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The Christine Blasey Ford Standard and the Sudden Destruction of Eric Swalwell

Posted on | April 11, 2026 | No Comments

Far be it from me to defend Eric Swalwell, now accused of rape and other “inappropriate” behavior by at least four women. If CNN is willing to vouch for the credibility of Swalwell’s accusers, then certainly I will not cast doubt on their veracity. However, I have never supported Swalwell, and have not voted for any Democrat for more than three decades, so my hands are clean — I bear no responsibility for Swalwell’s wrongdoing, and can applaud his destruction with a clear conscience. The same cannot be said, however, by CNN and other Democrat-friendly media venues which have spent years giving Eric Swalwell a platform without ever even hinting about his lecherous habits, which were apparently an open secret among Democratic Party operatives on Capitol Hill and elsewhere.

Has everyone forgotten Christine Blasey Ford? Her name came up in my column last month about the Duke lacrosse rape hoax:

The institutions of media and academia that had disgraced themselves in the Duke lacrosse rape hoax did not even seem to learn a lesson from their blunders. In 2014, another rape hoax was perpetrated at the University of Virginia, with an emotionally unbalanced young woman claiming that she had been brutally attacked at a fraternity house, a crime she blamed on an imaginary frat member she called “Haven Monahan.” The university immediately suspended fraternity activities on campus, as feminists proclaimed that the story in Rolling Stone magazine proved the existence of a rape epidemic among college students nationwide. Rolling Stone was found guilty of defamation, and the mysterious “Haven Monahan” was never found.
How many hoaxes has the news media helped promote since then? Somewhere there may be a full list, but certainly the “Russian collusion” hoax during Trump’s first term stands out in memory, and then there was the Christine Blasey Ford claim of a long-ago gang rape during the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. The lack of accountability — nobody yet has gone to prison for their role in the “Russian collusion” hoax, and most in the media won’t even admit that Kavanaugh was the victim of an outrageous lie — is what frustrates so many people who’ve grown tired of such shenanigans, which have an obvious political agenda.

Someone needs to speak to Mark Judge, who was collateral damage in the Kavanaugh affair, about this lack of media accountability. For myself, I consider Christine Blasey Ford to be a heinous liar, and have the same opinion of E. Jean Carroll. When all else fails, it seems, Democrats are always able to find some woman willing to make accusations of sexual wrongdoing by Republicans, and I’m sure Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will testify that this is a long-established pattern.

Never forget what they did to Clarence Thomas

It is the political double standard in such matters that is objectionable, particularly in regard to the allegedly “objective” news media. Now that it is permissible to speak the truth about Eric Swalwell, the question everyone should be asking is, “Why now?” The accusations against Swalwell involve events that are not entirely recent:

On April 10, 2026, the San Francisco Chronicle published a story where a former Swalwell staffer claimed that Swalwell, 17 years her senior, had sexually assaulted her on more than one occasion, including when she was too intoxicated to give consent. A few hours later, CNN published a story in which four women alleged sexual misconduct by Swalwell, including a former staffer who said he raped her. Politico also reported that a former Swalwell employee signed a non-disclosure agreement pertaining to employment discrimination when they left his office. Although the agreement was not related to sexual harassment, it directly contradicted Swalwell’s previous claims that no one on his staff signed an NDA.
Swalwell described the allegations as “lies” and claimed that they were intended to damage his campaign for governor. The Los Angeles Times reported that Swalwell’s attorney had sent a cease and desist letter to the staffer and threatened to sue for defamation.
Multiple high-level staffers resigned from Swalwell’s gubernatorial campaign in advance of the report, including U.S. Representative and campaign chair Jimmy Gomez. Others, including the California Teachers Association, former state assemblymember Ian Calderon, and U.S. Senator Ruben Gallego rescinded their endorsements of Swalwell.

This happened very suddenly on a Friday, you see, even though the allegations involve incidents that happened as far back as 2019:

A former staffer of Rep. Eric Swalwell, a leading Democratic candidate for California governor, says that the congressman raped her when she was heavily intoxicated and left her bruised and bleeding, an allegation Swalwell strongly denies.
“I was pushing him off of me, saying no,” the woman told CNN of the incident, which she said happened in 2024 after she had stopped working in Swalwell’s office. “He didn’t stop.”
She said it was the second time Swalwell had nonconsensual sexual contact with her while she was drunk. In 2019, when she was still working for him, she said she woke up naked with him in a hotel room after a night of heavy drinking. She said she had no memory of what happened but could feel physically that they’d had sexual contact.

Keep in mind that Swalwell literally ran for president, campaigning for the 2020 Democratic Party nomination for several months in 2019 before dropping out, and yet this staffer didn’t speak out against him at the time. Allegedly, they continued to socialize for years after the 2019 rape, so that he could rape her again in 2024, but still she did not denounce him, until two months ahead of the California primary in which Swalwell was the leading Democratic candidate. The timing is rather curious.

