The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

When the Jokes Just Write Themselves

Posted on | March 11, 2026 | No Comments

Talk about an easy layup. That headline is such an invitation to sarcastic responses that I would be ashamed to make wisecracks. As is my habit when I encounter something like this, the first question that crossed my mind was, “Who is this person?” Immediately I turn to Google to try to get the writer’s biographical background to explain why someone would publish something so obnoxious. There isn’t much biographical material about Anniki Sommerville — she’s a middle-aged British woman mainly known as a podcaster. She first gained notice for a 2022 book, F*ck Nailing It: How to Ditch the Job You Hate and Find Work You Love, the cover blurb of which tells us, “From running a multi-million-pound company to becoming a freelancer and everything in between, Anniki Sommerville has learnt some valuable life lessons about what work means to her. She’s figured out that ‘nailing it’ is a one-way ticket to burnout and disillusionment, and instead found a more joyful path to contentment.” So there’s that, which doesn’t tell us much.

She evidently found a receptive audience for her message, and has kept cranking out content aimed at 40-ish women in need of this kind of girl-boss self-help stuff. It’s a crowded market, admittedly, as there are thousands of women trying to get rich selling their own varieties of the same basic product. Anyway, let’s dive into this mess:

Why so many women like me are giving up on men, and what we can do about it
“I just keep asking myself, ‘What’s the value of men?’” a friend says to me. She’s explaining how burnt out she feels by the sheer deluge of terrible news stories — men being the chief protagonists of the violence and chaos — while simultaneously dealing with her own imbalanced gender set-up at home; she is doing 95 per cent of the domestic load on top of working full-time, five days a week, with three children. I nod sympathetically. . . .

(Notice the connection, from “terrible news stories” about men engaged in “violence and chaos,” to the perennial complaint about hubby not doing his share of domestic chores. What does one have to do with the other, really? Never mind. She nods sympathetically.)

“I’m going to live in an all-female commune,” another friend announces as we walk her dog. “I just want to hang out with women, we can help one another and there will be none of this toxic masculinity sh*t to deal with”. I mull over the reality of commune-living (no privacy, group meals, arguing over who forgot to buy milk, and how long would all these women might spend in the bathroom…) But I do see her point.
Every woman I speak to is angry, much of this anger directed towards men. . . .

(Ever since Trump beat Hillary, really, and the fact that “this anger directed toward men” has leaped across the Atlantic is simply a function of the fact that the United States, with 330 million people, dominates the culture of the English-speaking world, so that the 70 million residents of the U.K. echo in their own quirky accents many of the same beliefs and attitudes that prevail in American media. “But I do see her point.”)

On social media, the algorithm sends me shocking facts about men (chiefly Epstein but for some reason also male serial killers?), and women then pulling these men apart. I follow one woman who remixes toxic masculinity content, and tears each comment down (it’s funny but I also feel my rage increasing).
“Don’t you think it’s strange that more men aren’t commenting on the Epstein thing?” one woman says in her reel. I think about it and agree. I mentioned it to a mum on the school run: “Well, they don’t care. It doesn’t impact them. I think a lot of men would do the same if they could get away with it.” I’m shocked and don’t agree, but it feels maddening that so many women are traumatised and men seem… so calm? . . .

(Lady, if you ever form a coherent thought, let me know, but in the meantime what part of “non sequitur” do I need to explain here? Jeffrey Epstein is dead. The doings of a degenerate finance mogul had zero direct impact on my life, and almost certainly had no impact on your life, so what is this “trauma” you claim to be experiencing? I’ve got enough hassle in my own life without worrying about who was or was not implicated in the Epstein scandal, and cannot for the life of me comprehend why anyone would expect me to care.)

Of course, these conversations aren’t new — I grew up with a feminist mum in the 70s and 80s telling my dad to pick up his socks and take out the rubbish. It’s also true that sometimes women are going to let off steam to their friends, but these conversations feel different. When we’re continually fed negative news stories about men, or another toxic wally on a podcast is talking about women “going back to traditional roles”, while we’re picking their pants up off the floor, we can start feeling like men are to blame for everything. . . .

(Again we’re back to the trivial domestic complaints. One minute she’s ranting about Epstein, the next paragraph it’s about picking up socks.)

It becomes easy to romanticise what life would be like if the domestic humdrum was equally shared, but we don’t want that to mean shutting men out entirely. Is it fair to amplify hate for our partners because of what is happening on the world stage – rather than them just forgetting to book parent’s evening? Perhaps the parents’ evening blunder isn’t related to all men being bad? (And this isn’t just mid-life women – a Vogue article titled “Is Having A Boyfriend Embarrassing Now?” has been going viral for months). . . .

