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In The Mailbox: 01.17.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | January 18, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.17.25 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
I’m in Twitmo again through next week for tweeting that Mark Milley deserved a firing squad, so if someone could do us a favor and post links to our posts on X, it would be greatly appreciated.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

RIP to the greatest catcher on the 1964 World Champion St. Louis Cardinals. (Screw Tim McCarver, he was a shitty announcer.)

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Mayor of LA and the Governor of California Wanted the City to Burn
EBL: Bob Uecker RIP – Harry Doyle Funniest Moments, David Lynch RIP, Kristi Noem Senate Confirmation Hearing, CNN Found Liable For Defamation, and Former FBI Special Agent Jamie Mannina (and special assistant to Hillary Clinton) solicited underage girls for sex? 
Twitchy: Tim Walz Tries To Dunk On Trump For Moving Inauguration Indoors & Gets Rekt, SecDef Austin Surprisingly Informs Staff He’s Leaving, and Defund List Starts Here – Police Departments That Bailed On Protecting Trump Inauguration
Louder With Crowder: Bernie Sanders tries playing the “oligarchy” card with Trump’s Treasury Secretary, gets hit with a reality check, MAHA for the win! Another popular fast food chain is ditching seed oils, will now make their fries in beef tallow, and A pro-Trump video that parodies the 90s hip-hop classic “Humpty Dance? We’re so here for it
Vox Popoli: The Shadow Can Only Mock, RIP Howard Andrew Jones, So Stop the Scripting, Digging Ever Deeper, and Gender Discrepancy in Cancer
According To Hoyt: The Counterculture, The Banana Index, and Incompetence or Malice?
Monster Hunter Nation: Fisking MSN’s goofy take on my book dedication to George RR Martin
Stoic Observations: Rearview 2024
Toni Airaksinen: Profs claim math classes cause “intellectual trauma” to minorities

