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‘Suburban Teens’ Make Headlines

Posted on | July 28, 2026 | No Comments

Everything is ultimately about media bias. What would be the point of any conservative blogging, if the news media were remotely objective? And so it is that I encountered this headline:

Four suburban teens killed in Chicago crash; victim’s father questions police pursuit

The phrase “four suburban teens” immediately makes you think of some John Hughes movie from the 1980s, as if Anthony Michael Hall and Molly Ringwald went joyriding in Chicago, but alas, no:

A 14-year-old girl who was preparing to start high school was among four teenagers killed in a high-speed crash Sunday morning in Bedford Park, according to Chicago police and family members.
The teens, who ranged in age from 14 to 19 years old, were all from Chicago’s north and northwest suburbs. Police said the driver of the pickup truck was fleeing law enforcement just after 2:15 a.m., when the vehicle left the roadway near Cicero Avenue and 69th Street and plunged into a train yard below.
Surveillance video showed the vehicle flying off the bridge and into the air.
Among those killed was Vanessa Morales. Her family said she would have attended freshman orientation at Palatine High School on Monday.
“She was so excited. She was going to get her tablet and meet her teachers today,” Morales’ father said in Spanish.
Chicago police said officers were responding early Sunday to a report of an unidentified suspect pointing a weapon at another person while in a vehicle. Police said the vehicle matched the description of the pickup truck in which Morales and the others were riding.
According to police, officers attempted a traffic stop and briefly pursued the truck before ending the chase. Police said the crash occurred shortly after Illinois State Police made their own attempt to stop the vehicle. . . .
Woodstock High School said one of those killed graduated from Woodstock High School last May and another last attended Woodstock High School about two years ago. . . .
Another graduated from Crystal Lake Central High School.

In addition to Vanessa Morales, whose father doesn’t speak English, the other “suburban teens” killed in the crash were identified as Cristofer Lopez Montan, 19, and Yuarem Garcia-Pena, 18, both of Woodstock, and Yaritza Martinez Villeda, 17, of Crystal Lake. So these kids weren’t exactly the cast of Sixteen Candles or Pretty in Pink. On the one hand you can understand that, on those rare occasions when the perpetrators of crime in Chicago aren’t “urban youth,” the local media are eager to convey the message that it wasn’t the usual suspects this time.

On the other hand, what’s up in the Chicago suburbs? Woodstock and Crystal Lake are both in McHenry County, while Palantine, where Vanessa Morales lived, is on the north end of Cook County.

Map showing McHenry County, Illinois (upper left)

It’s 60 miles from Woodstock, Illinois, to downtown Chicago, so to call Woodstock a “suburb” of Chicago is kind of like saying Bowling Green, Kentucky, is a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee. Meanwhile, what do we know about McHenry County? In 1980, it had fewer than 150,000 residents, but now has more than 300,000. Also, according to Wikipedia, “McHenry county has the highest percentage of non-Hispanic whites amongst the five collar counties of Chicago (McHenry, Lake, DuPage, Kane, and Will).” Comparatively speaking, it’s the Vanilla Valhalla.

Nevertheless, there has been demographic change in McHenry County, which went from being 97% white in 1980 — when Hispanics were just 2% of the county’s population — to 77% white in 2020, when Hispanics had increased to 15%. That doesn’t explain why these four teenagers were riding around downtown Chicago at 2 a.m., allegedly brandishing a firearm and leading cops on a high-speed chase, but would any white kids from McHenry County be in downtown Chicago at that hour?

Probably not. The whole point of being from McHenry County is to be far, far away from the kind of dangers that lurk in Chicago. The media don’t want to talk about any of this stuff, which is why the burden falls on me.