(STOP LETTING MEDIA TELL YOU WHAT TO THINK! In my journalism career, one of the things I’ve learned is that you’re not contributing anything useful merely by following the herd and dogpiling on whatever Big Story that the major media insist everybody is supposed to care about. Does anyone need my opinion about Iran or Israel? Or should I weigh in on whatever controversy is going on in Congress? Tune out the noise and think for yourself. But here’s this lady who just had to throw in a reference to a women’s magazine article that’s “been going viral for months” to justify her jumbled-up emotional rant about How Awful Men Are, without realizing that her media consumption habits are a huge part of the problem.)

I spoke to Jennifer Cox, author and psychiatrist, about how many women are going off men. Is it just me and my friends? She explained how she’s seeing this disengagement amongst many of her therapy clients. “I’m increasingly struck by just how many of my patients are moving their emotional focus away from men. From the time of Trump resuming office [in 2024], there seems to have arrived a generalised loss of male-focused libido in women, which plays out across their decisions and choices, and spans age and background. The precise shape this radical decentering of men takes appears to differ according to life stage, but I can’t ignore the pattern”. . . .

(Again, it’s really about Trump, living rent-free inside the heads of all these women, not only in America, but worldwide.)

I asked [the psychiatrist Cox] why it was happening now. “It appears to have picked up pace in light of [numerous] abuses of power, from the Pelicot case to the Epstein files,” she says. “And it’s clear that social media is contributing to this sense of mistrust and suspicion.” While this is happening, men are also being targeted with ways to harness their masculinity in unhelpful and abusive methods that contribute to the cycle of hate and distrust. “Lost young men themselves are finding solace online among figures who in turn abuse their vulnerability,” she says. . . .

(So we’ve gone from Trump to social media and “the cycle of hate and distrust,” and the important thing — the message Cox and Sommerville are both selling to their audience — is that women are utterly blameless. Everything is men’s fault, and women never do anything wrong, and so the narrative is all about women as traumatized victims.)

Cox believes that one of the key reasons that we’re seeing the divide open up is because we’re not encouraged to spend time together beyond cultivating romantic and sexual partnerships: “Our society has never encouraged us to build intimacy between genders based on something deeper than sex. It’s as if the algorithm has learnt this, and is now feeding the fire for gender war. Women are suffering a group trauma, about which men are (ironically) feeling victimised. It’s a dangerous cycle. In order to unite against a rage-bait fracture, which benefits only toxic influencers and billionaires, we all need to work on our real-world inter-gender relationships.”
So that means less scrolling and more connection. I spoke to my partner about it recently, too, and asked how he feels about all this negative news about men. “I feel powerless, too. It’s terrible,” he said. “I have two daughters, and I want them to grow up in a world where they’re not terrified of men and learn that men they see online aren’t representative of all.” . . .

(Ooh! Sommerville “spoke to my partner about it recently” — the first disclosure that she actually is in some kind of relationship with a man. We’d like to know more about this guy. What kind of desperate masochist must he be? But I’ll leave aside the morbid curiosity, and get on with the fisking.)

Cox believes we need to go back to the drawing board if we want to avoid a continual cycle of anger. Her advice is simple. “If we’re going to beat this, men and women need to finally learn to — first and foremost — ‘just be friends.’” . . .

(No more fun of any kind!)

This takes work and isn’t an overnight solution. It doesn’t mean giving your partner an easy ride either (women definitely do more of the domestic load and this needs to stop or they will run off to communes in droves). However, for me this also means dialing down my social doomscrolling, finding positive male role models I can talk to my daughters about, and navigating certain news events so they don’t become the only stories we’re exposed to.
Also reminding men that they have to work to engender trust and connection (rather than immersing themselves in anti-women content). It’s true that I dislike Russell Brand just as much as the next woman… but there are also plenty of examples of positive masculinity out there. We just need to talk about them more, perhaps.
And going back to Cox’s advice, this is a time when we need to connect more – not less. The scrolling doesn’t help – we’re often only seeing evidence that confirms our worst fears around certain types of men. Oh, and maybe watching more Will Ferrell content? He recently did a speech where he recommended women take over the world for a bit.
“I don’t know what else to do,” he said at the Women In Entertainment Gala, “We’ve been running the show since, what, 10,000 BC, something like that, and we’re not doing so good.” It was met with laughter. But also hit a nerve.

THE END! That’s her walk-off — a Will Ferrell joke, told at the “Women In Entertainment Gala,” an event I never heard of until now, but which was sponsored by The Hollywood Reporter (THR). The magazine is owned by the Penske Media conglomerate, which also owns Variety, Rolling Stone, Billboard and other publications. Penske Media was founded by Jay Penske, heir to a fortune founded by his famous auto-racing father, Roger Penske. No word on whether Jay Penske has been reminded of his need “to work to engender trust and connection,” or what he thought about Will Ferrell’s joke. But I’d bet a million dollars that Anniki Sommerville never once thought about what it is Jay Penske or his father do that has made them so rich, and why there would be no “Women In Entertainment Gala” if Jay Penske wasn’t footing the bill.