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: DeWine to Appoint Husted to Vance Senate Seat
American Greatness: 145 House Dems Vote Against Bill to Deport Illegal Aliens Who Commit Sexual Assault, Nearly Half of Federal Employees Say They Plan to Resist Trump’s Incoming Administration, Democratic Congressional Staffers Demand 32-Hour Work Week, Man Seen Starting Fires With Blow Torch in LA County Not Charged With Arson, and Pete Hegseth is the Leader Our Military Needs
American Thinker: What Jack Smith Left Out
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News, Animal’s Red Thursday News, and Rule Five Goodbye Biden Friday
Babalu Blog: Biden gives the Cuban dictatorship a gift on his way out, A bloody toast to celebrate U.S. concessions to Cuba, Cuban dictatorship confirms deaths of 13 soldiers at munitions explosion, still refusing to search for their remains, and Vatican and U.S. Catholic bishops cheer and praise removal of Cuba from list of terror-sponsoring states
BattleSwarm: “We’ve Been Through A North Korean Brainwashing Experiment”, Nine Months And GM Can’t Supply A Bumper, and LinkSwarm For January 17
Behind The Black: FAA demands SpaceX do “mishap investigation” into the loss of Starship yesterday, U.S and Norway sign deal to allow U.S. companies to launch from Andøya, China launches three satellites, one for Pakistan, One Martian ridge among many, and Has the tourist balloon company Space Perspective gone belly-up?
Cafe Hayek: Pandemonium, Not Policy, also, Capitalism Is Indeed Remorseless
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: The Fire Next Time, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, and The Lawless Actions of Lloyd Austin
Da Tech Guy: Looks like I Picked The Wrong Year to Close the Blogging Business, also, From “Genocide” to “Victory” in Just a Day or Why the Left and the Palestinians get along so well
Don Surber: Best farewell speech of my life
First Street Journal: It was never about “protecting democracy”, Killadelphia, You in a heap o’ trouble, boy, and How the severity of the California wildfires is Donald Trump’s fault
Gates Of Vienna: Beatrix von Storch: “This Law is Not Only Absurd, it is Also Dangerous”, The Charlie Hebdo Massacre, Ten Years On, The Koran Came to New Orleans, Alice Weidel to Olaf Scholz: “Germans Will Have to Bear the Damage You Have Done for Decades”, and I’m So Proud of My Son And His Meat Cleaver!
The Geller Report: $174 Million in Anonymous Contributions, also, Muslim CIA Analyst Admits to Leaking Israeli Strike Plans on Iran
Glenn Reynolds: Happy DJT Day!
Hollywood In Toto: Grooming Gang Exposes Massive UK Sex Abuse Scandal, Stephen King Says Cancel the Oscars, Dueling Bills – Maher Slams Dems While Burr Blasts Conservatives, Andrew Schulz Thinks Fire Fallout Will Turn California Red, and This Wolf Man Doesn’t Howl. It Whimpers
The Lid: Another Poll Shows Americans Think Joe Biden is the Worst President in History, We Can Change The World-Together, and California’s Largest Lithium Battery Plant Goes Up in Flames
Legal Insurrection: Recall Effort Against Gov. Gavin Newsom Ignites in California, Sen. Mazie Hirono Establishes that No Trump Nominees Have Made Unwanted Sexual Advances, Yale Course Wonders if Science Can ‘be Made Queer’, Jury Finds CNN Liable for Defamation of Navy Vet, and New Indiana Governor Signs Executive Order Eliminating DEI Within State Government
Nebraska Energy Observer: So the fires continue in Cali along with the demands for politicians to resign, Thursday of Anticipation Week, and Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Ohio State Could’ve Folded After Michigan Loss, But Jack Sawyer Says Buckeyes Chose ‘Option B’ For CFP, Dodgers Ruin Baseball Again, Sign Star Free Agent Roki Sasaki, Dispute Centered Around Rev-Sharing Leads To Xavier Lucas Leaving Wisconsin For Miami, Alex Ovechkin Set Another NHL Record As He Chases All-Time Goal-Scoring Mark, and Bill Belichick’s Girlfriend Is A Recruiting Thirst Trap, Gov. Kristi On The Beach & Flexible Sydney Smith!
Power Line: Thoughts from the ammo line, Today’s Biden jailbreak, Supreme Court Slaps Down Walz [Updated], and Why Would We Want Canada?
Shark Tank: Cammack Reintroduces Resolution To Ban Foreign Flags On House Floor
Shot In The Dark: Yesterday At The MN Supreme Court, The Bullets We Dodged, The Election Denier, Restraint Called For, and In Summary
STUMP: Chicago Downgraded, Still Investment Grade…For Now
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Killing Just Because: Killing Non-Medically; Killing The Mentally Disabled; Killing To Organ Harvest, Firing Line Friday: William F. Buckley Jr., Malcolm Muggeridge, and the World, and Will Genetically Engineered Interspecies Organ Transplants Get Us Closer To Genetically Engineered Catgirls?
This Ain’t Hell: “Harry Doyle”, Army vet, passes age 90, AWOL Austin: National Security Risk, Valor Friday, No beards for Marines outside of medical waivers, and Another Valor Friday
Transterrestrial Musings: New IFT-7 Schedule, BMI, Alternate Lunar Architectures, Another Barrier Falls, and “How I Became A Gun Person”
Victory Girls: Tammy Duckworth Dragged By Fox News Joey Jones
Watts Up With That:Massive Fire Engulfs Moss Landing Battery Plant, Triggers Evacuations, Gases from Asthma Inhalers Cause Negligible Warming, The Tennessee-BlackRock Settlement: A Win for Transparency and Investor Interests, and Will Blackouts Come to Britain?
The Federalist: An Embarrassment For Every Month: The Worst Blunders, Failures, And Flops Of Biden’s Final Year, Federalist CEO Sean Davis Drops Stunning Details About The Butler Trump Assassination Attempt In Tucker Carlson Interview, Wisconsin Court Race Is A Buyer Beware Election, Conservatives Say, Noem Confirmation Hearing Highlights How Much DHS Rot She’ll Have To Clean Out, and Good Riddance, Deb Haaland
Mark Steyn: It’s Paedos All the Way Down, An Imam at the Inaugural, A Higher Price, Sneering Prat Alert, and Live Around the Planet – Five Days To Go

