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‘End of Watch’ for a Georgia Cop

Posted on | February 3, 2026 | No Comments

When you think of law enforcement in Georgia, you might think of guys named Bubba or Roy, but probably not Pradeep Tamang, a native of Nepal, a small country wedged between India and Tibet. More than 10 years ago, when Pradeep was still a child, the Tamang family came to America and settled near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he later worked as a corrections officer at Dauphin County Prison. About a year ago, Pradeep got hired as a cop in Gwinnett County, Georgia:

A cop has died and another has been left seriously injured after they were shot allegedly by a serial criminal in what police described as an unprovoked attack in a Georgia Holiday Inn hotel room.
Pradeep Tamang, 25, died of his injuries after he was shot allegedly by Kevin Andrews, 35, on Feb. 1.
Tamang and his colleague Cpl. David Reed rushed to the Holiday Inn Express hotel in Stone Mountain, around 20 miles from Atlanta, as they probed suspected credit card fraud, according to WBRC.
The officers were invited into the room but were allegedly shot at when they tried to arrest Andrews over an outstanding warrant.
“The suspect produced a handgun and in an unprovoked attack, fired at our Gwinnett County police officers,” cops said.
Both fired back in self-defense but Tamang, who was born in Nepal and was engaged, died.
Andrews, who has a lengthy rap sheet, was left with non-life-threatening injuries.
JD McClure, the Gwinnett County police chief, hailed the officers’ bravery.
“These officers are heroes. They go out to the road every day and face uncertainty,” he said.
“They also understand that at the end of the day, they provide a very valuable service and that is safety.”
Brian Kemp, the Georgia governor, alluded to the dangers cops face in the line of duty.
“This is the latest reminder of the dangers law enforcement face on a daily basis, and we are grateful for every one that puts themselves in harm’s way to protect their fellow Georgians,” he said.

More about the suspect:

The man accused of killing a Gwinnett County police officer and injuring another in a shooting has been charged, according to the sheriff’s office.
Kevin Andrews faces charges of malice murder, felony murder, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and two counts of aggravated assault against law enforcement.
Andrews had his first appearance on Monday. He did not receive bond.
On Sunday, Officer Pradeep Tamang and Cpl. David Reed were called to a Holiday Inn Express off Park Place Boulevard in Stone Mountain, where Andrews was suspected of fraudulently renting a room.

The location is about 20 miles northeast of downtown Atlanta. With nearly a million residents, Gwinnett County is the second-most populous county in Georgia, and very diverse — more than 35% of the residents area Latino or Asian, and more than 25% are black.

Here is just a little more about suspect Kevin Andrews:

Police said he has an extensive criminal history, including prior felony, robbery, gun and narcotics convictions, as well as an active warrant out of DeKalb County for failure to appear.

How many times must we see different versions of the same basic story before we do something about the “revolving door” problem in the criminal justice system? Seldom does a criminal begin his career with murder. Rather, habitual felons tend to rack up this kind of “extensive criminal history” prior to finally buying themselves a ticket to permanent incarceration. The “failure to appear” warrant from neighboring DeKalb County indicates that they had him behind bars and let him out on bail, despite his prior history of violent felonies. So two cops show up at Holiday Inn where the suspect had fraudulently used a credit card (perhaps stolen) to rent a room and, after discovering he’s got an outstanding warrant, they try to put the cuffs on him and get shot because, although it’s illegal for convicted felons to possess firearms, you don’t become a convicted felon by obeying the law, do you?

Now a young immigrant from Nepal is dead and perhaps the saddest part is, nothing will change. The courts will continue letting dangerous criminals out on the street, again and again, because as a nation, we’ve simply forgotten how to protect public safety. God help us.