Success is not distributed randomly, and men of value — as Roger Penske certainly is, and as his son also appears to be — deserve more recognition than they get. The thought occurs to me, also, that Jeffrey Epstein must have had some basic merit to have acquired so much wealth and influence, even though his remarkable ascent in the world of finance appears rather mysterious. Is it possible to find something of Greek tragedy in Epstein’s disgrace and death? I don’t know, because I’m not one of those people who’ve been obsessed with the Epstein saga (as Anniki Sommerville and her friends seem to be), but my point is that a lot of feminist complaints are rooted in an ignorance of, and an indifference toward, the value of work that men actually do.

The work I’ve actually done this morning is fisking Anniki Sommerville’s absurd column about women “giving up on men,” and I don’t expect any particular reward for this work, but undertook the task because it seemed necessary. These feminist bitches ought to be grateful for my work, but they’re not, and that’s really the whole point, isn’t it?



 

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 03.10.26

Posted on | March 11, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Spying On Ben Franklin In Paris (1778), also, Iranian Defense Analysis – “Toast”
357 Magnum: The Once Great British Navy Is a Joke
EBL: Cobia, A French Perspective on America, “Jezebel”, Brown Butter Cod, and MAGA Iranian Women’s Soccer Team
Twitchy: Katie Couric Explains the SAVE Act, Says Vote Fraud “Vanishingly Rare”, DataRepublican Pulls Back the Curtain on Sen. Thune, and Remember Mamdani’s “She’s Just a Private Citizen” Line? NYMag Begs to Differ
Louder With Crowder: Woke Professor Says It Is Time To Ban The Words “Gay” And “Lesbian”, Alleged Christian James Talarico declares public displays of the Ten Commandments are – wait for it – UNchristian, Lawmaker Quits Politics After Having Had Enough Of The Democrat Party’s Anti-Christian Agenda, Turns out Gavin Newsom’s wife rakes in big bucks pushing gender lies on our kids, and Pramila Jayapal says quiet part out loud
Vox Popoli: Water is Fair Game, Iran Rejects US Ceasefire Offer, Philosophical Depth Perception, Absolute Madness or Historic Genius, and Evidence the USA is Losing
Upstream Reviews: Riley Webber Interview
Defending The Wood Perilous: Make Space Opera Great Again [IMPORTANT UPDATE], and Loving Your Culture Isn’t Tribalism
Cedar Sanderson: A small request

