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Lies, Damned Lies, and COVID-19

Posted on | August 4, 2026 | No Comments

After watching people spend two days arguing about a statistical factoid wielded by David Frum, it occurred to me: “What is the source of that statistic?” Apparently, nobody else had thought of this question, and so let’s quote David Frum’s article in The Atlantic:

The American right sacrificed its supporters to its COVID-era delusions and lies. Right-wing politicians and media influencers disparaged masking. They derided safety advice against indoor gatherings. They spread crazy lies about COVID vaccines once those became generally available. Many conservative Americans who made the mistake of trusting their political and media leaders paid with their life.
Pew Research Center compared the 20 percent of the U.S. population who lived in the country’s most pro-Trump counties with the 20 percent who lived in the most pro-Biden counties. The most pro-Trump counties suffered nearly 70,000 more COVID deaths than the most pro-Biden counties did.

THE PEW RESEARCH CENTER? You’re making arguments about medical policy based on work by a polling company? Because that’s really the meat-and-potatoes of what Pew does. The fact that they’re a 501(c)3 non-profit doesn’t really change the reality that Pew Research began as a polling operation, founded by the former president of Gallup.

At various times, I have seen Pew Research publish studies about demographic trends that were very informative, but that doesn’t allay my skepticism about their March 2022 article, “The Changing Political Geography of COVID-19 Over the Last Two Years.” We may begin by saying, if you were still afraid of COVID-19 in March 2022, you must be some kind of extreme hypochondriac, the type of person who wore a mask while driving alone in your car. Taylor Lorenz, basically.

Some people are herd animals by nature, and these were the people most eager to comply with the crazy lockdown rules of “15 Days to Slow the Spread,” without ever questioning the logic of those rules.

In case you’ve forgotten, the original rationale of the first COVID-19 lockdown was that the virus was spreading so rapidly that hospitals would soon be overwhelmed with victims, that there would be a shortage of medicine, equipment and personnel to treat patients. This was what “15 Days to Slow the Spread” was about and, when that ended, it was “Six Weeks to Flatten the Curve” — in other words, a total of two months of lockdown, to prevent the medical system from collapsing under the burden of the pandemic. In other words, by mid-May 2020, it would be safe to let life return to normal, but OH DEAR GOD WE CAN’T LET THAT HAPPEN, Democrats and the media collectively screamed, once the initial two months of COVID-19 lockdown were over.

What ensued after that was more about the psychology of mass hysteria than it was a question of public health policy, and the COVID-19 hysteria had very clear political outlines. By mid-2020, we had enough data about hospitalizations and deaths from the virus to know that, unless you were over 70, or obese, or had some other condition that impaired your immune system, COVID-19 wouldn’t kill you. For the vast majority of healthy younger Americans, COVID-19 was just a nasty variety of flu.

Something else that had become apparent by mid-2020 was that statistics about the pandemic were being manipulated to exaggerate the threat, as an excuse for extending lockdowns indefinitely.

In hindsight, this was all insanity. Florida, which with its large population of retirees was home to a disproportionate number of those most vulnerable to the virus, was basically wide open from the summer of 2020 onward. They did this by focusing their attention on protecting senior citizens, while letting everybody else, especially school children, go about their daily lives. Meanwhile, public schools were shut down for the entire 2020-2021 school year in many Democrat-controlled parts of the country. Despite the evidence that Florida’s strategy was correct — the sky didn’t fall when Florida reopened — liberals refused to reconsider their permanent-lockdown mentality, which is the most obvious reason why, in March 2022, Pew Research felt the need to publish an article claiming that GOP-dominated areas had a higher COVID-19 death toll.

Go look at the nifty charts, which claim to show that, while the Democrat-leaning counties had the highest death tolls up until October 2020, the GOP-leaning counties came roaring back thereafter, and were particularly hard hit by the “Delta” and “Omicron” variants of COVID-19 that struck after August 2021. Where were they collecting this data? You have to click a link to see the “Methodology” section, which doesn’t do anything to allay my skepticism about the findings. The article includes a chart pointing out that pro-Biden counties had higher COVID vaccination rates (over 75% in those that Biden won by more than a 25-point margin) than pro-Trump counties (less than 60% in counties that Trump won by more than a 25-point margin), while also mentioning that the data on COVID deaths doesn’t distinguish between the vaccinated and unvaccinated. Which is kind of important, because the vaccines were what the big arguments were really all about after Biden got elected.

The vaccines didn’t work — vaccinated people still got the virus — and they didn’t prevent the virus from spreading. This was especially true once new variants like Delta and Omicron appeared in 2021. You don’t have to be any kind of crazy anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorist to see that the vaccines were an expensive failure. I got the vaccine in August 2021 just because I realized that politicians were trying to use data about vaccination rates as an excuse for more lockdowns, and I didn’t want to be used as a statistic in their propaganda: “White guys in Appalachia are the problem!” But just because I’m not dead doesn’t mean the vaccine saved my life, which is what David Frum is trying to use this Pew Center study to prove, yet even Pew doesn’t claim it shows anything about vaccines and death rates. And excuse my skepticism about the entirety of the Pew Center’s methodology on this study.