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In The Mailbox: 01.17.25 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | January 17, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.17.25 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

From yesterday’s Commander Salamander post.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Princess Kate, Israel Hamas Cease Fire Deal, The Basques, David Bowie Lost Master Tapes, and The Great Eastern Hemlock Decline
Twitchy: What Jim Acosta Said Yesterday vs. Today’s CNN Verdict Is Shot/Chaser GOLD, Joe Concha Spots “Perfect Encapsulation Of Media Mindset” As Press Gears Up For Another Trump Term, and Adam Schiff Is Still Crying To Nicole Wallace After Getting Pwned By Pam Bondi
Louder With Crowder: Police rush to save a K-9 who was shot chasing down a cop-killing suspect, Oh no, you guys! Mike Pence is OPPOSING RFK Jr’s nomination as HHS Chairman, Let’s take a dump on Joe Biden one final time – his farewell address was a derptastic swan song, That Pulitzer Prize cartoonist who attacked MAGA for calling out groomers? He just got arrested for kiddie p0rn, and Sources: Hegseth’s Confirmation, Cali Wild Fires & Elon’s Free Speech Fiasco
Vox Popoli: “Considerable Disdain for Him”, Ceasefire in Gaza, and The Real Victim is John Scalzi
Bugscuffle Gazette: Throwback Thursday
Toni Airaksinen: The Anti-Israel Institute Critics Call A “Terrorist Think Tank”
Cedar Sanderson: The Backyard Berry Book
Jon Del Arroz: The Media Sure Changed Their Mind About Neil Gaiman

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Dana Loesch: Trump Case Report Volume 1, also, DeSantis Picks AG Moody To Replace Rubio In The Senate
Don Surber: Oops
STUMP: 2023 Top U.S. Causes Of Death By Sex & Age Group, Finalized

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GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!

Posted on | January 17, 2025 | Comments Off on GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!

If you’re going to make the liberal media pay for their wrongdoing, try to find yourself a jury in Panama City, Florida:

A Florida jury on Friday found CNN liable for defaming a Navy veteran who helped evacuate people from Afghanistan after the US military withdrew from the country in 2021.
The six-person jury said CNN had to pay damages totaling $5 million. There will be a second phase of the trial to determine any punitive damages. The verdict followed a two-week trial in Panama City, Fla., state court.
A CNN representative said the network would not comment until the jury decided punitive damages.
Plaintiff Zachary Young sued CNN in 2022, accusing the Warner Bros Discovery unit of destroying his reputation in a segment on “The Lead with Jake Tapper” by branding him as a profiteer who exploited desperate Afghans by charging exorbitant fees.

Heh heh heh. Ace of Spades notes that the jury asked the judge if they could have access to a calculator in determining punitive damages, which is not a favorable omen for CNN. Panama City is in Bay County, which voted 73% for Trump, so this trial is sort of the reverse of — perhaps, in some sense, vengeance for — Trump being taken to trial in Democrat-dominated Manhattan. Let’s hope they max the punitive damages.



 

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Least Surprising News of the Week?

Posted on | January 17, 2025 | Comments Off on Least Surprising News of the Week?

I’m not surprised. You’re not surprised. Nobody’s surprised:

A Trump-bashing, Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist — whose illustrations have been published by the Washington Post, New Yorker and Los Angeles Times — was arrested for possession of child pornography.
Darrin Bell, the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartoons, was busted Wednesday and booked in California’s Sacramento County after detectives from the Internet Crimes Against Children unit were tipped off by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, law enforcement officials said.
In a search of Bell’s home, detectives found 134 videos of child pornography linked to an account owned and controlled by the 49-year-old married father of four as well as computer-generated artificial intelligence child pornography, authorities said Thursday.

One hundred thirty-four videos — this is not a trivial number and, from another story, this important point:

The investigation began when detectives fielded a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that someone was uploading 18 files of child sex abuse videos, the sheriff’s office said.

Uploading, not downloading — you see the significance? In other words, this was not about him merely getting illegal material from the Internet, but rather him acting as a supplier/distributor of aforesaid material.