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Democratic AZ Governor Vetoes Memorial License Plate Honoring Charlie Kirk, ‘He’s Toast’: Texas Democrat James Talarico’s Old Tweets Come Back to Haunt Him, Senate Fails to Advance Iran War Powers Resolution, Fairfax County Police Warned Prosecutor Descano in November That Illegal Alien Stabber Would Strike Again, and House Report Says Walz and Ellison Knew About Massive Fraud Schemes in Minnesota & Retaliated Against Whistleblowers
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 78 – Alaska Raptors/Double Feature
BattleSwarm: Gonzales Bows Out, Herrera On To General, also, Iran Strikes: (Day 9) (Day 10) (Day 11)
Behind The Black: Pluto’s cratered glacial terrain, SpaceX now targeting early April for next Starship/Superheavy test flight, Chinese scientists pinpoint a prime landing site for its manned lunar mission, SpaceX launches EchoStar communications satellite, and Who fired “the shot heard round the world”?
Cafe Hayek: Reflections on a Long Career of Teaching ECON 101, also, The Wealth of Nations: Happy 250th Birthday!
CDR Salamander: The Dragon’s Sad Tale
Dana Loesch: The War for the Soul of the Right
Don Surber: We didn’t start the fire
First Street Journal: Welfare for the well-to-do, Cosplaying the revolution, and Why are so many violent haters of Western civilization themselves children of wealth and privilege?
Gates Of Vienna: The Lie Becomes the Truth, Ve Haf Vays of Making You Observe Ramadan, Our Muslim Troubles – A Video Series (Part Six), and Litany of Horrors Awaits Women Under Sharia
The Geller Report: DEMOCRAT GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN CHAOS Trigger Massive Airport Security Lines Nationwide, Trump Demands Australia Save Iranian Women Who Defied Tehran’s Sharia Regime, NYC Muslim Shrapnel Bombers Launched Slew of Chilling Islamic Exhortations and Threats AFTER Their Arrest, Trump Says Iran War Will Be Over ‘Very Soon’, and Two Toronto Synagogues Struck by Gunfire
Hollywood In Toto: Adam Carolla on Obama: ‘All He Does Is Race Hustle’, Quentin Tarantino Did What Foster, Scorsese and More Refused, Media Plays Defense for Woke Bride! Bust, Why Micky Dolenz Doesn’t Monkee Around with Politics, and Usual Suspects Already Triggered by Scary Movie
Legal Insurrection: It Appears Ships are Sailing, Once Again, Through the Strait of Hormuz, Space Force Proves Its Worth as Trump’s Vision Pays Off During Epic Fury, Midnight Hammer, Missouri Lawmakers Pass Bill Banning Trans Athletes From Competing Outside Their Biological Sex, Yamaha Leaving California for Greener Pastures in Georgia, and Portland State U. Cutting, Reducing Departments After Declaring Financial Crisis
Nebraska Energy Observer: Change It Back, Sunday Matinee, O my!…History is, as we know, a harsh mistress although usually…, and War Risk
Outkick: Ronda Rousey Drags UFC Corporate Image While Standing Beside Canceled Disney Star Gina Carano, Cal Raleigh Claims ‘No Beef’ With Randy Arozarena Despite Vulgar World Baseball Classic Rant, Utah Valley Pays $1 Million ‘Ransom’ Fee That Will Allow Them To Play In WAC Basketball Tournament [UPDATE], Geno Smith Back With The New York Jets As Their New Bridge Quarterback, and Carrie Underwood Celebrates Her Birthday In Hawaii & The Libs Are Furious With Kai Trump
Power Line: Shoot to Kill, Mamdani’s message, Death comes for the Economist, A salute to Chief Edwards, and Can Germany Be Saved?
Racket News: Interview With Exiled Dissident Dimitri Simes, also, Who’s That Source? Iran Edition
Shark Tank: State Sen. Gaetz Calls Out Fellow Republicans
Shot In the Dark: Sharks Stay Jumped
STUMP: New York Pension Watch – Public Employee Unions Ask for Sweeteners
The Political Hat: Leviathan’s Operating System, also, More Powerful Lab Grown Brains Mean One Thing: Hyperintellegent Catgirls
This Ain’t Hell: Nationwide Reciprocity Bills Intro’ed, The War on Drugs Goes Ashore, Medal of Honor Monday, Navy vet, Woodstock performer Joe McDonald dies, and President Trump considering deploying special operations into Iran as an option
Transterrestrial Musings: Back On The Air
Victory Girls: Rama Duwaji, Zohran Mamdani And Tolerating Evil On Social Media, Mojtaba Khamenei: The Ayatollah Nobody But the IRGC Wants, and Will Cuba Make A Deal With Trump To Begin Regime Change?
Watts Up with That: U.S. Gas and Renewables Help Buffer Power Consumers From War Costs, New Temperature Study in Reno Finds Strong Urban Heat Island Bias at Official Climate Station, Clean Tech’s “Huge Blow” – Catalyst Fund (Gates’s Breakthrough Energy) Terminated, DOE green lights project for Puerto Rico’s electric grid, and Even Canada is Walking Back Environmental Funding
The Federalist: Suicidal Empathy Caught On Camera, Hegseth Promises Iran War Will Not Turn Into Nation-Building, A Year Into Trump 2.0, Judicial Insurrectionists Reign Supreme, Four Questions About The Iran War That Deserve Clear, Consistent Answers, and Brazil Threatens Citizens With Years In Prison For Saying Men Aren’t Women
Mark Steyn: On the Town – Hello Girls, Class Action – Julie Christie and Alan Bates in The Go-Between, “Wichita Lineman”, Week Two Begins, and Your Kingdom for a Horse

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In The Mailbox: 03.09.26

Posted on | March 10, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Day Columbus Discovered America (1492), The Democrats’ War On Operation Epic Fury, The Math of Defeat – Inside Iran’s Vanishing Firepower, and The Day Washington Crossed The Delaware (1776), 
357 Magnum: Don’t Bring a Knife to a Gunfight
EBL: It’s Ok To Eat Fish On Mondays, Robins, Daylight Savings, Saturday Night Fish Fry, and Mary Tyler Moore
Twitchy: Maggie v. MAGA, Nicholas Kristof Considers Alternative Explanation For Drop In Iranian Missile Launches, and James Talarico Loves Family, Friends, and Trans Kids
Louder With Crowder: There was almost a massive Islamic terror attack in NYC, so of course, Mamdani is blaming the victim, Man With 131 Prior Offenses Sets Homeless Man On Fire, And You Can Guess What City, Major 2A win as court strikes down Washington DC’s latest attempt to infringer on gun rights, Awful white women start running club to hunt down ICE agents in their neighborhood, and Student gets suspended for supporting ICE, yet his peer calling an ICE agent’s mother a whore is totally fine
Vox Popoli: Phase Two Begins, This is Not America’s War, Conflicting Stories, The Wider War, and On Philosophizing
Upstream Reviews: March New Releases, also, Mech War 2 – Dynamo
Cedar Sanderson: Roll Your Own Genre, also, Back Into The Studio
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Covert Action, also, Bachelor Chow
Stoic Observations: Big C Little C, also, The Politicization of Jazz
Postcards From Barsoom: On Iran
Defending The Wood Perilous: War Demons