By the way, as Frum notes, the Pew study claims to show a gap of nearly 70,000 total deaths between the 20% of the population in the most pro-Trump counties (238,791 deaths total) and the 20% in the most pro-Biden counties (170,084 deaths total). Practically all of that difference is attributable to the Delta/Omicron “surges” from August 2021 to the end of February 2022. Am I the only one scratching my head, trying to remember thousands of people who allegedly were dying of COVID in February 2022? Because I’ll be darned if I recall any such thing.

All of this, however, is really just part of Frum’s defense of Anthony Fauci, whose dishonesty is now proven beyond all doubt. Most of us have moved on from all that — I am not sitting around nursing any grudges over what happened five or six years ago — but the Trump-haters can’t stand that Saint Anthony of the Blessed Science might be held accountable, and they’re using dubious statistics to defend him.



 

Category: Science

In The Mailbox: 08.03.26

Posted on | August 4, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Son of Silvercon IV After Action Report
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: A Day With Maggie Brown On The RMS Titanic (1912), A Day Escaping Libby Prison (1864), and The Day Lewis & Clark Confronted The Lakota Sioux, (1804)
357 Magnum: Good Guy With a Gun in Idaho
EBL: Dana Bash, Jack Tapper, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, What Your Dog Really Sees In You, Swordfish Bacon, Logan’s Run Deleted Scenes, and What Would Humboldt Do?
Twitchy: Jeff Dye Discovers Comedy Is Not Pretty, Man Has No Idea What’s In The DSA Platform & Doesn’t Care, and That Absolute Coward Tony Fauci
Louder With Crowder: Corey Booker claims voter ID wouldn’t have prevented New Jersey from “accidentally” registering over 6000 illegals to vote, Climate wacko demands you pick any ten random leftist orgs to send your money to, Elliot Page Claims Biology Class Is Bigoted, Democrat Rants About Impeaching Pete Hegseth For Removing DEI In The Military, and Emir Mamdani, who claims to hate ID for voting, will require it for his government-run grocery stores
Vox Popoli: A Little Church Music, The 2nd Muslim Invasion of Spain, An Act of War, It’s Not Just the Finns, and The Revenge of Aaron Rodgers
Upstream Reviews: The Best Military Fiction – Caroline’s List
Cedar Sanderson: Relationships & Anthologies
John C. Wright: No Subtle Knife & No Amber Spyglass
The Abbey of Misrule: The Hermit and the Pilgrim
Weird Catholic: Wax Souls

