In The Mailbox: 05.14.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | May 14, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.14.25 (Afternoon Edition)

“Episcopal Church refuses to resettle Afrikaners, ends partnership with Federal government”

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
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EBL: DNC Vice Chair David Hogg Experiences FAFO, also, Extinct Animals The Ancient Egyptians Saw
Twitchy: Here’s What Debbie Dingell Claims She Was Thinking About With Her Eyes Closed During A Hearing, Episcopal Bishop Says Helping White Folks Contradicts Their Mission, and Jerry Nadler Calls Shri Thanedar’s Impeachment Push “Idiotic”
Louder With Crowder: David Hogg calls for Democrats to help young men get laid… so now the DNC is voting to fire him from his job, UK police ransack home of former officer over claims of an antisemitic tweet… except it wasn’t, and now he’s suing, Why The Left Hates White Refugees Fleeing South Africa, and Remember Bernie Sanders’ “Oligarchy Tour” on a private jet?
Vox Popoli: Putin Calls Out Kiev, Science “Discovers” Auras, The Narrative is Always Wrong, Col Macgregor Calls Out AIPAC, and Empathy is Uncommon
The Bugscuffle Gazette: You Are An Idiot, Part 1
Stoic Observations: My Middle Class Revisited,
Toni Airaksinen: Yale Graduates Wield “Vulva Energy” To Fight Climate Change In “The Anthropussy” Zine
Postcards From Barsoom: Monster Podcast Update
Upstream Reviews: Allies of Convenience,

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Don Surber: Red China accepts 30% tariff
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Commentary Roundup On The Big Beautiful Bill

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‘He’s No Stranger to Us’: The Problem of Our ‘Revolving-Door’ Justice System

Posted on | May 14, 2025 | 1 Comment

On the afternoon of April 1, 2024, a woman ran into a convenience store in the Tampa suburb of Seffner, Florida. Her face was covered in bruises, according to Ashraf Zakhar, the clerk who was working the counter: “She was screaming and crying and said ‘I need help. I need help.’ She just ran to the bathroom and locked herself in.” The clerk called 911 and police showed up. It turned out that the woman had been held captive for more than two months, beaten and terrorized by 48-year-old Walter Medina.

Habitual criminal Walter Medina

Medina was previously convicted of false imprisonment — twice. The first time he was convicted was in the 90s and the second time was in 2010. He served four years in prison for the more recent conviction.
“He’s no stranger to us,” said Amanda Granit, a public information officer with the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. “The details of this horrific case that we’re talking about this week also appear to be what he’s done in the past.”

Is it too much to ask that, when police catch a dangerous criminal, the courts sentence the perp to something more serious than a slap on the wrist? Whatever the sentence was the first time Walter Medina committed false imprisonment, certainly his sentence should have been more than four years the second time he committed the same crime.

Do the prosecutors and judges in Hillsborough County have no understanding of their role in securing public safety? It is unfortunate that some people — obviously including some judges and district attorneys who ought to know better — think of prison in terms of punishment and, on the basis of that mistaken premise, they proceed to the erroneous belief that it is “mercy” to avoid imposing lengthy sentences on convicted criminals. Perhaps they need to talk to the victim in this case, and ask her what she thinks about the “mercy” of putting a vicious animal like Walter Medina back on the streets.

If the criminal justice system fails to protect the public from such monsters — violent repeat offenders — what good is “democracy”? A government that does not protect the life, liberty and property of its citizens has failed in the only purpose that any legitimate government serves. Of course, some criminals will evade justice, because cops can’t catch every suspect, but what about a case like this? The cops did their job, twice apprehending Walter Medina, and obtaining evidence sufficient to convict him, but somewhere between the guilty verdict and the time the judge pronounced sentence, something went badly wrong. However much time Medina served in the 1990s for his first conviction, it wasn’t enough to deter him from re-offending, so that he faced justice again in 2010 — and yet got only four years behind bars?

Bad enough that a woman was heinously abused because the Hillsborough County courts failed to put Walter Medina away for 15 or 20 years, but do you have any idea how many lives were put at risk in order to catch Medina this time? See, in fleeing from Hillsborough County, Medina made the mistake of heading east into Polk County.

