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Rule 5 Sunday: From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor

Posted on | April 5, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I suppose I could have used the pic of Kamen America in her American/Japanese flag bikini, but this seemed more appropriate.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

“I know she looks sixteen, but she’s actually a 20,000 year old dragon goddess, officer!”

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Women on the Moon, MAGA National Address & Easter, Tarzan The Ape Man, Sisu: Road To Revenge, Never Forget Iryna Zarutska, “I Want You To Want Me”, Musique La Cour, Mermaid Monday, Sicilian Vespers, and Mercy

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Nicky Whelan, Fish Pic Friday – Jenny Barrett, Thursday Tanlines, The Wednesday Wetness, Katfish for Kiddos?, XXXHIBITIONIST, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday

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FMJRA 2.0: O’s, Yeah!

Posted on | April 5, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Before I get into This Week With The Senators, I’d like to direct your attention to The eponymous widget in the sidebar where we recognize fellow bloggers who link us on the regular. William Teach at The Pirate’s Cove throws us links every week, but because of the strictures of the FMJRA posts, you seldom see him mentioned in the links below or (before I gave it up) in the Top Linkers list. So thank you, Mr. Teach!

This was a very good week to be a Senators fan. Yes, we lost two out of three to the Royals in KC, winning only the opener after Mike Cuellar left early and was replaced by John Morlan, who we teed off on for six unearned runs on our way to a 10-1 blowout. Then it was off to Baltimore, where despite my expectations we swept the Birds in all three games: a 7-2 win for Carl Morton where Jim Kaat came in for four innings of relief to get the save; an agonizing 14-inning second game where we scored two in the top of the 14th and Charlie Hough held on for the win; and finally a rare start by Steve Hargan that earned him a win and Jim Shellenback a save. So here we are 69-72, 6.5 games behind the Twins and five games ahead of the Brewers, and with a real shot at reaching .500 even if we don’t make the playoffs.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

4-2 is very good indeed.

An Unjustified Arrogance
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FMJRA 2.0: August Blues
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Rule 5 Sunday: Out Like A Lamb
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‘A Massive Problem’: Free Speech for People Who Don’t Want Open Borders 
Western Rifle Shooters Association
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‘Retribution for Their Sacred Blood’: Hezbollah Inspired Synagogue Attack
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In The Mailbox: 03.30.26
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Because You Asked: ‘What in the Actual Hell is Happening in North Carolina?’
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In The Mailbox: 03.31.26
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‘Subject to the Jurisdiction Thereof’
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In The Mailbox: 04.02.26 (Evening Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 04.03.26
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Lifestyles of the Rich and Shameless: The Family Had ‘Great Satan’ Green Cards

Posted on | April 5, 2026 | No Comments

Guess where they were living?

State Department press release:

[Friday night] the niece and grand niece of deceased Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Major General Qasem Soleimani were arrested by federal agents following Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s termination of their lawful permanent resident (LPR) status.
Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter are now in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. As identified by both press reporting and her own social media commentary, Soleimani Afshar is an outspoken supporter of the totalitarian, terrorist regime in Iran.
While living in the United States, she promoted Iranian regime propaganda, celebrated attacks against American soldiers and military facilities in the Middle East, praised the new Iranian Supreme Leader, denounced America as the “Great Satan,” and voiced her unflinching support for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a designated terror organization. Afshar Soleimani pushed this propaganda for Iran’s terrorist regime while enjoying a lavish lifestyle in Los Angeles, as attested to by her frequent posting on her recently deleted Instagram account.
In addition to the termination of Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter’s LPR status, Afshar’s husband has also been barred from entering the United States.
Earlier this month, Secretary Rubio also terminated the legal status of Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani, daughter of former Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran Ali Larijani, and her husband Seyed Kalantar Motamedi. Both Ardeshir-Larijani and Motamedi are no longer in the United States and are barred from future entry.
The U.S. Department of State extends its appreciation to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for their continued partnership and collaboration in keeping Americans safe.
The Trump Administration will not allow our country to become a home for foreign nationals who support anti-American terrorist regimes.