 

Category: Chicago, Crime, Illinois, Media Bias

In The Mailbox: 07.28.26 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | July 28, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

A collection of sundry substackeries and whatnot.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: The Day Mary Jemison Was Captured By The Shawnee (1758), The Day The Barbary Pirates Met Stephen Decatur (1804), and A Day Fighting On The Shores Of Tripoli (1805)
357 Magnum: I’m Not in Favor of Vigilantism
EBL: The Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Italian Fish Recipe, Pan Seared Sea Bass, Summer Fishing, and Robespierre
Twitchy: Catherine Herridge Adds Disturbing Context To Biden Sharing Classified Info With Ghostwriter, Sen. Fetterman Tells Democrats “If You Don’t Want Me Just Say So”, and Twilight Zone Politics – Snakehead Carville Backs David Hogg To Run Dysfunctional DNC
Louder With Crowder: Kissing lawyers, and should it be legal to punch influencers in the face? Hakeem Jeffries thinks Americans are idiots, claims with a straight face no Democrat wants to abolish ICE, DSA co-chair triples down on their batsh*t crazy, anti-American agenda, Member of Germany’s “Islamist Scene” commits act of terror at LGBTQ parade, but this dingbat is sad he wasn’t a “white Christian”, and James Talarico claims sending violent criminals to prison is the real violence
Vox Popoli: The EU is a Pirate State, Escalation in the Red Sea, The Byron Project and Byronics, Immigration Economics, and Guns or Gas?
Cedar Sanderson: The End…Or Is It?, also, Smoked Chicken Salad
Sensurround: Why Are You So Determined To Win This Conversation? also, I Have A Confession To Make About AI,
Mazelit Airaksinen: FIRED – Nurse Who Called Jews “Hooknose Hymies” & Said They Prayed To “Satanic Star”
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Travel By Air, also, Air Travel With Firearms

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: NATO Summit Debrief With Jorge Benitez – On Midrats, also, Squinting At The Iran Decision Brief
Dana Loesch: Looking For Truth In Israel
Don Surber: Journalism 2026
Elizabeth Nickson: Are We In Time? Is The Left Gearing Up For the Biggest Genocide In Their Bloody History?
Racket News: History’s Most Preventable Terror Attack?,
STUMP: Public Pension Watch – No, 85% Funding Ratios Aren’t Great

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Rule 5 Sunday: Everything Stops For Tea

Posted on | July 27, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I really wish Samsung’s Gallery allowed me to tag these pics so I could remember where I got them.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Pressure, The Last Anniversary, Critical Drinker’s Odyssey – Meh, Helen of Troy, MAGA Kamala Kamalot, The Acali Raft Experiment, Shakira’s World Cup Halftime Show, Chimichurri & Spanish Mackerel, and Lady Jane

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Smelling the Roses with Chelsea McGehee, Fish Pic Friday – Jessica Marie White-Page, Thursday Tanlines, The Bay Has More Oysters and Watermen Want Them, The Wednesday Wetness, Wasted Year, Manic Monday, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Smoke on the Water, Palm Sunday, and Is the Bay Ready for The Thrilla from Manila

BACON TIME: Rule Five Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Batgirl!

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: At Last, The Draft

Posted on | July 26, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Son of Silvercon IV went well – Tim Powers was a fantastic guest, and everybody had a good time – but I came home with a terrible cold (or some kind of virus) and I’m only now starting to bounce back from. Meanwhile, since we couldn’t agree on a good day to hold the draft in Pete & Lance’s Excellent Dynasty Baseball League, we just started drafting on Slack, and so far it’s going pretty well. I’m looking at a vastly improved starting rotation, and am now filling in the backups and bench players.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Knife-Wielding Psycho-Tranny Is Former Arizona Democratic Party Official
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Communism, the Palestinian Death Cult and the Pro-Terrorism Red-Green Axis
EBL
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Rule 5 Monday: Redhead in Denim
A View From The Beach
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In The Mailbox: 07.20.26
A View From The Beach
EBL
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The Pro-Hamas Socialist Democrats
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EBL
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In The Mailbox: 07.21.26 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Of Lawyers, Samoans and Journalism
A View From The Beach
EBL
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In The Mailbox: 07.22.26
A View From The Beach
EBL
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Friedrich Nietzsche vs. Robert E. Lee
EBL
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In The Mailbox: 07.23.26
A View From The Beach
EBL
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In The Mailbox: 07.24.26
A View From The Beach
EBL
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My Own Tucker Carlson Theory

Posted on | July 26, 2026 | No Comments

Does this look like a sane man to you?

