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FMJRA 2.0: In The Bowels of the Draft

Posted on | August 2, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

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

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

Posted on | August 1, 2026 | No Comments

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

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

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

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

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

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

A month later, the theme continued:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



 

Category: Crime, Indiana, Media Bias

In The Mailbox: 07.31.26

Posted on | August 1, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

It’s five o’clock somewhere.

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

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

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In The Mailbox: 07.30.26

Posted on | July 31, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

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

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

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In The Mailbox: 07.29.26

Posted on | July 30, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

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

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

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In The Mailbox: 07.28.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | July 29, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Faster, please.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: A Day With Christa McAuliffe & Challenger (1986),
EBL: Cheeks and Collars, Fake Jake Tapper and Dr. Fauxi, “Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On”, Bison Dude Arrested in Yellowstone, and Steve Hilton for Governor of California
Twitchy: Gavin Newsom’s Former Mistress Admits She Wet The Bed On Their First Night Together, Man Who Dislikes Concept Of Capitalism Just Wants Be Be In his Garden Making Art, and “Deported US Citizen” Hysteria Dies Screaming
Louder With Crowder: Immigrant group of grocery store owners sue Mamdani over his plan to put them out of business, Democrat Gubernatorial Candidate Claims Jesus Totally Would Condone Transgenderism, Joy Reid says Elon Musk is the dumb one, Chicago Has A Novel Way To Combat Violent Crime: Remind Criminals It Is Illegal, and Mother Calls Out School Board After School Assigns They/Them Pronouns For All Students In Her Daughter’s Yearbook
Vox Popoli: Why Everyone Hates the Boomers, TRANSLATION: Gerona, Those Who Gnaw, 3X and 3 Weeks to Go, and Che Cavalo!
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Pangram and Substack – why the whining?
Sensurround: The Great Communist Ice Cream Confusion
John C. Wright: Sometimes You Can Tell A Book By Its Cover, Four Steps of Deception, and Philip Pullman Is No Hero of Mine
Cedar Sanderson: Toast & Gidget
Stoic Observations: Tell Me What You Really Think

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: ICE’s Latest ‘Worst of the Worst’ Arrests Include Illegals Convicted of Child Molestation and Other Sex Crimes, Fauci Diary Entry Reveals He Suffered Common COVID Vax Injury Five Months After Getting Jab, Trump Orders Warning Signs Be Posted at Smithsonian Museum, Trump Administration Asks SCOTUS to Revive Mail-In Voting Order Ahead of Midterms, and  The GOP Is Fighting to Hold the House, And It Just Might Do It
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 97 – Double Feature
BattleSwarm: The Woman Who Wasn’t There, Maine Mess – There’s Not A “Ha Ha” Big Enough, Tech Giants Voltron Up Against AI Safety Threats, and Austin’s Secret Amazon Land Grab
Behind The Black: Problems with Katalyst’s Link rescue spacecraft, Astronomers discover the first mid-sized black hole wandering outside of a galaxy, Amazon files FCC application to launch 5,105 upgraded Leo phone-to-satellite satellites, FCC overhauls its licensing process, and D-Day: A vast plan built on a grand heritage
Cafe Hayek: A Letter to a “Young Socialist”, also, The Myth of a Monopolizing Standard Oil Will, Unfortunately, Never Die
CDR Salamander: The Modern Deep Battle
Chicago Boyz: Niall Ferguson On AI, Algorithms, & Anti-Semitism
Da Tech Guy: Repeats Under the Fedora
Don Surber: Diary of a felon named Fauci
First Street Journal: Yet more conspiracy theories about Mitch McConnell, We should never release murderers until their victims come back to life, and You in a heap o’ trouble boy!
Flopping Aces: The Lawfare Tough Guy Suddenly Needs Lawyers, Cable News, & A Sympathy Tour
Gates Of Vienna: Tattoo You, Hate, Hate, Hate! Islam Hates Women, Going Postal, Axe, and It Shall Be Given You, and Knife Jihad in the 17th Arrondissement
The Geller Report: Deep State In “Fight To The Death” To Defend Voter Fraud, Six Muslims Arrested in Foiled Islamic Terror Plot Against Paris Synagogue—Media Blackout Ensues, Minnesota Public Schools to Start Using ‘Transgender Dolls’ – Gender-Swapping Dolls to Four-Year-Olds, EU Rejects Anti-Mass Migration Citizen Initiative, and Mamdani Regime Publishes ‘Doxxing Database’ of NYC Property Owners Targeted for Pied-à-Terre Tax Shakedown
Hollywood In Toto: Motor City – Silent Action Romp Delivers Big Thrills, Mixed Results, Evil Dead Burn Is Better Than Rise Not Raimi-Level Mayhem, Bright Eyes Singer’s Trumpian Writer’s Block, Explained, How to See Sneak Peek of Passion of the Christ Sequel, and VOD, Streaming Haven’t Killed This Horror Sensation
Legal Insurrection: Sen. Rand Paul Releases Document Trove Detailing Pre-Pandemic Biosecurity Breaches, NYC Democrat Socialists Say They’re Coming For The School Kids, ‘F*** ICE’: Illinois Liberal Judge Keeps Bench While Conservative Judge Fights Removal, Cotton Wants Investigation of China Funding at Harvard, Other Schools, and ‘Devil in a Skirt’: Medjugorje Virgin Mary Vandalized, Altar Set on Fire
Nebraska Energy Observer: The 1654 Project, Sunday Matinee, Reinventing Basketball – Again, and Guard the Margin, Lose the Farm
Outkick: Caitlin Clark Erupts For 32 Points As Fever Complete Season Sweep Of Storm, Brent Bielema Roasts SEC & Nick Saban At Big 10 Media Days, Sophie Cunningham Rally Rocks WNBA Game As “Save Women’s’ Sports” Activists Face Backlash, Ole Miss Files Suit Against Football Players Who Left For Lane Kiffin’s LSU, and Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” Spends 15 Weeks At #1 On Billboard Hot 100
Power Line: Dear Diary, Anatomy of a Police Shooting, “Local man steals rifle”, Blowing the Whistle on the Blindingly Obvious, and At SPA, Ottley is out
Shark Tank: Miami Celebrates 130h Birthday
The Political Hat: Grand Frère Électronique
Transterrestrial Musings: Starship Flight 13, Communism’s Missing Reckoning, It’s True, The Great MAGA Reversal, and Starship’s Heat Shield
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Watts Up With That: New UK PM Andy Burnham Has Supported a 90% Cut in Hydrocarbon Use Within 10 Years, Elena Kagan Gave Bogus Science a Blind Endorsement, Comments on golden eagle errors in Wyoming’s wildlife action plan, Wildfires in France, and Are the Recent Northwest Wildfires a Sign of Global Warming?
The Federalist: Transparency Should Apply To All Forms Of Medicare Insurance, Poynter Rewards Chuck Todd’s Activism With Journalism Honor Days After Diary Reveals He Strategized With Fauci, Trump’s Antitrust Pick Adam Candeub Fought Big Tech Censorship Before It Was Cool, D.C. Circuit Court Hands Trump Win In Battle Over Mail-In Voting Order, and Catholic Nuns Take On New York’s ‘Coercive’ Physician-Assisted Suicide Law In Court
Mark Steyn: Death in Jordan, Strictly Literal, Rigoletto Most Ridic, Boys to Men – Rourke, Bacon, Barkin and More in Diner, and “Summertime”

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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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