If you know anything about Sheriff Grady Judd, you know that Polk County is just about the last place any criminal wants to be. So the Polk County deputies found Walter Medina, who led them on a chase onto I-4, where the Florida Highway Patrol took over and chased the perp into Orange County. Video of that pursuit is one of the scariest I’ve ever seen, and I’ve watched a whole lot of police chase videos.

Not only were dozens of innocent motorists endangered by Medina’s reckless driving, but the troopers chasing him were also endangered. That alone should be enough for a 10-year prison sentence, beyond and above whatever the sentence is for what Walter Medina did to that poor woman he held captive for more than two months. It would be wrong if this vile human stain ever gets out of prison, but certainly he ought not to be turned loose before 2050. Lock him up and throw away the key.

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In The Mailbox: 05.13.25

Posted on | May 14, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.13.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Unsurprisingly, I was too exhausted last night when I got into Vegas to do anything blogwise.
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Pope Leo’s response would most likely be something along the lines of “My son, you have no power here.”

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Canada’s War on the Disabled, also EV Fires Becoming a Much Bigger Problem
EBL: Antarctica Before It Froze, San Diego Bay showing signs of improvement after reef balls installed, Cocktails for Two, Happy Mother’s Day, and US China Trade Deal?
Twitchy: Double-Take Earthquake, Venezuelan Gang Targets Rural America, and Pelosi Set Straight On Republicans Ripping Away Health Care From Millions
Louder With Crowder: Male pitcher from Tim Walz’s state is dominating girls’ softball, but he says he’s trans, Turns out Pope Leo’s brother is pretty BASED, Jasmine Crockett says YOU’RE the ones who are “inherently” violent, Nashville Mayor sells out taxpayers, creates new fund to help illegals with housing and more, and Amazon driver busted using a customer’s home as a toilet… more than ONCE in the same day
Vox Popoli: When Society Fears its Veterans, The Emptiest of Threats, Build a Reserve, What Shakespeare Really Wrote, and Will Trump Put America First?
The Bugscuffle Gazette: My Heart Has Joined The Thousand, also, Why Do You Still Listen?
Stoic Observations: The Asymmetry Of Truth, also, A Barbell Strategy
Upstream Reviews: Majority
Toni Airaksinen: Help Me Visit Israel?

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CDR Salamander: The U.S. Navy Is Sleepwalking Into Defeat
Dana Loesch: RFK Jr.’s Troublesome Autism Registry
Don Surber: Trump had a great weekend; the media did not
STUMP: Ohio STRS Update – Teachers Losing Control?

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Rule 5 Sunday: San Romero Knights

Posted on | May 11, 2025 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This young lady is cosplaying Juliet Starling from the video game Lollipop Chainsaw, in which Ms. Starling is a cheerleader/zombie hunter dealing with a zombie outbreak at her high school on her birthday. Evidently a pretty good game if you like chopping up zombies with chainsaws.
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Rip and tear!

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Papal Election Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Mother’s Day Is Coming, Ksenia Karoline, “We’ll Meet Again”, Trump Ends Medical Torture Of Beagles, MAGAtraz, The Stock Market Has Recovered, The Accountant 2, “Cinco De Mayo”, Camila Cabello, May The 4th Be With You, and Careme.

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: The Karate Kid – Rayna Vallandingham, Fish Pic Friday – Deidra Outdoors, The Pope is Still Dead, Hungover, The Wednesday Wetness, Tattoo Tuesday, MDDNR Seeks Women, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday

BACON TIME: Rule 5 Friday – How I Like My Eggs Cooked

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FMJRA 2.0: A Week of Wins!

Posted on | May 10, 2025 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: A Week of Wins!