Raise your hand if you have a beef with the Republican Party establishment. Everybody’s hand is up, am I correct? Now, keep your hand up if you feel that the Official Conservative Movement is often ineffective and sometimes not really conservative at all. Pretty much everyone still has their hand up, I believe. It is fair to say that, the more conservative you are, the more discontented you are with the institutions and “leaders” who are supposed to represent your point of view.

At the same time, however, what are you going to do? We try as much as we can to steer things in the right direction, and occasionally express our outrage at the ballot box — hat-tip to those Texans who finally dumped John Cornyn — but we know that it’s bad tactics to form circular firing squads. Keep your fire aimed downrange is always good advice in politics, and there are always plenty of liberals targets to aim at.

Notice how I’ve avoided getting into the intramural skirmishes over the Iran War, J.D. Vance, etc.? Y’all want to argue over that stuff, go ahead, but it seems to me there are more important battles to fight, so I’ve mostly stayed out of it. Likewise with the ongoing Tucker Carlson drama. Except for one post last November — “Has Tucker Carlson Lost His Mind? (And Is This Kind of Insanity Contagious?)” — I’ve permitted that saga to continue without adding any commentary of my own. Why publicize such an embarrassment? He was “our guy” for a long time, now he’s become a divisive figure, and I don’t think there’s anything to be gained by constantly spotlighting this unfortunate situation.

Some of my friends, however, haven’t chosen to emulate my example, and spend a lot of time “monitoring the situation,” with daily updates on the latest outrage. In the process, they tend to engage in speculation about Carlson’s motives. Is he “Tucker Qatarlson,” bribed by Arab money to promote anti-Israel messages? Or, as some have suggested, was he always secretly a Jew-hater who has in recent years finally decided to reveal The Real Tucker Carlson? My friends debate these theories often enough that I feel the need to state clearly my own beliefs.

Can we rule out the possibility that Tucker Carlson is exhibiting symptoms of organic brain damage or a degenerative neurological disorder? “Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive brain disease linked to repeated head injuries, causing memory loss, behavior changes, and mood swings.” I don’t know if Tucker has suffered “repeated head injuries,” just like I have no idea whether he might have contracted syphilis many years ago and is now in the dreaded tertiary stage of that terrible disease. Has he been experimenting with hallucinogenic drugs? Psilocybin has become a trendy treatment for depression, but its crazy-making potential should not be ignored.

The Just Plain Crazy Theory has to be considered, but I will leave it to psychiatric experts to explore that possibility. It seems to me that the most obvious explanation for Tucker Carlson’s recent “issues” (as we may diplomatically phrase it) is this: Whatever his grudges against the Republican Party and the conservative movement may have been prior to April 2023, this was the decisive turning-point:

On the morning of Monday, April 24, 2023, Fox News dismissed Carlson and the executive producer of his evening show. . . .
Fox did not provide a reason for Carlson’s termination. The Los Angeles Times wrote that Chairman of Fox Corporation Rupert Murdoch was responsible for the firing, and that a pending lawsuit from former Fox producer Abby Grossberg and Carlson’s coverage of the January 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection both influenced the decision. The Wall Street Journal wrote that Carlson was dismissed due to private messages in which he criticized Fox’s management, using vulgar and offensive language. In May, The New York Times reported that in one such message Carlson expressed racist views by criticizing three Trump supporters who were beating one antifa activist: “It’s not how white men fight.”

For six years after he replaced Bill O’Reilly in the 8 p.m. time slot at Fox News, Tucker was the draft-ox of the network’s primetime lineup — the most-watched man in cable news, the biggest media star of the MAGA era, and he lost his job because of (a) a disgruntled former producer’s lawsuit and (b) some rude text messages? If Carlson felt himself to be the victim of an injustice, certainly many would agree he had grounds for feeling that way. Fox News settled Grossberg’s lawsuit for $12 million. She claimed that the network set her up to “take the fall” in the Dominion voting systems defamation lawsuit against FNC.

At any rate, my basic theory is that Tucker Carlson’s trajectory for the past three years is basically his revenge against Fox News and, as collateral damage, also against the conservative movement.