 

Category: Crime, Georgia

In The Mailbox: 02.02.2026

Posted on | February 3, 2026 | No Comments

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OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Day When The City of Halifax Exploded (1917), The Democrat Smurfs, A Day With John Wilkes Booth (1865), The Distinguished Andrew McCabe Of George Mason University, 
357 Magnum: Euthanasia as Practiced in Canada Is Horrifying, also Good Guys 2, Bad Guys 0
EBL: The Smashing Machine, Ultimate Bouillabaisse , “Groundhog’s Day”, Federal Court Rules – ICE WINS! MN LOSES! PLUS Federal ID Order, and French fish!
Twitchy: CNN Staff Annoyed Scott Jennings Calls Illegal Aliens “Illegal Aliens”, Nurse Says Hospitals Can’t Have MAGA Nurses Treating Patients, and Ana Navarro & The View Suddenly Sour On The Judgement Of Grand Juries 
Louder With Crowder: Add Ben Stiller to the list of anti-immigration law celebrities lashing out with these comments attacking ICE, Lady Gaga cries to a foreign audience about how mean it is for Trump, ICE to enforce immigration laws, Based internet troll gets unsuspecting leftist to realize she’s the actual fascist, Elie Mystal claims Don Lemon getting arrested for violating a church’s First Amendment rights is totally the same thing as slavery, and Comedian summarizes the obnoxious anti-Trump, anti-ICE Grammy Awards with a single perfect tweet
Vox Popoli: WhatsApp is Not Secure, MITTENS and the Monkeys, Oh no! Anyway, Wartime Powers, and Richard Dawkins’s Running Shoes
Cedar Sanderson: Forensics For Writers Part 8, Empty Nest Considerations – Meals, and 2025 Retrospective
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Bunny Hunting, Keys Aren’t Defense Tools, and The Reactionary Gap
The Abbey of Misrule: How to build a goddess
Born Lucky: Two Flavors of the Same Poison
Upstream Reviews: Ship of Spells
Defending The Wood Perilous: Rachel Is Recruited!

