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

Posted on | April 4, 2026 | No Comments

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



 

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

In The Mailbox: 04.03.26

Posted on | April 4, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

How it’s been going on X this week

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

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

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In The Mailbox: 04.02.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | April 3, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

There are thirteen days remaining before the tax filing deadline.

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

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

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‘Subject to the Jurisdiction Thereof’

Posted on | April 1, 2026 | No Comments

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



 

Category: Constitution, History, Immigration, Supreme Court

In The Mailbox: 03.31.26

Posted on | April 1, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Yuval Kordov has a cool new SF horror book out. Grab it wile it’s cheap. 
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Mutiny on the HMS Bounty, 
357 Magnum: Self-Defense in Indianapolis
EBL: Never Forget Iryna Zarutska, Grilled Mackerel, and “I Want You To Want Me”
Twitchy: TDS Crowd Doesn’t Like Trump/Hegseth Response To Army Flyby Of Kid Rock’s Home, David French Whines Trump is Worst Free Speech President of His Lifetime, and Rubio Tuesday
Louder With Crowder: United Methodist “Church” Supports Sex Changes for Children, Democrats demand removal of mural honoring Irina Zarutska, Ilhan Omar makes silly claim voter ID would “disenfranchise” half of the population, SCOTUS issues MAJOR 8-1 ruling against the LGBTQ agenda, and you won’t guess who was the lone dissent, and Entitled female ‘influencer’ whines old man is ruining her livestream, he lets her know how little he gives a rip
Vox Popoli: THE KAMIGATA SCROLL, Winchester, Interview with the SDL, Q and Israel, and That Sounds like Anathema
Cedar Sanderson: The Hunter’s Suit
The Bugscuffle Gazette: The Unhinged Dads Podcast

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: California Prisoner Rights Activist Pleads Guilty to Possessing Child Sexual Abuse Material, Pelosi Tells MS NOW GOP May Try to Hack into Election ‘Technology’, Supreme Court Strikes Down Colorado Ban on Conversion Therapy for Minors, ‘End of the Road: Inside the War on Truckers’, and Trump Unleashed – The First 14 Months of Our 47th President
BattleSwarm: Epic Stupidity (Or, Another Nail In EPIC City’s Coffin)
Behind The Black: Countdown begins for the Artemis-2 mission around the Moon, Voyager-2 discovered Neptune to be a planet of quickly changing weather, A 2nd Starlink satellite since December fails catastrophically, and India’s space agency requests proposals for building landing legs for its next new rocket
CDR Salamander: You Don’t Think There’s A Plan? Really?
Da Tech Guy: Voices of the 2026 Catholic Men’s Conference: Author Jacqueline Johnson
Dana Loesch: Podcastistan Railed Over Jerusalem Closures But Still Silent On Christian Genocide In Nigeria
Don Surber: Hitler’s final days – the 2026 version
Gates Of Vienna: Rémi Brague: Islam is Above All a Legal Religion
The Geller Report: Hamas Isn’t Disarming — The Narrative Is, “THE USA WILL REMEMBER”, Minnesota Judge Gives Somali Fraudster Who Stole Millions Just ONE YEAR, The Legislative Vanguard – The Sharia-Free America Caucus, and Palm Beach International Airport is Now Officially “President Donald J. Trump International Airport”
Hollywood In Toto: Skibidi Toilet Movie Captures Worst Hollywood Impulse, Supergirl Adopts Insane Lady Ghostbusters PR Push, and Super Mario Galaxy Movie Delivers Bare Minimum Delights
Legal Insurrection: Mysterious Nighttime Hum Haunts Communities in New Jersey, Ohio, and Connecticut, Trump Signs Executive Order Limiting Mail-In Ballots, ‘No Kings’ Protester’s Explanation of Low Black Turnout Triggers Outrage, Providence Mayor Bullies Club Into Taking Down Ukrainian Refugee Mural Tied To Elon Musk, and Can Rahm Emanuel Win the 2028 Democratic Presidential Nomination?
Nebraska Energy Observer: The Left Doesn’t Understand
Outkick: We’ve Already Seen One Of The Worst ABS Challenges Ever — While Catchers Are Mastering The System, NFL Makes Wise Decision To Ditch Dual Monday Night Football Games, Has Ice Cream Gone Too Far? New York Yankees Drop Bizarre Creation, NASCAR Reinstates Daniel Dye, But He’ll Need A New Team, and Alix Earle Launches New Business Venture In Her Underwear, Abby Hornacek Gets Suplexed & SNAKES!
Power Line: Defanging the Mullahs, King Dem goes down, Breaking news from 2017, Clint Eastwood’s long run, and Motive clear?
Racket News: Activism Uncensored – No Kings In LA
Shark Tank: “Not Involved” – DeSantis Addresses Tomkow’s Loss In SD14
STUMP: Problem Gambling – Addicts, Lotteries, Sports, & Pensions
The Political Hat: Law & Morality
This Ain’t Hell: 82nd Airborne Division is in the Middle East
Transterrestrial Musings: Things Are Starting To Happen, also, “There Is No Plan”
Victory Girls: Jaden Ivey Said What He Believes. The NBA Showed Him the Door, also, SCOTUS To Hear Birthright Citizenship Case: What’s At Stake
Watts Up With That: QLD Hospitals to Tackle Climate Change by Not Discarding Precious Metals, No, NPR – Climate Change Didn’t Cause the Recent Heatwave, Lets push past ALL the Fake Global Warming Limits, and Paul Ehrlich and Michael Mann – Both Used the Media to Hide Their Misanthropy
The Federalist: You’re Asking The Wrong Question About The Roman Empire, ‘Blessed Are Those Who Are Persecuted’: Christian Pro Athletes Stand Behind Jaden Ivey, New Book Exposes Soviet Russia As A Parasitic Regime Built On Plunder, Blue States Withhold Voter Rolls From DHS While Giving Them To Leftist Orgs For Free, and Virginia Redistricting Battle Will Test Republicans’ Post-2024 GOTV Operation
Mark Steyn: Strait Man