Where did this father of four children obtain these videos? Did he actually produce the videos, thereby directly victimizing children?

“Allegedly,” I hasten to add. Far be it from me to commit libel by forgetting to add “allegedly.” Of course, some people are less careful.

Obviously, I would never call someone a “pedophile” on the basis of mere allegations, but to quote other people calling Darrin Bell a pedophile? Well, that’s just what we professional journalists call “reporting,” see?

“Darrin Bell, Pulitzer-Winning Cartoonist, Faces Child Pornography Charges,” is the New York Times headline, and perhaps a judge would consider it an obvious inference from such a headline for someone to call Darren Bell a pedophile, but a professional journalist would never make such a mistake. Instead, we might do a Google search (Darrin + Bell + pedophile) to see if other people were calling him that, and then share that with readers, so that they would be fully informed.

Journalism is a noble calling — a “sacred mission,” to quote Jen Rubin, who may or may not be suffering from tertiary syphilis.

UPDATE: Dana Pico at First Street Journal has a good roundup of reaction to the arrest of Darrin Bell, thoughtfully including a translation of Jugendverderber (which I had deduced from context). However, Dana carelessly omits the word “allegedly” from his post, which omission I expect him to correct in an update.



 

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In The Mailbox: 01.16.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | January 16, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.16.25 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Maui’s (and Los Angeles’s) Deadly Firestorm, AG Nominee Pam Bondi’s Confirmation Hearing, and Are Oaks In Trouble?
Twitchy: Ga. State Senator Who Exposed Fani Willis Shoved Then Arrested By Speaker Of Ga. House, Axios Sounds The Alarm Bells – CEOs Can Now Say Whatever They Want, and Justine Bateman DROPS Staffer For Trying To Delete Pics Of Mayor Bass Partying While LA Burned
Louder With Crowder: That scumbag Eagles fan who went viral? Turns out he is (or WAS) a woke DEI advisor with pronouns in his bio (UPDATED), Pam Bondi Puts Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) On Blast: “You were the only one who refused to meet with me”, and Scott Jennings drops the mic on Pete Hegseth’s performance with four simple words: “He kicked their @$$es”
Vox Popoli: Neil Gaiman Doesn’t Believe All Women, Calling Out the Publishers, Reading List 2024, and They Deserve Their Fate
Cedar Sanderson: Joy Stands on the Hilltops
Stoic Observations: Hands-Free Driving
Ammo.com: Gun Violence Among Black Americans

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: 1000 Drones vs. Our DDG
Don Surber: Trump splits the press, also, Who’s sorry now, Germany or Hamas?
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Another humpday shrapnel post

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Ashkenazi Jews Have the Highest IQs on Average, But Then There’s Jen Rubin

Posted on | January 16, 2025 | Comments Off on Ashkenazi Jews Have the Highest IQs on Average, But Then There’s Jen Rubin

Before we discuss Jen Rubin and her “exciting new online platform,” let’s first take time to examine the problem of stereotypes. Being a member of the Appalachian-American community (we consider “hillbilly” to be an offensive slur), I know a few things about belonging to an ethnic group with reputational issues. This is why, despite my noted musical abilities, I never learned to play the banjo. Also, I’ve never lived in a mobile home, I don’t drink moonshine and my wife is not my cousin.

One has a duty to try to avoid behaviors that might contribute to negative stereotypes of one’s ethnic group. However, one must acknowledge that stereotypes don’t arise for no reason, but rather have some basis in fact. The stereotype of hillbillies as lazy and stupid arose at a time when the dangers of the hookworm parasite were unknown; a disease that sabotages health cannot be prevented if you don’t know what causes it, and the South suffered as a result. Nowadays, we have hillbillies graduating from Yale Law, thank you very much, and so it’s time to stop the anti-hillbilly hate speech. (Stay off the moonshine, J.D.)

