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Rule 5 Sunday: Out Like A Lamb

Posted on | March 30, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

There’s still snow on some of the ski slopes and mountains. Somewhere. Pic thanks to @kbdabear on X.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Star Trek Could Be Great Again, Really, “Ain’t No Way”, Bridge On The River Kwai, “Begin the Beguine”, The Breakfast Club, “Take Me To Church”,  Wuthering Heights, Soccer Time, Crossing the Pool, MAGA Airport ICE, and Sakura Cherry Blossoms

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Hope Beel, Can Oysters Save the Crabs?, Fish Pic Friday – Crystal Beachy, Tattoo Thursday, The Wednesday Wetness, Virginia Seeks Women Huntresses, Fisherwomen, Tuesday Tanlines, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday

BACON TIME: Rule Five – Butt It’s Friday

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FMJRA 2.0: August Blues

Posted on | March 29, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Well, it could have been worse. The Senators got swept in a two-game series against the Orioles last Tuesday, thanks mostly to the O’s powerful lineup, but then the Phillies arrived, and we whipped them in two out of our three games, losing only to Steve Carlton, who almost had a no-hitter against us into the fifth inning but left with a 4-1 win. So now we’re 65-70, eight games behind the Twins and five ahead of Pete’s Brewers. This week, we have three-game series at Kansas City and Baltimore, and I am not optimistic.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.
baseballD.E.I. + A.I. = O.M.G.!
EBL
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Scandal-Plagued Former FBI Chief Robert Mueller Dies in Disagrace at Age 81
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FMJRA 2.0: On An Even Keel
A View From The Beach
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Rule 5 Sunday: Late Night With Daisy Dukes
A View From The Beach
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In The Mailbox: 3.23.26
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Why Is Lindy West Getting Cancelled?
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In The Mailbox: 03.24.26
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Guess What Time It Is, ‘Iranian Leaders’?
A View From The Beach
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In The Mailbox: 03.26.26 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
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In The Mailbox: 03.26.26 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
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In The Mailbox: 03.27.26
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Thinking About Mogadishu

Posted on | March 29, 2026 | No Comments

Last night, I was inspired to watch Black Hawk Down again, although I’ve seen it many times before, including during its original 2001 release. Perhaps you’ve forgotten this from 2022:

Staff Sgt. Robert McCain wanted to be in the Army for as long as his mother can remember. But McCain remembers exactly when he knew he’d be a soldier someday: The first time he watched “Black Hawk Down.”
“I was like nine and I saw that movie — which you should not show a nine-year-old that movie — and I wanted to join the Army from then on,” he told Task & Purpose on Sunday.
Not only did McCain go on to be an infantryman in the Army like he’d dreamed, but over the weekend he competed in the 2022 Best Ranger Competition, a brutal battle of grit and skill among elite Airborne Ranger-qualified service members. . . .

That story still makes me smile. The intensity of that movie, which I took Bob and his twin brother Jim to see when it first came out, sort of caught me by surprise at the time. I grew up watching war movies like The Longest Day, and the TV series Combat, and playing with G.I. Joes, and so the thought of taking my kids to see a war movie seemed like a great idea. The graphic realism of Black Hawk Down was, as Bob later told that reporter, maybe too much for a 9-year-old, even if it did inspire his future career ambitions. In case you haven’t subscribed to my Substack newsletter yet, you may not understand why I bring that up now, given that I start today by talking about the war in Ukraine:

How closely have you followed the war in Ukraine lately? There was as a time, in 2022 and 2023, when I regularly kept track of developments in that war, but then it settled down into a de facto stalemate — trench warfare, with little change in the front lines — and I lost interest. Most Americans were even less interested in the war than I was, except perhaps as a partisan talking point for the kind of people with Ukrainian flags in their social-media profiles. After the dramatic events of early 2022, when Ukraine defeated the initial Russian effort to capture Kyiv, there just wasn’t enough battlefield news to maintain public interest. Incidentally, nobody has any idea how many casualties there have been in the Russia-Ukraine war. Propaganda by both sides has made it impossible to ascertain how many troops have been killed and wounded, although it seems certain that the death toll is in the tens of thousands.
Just this past week, however, I happened to see a report that Ukraine has driven the Russians out of Kupyansk, a city straddling the Oskil River, nearly 400 miles east of Kyiv. . . .