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Because You Asked: ‘What in the Actual Hell is Happening in North Carolina?’

Posted on | March 31, 2026 | No Comments

Charlotte stabbing suspect Marvina Butler-Hardy

The headline question was asked in the wake of this:

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is searching for the woman who stabbed a pregnant woman outside the Harris Teeter [grocery store].
It happened on Wednesday [March 18] around 11 a.m. in the Cotswold Village Shopping Center.
The 38-year-old pregnant woman told Channel 9 she was getting her toddler out of her car when the woman who pulled out of the space behind her stopped her car, got out, cursed at her, and attacked her with a knife.
“I was facing my toddler, getting him out of his seat, and thankfully turned around, and she was coming at me with a steak knife,” the victim, who asked not to be identified, said.
The woman was stabbed in the sternum, but she is okay. So is her unborn child. She tells Channel 9 she has never seen the woman who attacked her before and has no idea why this happened.
“I pushed and kicked and screamed, and thankfully I think that scared her off,” she said.

The suspect was arrested in Florida today:

Marvina Marie Hardy-Butler, of Waxhaw, has been arrested in Florida in connection with the stabbing of a pregnant woman in a Cotswold shopping center parking lot, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police announced on Monday afternoon.
The arrest comes two weeks after the initial attack was first reported.
Hardy is currently in custody in Flagler County, Florida, and awaiting extradition back to Mecklenburg County, where she will be charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill/inflict serious injury, and battery of an unborn child.
She has an extensive criminal history.

Gosh, what could they mean by “extensive criminal history”? How about 24 prior arrests? And this was what prompted the question:

What in the actual hell is happening in North Carolina?
I feel like every day I hear about another horrific crime that’s been committed either by a repeat offender an illegal alien

Readers will recall that Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr., who fatally stabbed 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska on a light rail train in Charlotte, also had an extensive criminal history. It is natural that readers wonder why such leniency toward habitual offenders — a “revolving door” policy — has become standard practice in North Carolina. One word: DEMOCRATS.

Because North Carolina is a “swing” state that has shifted back and forth in presidential elections, and because it’s in the South, many Americans probably think of it as a moderate, and perhaps even conservative sort of state. The problem with that belief is that, first of all, Democrats have a pretty good record in statewide elections, having controlled the governor’s office for all but four years since 1993. Even though 10 of the state’s 14 members of the U.S. House of Representatives are Republicans, therefore, Democrats are much more influential in the state government than their congressional representation would suggest. Secondly, much of the crime in North Carolina — including both of these recent horrific stabbings — is concentrated in the urbanized “Triangle” region of the state, which includes includes Mecklenburg County (Charlotte), Wake County (Raleigh), Durham County and Orange County (Chapel Hill).

