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In The Mailbox: 05.08.25 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | May 8, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.08.25 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

As usual, Thursday is the day when I finally get caught up on all the linkagery.
What time is it, boys & girls? That’s right! Time for another Based Books Sale, this time concentrating on North American fantasy! All books 99 cents or less! Give money to authors who don’t hate you!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Another Federal Law Enforcement Screw Up
EBL: The Sinking of the Lusitania : Sleeping Sun
Twitchy: Scott Jennings Points Out The Real Constitutional Crisis Facing America, Trump Or Trans? and Symone Sanders Posted This Video To TikTok On Purpose
Louder With Crowder: Woke Democrat tries to bait Kristi Noem with fake news about “deported children,” it winds up being a YUGE mistake
Vox Popoli: The Revelation of the Mole People, also, War on the Subcontinent
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Publishing News
Stoic Observations: The Yeti Solution

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: We Must Not Let The F/A-18 Line Go Cold
Dana Loesch: House Republicans Move To Codify Spending & Tax Cuts, also, The Times Square Statue Is An Insult
Don Surber: Globalists copy Trump and win
Matt Taibbi: I Tried To Cover A May Day Protest – “Antifascists” Had A Problem With That, My Education Solution, 

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A Happy Week for the Family

Posted on | May 8, 2025 | 1 Comment

BERRIEN SPRINGS, Michigan
Apologies for the lack of blog content this week, but my wife and I have been on the road, and won’t return home until Tuesday. On Sunday, our youngest daughter Reagan graduated cum laude from Andrews University, with a double major in history and Spanish. Her senior honors thesis was, “The Significance of the Malvinas Issue in the Politics of President Javier Milei.” She left early Monday morning for a six-week journey around Latin America, three weeks of which are a school trip, a course requirement for her Spanish major, which will be followed by three weeks in Argentina visiting her novio and his family.

We look forward to her novio being able to come here and visit us, but when he applied for a travel visa last year, he was turned down by the U.S. Embassy personnel in Buenos Aires. That was under the Biden administration, of course, and now that Trump is president, I’ve assured my daughter that I’ll take care of this problem by calling in a favor from my old pal Marco Rubio. Gotta remember to write that letter . . .

Because of the travel schedule — we are now about 600 miles west of home — I’ve had to wedge in my day-job work (which I never talk about) into marathon sessions where I do three days’ worth of work in a single day. And today will be another road day, as we drive about 260 miles to Madison, Wisconsin, where our son Jefferson will be graduating from law school Friday. We are obviously quite proud of Jeff because, although he is a third-generation college graduate (my dad was Class of 1950 at Tuscaloosa), he is the first* law-school graduate in the family. The asterisk beside “first” is required because our oldest daughter’s husband is a lawyer and also, incidentally, the son of Argentine immigrants, so there’s some kind of weird pattern involved here. Maybe in a generation or two, all my descendants will be bilingual lawyers.

In the short term, however, there’s that 260-mile drive to Madison — dangerous! After all, in recent months the UW campus has been overrun by pro-Hamas protesters, and for all we know those Jew-hating scumbags have plans to disrupt the graduation ceremony, and I might have to strangle one with my bare hands, which would be unfortunate.

Also, when I checked the route to Madison, the quickest toll-free route was through Chicago, where 110 people have been shot to death so far this year, and another 424 were wounded. Dodging gunfire is one of those road hazards that Chicago residents probably don’t think much about, but it’s my first time. For inspiration, I’ve got the immortal words of Elwood Blues: “It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark… and we’re wearing sunglasses.”