People who claim The Bell Curve is “racist pseudo-science” either (a) have not read the book or (b) are too stupid to understand it. As I have repeatedly pointed out, the most important part of The Bell Curve is the first 115 pages, about how standardized testing gave rise to “cognitive partitioning,” and has nothing to do with race, a topic that doesn’t appear until page 269. One point that the authors emphasize, but which critics seem determined to ignore, is that when discussing “Ethnic Differences in Cognitive Ability” (the title of Chapter 17 of The Bell Curve) they are talking about group averages, which are not predictive of any individual’s ability or life opportunities. That is to say, however one’s group may rank in terms of median IQ, it is one’s individual score that really matters. It is only because our political system has developed an obsession with categorizing people as members of groups that an analysis of such differences is necessary, in order to demonstrate that racism (there are five A’s in “RAAAAACISM!”) isn’t the causative factor of social problems. These problems won’t be solved by quota regimes (“diversity”) nor by any of the other “reforms” advocated by liberals.

Well, I could continue that rant indefinitely, but the point is that group averages are not predictive for individuals. Ashkenazi Jews have the highest average IQ of any ethnic group and yet, there’s the helplessly stupid Jen Rubin who thinks we’re going to believe her when she claims she voluntarily left her job at the Washington Post, rather than getting axed as deadwood at a newspaper that’s lost readership and revenue at a startling pace in recent years. So, in announcing she’s going to launch “The Contrarian” with Democrat apparatchik Norm Eisen, Jen Rubin delivers a sanctimonious lecture about how “billionaire owners of major media outlets have betrayed their audiences’ loyalty and sabotaged journalism’s sacred mission — defending, protecting and advancing democracy.” And she’s going to fight the good fight for the “sacred mission” with . . . a Substack blog? Because that’s what her gushing about an “exciting new online platform” is about, as if there were something unique being offered, rather than a mere $7-a-month newsletter on Substack. John Nolte quips: “The good news is that The Contrarian’s subscription fee will be $7 per month, which means we will all save $7 per month by not reading Jennifer Rubin.”

Some of us are old enough to remember when Jen Rubin was much less stupid than she is now, and the cause of her cognitive decline is generally attributed to Trump Derangement Syndrome. However, I have an alternate theory — tertiary syphilis, sometimes called “general paresis,” a degenerative neurological disorder caused by untreated syphilis:

Typical symptoms include loss of social inhibitions, asocial behavior, gradual impairment of judgment, concentration and short-term memory, euphoria, mania, depression, or apathy. . . .
Delusions, common as the illness progresses, tend to be poorly systematized and absurd. They can be grandiose, melancholic, or paranoid.

Well, if “poorly systematized and absurd” delusions are symptomatic, the idea of saving democracy with a $7-a-month Substack certainly would tend to confirm such a diagnosis in the case of Jen Rubin, but I am not a doctor and this is only an alternate theory.



 

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Retarded Asian Woman Challenges Fake Indian for Title of ‘Worst Senator Ever’

Posted on | January 15, 2025 | Comments Off on Retarded Asian Woman Challenges Fake Indian for Title of ‘Worst Senator Ever’

There may be dumber people in the Senate than Mazie Hirono, but I’m having trouble naming one after the Hawaii Democrat’s absurd questions to Pete Hegseth during Monday’s confirmation hearing:

MAZIE HIRONO: “Would you carry out an order from President Trump to seize Greenland, a territory of our NATO ally Denmark, by force, or would you comply with an order to take over the Panama Canal?”
HEGSETH: “Senator, I will emphasize that President Trump received 77 million votes to be the lawful commander.”
HIRONO: “We’re not talking about the election. My question is, would you use our military to take over Greenland or an ally of Denmark?”
HEGSETH: “Senator, one of the things that President Trump is so good at is never strategically tipping his hand. And so I would never in this public forum give one way or another direct what orders the president gives in any context.”
HIRONO: “It sounds to me that you would contemplate carrying out such an order to basically invade Greenland and the Panama Canal.”

These are the important issues for Democcrats, see? Instead of talking about readiness, recruiting, equipment shortages or any of the other actual issues affecting the Department of Defense, Mazie Hirono wants to keep campaigning against Donald Trump, with this silly sound-bite stuff about Greenland and the Panama Canal. The fact that voters in Hawaii consider Hirono qualified to serve in the Senate tells you that Hawaii is full of very bad people, perhaps even worse than the people of Massachusetts who elected notorious fraud Elizabeth Warren.