You can read the whole thing at Substack, and if you haven’t subscribed yet, please do so now. Also, please pray for peace.



 

Category: Donald Trump, Iran, Military, Somalia, Ukraine

An Unjustified Arrogance

Posted on | March 28, 2026 | No Comments

Rory Stewart and his wife Shoshana

The word “diplomat” is often a synonym for spy. The functions of diplomacy and espionage are so closely intertwined that if someone’s resumé includes a stint at the State Department, you are not wrong to suspect them of also being a CIA operative. Over the past decade, Americans have learned that our “intelligence community” does not merely spy on foreigners or seek to subvert hostile regimes overseas, but is also willing and able to foment “color revolutions” right here. But the subject at hand this morning is not Hillary Clinton and John Brennan. Rather I would call your attention to British politician Rory Stewart, currently on the faculty of Yale University:

Born in British Hong Kong, Stewart attended the Dragon School and Eton College. . . . Stewart studied philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) at Balliol College, Oxford. After graduating he joined the Foreign Office, holding diplomatic positions in Indonesia and Montenegro. . . . Following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Stewart was involved in the Coalition Provisional Authority in the Maysan province. He founded and ran the Turquoise Mountain Foundation, an NGO focused on human development in Afghanistan, before becoming a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School. He joined the Conservative Party in 2009.
Stewart served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Penrith and The Border between 2010 and 2019, representing the Conservative Party. . . . He was a minister throughout Theresa May’s government: as Minister of State for International Development, Africa, and Prisons. He joined the Cabinet and National Security Council as Secretary of State for International Development. . . .
Stewart was born in 1973 in Hong Kong, then under British rule . . . Stewart’s father was a colonial official and diplomat who, in the 1970s, was reportedly a candidate to become the Chief of the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service or MI6.

If that’s not the biography of an intelligence operative, I don’t know what is. Rory Stewart was literally born into MI6, went straight from Oxford into the Foreign Office — hint, hint — and at age 30 turned up running the occupation government of Iraq, and went straight from there to Afghanistan where he founded an NGO — hint, hint — then returned to England where he joined the Tory party and magically got elected to Parliament. In all of this, he has been associated with failure, serving in the cabinet of the disastrous Theresa May ministry, unsuccessfully opposing Brexit, and ultimately quitting the Tories in a tantrum. His political career was bookended by Ivy League faculty sinecures:

In July 2008, Stewart was appointed to the faculty of the John F. Kennedy School of Government as Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights at Harvard University and director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, having previously been a fellow at the Carr Center from 2004 to 2005. He left his position to campaign for Parliament. He returned to academia as a senior fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute in 2020.

He’s a “senior fellow,” you see! His wife Shoshana (née Clark) is an American, an alumna of swanky Williams College who joined Stewart’s Afghanistan “development” NGO as an intern and of course ended up married to the boss, who is 10 years her senior. This trans-Atlantic couple have obvious reasons to hate Donald Trump:

A charity run by Rory Stewart’s wife has lost $1 million of [USAID] funding as a result of Elon Musk’s foreign aid-slashing Doge reforms, the former minister revealed [in February 2025].
Mr Stewart said that the support for Turquoise Mountain, a charity that works in Afghanistan, Myanmar and the Middle East, had stopped abruptly, despite it having a contract.
The organisation is led by Shoshana Stewart, who has worked for the charity since 2006 when it was set up by the King, then the Prince of Wales.
According to its website, the organisation seeks to “revive historic areas and traditional crafts to provide jobs, skills and a renewed sense of pride” in the areas it works. . . .
Mr Stewart told The Rest Is Politics podcast, which he co-hosts with Alistair Campbell, on Wednesday: “It doesn’t matter you have a contract.
“Turquoise Mountain, which my wife Shoshana runs, had a contract (and) had another million dollars to go and the money just stops”.
Mr Musk, the tech billionaire and head of the new department of government efficiency (Doge), announced on Monday that [USAID] would be shut down.
[USAID] is the world’s largest single aid donor, distributing some $72 billion of assistance in 2023 to a range of causes, from natural disaster relief to access to clean water and HIV/Aids treatments.
Mr Stewart met his wife when he moved to Kabul in 2005 to help set up Turquoise Mountain. He was chief executive of the charity himself for two years before his wife took on the role. . . .
[The cutoff of funds from USAID] comes just weeks after the former Tory MP became embroiled in a social media spat with JD Vance, the US vice-president.