 

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In The Mailbox: 05.07.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | May 7, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.07.25 (Evening Edition)

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I can’t believe it’s only 7 PM. Oh, wait. I forgot to reset the time zone on the Surface. *facepalm*
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Pot, kettle…

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Buffalo School System and Media Fail Kids, also If You Break Into Homes, You Will Eventually Find an Armed Homeowner
Director Blue: The Ballad of Thom Tillis
EBL: The Accountant 2, The Stock Market Has Recovered Its Losses, Speed the Plow, and MAGAtraz
Twitchy: Canadian Cop Starts Presser On Missing Children With Land Acknowledgement, Catholic Priests in Washington Will Defy State’s Anti-Catholic Confessional Snitch Law, and Democrat Rep Argues Taxpayer-Funded Health Care For Illegals Benefits Everybody
Louder With Crowder: JD Vance blasts Ilhan Omar’s “genocidal language”, Massachusetts daycare busted for harboring illegal immigrant… on the run from sexually assaulting a 13-year-old, Multicultural Immigration Has No Place in America & Must Be Stopped, Commie actor Sean Penn calls Trump a “spouse murderer,” and then he gets ridiculous, and Byron Donalds Schools NBC About Due Process After Reporter Tries To Corner Him On Illegals
Vox Popoli: The Return of the Mercenary, We Are So Back, Ethnic Cleansing Approved, Stay Sane, Stay Frosty, and When “Misinformation” Isn’t
The Bugscuffle Gazette: “No.”
Stoic Observations: I’ve Seen The Future
Jim McCoy: Cartwright’s Cavaliers
Upstream Reviews: Magelight

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: One to 6000 vs. One to 1400
Don Surber: Up next – the deregulation of America
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Geeking Out With The SALT Cap

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In The Mailbox: 05.07.25 (Unspeakably Early Morning Edition)

Posted on | May 7, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.07.25 (Unspeakably Early Morning Edition)

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From the Temporary East Coast Command Center in Chantilly, Virginia.
HIT THE TIP JAR!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Just another day in district court

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Spygate’s Top 20: A Hall of Shame
EBL: Careme, also, May The 4th Be With You  
Twitchy: Scott Jennings Explains What Dems Sudden Love Of Due Process Is About, Jasmine Crockett – Who She Really Is, and Bloomberg Claims NPR & PBS Are A Threat To The White House
Louder With Crowder: Jen Psaki, Gavin Newsom take turns insulting the intelligence of Americans, To bash Donald Trump, CNN interviewed a Mexican Cartel member about being labeled a terrorist, Kamala Harris returns for anti-Trump speech, instead claims elephants live rent-free in her head, Somehow, accusing Donald Trump of KIDNAPPING isn’t the most ridiculous thing Jasmine Crockett says here, and CNN data guru forced to admit Americans STILL think Trump is doing a better job than Kamala Harris ever would
Vox Popoli: Sanctioning the Wrong Side, He Shouldn’t Have Been Fired, The Battle of Shiloh, The Last Day of the Spring Sale, and Ten Must-Read Books
Jim McCoy: Chris Kennedy’s Asbaran Solutions
Tom Kratman: Dear Millennials
Bacon Time: The Crops Are Coming In
Upstream Reviews: Starquest #2 – Secret Agents of the Galaxy, May New Releases, and Along With The Gods – Two Worlds, 
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Add A Pinch Of Sarcasm, also, So About That Texas Bill
Postcards From Barsoom: Food For The Moon, 
Gab: The Last Refuge For Real People
Toni Airaksinen: ER Doctor Calls Jews “Demonic”, Accuses Them Of Killing Babies

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Baldilocks: Bottom up
CDR Salamander: China’s Overseas Bases & The Transition To War, also, Army Steals A March In Adapting To Change
Dana Loesch: Never Dress Like Your Furniture Unless You’re Rich
Don Surber: They fear something greater than Trump
Matt Taibbi: NPR Should Be Axed Because It’s Anti-Thought Not Anti-Trump, In John Fetterman Profile NYT Combines Neurology & Politics, No, State Media & Democracy Don’t Go Hand In Hand, and  Do Your Own Research – Liber.Net’s Misinfo Grant Database, 
STUMP: Geeking Out With Papal History, also, The Next Pope & Vatican Finances

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Rule 5 Sunday: In & Out

Posted on | May 4, 2025 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Posting this early since I need to get packed up and leave early tomorrow for Vegas en route to DC, where I’ll be putting the Surface Pro to the test as a blogging device. This week’s cutie is, I believe, from @kbdabear on X.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Do you think she likes it animal style?