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American Conservative: Trump Sets Course for Regime Change in Cuba, also, Commander-in-Tired
American Greatness: Indoctrination 101 – Teachers Lead Student Walkouts & Protests Over Immigration Enforcement, The Left’s Revolutionary Confusion, The War on Terror Came Home, The Tragedy of Alex Pretti, and Democrats Using Shutdown Threat To Rewrite Immigration Enforcement
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 73 – Double Feature
BattleSwarm: Austin City Council Tries Sneaking $2 Million AI Camera Contract Onto Meeting Agenda Again, MQ-25 Stingray – A Carrier Based Refueling Drone, and Ian McCollum On SHOT Show Vaporware
Behind The Black: Fuel leaks cause Artemis-2 dress rehearsal countdown to terminate at T-5:15, several minutes early, Musk merges xAI with SpaceX, A galaxy’s swirling dust lanes, SpaceX launches 25 more Starlink satellites; uses 1st stage for 31st time, and Blue Origin shuts down New Shepard suborbital tourist flights
Cafe Hayek: Bogged Down In Bad Justifications for Trump’s Tariffs
CDR Salamander: Budgets, Ships, & The CBO – On Midrats,  also, So – How Bad Do You Really Want A Battleship?
Chicago Boyz: When Your Primary Skill Becomes Obsolescent (or Worse), also, Random Thoughts (15): The Democrats’ Digital Devilry
Dana Loesch: Rent Moratorium…Because of ICE?, 
Don Surber: Lawsuits will end the trans fad, also, America shrugged
Elizabeth Nickson: I Didn’t Hear An Apology From The World Economic Forum. Did You?
First Street Journal: Please, leave the government out of trying to ‘fix’ the ‘affordable housing’ problem
Gates Of Vienna: Protesting a Plastic Pig in Padua, Murder/Suicide by Train, Dan Eriksson: “What Do We Call This, If Not Evil?”, and “These Are Not Demonstrators. They Are Guerrillas.”
The Geller Report: IMMINENT COLLAPSE: Trump’s Boycott Leaves UN ‘on Brink of Bankruptcy’, Says Secretary-General, In Iran The Mosques Are Burning—and So Is the Lie of the Islamic State, Lying Mamdani Invents Budget Emergency to Justify Massive Tax Hikes, The Danger of Leftist (and Muslim) Medical Professionals, and STAGGERING CALIF-FRAUD: Almost 20% of ALL U.S. Home Health Activity Comes From Just One Place: Los Angeles
Hollywood In Toto: Mel Brooks Does Shocking 180 on Blazing Saddles, Feminists Silent as Media, Critics Savage Melania &  FLOTUS, Grammy Nominee Shames Singers for Ignoring Iranian Protesters, and Film Critic Torches Melania – Admits He Didn’t See It
Legal Insurrection: NH Lawmaker Pushing Campus Carry is Also a Student at UNH, New York Times Flips Out Over Supposed New Supreme Court NDAs, Agents Arrest Two More in Connection With Minnesota Church Ambush, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Asks Police to Surveil ICE, Report Them For Prosecution, and Judge Temporarily Blocks DHS Rules for Congressional Visits to Detention Centers
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday Ramblin’, Sunday Miscellany, and An outsider’s view?
Outkick: Roger Goodell Suggests Bad Bunny Won’t Use Super Bowl Stage For Activism, Black Coaches Shut Out Of Hiring Cycle And Enraged Media Will Make Goodell Answer For It As A Result, White Sox New Addition To Clubhouse Could Change The Game, Kid Rock Headlines Turning Point USA Alternative Super Bowl Halftime Show Lineup, and Sydney Sweeney Does Yard Work In Lingerie, Tosses Bra Out The Window In Her Latest All-Out Assault On Industry
Power Line: The Havoc Wrought By Illegal Aliens, Inside the fraud, Trade Deal With India, A fair trade, and AP McLovin Star Tribune
Shark Tank: Associated Industries of Florida Endorses Ingoglia For CFO
STUMP: U.S. Finalized Mortality 2024 – Highlights, also, The Week In Meep – Winter Is Deadly
This Ain’t Hell: Elon Cancels Putin’s Starlink Account, Washington Crash Report, and Demond Wilson passes
Transterrestrial Musings: The Second Amendment, No, LA Times, Catherine O’Hara, and Ameliamentum
Victory Girls: Nurses Union Holds Secret Training Sessions To Combat ICE, Melania Was Supposed To Flop And It Didn’t, and How Guilt Politics Turned Gullible White Liberals Into Activists
Watts Up With That: Aussie Green Radicals In Despair at Media Ignoring Their Warnings, Biden’s Push for Renewables Funding Trump’s Push To ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’, Re-evaluating the Concern of Climate Change, Utility Scale Lithium Based Energy Storage Systems, and Poor nations won’t follow Europe, UN in economic suicide
The Federalist: Here Are 10 Great Justice Alito Quotes To Mark His 20 Years On The Supreme Court, Poll Shows Likely 2026 Midterm Voters Support Deporting Illegal Aliens By 2:1 Margin, Here’s How To Cook Good Food On $15 A Day Or Less , Media Silent On KBJ Attending Anti-ICE Grammys After Inventing ‘Scandals’ About Her Colleagues, and Senate GOP Can Fix Elections, Boost Trump, And Wreck Dems With The SAVE Act
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Rule 5 Sunday: Extra Value Meal

Posted on | February 2, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to @kbdabear on X.
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EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, It May Be Cold In Scandinavia, MAGA Panama, Riot Women, Epstein Files – Bill Gates Asks A Question, Catherine O’Hara RIP, Dolly Parton, Sinners, Bill Belichick Denied, The Running Man, Amelia’s Dream, Kate Bush, and Amelia’s Farewell Song

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Katharina Nahlik, I Suspected As Much, Fish Pic Friday – Abbey Edwards, Tomorrow’s Anthem, The Wednesday Wetness, Tattoo Tuesday, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday

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FMJRA 2.0: One Big Crunch

Posted on | February 2, 2026 | No Comments

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After the last couple of weeks, this was a particularly bad week to be a Senators fan. First we got swept by the Cardinals at Busch Stadium, and then we came home to get whipped by the Expos, winning only one game: a comeback against Paul Lindblad that earned Roger Nelson a 5-4 win in relief of Pat Dobson. So we were 1-5 on the week; we played Pittsburgh tonight instead of Tuesday and picked up a couple of games to make us 42-51, 4.5 games behind the division-leading Twins in second place. We’ll face the Red Sox (40-50) Friday at RFK and hope for the best.
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THIS! THIS! I VOTED FOR THIS! 100%

Posted on | January 31, 2026 | No Comments

If the Trump administration never accomplished anything else, this would be sufficient cause to call it an overwhelming success:

The Department of Justice (DOJ) charged former CNN host Don Lemon with federal civil rights crimes after he live streamed anti-ICE protesters storming a church in Minnesota.
Lemon, who was arrested on Thursday, was charged with “conspiracy and interfering with the First Amendment rights of worshipers during a January 18 protest at the Cities Church in St. Paul,” according to the Associated Press:

The veteran journalist is charged with conspiracy and interfering with the First Amendment rights of worshipers during a Jan. 18 protest at the Cities Church in St. Paul, where a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official serves as a pastor. Another journalist and two protest participants were also arrested in Minnesota.

In a post on X, CNN’s Jake Tapper posted photos of the “DOJ indictment v Don Lemon.”
“The DOJ indictment v Don Lemon et al was just unsealed,” Tapper wrote, adding that it was 12 pages.
Lemon, along with Nekima Valdez Levy-Armstrong, Chauntyll Louisa Allen, William Scott Kelly, Jamael Lydell Lundy, Trahern Jeen Crews, Georgia Ellyse Fort, and two others were charged with two counts, according to the photos of the indictment posted by Tapper.
The defendants were charged with Conspiracy Against Right of Religious Freedom at Place of Worship, and “Injure, Intimidate, and Interfere with Exercise of Right of Religious Freedom at Place of Worship.”

Lemon’s lawyer is trying the “But Journalism” defense:

“Don has been a journalist for 30 years, and his constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis was no different than what he has always done,” [defense attorney Abbe] Lowell said. “The First Amendment exists to protect journalists whose role it is to shine light on the truth and hold those in power accountable.”>”Instead of investigating the federal agents who killed two peaceful Minnesota protesters, the Trump Justice Department is devoting its time, attention and resources to this case,” Lowell said, calling the arrest an “attempt to distract attention from the many crises facing this administration.”
Lowell called Lemon’s arrest an “unprecedented attack on the First Amendment” and said the journalist “will fight these charges vigorously and thoroughly in court.”

Everybody’s joking about the insane argument that being a journalist provides carte blanche to defy any law whatsoever.

“Sure, officer — I admit I was doing 110 mph through a school zone, but you see, I’m a journalist and that’s why we have the First Amendment, so that I can drive as fast as I want. ‘Freedom of the press,’ see?”



 

Category: Crime, Media Bias, Minnesota

In The Mailbox: 01.30.26

Posted on | January 31, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Britain is Becoming Irrelevant, also Self-Defense in NYC?
EBL: Why The Minneapolis ICE Pretti Shooting Was Lawful, Saint Martina of Rome, The Great Raid, and Oliver Cromwell Lay Buried and Dead
Twitchy: Are Lemon’s 1st Amendment Rights Being (Unlawfully) Squeezed? Taxpayer Funded Schools Escort Kids To ICE Protest & Gov. Abbott Wants To Know Why, and Jonathan Turley Explains Why The FBI Seizing Fulton County Ballots Is A Big Deal (Cue Democrat Panic)
Louder With Crowder: Bruce Springsteen continues his 30-year decline into irrelevancy, Rioter attempts to make the case her arrest for violating a church’s First Amendment rights is the same as slavery, Virginia’s woke gov destroys myth of the “moderate democrat” once and for all , Cosmo is back to demanding Sydney Sweeney speak out on politics, and Don Lemon gets arrested, so let’s have fun at his expense
Vox Popoli: The End of the Paperback, No Way Out, No Room for Doubt, Evo-Stream Tonight, and Bad Decisions Have Consequences
According To Hoyt: Give Them The Old Razzle Dazzle, Stone Face, By the Numbers, and Men And Chains
Cedar Sanderson: Twenty Years
Flappr: On Atrophy & Content Creation
Stoic Observations: Snake Handling In The Street, also, Two Weeks Of Tweaks