In the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump carried North Carolina by a three-point margin, 51% to 48%, over Kamala Harris. However, Harris got 80% of the vote in Durham County, 75% in Orange County, 65% in Mecklenburg County and 62% in Wake County. In these four counties, Harris got a combined 989,332 votes (66%) to Trump’s 478,164 votes (32%). If you subtracted these four counties from the statewide totals, Trump would have won by a 17-point margin, 58% to 41%.

What you have, then, is a Democrat-dominated “blue” urban area plunked down in the middle of a conservative “red” state. And in the urban “Triangle” counties, the attitude toward crime looks a lot more like San Francisco or Chicago than it does the fictional “Mayberry.”

The grocery store where the pregnant woman was stabbed is in one of the “nice” parts of Charlotte, and the suspect is from Waxhaw in Union County, about 20 miles south of the grocery store, near the South Carolina state line. So you could be shopping in what seems like a perfectly safe neighborhood, and be attacked with a knife by a criminal maniac with 24 prior arrests who traveled 20 miles to choose you as her “random” victim. Nobody is safe, when Democrats are in charge.

CORRECTION: Charlotte is not part of the “Triangle.” Thanks for the commenter who pointed out my clumsy error. Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill are the “Triangle,” while Charlotte is nearly 150 miles to the southwest. My apologies for the error.



 

Category: Corruption, Crime, North Carolina

In The Mailbox: 03.30.26

Posted on | March 31, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: A Day at Pearl Harbor With Cornelia Fort (1941), No Kings – Except for Hamas,  and Daniel Boone & The Shawnee Encounter (1769)
357 Magnum: Chicago Cannot Afford Its Pensions, also Drugs and Alcohol Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
EBL: Red Snapper, “Voltaire”, Sicilian Vespers, Palm Sunday Dinner, and Was Helen Keller a Hoax?
Twitchy: Daily Beast Claims New Investigation Corroborates Claims of Woman Who Claims Trump Abused Her At 13,  Did “Coach” Walz Write It?, and Bill Melugin’s “Inflammatory Framing” Of Mich. Synagogue Attack Causes Butthurt
Louder With Crowder: DOJ sues Minnesota For Allowing Males In Girls’ Sports, The shrill harpies on “The View” lash out at conservative influencer who says having lots of kids is good, The BBC is now asking if people are going “a bit too far” loving and owning dogs, Democrat Senate candidate caught on audio dismissing Ayatollah being killed because people in Dearborn were sad about it, and This Weekend’s No Kings Protests Were Cringe, Organized, And Dangerous
Vox Popoli: Literary Relevance is Not Guaranteed, An Inauspicious Start, Sad, Out of Missiles, Out of Men, and Truly Hard Science Fiction
Upstream Reviews: What’s Wrong With The New Harry Potter?, Rogue Ship, 
Cedar Sanderson: Insights & Opinions Please, A Rock In Time, and State of the Author
Bugscuffle Gazette: American Kabuki Security Theatre, also, Welcome Kelly Grayson!, 
Born Lucky: Is Ukraine Winning Now?
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: What Serious Countries Do
Defending The Wood Perilous: Observations on the Empty Tomb
Weird Catholic: The Nails of the Crucifixion
Stoic Observations: Jobber – An Agentic Job Search Platform
Jim McCoy: Penguicon AAR