It was unkind, and arguably inaccurate, for our Vice President to suggest Stewart’s problem is a lack of intelligence. He is not stupid, but as Ronald Reagan famously quipped, “The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.” The fact that Rory Stewart was once a member of Britain’s Conservative Party just goes to show the decadence of 21st-century Britain. Despite his quarrel with Vance, however, I had no idea who Rory Stewart was until someone called attention to his interview with a British journalist:

The part that got cut off:

What I wanted to talk about was the way ignorance and hatred (recent examples: describing Muslims praying in public as “an act of domination”, political parties trying to ban the burqa) was now not just harming British Muslims, but also the national interest.
How a lack of understanding about martyrdom or Persian nationalism connects to a war that might cause a global depression. I thought he might talk about Karbala, and we did eventually, but he began with a precise and confronting statement: much of what we’re dealing with is, quite simply, racism.
And not only that, but the weaponisation of that racism, and its political uses, which he described as “profoundly disturbing.”
He talked about arguing with Tommy Robinson. Speculated about possible endpoints for a politics that don’t incorporate dignity and love. And drew a parallel to anti-Semitism in the 1930s.

Translation: “Everyone I Don’t Like Is Hitler.”

Rather than risk the accusation of taking him out of context, let me quote Stewart at length from that interview:

Yeah. Well, I think I think we’ve got to be very clear that this is basically racism. I mean essentially the AFD in Germany uh or the far right in Britain or all those people on social media who are talking about Judeo-Christian values and saying “I’ve got nothing against people of color, I just don’t like Islam,” are basically racist. I mean essentially what they’re trying to do is drive hundreds of thousands — millions — of people out of their country. I mean, the AFD, some of their uh leadership are very clear about it. They talk about remigration. You’re a Muslim, you’re going to be shoved out of Germany. And it’s the most amazing nonsense. I mean this idea that somehow Islam itself is a kind of inherently bad religion and other religions are sort of inherently good is completely demented. . . .
It’s partly just pure ignorance . . . not very different from the kind of way that, well, our experience I suppose with other forms of racism that the kind of ways that people thought about black people when they hadn’t met any black people or the kind of ways that people thought about people who were gay until they actually had some gay friends. I mean it it a lot of it is simply that they just don’t know any Muslims, right? They don’t understand the lived experience of it.

Having been generous in providing the content of Stewart’s remarks, you see that I was merely giving him more rope with which to hang himself. The more he talks, the more insulting he becomes. If you don’t agree with him, you are ignorant, and your policy ideas are nonsense.

It is difficult not to laugh when Stewart speaks of racism as “the kind of ways that people thought about black people when they hadn’t met any black people,” as if, for example, Lester Maddox or George Wallace “hadn’t met any black people.” But then again, exactly what does Stewart mean by “racism” except disagreeing with me about immigration?

Here is where his invocation of “lived experience” boomerangs back to hit Stewart in the face: What about the “lived experience” of English working men whose communities are destabilized by the influx of foreigners? What about those girls in Rotherham and other towns whose “lived experience” is being raped by gangs of Muslim immigrants?

Oikophobia is a tendency to criticise or reject one’s own home or home society while praising others. It has been used in political contexts to refer critically to political ideologies that are held to repudiate one’s own culture.

Whose interests do our leaders serve? Isn’t the whole project of democracy — its very raison d’être — that leaders should represent the interests and opinions of the people who elect them? Here we are reminded of a famous quote by Bertolt Brecht. In 1953, workers in East Germany rebelled against the Communist government, which arrested hundreds, many of whom were executed, in a post-Stalin crackdown on opposition to the Soviet-controlled regime. Brecht wrote sarcastically:

“After the uprising of the 17th of June, the Secretary of the Writers’ Union had leaflets distributed . . . which stated that the people had squandered the confidence of the government And could only win it back by redoubled work. Would it not in that case be simpler for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?”

