1933, the Nazis came to power in Germany, and Jews were purged from German universities. Among the victims of this purge was a physics professor at the University of Göttingen whose students had included a young fellow named Robert Oppenheimer — maybe you’ve heard of him. Among the professor’s assistants at Göttingen were such important physicists as Enrico Fermi and Edward Teller. The professor had been recommended for the 1928 Nobel Prize by Albert Einstein, but instead the honor went to one of his colleagues. When Hitler came to power and the professor was purged from the university, he emigrated to England, teaching first at Cambridge University before eventually taking a faculty position at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

Max Born

After relocating to the United Kingdom, Professor Max Born published Atomic Physics, which quickly became the standard textbook in the field. He retired at age 70 in 1952, and two years later — through the efforts of his peers and former students including Fermi — Max Born was finally awarded the Nobel Prize for his “fundamental research in Quantum Mechanics.” In retirement, he returned to his native Germany, where he died at age 87 in 1970. But that’s just half the story . . .

In 1935, the son of a school teacher from Cardiff, Wales, got his bachelor’s degree from Cambridge University, with honors in German and French. The young scholar’s name was Brinley, and his fluency in German soon made him very valuable to his country. When World War II broke out in 1939, Brinley joined the Royal Air Force, and was assigned to military intelligence (MI5). Among his duties was gathering information from captured German prisoners. He reportedly worked on the top-secret “Enigma” decryption project and was the officer who took Nazi henchman Rudolf Hess into custody. After the war, Brinley taught high school in Cambridge until 1954, when he moved to Australia, becoming a university dean and later a host of radio and TV programs.

Brinley Newton-John

Well, I said his name was Brinley, but I didn’t tell you that his surname was Newton-John, because that would have spoiled the surprise. You see, in 1937, Brinley “Brin” Newton-John married a girl named Irene Born, whom he had met when her father Max Born was teaching at Cambridge. In 1948, Brinley and Irene’s youngest daughter Olivia was born.

Irene Born and Brinley Newton-John, circa 1935

In her autobiography, Olivia Newton-John wrote:

“My parents might have never met at Cambridge University if my mum didn’t have such a keen ear for beautiful music. . . . One day, she heard a man singing in a deep baritone voice and she couldn’t take another step. She actually followed the voice. Mum always said she fell in love with the voice before she ever saw him. . . . Mum was brunette, classically beautiful , and carried herself in a most elegant way. Dad was six-foot-three, fair-haired, with movie-star good looks and that beautiful aristocratic voice. Need I say more? What a beautiful couple.”

Until I stumbled down this rabbit hole, I never would have guessed that Olivia Newton-John was half-Jewish, much less that her maternal grandfather was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist. That her father was MI5 during World War II and played a role in capturing Rudolf Hess — well, this is the whipped cream and cherry on the top.

Olivia Newton-John as Sandy in ‘Grease.’

So how did I end up down this rabbit hole? Blame the dadgum YouTube algorithm. Lying down for a Sunday afternoon nap, I was watching police videos — my usual bedtime habit — and was scrolling through when I saw a short video about Olivia Newton-John and clicked on it. The soundtrack of the clip was “Let Me Be There,” her 1973 top 10 hit that earned her a country music Grammy award. What I loved most about that song was the bass vocal harmony, and after watching that short video, I wanted to find out who had sang that part, so I did a Google search for the answer (Mike Sammes), but in checking Olivia Newton-John’s Wikipedia biography, I was startled to learn about her grandfather.

Wait, did I say “startled”? What I meant to say was, I got chills, they’re multiplying, and I’m losing control . . .