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Trump Calls for Arrest of Barack Obama
American Greatness: Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson Announces Plan Mandating Police to Dox ICE Agents, Share Intel With Agitators
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For January 30
Behind The Black: Russian defunct military satellite breaks up in graveyard orbit, FAA moves forward on its environmental assessment of SpaceX’s proposal to launch Starship/Superheavy from Kennedy Space Center, Orbex failure occurred partly because UK government withheld promised funding, NASA delays Artemis-2 wet dress rehearsal countdown due to weather, and Musk allegedly considering merging SpaceX with xAI and Tesla
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday 
Don Surber: The black history not told
First Street Journal: People whose jobs are to enforce the law band together to not enforce the law
The Geller Report: Minnesota Imam Says Americans ‘See Muslims As Their Replacement, and We Are Their Replacement’, also, $30 MILLION WITH NO CLIENTS – Records Show No Clients Behind Ilhan Omar Husband’s Investment Firm
Hollywood In Toto: Shelter Finds Statham Playing His Greatest Hits, also, Controversial Comic Cancelled for Outrageous Renee Good Joke
Legal Insurrection: Trump Admin Uses Equity Stakes, New Mines to Secure Critical Minerals Supply Chain, Boston BLM Activist Fraudster Who Scammed More Than $100K Sentenced to Zero Jail Time, Trump Admin Joins Race-Based Admissions Lawsuit Against UCLA Med School, Harvard Students Receiving Fewer As After Grade Inflation is Exposed, and Don Lemon Arrested Over Minnesota Church Raid
Nebraska Energy Observer: Alberta Under Fire
Outkick: Steve Kerr Apologizes For Spreading ‘Misinformation’ Related To ICE, Fran Tarkenton Reveals How The First Week Of Super Bowl Preparation Led To Vikings Losses, Latest World Series Projections Undermine Fan Outrage Over Dodgers’ Spending, Former UCLA Star Amari Bailey Attempts Return To College Basketball After NBA And G-League Stints, and Alina Habba Shows The Ugly Hollywood Libs How To Look Hot On A Red Carpet, Don Lemon Memes & RIP To An Icon
Power Line: Dr. Oz reports, Don Lemon indicted, Land of 10,000 Frauds, The Boss visits Minneapolis, and It’s Warsh
Shark Tank: FL Revokes Nurse’s License For Refusing Anesthesia To MAGA Patients
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: The President and the Press
This Ain’t Hell: Let’s talk Carrier Friday, also, Valor Friday
Victory Girls: Schumer Shutdown II Averted, ICE Funding Punted For Two Weeks
Watts Up With That: Too Fast, Too Soon? Canada’s Medically Assisted Suicide Cases Reveal Potential Coercion, Rushed Decisions, How Labour Betrayed Britain’s Working Class in the Name of Net Zero, Starmer Government Greenlights 15 Minute City Legal Enforcement, Real Environmental Crisis Is Not Climate Change, and Greenies And Democrats at Each Other’s Throats as Climate Change Talking Point Evaporates
The Federalist: Iowa GOP Should Fix K-12 Social Studies Rewrite That Pushes Open Borders, Climate Alarmism, Saint Hillary Is Here To Tell You You’re A Terrible Christian, To Cave On Mass Deportations Is To Cave On Every Other Issue, Washington Post ‘Dear Jeff’ Letter Reminds Us How Arrogant, Entitled, And Graceless The Media Are, and Investigators Can’t Find Tapes Showing Fulton County’s 2020 Ballot Count Started At Zero, Board Says
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Why Do Democrats Hate Christians?