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Eleventh Annual Commencement Speech Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Dying For Sex, Nadine Sierra, Tu Tambien Lo Harias, MAGA Switcharoo, May Day, Dua Lipa, When That Man Is Dead And Gone, Lazarus, Franklin, and Für Elise

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Molly Eskam, Forget It Jake, It’s Baltimore, Fish Pic Friday – Fishing With Amanda, Thursday Tanlines, CBF, Watermen Oppose North Bay Salmon, The Wednesday Wetness, Do Porpoise Point to a Better Bay?, Afterlife, PA Finds Federal Models “Exponentially” Overestimate Susquehanna Pollution, Trump Promises to Restore Columbus Day, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News and Palm Sunday

BACON TIME: Rule Five Butt Its Friday

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: Out of the Cellar (Again)

Posted on | May 4, 2025 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Out of the Cellar (Again)

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The Senators had a good week. Took two out of three from the Phillies at RFK and then split with the O’s in Baltimore, which makes us 3-2 for the week and 48-58 overall. We’re out of the cellar, two games ahead of the A’s and two behind the Brewers, most of our injured players and pitchers are off the DL, and Pete says we may just squeak into a wild card slot. The chances of us reaching .500 are pretty slim according to Grok, since we have to win 33 of our remaining 56 games, but that’s what we play the games to find out.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Can Ted lead the Senators to 33 more wins? Tune in next week!

FMJRA 2.0: The Cost of Victory
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Death by ‘Equality’
The Daley Gator
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In The Mailbox: 04.28.25
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.30.25
A View From The Beach
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EBL

In The Mailbox: 05.01.25 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
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EBL

In The Mailbox: 05.01.25 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
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EBL

Where Evil Lurks: Neo-Nazi Pedophiles
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In The Mailbox: 05.02.25
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The $500,000 N-Word: Shiloh Hendrix Becomes a 21st-Century Legend

Posted on | May 3, 2025 | 1 Comment

Shiloh Hendrix was at a park in Rochester, Minnesota, when she says a child stole something from her infant son’s diaper bag. In response, she called the child the n-word, and was then confronted by a man who recorded her on video. That video went viral, as a result of which Hendrix was doxxed and threatened. So she put up a fundraiser with a goal of $1,000 to enable her to relocate for her family’s safety.

As of 9 a.m. ET this morning, she’d raised more than $500,000.

Man, if saying the n-word is worth $500,000, I know some people who would be richer than Bill Gates. But beyond the cheap laughs, what exactly is going on here? In part, I think it’s a reaction to the absurdity of a Kamelo Anthony fundraiser that collected more than $500,000. Some people are just fed up — they are sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Far be it from me to endorse or encourage rudeness. We should strive to be courteous and civil, even when provoked. Keeping a “stiff upper lip” in crisis situations is a duty that a gentleman ought never neglect. Yet courtesy, properly understood, is rooted in empathy, and it strikes me as curious that in 21st-century America, lower-class whites are somehow seen as undeserving of the kind of empathy that we are usually expected to extend to the poor. J.D. Vance would understand this, I think. His memoir Hillbilly Elegy is about the plight of poor whites in an era when our elite find it convenient to pretend that such people don’t exist, or that the problems of poor whites are unworthy of concern as a matter of public policy. And guess what? That’s how you get more Trump.

Predictably, the mainstream media are oblivious to this aspect of the Shiloh Hendrix saga. The media narrative is about “white nationalists” using her as a rallying cry, and I suppose that every liberal commentator in the country who hasn’t already written a column about it will have such a column online by Monday. Instead of shrieking about the menace of “white nationalists,” however, intelligent people should be asking questions about the underlying conditions that inspire such attitudes.