 



 

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Rule 5 Sunday: Eva Sinclair

Posted on | April 7, 2025 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Eva Sinclair

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I do believe we have @kbdabear on X to thank for this luscious latex-clad babe.
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ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Queen of Word Salads Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Top Secret!, “Tutti Frutti”, How Silly Can You Get, The Saint, Planet of the Apes, MAGA – Liberation Day, Val Kilmer RIP, Rossa Matilda Richter, Plane, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Mobland, and Captain Horatio Hornblower

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Ka Ty, Maryland, My Maryland, Fish Pic Friday – Stephanie Hutcheson, Tattoo Thursday, Crab Season Open, The Wednesday Wetness, Southern Maryland Mammoth Found, Tuesday Tanlines, Chicks at the Wheel, So Looking Forward to Trump’s Third Term, The Monday Morning Stimulus, The Woman Behind Trump Steps Forward and Palm Sunday

BACON TIME: Rule Five – A Trip To Hooterville

 

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In The Mailbox: 04.06.25

Posted on | April 6, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.06.25

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Going to try and get a jump on things to avoid the Monday pileup.
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OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Stock Markets React To Trump Tariffs, The Doors, Judge Paula Xinis Finds Out She Has No Authority, and A Complete Unknown
Twitchy: J.K. Rowling Roasts International Asexual Awareness Day, We Aren’t Doing This Again, and Oklahoma Softball Coach Scoffs At Reporter’s Question About Riley Gaines
Louder With Crowder: Police catch liberal woman vandalizing a Tesla, and the Police Chief claims SHE’S the real victim in all this, Kamala Harris tosses the word salad about “FEAR,” but she’s no FDR, and 2028 Dem frontrunner AOC lacks courage to answer reporter when asked if her rhetoric is to blame for anti-Elon violence
Vox Popoli: The Problem of Popularity, It’s Not a Theory, Saving Democracy, The Zelaznyan Ceiling, and The NFL Attacks Divisions
Cedar Sanderson: The Five Finger Rule
Upstream Reviews: Crossing Over, April New Releases, 
The Bugscuffle Gazette: The Rules of Stupid, In Defense Of Free-Range Childhoods
Stoic Observations: The Curzon Problem
Bacon Time: Winter Is Over
Postcards From Barsoom: Your Questions Answered

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
STUMP: The Week In Meep
This Ain’t Hell: WWII Bletchley vet dies, also, Air Force bucks Trump admin order regarding preferred pronouns in email signatures
Watts Up With That: Oil & Gas Turning Poor Countries Into Economic Miracles, Wake up call for UK energy planners, and The Left’s Localvore Betrayal: Tariffs Expose Climate Hypocrisy
Mark Steyn: Requiem for a Louse: Tony Curtis in Sweet Smell of Success

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FMJRA 2.0: The Royals, With Cheese

Posted on | April 6, 2025 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: The Royals, With Cheese

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The Epic Indie Sale is on!
We took two out of three from the Pirates on Monday (our only loss was to Gaylord Perry, who served up greaseballs to everybody), and got home from Las Vegas Friday just in time to get wiped out in a two-game set by Kansas City, which meant we were 2-3 for the week. I guess it could have been worse; we could have played three games against the Royals and gotten swept. Next up are Pete’s Brewers on Tuesday.
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FMJRA 2.0: A Short Week
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In The Mailbox: 04.01.25 (Morning Edition)
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UPDATE: Liberal Wins in Wisconsin After GOP Wins Two Florida Special Elections
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In The Mailbox: 04.02.25
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‘A Dumpster Fire of Lies’: Netflix Series Race-Swaps British Crime Trend, Journalists Treat It Like a Documentary
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In The Mailbox: 04.03.25 (Morning Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 04.04.25
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Texas Murder: An Exclamation Point on My Argument About ‘Adolescence’

Posted on | April 5, 2025 | Comments Off on Texas Murder: An Exclamation Point on My Argument About ‘Adolescence’