Posted on | January 30, 2026 | No Comments

Jennifer Welch (left) and her co-host Angie Sullivan

This post is not going to be one of those “look-what-the-crazy-liberal-said” exercises, as enough such work has already been done on podcaster Jennifer Welch’s most recent outburst. Sure, I’ll quote what Welch said, but my point here is to explain why she said it. First, however, the quote supplied by The Post Millennial:

Far-left podcaster Jennifer Welch has said that “white Evangelical Christianity” is a cancer. While making the comments, she named people such as Erika Kirk and cited the Christian’s tendency to vote for Trump as a reason to oppose them and claimed Christians are not getting persecuted.
“So when you think about the Erika Kirk, the Life Church, the Joel Olsteen of it all, and their desire to accumulate wealth while hood-winking their flock into thinking they’re super moral, this is a cancer. White evangelical Christianity is a cancer. These are the worst of our country,” Welch said.
“These are the worst people in our country because they use their religion in two ways, as a weapon and as a shield. They weaponize it whenever they want to, and say, ‘We’re on the moral high ground. You’re a lesbian. You deserve to die. You’re a lesbian. The cops shouldn’t have revived you. Oh, your parents are Mexicans, and they brought you over here. Yeah, you should go to jail and eat worm food.’ And then when you call them out on it, ‘Oh, my God, they’re after the Christians. How dare they, how dare they. We’re so oppressed,'” Welch added, mocking those who are Christian.
“White Christians are so oppressed in this country, and they want it both ways, because in the religion that duplicity is taught, you can be morally duplicitous. You thrive in cognitive dissonance. And so this is just a massive, massive problem. And it should come as no surprise to anyone that of this cult that I’m talking about, white evangelicals over 80 percent went and voted triple Trumped.”

It is not enough to say that this is false and insulting, but I’m not here to document the elements of slander or to stoke outrage. No, as I said, my point is to explain why Welch said this — or, more generally, why Democrats view white evangelical Christians as an enemy who deserved to be smeared this way. Notice that at the end of the quoted excerpt, Welch claims that “over 80 percent” of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump three times — 2016, 2020 and 2024. Is this true? Or to proceed directly to my conclusion: How does Jennifer Welch know this?

IT’S THE EXIT POLLS, STUPID!

An important development of the past 30 or 40 years is exit polling, which allows political strategists and others to speak with some degree of certainty about which demographic segment voted for which candidate.

Prior to exit polling — which didn’t become a ubiquitous phenomenon until the 1990s — political candidates and parties lacked specific information about the nature of their own support or that of their opponents. For example, the term “gender gap” arose after the 1980 election from the discovery that, by a net margin of eight points, more men than women had voted for Ronald Reagan. In the years afterwards, as more questions were added to exit-poll surveys, more detailed information about patterns of voter preferences became available, and it was from this that Democratic Party strategists learned that the most committed Republican voters were white evangelical Christians.

After asking the basic religion question — Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, etc. — the question was added: Do you consider yourself a born-again Christian or evangelical Christian? This result then gets cross-tabbed with the race question, to identify the “white evangelical Christian” voters as a distinct category. It is because of this that we know such voters went for Trump by 80% in 2016, 76% in 2020, and 82% in 2024. How important are white evangelicals Christians as a voting bloc? They were 23% of the electorate, according to the 2024 exit polls.

Permit me, as someone born and raised a Southern Baptist, to explain the theological basis of “born again” and “evangelical.” The phrase “born again” is taken directly from the third chapter of the Gospel of John, with Jesus answering the Pharisee leader Nicodemus. The phrase also appears in I Peter 1:23, and the concept is also referenced in the sixth chapter of Paul’s epistle to the Romans. Repentance, baptism — death to the old sinful man, “born again” to a new and eternal life. This is just basic belief in every church I’ve ever attended, including the so-called “charismatic” services I visited with my childhood friend Phil Underwood, who is, like his father before him, a Church of God preacher. As for the phrase “evangelical,” this refers to preaching the Gospel to the uncoverted, in accordance with “the Great Commission” (Matthew 28:18-20): “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” And it is this zeal to make converts, by preaching the need for repentance, which makes the members of certain denominations and congregations identifiable as “evangelical” or “born-again” Christians, in distinction from those who for whatever reason think the Great Commission has expired.