The idea of the government “electing another people,” which Brecht treated as an obvious absurdity, has in the 21st century become the policy of the political elite in nearly all Western democracies. Because their policy preferences are rejected by most of their own native populations, the leadership elite wish to import foreign migrants whom they expect to repay them in electoral support. This “Great Replacement,” as it has been called, is denounced as a racist conspiracy theory when any opponent of such a policy describes it as what it really is, despite the fact that many of those who favor a de facto open-borders policy have not always been secretive about their motives. Here we have Rory Stewart siding with Muslim invaders against British citizens, pretending that there is not reason that the natives should oppose a government policy of favoritism toward the foreigners and hostility to the interests of actual Britons.

No amount of evidence can ever persuade these elites of their error, as their antagonism to those they view as the ignorant “masses” is deeply rooted in their own personal interests, i.e., the maintenance and justification of what they consider their inherent right to exercise authority. This was where Sam Francis, a student of James Burnham, had the insight to interpret politics through the lens of The Managerial Revolution. Some speak of the “uniparty” in Washington, the tendency toward consensus among Republican and Democratic leaders, preventing any meaningful change in policy. The same people speak of the bureaucratic “Deep State” as similarly obstructing any real change. Both of these phenomena are expressions of the controlling power of what Burnham called “the managerial elite.” It’s a complex subject — Sam Francis had a Ph.D. and even he had difficulty getting others to understand the significance of Burnham’s work as it applies to contemporary politics — but my point is that people like Rory Stewart are incapable of changing their minds because to do so would require them to interrogate their own motives and confront their own selfishness.

Stewart’s career has been a long series of failures, and yet there he is, ensconced at Yale University, lecturing young people about international relations, while complaining on a podcast about how “racist” the English people are because they don’t want their country overrun by foreigners. And he’s angry because Trump took away the million dollars a year that U.S. taxpayers were sending to the Afghanistan NGO run by his wife.

You can’t understand his “lived experience,” you bigot.

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Category: Intellectuals

In The Mailbox: 03.27.26

Posted on | March 28, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

You know what today is.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Microsoft or Microslop?
Director Blue: The 90-Day Empire, 
EBL: Cutting Guide, “Anchors Aweigh”, and Really?
Twitchy: Nice Backpedal Bro – Kimmel’s Pathetic Attempt At Damage Control On Markwayne Mullin Joke Backfires Badly, “Fight The Oligarchy!” Bernie Sanders Caught In First Class While Government Workers Left Hanging, and Nerdeen Kiswani Targeted In Failed Firebomb Plot – Same Tactics She Defended As “Heroic Resistance”
Louder With Crowder: Corny leftist attacks Black ICE agents as “fascist,” and they laughed in the guy’s face, Lawyer makes mistake of getting into a fight with a judge, cries transphobia as he’s busted for contempt, Philadelphia leftists actually CHEER for more American soldiers to come home in caskets, Arrested, Charged, & Sentenced in 5 Hours – Ash Wednesday with Tommy Robinson, and Even legendary Bob Costas supports “banning” trans athletes from the Olympics – “Common sense is not transphobic”
Vox Popoli: 3GW vs 5GW, Yeah, It’s Going Great, and The Next Event
According To Hoyt: Odd, Springing Eternal, and Sleep Walking to Suicide
Upstream Reviews: Dracula’s Match, also, Failed YouTuber Matt Jarbo Makes Desperate Bid for Relevance 
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: We Need Non-Inflationary Cash