Matt Walsh’s Daily Wire article is “members only,” so in case you’ve been hiding under a rock — or getting your news from the mainstream media — I’ll summarize what happened in Frisco, Texas, this week: A high school junior, Austin Metcalf, was stabbed to death Wednesday morning at a track meet by a senior from another high school, Karmelo Anthony. It was raining Wednesday morning. The various teams at the track meet each had set up awnings in the bleacher area around the stadium so that their athletes could get out of the rain (or, had the weather changed, to be sheltered from the sun). For reasons that have yet to be explained, Anthony, who attended Centennial High School, decided to get under the awning of the team from Memorial High School, which Metcalf attended. Members of the Memorial team objected to Anthony’s uninvited presence in their area, and Metcalf was trying to enforce the eviction:

One witness told an officer that they were sitting with Metcalf under their school’s tent during a track meet at the stadium when someone they didn’t know, identified as Anthony, came over to them.
The witness said Metcalf told Anthony to leave the tent when Anthony grabbed his bag, opened it, reached inside and said, “touch me and see what happens.” The police document said no one thought Anthony had a weapon.
One witness said Metcalf touched Anthony, and another said Metcalf grabbed Anthony.
Anthony then pulled out a knife and stabbed Metcalf once in the chest before running away, according to police.

“Touch me and see what happens.”

That’s probably evidence of what a lawyer would call premeditation.

Austin Metcalf was stabbed right in the heart. He was white, his killer was black. We can easily imagine what the media coverage would be like if the races of killer and victim were reversed. Immediately, it would be assumed that racism — “RAAAAACISM!” — was the motive, and there would be a thousand op-ed commentaries about the lessons to be learned from this shocking hate crime. As it is, however, the possibility of this being a crime inspired by racial hatred isn’t getting any media attention.

Now consider this in light of the recent media buzz around the Netflix series Adolescence. My Thursday post (“‘A Dumpster Fire of Lies’: Netflix Series Race-Swaps British Crime Trend, Journalists Treat It Like a Documentary”) got a lot of interesting comments, so let me add a coda.

As a conservative journalist, one point I try to keep in mind is that, if it weren’t for liberal bias in the media, there would be no need for conservative journalism. If the media — including both news and entertainment media — were providing a balanced and objective view of reality, then my work of pointing out the media’s lies, distortions and omissions would be unnecessary. This point is often missed when people get angry over media coverage of sensitive issues like race, sexuality, crime, immigration, etc. Unless we are mindful of what we’re doing, conservative journalists are at risk of being mistaken for ax-grinders.

All of which is a roundabout way of saying, I plead not guilty.

Whatever liberals want to accuse me of, whatever labels they want to slap on me — “far-right extremist” or whatever — they are missing the point. It does not matter what my opinions may be on any particular policy issue, or how my opinions might be categorized, what actually matters are the failures of media institutions. In the particular example of Adolescence, we can say that Netflix has failed by producing a misleading depiction of youth violence and that the news media have failed in their coverage and commentary about this phenomenally popular series.

We may predict with absolute certainty, based on prior history, the next phase of the media campaign around Adolescence. Critics of the series will be labeled “far-right,” etc., for pointing out the vast gulf separating (a) the reality of youth violence in England and (b) the way youth violence is depicted in the Netflix series. The media are treating Adolescence as if it were documentary, and thereby encouraging officials to base public policy on the screenwriter’s imagination, rather than on the reality of juvenile crime. Do I have opinions about effective crime prevention policy? Yes, and I suppose some of those opinions might be considered controversial, but that’s irrelevant to the controversy around Adolescence. The point is, this dramatization should not be made the basis of public policy, which is what the media are trying to do.

What I did in my 3,000-word post Thursday was to point out that the writers of Adolescence had cited three specific incidents in England where teenagers had committed fatal stabbings as the inspiration for their project. Upon investigation, none of these crimes remotely resembles the plot of Adolescence, which is about a young boy who “has been deeply disturbed by school bullying via social media centred on incel subculture.” The creators of Adolescence have talked extensively about their desire to provoke a discussion of “young male violence,” but “didn’t want to blame the parents,” and thus settled on “the attraction of the so-called ‘manosphere'” as the teen killer’s motive.