So if you hate America, support our enemies and think of the United States as “the Great Satan,” where else would choose to live except in Gavin Newsom’s California, “enjoying a lavish lifestyle” among the liberal Hollywood snobs who hate America as much as you do? But why bring up Robert De Niro at a time like this? More details via the New York Post:

The glam grandniece of slain Iranian terror mastermind Gen. Qasem Soleimani frequented several US hotspots and lived a lavish life in LA before being scooped up by ICE Friday.
Sarinasadat Hosseiny, 25, and her mother, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar, were arrested after the State Department terminated their permanent resident status and had their green cards revoked due to her ties the terrorist Iranian regime, the agency announced Saturday.
The 25-year-old terror scion’s social media showed she’s enjoyed a luxurious, vacation-centric lifestyle while living in the country her mother referred to as the “Great Satan.”
Hosseiny shared photos of her jetsetting on private planes, sunbathing on yachts, and dancing at music festivals while showing no signs of gainful employment.
Instagram posts show that Hosseiny has recently traveled to Miami where she posed with drinks; to Alaska, where she still managed to take snaps in a bikini; and Las Vegas, where she attended an F-1 race.
Other posts show Hosseiny donning skin tight dresses, barely-there bikinis, and skirts well north of the knee. . . .
Hosseiny was first admitted to the US on a student visa in 2015 and was given a green card by the Biden administration in 2023.

Terror-spawn socialite Sarinasadat Hosseiny

Some younger fellows might lament that we’ve deported an attractive young Persian woman, despite her terrorist ancestry, but why should American hotties have to deal with this foreign competition? The Obama administration shipped pallets of cash to the mullahs in Iran, and then Biden gave green cards to relatives of the Islamic regime, just so the aforesaid relatives could drive around in $200,000 Land Rovers and hobnob with the Hollywood snobs. Good riddance to all that.



 

Category: Immigration, Iran

Easter Miracle: U.S. Rescues Second Crewman From Downed F-15E in Iran

Posted on | April 5, 2026 | No Comments

Late Saturday afternoon, reports began circulating online that the U.S. had located the weapons systems officer (WSO) from the F-15E fighter that got shot down Friday in Iran. The pilot had been rescued almost immediately after the plane went down, but finding the WSO was more difficult, and the effort to rescue him was quite risky:

U.S. special operations forces rescued the second crew member from a downed F-15E fighter jet in Iran after a “heavy firefight,” successfully extracting both airmen and all rescue personnel from the country, according to multiple reports.
U.S. officials told Axios and Fox News the high-risk combat search-and-rescue mission recovered the weapons systems officer more than a day after the aircraft was shot down, concluding a complex operation that unfolded behind enemy lines.
Officials described the shootdown as a “worst-case scenario,” with U.S. forces racing to recover the crew before Iranian units could capture them.
The second crew member was located on Saturday, triggering a rescue effort as Iranian forces, including elements of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), also raced to the area to locate the downed airman.
U.S. air assets conducted strikes to prevent Iranian forces from closing in, while special operations units on the ground executed a layered extraction under fire.
The weapons systems officer had evaded capture after ejecting alongside the pilot, using Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) training to move away from the wreckage and take cover on elevated terrain while activating an emergency beacon, according to reporting cited by Fox News.
There was fighting on the ground during the mission, though no U.S. personnel were killed, according to sources familiar with the operation.

It has been reported that two C-130 cargo planes, which carried rescue forces into Iran, had to be destroyed after their landing gear got stuck on the makeshift landing strip. One of my favorite moments of Saturday night was when Toby Harden confirmed the rescue:

A personal anecdote: In January 2012, when I went to cover the Republican primary campaign in South Carolina, my then-13-year-old son Jefferson pleaded to come with me, so I took him along. On the night of the Myrtle Beach debate, I filed my story, then told Jefferson to pack up the laptop and go wait for me in the lobby, while I went to meet some friends in the lobby bar. Having spent 10 or 15 minutes schmoozing with campaign operatives, I went to find Jeff and — he was gone! I looked everywhere, even got in my car and drove across the street to our hotel to see if he’d just decided to walk back, then returned to the convention center to keep looking. It was there that I encountered Toby Harnden, who was covering the campaign for the Daily Mail. When I explained to him that my son was missing, Toby offered to help look for him, so we split up — “You go this way, I’ll go that way” — and kept looking until Toby found him, asleep on a bench near the entrance to the ballroom where the debate had been staged. (Apparently, Jeff had misunderstood which lobby I meant for him to wait in — I’d meant the adjoining hotel lobby.) Anyway, Toby’s assistance in my moment of need earned him my enduring gratitude, and once he had confirmed the crewman’s rescue Saturday night, I knew it was the real deal.