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The PRC’s New Spring – On Midrats, also, Le Grand Deploiement de la France, 
Don Surber: Regime change matters, 
Elizabeth Nickson: Remigration NOW, also, Just How Demented Is The Demented Dominion?
Glenn Reynolds: A New Flavor Of Protest
Racket News: The Swamp Log
STUMP: Using Your Talents – Don’t Be Mrs. Jellyby

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Rule 5 Sunday: Because I Can

Posted on | March 9, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

No idea where this week’s pic came from, but I like it. 
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Sunday Girl, Animal House Fun Facts, Zigeunerliebe hor ich Zymbalklange, The Night Agent, Carmen Lamour, The Stars Between Us, Because of Cupid, MAGA Iranian Freedom, Marshals, Romulus & The Sabine Women, and “Making With The Magilla”

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Shae Smolik, Fish Pic Friday – Amy Grigg, Balloon Recycling in Virginia?, Oregon, My Oregon, Thursday Tanlines, Israel Strikes Another Ayatollah Conclave, The Wednesday Wetness, Winter Weather Delays Chesapeake Crab Survey, Truth is the First Casualty of War, Unchained, Stripers and Menhaden and Oysters, Oh My!, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday.

BACON TIME: Rule Five – A Trip To Hooterville

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: Better Than Expected

Posted on | March 8, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

A good week for Senators fans, even though travel and work compelled me to play the Tuesday series against the Angels on Wednesday and the Friday series against the Hated Yankees tonight. I had been expecting a disastrous wipeout against the top two teams in the Alpha Division of the AL, but instead we took two out of three from the Angels at RFK and split the two games against the Hated Yankees at the Polo Grounds despite not hitting a single homer. We end the week 57-62, eight games behind the Twins and four games ahead of the Brewers. Next week we’ll be facing the Red Sox at Fenway and then have two games against the Angels at Anaheim; we’re 5-4 against the Bosox, so I’m hoping for another week like this one.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

3-2 is good too.

‘Major Combat Operations’ in Iran UPDATE: Is the Ayatollah Dead, or Not? UPDATE: He’s ‘Pining for the Fjords’
A View From The Beach
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Behind Enemy Lines In NOVA, The Fairfax County GOP Met Today
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ISLAMIC TERRORISM IN TEXAS? UPDATE: ‘Property of Allah’ Shirt
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FMJRA 2.0: Maintaining the Balance
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Rule 5 Sunday: Redhead in the Snow
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In The Mailbox: 03.04.26
A View From The Beach
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Violence Against Women Update
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In The Mailbox: 03.05.26 (Afternoon Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 03.06.26
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A View From The Beach

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

 

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In The Mailbox: 03.06.26

Posted on | March 7, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I missed a few days at the beginning of the week thanks to Confinement and never really caught up. Sorry about that. SOTD. 
Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Award for Stupid Police Officer of the Year Goes to …, also Microsoft Got Their Knickers in a Twist
Director Blue: What Iranian Negotiators Told Witkoff, A Day At The Gates Of Vienna (1683), and The FBI’s Ghost Files
EBL: Friday Fish Fry, Scallops, “Ballad of the Alamo”, Texas Primaries, and Jasmine Crockett Goes Full Stacey Abrams in Election Night Meltdown
Twitchy: Illegal Immigrant Nashville Reporter Nabbed by ICE, Polygamy Isn’t Liberation – It’s Lindy West’s Humiliation Ritual, and Democrat Candidate Graham Plattner’s Fresh Red Flag
Louder With Crowder: The left’s favorite podcaster goes on anti-Trump, anti-ICE tirade during the GLAAD awards, UK Government launches new creepy ad campaign to shame your kids from sharing the “wrong” content, Biden Official Admits That They Were Turning The Maps Gay, Jemele Hill lashes out at Middle America, implying everyone’s raaaaaacist for wanting safe borders, and The Most Insane “Young Adult” Book Ever Written + Exclusive BTS Footage (Sources)
Vox Popoli: Killing Isn’t Winning, Two Weeks, Service and Sales Disrupted, Even Judas Got Paid, and Who Gave You the Right?
According To Hoyt: The So Called Career, All We Are Saying Is Give Peas A Chance, Delivering us Bound to Our Foes, Late Posts, etc., and Apparently, We Can Just Do Things?
Weird Catholic: A Purgatorial Procession
Mazelt Airaksinen: A Reflection on the Past Year
Upstream Reviews: Hellgate
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Green Treason
The Bugscuffle Gazette: The Alamo
Ammo.com: U.S. Gun Facts

