In The Mailbox: 05.30.25

Posted on | May 31, 2025 | 1 Comment

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
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OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Saint Joan of Arc, also, 1956 DeSoto – Delightful, De Lovely!
Twitchy: Julie Hamill Schools CNN’s Brianna Keilar Over Cali Trans Track “Star”, What A Horrible Day To Have Eyes, and With One Nasty Dig, Joy Behar Sets Democrats Even Further Back With Young Men
Louder With Crowder: Michelle Obama claims a woman’s reproductive system isn’t for…reproducing, JD Vance REVELS in how bad legacy media fails at life these days, Instagram bro goes viral fighting his followers until he “gets knocked the f*** out” and he’s the hero we all need, and Jake Tapper’s book tour makes more sense when you see how RECORD LOW his ratings are
Vox Popoli: The Stalwarts of Library, Dual-Citizenship Illegal, and The Winds of Winter is Complete
According To Hoyt: The Voyage of the Space Beagle – Reading The Future of the Past, Growth Mindset and Evil In the Guise of Good, Today, and To Work or not to Work
Monster Hunter Nation: Gun Runner Graphic Novel – Backer Page up now, also, Update on what I’m working on
Upstream Reviews: The Last 49 Days
Stoic Observations: Rent Seeking & Inequality

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Why Trump Must Not Walk Away from Ukraine War Talks
American Greatness: Joe Biden Mocks Idea He Struggles Cognitively, Says He ‘Can Beat the Hell’ Out of Those Making Claim, also, Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration to Terminate Biden’s Mass Parole Program For Now
American Thinker: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Tax Code
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Ten Commandments Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For May 30
Behind The Black: Webb spots a new record-setting galaxy, only 280 million years after the Big Bang, SES cleared by the United Kingdom to buy Intelsat, SpaceX launches GPS satellite for military, NASA unwittingly reveals its bankruptcy by its reliance on AI, and Supreme Court unanimously rules the federal government’s regulatory overuse of environmental impact statements is wrong
Cafe Hayek: Debunking the Self-Styled Debunker, also, Imports Aren’t the Only Substitutes
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: What You See Is All There Is, About That Royal Navy, and When the Lights Go Out
Don Surber: It’s Democrat Policies, Stupid
First Street Journal: The Trump effect is doing some good things
Gates Of Vienna: Islam: Enmity and Hatred Forever
The Geller Report: Michigan Muslim Pleads GUILTY in Plot to Open Fire and Kill Jewish Preschoolers, Supreme Court Lets Trump Strip 500,000 Illegal Migrants Of Legal Status, NYC Mayoral Race Tightens with Jew-Hating, Jihad Marxist Zohran Mamdani Gaining on Cuomo, FBI Opening Inquiry Into Leak of Supreme Court’s Dobbs Decision, and Obama Judge Blocks Trump from Ending Biden-Era Migrant Parole Program
Hollywood In Toto: Whoopi Goldberg Mocks Arson Attacks on Tesla Dealerships, also, FIRST LOOK: Hulu’s ‘King of the Hill’ Reboot
The Lid: Trump Admin. Uncovers Worst Case of Food Stamp Fraud in History
Legal Insurrection: Federal Appeals Court Tosses “Book Ban” Challenge, “the supreme judicial law of the land, at least in District Courts for the past four months, has been whatever Biden did, Trump can’t undo”, ICE Arrests Illegal Alien Who Received No Jail Time for Killing Woman in Car Crash, Jake Tapper’s Ratings Drop in May Despite Wall-to-Wall Media Tour for Biden Decline Book, and Catholic Bishops Sue Washington Over Law Forcing Priests to Break Confession Seal
Outkick: World Boxing Bans Imane Khelif From Eindhoven Box Cup, Will Require Sex Testing For All Fighters, Tim Walz’s Female-Hating State Just Watched A Biological Boy Humiliate A Bunch Of Softball Girls, Greg Sankey Announces Massive Increase In SEC’s Financial Penalties For Field, Court Storming, Aaron Judge, Shohei Ohtani Launch Massive Homers In First Inning Of Dodgers-Yankees World Series Rematch, and Oilers-Panthers Rematch Keeps Wild Jaromir Jagr Streak Alive
Power Line: Give Hibo the heave-ho, The Tariff Cases, Scandal at Harvard, the Big Beautiful Bill and the New York Times, New Orleans Dream Home, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Hope Florida Raises $785 Million At Governor’s Cup Golf Fundraiser
Shot In The Dark: Chicago On The Mississippi, also, Late To The Party
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Three Approaches to Terrorists
This Ain’t Hell: Whiplash on Tariffs, Valor Friday, and US government employee protests Trump’s policies– by attempting to share classified information
Transterrestrial Musings: Elon’s Presentation On Mars Plans
Victory Girls: Chris Cuomo Says Illegals Murdering Americans Is “Manufactured” News
Watts Up With That: Billions In Green Projects Up in Smoke as Trump, GOP Slice Up Dems’ Climate Largesse, Why “cheaper” wind and solar raise costs. Part III: The problem with power markets, Climate Attribution Lawfare Hits New Low with 2021 Heat Wave Lawsuit, and Financials Shift from ‘Green’ Agenda to Greenbacks
The Federalist: How And Why Southern Baptists Are Losing Confidence In The ERLC, MSNBC Repeats Debunked Lie That Not Getting Transgender Hormones Can Kill You, By Appeasing Rogue Judges, Trump Legitimizes Leftists’ Judicial Coup, Judge Blocking Trump’s Harvard Efforts Was Previously Overturned By SCOTUS For Pro-Harvard Ruling, and Nothing In AP’s Presidential Records Act Hit Piece On Trump Is True