 

Category: Iran, Military

Arithmetic vs. Liberal Narrative: Who Is Killing ‘Transgender Women of Color’?

Posted on | April 4, 2026 | No Comments

Marquell Lamar Wyatt, a/k/a, ‘Fifty Bandz’

One of the difficulties of arguing with liberals is that so many of them seem unable to grasp basic concepts like per capita and correlation. Any attempt to discuss crime and law enforcement will inevitably devolve into a shouting match because liberals are so prejudiced in favor of leniency — the “turn-’em-loose” school of social justice — that they become outraged if you call attention to the facts and logic in favor of the public safety benefits of a “lock-’em-up” approach. Having convinced themselves that criminals are actually victims of society, liberals respond to data about recidivism rates like a vampire confronted with a crucifix.

Any fact that contradicts the liberal narrative is disregarded and, after Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, the narrative was that this had unleashed a wave of violence against “transgender women of color.” As I explained in January 2019, the national media began reporting the annual number of transgender murders as political propaganda:

This is a crucial aspect of the Transgender Victimhood Narrative, i.e., the suggestion that Trump’s election signified the onset of a “climate of hate” which is to blame for violence against “transgender women of color” and other “marginalized communities” . . .

The national media eventually lost interest in that narrative, but not so the tax-exempt 501(c)3 Human Rights Campaign, which kept pretending that the “climate of hate” continued to reap its deadly toll even after Joe Biden became president. Thus the headline from February 2021:

HRC Mourns Fifty Bandz, Black
Trans Woman Killed in Louisiana
HRC is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Fifty Bandz, a 21-year-old Black transgender woman who was shot to death in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on January 28. Her death is at least the fifth violent death of a transgender person in 2021. We say “at least” because too often these deaths go unreported — or misreported. So far this year, four of the five known deaths have been Black transgender women.
Friends and advocates said Fifty Bandz’s name and released balloons to remember her life on February 1, and will also hold a memorial on Thursday evening. Many on Facebook have shared the sentiment “rest in peace,” with another saying “long live Fifty Bandz.” One friend shared, “When are we as a community going to do something?!”
According to local media reports, Fifty was killed by a man with whom she had been in a relationship for more than a year. Tragically, interpersonal violence accounts for a significant number of fatalities against transgender and gender non-conforming people. . . .
HRC recorded 44 deaths of transgender and gender non-conforming people in 2020, more than in any year since we began tracking this violence in 2013.
More than 10,000 hate crimes in the U.S. involve a firearm each year, which equates to more than 28 each day . . . According to the 2017-2019 Transgender Homicide Tracker, three-fourths of confirmed homicides against transgender people have involved a gun, and nearly eight in 10 homicides of Black trans women involve a gun. Further, advocates saw a 43% increase in the formation of anti-LGBTQ hate groups in 2019.

Did you notice the sleight-of-hand there? After admitting that this was “interpersonal violence” between the victim and “a man with whom she had been in a relationship,” they began talking about “10,000 hate crimes” and an alleged increase in “anti-LGBTQ hate groups,” as if it were relevant to this case, which it obviously isn’t.

“Fifty Bandz” was just a social-media pseudonym for Marquell Lamar Wyatt, and he was killed by Michael Brooks, who had secretly “dated” Wyatt. After Brooks was sentenced to prison, he appealed his sentence, and you can read the ruling in which the court rejected his appeal:

At trial, Leonda Guerin (“Leonda”), Wyatt’s friend, testified that Wyatt and the defendant were in a romantic relationship at the time of his death. Leonda said Wyatt openly identified as a gay man, but the defendant was closeted and did not want people to know he was gay. Leonda testified, on the day of the incident, she drove Wyatt to a house in Brookstown to deliver a phone for the defendant so he could better communicate with Wyatt. According to Leonda, the defendant, the defendant’s girlfriend, and the defendant’s brother were outside when she and Wyatt arrived. Leonda said the defendant pulled out a gun “to show off in front of his girl” and acted like he did not know Leonda when she handed him the phone. A few minutes after delivering the phone, the defendant called Leonda while she and Wyatt were driving back to Wyatt’s mother’s house. Leonda testified the defendant was upset and cursing at her, which angered Wyatt. Leonda said the defendant and Wyatt argued on the phone for a while, and then Wyatt asked Leonda to drive him back to Brookstown to pickup the phone from the defendant. When Leonda refused, Wyatt borrowed a vehicle from his mother and left. . . .