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Minnesota State Employee Who Vandalized Teslas Last Year ‘Punished’ With 1-Day Suspension, Nothing to See Here: House Blocks Release of Congressional Sexual Misconduct Reports, The Asymmetric Advantages of Environmentalist Zealotry, Supreme Court Hears Challenge to Federal Prohibition for Marijuana-Using Gun Owners, and The Digital State of the Union: America’s Networks Are National Infrastructure
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 77 – We Have Grouse of All Sizes
BattleSwarm: The Liberation of Iran Has Begun, Iran Strikes: Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6, Texas Primary Election Results: Toth Topples Crenshaw, Huffines Romps, Cornyn/Paxton, Middleton/Roy, Gonzales/Herrera Head To Runoff, and LinkSwarm For March 6
Behind The Black: Dart changed the orbit of the Didymos/Dimorphos binary asteroids around the Sun, Curiosity looks uphill at its upcoming travels, South Korean rocket startup Perigee signs deal to launch from the Philippines, ESA loses contact with the coronagraph satellite of its dual-satellite Proba-3 mission, and Rocket Lab completes another launch yesterday
Cafe Hayek: A Chronic Deficiency of Understanding, No, Trump’s Tariffs Are Not Justified Because The President Has Foreign-Policy-Making Powers, and Yet Another Open Letter to President Trump
CDR Salamander: The Sinking of the Dena Was Textbook, also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: The US Finally Goes to War With Iran, March Indulgence Calendar, and The Bright Side of Tucker et/al for Israel
Dana Loesch: The Cornyn-Paxton Dilemma, Islamist Green Party Candidate Misuses Marine Uniform, 
Don Surber: Red China is the big loser in Iran, also, Democrats go to war
First Street Journal: World War III Watch – Maybe this wasn’t the best idea, #TrumpDerangementSyndrome, and The War Powers Resolution of 1973 and Iran
Gates Of Vienna: Our Muslim Troubles – Part Four and  Part Five, It’s Steen, Not Stine! Silencing Ourselves, Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others, and Kafirs Must NOT Speak to Muslimas!
The Geller Report: CHECKMATE: Ken Paxton Calls Cornyn’s Bluff, Says He’d Consider Dropping Out of Senate Runoff If Republicans Pass Voter ID Bill, Tehran’s Trojan Horse: Iran’s Agents of Influence Embedded in Washington, Newsom’s Nazism, Trump Kicks Tucker Carlson out of MAGA Movement, and Trump rates Iran war as ’15 out of 10?
Hollywood In Toto: This One Thing Separates Arco from the Animated Pack, Dolly Gets Under Your Skin (And Stays There), Woke Bride! Feels Like Blast from Cancel Culture Past, The Mastermind Keeps Director’s Maddening Streak Intact, and Will Lorne Doc Ask the One Question We’re All Wondering?
Legal Insurrection: New ‘NASA Force’ Aims to Rebuild Core Competencies for Artemis Moon Push, Republicans Love Trump – His Primary Picks Keep Winning, Cal State Bakersfield Men’s Basketball Coach Allegedly Moonlighted as a Pimp, Democrats and Media Drop New Talking Point About the Cost of Trump’s Iran Operation, and Noem’s Response to Lewandowski Question Reportedly the ‘Final Straw’ for Trump
Nebraska Energy Observer: Patton and Montgomery: American v. British War making, The Revised New World Order, A Coalition War, Iran and Beyond, and What a Week!
Outkick: Aaron Judge Homer Powers Team USA To Dominant Win Over Brazil, Despite Shaky Pitching Performances, Las Vegas Raiders Were Absolutely Keeping Maxx Crosby — Until They Didn’t, Team Israel Forced To Hide Logos And Use Bomb Sniffing Dogs For Protection At World Baseball Classic, Donald Trump Says Executive Order Coming Within A Week To Address NIL And NCAA Lawsuits, and Modern Family’s Ariel Winter Goes Shirtless To Boost Morale, Look At These Patriots In Iran & AI Bill Clinton!
Power Line: A Stunning Revelation, Mixed jobs report for February, Overdrive, Department of lost and found, and Is the Queer Fad Over?
Racket News: The FBI’s Secret Stash Finally Uncovered, Fifty Years Of Secrets, and Kash’s Cache – Locating The FBI’s Secret Files, 
Shark Tank: AG Uthmeier Charges Seven In Organized Retail Theft Scheme
Shot In The Dark: The Balloon, Lab Rat, and The Scooby-Doo Episode I’d Like To See
The Political Hat: California Will Now Mandate Permission To Use Any Operating System, Utah vs. “Social Emotional Learning”, Our Heritage of Purported Abstractions, and Firing Line Friday: The Future of Spain
This Ain’t Hell: A Florida nurse calls on foreign countries to attack the United States and to overthrow ‘the regime’, Valor Friday, Army vet Lou Holtz passes, Boots on the Ground, and Is the US going to drop a big one on Iran?
Transterrestrial Musings: The First Day Of The War, Great Space Policy News, The Fall Of The NGO-Administrative Complex, and Is College Making People Stupider?
Victory Girls: Obama Takes Pot Shots At Trump During Jesse Jackson Eulogy, Twisted Scripture In Texas Talarico Style, and Megyn Kelly Disgraces Herself Over Iran And Deaths Of American Soldiers
Watts Up With That: Televised! CDU Candidate Tells Schoolchildren CO2 Makes Sun Hotter, Another Confusing Story Highlights Why Climate Hysteria and Far-Left Media Are Reaching Their End, Ghostwriters for the Courts – The Climate Litigation Network Behind a Withdrawn Judicial Manual, UK LibDems Promise to Cut £600 Energy Bills by £800, and Britain is Trying to Censor Americans – But America is Fighting Back
The Federalist: How The Left Threatens Citizens Instead Of Pressuring Politicians To Achieve Its Goals, While Thune Slacks On SAVE America Act, His Home State Passes Its Own Version Of The Bill, The Paramount Purchase Could Revive American Excellence In Hollywood, What’s Next In The Fight To Stop Schools From Transing Kids After SCOTUS Victory, and Blue State Failure Is Destroying Federalism And The Constitution
Mark Steyn: Stanley Kramer brings down the curtain in On the Beach, Spelling It Out, Delilah, Live Around the Planet – Day Five, and Making History