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In The Mailbox: 05.29.25

Posted on | May 30, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

M.C.A. Hogarth has a new Kickstarter that may interest you.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

The first Conspiracy, by Centurii-chan

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Democrat Wants to Limit Your Freedom to Move Around, also Don’t Bring a Knife to a Gunfight
EBL: Slap Happy Macron, “?? ‘????? ??? ???????” : The Fall of Constantinople, Patrick Henry and Treason, anti MAGA Tariff Traitors, and Pirates of the Caribbean : The Horologist
Twitchy: CBS Claims Four-Year-Old Could Die Within Days If Deported, Democrat Influencer Claims GOP Is Using Her [Enormous] Weight To Distract From Real Issues, and MSNBC Whines That Troons On Medicaid Face Horrifying Future Under Big Beautiful Bill
Louder With Crowder: Trans TikToker cries big boy tears because she can’t find a suitor, Jake Tapper now slams the media for letting Democrats get away with their anti-Donald Trump lawfare, San Francisco forced to put their woke “equity grading” agenda on hold after HUMILIATING backlash, Influencer claims that Democrats would totally win the male vote if they listen to her, and Court Rules Trump Tariffs Illegal – Threatens to Destroy US National Security
Vox Popoli: AI-Sourcing White Collar Workers, also, Maximum Pressure

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Rubio Says U.S. Will ‘Aggressively Revoke’ Visas of Chinese Students
American Greatness: Democrats and Their DEI Albatrosses
American Power: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine
American Thinker: Why Does the NYT Oppose White Civil Rights?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Red Thursday News
BattleSwarm: Giant Russian Nuke Info Hack
Behind The Black: Elon Musk’s presentation “The Road to Making Life Multiplanetary”, Chinese pseudo-company completes successful hop test of rocket, Scientists believe they have detected the actual process in which Mars loses its atmosphere, South Korea rocket startup launches small prototype rocket, and Just as I refuse to say “native American”, I refuse to say “Gulf of America”
Cafe Hayek: A Conversation With a Protectionist, also, Oh, If Only Humanity Were Never Cursed by the Creation and Use of the Absurd Notion of ‘Balance of Trade’
CDR Salamander: What Happens When You Let The PRC Get Away With the South China Sea Grabs
Don Surber: I won’t side with Dems on BBB
First Street Journal: Killadelphia: While you can try to educate the ignorant, you just can’t fix stupid
Gates Of Vienna: Loay Alshareef Wants a Hamas-Free Palestine
The Geller Report: JUDICIAL TYRANNY: Majority of Trump’s Tariffs Blocked by Federal Trade Court in Sweeping Ruling, Elon Musk Announces End to His Time in Trump Administration, Report: ‘No Evidence’ Biden Knew of Executive Actions Signed Via Autopen, and FBI Director Kash Patel: James Comey Death Threat ‘Copycats’ Forcing Agency to Pull Agents off Child Sex Predator, Drug Trafficking Cases
Hollywood In Toto: Fockers Producer Admits Sequel Handcuffed by Woke, also, Chris Hemsworth Goes the Full Tom Cruise
The Lid: Freed Israeli Hostage Reveals What Hamas Thought when Trump Won the Election
Legal Insurrection: Illegal Alien Arrested in Fatal Jet Ski Hit-and-Run of US Air Force Academy Cadet, The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful of the Starship 9 Test Launch, Undercover Journalist Catches Administrator at UNC-Charlotte Bragging About DEI Despite Ban, Occasional Cortex Ramps Up Politically-Fraught ‘Abolish ICE’ Messaging Ahead of 2026 Midterms, and Columbia Investigated a Grad Student for Criticizing Transgenderism on Social Media
Matt Taibbi: It’s 3 AM and Private Equity Is Extending An Invitation To “The Big Club”
Outkick: If Others Want This 5+11 CFP Format, The SEC And Big Ten Should Welcome This 16-Team Model With Arms Wide Open, Angels Finally Bring Back Superstar Mike Trout, Yankees Fan Learns Not To F*** With Angel Stadium Security After Running On Field, Caitlin Clark Drama Is Emblematic Of Nation Afraid To Discuss Race Honestly, and Kristin Cavallari Gets The Dogs Barking From Her Tub, Paige Spiranac In MAGA Red & Is Bryan Cranston A Moron?
Power Line: Flying on the ground, The Supreme Court Tames NEPA, and Sanctuaries on notice
Shark Tank: McCormick & Ciscomani Introduce Bipartisan Bill Improving Veteran Readiness & Employment Program
Shot In The Dark: Affirmed, One Day At DFL HQ, and Tough
This Ain’t Hell: A few Trump observations, also, DOGE and the DOD
Victory Girls: Sec. Marco Rubio Announces Crackdown on Chinese Student Visas
Watts Up With That: Kathryn Porter on British Thought Leaders, GM Switches Gears On New York EV Plant As GOP Nukes Dems’ Mandate, and Not All That Sensitive
The Federalist: Power-Grabbing WI Judges Are Learning From Rogue Federal Jurists, HHS Tells Doctors To Stop Mutilating Children, Documents Show DC Bar Skirted Its Own Rules And Due Process To Target Jeff Clark, Declassified Doc Shows FBI, DOJ Declined To Charge Russia Collusion-Hoaxer Who Allegedly Lied To Congress, and Hemingway Presses White House: What Are You Actually Doing To Stop Ongoing Judicial Coup?
Mark Steyn: The Writing on the Wall