You can read the whole thing, but the point is that Brooks felt that Wyatt was trying to “out” him, got Wyatt to agree to meet up to return the phone, and then shot Wyatt 19 times, including 11 shots fired “in the immediate vicinity” of where police found Wyatt’s body, which a detective said indicated that, after Wyatt fell down from the initial shots, Brooks stood over him and kept firing until the pistol’s ammunition ran out.

So, secretly bisexual black man murders his openly gay black boyfriend (who apparently sometimes dressed in drag), and the Human Rights Campaign treats this as evidence of “anti-LGBTQ hate”?

Even more preposterously, however, would you believe HRC claims that white supremacy is to blame? Vincent Lundgren and Colin Wright looked into that, and did the arithmetic to disprove it:

For more than a decade, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has pushed this narrative, publishing annual “Epidemic of Violence” reports documenting transgender homicide victims in the United States. Relying on the HRC’s analysis, activists, presidents, members of Congress, the American Medical Association, celebrities, journalists, and scholars have repeated the HRC’s claims so often that for many they feel like established facts.
The problem is that many of these claims just don’t add up. Transgender people are less likely to be murdered than the rest of the population, most transgender people are murdered by members of their own race, and intimate partner violence — not hate — is the leading identified motive for most such murders.
We reached this conclusion using the HRC’s own victim lists as the starting point. We independently verified every case from 2015 through 2024 (304 victims) using court records, police statements, local news reports, and other public documentation. . . .
The HRC’s own data further debunk the claim that “white supremacy” is a cause of violence against transgender-identifying Americans. Among identified suspects, black suspects account for 65.1 percent of perpetrators, while white suspects account for 18 percent. . . .
This finding is not the result of one bad year or a handful of outlier cases. And in 2020, the year the Human Rights Campaign published a statement attributing the deaths of “our Black trans siblings” to “an epidemic of violence” fueled by “systems of white supremacy,” not a single white suspect was identified in the cases we verified. . . .
To see how the mismatch between narrative and reality is manufactured, consider the deaths of “four Black transgender women” that the HRC cited in a 2021 report titled “Black LGBTQ People and Compounding Discrimination” as proof that “white supremacy” was driving an “epidemic of violence.” One case, the drive-by shooting of Tyianna Alexander, remains unsolved, with no public evidence of anti-trans bias, a hate crime, or anything tied to white supremacy.
In the other three cases, every identified suspect was a black man. Bianca Bankz was killed by a black man named Moses Allen, who shot Bankz and then killed himself. Dominique Jackson’s killing led to the arrest of a black man named Branden McLaurin; police said there was “no evidence supporting a hate-crime” in this case. Fifty Bandz was killed by boyfriend Michael Joshua Brooks, a black man, in what looks like a straightforward case of intimate partner violence. . . .

You can read the whole thing. For the sake of brevity, I omitted a lot of Lundgren and Wright’s statistical analysis here, but it’s excellent. No liberal narrative can survive arithmetic, because math is RAAAAACIST!



 

Category: Crime, Media Bias, Racism, The Transgender Cult

In The Mailbox: 04.03.26

Posted on | April 4, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

How it’s been going on X this week

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: A Day With Lincoln at Gettysburg (1863), The Day Ben Franklin’s Key Unlocked Electricity (1752), and Fake Donors Foreign Cash & A Coverup – ActBlue Illustrated
357 Magnum: Australian Gun Control Failure
EBL: Aslan’s Death and Sacrifice, Good Friday Fish, Women on the Moon, Halibut, and Maundy Thursday
Twitchy: Idaho Democrat Tells Parents Kids Belong To The State Once They’re In Class, Tim Miller Left GOP Over Trump But Defending Misogynist Anti-American Hasan Piker Is OK, and X Wrecks Obama-Era Diplomat For Asking (And Wrongly Answering) His Own Iran Question
Louder With Crowder: Hollywood celebrity Meryl Streep thinks women are so dumb that they can’t grasp doing paperwork to get an ID to vote, Gavin Newsom’s wife demands tech companies be held responsible for allowing her sons to see Jordan Peterson videos, Buckingham Palace announces NO Easter message this year, but King Charles was all about doing one for Ramadan, Joy Behar calls Trump supporters the “poorly educated” ones, and Democrat expects Black church audience to oppose voter ID as he does; their actual response shocks him
Vox Popoli: JB’s Obituary, Desperation and No Deal, The Next War, They’re Trying to Tell You, and North Korean Missiles in Iran
According To Hoyt: Men, Women, Propaganda, It’s Not Logical, On The Unreal State of Ohio, Bleeding Heart, and Geronimo for Hope!
Cedar Sanderon: Watching In the Night, also, Revelations 
Defending The Wood Perilous: Amelia Anthology is Live!
Incensepunk Magazine: Sacred Visions
Upstream Reviews: The Year of the Locust