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Biden Officials Identified Stroke Safety Signal in Seniors Taking Pfizer’s COVID Booster, Then Pushed For Them to ‘Increase Uptake’, Landmark Social Media Addiction Trials Bring Rulings Against Meta, Other Tech Giants, Trump Says He’ll Sign Order Directing DHS to Pay TSA Workers, Tearing the Roots out of Trumpism – the Democrat Plan for 2029 Is Taking Shape, and Americans Can Have a Little Fascism, as a Treat – A Modest Proposal
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For March 27
Behind The Black: Ispace to replace engine on its lunar lander, delaying its NASA mission to 2030, War Department conducts classified suborbital missile test from Cape Canaveral, China launches “test satellite”, Neptune as seen by Voyager-2 in 1989, four days before closest approach, and March 27, 2026 Quick space links
Cafe Hayek: More on Trade and Mortality, also, Yet More on Trade and Traumatic Economic Change
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Voice of the 2026 Worcester Catholic Men’s Conference – Jeannette Davis of “Love Your Neighbor Maternity”
Dana Loesch: The Battle For The Soul of the Party Goes Global
Don Surber: Trump ends TSA hostage crisis
Elizabeth Nickson: Inside the criminal gangs trying to steal 2026
The Geller Report: “The Worst of the Worst”, NEARLY EVERY SINGLE Democrat Voted Against Simple, Scaled Down Voter Photo ID, DEMOCRATS CAUGHT RED-HANDED, Soros-Backed Far Left NY AG Letitia James Hit with More Criminal Referrals, and Development Plans for ‘Sharia City’ in Texas Terminated
Hollywood In Toto: Why Vince Vaughn’s Late-Night Critique Is a Game Changer, Why Bill Maher Is Perfect Choice for Mark Twain Prize, Andrew Garfield Takes Vile Stance Against J.K. Rowling, and Davies Brothers Deliver Double Smackdown to Woke Moby
Legal Insurrection: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Admin Effectively Ends CDLs for Illegal Immigrants, Children’s YouTuber Ms. Rachel Vows To Shut Down ICE Facility, USC Canceled Gubernatorial Debate Because Only White Candidates Qualified, The Left has Planned Another ‘No Kings’ Protest This Weekend for Some Reason, and Senate GOP Capitulates Over DHS Funding, But Denies Democrats ICE Reforms
Nebraska Energy Observer: Bretton Woods
Outkick: Aaron Judge Takes Advantage Of ABS System, Yankees Dominate Giants & Set Franchise Record, Stephen A. Smith Doesn’t Know Anything About Sports, Reactions Pour In Following Tiger Woods’ Scary Rollover Crash In Florida, Tiger Woods Arrested On DUI Charge In Florida After Rollover Crash, and Grace Boor Goes For A Slow-Mo Run At The Beach, Taylor Mathis Leads Iowa To Victory & Kruk Wants Guys Oiled Up
Power Line: Ilhan Omar married her brother, This just in, Civilizational Suicide, The Imprimis experience, and Our Somali fraud scandal
Shark Tank: Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson Endorses Jay Collins For Governor
STUMP: Chicago Pension Watch – DROP Won’t Save The Pensions, 
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Vietnam – What Next?
This Ain’t Hell: As long as we’re there, also, Valor Friday
Transterrestrial Musings: Libertarianism
Victory Girls: House Ethics Committee Finds Democrat Congresswoman Guilty
Watts Up With That: Starmer Says It’s Up to Miliband Whether We Drill in North Sea, The “Renewables Are Cheap” Myth, Alberta Joins Solar/Wind Bust (uneconomic energy hits political risk), Ofcom to investigate complaints of climate change denial, and The Conversation: “Why emotional resilience should be at the heart of climate change education”
The Federalist: Majority Of Voters Want Tighter Abortion Pill Safeguards, New Poll Shows, Americans Shouldn’t Need The House To Save Mass Deportations From Weak Senate Republicans, The Boozer Family Story Omits The Children They Sacrificed , Cocky Virginia Dems Starting To Sweat Over April’s Referendum On Rigged Political Maps, and New Document Shows Chief Judge Howell Privately Endorsed Jack Smith’s Get-Trump Lawfare
Mark Steyn: Criminalising Christianity

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In The Mailbox: 03.26.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | March 27, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Sometimes not even money buys you justice.