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In The Mailbox: 05.28.25

Posted on | May 29, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Censorship Industrial Complex
EBL: Speaker Johnson Says Congress Needs To Back DOGE Cuts, also, Eat More Chicken
Twitchy: Scott Jennings Laughs At Dems Trying To Reach Young Men With Tim Walz, Jazz Hands, & Troons, Democrat Activist Claims Young Men Are Pro-Abortion, Pro Gay Marriage, and Pro-BLM, and President trump Rejects $15 Million Settlement From CBS For Kamala Harris Editing Scandal
Louder With Crowder: “This is why you f***ers lost”, Occasional Cortex promised “consequences” for Trump’s Border Czar – Now Tom Homan is challenging her to put up or shut up, Elon Musk realizes GOP actively “undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing”, Undercover footage captures DNC official David Hogg admitting what WH staffer was the one who REALLY ran the Biden Admin, and The Cover-up of the cover-up: Our review of “Original Sin” by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson
Vox Popoli: Rethinking Free Trade, Haldane vs Kimura, and Everybody Hates George
Upstream Reviews: The Standard-Bearer’s Oath
Cedar Sanderson: The Price of a Man’s Life
Postcards From Barsoom: The Imago DEI

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Time for a ‘Big, Beautiful Deal’ for Greenland
American Greatness: MTG Says House Plans to Tee Up First DOGE Cuts Bill Targeting Foreign Aid, NPR, CPB on Monday, also, DNC’s David Hogg and Former White House Staffer Claim ‘Scary’ Jill Biden Staffer Wielded ‘Enormous Amount of Power’ in Biden Regime
American Thinker: Medicaid Cuts Will Save—Not Kill—Americans
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Paxton Up 9 Over Cornyn
Behind The Black: China launches its first asteroid sample return mission, The canyon that Curiosity will eventually climb, Astronomers discover a star radiating in X-rays and radio in ways that fit no known explanation, Engineers pinpoint and bypass fuel line problem on Psyche, and A positive endgame in Gaza begins to loom
Cafe Hayek: On Retaliatory Tariffs
CDR Salamander: This Is The Greatest Existential Threat To The Republic
Dana Loesch: From a Chainsaw to a Nail File
Don Surber: Democrats have a BO problem
Gates Of Vienna: Not Through Me
The Geller Report: Iran Rejects Temporary Freeze on Enrichment, Says It’s Not Worried About Sanctions
Glenn Reynolds: Scary AI and Scarier Not-Scary AI
Hollywood In Toto: Patti LuPone Says Trump’s Kennedy Center ‘Should Get Blown Up’, Life of Chuck Is Craziest Stephen King Adaptation Ever, Gad Saad Gently Shreds Kyra Sedgwick’s Anti-Trump Fears, Bring Her Back Is Repulsive, Not Revolutionary, and Karate Kid: Legends Offers Uneasy Blend of Franchise Favorites
The Lid: Sec. State Marco Rubio Blocks Visas for Foreign Officials Who Censor Americans
Legal Insurrection: SCOTUS Won’t Review “There are Only Two Genders” Middle School T-Shirt Free Speech Case, Three Months Later, DOGE Finally Gets Access To Treasury Payment Systems, Harvard Kennedy School Could Lose 60% of Student Body Without Ability to Enroll Foreign Students, Summer of European Blackouts Continues, with Outages in Nice and Cannes in France, and Critical Minerals and Rare Earths Mines Begin Popping Up Outside China After Trump’s EOs
Matt Taibbi: Does “Abundance” Beat America’s Culture-Warrior In Chief? Who Started The Culture War? and Jake Tapper’s Biden Book Is Hilarious & Insane,
Outkick: Angel ‘Smollett’ Reese And The Race Hoaxers Must Face Accountability, Miami Marlins Infielder Caught Crying On Field After Making Series Of Errors, Caitlin Clark Delivered Massive Ratings Again For WNBA Prior To Injury, Nancy Mace Is The World’s Hottest Mechanic, Nikki Glaser Pops Her Top To Let ‘Em Breathe & Angel Needs God! and Livvy Dunne Reveals She Played Through Pain To Shoot SI Cover
Power Line: Personal & confidential – WFB, Jr., A word from Secretary Rubio, and National Hamburger Day
Shark Tank: DeSantis Signs Bill Boosting Autism Support & Education Programs
Shot In The Dark: As The DFL Votes
The Political Hat: The Woke Way Of Thinking
This Ain’t Hell: Sad Memorial Day in Grapevine, also, Republicans compared to apex predators, Democrats to slow animals
Victory Girls: Secret Service Catfight Signals That The Agency Needs A Purge
Watts Up With That: Blackouts Surge – How Fragile Grids Threaten Global Energy Security, Exposing Alaska’s Green New Deal (Part I), and Reliance on ‘Renewables’ Makes Widespread Blackout Nightmare More Likely
The Federalist: Judge Ho Gives SCOTUS The Smackdown It Deserves, Mississippi GOP Asks Cops To Investigate Potential ‘Vote Buying’ Schemes, Like Scott Pelley’s Commencement Rant, 60 Minutes Is Unserious Democrat Propaganda, DOJ Sues NC Elections Board For Registering Voters Without Proper ID, and Media Falls Over Itself To Defend South African President Who Claimed Genocidal Chants Were Free Speech
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet: Special Gloatfest Edition

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George Floyd and the ‘Backlash’ Narrative

Posted on | May 28, 2025 | 3 Comments

‘Social justice’ in Minneapolis, May 28, 2020

Amid a nationwide carnival of destructive violence following the death of George Floyd in May 2020, few episodes of the “most peaceful protests” were more idiotic than burning down an affordable housing project under construction in Minneapolis. The six-story building was to have had 189 apartments, including 38 “affordable” units, as well as ground-floor retail space, and had been scheduled to open in spring 2021, but the arsonists of the Black Lives Matters movement destroyed it.