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Clay Travis Challenges WNBA Champs to Play Boys High School State Title Team, Offers to Pay $10 Million to Winners, Mamdani Mocked Online For Requiring IDs to Shop at NYC’s Subsidized Grocery Stores After Opposing Voter ID, Study Finds Daily Marijuana Use Surpasses Daily Alcohol Consumption Among US Adults, How Eilat Mazar Found King David’s Palace, and The EU and the Iron Law of Oligarchy
American Thinker: In Latin America, The Rise of Zionism Signals Communism’s Collapse, The Dumb, Arrogant Liars Who Are Also Journalists, How Postcolonialism is Nazi Adjacent, Americans Are Searching for Meaning In All the Wrong Places, and Iran And Russia: Ripe For A Cascading Failure?
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 98 – Alaska Mugs and Mountains
BattleSwarm: Movie Review: Margin Call, A Deep Dive Into Legal Carry Near Texas Schools, and Pipers At The Exit Gates Of The Democrat Party
Behind The Black: Sunspot update: Sunspot activity fell in July, indicating a return to ramp down, Canadian rocket/spaceport startup Nordspace invests in Canadian missile company, Indian press condemns suspension of all ISRO launches, UAE Space Agency demands registration from all space-related businesses, and Trade organization for the U.S. satellite industry issues damning report on Europe’s proposed Space Act
Cafe Hayek: Bill Maher Skewers the Democratic Socialists of America – and Their Democratic Party Enablers, also, Indeed, Pay Attention to What Trump Actually Says About Tariffs
CDR Salamander: Shipbuilding, Merchant Shipping, Commerce, & The American Project – On Midrats, also, If You Use Pliers As A Screwdriver You Just Make A Mess
Chicago Boyz: The Battle of Ceuta, also, Parasites & Hosts
Da Tech Guy: August Indulgence Calendar, The Special Plenary Indulgence available today and tomorrow only & a simple prayer request
Don Surber: Heaven and Hell, also, The plastic straw man argument
Elizabeth Nickson: The Delicious Humiliation of the Man Who Poisoned The World
First Street Journal: This afternoon’s rant, also, ‘Sportswriter’ injects race into his argument, because Sophie Cunningham is white and makes sense
Flopping Aces: Something’s wrong with Hong, also, Opening soon- Mamdani grocers! Bring your ID!
Gates Of Vienna: Swimming to Spain, Requiem for a Culture, Part 9 – The Slaughter of the 8th New York, and Culture-Enriching Throat-Slitter in Segrià
The Geller Report: Pennsylvania Voter Roll Purge Wipes Out Tens of Thousands Democrats in Just One Week, 45,000 Islamic “Soldiers” Attend Massive Ashura Procession Through Dearborn Streets, Hamas-Linked CAIR’s Shell Game, In Mamdani’s New York, It’s 1933 All Over Again, and Popular Montreal Kosher Restaurant Burned To The Ground in Arson Attack
Hollywood In Toto: Yet Another Jewish Artist Cancelled (UPDATE), Howard the Duck at 40 – Time Has Not Been Kind, Conservative Comic Alleges Fellow Stand-up Vandalized His Tesla, and Bandcamp Censors Boy George’s Pro-Israel Song
Legal Insurrection: RFK Jr. Turns the Tables on Dana Bash During Heated CNN Showdown, NY Won’t Force Catholic Religious Sisters to Counsel Assisted Suicide – For Now, Former Cornell Anti-Israel Student is Leading DSA Organizer, NY Socialist Can’t Pay Rent, Wants to Write State Budget, and James Talarico Tries to Argue the Bible Calls for a Government-Run Healthcare System
Nebraska Energy Observer: Whoops, Scattershot Friday, Dismantling New York, Sunday Matinee, and Old Ways
Outkick: Tarik Skubal dismisses fan outrage over his joining Dodgers, Aryna Sabalenka supports WTA trans rules, says men shouldn’t face women, Writer arrested for beating wife calls Sophie Cunningham “anti-trans & anti-black”, Clay Travis raises offer to $10 million for WNBA champs to play high school boys’ team, and Red Baron celebrates 50 years of frozen pizza with 50-topping pie
Power Line: The continuing Ceuta crisis, Calling the WNBA’s Bluff [Updated], Leclerc’s division, Suicidal Empathy: A Case Study, and Academia: How Corrupt Can It Get?
Shark Tank: Florida Early Voting Begins, also, FL Chamber of Commerce Endorses Ashley Moody for Senate
STUMP: The Week In Meep – SUMO! DEMONS! LIGHTNING DEATHS!,
The Political Hat: Digital Big Brother Demands Your Diploma, Mortgage, and Employer
Transterrestrial Musings: Increasing Cadence Ahead, The Iranian Scorpions, Fauci’s Narcissism, and Your Television
Victory Girls: The LARPer Twins and Their Bros’ Night Out, A Good Guy With A Gun At In-N-Out In Idaho, and Cheryl Reeve Never Had to Earn Her Career Against Men
Watts Up With That: India To Climate Cartel – Count Us Out, The End EPA Abuse Act seeks to limit EPA’s adherence to climate psychosis, Utopian Dreams of Net-Zero, Britain’s Collision Course With Trump’s Energy Counter-Revolution, and Mining the oceans for fresh water – and Uranium
The Federalist: Bill Would Make Insurance Cover Body-Acceptance Treatments For Trans Desisters, ‘Absolute Coward’: NFL QB Aaron Rodgers Nukes Fauci For Refusing To Address Covid Lies, How Obamacare Pushes Big Pharma To Overcharge You For Prescriptions, RFK: Media Cited Fake ‘Experts’ To Punish Dissent During Covid. Dana Bash: ‘That Is My Job’, and Brett Kavanaugh’s Would-Be Assassin Moved To Cushy Medical Prison Known For Transing On Taxpayer Dime
Mark Steyn: Burning Above, Does Not Compute – Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in Desk Set, Edelweiss, and Mum’s the Word

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Rule 5 Sunday: On The Beach

Posted on | August 3, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Our front office girl cooling off after the draft.
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EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Spain Just Did What? Machine Gun Preacher, MAGA Hamas Deal, Lana Spring, The Horror of Event Horizon, “50 Shots of Tequila”, Blue Skies, The Return, The Odyssey & Inception Connection, and Summer Fishing

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Charlette Bree, Fish Pic Friday – Hookin ‘N’ Cookin, Sultans of Swing, The Wednesday Wetness, Maryland, My Maryland, Tattoo Tuesday, The Monday Morning Stimulus, “Easy Like Sunday Morning”, and Palm Sunday

BACON TIME: Rule Five – Yes, I Will Have A Beer

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FMJRA 2.0: In The Bowels of the Draft

Posted on | August 2, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I’m pretty happy with the way the draft has been going so far, even if some of the other owners are upset about how long it’s taking. With a few exceptions, I’ve gotten the players I wanted, and there are still other worthy players out there.
In other news, the After Action Report for Son of Silvercon IV is up at my substack. if you weren’t there, you missed a good party.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Ted’s looking optimistic about the way the roster is shaping up.