It is therefore highly relevant that (a) no fatal stabbing by a minor in England has ever been attributed to such a motive, and (b) the alarming rise of knife attacks in England has mainly involved minorities from immigrant communities, rather than white boys like “Jamie Miller,” the protagonist of Adolescence. Despite this, the media commentary — e.g., MSNBC calling the Netflix series “a necessary lesson in modern day masculinity” — treats the dramatic fiction as if it were a documentary.

Now, from Texas, we get the unexpected exclamation point. Media accounts of the stabbing death of Austin Metcalf are woefully lacking in background information about the killer, Karmelo Anthony, and this dearth of information is . . . Well, mystifying might be the proper adjective. A heinous murder happens, and we expect reporters to dig up facts about the suspect that might give us clues to the motive. Was the accused teenager under some kind of stress? Did he have mental health problems? Were there “warning signs” that got overlooked?

Six weeks ago, Karmelo Anthony was brandishing an AK-47 and flashing gang signs, then the night before committing an atrocious murder, he posted a defiant photo to his Instagram account — so indeed, there were “warning signs” that got overlooked. But why do we have to rely on random X accounts to tell us these things? Why are the media so derelict in their journalistic duty? This is the real point, you see.

MSNBC isn’t calling this crime “a necessary lesson.” The media are not inviting us to engage in a discussion examining the social significance of this shocking murder. In case you were wondering — again, I must do the work the mainstream media won’t do — Frisco is about 30 miles north of Dallas. The town has boomed in the past 25 years, growing from a population of just 33,714 in 2000 to more than 225,000 now. The 2020 census found that the population of Frisco is 48% white, 26% Asian, 12% Hispanic and 9% black. It is a very prosperous community with excellent public schools, and therefore we must ask, why was Karmelo Anthony posing with an AK-47 on Instagram and flashing gang signs like he was some kind of ghetto hoodlum? Also, since we’re asking questions, this seems rather obvious: Why bring a knife to a track meet?

Good luck finding the answers to those questions in media coverage of this horrifying murder in Texas. Just try to keep in mind it is the gap between reality and media coverage that’s the real story. We wouldn’t be here if the media told the truth. What would Scott Adams say?

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In The Mailbox: 04.04.25

Posted on | April 5, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.04.25

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Last night’s linkagery came to naught since Boulder Station’s wifi network took offense to something about my laptop.
Next time I’ll just stay at the Cannery or the Stratosphere.
Meanwhile, the usual weekly deadlines are in effect for the usual weekend posts.
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If Stacy had written the script for Zulu…

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Texans Are Still Armed, also, Disney Hates Strong Women
Director Blue: Clinton Cash – The Graphic Novel
EBL: Val Kilmer RIP, Dems Are Trying To Buy Elections (and rain is known to be wet), MAGA Liberation Day : Make America Wealthy Again, The Saint, and Top Secret!
Twitchy: CNN Complains Bombing Houthis Is Too Expensive. Trump Disagrees & BOOM Go The Houthis, Mayoral Candidate Pushes Poll That “Proves” NYC Residents Want Government-Run Grocery Stores, and DNC Chair Announces Unelected “People’s Cabinet” Of Experts To Fight Trump
Louder With Crowder: Liam Neeson is remaking the 80s classic The Naked Gun, and God help us, this actually looks hilarious, House Democrats would rather STORM OFF than vote to end “gender affirming care” for troons, They tried forcing a female fencer to compete against a (trans) man, but she took this brave stance instead, The Media Wants You To Believe Trump Deported A Loving Father – They’re Lying, and Scott Jennings shuts down CNN libs who claim there is buyer’s remorse for voting Trump
Vox Popoli: Russell Brand Arrested, An Echo of Eco, China Hits Back, It’s Just the Opening Bid, and Shall We Step Into the Narrative?
According To Hoyt: The Green Man of Greypec — reading the future of the past, April Fools, On Being An Example, and A snippet from 9 AD: The Crossing of the Rhine by Tom Kratman
Stoic Observations: Small Steps Towards WWID
The Bugscuffle Gazette: The “My Bad” $20, also, We Promised To Publish Boys’ Adventure Books
Jim McCoy: Sunrise On The Reaping
Upstream Reviews: Beyond The Shallow Grave