You can see from the Real Clear Politics poll average that, in California’s open “jungle primary,” Swalwell was positioned to be the only Democrat to qualify for the general election, ahead of billionaire Tom Steyer and Rep. Katie Porter. These three Democrats were splitting the Democratic vote in such a way that, not only was Republican Steve Hilton the leading candidate in the race, but there was a serious chance that Republican Chad Bianco might finish second in the primary, meaning that there would be zero Democrats on the ballot come November.

Yet it seems Swalwell’s habits were an “open secret” in D.C.:

Swalwell was crowned the “Snapchat king of Congress” in 2016 over his enthusiasm for the app, which was then popular among teens and young millennials.
Social media creator [Ally] Sammarco claimed she messaged Swalwell on Twitter in 2021 asking about his history growing up in a Republican family.
She claimed he began sending her provocative late-night messages, referring to her as a “bad angel,” and eventually switched their communications to Snapchat where he allegedly shared photos of his penis.
He allegedly “ran by her apartment building several times,” giving her hugs but not coming inside.

That was five years ago, and Swalwell has twice been reelected to Congress since then, but for some reason Ms. Sammarco decided to say nothing about a congressman sending her obscene images until now?

“Oh, it’s nothing — a congressman who is on TV multiple times every week sent me a dick pic but I won’t say anything about it.”

As I say, however, it is not my intent to defend Swalwell, nor to cast aspersions on the numerous victims of his egregious actions. It’s just that there seems to have been a cover-up, an agreement among everyone who was aware of Swalwell’s pattern of predatory behavior, that nothing would be said publicly about it, until this week. Are we supposed to believe that, among the cable news anchors who interviewed Swalwell over the past several years, none of them ever heard any rumors about his sexual misconduct? Excuse me for being suspicious about this.

The Christine Blasey Ford Standard, as I’ll call it, is that whenever a woman accuses a man of sexual wrongdoing, his guilt is certain, because no woman would ever lie about such things. Her accusation is the only evidence necessary to convict him in the court of public opinion. Thus let it be with Eric Swalwell — “Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!” — but I’m still curious about why the media kept silent for so long, until this week.

 



 

Category: California, Democrats, Media Bias, Scandal, Sex, Violence Against Women

In The Mailbox: 04.10.26

Posted on | April 11, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Today is Friday in California.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Finally the returns are coming in.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: A Day With Bonnie & Clyde (1933) 
357 Magnum: Professional Journalism at the NY Times and CNN
EBL: Artemis II Re-Entry, Friday Fish Fry, “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”, Rovers on the Moon, and Why can’t you get seafood in Cuba?
Twitchy: Ape-solutely BANANAS! Jeffries Demands Swalwell Drop Out Of CA Gov Race – But Not Resign From Congress, and NYT Melts Down Over J6 Recidivism – A “Crime Spree” At Just 0.8%
Louder With Crowder: Crowder leaves no doubt with Piers Morgan where he stands on the MAGA “Civil War”, Gavin Newsom’s wife responds to all those viral videos of her being AWFL, Gavin Newsom attempts to take credit for investigating fraud after claiming Nick Shirley was a pervert for exposing it, Drag queens host show inspired by popular Christian CHILDREN’S cartoon VeggieTales, and Trump Nukes Former ‘Allies’ on Truth: What Happens Next?
Vox Popoli: Mailvox: Do the Right Thing, also,  Clones and the Frozen Gene
According To Hoyt: Vibing History, Writers who don’t hate you, Extraordinary Promo Post, Turn The Boat Around, Never Leave a Fallen Comrade, and What A Time To Be Alive!
Upstream Reviews: Monster Hunter Files #2
Draw & Talk Comics: New Kickstarter!
Cedar Sanderson: Tie Me Knot
Stoic Observations: Two Thirds,