Imagine how it feels to have been the King of Cable News, then suddenly to be hurled into the exile of podcasting, by a bunch of corporate assholes freaked out about a couple of lawsuits. Anyone might be discombobulated by such an experience, and I return to what I explained at the start — all of us have our own gripes with the Republican Party and “mainstream” conservatism. Getting fired from Fox News gave Tucker Carlson an excuse to “go nuclear” and air all the grievances he might previously have kept quiet about for the sake of his career ambitions.

Less than months after Carlson’s unceremonious ouster from Fox News, Hamas launched the deadly October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, and instantly American university campuses were overrun by radical students accusing Israel of “genocide.” To be anti-Israel was now The Current Thing™ for cool kids, at a time when Tucker was eager to build his online audience. We may further surmise that it did not escape Carlson’s notice that his downfall at Fox News involved a person named Grossberg.

Ex-FNC producer Abby Grossberg appears on MSNBC in 2023.

You may say that this was just a coincidence, and I might agree, but what matters — the relevant factor — is what Tucker Carlson thinks. Many people have been shocked by the rapidity with which Carlson turned into a peddler of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, but as the old feminist saying goes, “The personal is the political.” And it seems to me that such strictly personal grievances, related to his being fired from Fox News in 2023, make much more sense in explaining what happened to Carlson than any speculation about secret payments from Qatar.



 

Category: Conspiracy Theories

Criminal Carnival in Madison, Wisconsin

Posted on | July 25, 2026 | 2 Comments

Amy Curtis: “If you don’t know Wisconsin, let me explain that Madison is so left-wing it flies in circles.” Indeed. Kamala Harris got 75% of the vote in Dane County, which is a higher percentage than Harris got in Fulton County, Georgia. The fact that a drug-addicted career criminal fresh out of prison was wandering the streets of Madison is not surprising. What is surprising is that, when the aforesaid criminal was accused of stealing bicycles and attempting to burglarize vehicles in broad daylight, the Madison police actually tried to arrest him:

The man who was killed by police in Madison, Wisconsin, a shocking caught-on-camera shooting — sparking protests — was a violent ex-con with a lengthy record, including for assaulting cops, The Post can reveal.
Corey Durrell Ruiz, 38, was identified by local officials and his family in social media posts.
State Rep. Shelia Stubbs, a Democrat, said Ruiz “should still be alive.” Brandi Grayson, the head of the Madison-based black community advocacy group Urban Triage, decried the shooting as, “Another black man is dead on a Madison street.”
Protesters have flooded the streets of Madison, Wisconsin, where the shooting happened and local black activists have seized on the killing.
Ruiz had recently been released from prison, and had knifed a cop moments before he was fatally shot, according to authorities.
Prison records show that Ruiz was Hispanic, and not black — though court records listed him as African-American.
Online court records show at least 25 criminal cases dating back to 2007. In 2023, he was convicted of battery to a law enforcement officer and resisting a law enforcement officer. He most recently was convicted in 2025 of retail theft and resisting police.
The Wisconsin State Journal quoted friends as saying that he was homeless and had longtime problems with drug addiction.
He was released from prison in May of this year and was listed as having absconded from supervised release.

Lots to chew over in that brief excerpt, but the main thing is that Ruiz had only been out of prison for a few weeks and was in violation of his parole (which is what “absconded from supervised release” means)

Corey Ruiz (left); his final arrest (right).

Also highly relevant is that “friends” of Ruiz said “he was homeless and had longtime problems with drug addiction.” If you fell on hard times, would you become homeless? Almost certainly not, because you have friends and family who would take you in until you got back on your feet. However, if you’re a drug addict with a violent criminal history, even your own family won’t let you stay under their roof. Anyone who’s dealt with drug addicts understands this — a junkie will steal everything that’s not nailed down if he can sell it to feed his habit, which is why the junkie is not welcome even at his family members’ homes. But then the junkie gets shot by a cop, Ben Crump shows up to “demand justice,” and suddenly those very same relatives — lured by the scent of a generous wrongful death settlement from the city — turn out to praise the deceased felon they turned away when he got out of prison:

The family of the man shot and killed by Madison, Wisconsin, police during a confrontation spoke out Friday about their grief during an emotional news conference and called for justice.
Corey Ruiz’s mother, daughter, partner and siblings joined attorney Ben Crump, expressing their sadness and frustration about his death.
Elsa Ruiz briefly spoke before breaking down in tears.
“He loved his daughter. He loved his family. He did not deserve to be taken out like that,” she said, referring to death of her son, which was captured on video by bystanders.
Madison Police Chief John Patterson said officers were responding to a call Wednesday afternoon about a person allegedly checking parked vehicles when they confronted Ruiz and, police said, he fled on a bicycle. . . .
After Ruiz fell from his bicycle, Patterson said, a struggle ensued between Ruiz and four responding officers and Ruiz allegedly pulled out a knife, injuring one officer. That officer fired the shots that killed Ruiz, he said. . . .
Crump contended there was no reason for the police to chase Ruiz in the first place.
“This was a suspicion of a property crime, there was no property crime,” he said. . . .
Veronica Ruiz, Corey Ruiz’s older sister, said the public should not judge her brother by his past.
“His criminal record tells a tale of trauma, of pain, of struggle. It does not define who my brother was,” she said. . . .
Marjorie Aliomar, the mother of Corey Ruiz’s 13-year-old daughter Kah’Liyah, told reporters that she saw the video of the shooting before she was told that it was Ruiz. She noted that it took place close to their home and her daughter’s school.
“I hate that she has to walk past this every day, and … I hate that he will never see her graduate,” Aliomar said.

Yeah, but Corey wasn’t living with you, was he, ma’am? He wasn’t living with you, or his mother, or his sister. He had been on the streets ever since he got out of prison, because he was a junkie and a criminal, and you couldn’t do anything about that, could you? Now that there’s a chance at collecting some slice of a settlement payout from the city, however, you’re standing up there in front of the TV cameras telling us how much you loved him, and nobody in the media is even asking the obvious question: “If you loved him so much, why was he homeless?”

What a constant humiliation it must be, working as the police chief in a city like Madison, where the protest mobs turn out demanding “justice” when a criminal gets shot after stabbing a cop. How can you enforce the law in a community where the citizens believe it’s acceptable to stab police officers? I’m sure every officer on the force in Madison would gladly resign if they could get a job anywhere the people are sane enough to realize that nobody deserves a second chance to stab a cop.



 

Category: Crime, Wisconsin

In The Mailbox: 07.24.26

Posted on | July 25, 2026 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Head is finally clear; throat is still sore and I’m weak as a kitten. So much for catching up.
Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: A Day of Impossible Victory with John Paul Jones (1779), also, Dr. Evil – Fauci, The Comic Book
357 Magnum: Welcome to the Panoptican,  Is Self-Defense Legal in Massachusetts? and Leftist Violence
EBL: Cod Fat, Michelin Fried Fish, “Looking for a Place to Happen”, Critical Drinker’s Odyssey – Meh, and Spruce Beer
Twitchy: Ben Shapiro Schools Piers Morgan – Free Speech Means I Don’t Have To Feed Your Clickbait Show, David Axelrod Deletes Tweet After Falling For Fake Trump Gold Coin Meme, and So Much For The First Amendment
Louder With Crowder: Megan Rapinoe refuses to calm down, claiming you’re anti-women’s rights if you don’t support men invading women’s sports, Someone put up a billboard that says no child has “two dads,” and the LGBTQ+ community is beside themselves over it, Shiloh Hendrix Found Guilty – Breaking Down the Sham Verdict, The IRS made a $20K mistake, now they are threatening to seize a 76-year-old man’s farm if he doesn’t pay for it, and That AWFL woke reporter who compared Caitlyn Clark to Emmett Till? She “apologized” by doubling down
Vox Popoli: The Secret History of Psykosonik, also, The Addition of Economic Attrition
According To Hoyt: Summer Time, and the Livin’ is Easy, The Golden Summer, Behold this One Strange Trick, All The Legs, All The Pants, and Once More Into the Breach!
Cedar Sanderson: Lightly Toasted Marshmallow Strip #16, also, Novel News
Stoic Observations: The Cobb Left Party, also, Puritanical Coders
John C. Wright: To Know and Love and Serve the Lord, also, Rocks & Brains & Darwin
Defending The Wood Perilous: To Kickstart or Not To Kickstart
Mazelit Airaksinen: NYC Doc Claims Jews Smell & “Criminally, Illegally, & Fraudulently” Live In America