Nobody was ever prosecuted for that crime, but very few members of the mobs that rioted that year were prosecuted anywhere, let alone in Minneapolis, where the mayor and governor and district attorney were too busy groveling before the BLM crowd to do anything about the crime wave that followed George Floyd’s death. While the arsonists who burned down the affordable housing project went unpunished, the same was not true of those who torched the nearby Third Precinct police station — that was prosecuted as a federal crime, you see.

Clockwise from top left: Braden Michael Wolfe, Davon De-Andre Turner, Bryce Michael Williams, and Dylan Shakespeare Robinson

All of them got from two to four years in federal prison. What did these perps do to advance “social justice”? Where is the value-added? Who benefits from mindless destruction? Well, Democrats do.

You can click here for a useful compendium of facts about the death of George Floyd, who was not “murdered,” no matter what anyone tries to tell you. But the facts didn’t matter to the rioters, who did not actually care about George Floyd. They were just Democratic voters, whipped up into a frenzy of hatred, so that they could be mobilized on behalf of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign. At one level, Black Lives Matter was merely a get-rich-quick swindle — “social justice” for cash — perpetrated by Patrisse Cullors and friends. At another level, however, it was about converting accusations of racism into political capital for Democrats.

Every year, about 1,000 people in the United States are shot to death by law enforcement officers — roughly three times a day, cops shoot and kill somebody somewhere in America, but very few of those cases become national news stories. The media are very selective about which police shootings they treat as important enough for national attention. In every year since 2017, the number of white suspects shot by cops has been larger than the number of black suspects shot. But there is no “social justice” angle in cops killing white suspects, so you never hear about any of those shootings. Also, you never hear about any case where an armed suspect gets into a shootout with cops. No, it’s always the unarmed black suspect whose death in a police shooting gets national media attention.

Guess what? Such shootings are a statistical rarity, and even in those rare cases, there are usually extenuating circumstances that explain what happened. Still, if you’re working with a sample size as large as 1,000 fatal shootings by police, and if about one-third of those cases involve black suspects, all you need is for one percent (1%) to be “controversial,” and you’ve got the potential for a race riot three times a year.

BLM activists had a habit of doing the “say their names” thing, rolling out a list of names of putative victims of police racism. Next time you see one of those lists, you should take some time to research the individual cases, because the majority of them fall into that “extenuating circumstances” category. The case that put BLM on the map — the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri — is quite typical. Activists manufactured a myth of innocence about Brown — “Hands up, don’t shoot” — but investigation proved otherwise. Even the Obama Justice Department couldn’t find evidence of police wrongdoing in that case.

So here’s the New York Times headline:

5 Years After George Floyd’s Murder,
the Backlash Takes Hold
The Black Lives Matter movement, kicked
into high gear after Mr. Floyd’s murder
on May 25, 2020, has given way to the politics
of “white grievance” championed by President Trump.

You see? It’s all about politics. It’s not about public safety or justice or any real concern about civil rights. Rather, it’s about Trump — Trump! Trump! Trump! — and the Democratic Party talking point that any time a Republican wins an election, it’s bad for black people. This is a sort of tautology that liberals never question, because they operate from the premise of their own good intentions (“we vote Democrat because we want to help black people”) and, on that basis, assume that anyone who opposes them must have bad intentions. To them, it’s self-evident.

Was all the arson, vandalism and looting in response to George Floyd’s death good for black people? Can anyone explain how burning down an affordable housing development helped the black community?

More generally, did the anti-police rhetoric of the Black Lives Matter Movement, and the “reform” policies implemented in response to that rhetoric, help or hurt the black community? Isn’t it true that BLM’s anti-police message tended to justify and excuse criminal behavior? And what were the consequences of that? Say hello to Nazir Clemons.

In December 2021, Clemons was working as a GrubHub delivery driver, and was parked outside of a restaurant on Clark Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, waiting for an order, when he was robbed by two armed men, who shot him and stole his car, a blue 2012 Ford Fusion. Fortunately, Clemons survived being shot, but guess what? The next day, 20 miles away in the Cleveland suburb of Solon, Ohio, police spotted the stolen Ford and a pursuit took place that ended when the driver, swerving to avoid “stop sticks” that police had put in his path, lost control and rammed into two other vehicles. Inside one of the other vehicles was an 85-year-old woman who died from her injuries.

The judge threw the book at Jaymarlon Hayes:

A harsh sentence for 19-year-old Jaymarlon Hayes today who will now spend 71.5 years in prison.
Cuyahoga County Judge William Vodrey said it’s where he belongs to protect the public.
“The defense suggest that the defendant has the potential to do good. I hope that’s true. However any good you do, will be within the state prison,” Judge Vodrey said.
Within a five day span, prosecutors said Hayes stole a car, shot a man and then crashed into a car killing 85-year-old Sally Schultz.