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In The Mailbox: 03.05.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | March 5, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

We’re dropping American Conservative from the roster effective tonight. I grow weary of their Reich-wing bullshit. Also, Amazon is acting wonky today, so if you could toss a buck or two at the tip jar, it would be very much appreciated. 
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Meanwhile in Spain…

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Iran’s Martyrs With Nukes, also, Predicting The Endgame In Iran
357 Magnum: 3D-Printed Gun “Factory” Discovered in Brazil
EBL: Dan Crenshaw Loses His Primary, Hail To The Chief, Tuna Fish Tuesday, John Thune Has No Intention Of Passing Save Act, and Wait, Pritzker and Clinton on Epstein’s Island?
Twitchy: GOP Holds Its Own Accountable, Democrats Blame His Republican Brother But Fetterman’s Just Listening To Pennsylvania Voters, and Katie Couric Asks Gov. Hairgel If He Has A “Zoolander Problem”
Louder With Crowder: Turns out your tax dollars are STILL paying for Kamala Harris’s security, Democrats vote for a mediocre white guy over Jasmine Crockett…so of course she’s blaming the GOP, That “military wife” blasting Trump on TMZ while her husband is serving overseas? You’ll never guess who she worked for, French Women’s Rights Advocate On Trial For “Transphobia” After Advocating For Female-Only Spaces, and Canada hits morbid record as assisted suicides surprasses EVERY other country
Vox Popoli: That Was Fast, The Exhaustion Timeline, Welcome to 5GW, SIGMA GAME is Available, and Spain to Join BRICS?
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: The Great Miscalculation, 
The Bugscuffle Gazette: We come to you with a plea
Incensepunk Magazine: Interview With Ray Irmgrund
Upstream Reviews: Heroes Fall
The Abbey of Misrule: Walk Away From The Sea
Cedar Sanderson: On A Subway Express
Defending The Wood Perilous: “No More Thinking Thoughts!”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: LUCAS’ Coming Out Party, also, Nations Have Agency & Sovereignty Over Their Territory
Dana Loesch: Trump’s Power Move Over The Strait of Hormuz, 
Don Surber: The Gingerbread President, also, Who Really Shut Down The Strait of Hormuz
Racket News: Activism Uncensored – The War In Iran, Who’s That Source?, 
STUMP: Here Comes The (Little) Killer – Daylight Savings Time,

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Violence Against Women Update

Posted on | March 5, 2026 | No Comments

Clyde McLemore is ‘mostly peaceful’

Wow, has it been nearly two years since I used that headline? I created the Violence Against Women category specifically for the kind of “violence against women that feminists will ignore.” You can call it “intersectionality” or just call it hypocrisy, but if you pay attention a while, you’ll notice that there seems to be a double standard regarding this issue that feminists claim to care so much about. If the perpetrator of “violence against women” happens to be a Democrat, or a member of a key Democratic Party constituent group, then there will be no headline-making protests, no angry speeches in Congress, etc. Like everything else liberals in America claim to care about, this issue only matters when they see an opportunity to exploit it as a vote-getting trick for Democrats.