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Attorney For Shiloh Hendrix Explodes After Disorderly Conduct Verdict in N-Word Trial, Justice Department Moves to Revoke U.S. Citizenship From 10 Criminal Migrants, South Korea’s Crackdown on U.S. Companies Threatens South Koreans’ Access to Advanced Technology, Italy Names the Problem While America Renames It, and The Manufactured ‘Bipartisan’ Push for an AI Kill Switch
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 96 – Alaska And Baby Birds
BattleSwarm: Fuck You Tim Walz, Karmelo Anthony Conviction Aftermath: “Only Good Cracker Is A Dead Cracker”, Federal Judge To Hood County: No You Can’t Have Immunity For Arresting Someone For A Meme, Austin: Soros DA = 74% Higher Homicide Rate, and LinkSwarm For July 24, 2026
Behind The Black: 13th Starship/Superheavy launch goes almost perfectly, Martian crater with many gullies flowing into corroded “irregular cellular structures”, GAO releases a schizophrenic report on NASA, JAXA successfully tests older solid-fueled motor for use in its Epsilon-S rocket, and Google owns 6% of SpaceX
Cafe Hayek: Brandon Farris’s Defense of Steel Tariffs Fails, Trump Acts to Increase U.S. Trade Deficits, Is the “China Shock” Responsible for Trumpian Protectionism? Oren Cass Again Swings and Misses in His Attempt to Discredit Economists, and Trump Abandons His ‘America First’ Stance!
CDR Salamander: The Next War Will Come Home, also, Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: SpaceX Flight 13 Superb, The Subversion of the Republic, Mamdani, Grocery Stores, & Political Ice Floes, Mamdani & Netanyahu, and Can Musk Do More Impossible Stuff?
Dana Loesch: Midweek News Roundup
Don Surber: DSA is not in America’s DNA, also, Saudis go nuke
First Street Journal: Killadelphia, Even The Philadelphia Inquirer has questions about defending Larry Krasner, This is what happens when the George Soros-sponsored, criminal-loving and police-hating “progressive” prosecutors get elected, Democrats playing stupid games, and To paraphrase what Mary McCarthy once said about Lillian Hellman, “Every word (Larry Krasner says) is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.”
Flopping Aces: This Week In Radical Leftism – Washington Post Still Dying In Darkness
Gates Of Vienna: Hijrah Colonization: “This Is What Surrender Looks Like”, Philanthropic Jihad, Recalling the Butchery of July 22 2011, A Persian Carpetbagger, and In-Flight Sharia
The Geller Report: NYC Landlords Sue Commie Mamdani for ‘Blatantly Illegal’ Rent Freeze, 278,000 Noncitizens Registered to Vote in Just Four States: California, New Jersey, Nevada, and Pennsylvania, Preparations Continue For ‘Massive Attack’ on Iran, Texas on the Brink: Paxton Stands Between Liberty and Talarico’s Radical Leftist Takeover, and RINO Traitor Senators Cornyn, Tillis Drag Their Feet On Blanche Nomination But Voted For All Obama, Biden Appointees
Hollywood In Toto: Yet Another Huge Sign That Woke Is on the Run, The Perils (And Promise) of Elon Musk’s A.I. Odyssey, The Dink – Pickleball Finally Gets Its Own Sports Comedy, Chris Rock Goes Navel-Gazing Route with Misty Green, and Here Comes a Four-Hour Elon Musk Hit Piece?
Legal Insurrection: DOJ Investigating Whether Harvard’s China-Based Aid Programs Discriminate, Interior Dept. Proposes Expanding State Authority Over Grizzly Bear Management, Pete Hegseth Chooses New Schools to Affiliate With War Department, DOJ Sues Colorado Over In-State Tuition for Illegals After Equal Protection Project Complaint, and Penn State Raises Tuition While Also Raising President’s Pay, Spending Millions on DEI
Nebraska Energy Observer: Speaking Kinda Quietly and Carrying One Hellova Big Stick, Ann Widdecombe, I think we are going to miss them, Straight from the Jackass’s Mouth, and Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Dan Le Batard claims ESPN is run by McAfee and white people in unhinged rant, Restaurant chain’s promo goes awry during Bosox win streak, John Tortorella opens up about being fired by Vegas after losing Stanley Cup final, Bills’ latest addition to new stadium painfully on-brand, and Wife swap with friends ruined by father-in-law/Messy married affair with co-worker/Wedding objections
Power Line: Accused Widdecombe killer in court, Trump’s Success, and AI’s Bias, Real friends of fake Dan, Senator Sheehy has a few thoughts, and Nuremberg Trial For Trump?
Racket News: Meet The New Boss Same As The Old Boss
Shark Tank: Rick Scott Backs Property Tax Amendment, Swipes At Democrats Over Spending
Shot In The Dark: President Trump, also, Self-Inflicted Wound
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Academic Ridiculousness, Firing Line Friday: Human Rights, Foreign Policy, and Ronald Reagan, Quick Takes – Friction For The Euthanasia Slippery-Slope, and Firing Line Friday: Firing Line 1966-1986: World Leaders
Transterrestrial Musings: Be Careful What You Gavel For, It’s Desperately Needed, RIP John C. Dvorak, Commercial Space, and The Willful Ignorance Of The Anti-Semites
Victory Girls: Democrat Socialist Communists Plan To Get Rid Of The Constitution, Democrats Feeling Tetchy About Donald Trump And Iran, Mamdani Puts On Theater Show When He Can’t Arrest Netanyahu, Plumber Shuts Down Business After Obama Center Fails To Pay, and First Lieutenant Posts “F” Trump Video On Final Day
Watts Up With That: Renewables ‘Can’t Keep Up’ With Data Centers – As Usual, the Left Wants Government to Step In, Canadian Wildfire Smoke Is Not Proof of Climate Change, Yet Another Embarrassment From The National Academy Of Pseudoscience, New York’s Wind Permitting Scandal, and Newsom’s plastics bill increases prices, punishes the poor
The Federalist: Mamdani Isn’t The Problem, It’s Immigration, New Jersey Dem Governor Pledges Transparency, Blocks Election Docs Release, The Problem With Nolan’s Odyssey Is That It’s Not Homer’s Odyssey, Louisiana Governor, AG Model Fight Against Lawfare After Bogus New Orleans Indictment, and American Manufacturers Are Reshoring, And The Big Beautiful Bill Helped
Mark Steyn: An Evening for Some Terpsichore, Blow-Up – Take a Picture, It’ll Last Longer, The People of Quebec v. Niqab, Live Around The Planet: Wednesday July 22nd, and Take Your AirPods Out