It has not escaped my notice that some people on social media are claiming that the man who recorded the video is a Somali immigrant who has been charged with raping a 16-year-old. While I cannot verify that claim, (a) it’s obvious the man recording the video has some kind of foreign accent, (b) obviously there are Somali immigrants in Rochester, Minnesota, and (c) some of these immigrants are implicated in crimes.

Google “Somali Rochester Minnesota” and you find:

The Somali community in Rochester, Minnesota is well-served by various organizations providing support and services. The Rochester Somali Community Center (RSCC) is a prominent immigrant-led, minority-run organization that offers services focused on self-sufficiency and cultural preservation. Additionally, the Somali Community Resettlement Services (SCRS) provides assistance with basic needs, resources, and acclimation to American life. Other organizations and initiatives contribute to the Somali community’s well-being in Rochester.

Is this relevant to the Shiloh Hendrix story? Perhaps so, but there is no “Rochester White Community Center” to give us that side of the story.

UPDATE: OK, so the guy who recorded the video is named Sharmake Omar, which is the same name as one of two men who were accused of assaulting a 16-year-old runaway in 2022, but the prosecutor had those charges dismissed in March of this year. So there’s that.

UPDATE II: It was claimed that the child Shiloh Hendrix shouted at is autistic. So this is relevant:

UPDATE III: Speaking of fraud, it has been so prevalent in Minnesota’s welfare programs that the state’s Department of Human Services Commissioner Jodi Harpstead was forced to step down earlier this year.



 

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In The Mailbox: 05.02.25

Posted on | May 3, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.02.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Doug Hagin’s fundraiser is almost to 80%. Chip in if you can.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Court Takes a Battering Ram to Apple’s Walled Garden
EBL: MAGA Switch-A-Roo, The Hudson Bay Company, You Would Do It Too : Tú También Lo Harías, Chairman Xi signals that the Chinese want to parley with the Trump Administration, and Trump Cuts
Twitchy: Check Out The Mother Of All DataRepublican Threads On George Soros’ Evil Playbook, Car Speeds Under New Holland Crop Sprayer In Wild Video, and Scott Jennings Explains How “Something Amazing” Happens When You Ask Democrats About Taxes As Only He Can
Louder With Crowder: ‘Big Balls’ leads infuriating DOGE roundtable about uncovered fraud…including at a heavily armed “Institute For Peace”, Tim Walz’s daughter claims running is “political,” and somehow that’s NOT the dumbest thing she says, Democrat party leader Jasmine Crockett claims she “never questioned Biden’s mental acuity,” which tells you all about her mental acuity, and New footage shows “Maryland man” trafficking humans (allegedly), and JD Vance wants to know where Democrats are now
Vox Popoli: A Turquoise Tide, also, An Easy Way Out
According To Hoyt: I Definitely Flaked Out, The Special Ones, Why, Yes, Revisiting Student Loans again, and Victims of Communism Day
Monster Hunter Nation: The Moral Equivalence Police
Upstream Reviews: Beyond The Crimson Haze
Toni Airaksinen: Brown University Student Reporter Under Fire For DOGE-Like E-Mail – “What Have You Accomplished This Week?”
Postcards From Barsoom: Stripping The Word Of Its Power
Jim McCoy: SF & Fantasy’s Top Ten Villains