Criminal Carnival in Madison, Wisconsin
A View From The Beach
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My Own Tucker Carlson Theory
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FMJRA 2.0: At Last, The Draft
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Rule 5 Sunday: Everything Stops For Tea
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In The Mailbox: 07.28.26 (Morning Edition)
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‘Suburban Teens’ Make Headlines
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In The Mailbox: 07.28.26 (Evening Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 07.29.26
A View From The Beach
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In The Mailbox: 07.30.26
A View From The Beach
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In The Mailbox: 07.31.26
A View From The Beach
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‘Family Demands Answers’

Posted on | August 1, 2026 | No Comments

Say hello to Bryan Axel Ramirez Gomez and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because young Mr. Gomez shuffled off this mortal coil in February, after deciding to start a shootout with police in Elkhart, Indiana, which lasted only three seconds. What do you notice about the photo of Gomez? Does that jersey signify that he was a fan of the Chicago White Sox? Well, Elkhart is only 112 miles from Chicago, and I suppose it’s possible that Gomez was a White Sox fan, but a quick Google search indicates that wearing White Sox regalia is common among certain gangs affiliated with the Crips. Just had to point this out.

Family of teen killed by Elkhart police seeks state investigation amid wave of violence

That was the headline from WNDU-TV, the NBC-owned affiliate in South Bend, about 20 miles from Elkhart, two days after the shooting:

The family of a 17-year-old killed by Elkhart police is calling for state investigators to take over the case as the community grapples with three separate shootings and a stabbing in a 48-hour span.
Bryan Axel Ramirez Gomez died Sunday around 2 a.m. in an officer-involved shooting. A memorial now sits at High Dive Park where he was killed.
Alfredo Ramirez-Gomez, the teen’s brother, spoke at a vigil for Bryan on Tuesday afternoon and demanded the release of police footage.
“Bryan was a bright kid, he was a member of this community, this is where he grew up,” Ramirez-Gomez said. “As for his cause of death, we can’t really point fingers yet. We just ask and demand that the footage comes out from the car and from the vest.”
He said the family will continue seeking answers until justice is served and asked the Indiana State Police to take over the case.

This kind of story — “Family Demands Answers” — has become a media cliché in recent years. Anytime someone gets killed by cops, there is automatically the insinuation that the cops did something wrong, and the media promote this narrative. Simple question: Why did the family want to get Indiana State Police to take over the case? Was there any reason to suspect bias on the part of county prosecutor Vicki Becker, whose office was in charge of investigating the officer-involved shooting?

Good luck finding any negative opinions about Becker, who has an excellent reputation and has been doing criminal prosecution since she was a law student interning with the prosecutor’s office in Indianapolis. My hunch is that the call for state involvement was just a way of insinuating that the investigation was crooked. In a GoFundMe appeal, a family friend wrote, “At only 17 years old, Bryan’s life was tragically cut short due to police brutality in Elkhart.” Really? You’re claiming “police brutality”? Superior marksmanship by cops may seem like an unfair advantage to criminals who lose shootouts, but it’s not brutality.

A month later, the theme continued:

Last month’s fatal shooting of a teenager by Elkhart police was one of the issues highlighted during Saturday’s No Kings rally.
Demonstrators were urged to sign a petition, calling for an independent review of the shooting of 17-year-old Bryan Ramirez Gomez. It also calls for the appointment of a special prosecutor and long-term accountability measures meant to restore trust in the justice system, among other requests.
Bella Chavez said the family has gotten hearsay about what happened but little actual information. “They haven’t even released the bodycam footage to the family who deserves answers and to the community who deserves answers,” Chavez told protesters.
Elkhart County Prosecutor Vicki Becker has said the boy shot first. So far, she hasn’t allowed video footage to be released.
“I would love to show all 13 minutes of that video,” Elkhart Police Chief Dan Milanese told the city’s police merit commission last week. “As soon as we can hit play, if we’re allowed to legally, I will hit play.”

Elsewhere, Bella Chavez’s speech at the “No Kings” rally was quoted: “We’re calling for justice in Elkhart. Justice for Bryan,” See, the normal operations of law enforcement are not “justice” if the outcomes aren’t satisfactory to activist types like Bella Chavez. Meanwhile, the county prosecutor announced the result of her investigation July 9:

The investigation documented evidence to establish that shortly after 1:30 a.m. on February 8, 2026, Elkhart Police Department Officer Ragsdale was driving past the area of High Dive Park pavilion and noticed a vehicle that was running while sitting stationary in the parking lot after the park was closed. . . .

(You’re sitting in a car in the closed park at 1:30 in the morning, when the temperature is 15°F. Definitely suspicious behavior.)

Officer Ragsdale pulled into the lot near the suspicious vehicle and observed several individuals inside, some appearing to be minors. Officer Ragsdale called for backup. While Officer Ragsdale was speaking to the driver, he noticed a scent he recognized as an alcoholic beverage prompting further investigation pursuant to Indiana law. EPD Officer Breneman arrived to provide back-up while Officer Ragsdale continued his work.

(So it appears that these minors are drinking in the park, which is closed. Call for backup. Standard operating procedure.)