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In The Mailbox: 07.23.26

Posted on | July 24, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Wretchedly ill all week from a cold or some such. Hope I feel better tomorrow so I can get caught up on all manner of things.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

h/t Snarknado on X

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: The Day That Started A World War – George Washington At Ft. Necessity (1754)
EBL: The View’s Sunny Hostin has to pay herself slavery reparations, French Laundry Fish, Helen of Troy, “Banjo Odyssey”, and Marcha de Cádiz
Twitchy: Gov. Hairgel Moans About Sports Being Infected With Politics, The AWFLs And Boomers Are Singing Again, and Rotard’s Paranoia Just Gave The Democrats’ Midterm (Illegal) Strategy Away
Louder With Crowder: Chicago Mayor Thinks Voters Are Dumb Enough To Believe He Decreased Violent Crime And Grew The Economy, Ratchet Crockett Has Hissy Fit Over “White Men” Thinking American Values Are A Good Thing, DSA Co-Chair called out live on camera over her agenda to release prisoners, Pandering Democrat Gov. Candidate Says To Support Illegal Street Vendors Over Lawful Mexican Restaurants, and Donald Trump puts worthless college degrees in the crosshairs, and it’s about time
Vox Popoli: A Genre Vote, The End of the Boomer Cons, If It Sounds Implausible, and A Strange New Regard for Peace
Cedar Sanderson: We Make Ourselves
Sensurround: A Temporary Alliance With The Enemy, also, I’m Furious at What We’ve Done to People With Gender Dysphoria.
Jim McCoy: A Sense of Murder
JOhn C. Wright: In A Fight Between Neal Stephenson & William Gibson, Who Would Win?

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