In appealing the lengthy sentence, his attorneys argued that “Hayes has an IQ of 72, and a record of untreated mental health problems,” and also, “Hayes’s father was incarcerated for most of Hayes’s childhood.” How is that an argument for leniency? You’re stupid, you’re crazy, and you inherited your father’s criminal tendencies? But I digress . . .

The deadly crime spree that put Jaymarlon Hayes in prison was not an isolated incident, but rather part of a trend of out-of-control crime in the wake of the George Floyd riots. Carjackings and other vehicle thefts soared nationwide. A study of major cities found that “the average carjacking rate was 20.1 (per 100,000) in 2018 and 37.9 in 2023” — that’s a 90% increase. There was also “an increase in motor vehicle theft, with the average rate rising from 475.6 in 2018 to 1,070.5 . . . in 2023” — more than a 100% increase. And finally: “Carjacking victims and reported offenders were disproportionately male and Black.”

Am I engaged in “backlash” by calling attention to these facts? Is it some kind of “social justice” to tolerate violent crime? Must we turn loose black criminals, without regard to the fact that most of the victims of their crimes are also black? How does such an attitude — the “revolving-door” jail, setting criminal free with a slap on the wrist — actually help anyone?

Some people say America has a race problem, but I would argue instead that America has a liberal problem. Liberals elect Democrats, and the results are predictably bad — Minneapolis has been a Democrat stronghold forever — and yet somehow it’s always Republicans who get blamed for what goes on in such places. The drug-addled criminal George Floyd dies in Minneapolis, and it’s Trump’s fault. Those of us who voted for Trump, and who live far away from Minneapolis, we are to blame for George Floyd’s death, rather than the Democrat-voting citizens of Minneapolis. Ladies and gentlemen, I plead not guilty.

If you want to call that “backlash,” so be it.

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In The Mailbox: 05.27.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | May 28, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

SOTD – RIP, All American Boy
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Ship Happens
EBL: Florida Man Shot Dead By Police After Gator Attack, “Social Justice” Professor Zaid Mashhour Haddad Arrested For Child Porn Possession, Pee-wee as Himself, “The Phony King of England”, and Memorial Day
Twitchy: J6 Prosecutor Whines & Cries About Being Fired, Jake Tapper’s PR Team Has Him Trying To Sell His Fake “Humility” But Nobody’s Buying, and Soaring With The Bries?
Louder With Crowder: Trans Starbucks employee is in full-blown meltdown mode over a dress code, RFK Jr makes a major change with the COVID vaccines that is long overdue, California ignored Donald Trump’s EO to protect girls’ sports against trans boys, so now POTUS is getting directly involved, and Democrats have $20 million dollar plan to study why dudes think Democrats suck so hard, and the GOP may never lose again
Vox Popoli: Talk to the Hand, Get Your UATV On, There Will Be No Peace, Snow and Sorrow, and AI Rejects Evolution
The Bugscuffle Gazette: “The Field of Honor at dawn, sir!”
Stoic Observations: My Black Fatigue