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: This Is What an Actually Effective Filibuster Looks Like, also, U.S. Economy Added 228,000 Jobs in March, Beating Expectations
American Greatness: Obama-Appointed Judge Orders Trump Administration to Return Alleged MS-13 Gang Member to the U.S., Judge Considers Holding Trump Admin Officials in Contempt of Court Over Illegal Alien Deportations, Police Chief in Minnesota Refers to Tesla Vandal as ‘Victim’ of ‘Rhetoric’, Sen. Rand Paul on Trump’s Tariffs: ‘Taxes Should Not Be Enacted By One Person’, and Democrats File Lawsuit To Block Trump’s Executive Order Requiring U.S. Citizenship to Vote
American Thinker: Trump’s Tariffs Will Not Cause Inflation, Cory Booker and an MS-13 Massacre, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pronouns, Make IRS Sauce The Same For Both Citizen Goose and Politician Gander, and What’s the Real Target of the Assault on Tesla?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, Animal’s Daily Deportation News, Animal’s Hump Day News, Animal’s Red Thursday News, and Rule Five Queen of Word Salads Friday
BattleSwarm: Texas Not Taking EPIC City Sitting Down, Asmongold Watches Cop In Shootout Listening To Asmongold, Democrats Still All In On Transing Your Kids, DOGE Discovers Giant Social Security Fraud, and LinkSwarm For April 4
Behind The Black: China: samples from the near and far sides of the Moon are different, Engineers use simulated moon dust to make glass, White dwarf binary discovered only 150 light years away is a major supernova candidate in about 23 billion years, Fram2 private manned mission splashes down safely, and Another “What the heck?!” image on Mars
Cafe Hayek: Even Trump Doubts His Tariffs, Daniel Hannan on the Logical Contradictions in the Case for Trump’s Tariffs, More Economic Lockdowns, MAPA, and So Much Winning!
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday, also, Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Tariffs, Conclusion: The Secret Voyage of the Kofuku Maru, About That New York Times Article, Retrotech: Sending Photographs Under the Ocean in 1925, and The Tesla Takedown
Da Tech Guy: An AI Generated April Fool’s Carol, also, We Don’t Talk About Biden
Dana Loesch: Eric Adams’ Case Is Dismissed, 
Don Surber: Krugman v. Trump on tariffs, also, NYT reports on the resistance
First Street Journal: This is what winning looks like, #Hamas and the #Palestinians have told us who they are; why are so few people willing to believe them? Another Philly illegal immigration sob story, and The left want to control language – don’t let them!
Gates Of Vienna: Culture-Enriching Wife-Killer Receives Justice in Padiglione di Osimo, The Grown-Ups Are Back In Charge of Anti-Jihad Policy, Marine Le Pen: “There Are Millions of French People Who Are Outraged”, Honor Killing in Lessebo, and End of the Line for Marine Le Pen?
The Geller Report: WINNING! Vile Anti-American Globalist WEF Founder Klaus Schwab Resigns, U.S. Govt Bans American Government Personnel From Any S*xual Relationships with Communist Chinese, The Good Guys Are Back In Charge of Anti-Jihad Policy, Hamas Deletes Thousands From Gaza Death List, Including Over 1,000 Children, and London’s Muslim Mayor Slams Jews in Eid al-Fitr Greeting to Muslims
Glenn Reynolds: Congress on Easy Mode
Hollywood In Toto: The Canceled TV Show That Refuses to Die, Val Kilmer Never Shined Brighter Than in The Doors, Bill Burr Executes Perfect ‘Clown Nose On’ Backpedal, A Minecraft Movie Misses the Whole Point, and September 5 Draws Powerful Distinction Between Good and Evil