There is a deep irony in the Democratic Party’s demonization of “white evangelical Christians” because, of course, the whole reason this phenomenon gained national attention in the first place was that, in 1976, a Georgia Baptist named Jimmy Carter ran for president and made his “born again” faith front-and-center in his campaign.

When it helped Democrats win an election — and Carter just barely beat Gerald Ford in 1976 — being “born again” was good. But when they identified it as a cause of Republicans winning elections, Democrats decided that, in the words of Jennifer Welch, “White evangelical Christianity is a cancer. . . . These are the worst people in our country.”

Every Democrat nodded in agreement with that remarkable denunciation, because they’ve all seen the same exit-poll data. And I am not here to preach, dear brothers and sisters, but I feel the need to point out that it doesn’t matter whether you’re white, or whether you’re a Christian, or whether you consider yourself “born again.” You could be an atheist or a Muslim, black or Asian, gay or straight — it doesn’t matter who you are, if you vote Republican, you’re a “cancer,” according to Democrats. The only category of sin they recognize is voting Republican.

Liberalism is the only faith they have, and they will cling to it all the way to the grave and beyond. God will judge them, as He will judge us all.



 

Category: Democrats, Religion

In The Mailbox: 01.29.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | January 30, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Shocking Revelations Of @DataRepublican
EBL: Don’t take selfies with snow leopards, Shellfish, The Pretti Case Exposes a Dangerous Lie, Greg Gutfeld On Democrat Concern Trolls, and Uncle Floyd Vivino, RIP
Twitchy: Ilhan Omar Loses It When Asked Why she Didn’t Follow Foreign Substance Protocols, Patronizing Beta Male Senate Hopeful Assumes Women Are Stupid, and Woman Who Doxxed ICE Director & His Family Gets To Find Out – And She’s Big Mad
Louder With Crowder: New shocking (though not really) footage exposes Alex Pretti as NOT the innocent victim the media claims he is, Hollywood actor says some of you may need to die to fight the “revolution” against Trump enforcing immigration laws, and Tom Homan makes clear the anti-ICE Signal chat agitators will brought to justice
Vox Popoli: The End of the Church of England, THE FROZEN GENE, Karma is a Bitch, and Failed Coup in China
Cedar Sanderson: Riddles In The British Landscape
Mazelit Airaksinen: Former Hostage’s Father To Teach Jewish Studies At Columbia
Jim McCoy: EngineMasters – Retribution