The problem with conservatives is that it is impossible for most of us to imagine how utterly cynical liberals really are. Everything they do is ultimately about trying to help Democrats win elections, without regard for whether Democrats actually do anything that helps the people liberals claim to care about. Because I was born and raised a Democrat, of the old-fashioned New Deal-era Yellow Dog type, this cynicism was never apparent to me until Bill Clinton (whom I voted for in 1992) became president, and proceeded to betray everything I’d ever believed in.

That experience was not only sufficient to drive me out of the Democratic Party, but it put me wise to the whole “caring” act that liberals had for so long been using to deceive chumps like me. Since becoming an ex-chump, I have tried to enlighten others about the nature of the Great Liberal Swindle. For the latest lesson, my friend Stephen Green at Instapundit called attention to recent events in Lake County, Illinois:

Newly obtained police records and body-worn camera footage shed additional light on a physical altercation involving Black Lives Matter organizer Clyde McLemore and a woman who worked with him at the Black Lives Matter Resource Center in Waukegan.
The incident prompted a police response on Jan. 12, 2026, at the center located at 668 Lenox Ave., after officers were dispatched for what was initially reported as an unwanted subject but later classified as a battery investigation.
According to a Waukegan Police Department report, officers arrived shortly after 12:30 p.m. and spoke with McLemore, who told police the confrontation began when the woman entered his office asking for money. McLemore said he told her he had no money and asked her to leave. When she refused, he said he attempted to leave the office but the woman grabbed him by the hood of his jacket and struck him, leading to what he described as a “tussle.”
Police observed a scratch on McLemore’s forehead and lip and noted that the office appeared disheveled, consistent with a physical struggle.
The woman involved in the altercation told officers a different version of events. She said she had been working on grant projects for the organization and had come to McLemore’s office asking about payment related to those grants. She alleged that McLemore became angry when she asked about money and shoved her in the chest, after which the two began pushing and shoving each other. . . .

Let us pause the narrative here, friends, to point out that this “tussle,” as Clyde McLemore called it, involved grants that his organization had received to do “projects,” and that the “woman who worked with him” believed she was owed payment for her work, but by his own admission, McLemore said “he had no money.” A quick check reveals that, in 2023 (the most recently available year) Black Lives Matter of Lake County collected more than $180,000 in contributions. For some reason, however, McLemore can’t pay this woman for her work.

And now let’s return to the narrative:

Officers observed that she had a small cut on her lip and several broken fingernails, which were captured on body-worn camera footage.
Body camera audio from the incident shows the two giving conflicting accounts to police. McLemore told officers the woman “stole on” him and that he wanted her removed from the property but did not want to press charges.
During her conversation with officers, the woman said arguments over money had occurred multiple times before and described the altercation as escalating from an argument into “tussling,” which she said involved pushing and body-slamming.
Police ultimately made no arrests, citing conflicting statements and injuries to both parties. Officers instead separated the two and advised them to have no contact.
Investigators later documented that a video circulating on social media showing McLemore involved in a physical fight was from a separate incident on Nov. 2, 2025, according to statements McLemore gave to detectives.
That footage has since spread widely online, including being shared by the popular social media account Libs of TikTok.
McLemore is no stranger to controversy in the region. The Waukegan activist previously gained attention in Kenosha following the 2020 unrest and has faced multiple legal battles in both Wisconsin and Illinois. Kenosha County Eye previously reported on McLemore’s arrest while on bail in a Kenosha riot-related case and his later conviction for taking photographs inside an Illinois courtroom, which resulted in a 40-day jail sentence.

So there was similar “altercation” in November before this “tussle” in 2025. The woman’s name is Nyesha Hill, and there is police bodycam video of her telling her side of the story:

“I told him, ‘It’s not fair that I come here and I work and you running around taking care of other things that don’t got nothing to do with Black Lives Matter with Black Lives Matter money,’” she later told cops. “I’m the one that make this joint work.”

What the woman is really saying is, McClemore is scamming. He’s collecting money in the name of Black Lives Matter and instead is “running around taking care of other things” unrelated to the stated mission of this tax-exempt “charitable” organization. The reason she’s upset is because she’s not getting her share of the grift.

It was a “mostly peaceful” argument.



 

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