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Just an amazing week to be a Senators fan. First we swept the Cubs at Wrigley behind Carl Morton and Joe Coleman, with Charlie Hough picking up Game #2 in relief of Spaceman Lee, then we came home to face the troublesome A’s, and took the first two games behind Jim Kaat and Steve Foucault, who came in from the bullpen and held off the A’s long enough for Dave Kingman to hit a sayonara homer (his 28th) in the bottom of the 13th with two on to pull out a 9-6 win after Blue Moon Odom and Charlie Hough blew a 6-2 lead in the 7th. Game #3 saw a memorable implosion by Spaceman Lee, who blew a seven-run lead in the 5th, and we wound up losing that slugfest 12-8. Still, we’re 53-59, half a game behind the Twins, who we’ll face on Tuesday, hopefully turning them into dog food on our way to the playoffs and (maybe) a .500 record.
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When Teddy Baseball is happy, everybody’s happy! Have a Moxie!

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FMJRA 2.0: Out of the Cellar (Again)
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Rule 5 Sunday: In & Out
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God and Man at UW-Madison
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The Greatest Legal Mind of Our Era

Posted on | May 10, 2025 | 1 Comment

The brilliant young legal scholar

MADISON, Wisconsin
As mentioned previously (“God and Man at UW-Madison”), a distinct #resistance attitude prevails among faculty here, and yesterday’s law school commencement ceremony included several expressions of unmistakably progressive sentiments, uttered with an apparent certainty that everyone in attendance shared these feelings. Amid such provocations, I maintained my composure, and probably no one noticed that I wasn’t applauding enthusiastically for speakers who expected to be cheered for mouthing clichéd “social justice” platitudes.

The occasion of my son Jefferson obtaining a law degree was something I wasn’t going to let be spoiled by politics, no matter how hard the faculty tried. At a Thursday reception for the graduates, my wife and I had a wonderful conversation with the law school dean, a friendly and cheerful fellow, and the thought occurred to me during Friday’s ceremony — two-and-a-half hours, giving me plenty of silent thinking time — that perhaps I could write the dean a letter, reminding him that (a) Donald Trump was elected with a margin of 2 million votes last year, carrying Wisconsin with a 30,000-vote margin, (b) probably at least 40% of the parents in attendance at UW graduation events are Republican voters, and therefore (c) perhaps it would be wise to avoid turning commencement ceremonies into progressive tent-revival sermons. Even if there is a near-zero representation of Republicans on the university faculty — clear evidence of a discriminatory hiring policy — it might be a mistake for state university administrators to “let your freak flags fly” at graduation, less the Republican-controlled legislature take notice. But I digress . . .

Making his Mama proud

The Journalistic Father and His Legalistic Son

Never mind the politics. Law school is a crucible, and Wisconsin is consistently ranked among the nation’s best (#28 in the latest U.S. News rankings), so Jefferson’s achievement is remarkable. We are very proud of him, and hopeful for his future. Way to go, kid.

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In The Mailbox: 05.09.25

Posted on | May 10, 2025 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
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Via Small Dead Animals: Half in Alberta & Saskatchewan Call For Vote On Independence

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: 18-year-old Killed for TikTok Challenge
EBL: Robert Francis Prevost now Pope Leo XIV, also, Biden’s Broke?
Twitchy: It’s Not A Circus Without The Clowns, British MP Who’s “Uncomfortable With Racism” Finds Out What Uncomfortable Really Means, and Ben Dreyfuss Tries To Rewrite History To Make Dems The Hero Of Biden’s Ouster
Louder With Crowder: Bill Gates makes unhinged accusation that Elon Musk is literally killing people with his DOGE cuts, Democrat thought leader Jasmine Crocket would rather play ‘Trump or Trans’ than do her job, and Colorado passes radical new law outlawing “deadnaming” of trans people
Vox Popoli: The Controlled Opposition, Go With the Flow, and They Won’t Protect You
According To Hoyt: All The Trouble In The World, Meeting The Impossible, Check Things Up, and This, That, And Making The Assistant Happy
Monster Hunter Nation: Archangel: Fallen
Upstream Reviews: The Last Iota