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: First Shocking Allegation Against Eric Swalwell Drops Amid Cease and Desist Letters, Fairfax County Attorney Steve Descano to Be Grilled About His ‘Dangerous’ Sanctuary Policies, Study of Gender-Confused Youth Shows Mental Health Outcomes Worsened, ‘Clinton Hoax, Obama Coup’ by Drew Thomas Allen: The Declassified Blueprint That Finally Exposes the Russian Memos and the Real Coup, and A Peace Framework for America and Iran
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For April 10
Behind The Black: Orion survives re-entry, crew splashes down safe, Amazon to begin commercial availability of Leo internet service in mid-2026, India conducts another parachute drop test for its Gaganyaan manned capsule, China launches another set of satellites for its Guowang internet constellation, and A military pilot’s perspective on downed pilot rescue in Iran Easter weekend
Cafe Hayek: MBD Is Both Factually Mistaken and Presumptuous
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Dana Loesch: The Spiritual Battle For The Heart of the Catholic Church and the Nation
Don Surber: Art of the Deal met Sun Tzu in Iran
First Street Journal: The problem isn’t that the city rejected the interior remodeling plans
The Geller Report: Terror Inciter and Rabid Jew Hater Mahmoud Khalil Finally DEPORTED, Congressional Bill Designates Hamas-Tied CAIR as Terrorist Entity, Would-Be Mass Murdering Muslim Pleads Guilty In NYC Jewish Center Terrorism Plot, Zul Mohamed, Convicted of 106 Counts of Voter Fraud, Running for Mayor In Carrollton Texas, and Pakistan ‘Peace’ Mediator IMPLODES
Hollywood In Toto: American History X Scribe Says ‘Hollywood Loves Alienating Half the Country’, also, Why Hollywood’s Reaction to Oct. 7 Stunned Patricia Heaton
Legal Insurrection: Finnish Register Study Shows Medical Gender Transition Tied to Major Spike in Teen Psychiatric Crises, Artemis II Concludes Successful Mission with Splashdown off San Diego’s Coast, Baltimore Reparations Fund Plagued by Infighting and Struggles for Control, Swalwell Campaign Bleeds Leadership After New Sexual Assault Allegation, and Supreme Court Shuts Down Progressive’s Bid to Run in Ohio GOP Primary
Nebraska Energy Observer: Treason Day
Outkick: Is The Miami Marlins’ Hot Start Legit, Or Just A Mirage, Dianna Russini’s Career Officially In Question Amid New Probe Into Vrabel Photos, How Mainstream Sports Media Is Tainting Jackie Robinson’s Legacy, Sidney Crosby Gives His Thoughts On Alex Ovechkin Ahead Of Possible Final Meetings, and Topanga From Boy Meets World Refuses To Age, Carrie Underwood Stuffed In A Pink Dress & Masters Middle Finger!
Power Line: Swalwell Goes Down, The Unserious West, “British” Men Caught Crossing Border, Accused of $11M fraud, he flees country, and Fridley man lit up by LGBTQ flag
Racket News: A Conversation with John Papola, 
Shark Tank: Former Rep Ted Yoho Endorses Paul Renner For Governor
STUMP: Mysterious NASA Deaths! (Or Maybe Not)
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Senator Dodd and General Klein
This Ain’t Hell: Engine test creates big $$$ hole, Valor Friday, and Minneapolis considering legalizing sex venues
Transterrestrial Musings: Disney, also, China’s Weapons
Victory Girls: Melania Trump Says Enough on Epstein—and The Daily Beast Keeps Spinning
Watts Up With That: Green Nations Supposedly Poised to Become a New Superpower, Matt Ridley thinks the Climate Parrot is almost dead, The Hydrogen Highway Ends in a Traffic Jam, The Carbon Bureaucracy Nobody Voted For, and 1504 Died From Heat Last Summer, Say UKHSA
The Federalist: How Republicans Surrendered Virginia To Left-Wing Colonizers, Here’s How Sotomayor And Jackson’s Temper Tantrums Are Causing Headaches For Kagan, The Left Threw Columbus Into The Harbor — Now Trump Is Putting Him Back, WaPo Thinks SCOTUS Upholding The Constitution Is A Bad Thing, and Canada Poised To Criminalize Christianity With Ban On Citing Biblical Truths
Mark Steyn: Resetting the Reset

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‘Independent Journalist,’ My Ass!

Posted on | April 10, 2026 | No Comments

Joe Biden (left) with Democrat activist Christopher Hale (right)

The tax-exempt 501(c)3 organization Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) was founded in 2005 by two Democrats, Tom Perriello and Alexia Kelley. CACG “received at least $450,000 in financial support from the massive George Soros philanthropy network from 2006-2010.” A memo that leaked in 2016 credited CACG with shaping President Obama’s 2009 speech at Notre Dame university in which he sought to “reframe” the debate about abortion. Kevin Jones of Catholic News Agency reported in October 2016:

[T]he site Wikileaks has posted alleged 2012 emails involving Hillary Clinton campaign chief John Podesta, who appears to state that Catholics in Alliance was founded to aid a “Catholic Spring” political revolution within the Church.
Christopher Hale, who became Catholics in Alliance’s executive director in late 2013, distanced himself from accusations he and his colleagues aimed to split the Church.
“We don’t concern ourselves with the internal politics of the Catholic Church,” Hale told CNA Oct. 17.

Four years later, in 2020, when Christopher Hale ran for Congress in Tennessee, his tenure with CACG became controversial:

The former executive director of a progressive Catholic political advocacy organization, who is now vying for a Congressional seat in Tennessee, has denied a former board member?s allegations that he defrauded the organization and eventually left it bankrupt.
“I’m speaking publicly now, with very little interest in scoring points. I’m simply here to speak on the record, to establish a fact pattern, to help explain to the public the disappointing experience I have had with Chris Hale,” said James Salt, a former board member of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, in a livestream announcement Aug. 3. . . .
Hale is running in the Democratic primary in Tennessee’s 4th Congressional District. His opponent in that race, Noelle Bivens, hosted a livestreamed event with Salt on Monday evening, after local media reported that Hale is accused of misusing email lists from his former employer to fundraise for his own benefit.
Salt said the political advocacy group, which aimed to advance Democratic candidates and policy initiatives by appealing to Catholics, was financially and legally harmed by Hale’s leadership of the organization.
“My job is simply to be on the record saying he did a great disservice to everyone who has worked with him.”
After Hale was hired as executive director of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good in 2013, Salt said, “we began to see a pattern of Chris obfuscating and avoiding any kind of accountability.”
Eventually, Salt said, Hale lied about filing financial records, and once told colleagues he was having surgery, which was apparently not true, in order to excuse missed work.
Hale was fired from the group in 2017, Salt said, and the group was dissolved. Hale disputed that he was fired, saying he left on good terms with the board, because he was ready to “move on and have different adventures in life.”
He is accused of leaving with the organization’s mailing and email donor lists, and using them after he was fired to fundraise for an initiative he started later that year, called The Francis Project.
According to documents obtained by the Murfreesboro Voice, Hale was asked repeatedly to stop using those lists for fundraising, but continued to do so as late as December 2019.
In a Jan. 24 letter to Washington, D.C’s attorney general, Lawyers for Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, and the related Catholics United organization, said that The Francis Project was not actually a non-profit, but was instead a trade name connected to a Washington, DC for-profit corporation incorporated by Hale, and registered as “Christopher Hale.”

Are you with me so far? There can be no doubt that (a) Christopher Hale is a member of the Democratic Party who was (b) associated with a left-wing group that got hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Soros network, but (c) was accused of unscrupulous dealings after he left that organization and ran for Congress as a Democrat in 2020. Hale won the Democratic primary that year, but lost the general election by a 33-point margin to incumbent Republican Rep. Scott DesJarlais.

All of this is preamble to a weird story this week:

The Pentagon and White House are refuting reports that high-level U.S. defense officials told Pope Leo XIV and the Vatican to take the United States’ “side” when it comes to matters of military influence and Western Hemisphere oversight.
Allegations stem from interactions that originated in January, according to the Free Press, which reported that Undersecretary of Defense Elbridge Colby allegedly summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the Vatican’s ambassador to Washington, D.C., to deliver a “bitter lecture” during a closed?door meeting characterized as tense.
Colby purportedly told Pierre that “the United States has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world,” adding: “The Catholic Church had better take its side.”
On Wednesday, independent journalist Christopher Hale on his Letters From Leo webpage confirmed that the meeting took place, adding “that some Vatican officials were so alarmed by the Pentagon’s tactics that they shelved plans for Pope Leo XIV to visit the United States later this year.” The pope, 70, who hails from Chicago, was expected to come to the U.S. this July as part of the nation’s 250th anniversary celebration.
“The Free Press’ characterization of the meeting is highly exaggerated and distorted,” a U.S. Department of Defense spokesperson told Military.com on Thursday. “The meeting between Pentagon and Vatican officials was a respectful and reasonable discussion. We have nothing but the highest regard and welcome continued dialogue with the Holy See.” . . .
Officials in the Vatican saw the official’s purported remarks as referencing an Avignon papacy, viewed as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.

This story is just wild beyond words, but what infuriated me was the reference to “independent journalist Christopher Hale,” when anyone could have done a Google search and learned what I have told you about Hale, that he is a Democratic Party operative, with a shady reputation and no credentials whatsoever as a “journalist.” Furthermore — and I should hope my Catholic friends see this as I do — what are we to make of the fact that George Soros has expended vast amounts of money to influence (or perhaps a better verb is subvert) the Catholic Church?

Being a Protestant myself, I don’t take orders from the Vatican, but we live in a world where everything has become political, and this story (which the Pentagon has basically called a pile of bovine excrement) is just another example of how the left-wing billionaire Soros poisons everything he touches. Everyone needs to wake up and pay attention.



 

Category: Catholics, Democrats, Journalism

In The Mailbox: 04.09.26

Posted on | April 10, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Like Bob Zimmerman of Behind The Black, I too am on Starlink starting today. Makes a BIG difference.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Classified Sensor That Found A Lost Airman In Iran, 
357 Magnum: What They Took From Us Can Never Be Recovered, also Artificial Stupidity
EBL: Thursday Fish Fry, “I’m A Believer”, I know twenty Republicans who need to be primaried, and “The Road To Appomattox”
Twitchy: George Conway Cries About Giving His Kids’ Inheritance To Biden’s Victory Fund, Pentagon Takes Down Pic Of Sailor Wearing “Save The Big Booty Venezuelans” Patch, and Chicago Teacher Union Prez Confesses – We Do Politics So Black Women Can Live Without Husbands
Louder With Crowder: New study makes shocking revelation that transitioning genders is bad for your mental health, JD Vance makes it clear where blackpilling blackpillers can shove their blackpills, Megyn Kelly and others are wrong, Donald Trump is NOT fracturing the MAGA base, The career criminal who murdered Iryna Zarutska is allegedly too  “incompetent” to stand trial, and Is Israel Sabotaging The US-Iran Ceasefire?
Vox Popoli: Why Trump Wants Out, A Misunderstanding, and China and the “Ceasefire”
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Who Won – Trump Or Iran?
Weird Catholic: King Arthur in the Lives of the Saints