Officer Ragsdale attempted to gather identifying information from each occupant of the vehicle, being led to believe that there were two individuals that were eighteen (18) and three individuals claiming to be juveniles, two males and one female. Officer Ragsdale then returned to his vehicle to determine whether there were any law enforcement notifications relating to any of the occupants.

(None of them were legally old enough to be drinking. Now, pay close attention to the next paragraph for important information.)

Although Officer Ragsdale did not know it at the time, the front seat passenger provided false information regarding his name during the investigation and was on probation after having being adjudicated Delinquent for both felony and misdemeanor offenses in Elkhart County Juvenile Court, the nature of which included Auto Theft, Resisting Law Enforcement, Dangerous Possession of a Firearm, and Disorderly Conduct . . .

(In case you haven’t guessed, the front-seat passenger with the extensive juvenile record was Bryan Gomez. He was already on probation, and just committed another crime by giving the cop a fake name.)

Upon removing the occupants of the vehicle, one by one to ensure safety and control, the eighteen (18) year old driver did not have any identification on him and advised “not right now” when asked if he had any weapons. As Officer Ragsdale continued to remove the backseat passengers from the driver’s side of the vehicle, the front seat passenger, who had previously been complying with officer directives to keep hands visible, was also directed to stay in the car, but reached down between his legs and refused to put his hand up when ordered.

(When you see video of this, you’ll be impressed with how well Officer Ragsdale handled this. He was busy getting passengers out of the backseat and yet was alert to the front-seat passenger the whole time, so he immediately noticed the danger when Gomez lowered his hands.)

The front passenger then abruptly turned, got out of the car on the passenger’s side, and fired a handgun toward Officer Breneman.
Both Officer Ragsdale and Officer Breneman fired their respective handguns in response. The front passenger was fatally shot during this event. A Glock 9mm handgun was on the ground near him. . . .
During the crime scene investigation in which crime scene specialists documented and recovered evidence related to the event, another handgun was found on the front passenger floorboard of the subject vehicle that had been modified to be fully automatic by what is known as a “switch”. A “switch” is an after-market attachment that converts a semi-automatic handgun to a fully automatic handgun which is illegal to possess pursuant to both State and Federal law.

There you have it. Already on probation, carrying a pistol, and a second pistol with an illegal “switch” at his feet, Gomez knew he was in trouble, and the only way he could think to get out of it was to kill both cops.

That plan didn’t work out too well for him. Gomez only got off one shot. Officer Breneman fired five shots, while falling backwards. Officer Ragsdale fired five shots before his pistol jammed. Gomez was hit by three shots — one to the head, one to the torso, one to the leg.

This all went down in three seconds. Neither of the officers nor the other passengers was hit. Those cops did some damned fine shooting.

That video is 19 minutes long, but if you watch it, you’ll see the part where they slow it down frame-by-frame to show where Gomez fires the first shot. Not that police in such a situation are obligated to let the bad guy shoot first before returning fire. If he’s got a gun and refuses to drop it when ordered? Good night, Irene. In this case, despite Gomez having the tactical advantage of firing the first shot, the two cops between them fired 10 shots in three seconds, and scored three hits.

The officers were justified, and as for the “family demands answer,” well, they got their answer — not the one they wanted. There won’t be any wrongful death lawsuit. Ben Crump won’t be showing up.



 

Category: Crime, Indiana, Media Bias

In The Mailbox: 07.31.26

Posted on | August 1, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links this month.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

It’s five o’clock somewhere.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: A Day At The Whiskey Rebellion (1794)
357 Magnum: Angry Cops versus Buffalo Public School System, also Could It Be That Media is Biased Against Cops?
EBL: Delicious Salmon, Machine Gun Preacher, Pilgrim Songs, and Spain just did what?
Twitchy: Dylan Mulvaney & “Sarah” McBride Have A “Dolls Night Out” & The Jokes Just Write Themselves, “What’s The Mood On Bluesky?”, and PLEASE Put Out The Fire!
Louder With Crowder: Shocker! Democrats Are Using Your Tax Dollars To Fund Crack Pipes, Coyotes Take Over Abandoned Construction Site in California City, NYU Student Tries To Explain Woke Reason Why She Believes Rapists Don’t Deserve Prison Time, Maine Democrat asked for dating advice after allegations that he married and had kids with his cousin, and Spain’s Invasion Today, America’s Invasion Tomorrow?
Vox Popoli: Migration is Literally Invasion, also,  UEFA Rejects Privatization
According To Hoyt: Caught In A Net, A Costly Indulgence, Mistakes Were Made, Dingy, and Two Parties, Both Alike in Dignity*
Cedar Sanderson: Water Until The Barrel Runs Dry
John C. Wright: Materialism Revisited