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Dem County Chair Arrested in Florida After Allegedly Attacking Disabled Vet During ‘No Kings’ Event, ‘Something Dark is Going On’, Hispanic Mass Migration and Remigration (Part 1), ICE Agents Deployed at Some U.S. Airports as TSA Shortages Create Long Security Lines, and Philadelphia DA Threatens ICE Agents Patrolling Philly Airport with Arrest, Prosecution
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 81 – CPAC Wrapup
BattleSwarm: Tab Clearing Video Roundup, Followup: Fort Bend Democrat KP George Convicted Of Money Laundering, and Iran Strikes – Day 31
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches first stage for record 34th time, passing shuttle Atlantis, Brownsville’s mayor says SpaceX has brought billions of dollars to the region, Voyager-2’s view of clouds on top of clouds on Neptune, A soft barred galaxy with an active nucleus, and Another rocket startup in India hopes to launch from its own spaceport
Cafe Hayek: Coasean Light on Economic Reality, On the Great Recession, and And Yet Another Open Letter to Oren Cass
CDR Salamander: End of 2QFY26 ONSTA Report, Base Defense – How Many More Warnings?
Da Tech Guy: Voices of the 2026 Worcester Catholic Men’s Conference:  Julian Brossard of Sophia Press
Don Surber: NYT tries to divide the nation
Elizabeth Nickson: Note To China – Bye Felicia, Our Invisible Chains, Our Stolen Votes, 
First Street Journal: What The Philadelphia Inquirer told us . . . and what they didn’t, also, Why don’t the left at least want to get rid of the really bad guys who are here illegally?
Gates Of Vienna: Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission Goes Off the Rails, It Couldn’t Happen to a Nicer Guy, Expect Delays, Part V, Islam: Extinguishing Freedom of Speech, and Rules-Based Order 101
The Geller Report: PALM BEACH SHOCKER: GOP STRONGHOLD FLIPPED BY 797 VOTES AFTER DEMOCRAT “TECH NERD” STEALS ENCRYPTED VOTER KEY, CHRISTIAN PALM SUNDAY MASSACRE, “This Is Your Fate, O Worshipers Of The Cross”, Saudi Crown Prince MBS Says OBAMA’S Iran’s Cash Funded Terror— Regime Built MISSILES, Not A Single Road, and Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi Tells CPAC A Free Iran is Within Reach Right Now
Hollywood In Toto: Media’s War Against J.K. Rowling Will Never End, Are Audiences Sick of ‘Eat the Rich’ Movies? Ex-Amazon Studios Head Slams Woke Hollywood, ‘John Rambo’ EP Says Audiences Crave ‘Masculine Alpha Males’, and Is Ryan Gosling the Next Keanu Reeves?
Legal Insurrection: Adam Carolla Explains Why So Few People Trust the Legacy Media, 45 Years Since Reagan’s Assassination Attempt, Hundreds of College DEI Officers Attend Conference to Complain About ‘Chaos’ Caused by Trump, Newsom’s Wife Brought Children to Red States to See Racism, Sexism, and Bullying Firsthand, and IDF Eliminates Senior Commander of Hezbollah’s 1800 Terror Unit in Beirut Strike
Nebraska Energy Observer: Disinformation, Propaganda, and Why the MSM is Dying, Palm Sunday, Triumphalism, and Leadership, and CPAC, Canada, Nihilists, and VDH, oh my!
Outkick: Michael Soroka Marked His Arizona Diamondbacks Debut With A Filthy Immaculate Inning, Ravens President Tries to Dodge Bad Optics From Maxx Crosby Fallout, Brandon Aiyuk’s 49ers Future May Not Be Over After All, Anaheim Ducks Captain Returns From Injury So He Can Get The Crap Beaten Out Of Him, and Rockies Reporter Gianna Girardi Tries To Fire Up The Fellas In A Bikini, Hurley’s Headbutt & Yes Kings!
Power Line: Minnesota In the Crosshairs, AI legal follies, Secretary Rubio explains, Democrats In Decline, and What is Vance talking about?
Shark Tank: FL House Republican Campaign Committee Endorses Jon Maples In HD 87 
STUMP: The Week In Meep – Palm Sunday Thoughts
The Political Hat: Leviathan’s Hardware
This Ain’t Hell: Korean War era Navy Vet James Tolkan , 94, passes, Legal Monday, and not-nice charity, and Fair Weather Friend
Transterrestrial Musings: Arrogance Unjustified, also, Stock Up On Popcorn
Victory Girls: Pramila Jayapal Demands Reparations For Illegals Here Illegally, “No Kings” Cosplay Day – Send in the Clones, and Can Ilhan Omar Be Extradited To Somaliland?
Watts Up With That: Wrong, Chicago Sun Times – Climate Change Isn’t Causing High Insurance Cost in Illinois, $2 Trillion Later, The Green Revolution Collapsed, The Biased Oxford University Report That Claims Renewables Are Cheaper Than Gas, New York retreating on its Climate Act, and Does Low Snowpack Increase the Chances of Washington State Wildfires?
The Federalist: Popularity Of Girls’ Wrestling Signals Death Of Femininity In Red America, [Senate] Republicans Would Rather Cede Power To Democrats Than Their Own Voters, Ivy League Ideological Monoculture Is Useless To The U.S. Military, The Only Midterms Strategy Lamer Than ‘No Kings’ Is GOP Plan To Do Literally Nothing, and The Latest ‘No Kings’ Protest Is The Sound Of A Tired Old Thing Trying To Not Die
Mark Steyn: Month Two Begins, A Mesmerising Muskrat, Marriage of Inconvenience – Preston Sturges and The Palm Beach Story, Day Thirty-One, and “Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town”