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: NYC Mayor’s ‘Racial Equity Plan’ Would Direct City Resources to ‘Black and Brown New Yorkers’, California’s Future – Elaine Culotti’s Independent Vision, Antifa Are the Real KKK – Proscribing Antifa and Their Supporters, Melania Trump Calls on Congress to Hold Public Hearing Allowing Epstein Survivors to Testify, and Peru and Polling – Will Another Latin American Country Move Toward the U.S.?
BattleSwarm: Musk’s Terafab To Have Intel Inside
Behind The Black: Martian mountains on Mount Sharp, European Union to restructure its space bureaucracy, ESA paid Arianespace about $96 million for an Ariane-6 launch, Russia’s latest plans for its post-ISS space station, and Now on Starlink!
Cafe Hayek: Harnessing Mercantilist Idiocy for the Public Good
CDR Salamander: Great Britain Is A Warning
Chicago Boyz: The Light Side of the Moon
Da Tech Guy: 100 Word Fan Fiction Teaser: Flash Forward, the Squeeze is Off
Dana Loesch: Trump Slams Podcastistan
Don Surber: Tucker has no ball to take home
First Street Journal: You in a heap o’ trouble, girl!
Gates Of Vienna: Berlin: Culture-Enriching Knife Fight Between an Afghan and a Syrian
The Geller Report: DECAPITATION WITHOUT DEATH – Iran’s Regime Survives the “Thirty-Nine Days of Fire”, Iryna Zarutska’s Savage Murderer Decarlos Brown Jr. Found “Incompetent To Stand Trial”, Disgruntled Army Employee Arrested For Leaking Classified Info To Media, Putting Troops in Harm’s Way, Muslim Mohammed Mahd Opened Fire On Jewish Restaurant During Passover, and One California Doctor Linked to 126 Hospices, 2,800 ‘Terminal’ Patients, $71 MILLION Haul
Hollywood In Toto: Outcome Takes Belated Slap at Cancel Culture, also, More Bad News for Mandalorian and Grogu
Legal Insurrection: Zeldin’s EPA Overhaul Signals End of Federal Push for Start-Stop Engines, Trump on Tucker – “Perhaps he should see a good psychiatrist!”, Steven Crowder Event Canceled at UPenn Due to Security Issues, Los Angeles Battles Record Typhus Cases as City Prepares to Host 2028 Games, and Yes, the ‘DIGNIDAD Act’ Grants Amnesty – Why Do 20 GOP Lawmakers Support It?
Nebraska Energy Observer: Cease Fire – Well, Maybe
Outkick: Philly Host Eats Massive L After Crushing Joel Embiid While He Was Literally Undergoing Surgery, Shohei Ohtani’s Special Pitching Treatment Seems To Spark Tension In Dodgers-Blue Jays World Series Rematch, Paul Skenes Says His ‘Happy Face’ And ‘Sad Face’ Are Basically The Same In New Interview, Sarah Chalke Ditches Her Scrubs For A Cheeky Beach Day, Canada Goes Insane & Balls Are FLYING At The Masters, and Will Dianna Russini’s Career Survive Mike Vrabel’s Scandal?
Power Line: Iran and the ship of Theseus, Trump Declares War, Twins attendance plummets, Weekend at Mojtaba’s, and Suicide Wish?
Shark Tank: Austin Rogers Raises $725k for FL-2 Congressional Race
Shot In The Dark: Unwarranted Optimism
This Ain’t Hell: Pentagon Says Iran’s military capabilities have been destroyed, also, More fun than now?
Transterrestrial Musings: Gavin Newsom
Victory Girls: The Amnesty Bill Of Maria Salazar – Don’t Be Fooled
Watts Up With That: The ‘Leading UK Scientists’ Letter Urging Abandonment of North Sea is Ideology Masquerading as Science, The Genesis Revitalizing U.S. Scientific Research, Some Claim The Climate Crisis Has Already Caused Society to Collapse, and North Sea Gas “Saves Britain Billions a Year”
The Federalist: These 4 States Already Enacted SAVE Act Look-Alikes While John Thune Does Failure Theater, The Hysterical Media Are Lying About The Forest Service Reorganization, After Years Of Big-City Rootlessness, Gen Z and Millennials Can Find Happiness Moving Home, Analysis Shows More Than 90 Percent Of Funds Backing Dems’ Gerrymandering Scheme Come From Outside Virginia, and The Real Reason Obamacare Enrollment Is Down Is Thanks To Trump’s Fraud Crackdown
Mark Steyn: Promises Kept