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: EBay Agrees to $55.7 Million Settlement With Massachusetts Couple Over Bizarre Intimidation Campaign, ICE Planning New Detention Facilities for 5,500+ Detainees in Four U.S. Cities, Immigrant Business Owners Prepare Lawsuit Against Mamdani Over City-Run Grocery Stores, RFK Jr. Debuts Cooking Show to Prove Healthy Eating Beats Fast Food on Cost, and FCC Chair Carr Defends License Review as ABC Cries Censorship
American Thinker:  Quantum Computing Is The Next Technological Horizon, The New Way for Conservatives to Win Elections, What Europe’s Lack of Air Conditioning Says About Its Civilizational Direction, The Garden Refuge, and The Strategic Blind Spot
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For July 31
Behind The Black: Mars is NOT dry: New global maps of the near surface ice on Mars, FAA proposes exempting rocket companies from environmental regulations that now require repeated and duplicative environmental reassessments, Spain offers more than $1 billion to get the long delayed Thirty Meter Telescope to move to the Canary Islands, Update on Blue Origin’s effort to resume New Glenn launches, and Is Pluto’s atmosphere collapsing as predicted?
Cafe Hayek: Accounting Isn’t Economics
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Parasites & Hosts
Dana Loesch: The Supposed Hamas “Ceasefire”,
Don Surber: The DNC is broke
Flopping Aces: Stay the hell away from 9-11, Mamdani!
The Geller Report: NY Times Blames Iran for Walz’s Incompetence – Trump Exposes the Truth, Trump Warns, “Spain Today, America Tomorrow”, New Connecticut Law Requires Educators to Develop Curriculum Materials for Islamic, Arab Studies, Jihad Jew-Hater Abdul El-Sayed Abdul El-Sayed Cruising to Victory in Michigan Democratic Senate Primary, and Trump Activates Never-Before-Used Terrorist Deportation Court
Hollywood In Toto: Hollywood’s Fauci Worship Part of Much Bigger Problem, also, Belushi’s Best Performance? Rediscovering Continental Divide
Legal Insurrection: Teacher Training Program Allegedly Paints Parents as Oppressors, Karelian Bear Dogs Take on Tahoe’s Bear Invasion, Thousands of Military-Age Men From Morocco Invade Spain’s Ceuta Territory, U. Minnesota Receives $600K Grant for Study Aiming to Reduce ‘Racial Bias’ in White Kids, and Wisconsin Brewery That Celebrated Trump Assassination Attempt Loses Permits Over Tax Dispute
Outkick: SEC & Big 10 agree to support “Protect College Sports Act”, Erling Haaland’s top-tier summer tour continues, Pat McAfee pokes fun at Fauci pleading the Fifth live on ESPN, Riley Gaines accuses WNBA of preferring activism to pro sports, and Lioness Season 3 is action packed saga loaded with violence & carnage
Power Line: Kamala Veers Left, Defending the DNC, Dan Rosen speaks, “A modest suggestion”, and Dems’ Dumbest Idea Ever?
Racket News: Editor’s Note – Fauci Stories Unlocked
Shark Tank: Rep. Luna Introduces Bill amending Gluten Labeling Reqirements
STUMP: RIP Kaylee Hottle (and more)
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – McCarthyism: Past, Present, Future
Victory Girls: New York Created An Official Government Bureau To Police Sheriffs, Not Criminals
Watts Up With That: President Trump’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge Shows How America Can Win the AI Race, Be Honest, Popular Mechanics – Air Conditioning Saves Lives with No Threat of Doom, Big Tech On The Path To Net Zero — 2026 Edition, Free-Market Electricity Reform Advancing, and Blame Canada’s Terrible Regulations For Wildfires Ruining America’s Summer
The Federalist: Gorsuch Abandons Originalism (Again) With Claims America Isn’t A Christian Nation, Spain’s Illegal Alien Invasion Shows It Would Take Democrats Only A Few Hours To Destroy Trump’s Border Progress, The Foreign Invasion In The UK Will Ruin Your English Countryside Vacation, The Burning Hatred From Neocons Is Good For J.D. Vance In 2028, and Catholic Nuns Score Temporary Win In Battle Against New York’s Assisted Suicide Law
Mark Steyn: A Deeply Human Art

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In The Mailbox: 07.30.26

Posted on | July 31, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: A Day With Young Abe Lincoln In New Orleans (1828),
357 Magnum: America’s Murder Problem Is Concentrated in Small Areas
EBL: The First Hour: The Collapse of Nazi Germany, Polish Soup, Barbarossa, and Battle of Alexandria
Twitchy: “Now Is The Time To Do What You’re Told”, LBC Claims Three Female Migrants Found Dead On Boat In Channel, and Maine Dems Swap Oysterfuehrer For Man Who F***ed His Cousin
Louder With Crowder: Ratchet Crockett lashes out over the discovery that Black people voted for Donald Trump, We Really Need To Thank Dr. Fauci – No, Really, Chaotic Scene Shows African Migrants Storming Spain’s Port, Fauci’s Diary Somehow Just Got Worse With Special Guest Pastor James Manning, and After “accidentally” doxxing close to a million homeowners, Emir Mamdani attempts to clarify whose taxes he’s hiking
Vox Popoli: A Science Fiction Family, Immigration and Economy, A Return to Militarism, DevGame Test, and A Reminder
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: No Apology, Just Pleading The Fifth
Cedar Sanderson: Fen Dead Is Alive!, also, Toast & Gidget #18
Sensurround: I Miss Experts
John C. Wright: AFK