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Forgotten Casualties in Trump’s Wars, also, Will Ted Cruz Go Anti-Trump in 2028?
American Greatness: SCAM Act Introduced to Revoke Citizenship of Migrants Who Commit Fraud, Serious Felonies, The Green Robotic ‘Utopia’ is Here, President Trump Promises: ‘We’re Not Making Any Payments to Sanctuary Cities’ Starting Feb 1, and Slouching Towards Fort Sumter?
BattleSwarm: Texas Immigration Security Update For January 28, also, Democrat Talarico Says Billionaires Are Evil, Except When They’re Giving Me Money
Behind The Black: Varda capsule successfully returns to Earth after nine weeks in orbit, Pluto’s mountains of ice surrounded by a sea of frozen nitrogen, SpaceX launches 25 more Starlink satellites, New ground-based space antenna startup raises $100 million and wins $50 million Space Force contract, and Artemis-2 proves NASA learned nothing from the Challenger and Columbia failures
Cafe Hayek: A Mysterious Arithmetic
CDR Salamander: Tenders…MOAR Tenders
Da Tech Guy: A Short Open Letter to Healthcare Companies & Medical Schools who Don’t Want to be Sued out of Existence
Dana Loesch: More Developments In The Pretti Story, 
Don Surber: Marco Rides Into The Senate
First Street Journal: Philly Dems say “Illegal immigrants are above the law!”
Gates Of Vienna: Hamas-Lovers Cause Trouble in Milan and Bologna, also, The Dialectics of the Imposed Narrative
The Geller Report: TRUMP STEEL: US Steel Production Surpasses Japan for First Time Since 1999 As a Result of Tariffs, Apple Cider Vinegar Sprayed At Ilhan Omar Appears to Be Staged Hoax, Convicted Terrorist Running in Birmingham Election With “Support of Allah”, In Iraq, Lots of Little Aishas, and FBI Agents Search Election Hub in Fulton County, Georgia in Court-Authorized 2020 Vote Investigation
Hollywood In Toto: Untitled Home Invasion Romance Is Fargo Lite, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die Overdoses on Originality, Veteran Journalist Admits Film Critics Gunning for Melania, and Should Studios Keep Hiring John Leguizamo?
Legal Insurrection: Dems Opposing Gender Ideology Sue Illinois Over Law Banning Use of ‘Democrat’ Without Approval, CNN Leftist Repeats Myth a Right-Winger Killed Charlie Kirk, Education Dept. Finds California Violated Federal Law by Hiding Students’ ‘Gender Transitions’ from Parents, Newsom Smears Dr. Oz as ‘Racist’ After He Targeted Alleged California Medical Fraud, and Lawyers for Alleged Charlie Kirk Assassin Don’t Want Video Introduced as Evidence
Nebraska Energy Observer: The EU Is Becoming Irrelevant + Britain Too, also, This is superb especially in its understanding. But why did Amelia take off?
Outkick: NFL Puts Kibosh On Prediction Markets Advertising During Super Bowl LX, Associated Press Is Furious About The Lack Of ‘Diversity’ In Upcoming Winter Olympics, Olympic Bobsledder Funded Her Winter Games Dream With OnlyFans, Trish Stratus Needs To Update Her Low-Cut Top To ‘Generational Crush’ Because She’s Fathers & Sons First Crush, and Will Canton Voters’ Privileges Be Removed After Bill Belichick Snub?
Power Line: The Real Alex Pretti, Hillary Clinton lawyer backs MN lawsuit, Decoding the Signals, Unclear on the concept, and Where is the fraud?
Shark Tank: FL Nonprofit Hospitals Under Scrutiny For Rising Prices & Lack Of Transparency
Shot In The Dark: Enterprise
STUMP: New York City Watch – Fiscal Emergency?
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – The Spread Of Death: Slippery Slope In Australia; 16,000 Dead In Canada; On The March In France
This Ain’t Hell: More on Pretti, NATO SecGen, “Europe Needs the US”, and Thursday thrills
Transterrestrial Musings: 40 Years On
Victory Girls: Secretary Rubio Schools Senator Duckworth At Hearing, also,Bruce Springsteen’s New Song Sounds Suspiciously Like Cable News Chatter
Watts Up With That: Efforts to Kill Gas Industry Disguised as Environmental Protection, Poll Finds New England Women Feel Misled About Climate Policies, British Intelligence Goes Full Guardian Promoting Untestable Computer-Generated Scares of Eco-System Collapse, Industry is Being Sacrificed to Net Zero Ideology, Says Siemens Energy Boss, and Will Gov. Spanberger ever demonstrate moderation or rational thinking on energy?
The Federalist: Fighting ICE In The Streets Is Not Demonstrating Jesus’ Love To Anyone, LinkedIn Blames ‘Error’ After Removing Pro-ICE Post Over ‘Hateful Speech’, If You Can’t Eat On $15 Per Day, You Might Have Bad Food Habits, Trump Is Reading Leftist Desperation As Strength, and Forget About Online Groypers. Instagram Influencers Will Be The Real Death Of America
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet – Icecapades Of 2026, Going Out of Business, and First In, Last Out

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