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The End of Neoconservatism, also, Randy Fine Should Resign
American Greatness: MTG on Slowing Federal Spending – ‘Congress Must Pass DOGE Cuts’, The So-Called Trump-Ramaphosa ‘Ambush’, and DeSantis Slams Republican Failure to Codify DOGE Cuts – ‘Demoralizing,’ ‘Represents Betrayal of the Voters’
American Thinker: The Non-Existent Flu Cases of 2020, The Party of Ba’al and Jezebel, The Western Media’s Role in Genocide, Assassinations, and the Near Destruction of the U.S., Sgt. York’s Memorial Day Message Still Inspires, and Why Do Truck Drivers Need to Speak English?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, also, Animal’s Daily Hamas is Lying News
BattleSwarm: Memorial Day – Honoring Robert Turner Waugh, Memorial Day – Honoring Jose F. Valdez, Blue State Exodus = Doom For Democrats, and Democrats Want To Keep Repeat Offenders On The Streets
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches Starship/Superheavy on ninth test flight, but experiences issues in orbit, SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites, The Sun’s surface, in high resolution, Live stream of Elon Musk’s speech to SpaceX employees today, and Supreme Court declines case of blacklisted student who declared “There are only two genders”
Cafe Hayek: Free to Choose to “Buy American”, Heaven Save Us From This ‘Negotiator’, More on the Condition of U.S. Manufacturing, and Andrew Heaton Talks With Phil Gramm and Me About The Triumph of Economic Freedom
CDR Salamander: Ready to defend Guam…from the south?
Chicago Boyz: Keeping Receipts, Joe Hu Jintao, Memorial Day Thoughts, and A Plague of Credentialed Terrorists?
Da Tech Guy: The AL Beta Division of the 1973 Dynasty league, And Finally the NL Beta Division of our 1973 Dynasty league, and Scott McKay at the American Spectator Gives an Exercise in Reality about the House, Senate and the “Big Beautiful Bill”
Don Surber: Trump has Harvard on the run
First Street Journal: This is why Hillary Clinton got to remain a private citizen, World War III Watch – It could still happen if people get stupid, and Do you need the government to manage you?
Gates Of Vienna: Tommy Robinson Has Been Released From Prison, The Muslim Brotherhood in the Netherlands, Part 6, Memorial Day 2025: Lest We Forget, The Muslim Brotherhood in Sweden, Part 20, and Knife Jihad in Bielefeld
The Geller Report: NYC: Racist Screams “B*tch, Suck My D*ck” at Jewish Family Walking with Their 8-Year-Old Child to Synagogue, Obama Judge Enters TRO Against Trump Administration in Harvard Case WITHOUT a Trump Attorney Even Appearing in Case, PM Netanyahu Says ‘Free Palestine’ is just today’s version of ‘Heil Hitler’, DC Jewish Museum Terrorist Elias Rodriguez Linked to Radical Jew Hating, CCP Groups, and This is What “Globalize the Intifada” Looks Like
Hollywood In Toto: The Unofficial Final Destination Film That Trumps Them All, Variety Admits to Hollywood Blacklist 2.0, Doesn’t Care, This Keanu Reeves Casting Decision (Still) Makes Zero Sense, FLASHBACK to Howard Stern’s Fawning Biden ‘Interview’, and Why Anti-Trump Mickey 17 Deserved Its Box Office Fate
The Lid: Majority of Americans Believe Biden was Mentally Unfit to Be President, also, Judge Delivers Huge Pro-Life Win Ending Terrible Biden Rule
Legal Insurrection: FBI Investigating Cocaine Found at White House, DC Pipe Bombing, and Dobbs Leak, You Won’t Believe The “Unexpected Heavy Hitters” In Proposed Democrat “Shadow Cabinet” (Actually, Yes You Will), How Elias Rodriguez Gave the Game Away by Yelling ‘Free Palestine’, Trump Admin Wants All Agencies to Cut Funds to Harvard, and “Carthage Must Be Destroyed” and the UN Dismantled
Outkick: Don’t Blame FOX For Ohio State Versus Texas Noon Kickoff, WNBA Should Investigate Brittney Griner Seemingly Uttering Profanities About White Girls, Charles Barkley Calls Out ESPN: ‘Anthony Edwards is Not The Face of NBA’, Is It Already Time For The New York Mets To Worry About Juan Soto? and Riley Gaines Responds To Jemele Hill’s Personal Shots In Defense Of Brittney Griner
Power Line: Charlie Rangel passes at 94, Beyond Parody, and What the Hell Happened In 1971?
Shark Tank: FL Republicans Attack Dem Rep Moskowitz Over Suspicious Stock Trades Amid Tariff Talks
Shot In The Dark: Democrat Female Leader Math
The Political Hat: Violating The 2nd Amendment For Wrongthink, Ex Post Facto
This Ain’t Hell: Golden Dome Panned by Russia, China, North Korea, The US Supreme Court refused to hear a free-speech case, New Pentagon security measures seen as an attack on the freedom of the press, Blank looks, and Busy week for nomenclatureists?
Victory Girls: Five Years Later The George Floyd Victimhood Mythology Lives On, “Moment Of Togetherness” For Macron And Wife, and Trump Pardons Former Sheriff Scott Jenkins, But Why?
Watts Up With That: A New Era for American Science – The Gold Standard is Back, Guardian’s Mosquito Scare Busted – Climate Change Not Bringing Tropical Diseases to UK, and Green Giants vs. Trump – Billion-Dollar Enviro Groups Fight to Save Wind Power
The Federalist: Five Years After The Fires, The Myth Of George Floyd Remains, NPR Is Under The Delusion It Has A Constitutional Right To Your Money, This Summer, Bring Back Adult Swim, Alito, Thomas Left Stunned After SCOTUS Refuses To Protect Middle Schooler’s Speech Rights, and Phil Robertson Leaves An Eternity-Focused Legacy That Will Last Well Beyond Duck Dynasty’s Fame
Mark Steyn: The Swallows Skim, and All Is Hushed, Starving Artists – A Trip to Bohemia in Girl Without a Room, and The Worm has Turned

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In The Mailbox: 05.27.25 (Leftover Linkagery)

Posted on | May 27, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Took Memorial Day off because why not.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Buffalo Public Schools, Angry Cops, and More, also Even More on the Buffalo School System
EBL: Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery 2025, The Ones That Didn’t Make It Back Home, Marisa Tomei, Climate Chode Michael Mann owes people some money, and Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon
Twitchy: Rasmussen Poll Shows 50% Of Country Thinks We’re On The Right Track, Big Mistake Canada! and This Is What We Voted For
Louder With Crowder: Brave Pup Fights Off Pack Of Coyotes In Suspenseful Video, “My daughter matters too”: Mother shuts down woke school forcing (trans) boys into girls’ sports, and “Original Sin” authors claim Biden health coverup worse than Watergate… but of course, now comes their anti-Trump pivot
Vox Popoli: The Irrelevance of International Economics, A Century of Damning Evidence, A Tragic Trust, Russia Moves Forward, and What Did We Expect?
Cedar Sanderson: Confirmation Bias
Jim McCoy: Zombie Lieutenant, Steel On Target, and Reunion
Toni Airaksinen: It’s Official – I Converted To Judaism
Upstream Reviews: Chronos Warlock
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Memorial Day 2025,
Defending The Wood Perilous: Now AI Are Writing Novels,

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Don Surber: Memorial Day 2025
Matt Taibbi: The Quiet American Has Never Been More Relevant
STUMP: Political Mortality Update – Third Democratic Rep Dies In 2025, also Let’s Be Safe Out There – Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Amazon Warehouse Deals
Zombie Lieutenant
Steel On Target
Reunion
Chronos Warlock

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May 27: A Date That Will Live in Hilarity

Posted on | May 27, 2025 | No Comments

Anthony Weiner — hacking victim?