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Seattle Storm Co-Owner Suspended and Fined, GOP Senators Unveil Bill Prohibiting Biological Males From Daughters of the American Revolution, Musk Revives Super PAC, Pledges Major Push to Boost GOP Turnout in Midterms, Trump Unveils $22 Billion Plan to Fix Dulles Airport’s Notorious Design Flaws, and Trump Administration Targets School Districts Accused of Hiding Gender Transitions From Parents
BattleSwarm: The Texas Data Center Dilemma
Behind The Black: Crater and boulder distribution on the Martian moon Deimos suggest its surface either has been renewed recently or its orientation shifted drastically, A Martian cliff wall collapses, What China routinely does to its people when it launches rockets, SpaceX wins $1.6 billion Space Force contract for 18 Falcon 9 launches, and Boeing’s disastrous inability to refurbish two 747s for Air Force One has now cost the company over $3 billion
Cafe Hayek: Routledge Handbook of Classical Liberalism
CDR Salamander: Someone Called A Code Red On The CNO
Chicago Boyz: Mamdani’s Grocery Store Discount
Dana Loesch: Fauci Pleads the Fifth,
Don Surber: Omerta
First Street Journal: I check Bluesky so you don’t have to, also, Don’t be fooled: Andy Beshear is perfectly content with Medicaid fraud!
Flopping Aces: Every Data Center We Kill is Another Brick In China’s Empire
Gates Of Vienna: The “Achievement Supreme” in Islam, also, Waiting for My Boot Heels to Be Wandering
The Geller Report: Scorned RINO Senators Cornyn and Tillis Force Cancellation of Vote on Blanche AG Nomination, Elon Musk Unleashes Midterm War Machine to Save Trump’s Majority, and UNDERCOVER FRAUD BOMBSHELL: Our Taxpayer Dollars Used to Buy Drugs and Alcohol
Hollywood In Toto: FARCE – Stephen Colbert Wins Anti-Censorship Award, also, Is Adam Carolla More Trustworthy than Legacy Media Outlets?
Legal Insurrection: Trump Might Temporarily Pull Blanche’s AG Nomination Until Cornyn, Tillis Leave, Sophie Cunningham Blasts Storm Co-Owner After Young Fans Left in Tears, Suspected Iranian Drone Hits U.S.-Owned Gas Tanker in Egypt, American Federation of Teachers Adopts Resolution Supporting ‘Gender-Affirming’ Care, and Musk’s X.AI Sues to Stop Minnesota’s AI ‘Nudification’ Ban
Outkick: Rockets’ Eason claims ex-GF ruined $92K wardrobe with bleach & threatened to kill him, WNBA fans call out glaring double standard after Reese’s clueless response to Bueckers bet, Capitals star Ovechkin crashes wedding picture, California scientists developing shark-spotting robot ahead of 2028 LA Olympics, and Cheating wife exposed by underpaid babysitter
Power Line: Islamic Invasion of Spain Renewed, Flooding the border, A bad joke, and Peace In Gaza?
Racket News: After the Fauci Debacle, Our Idiot Press Circles the Wagons, also, The Fauci Legend Will Not Die!
Shark Tank: “Beijing” Belinda Keiser – Former Democrat, Hillary Supporter & Democrat Megadonor Running as Republican In FL-22
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – DEI In College: Band Not Doing Anything; Inclusive Systems; Queer Crip Lit
Transterrestrial Musings: Two Drugs In One, also, We Can Hope
Victory Girls: Taxpayers Fund Study on Adult Human Females Who Want To Be Called Men
Watts Up With That: The Great “Hot Drought” Humbug: Why Lake Powell Is Really Drying Up, The Era of Decentralized Observation, Claim: Australia is Blowing Millions of Dollars on a No Show Climate Conference, Anatomy of a State Blunder: Quebec’s “Green” Gas Fiasco, and EU’s Pretense of ‘Transition’ Leadership Is an Economic Loser
The Federalist: How Trump Accounts Could Solve Social Security’s Insolvency Crisis, The College Transparency Act Is Another Form Of Big Government Surveillance, How Kansas Voters Can Stop Rabid Leftists From Controlling Their Supreme Court, 1st Circuit Court Shoots Down Rogue Judges’ Bid To Evade SCOTUS Migrant Ruling, and How Clarkson’s Farm Explains Crazy Politics And Future Of Farming
Mark Steyn: Dear Diary