Simple question: Was there ever any chance that Elizabeth Warren would have voted to confirm Pete Hegseth? Is there any other Democrat on the Armed Services Committee who was ever likely to vote in Hegseth’s favor? I think not. In fact, I wish someone would research whether Elizabeth Warren has ever voted to confirm anyone — Cabinet member, judicial nominee, whatever — appointed by Donald Trump. Because I feel pretty certain she was always a reliable “no” vote on confirmations during Trump’s first term, and her elaborate Kabuki performance of outrage in Tuesday’s hearing was just that — a performance, a melodrama staged for theatrical effect. What cannot be overlooked about Warren is her fundamental dishonesty, exemplified by how she gamed the system by claiming to be Cherokee and thus qualifying for affirmation action benefits at Harvard University. The people who elected this vicious fraud to the Senate should be ashamed of themselves, but if they had any sense of shame they wouldn’t be Democrats, would they?



 

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In The Mailbox: 01.14.25

Posted on | January 15, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.14.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Sorry about yesterday – got super tired halfway through and crashed early. Starting earlier tonight and hoping for the best.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Gov. Hairgel touts his non-graft accomplishment.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Deforestation Is the New Green
EBL: Jennifer Rubin’s Sexual Healing, Gavin Newsom Responds To His Critics, and Pete Hegseth Senate Confirmation Hearing to be Secretary of Defense
Twitchy: NYT Reporter Tries Backpedaling On Kavanaugh Coverage And X Is NOT Having It, Occasional Cortex Rants About Women Bleeding Out In Parking Lots Nationwide, and NYT’s Pentagon Correspondent “Fact-Checks” Pete Hegseth On Racism In The Military
Louder With Crowder: Biden and Kamala team up for one last derptastic appearance, brag about how little they’re giving LA wildfire victims, Trans congess(wo)man reads book to children pushing trans ideology, blames “society” for thinking “she” is a he, Enjoy these Democrat senators turning Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing into a TOTAL clown show, Carrie Underwood beams with patriotism in response to her haters about performing at Trump’s inauguration, and GOP senator went SCORCHED EARTH on Democrat hypocrisy over Pete Hegseth “How many senators showed up drunk to vote at night?”
Vox Popoli: The Japanese Know, The Conservative Rock Star, Game Over, Gaiman, LA 2.0, and The Bad Road Not Taken
Bugscuffle Gazette: Poetry Tuesday
Defending The Wood Perilous: Nick Enlowe Defends The Wood Perilous
Toni Airaksinen: “Jews & Power” Course At Oberlin Ignites Controversy