Big hat-tip to Ace of Spades for reminding us that it was on this date — May 27, 2011 — that Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) used his official Twitter account to send a photo of his . . . pelvic bulge, and then claimed that his account had been hacked. Wikipedia:

On May 27, 2011, Weiner used his public Twitter account to send a link to a photo on yfrog. The picture of his erect penis concealed by boxer briefs[ was sent to a 21-year-old female college student from Seattle, Washington, who was following his posts on the social media website.[8] Though the link was quickly removed from Weiner’s Twitter account, screen shots of Weiner’s original message and of the photo were captured by a user identified as “Dan Wolfe” on Twitter and subsequently sent to blogger Andrew Breitbart who published them on his BigGovernment website the following day. CNN described it as a “lewd photograph” of a “man bulge in … underwear”.
On June 1, 2011, Weiner gave a series of interviews in which he denied sending the photo and suggested that someone, perhaps a political opponent, had hacked into his accounts and published the photo.

Memories light the corners of my mind . . .

Yeah, I don’t need Wikipedia to tell me how that went down, because I was living through it every minute, starting on May 28, and continuing through dozens of blog posts up until Weiner resigned June 16.

Of course, working in “file-it-and-forget-it” mode, as is my habit, the details had blurred in my memory. Like, I’d completely forgotten the name Gennette Nicole Cordova, the Seattle-area student who was the intended recipient of Weiner’s crotch photo. In hindsight, obviously, we know what happened — Weiner meant to send her that photo as a DM, but somehow fat-fingered it, so that instead it was a public tweet.

At the time — the fateful tweet went out late at night on the Friday before Memorial Day that year — I was trying to figure out if there could be some kind of innocent explanation, for example, the possibility that one of Weiner’s staffers, with access to his account, had accidentally sent the photo. And I remember calling up Andrew Breitbart to discuss this with him. Andrew’s response was blunt: “No, Stacy. Trust me — there’s more.”

What I didn’t know at that time was that, about a week earlier, someone had sent an email to Breitbart’s tip line, saying that they had also received lewd photos from Weiner. That email was from a woman who lived in Texas, and after the “Weinergate” story broke on May 27, Breitbart went back and saw this email, and reached out to the woman. Unfortunately, she had gone off on a long weekend camping trip — completely out of touch — so they could not immediately get confirmation. In other words, Breitbart and his team knew for a fact that Gennette Cordova wasn’t the only woman Weiner had been “sexting” with, but until the Texas woman returned from her camping trip, they couldn’t prove it. So there were several days of uncertainty, during which time Democrats sought to defend Weiner by demonizing Breitbart. Oh, it was crazy!

June 6, 2011 — the Weinergate avalanche

June 6 was the big breakthrough, when the Texas woman, an Army veteran and single mom named Meagan Broussard, told her story on Breitbart’s site. The same day, Anthony Weiner announced a press conference in New York. Weiner was late to the press conference, but Andrew Breitbart was there on time, so the assembled media demanded that Breitbart answer questions — upstaging the congressman:

The vindication of a genius, is what it was. When Weiner finally spoke at that June 6 press conference, he defended himself by saying that while his behavior was “inappropriate,” it was “consensual,” and he insisted that he would not be resigning. So then we had another 10 days of it — Democrats trying to see if they could leverage their media allies to spin the “rising star” congressman out of his jam, until at last they were compelled to admit it was hopeless, and he resigned June 16.

That very day, it so happened, I had to fly out of Dulles Airport to Minneapolis for the Right Online conference, and guess who I found “holding court” in the lobby of the Minneapolis Hilton?

Good times, my friends. Andrew died less than a year later, and it was an irreparable loss. There has never been anyone like him, and he was at the absolute peak of his fame then. All we have left are memories.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!

UPDATE II: By the way, it was past 2 a.m. when I conducted that brief video interview with Andrew Breitbart in the lobby of the Minneapolis Hilton. While I was flying to Minneapolis, Weiner was announcing his resignation, so as soon as I got to the hotel, I started blazing away on my column for the American Spectator:

By the time Weiner gave his resignation speech Thursday in New York, he was such a pariah that even his political mentor, Sen. Charles Schumer, would not even speak publicly in his defense, instead issuing a brief statement wishing Weiner well. . . .
[T]he digital images that defined the scandal known as WeinerGate left little to the imagination. There was also a transcript of Weiner’s sexually explicit Facebook exchanges with Las Vegas blackjack dealer Lisa Weiss, and the fact that Weiner’s Twitter correspondents included both a blonde porn star and a 17-year-old high school girl with a penchant for freely employing the F-word in her online communications.
In retrospect, it is possible to see Friday, June 11, as the day on which it became clear that Weiner was doomed. The scandal had begun two weeks earlier — late on the evening of Friday, May 27 — when Weiner sent a lewd photo of his crotch as a Twitter message addressed to a 21-year-old college student from Seattle. While Weiner first attempted to explain this as the work of “hackers” or a “prank,” further revelations forced the congressman to call a June 6 press conference where he admitted the truth: He had meant to send that photo as a private message and by a simple error had sent it publicly to the more than 40,000 people following his Twitter account. At that press conference, Weiner confessed to having carried on a half-dozen “online relationships” with women, but vowed he would not resign.
That vow became non-operational June 11, when police in Delaware showed up at the home of Weiner’s teenage Twitter correspondent. Although police said they found no evidence of criminality, and Weiner said there was nothing “indecent” in his private Twitter exchanges with the teen, the very fact that he had been in communication with her was disturbing. In light of what was already known about Weiner’s other “online relationships,” talking dirty and sending pictures of his penis to women he’d never met, for him to have a 17-year-old among his Internet contacts… well, it just looked bad. Within 24 hours, three top Democrats — including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, both of whom had previously defended Weiner — called for his resignation. . . .