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In The Mailbox: 04.08.26

Posted on | April 9, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Next week is Tax Day.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Art of the Deal That Reset The World, 
357 Magnum: Liberals Apparently Don’t Think the Law Applies to Them
EBL: Halibut Recipe, Make American Immigration Great Again, and “Band on the Run”
Twitchy: Tucker Guest Seth Harp Burns Source Like An Amateur, Nuns Sue NY State Over Law Requiring Them To Affirm “Gender Identity”, and Harmeet Dhillon Trolls Marc Elias (and looks FABULOUS)
Louder With Crowder: Proposed law would force California taxpayers to pay legal fees for illegal aliens, College bans men and non-binary students from the school gym to make women more comfortable, Mamdani’s new “racial equity” plan is based on him thinking white people are making too much money, New York won’t let nuns care for the terminally ill unless they abide by trans ideology, so they’re suing, and Breaking Down Trump’s Iran Ceasefire – Triumph or TACO?
Vox Popoli: US Military Revolt, Unification is Coming, The Irony Goes to 11, The End of the COVID Psy/Op, and Declaring Victory
Upstream Reviews: The Vixen War Bride
Cedar Sanderson: The Star-Spangled Banner
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Situational Awareness Part 2
Stoic Observations: Refining The DE Tool Suite

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Legal Immigration Is Bad – We Can Stop It, Repeat Offender Who Murdered Iryna Zarutska Found Incompetent to Stand Trial, Indicted Florida Dem Lawmaker Facing Bipartisan Calls For Expulsion After Ethics Committee Guilty Ruling, NYC Mayor’s ‘Racial Equity Plan’ Would Direct City Resources to ‘Black and Brown New Yorkers’, and Jane Fonda, ‘Hail Caesar,’ and the False God of History
BattleSwarm: Russia Cracks Down On VPNs, Brings Down Banks
Behind The Black: China launches 18 more Qianfan internet satellites, Update on SpaceX’s Starship/Superheavy launchpad improvements at Boca Chica, Spanish rocket startup PLD borrows $35 million, Orbital repair startup Starfish raises $100 million in private investment capital, and Astroscale to fly mission to rendezvous and inspect two different satellites
Cafe Hayek: On Jamieson Greer On the World Trade Organization
CDR Salamander: I Hate Being Out-Innovated By <checks notes> The Portuguese Navy
Chicago Boyz: Nasrudin’s Pipeline
Da Tech Guy: Voices of the 2026 Worcester Catholic Men’s Conference: the Hosea institute Elaine DeGrandis & Cathy Parsons
Dana Loesch: No, Trump Didn’t Cave On Iran, also, Broadcast Person Is Upset Over Defense Person’s Use Of Words From Soldier’s Creed
Don Surber: Trump trolls the world
Gates Of Vienna: Jihad Attacks on the Homeland Intensifying
The Geller Report: Iran Defies Cease-Fire, Threatens to ‘Destroy’ Hormuz Traffic, Continues Attacks Across Region, Hamas Officials Funding Private School in Dallas, Europe Surrendering to Islam, An Ultimatum to Hamas: Agree to Disarm by Week’s End, and Republican Clay Fuller Wins Special Georgia Election
Hollywood In Toto: “King of the World” Gets New Marching Orders, also, Sicko Michael Moore Praises Iran, Trashes U.S.
Legal Insurrection: Former SJU Prof Targeted for Opposing Reparations Settles Lawsuit With Some Defendants, Hamline University Discriminatory Scholarships Challenged By Equal Protection Project, Israel Launches Massive Strikes on Hezbollah Terrorists as Iran Ceasefire Takes Hold, Arrest Made in Brutal Rape, Murder of Elderly Oklahoma City Grandmother, and Kanye West Blocked from Entering the UK Over Antisemitism
Nebraska Energy Observer: The Plantagenets
Outkick: Oregon Coach Koa Ka’ai Explains Why Ice Cream Choice Defines Quarterback Recruits, Dodgers’ World Series Hero Miguel Rojas Suffers Tragic Personal Loss, Even Major Winners Aren’t Safe – Augusta Tosses Calcavecchia For Cell Phone Violation, White Sox Are Giving Fans Pope Hats, And I Really Need One, and Sophie Cunningham Had A White-Hot SI Swimsuit Debut, Kay Adams Is On Bikini Time & MLB’s Violent Night
Power Line: On the “Green” Gravy Train, Michelin Guide – Rust Belt Edition, Delusions of Relevance [Updated], The Iran “Agreement” and More, and Help wanted
Shark Tank: DeSantis Says Florida Should Put An End To First Cousin Marriages
Shot In The Dark: NATO
STUMP: Testicular Cancer Awareness Month
This Ain’t Hell: Dakota Meyer Graduates BRC
Transterrestrial Musings: What A Time To Be Alive
Victory Girls: Liberal Women and Their Obsession With Tearing Down Traditional Values
Watts Up With That: New York’s Climate Activists Not Backing Off, For Minnesota, Climate Obsession Is Just Another Fiscal Disaster, Climate Industry Intersectionality, “Eco-Friendly” Energy Is Slaughtering Wildlife, and Climate Change Allegedly Killing all the Amazon Dung Beetles
The Federalist: Trump Should Expand Waiver Of 100-Year-Old Shipping Law Hurting Americans , Here’s How The Media Are Lying Right Now: Painting DOJ Abusers As Trump’s ‘Political Foes’, Virginia Democrats’ Power Grab Is A Giant Middle Finger To Rural Americans, Worst Thing GOP Could Do For Midterms Is Embrace Amnesty, So Of Course They’re Doing That, and Another Leftist Wins, But The Rule Of Law Prevails In Wisconsin
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet – The Peace That Passeth All Understanding, also, Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss