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: America Is to Blame for the Failure of Russia–Ukraine Negotiations
American Greatness: OK Senator Markwayne Mullin Puts Dem Colleagues on Blast For Their ‘Ridiculous’ Hypocrisy During Hegseth Confirmation Hearing, DOJ Releases Jack Smith Report on Trump Case, Outgoing Biden Administration Spends $1M on Foreign DEI Initiatives, Border Agents Discover “Sophisticated” Illegal Immigrant Tunnels Built During Biden Administration, and LA Fires Illustrate a Nationwide Competency Crisis
American Thinker: The Climate Hoax
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Los Angeles Train Wreck News
Babalu Blog: Sugar production in Cuba down 75%, Jailed Cuban, 73, beaten to death by prison officer, Holguin munitions explosion update: No word yet from Cuban dictatorship about missing victims, and Latin America’s Three (Socialist) Musketeers 
BattleSwarm: Prager On Why California Is Burning, Lefties Mourn End To Facebook Censorship, Russian Mercenary Captured At Border, and Straus/Bonnen/Phelan Cabal Screws Republican Voters Yet Again
Behind The Black: China completes second launch in 2025, SpaceX launches another 21 Starlink satellites, After more than two years, Australian rocket startup thinks its launch approval is about to finally arrive, Boom about to go supersonic, and Is China’s Yutu-2 lunar rover dead?
Cafe Hayek: Michael Pettis Continues to Blunder, Economists Should Never Abandon Their Principles, and Percentage of Nonfarm Workers in America Employed in Jobs Classified as “Manufacturing”
CDR Salamander: So I Assume Fuel Supply For The Pacific Fight Is Fat & Secure?
Chicago Boyz: People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump, The Persistence of the Left, and Imagine No Internet
Dana Loesch: Hunter Biden Case Report Released
Don Surber: Why they burned LA down
First Street Journal: Shedding a tear for Jennifer Rubin, who’s leaving The Washington Post, also, No matter how much you hate the credentialed media, you do not hate them enough!
Gates Of Vienna: Waiting for the Thaw, also, A Culture-Enriching New Year’s Grope-Fest in Milan
The Geller Report: President Trump Announces Plant To Create “External Revenue Service” to Collect Tariffs, Duties, All Revenue From Foreign Sources
Hollywood In Toto: Alamo Drafthouse Workers Seek to Cancel September 5, Oh, Canada Is Last Thing We Expect from Paul Schrader, Michael Rapaport: I’ve Been Canceled by Facebook, Instagram, Identity Crisis Sounds Alarm on Gender-Affirming Care, and Reagan Not Diverse Enough for Oscars
The Lid: Starbucks Quietly Cancels Woke, BLM-Inspired Open-Door Policy
Legal Insurrection: China Prepares to Impose Restrictions on Export of Essential Components for EV Batteries, Bob Dylan’s Cold War, Most New York State Residents Back Ban on Masks Following Anti-Israel Incidents, Two House Democrats Join Republicans to Pass Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, and Biden Admin Will Remove Cuba From List of State Sponsors of Terrorism
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Why We Care, and Tuesday T-6
Outkick: Jemele Hill Quietly Deletes Caitlin Clark Post Following Stalker Arrest, Transfer Portal Could Be Headed For Major Changes, NFL Fans React To Sam Darnold’s Crushing First-Round Exit With Vikings, NFL’s Daryl Johnston Answers If Deion Sanders, Jerry Jones Team Up Can Work Out, and  Spurs Player Pull Classy Move For JJ Redick, Family After Losing Home in LA Wildfires
Power Line: Mississippi, 1963, Judge Beaton, we can lend a hand, Republicans Stand Firm, and The Left Is Losing It
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Notes from a cluttered mind
Shark Tank: State Sen Tom Leek Introduces Bill To Honor Slain Daytona Beach Officer
Shot In The Dark: Bring Your Popcorn, A First, Courting Collapse, This Is Today’s DFL, and Your Fault
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – The Return of SALT
The Political Hat: Those Who Can’t, Teach In New Jersey, also, The Pernicious Invention of “Disparate Impact”
This Ain’t Hell: California National Guard Mobilized, Members of White House National Security Council evaluated for ‘loyalty’, Young trial starts, and Another WWII ace in the making?
Transterrestrial Musings: Costco’s Clothes Business, New Glenn Delay, The Fires, and Trump’s Senate Confirmations
Victory Girls: Kamala Harris Is A Sore Loser Brat
Watts Up With That: BBC Try To Wriggle Out Of Extreme Weather Claims, NOAA’s “no evidence” that wind kills whales violates the Information Quality Act, The Great Retreat: A Eulogy for the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative, and Assigning Responsibility for the Tragic Los Angeles Fires
The Federalist: Special Counsel Slams Biden In Slim Report After Allowing Hunter To Escape Most Serious Charges, Sen. Joni Ernst Backs Hegseth Following Conservative Pressure Campaign, The White House Blames Rent Increases On AI, But The Real Problem Is Bidenflation, Democrats’ Hegseth Hearing Theatrics Prove They’re Unserious About U.S. National Security, and Leftist New Mexico Secretary Of State Settles Lawsuit In ‘Win For Election Transparency’
Mark Steyn: Of Paedos and Policemen, Broken Codes: Myrna Loy and Irene Dunne in Thirteen Women, Tender in Limbo, A Palsied Limb of Nature’s Frame, and Goldfinger

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