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Day The Sea Turned To Stone – Krakatoa 1883, 
357 Magnum: A Comparison of Florida and New York State
Twitchy: The Economist Claims Soaring Number Of Canadian Muslim Schools Is Due To Islamophobia, Nashville NHL Team Unveils “Gay Predators” Logo & Becomes Butt Of Online Jokes, and Trans LOLyer Loses It In Court, Resists Arrest While Gasping “I Can’t Breathe”
Louder With Crowder: John Fetterman admits his Democrat party is willfully hurting the middle class by shutting down DHS, Welcome to Mamdani’s NY, where an 83-year-old veteran was killed by an illegal immigrant pushing him into subway tracks, Breaking Down the Insane Conspiracy that Trump Faked His Assassination Attempt, Sanity prevails as Olympic Committee bans men claiming to be women (aka “trans”) from competeing against women, and Chicago mayor refuses to let a female college student murdered by an illegal get in the way of his agenda to “Abolish ICE”
Vox Popoli: The Pipelines are Not the Police, THE CRUEL EQUATIONS, Arkhaven Nights, and Dimora and Ben Gurion
Cedar Sanderson: Backyard Chickens
Jim McCoy: Starfleet Academy
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Something about money (and cake) 

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Hegseth Says U.S. Is ‘Systematically Destroying’ Iranian Military Assets Paid for by Obama’s ‘Pallets of American Cash’, O’Keefe Catches Skid Row Fraudsters Paying Homeless People to FORGE Signatures on Ballots, Democrats Flip Florida State Seat in Trump’s Backyard, Failing California School District Spends Over $900K on DEI Programs, and Americans Replacing Americans: Fleeing Diversity and Threatening Regional Identities
BattleSwarm: Musk’s Terafab Is Half Possible, Half Pipe-Dream, also, Iran Strikes – Day 27
Behind The Black: Proteus, Neptune’s second largest moon, discovered by Voyager-2 in 1989, Astronomers detect the first comet whose nucleus’ reversed its rotation, The space station part of Isaacman’s new program is facing push back, from industry and Congress, All space stocks soar in anticipation of SpaceX’s impending IPO, and Webb and Hubble take a look at Saturn
Cafe Hayek: Wow! What a Book!! also, Did NAFTA Kill People?
CDR Salamander: Up-Arm The Fleet? With What?
Da Tech Guy: My Talk: “Why the Great Saints Considered Themselves Great Sinners”, also, Voices of the 2026 Worcester Catholic Men’s Conference: Ed Conley of the Holy Family Retreat Center
Dana Loesch: The Trouble With X
Don Surber: ICE deports crime
Elizabeth Nickson: Is Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs Owned By The Sinaloa Cartel?
First Street Journal: The rise of anti-Semitism by recent Catholic converts, also, Pennsylvania just became a little less safe
Gates Of Vienna: Expect Delays, Part IV
The Geller Report: ILLEGAL CHARGED WITH MURDER Of 83-year-old Veteran Shoved Onto NYC Subway Tracks, IRAN THREATENS NYC, Sickening Philly Protest Cheers Dead U.S. Troops, White House Warns Trump Will ‘Unleash Hell’ if Iran ‘Fails to Understand That They Have Been Defeated’, and TRUMP SCORES MAJOR WIN – Appeals Court Backs ICE, No Bail For Illegals
Hollywood In Toto: Bury Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice in Time Capsule, Mark Normand Forced Netflix to Admit This Inconvenient Truth, Vince Vaughn Slams ‘Agenda-Driven’ Late Night TV, New Broadway Play Puts Antisemitism Under Microscope, and Colbert’s Lord of the Rings Gig Reveals Ugly Hollywood Truth
Legal Insurrection:  NASA Scraps Lunar Station, Directs $20 Billion to Moon Base and Mars Nuclear Push, Trump Directs DHS Secretary Mullin to Pay TSA Agents, Jimmy Kimmel Insults the Working Class While Trying to Mock Markwayne Mullin, Leftist Influencer Compares Mullin’s Cherokee Heritage to Liz Warren ‘Fauxcahontas’ Controversy, and Vance’s Anti-Fraud Task Force Suspends 70 Hospices in Los Angeles
Nebraska Energy Observer: Space Force, also, Federal Reserve
Outkick: Iowa Clinches Elite-Eight Berth Thanks To Disastrous Blunder By Nebraska In Final Minute, Philadelphia Phillies Star Alec Bohm Accuses Parents Of Stealing Millions Of Dollars In Wild Lawsuit, Bomani Jones Injects Himself And OutKick Into Stephen A. Smith–Whitlock Feud, Lane Kiffin’s Pleas For Patience Will Fall On Deaf Ears In Baton Rouge And Beyond, and Jennifer Lopez Goes Full Vegas Stripper In Fishnet Stockings, Racist Harry Potter & Nashville’s Gay Puck Night
Power Line: Did Ellison lie to Congress? Read the transcript, Too Good to Check, Looking back contemptuously, They’re On the Other Side, and Europe To Get Tougher On Immigration?
Shark Tank: State Sen. Shevrin Jones Endorses David Jolly For Governor
Shot In The Dark: Perish the Thought, also, Staying Connected
STUMP: Geeking Out – Were COVID Deaths Undercounted In The U.S.?
The Political Hat: Reflexive Propaganda
This Ain’t Hell: When you think you have had a bad day, Old Dominion cadets receive medals, Canada’s “buyback” redux, and Dismal State of Britain’s Military
Transterrestrial Musings: The New Direction In Space Policy, The Four Boxes Of Freedom, Recognition, and My “Smart” TV
Victory Girls: Chicago Politicians’ Shameful Silence About Sheridan Gorman’s Murder, Mouthy, Bully Reacher Actor Puts Needed Beatdown On Neighbor, and Kermit Gosnell Lived A Long Life, Too Bad His Victims Didn’t
Watts Up With That: BlackRock CEO Abandons Climate Delusion for Investor Needs, Climate Models Discover Yet Another Thing CO2 Can Do, Yet Another Reason Why Wind And Solar Electricity Generation Will Never Work To Run An Economy, , and 
The Federalist: America Can’t Heal From The Russia Hoax Because Mueller And His Ilk Faced No Accountability, DOJ Charges Dominicans, Others In Alleged Benefit Fraud Schemes Totaling $1 Million, Politicians Think More Zoning Laws Will Fix Housing Prices, But The Data Says Otherwise , Exclusive: Watchdog Files Bar Complaint Against Christopher Wray Over Arctic Frost Lawfare, and Any Republican Promising To Pass SAVE Act Via Reconciliation Is Lying To You
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet – Week Four, Persian Mix, and Chill Out