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Trump Declares Ceasefire in Iran

Posted on | April 8, 2026 | No Comments

During Tuesday’s liberal freakout, Democrats were denouncing President Trump as a genocidal maniac because of his threats to destroy Iran. Then, about an hour before the 8 p.m. deadline he’d given the Iranian regime, Trump announced that a deal had been reached for a ceasefire:

President Donald Trump and the Islamic Republic of Iran both announced on Tuesday evening just before the U.S. president’s deadline for a deal that they have agreed to a two-week ceasefire while negotiators finalize a deal between the warring nations.
Trump took to his Truth Social platform to announce that he has agreed to the ceasefire urged by the Pakistani Prime Minister . . .
Israel has also agreed to the ceasefire, per CNN, which quoted a White House official. “Israel is part of the two-week ceasefire President Donald Trump announced just an hour and a half before his deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face escalated military attacks on civilian infrastructure, a senior White House official tells CNN,” CNN reported. “Israel has agreed to also suspend its bombing campaign while negotiations continue, the official said.”

More background from Beege Wellborn at Hot Air:

I have a feeling there were several things moving the Iranians along in this direction if they wanted to have any hope of saving their miserable, murderous skins. The US and Israelis started smacking industrial installations this evening, for one thing. . . .
B-52s were also noted leaving RAF Fairford within the flight window to arrive over Iran at Trump’s ultimatum zero hour. . . .
Jesse Watters reporting that China begged Iran to take the deal because it [i.e., the shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz] was cratering their already shaky economy.

Hat-tip: Instapundit, who adds: “Word is that one of the targets struck today was a collection of airplanes the mullahs had set up for fleeing the country. That may have had something to do with this.” We now have two weeks of a conditional ceasefire, while negotiations continue for a permanent peace agreement. What will happen during those two weeks?

Recall that Trump had already begun sending combat troops toward the region (“Guess What Time It Is, ‘Iranian Leaders’?”), including a Marine battalion and elements of the Army’s 82nd Airborne and 10th Mountain divisions. We can assume that those troops will continue to deploy, while we wait to see whether the Tehran regime is serious about ending the war. If Iran doesn’t negotiate in good faith, then we can go back to fighting, having used the two-week pause to resupply the Navy and Air Force with bombs, etc., and with ground troops ready to go.



 

Category: Donald Trump, Iran

In the Mailbox: 04.07.2026

Posted on | April 8, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

From the fertile mind of Sensurround.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Day Of John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry (1859) 
357 Magnum: More Microslop News
EBL: Bird Songs, Pompano Heads, MAGA Airman Rescue and Iran Deadline, “Rags To Riches”, and Lewis and Clark
Twitchy: From Tampon Timmy To Hypocrite In Chief, James Woods Calls Out Jennifer Newsom For Telling Prisoners Their Crimes Were Probably Accidents, and “I’m With Iran” – John Pavlovitz & The Left’s Long Tradition Of Siding With America’s Enemies
Louder With Crowder: Democrat Candidate Calls For Government to Take Away MAGA Voters Internet Access, Boston Deploys Mental Health Expert To Confront Man With Sword -Things End Very Badly, Proposed Canadian Law Could Criminalize Biblical Speech, I couldn’t disagree with Tucker Carlson and the “Marxist right” more, and Minnesota defies Trump mandate, restarts program performing gender altering surgery to minors
Vox Popoli: The Hobbit 1977, This is Not Winning, It Wasn’t a “Rescue Mission”, The Edo Scroll, and No Deals
Stoic Observations: The Evolution of Data Warehousing In The AWS Cloud, also, The Era of Compute Chaos
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Situational Awareness