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American Conservative: TAC Right Now: How Strong Is Anti-War Conservatism?
American Greatness: Trump Appoints Fox News Host Judge Jeanine Pirro as Interim US Attorney, Justice Department Launches Criminal Investigation Into New York AG Letitia James, FBI Reportedly Reassigns Agents Who Took a Knee at George Floyd-BLM Tributes, and AG Bondi Says FBI Is Reviewing Tens of Thousands of Epstein Videos With Hundreds of Child Victims
American Thinker: The Death of the Good Life in Minnesota
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Papal Election Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For May 9
Behind The Black: Crash prediction for Soviet-era Venus probe narrows, Rocket Lab’s as-yet unlaunched new Neutron rocket gets military contract, China hints that it is moving forward with expansion of Tiangong-3 space station, and Academics in space community scheme to continue their racist DEI policies
Cafe Hayek: Protective Tariffs Are Punitive Taxes Imposed by Governments on Their Own Citizens
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: How Did This Building Figure in a Supreme Court Case? also, Thinking, Memorizing, and AI
Da Tech Guy: Pro Tip on the Catholic Faith
Don Surber: Call Off Your Dogs, Chief Justice
First Street Journal: As always, the credentialed media report on an individual point, and miss the real story, also, When Will Bunch refers to a prelate as Archbishop Rush Limbaugh, you know that prelate must be a good one!
Gates Of Vienna: Nature Provided a Not-So-Auspicious Omen About the New Pope, also, She’s a Real Threat to Herself
The Geller Report: President Trump Appoints Judge Jeanine Pirro interim Head of the DC US Attorney’s Office, Syrian Muslim Fighters Kidnap, Rape, Forcibly Convert, Sexually Enslave Young Female Victims, GOP Speaker Cancels Vote That Would Have Slashed $9.3 Billion in Wasteful Spending, FBI Opens Formal Criminal Probe into Corrupt New York AG Letitia James, and Trump Appoints Ed Martin As Special Counsel to Root Out Political Corruption in D.C.
Hollywood In Toto: Why New Trump Biopic Could Be Doomed to Fail, Take Two – Clown in a Cornfield, and Nonnas – Now, That’s Italian!
The Lid: Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders Says He is Too Important to Wait in Line at Airports
Legal Insurrection: Plastic Surgeon Calls ‘Gender Affirming’ Surgery a Scam, Measles Outbreak the Worst in 25 Years With Over 1,000 Cases, Asian American Group Files Complaint Alleging Yale Still Discriminates on Basis of Race, Newark, NJ, Mayor Arrested After Storming ICE Facility, and NYPD Raids Anti-Israel Encampment at Brooklyn College in Chaotic Scene
Matt Taibbi: How I Almost Went To The Clink Over One Letter
Outkick: North Carolina Shoots Down Story That Bill Belichick’s GF Is Banned From Football Facilities, Red Sox Ownership Forced To Meet With Difficult Star Rafael Devers After Public Complaints, The First Ticket Packages For The 2026 World Cup Are Ungodly Expensive, A KFC In Winnipeg Re-Branded In Honor Of Jets Forward Kyle “F–king” Connor, and Alina Habba In A Tiny Red Dress Has MAGA Barking, AT&T Lily In Fatigues & Surprise, A Race-Baiting NBA Lib!
Power Line: Crooks found in P.D. lobby, The missing recession, The long arm of the law, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Fla. Budget In Shambles As War Between Senate & House Heats Up
Shot In The Dark: No Evidence At All, also, Welcome To The Party Pal
STUMP: Habemus Papam! On Retirement Planning And Pope Leo XIV
The Political Hat:Firing Line Friday: What Are Our Young Novelists Up To?
This Ain’t Hell: Baseball shooting report “butchered” by FBI, Valor Friday, and Fund Drive Time- Once Again Into the Breach
Victory Girls: Democrats’ Shock Troops Gear Up for ‘Protest Summer 2025’
Watts Up With That: Drax Pull Cruachan 2, In Another Blow To Mad Miliband’s Net Zero Plans, Grauniad Bleats “… Urgent Theatre … the key to tackling climate change”, Net Zero Fades As the Deluded Cling to Its Fantasy, and The Graph That Lied
The Federalist: Whistleblower Documents Implicate NARA In Second Get-Trump Criminal Case, NY Court Greenlights Even-Year Voting Law That Republicans Say Rigs Elections Against Them, Texas Indicts 5 County Officials In Voter Fraud Investigation, Dear Justice Sotomayor, Your Left-Wing Partisanship Is Showing, and How Greg Abbott Took On RINOs And Teachers Unions To Pass The Country’s Best School Choice Bill
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet – One Over The Eight, Kashmiri Songs, Free and Unfree, and Conclave Watch: We Have A Pope!