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In The Mailbox: 07.29.26

Posted on | July 30, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: A Day With An English Peasant Family (1280), also, Fauci Meme Storm
357 Magnum: You Cannot Fix a Problem You Don’t Admit Exists
EBL: The Horror of Event Horizon, Why Predators Feared Ancient Humans, Swordfish Cookout, $50 Shots of Tequila, and Blue Skies
Twitchy: Madison Agitators Use Nail-Studded Boards To Defend Their Encampment & The City Is Helping, Tampon Timmy Of All People Tells Elon Musk “See You In Court, Creep”, and Brandon Gill Asks X if Jim Talarico Still Plays With His Dr. Fauci Doll
Louder With Crowder: Zohran Mamdani calls for reparations because of what he claims was NYC’s alleged role in slavery, PhD Student has her Research SUSPENDED because of her science-based belief that transitioning children is bad for them, Remember the illegal immigrant elected mayor of MN? Employees accuse her of sexual harassment, looking for a ‘good Weinering’, Seattle Police Chief Under Fire For Visiting Texas For DEI Conference During Shooting, and Debunking Candace Owens’ latest “bombshell” in under two minutes
Vox Popoli: Red on Red, Why Castalia Library Matters, and Success is Fake
Cedar Sanderson: What A Baby Costs
John C. Wright: Robert Heinlein’s Famous Predictions
Jim McCoy: A Parade of Horribles

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Anti-ICE Mayor of St Paul Under Investigation For Sexually Harassing Police Chief With ‘Weiner Wednesday’ Text, Fauci Facing Contempt of Congress Citation After Pleading Fifth at Contentious Senate Hearing, Immigrant-Led Business Group Sues NYC Over Mayor’s Taxpayer-Funded Grocery Stores, Global and U.S. Reliance on Fossil Fuel Unchanged in 25 Years, and The Misplaced Fixation with Israel’s ‘Image’
BattleSwarm: ICE Dismantles Criminal SIM Farms
Behind The Black: Starship from last week’s launch still afloat in Indian Ocean, Rocket Factory Augsburg has “issue” with rocket, forcing its removal from launchpad, China launches classified satellite, and European rocket startup MaiaSpace delays first orbital launch
Dana Loesch: News We Missed, Republicans Shouldn’t Be Dumb About Ken Paxton,
Don Surber: What a trillion dollars buys
Flopping Aces: El-Sayed declares jihad on Donald Trump
Gates Of Vienna: The Glass is Falling Hour by Hour, also, Shootout in Berlin
The Geller Report: Texas Is America’s Final Battleground Against Islam, New Audio Tapes Confirm What America Saw: Biden Had Significant Cognitive Decline, The Raging Islamization of California, Senator Bernie Moreno Obliterates Fauci in Blistering Senate Showdown, and ‘Ideally You Put One OGRE ON A PIKE, and Then Everyone Else Gets the Message’
Glenn Reynolds: Why Fauci Matters
Hollywood In Toto: Spider-Man: Brand New Day – Holland’s Heart Carries MCU Sequel, How Alex P. Keaton Changed Young Washington Scribe’s Life, and Is Tom Holland the Best Spider-Man Yet?
Legal Insurrection: China Hits U.S., Europe With New Rare Earths Export Controls, New U.S. Policy Seeks to Restrict High-Risk, Gain-of-Function Biology Research, Colleges Extend Admissions to Welcome Students Unenrolled by Howard University, Oregon Measure to Ban Hunting, Fishing, Ranching Fails to Make Ballot, and WI Gov DSA Candidate Says She Never Called for Abolishing the Senate – Except She Did
Nebraska Energy Observer: About That Scamdemic
Outkick: Storm co-owner suspended after incident with Sophie Cunningham fans, WNBA yanks Bueckers/Reese betting post, Pochettino nearing deal to stay as US coach through next World Cup, LIV Golf maybe not dying after all, and What happened to leaving the groom at the altar like an adult?
Power Line: You can’t handle the truth, Gender Storm In Seattle [Updated Again], When you say nothing at all, Iran attacks, and What is Democratic Socialism?
Shark Tank: Rick Scott Berates Fauci For Destroying Americans’ Trust
STUMP: Alternative Assets In Public Pensions – July 2026 Update
The Political Hat: Max Horkheimer & Critical Theory
Transterrestrial Musings: The Autopen Pardons, The Gross Bias In American Universities, The Turning Point, and Starship’s Heat Shield
Victory Girls: The Curious Case of Mitch McConnell’s Disappearing Act
Watts Up With That: The Case for EVs Has Failed, The Impending Collapse of California’s Transportation Fuel Infrastructure, Spain to Assemble a Panel of 10 Climate Emergency Experts to Guide Public Policy, Cheap Renewables? Reuters Recycles the Myth, and Hydrogen plane pioneer seeks lifeline funding
The Federalist: State Department Report Reveals How Cuba Equipped The American Radical Left For 60 Years, Craziest Part Of New Biden Tapes Is That Media Who Covered For Him Still Have Jobs, GOP Senators Use The Filibuster As An Excuse To Do Nothing For Voters, Texas Public Universities Join Growing List Of Colleges Welcoming Classical SAT Alternative, and NeverTrumpers Are Banking On Iran War To Drive MAGA Into Extinction
Mark Steyn: The Islamist Spectrum, Convergence and Transition, All Quiescent on the Western Front, Live Around The Planet: Wednesday July 29th, and Fauci and the Fifth

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