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‘Retribution for Their Sacred Blood’: Hezbollah Inspired Synagogue Attack

Posted on | March 30, 2026 | No Comments

Thought of headlining this post “Dearbornistan Update”:

Federal investigators said Monday that the man who crashed his pickup into a Michigan synagogue earlier this month was inspired and radicalized by Iran?backed terrorist group Hezbollah and reportedly sought to kill as many Jewish people as he could.
Officials noted that Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, who attempted to launch a full-scale, mass-casualty assault on March 12, deliberately targeted a location filled with more than 100 children in West Bloomfield before he was fatally shot by officers. Local officials previously reported that the assault came after several of his family members were killed in Lebanon during the country’s war with Israel.
In the days leading up to the attack, Ghazali allegedly rigged his truck with booby traps, fireworks, explosives, and large amounts of gasoline. Just before ramming the building, he reportedly sat in the Temple Israel parking lot and sent videos to his sister in Lebanon — some showing him holding a weapon while listening to upbeat militant battle anthems.
“This is the largest gathering of Israelis in the state of Michigan in the United States. I have booby trapped the car. I will forcibly enter and start shooting them. God willing, I will kill as many of them as I possibly can,” he said in one of the videos, according to the FBI Detroit Special Agent in Charge Jennifer Runyon.
James Gorgon, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, added that had the attacker survived, he would have been charged with providing “material support” to Hezbollah for effectively providing himself as the weapon aimed at Michigan’s largest Jewish temple.
According to investigators, Ghazali reportedly consumed pro-Hezbollah and Iranian militant propaganda for months leading up to the attack, ultimately planning what he called a “special operation” aimed at causing mass casualties.
He allegedly created a Facebook album titled “Vengeance,” filled with images of Hezbollah leaders and militant quotes, and also sent his sister a photo of an Israeli flag covered up with yellow paint, a color often used to represent loyalty and sacrifice to Hezbollah.
“You killed the Ali and Hussein of our time. We will avenge their blood,” one of his Facebook status posts said hours before the attack, referencing the overseas deaths of his family members.
“We will seek retribution for their sacred blood,” another post said. “Israel is a cancerous, malignant growth. Israel is pure evil and the oppressors will soon know what kind of end they will meet.”
Within three days prior to the attack, Ghazali researched local synagogues . . . He reportedly purchased an AR-style rifle, 300 rounds of ammunition, and more than $2,200 worth of fireworks.
He filled collapsible containers with roughly 35 gallons of gasoline across multiple trips to use as an explosive accelerant in his truck, adding fireworks to booby-trap the vehicle before ramming it into the synagogue. . . .
During the attack, the suspect ultimately exchanged gunfire with synagogue security and ignited the explosives inside his vehicle after ramming into the temple doors at a high speed. . . .
“I’ve seen some odd attempts to explain away or even lessen this terrorist attack by claiming that he was an isolated lone wolf, but that is misleading,” Gorgon said. “Terrorist propaganda is designed to activate the so-called lone wolf to act on behalf of the terrorist organization.”
“I am convinced that my office would prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he committed the federal crime of providing material support to Hezbollah,” he added.
Officials noted that the attacker was not on any terrorist watch list and had never been the subject of an FBI investigation before the attack.

How is the Hezbollah propaganda that radicalized this guy any different from the rhetoric of Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the Democrat who represents Dearborn in Congress? (See “The Terrorist and the 12th District.”) Some have taken notice of the fact that Ghazali “was not on any terrorist watch list” to suggest that the FBI wasn’t doing its job, but you must realize that if you’re targeting Jew-hating radicals Muslims, basically the entire population of Dearborn would be on a terrorist watch list.



 

Category: Islam, Michigan, Terrorism
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