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God and Man at UW-Madison

Posted on | May 9, 2025 | 2 Comments

MADISON, Wisconsin
Today is the big day for son Jefferson and, because of what’s called “diploma privilege,” his graduation from the University of Wisconsin Law School means he automatically qualifies for the state bar, without having to pass a bar exam. However, he plans to practice in another state, so he’ll still be going through the bar-exam ordeal there. Yet, qualifying for the Wisconsin bar means that he gets to call himself an attorney right away, which counts for something as these things are reckoned.

Inside the ornate Wisconsin State Capitol

Looking up State Street toward the Capitol

After careful consideration (see “A Happy Week for the Family”), we decided against the toll-free route through Chicago, and instead paid a toll to avoid the new Pope’s hometown. The revised route was also shorter, and we were checked into our hotel by 1:30 Central time. Jefferson was busy taking his last exam, so we met up with his girlfriend and walked from our hotel over to the Capitol, a splendid and impressive bit of Beaux-Arts architecture. After gawking at the elaborate wonder of it all, we then walked down State Street toward the UW campus. If you’ve never been to Madison, let me tell you that State Street is one of America’s great party zones. There are dozens of bars, plus restaurants and boutiques of various kinds. It was a pleasant walk on a sunny spring day, and then we got down to the campus and waited until Jefferson could join us, whereupon we went to eat at a Mediterranean restaurant.

The boy’s a babe-magnet.

The Mediterranean Cafe is nice, and I recommend the Roti Chicken. What I do not recommend, however, is university faculty surrending to Trump Derangement Syndrome, as is the case in Wisconsin:

University of Wisconsin-Madison professors have joined their colleagues at Big Ten schools to formally say they’re frustrated by the Trump administration’s cuts to research funding and efforts to dictate policy on campus.
This week the university’s Faculty Senate, a group of more than 2,200 professors on campus, voted to approve a “Mutual Defense Compact.” The vote followed similar efforts by faculty on other Big Ten campuses.
The resolution urges Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin to help establish a “Mutual Academic Defense Compact.” Under the compact, all participants would “commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund.”
The money would provide support to any member under direct political or legal infringement. . . .
On April 22, Mnookin was one of about 300 college and university presidents to sign a letter opposing “the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education.” . . .
Last month, UW-Madison and several of the other Big Ten universities were included in a letter from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights warning that there would be potential action concerning alleged violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination.

Talk about “climbing up on the cross”! So eager are these academics to be seen as martyrs of “government overreach and political interference” that they’ve joined a “Mutual Defense Compact” to defend against a threat that would seem to be entirely hypothetical, if not indeed imaginary. Has the Trump administration so far taken even a nickel of federal funding away from UW-Madison? And if UW-Madison is not tolerating “antisemitic harassment and discrimination,” what have they got to worry about? It’s just a symbolic “resistance” gesture.

It is worth noting that Trump carried Wisconsin by a margin of 30,000 votes last November, winning 59 of the state’s 72 counties. Republicans hold majorities in both chambers of the Wisconsin legislature. Why can’t the faculty at UW-Madison read the writing on the political wall? Don’t they care about democracy? Do the faculty imagine that making left-wing “resistance” gestures will encourage the state’s voters to repent their Trump-leaning tendencies? Because I suspect such gestures will have the opposite effect. As left-leaning as Madison itself may be (Kamala Harris got 75% of the vote in Dane County), most of the state is a lot more Republican and, if you look at the trends, Wisconsin may be following such other Midwest states as Iowa, Missouri and Ohio in going from battleground “purple” to solid GOP “red.” For the faculty of the state university to be spewing Trump hatred is likely to accelerate such a trend. I’m only in town for a graduation ceremony, but nonetheless feel obligated to warn UW-Madison against committing political seppuku.

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