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In The Mailbox: 03.26.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | March 26, 2026 | No Comments

– compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Arctic Frost Trifecta
357 Magnum: Self-Defense is Legal in North Carolina
EBL: Lionfish Spines, Bridge on the River Kwai, Diamondback Squid, Augusta National, and What is Cream of Tartar?
Twitchy: Cambridge Woman Goes Viral For Hiring Illegals & Calling ICE, Try Not To Laugh At The Background Optics During Cory Booker’s “Trump Brought Chaos To The Airports” Rant, and Amy Siskind’s Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Anti-Trump Story About An Old Lady & Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Shortage Flops
Louder With Crowder: BLM leader once named “Bostonian of the Year” forced to pay back the money she stole from her charity, Man convicted of murder thinks Gavin Newsom would make an awesome president, would totally vote for him, Student newspaper forced to apologize after accurately calling an illegal immigrant who murdered a student an “illegal immigrant”, Woke, Soros-funded Philly DA THREATENS ICE agents helping at airports, and California cancels gubernatorial debate when, apparently, none of the “candidates of color” made the cut off
Vox Popoli: Now in Print, RIP John Bradley, A Fake Ceasefire Offer, and She Has This Sense
Upstream Reviews: Project Hail Mary Wins For Lord & Miller, 
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Iran & The Axis of Evil
Cedar Sanderson: To Chloris
Stoic Observations: Who Are These Masked Men?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The Missiles To Diego Garcia Subtext
Don Surber: Iran’s allies flee
Elizabeth Nickson: ALL Our Elections Are Stolen
Racket News: Iranian Ambassador Met With Russian Arms Maker For “Development of Cooperation”, also, Finally Good News – Free Speech Wins In Court

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Guess What Time It Is, ‘Iranian Leaders’?

Posted on | March 25, 2026 | No Comments

Do me a favor: Somebody translate this into Farsi, and bring it to the attention of the surviving “leadership” in Tehran, because they obviously don’t know what time it is — it’s time to quit, fellows:

The U.S. military is preparing to deploy at least 1,000 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East in the coming days, according to three people with knowledge of the plans.
The unit is considered the Army’s emergency response force and can typically be deployed on short notice. The force would include a battalion of the 1st Brigade Combat Team as well as Maj. Gen. Brandon Tegtmeier, the division’s commander, and division staff, according to the people, who spoke Tuesday on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military plans or private conversations.
It’s the latest addition of American troops to the Iran war effort after U.S. officials recently said thousands of Marines aboard several Navy ships will be heading to the region.
While the Marine units are trained in missions that include supporting U.S. embassies, evacuating civilians and disaster relief, the soldiers of the 82nd Airborne, based at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, are trained to parachute into hostile or contested territory to secure key territory and airfields.