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American Greatness: Eric Swalwell About to Be Hit With ‘Shocking’ Number of Sexual Harassment Allegations, DHS Sec. Markwayne Mullin Taking ‘Hard Look’ at Removing CBP Officers From Sanctuary City Airports, Hegseth Cuts Military Education Ties With Elite Universities, Democrats Plot Third Impeachment of Trump, and Peru and Polling – Will Another Latin American Country Move Toward the U.S.?
BattleSwarm: Iran Strikes – Big Week Starts
Behind The Black: Orion completes short 15-second burn to refine its return-to-Earth, Feathery eroding layers on Mars, Northrop Grumman’s Minotaur-4 rocket launches three payloads for War Department, and Firefly signs deal with modular sea launch startup Seagate
CDR Salamander: Escalation Traps & Off Ramps
Chicago Boyz: The Perfect Enemy (Updated)
Da Tech Guy: Voices of the 2026 Worcester Catholic Men’s Conference: Rebecca Urban of Visitation House
Don Surber: Who needs Europe?
Elizabeth Nickson: Why The F*** Isn’t Melania On The Cover Of Vogue?
First Street Journal: Has The Philadelphia Inquirer changed its policies on publishing photos of accused sex offenders?
Gates Of Vienna: There Are No Hills to Head For, also, Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff Reports From the USA
The Geller Report: Marco Rubio MOVES TO AX 80% OF EUROPE BASES, Florida Passes Law to EXPEL Student Supporters of Terrorist Groups, Muslim Driver Rams Loader Truck Into Christian Procession in Pakistan, Over 60 Wounded, Muslims Slaughter 26 Christians, Churches Burned, Women and Children Kidnapped in Nigeria, and SLEAZEBALL Eric Swalwell To Face Multiple Sexual Abuse Allegations By Shocking Number of Staffers, Former Employees
Hollywood In Toto: Why Comic Book Creator Refused to Give Up on Childhood Dream, Alan Ritchson CLEARED?! Colbert’s Gollum and More! and Can Judd Apatow ‘Comeback’ from Trump Derangement Syndrome?
Legal Insurrection: Virginia Voters Shocked That Spanberger Governs Like a Democrat, Eighth Circuit Rules Schools Don’t Owe Kids Access to Sexually Explicit Books, DOJ to Review Mamdani’s ‘Racial Equity Plan’ for New York City, Iran Accepts Trump’s Ceasefire, Opens Strait of Hormuz for Two Weeks, and Tucker Qatarlson Launches Full Frontal Attack on Trump – “Who Do You Think You Are?”
Nebraska Energy Observer: ’50s Houses
Outkick: Red Sox Owner John Henry Embarrassed As Fans Loudly Chant ‘Sell The Team’ At Fenway Park, An NHL Team With Less Than 20 Regulation Wins Is About To Make The Playoffs, And That’s Just Wrong, Masters Tee Times Announced And There Are Some Interesting Pairings, Angel Reese Hits Barbados With Victoria’s Secret & A Day In The WAG Life Of Ring Girl Marissa Ayers, and Paige Spiranac Dumps Out Her Masters(piece) To Remind Us Why She’s World’s No. 1, ABS Challenge Results & MEAT
Power Line: Anticlimax, Strait is the gate, Sodom and Gomorrah return, Talking about CBS News, and That shrinking middle class
Racket News: Swamp Log, also, Trump’s F-Bomb On Iran Joins America’s Rollicking History of Presidential Profanity, 
Shark Tank: Patronis Wants Answers From OpenAI After FSU Shooting Allegations
This Ain’t Hell: The Right to Repair, Mamdani rolls out ‘racial equity plan’ favoring minorities over Whites, Australian SAS Victoria Cross recipient arrested for war crimes, California’s $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers backfired, and President Trump delays big Iran attack and provides two-week extension
Transterrestrial Musings: Convenient BS, also, A Turning Point?
Victory Girls: Left Livid Trump Got Win In Iran
Watts Up With That: The lost gas fields that could power Britain for decades, Curtain Opens on the Dress Rehearsal for the Net Zero Calamity, Environmentalists are fighting our living standards in court, and India Helps US Repair ‘Green’ Wreckage
The Federalist: 60 Minutes Undersold The Madness of California’s Train-Building Disaster, California Is Trying To Save The Pediatric Trans Industry Because It’s Dying, There’s A New Name For Those Pierced, Weird-Looking Internet Addicts You Keep Seeing, Lawsuit Seeks To Stop People Who Have Never Lived In Virginia From Voting There, and ‘Zuckbucks’ Cities’ Ballot Blunders Hit Badger State Election Day
Mark Steyn: The New Way of War

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It Would Be Wrong to Say Democrats Are Going Completely Crazy Today …

Posted on | April 7, 2026 | No Comments

. . . because obviously they’ve been crazy for many years. Trump said that tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern is some kind of deadline for Iran, and this morning he turned the volume all the way to 11: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.” Do you know what that means? Neither do I.

Maybe it’s thermonuclear Armageddon, or maybe not, but the Democrats are running around with their hair on fire, screaming like lunatics, even more than their usual hair-on-fire lunacy. Krystal Ball, the Democrat whose failed 2010 congressional campaign resulted in a 29-point GOP landslide, has become frighteningly unhinged over this.

She’s basically repeating Iranian propaganda here, demanding a military coup d’etat against the President of the United States. To repeat what I previously said, nobody knows exactly what Trump’s rhetoric signifies, and while we could speculate about what Trump intends to do, my hunch is that it’s nothing that would justify the “military revolt” that Krystal Ball is calling for. Unlike her, I am completely sane, and not locked into an obsessive fear/rage cycle, so my plans for this evening are to attend my grandson’s Little League game. Maybe the world will blow up tonight, but let’s hope it doesn’t happen before the seventh inning.



 

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