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Both Crewmembers of Downed U.S. Fighter Reportedly Made Contact With U.S. Military Following Crash in Iran, FBI Arrests Eight Suspects in Los Angeles County Over Hospice-Related Medicare Fraud, Exception or Rule? What the Terrible Case of Noelia Ramos Tells Us about the West and Its Future, The Demise of Trial by Jury, and Spanberger Facing Pressure to Cooperate With ICE After Slew of Heinous Illegal Alien Crimes Rock Virginia
BattleSwarm: CVLT Member Pleads Guilty To Horrific Crimes, Iran Strikes: Two Kharg Island Videos, and LinkSwarm For April 3
Behind The Black: Voyager-2’s most detailed look at Neptune’s moon Triton, SpaceX delays next Starship/Superheavy orbital test flight by about a month, Russia launches classified military payload; China has a launch failure, Amazon responds to SpaceX’s FCC complaint about its last Leo satellite launch, and America’s first foreign war on “the shores of Tripoli” has apparently never ended
Cafe Hayek: “Liberation Day, ” One Year Later
CDR Salamander: So We Had President Trump Give A Speech on the Iran Conflict, also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Voices of the 2026 Worcester Catholic Men’s Conference: Joe DePietro of the Men’s March
Dana Loesch: Pam Bondi Is Out, also, American Fighter Downed Over Iran
Don Surber: Real technology yields peace and the moon, also, They got COVID 100% wrong
Elizabeth Nickson: Waking Up to the Global Predators with the Heroic Breggins
First Street Journal: You in a heap o’ trouble, girl, You in a heap o’ trouble, boy, and Citius, Altius, Fortius
Gates Of Vienna: Islam’s Abuse of Women – Here, There, and Everywhere, My Right-Hand Cyborg, The Man Who Ordered a Mocro Mob Hit on Peter R. de Vries, Swedish Culture-Enricher Abuses Elderly Infidel Whores, and The Islamic State in Eindhoven
The Geller Report: Trump Needs A ‘Vicious Operator’ at The Department of Justice, Machete-Wielding MS-13 Executioner Illegal Captured By ICE in San Diego, Los Angeles Leads Nation in Massive Population Exodus as ‘Breaking Point’ Hits California, Islamic State Calls On All Muslims To Set Fire to Churches and Synagogues across US, Europe In Easter Threat, and IDF Eliminates Iranian Ballistic Missile Commander
Glenn Reynolds: On Our Way
Hollywood In Toto: Colbert Sharing All the Far-Left Propaganda He Can, The Drama Is the Date Movie from Hell, Uncancelled – Louis C.K. Gets Double Netflix Deal, Pretty Lethal Blends Badass Ballet with Brain-Dead Action, and Why Bruce Springsteen Isn’t Changing Hearts or Minds
Legal Insurrection: Report Blames U. California Faculty for Driving Antisemitism on Campus, KBJ Angrily Dissents After Failing to Convert Any Other Justice To Her Side in Conversion Therapy Case, New President at Minnesota North College a Big Supporter of DEI Policies, Siblings Accused of Trying to Attack Air Force Base are Children of Illegal Aliens, and HHS, EPA Launch Program to Combat Microplastics in Humans
Nebraska Energy Observer: Iran War- Geopolitics, NATO Finis? and Good? Friday
Outkick: Brett Yormark Fires Back At Billionaire Texas Tech Regent Cody Campbell, Konnor Griffin Delivers In MLB Debut After Signing Record-Breaking Contract With Pittsburgh Pirates, Super Lib Politicians Get Booed Out Of The Building At Red Sox Home Opener, The NBA Is Cooked And Friday’s Betting Lines Prove It, and CBS Reporter Melanie Collins Enjoys A Golden Hour, Christen Goff Hits The Beach & Debating Toilet Paper!
Power Line: Pam Bondi Gets the Axe, Strong March job numbers, Thiessen’s five steps, Redneck Tourism, and Take me out to the ball game!
Racket News: A Storied Russian Muckraker On Oil & Other Things, also, Big Tech Reverting To Old Ways?
Shark Tank: Salazar Critiques Cuba’s Prisoner Pardons
Shot In The Dark: Nearly Every Day In My World, also, Boots
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Killer Canada, also, Firing Line Friday – Who’s More Electable-Ford or Reagan?
This Ain’t Hell: Chips the Hero, Sneaky b*stards, Hegseth Fires Army COS, Valor Friday, Hegseth OK’s On-Base CCW, and To the moon!
Transterrestrial Musings: Gavin Newsom’s Empire Of Fraud, The Current Generation And Space, Birthright Citizenship, and How Could I Have Been So Foolish?
Victory Girls: The Smithsonian Wants a Women’s Museum But Doesn’t Know What a Woman Is, Artemis II Takes Off For The Moon, Leaves The Hot Takes On Earth, and Pam Bondi Is Gone—Because Working On It Wasn’t Enough
Watts Up With That: Europe’s Hormuz Armageddon, Off-Grid Data Centers Will Help Protect Ratepayers, But Codifying ARC-ES Would Do Even More, The Scandal of the Scottish Met Office Station Still Providing Temperature Figures Six Decades After it Closed, The Iran War Reveals Who Is Living In A Fantasy World, and Low Intensity Tornado Wrecks Major Solar Farm, Creating A Potential Toxic Dump
The Federalist: America’s Catholic Renewal Is A Rejection Of Liberal Modernity, Trump Needs A ‘Vicious Operator’ To Bring Justice Back To The Justice Department, John Derbyshire Knows There Are Worse Things In Life Than Being Canceled, How Jesus’ Final Words Affirm The Humanity Of The Unborn, and NBA Doubles Down On Woke By Punishing Jaden Ivey For His Christianity
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet – Ballroom Blitzed, Do The Thing, Fire and Faith, The Passion Of The Christ, and One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