You have two choices, Iran: You can surrender, or you can die.

Do you realize that the 82nd Airborne is the best light infantry division on the planet? They can jump out of planes, or they can deploy on helicopters, but once they’re on the ground, they are just combat infantry, and the reason they are “considered the Army’s emergency response force” is because they are trained to a high state of readiness. Every morning begins with a two-mile run, and they do so much physical training, they’re like a team of professional athletes, except there are thousands of them, they carry guns, and every one is a skilled marksman.

Speaking of planes and helicopters and deployment, however, let’s ask a few questions: How many planes and helicopters does Iran’s military have left at this point? Pretty sure it’s close to zero. We’ve wiped out the Iranian air force and sunk the Iranian navy, and if the Iranian army now wishes to get in on the action, exactly how does Iran’s surviving military leadership propose to transport their troops into battle? What, they’re going to ride in trucks? And won’t those truck convoys of Iranian troops be easy targets, rolling down the road, observed in real time by our high-tech surveillance, ready to send bombs and missiles to blow them up?

See, 21st-century warfare isn’t just “boots on the ground.” It’s technology and logistics, and the current state of Iran’s military logistics is FUBAR. (Is there a Farsi synonym for FUBAR?) There is talk about the U.S. seizing Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, and I don’t know if that’s true, but suppose it is. Exactly how does Iran propose to defend Kharg Island? How many Iranian troops are on the island now? Are there enough troops on the island to withstand an assault by a Marine expeditionary force, backed up by a battalion from the 82nd Airborne, with the assistance of the 75th Ranger Regiment and whatever Special Forces commando teams might get involved in such an operation?

All told, we’re sending more than 5,000 troops — and perhaps twice that number — toward the Persian Gulf theater of operations, and the Iranian leadership must have some ballpark estimate of how many troops they’ve got on Kharg Island. Pretty sure it’s not enough to deal with all the firepower the U.S.A. could bring to bear on that location, but let’s not even think about that yet. Because, you see, troops have got to eat.

However many troops Iran has on Kharg Island, every one of them consumes a certain number of calories daily, and how much of a stockpile of food do they keep handy on that island? Remember, we sank the Iranian navy, which means that now there is no way that the Iranian regime can send any more food (or troops, weapons, supplies, etc.) to Kharg Island. Whatever the existing Iranian military presence is on that island, they’re not going to be able to get any help or reinforcement if, as it’s said we’re planning, U.S. troops show up to take the island by force.

Iran has demands? Are you kidding me with this?

Look, I know for a fact that Trump did not — and still does not — want to have to order ground troops into combat in Iran. He sincerely doesn’t want a “forever war” and using ground troops will almost certainly involve casualties more numerous than the handful of unfortunate losses we have suffered so far. Even a one-sided victory over whatever force the Iranians might have on Kharg Island would likely involve dozens of U.S. casualties, and Trump doesn’t want that if he can avoid it.

But the Iranian leadership has demands? We’ve already killed so many of their leaders, we’re dealing with third-string Shiite fanatics at this point and, like I said, Iran’s also lost its air force and navy, so the idea that they’re in any position to make demands is downright insulting. Operation Epic Fury is now in Day 27, and we’ve struck something like 9,000 targets in Iran so far. We’ve blown up so much of their stuff that we’re at risk of running out of targets. The guys running the Pentagon obviously have some very detailed plans for what the Army and Marines can do in Iran — a hunch tells me it’s probably more than just taking Kharg Island — but the Commander-in-Chief would prefer to avoid that, if the Iranian leaders would just decide they don’t want to be the next guy with a mug shot and the word “ELIMINATED” next to it.

Death From Above is coming for you, fellows. And the only way you can stop it is two words — unconditional surrender. Do the right thing.



 

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