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: U.S. Withdraws from Ukraine–Russia Peace Negotiations
American Greatness: How America Funded China’s Rise, also, We Don’t Need an Executive Order to Bar Illegals from Social Security—We Need a Government That Obeys the Law
American Thinker: Diluting Hitler: How the Left is Creating a Pale Ghost of the Real Adolf Hitler…and Turning Off Voters, also, Hitler had Goebbels, China has the US Legacy Media
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Eleventh Annual Commencement Speech Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For May 2
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches 28 more Starlink satellites, Rocket startup Radian now also building commercial reentry capsule, Ursa Major wins contract for hypersonic test flight of its Draper rocket engine, FAA okays increase in SpaceX launches from Vandenberg from 36 to 50 per year, and Trump bypasses Boeing to get an newly refurbished 747 Air Force One
Cafe Hayek: The Economy Is Being Distorted by Trump’s Tariffs and Not By Efforts to Minimize the Tariffs’ Effects, also, On the So-called “Twin Deficits”
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Retrotech: Technology in 1925–Transportation, also, The Books of Montgomery County, Part 1
Don Surber: Actually, Trump is bringing immigrant families together
Gates Of Vienna: The Islamization of Germany Proceeds Apace, also, The AfD is Now Officially Doubleplus Ungood
The Geller Report: Israel Launches Attack in Syria to Protect Druze Minority, President Trump Stripping Harvard of Tax Exempt Status for Continued Violation of Civil Rights, President Trump Ends Federal Funding for Far-Left NPR and the PBS, Islamic Onslaught Threatens Texas Heartland, and Hegseth Sends Strong Message to Iran and Houthis
Glenn Reynolds: Government & Externalities
Hollywood In Toto: Winston Marshall Brutally Shames Music Industry, First Look: ‘The Chosen’ Season 5, and ‘Laugh-in’ Fave Ruth Buzzi Dies at 88
The Lid: Another Victory: Trump Cancels Tax Dollars Transferred to PBS and NPR
Legal Insurrection: New York Times Headline Sanitizes Musical Performer Disinvited From Cornell, KBJ Lashes Out At Critics of the Judiciary, Harvard Law Review Gives $65K Fellowship to Student Charged With Assaulting Jewish Colleague, Trump Wants to Revoke Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status, and Conservative Activist Robby Starbuck Suing Meta After Their AI Falsely Labels Him as an Extremist and J6er
Outkick: Donald Trump Considering An Executive Order On NIL After Meeting With Nick Saban, During DWI Bust, Texas Lineman Nick Brooks Confesses Plans To Take Prospects To Strip Club, Dale Earnhardt’s Wicked Widow Just Got One Step Closer To Erasing His Legacy, Go-Fund-Me Set Up For Pirates Fan In Critical Condition After Shocking Fall, and Major League Baseball Owners Are Purposefully Making Their Teams Worse
Power Line: Beshear ‘considers’ 2028 run, Tucker calls on the Israeli government, Day 102, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Haridopolos Says “Big Beautiful Bill” Will Be Ready By Memorial Day But GOP Must Win On Messaging
Shot In The Dark: The Questions You Should Be Asking Right About Now, also, They Were Doing So Well
This Ain’t Hell: CBP Offficial busted for fraud, Valor Friday, President Trump signs executive order ending taxpayer subsidy of NPR and PBS, and President Trump plans to rename Veterans Day to ‘Victory Day for World War I’
Transterrestrial Musings: The Hammer Drops, also, “I Don’t Mean To Brag”
Victory Girls: What DOGE Reveals, What Legacy Media Ignores
Watts Up With That: Global Climate Database Fed with Junk Data from RAF Base, Connecticut Lawmakers Devise Plan To Saddle Taxpayers with Soaring Energy Prices, More Climate Litigation Silliness From Academia, Bloomberg’s $87 Trillion Carbon Fantasy, and Brink Of Extinction – More And More Companies Rejecting Costly Hydrogen Technology
The Federalist: DHS & DOGE Work Together To Track Down Election Fraudsters, 3 Questions Angry Democrats Need To Answer About Illegal Alien Deportations, Colorado Democrats Push Trans Bill That Was Too Radical For California, Media Blackout On Abortion Pill Study Proves They Never Cared About Amber Thurman’s Death, and Newly Released Emails Show Politicized FBI Targeting Trump Officials For Obeying The Law
Mark Steyn: The Age of Endarkenment, also, Following the Science

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