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In The Mailbox: 04.02.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | April 3, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Wasn’t feeling too good yesterday and am not 100% today either.
Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links last month!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

There are thirteen days remaining before the tax filing deadline.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: How Is That Criminal Justice Reform Working Out?
Director Blue: From Crossfire Hurricane to Plasmic Echo
EBL: Aretmis 2 Launch, Gefilte Fish, and Birthright Citizenship at the Supreme Court
Twitchy: NBC News Reports Death of “Refugee” Released By Border Patrol is Homicide, “Expert” On Grand Strategy Can’t See Point Of Blowing Up Iranian Bridge, and New “Maryland Man” Joins “Virginia Dad” In the Headlines
Louder With Crowder: Idaho Gov. Signs Bill That Bans Males From Women’s Restroom, Mayor Cries Crocodile Tears After Removal Of Pride Flag From Boise City Hall, Irish Teacher Who Refused To Use Pronouns Has Been In Jail For 600 Days; Now They’ve Arrested His Mother and Sister Too, Marxist Hasan Piker is utterly flabbergasted at all the poverty in Cuba, still doesn’t quite get it, and “Supergirl” actress didn’t quite make political comment that hacks at “Variety” claim she did
Vox Popoli: NBA Declares Christianity is “Detrimental Conduct”, IRGC vs Corpocracy, AI Slop and Artisanal Scam, A Sino-Russian Warning, and The Power of the C64
Upstream Reviews: April New Releases, also, Supergirl Actress Says Her Movie Will Suck
Cedar Sanderson: The Djinns
Stoic Observations: Living With War

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Happiness Is A Full Magazine 
Don Surber: Trump predicted this in 1987
Racket News: Exposing The FBI’s Human Experimentation Studies, also, Time To Tune Out Spyworld

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‘Subject to the Jurisdiction Thereof’

Posted on | April 1, 2026 | No Comments

When did states begin issuing birth certificates? And why are these documents now required in various legal contexts? I was born in Atlanta, Georgia — the exact hour and minute were recorded, along with my birth weight — but my grandparents had no such documentation when they were born in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Part of the answer:

The United States began collecting birth data at the national level in 1902, via the U.S. Census. . . . The federal government first developed a standard birth certificate application form in 1907, five years after the Census Bureau began collecting data. The current system of the states collecting data and reporting it to the federal government developed between 1915, when the federal government mandated that states collect and report the data, and 1933, by which time all of the states were participating.

This still doesn’t explain why the government hadn’t thought to do this previously, or what prompted the change. Probably most Americans have never given any thought to questions like this, and likewise this:

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.”

Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Trump v. CASA Inc., involving the president’s executive order challenging the prevailing interpretation of the so-called “birthright citizenship” clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In particular, it is that five-word phrase, “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” which is the bone of contention: Does this include the children of illegal aliens? Does it include the babies born to foreigners who are here as tourists or on student visas?

Sunday evening I got a phone call from my youngest son, who is now a first-year law student, and we discussed the case. My son believes, and I am inclined to agree, that the Trump administration faces an uphill battle to persuade the justices to accept its claim that the president has the authority to change the interpretation of the Citizenship Clause by executive order. Even if you agree with Trump — i.e., that this clause has been misinterpreted to grant birthright citizenship in cases never contemplated by those who wrote and ratified the Fourteenth Amendment — isn’t it properly the job of Congress to clarify this through relevant legislation? But as I told my son, we got here because Congress has neglected its duty for decades, which is a long story going back to the Hart-Celler Act of 1965, which was passed during the “Great Society” apogee of 20th-century liberalism after Lyndon Johnson’s 1964 landslide reelection, when a Democrat-dominated Congress was eagerly enacting all kinds of nonsense as a legislative memorial to JFK. This history also includes the Simpson–Mazzoli Act of 1986, which Ronald Reagan (then struggling with the Iran-Contra scandal) was persuaded to sign, despite conservatives urging him to veto the bill. Simpson-Mazzoli “provided illegal migrants with amnesty and a path to legal citizenship and enabled sanctions on employers who hired illegal migrants”:

Three million migrants, mostly Hispanic, got to stay; the employers were never hit with meaningful sanctions, even as the floodgates opened. A 2016 Yale study concluded that the real illegal immigration population number is 16 to 30 million, versus the 11 million number generally cited.
The electoral impact of this change was felt almost immediately. California had been a Republican mainstay in elections, but in 1988 George H. W. Bush narrowly carried the state. Since 1988, no Republican presidential candidate has carried California.

Because of the bipartisan nature of the lobbying pressures involved — especially those Republicans controlled by the business lobby’s desire for cheap labor — the American people never got a chance to have an up-or-down vote on any of this, until Trump came along. There was never a time between 1965 and 2016 where people going to the polls had a clear choice on this issue. It is important to note that, in 2009-2010, when Obama was president and Democrats controlled both houses of Congress, they did not pass any kind of “comprehensive immigration reform,” which they had been arguing loudly for just a few years earlier when Bush and Republicans were in charge. The same pattern was repeated in 2021-2022, with Biden in the White House and Democrats controlling Congress again, and yet still no “reform.” What this tells you is that Democrats know damned well that a majority of Americans oppose the open-borders agenda, and Democrats would destroy their chances for reelection if they tried to ram another amnesty down our throats.

The history of congressional neglect — not to mention congressional dishonesty and cowardice — has gotten us to where we are, and Trump has forced this issue into the forefront of our national conversation because Republicans in Congress either were afraid to touch it, or were sympathetic to the open-borders agenda. Just as an aside to all this, the organization whose name appears in this case as the lead opponent to Trump has an interesting history:

CASA was originally known as the “Central American Solidarity Association of Maryland”. The organization’s name was officially changed to CASA of Maryland, Inc., on July 28, 1995. The organization’s name was officially changed to CASA de Maryland, Inc., on September 4, 2008. Now, the organization is named CASA.
CASA was founded in 1985 in the basement of the Takoma Park Presbyterian Church by US citizens and Central American immigrants. It has since expanded its scope. It is affiliate organization of the National Council of La Raza. They are a member of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. CASA is also a founding member of the National Capital Immigration Coalition, which promotes “comprehensive immigration reform”.

Perhaps you don’t understand the significance of the group being founded in 1985 in Takoma Park. A Soviet-backed “insurgency” provoked a civil war in El Salvador, with the Communist FMLN waging guerrilla warfare against a military junta and its “death squads,” and, along with similar events in Guatemala and Nicaragua, this had brought an inundation of Central American refugees into the U.S., many of whom settled in the Maryland suburbs of D.C. Takoma Park was (and is) a bastion of liberalism, like Berkeley is to California, and the “Central American Solidarity Association” was just another pro-Communist front group formed by opponents of the Reagan administration.

In other words, more than 30 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, we’re still fighting the godless Commies. Just another reason to thank God for Trump, who will attend today’s oral arguments in person.



 

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