The Lid: Trump Admin has Deported 100K Migrants Since Taking Office, White Track Star Stabbed During Match by Black Student, Media Silent, DOGE Uncovers Absurdly Wasteful $380K Monthly Contract for VA Website Maintenance, and Elon Musk and DOGE Discover Biden Gave 2.1 Million Social Security Numbers to Foreigners
Legal Insurrection: Trump Tells Harvard to Address Antisemitism or Lose Billions in Federal Funding, Supreme Court Stays MA Dist Court Order That Trump Disburse Education Grants, Over Chief Justice Roberts Objection, Hungary PM Orban Announces Withdrawal from ICC During Netanyahu Visit, Colorado Senator Blames California and New York for Democrats’ “Toxic” Brand, and Alleged Tesla Vandal Regrets Everything When Confronted by Owner
Nebraska Energy Observer: Not repeating myself, Why England Matters, Memories, Ms. Smith goes to Washington, and Scattershot Friday of the People
Outkick: Ben Joyce Talks Torpedo Bats, Fastest MLB Pitch And Being Led By His Faith With The Los Angeles Angels, Texas A&M Set To Hire Bucky McMillan As New Basketball Coach, Alex Ovechkin Ties Wayne Gretzky For NHL’s All-Time Goal-Scoring Lead After Two-Goal Night, US Fencing Won’t Comment On Males Having Physical Advantages Over Female Athletes, and Gracie Hunt Gives Life Lessons In Her Underwear, CBS’s Jenny Dell Has A Tiny New Dress & Inverse Jim Cramer!
Power Line: It’s a long way to temporary, Sue the Bastards, GATT’s Nine Lives, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: DeSantis Blasts “Liberal Trial Lawyer Enrichment Scheme”
Shot In The Dark: Sic Transit Gloria Radio, In Literary News, Compare & Contrast, In This House Of Cards, and Berg’s 18th Law – It’s Not Just For Spree Violence!
STUMP: Pension Watch – March 2025
The Political Hat: Britain vs. Ninjas, The Scientific Fork In The Road: Queer Genomes or Catgirls, Quick Takes – Presidential Apotheosis: Birthday National Holiday; International Airport; Mount Rushmore, and Firing Line Friday: Should We Choose Our Presidents Differently?
This Ain’t Hell: Democrats protested the firing of General Tim Haugh, Army Training: Focus on Warfighting, Valor Friday, The Sea Devil, and President Trump’s transgender ban threatens an Army major’s desire to continue family legacy
Transterrestrial Musings: Grifterism, Hypocrisy, America’s Leftist Librarians, The Average College Student Today, and More Bad Space Reporting
Victory Girls: The Left: “Our Violence is Speech And Your Speech is Violence”, Former Chinese Ambassador Banned Dangerous Liaisons, and Michigan Town Halts CCP Battery Plant with Grassroots Push
Watts Up With That: Study: Ancient Megafloods Dwarf Today’s Extremes — But You Won’t Hear That on the Evening News, Global Bankers: The Paris Climate Accord is Dead, US Military Exits Climate Change After a Decade of Waste, and When Hackers Target the Grid – The unseen threat to your energy supply
The Federalist: Democrats Are Terrified Of Trump’s Plan To Make Elections Secure, No, The Senate Shouldn’t Let Even More Unaccountable Bureaucrats Decide What The Law Says, Snow White Bombing Was The Best Gift Hollywood Could Give Us, Colorado Democrat Bill Would Give Custody Of Kids To Parents Who Push Trans Mutilation, and Report: Medicaid Double Payments Cost Taxpayers $4.3 Billion In Three Years
Mark Steyn: A Hard One to Like: Mike Leigh’s Naked, Body and Soul, Democracy Dies in Plain Sight, Live Around the Planet: Corruption Everywhere, and The Lies We Tell Ourselves

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