You can read the rest of that, in case you’d forgotten. But it explains why, when I began recording that interview with Andrew, he asked, “Did you hit your deadline?” Yeah, man, I sure did.

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Conclusions in Search of Evidence: Sex and the Modern Female Journalist

Posted on | May 26, 2025 | No Comments

The Guardian’s ‘reproductive health and justice reporter’

My two daughters are named Kennedy and Reagan, and one of my sons is named Jefferson, so I’m not against the trend of presidential names, but probably you shouldn’t name your daughter “Carter.” That was my first thought when I encountered the name Carter Sherman, who writes for the U.S. edition of the Guardian. Knowing my readership, I’m sure the commenters will engage in a spree of ad hominem remarks about Miss Sherman’s appearance, but while y’all will be slagging her looks, my concern is about the nature of her work. Mark Judge has a very interesting article about Miss Sherman and her forthcoming book, The Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation’s Fight Over Its Future.

There’s a certain hall-of-mirrors factor involved here: When Miss Sherman was an undergraduate at Northwestern University, she and her sorority sisters were interviewed by Peggy Orenstein of the New York Times, who was working on a book about young women’s sex lives. Orenstein, then in her 50s, was focused on the theme of “hookup culture,” and Miss Sherman says she and her Northwestern sorority sisters disappointed Orenstein’s expectations: “Frankly, we weren’t slutty enough.” So now Miss Sherman has written her own book, with its own preconceived conclusion, i.e., that “sexual conservatism” is the real danger to women, and I suppose her work is about as reliable as Orenstein’s, which is to say, not reliable at all.

“Never Take Advice From Feminists,” I warned in 2016:

The influence of feminism tends to steer individual women, and even entire societies, toward “The Darwinian Dead End,” as I’ve called it. The rhetoric of “choice” and “empowerment” is so strongly associated with declining fertility that, nearly a half-century after the eruption of the Women’s Liberation movement of the 1960s, you might suppose this ideology would have perished along with its proponents. . . .
The road to feminism’s utopia of “gender equality” is paved with dead babies. Yet these Death Cult fanatics still expect to be taken seriously when they offer parenting advice to those of us who consider our children a blessing from God.

That 2016 blog post specifically mentioned Peggy Orenstein and her then-new book, Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape. My point was that Orenstein could scarcely be trusted, given her background and ideological commitments, and I will take Miss Sherman’s testimony as proof that I was correct in that judgment.

Peggy Orenstein

If the commenters could be relied upon to make harsh comments about Carter Sherman’s looks, they’ll have a field day with Peggy Orensteiin, but of course that’s not my point. We may be approaching the event horizon of feminism’s solipsistic tendency, when we have feminist authors writing books about sex, based on critiques of other feminist authors’ books about sex. All of these authors are smugly certain that they possess the Feminist Truth About Sex, and none of them consider the possibility that, perhaps, the truth about sex is not feminist. What I mean to suggest is that because feminism is a radical egalitarian project, the fundamental premise of Equality (with a capital “E” denoting its quasi-religious status among feminists) will make any discussion of sexual behavior tendentious, biased toward a particular political objective.

Could I elaborate on that theme at length? Yes, I wrote a whole book about radical feminism, so writing at length on this topic is easy for me, if perhaps somewhat redundant at this point. I have long since become weary of pointing out the delusions involved in Equality — a condition which has never existed anywhere at any time in human history — and am disappointed that so many people continue to mindlessly worship at the idolatrous altar of Equality. What is particularly disappointing about Carter Sherman’s take on the subject is that, having seen through Peggy Orenstein’s façade of journalistic truth-telling, she seems to think the appropriate response to previous feminist failures is to double-down on Equality and declare war on “sexual conservatism”:

Specifically, sexual conservatism aims to implement policies that make it difficult and dangerous to have any kind of sex that is not heterosexual, married, and—as it seeks to limit access to abortion and birth control—potentially procreative. In addition to elevating heterosexual and married sex, American sexual conservatism tries to enforce specific ideas about gender, about what makes a man and what makes a woman. It wants to turn the United States back to a pre-internet age—to, say, the 1950s, before the Sexual Revolution and second-wave feminism of the 1960s and ’70s, a time when a (white) man was expected to have a (white) wife, 2.5 (white) kids, and a suburban home on a single salary. This is not a short-term plot. It is a slow-drip corrosion of community and state-level attacks that normalizes the loss of freedoms and ultimately clears the path for national action.

Mark Judge has more of that. Here’s a question that Carter Sherman might want to consider: What’s so wrong about sex being “heterosexual, married, and . . . procreative”? Or what is so precious about other kinds of sex that the threatened “loss of freedoms” is a societal crisis? While we’re asking questions that feminists never bother to ask, was life really so awful for women in “the 1950s, before the Sexual Revolution and second-wave feminism of the 1960s and ’70s”? Are women happier now that many of them have no hope of achieving that kind of suburban life?

One important difference between Peggy Orenstein and Carter Sherman is that Orenstein, born in 1961, at least has some direct knowledge of what life was like for her parents “before the Sexual Revolution and second-wave feminism,” whereas for Sherman, born in 1993, this is all ancient history. And, because she is a feminist, certainly Sherman believes that the 1950s were a Dark Night of Fascist Oppression — Leave It to Beaver was Nazi propaganda directed by Leni Riefenstahl, with Ward Cleaver as Hitler, and his wife June in the role of Eva Braun. Carter Sherman expects young women to share her existential fear — what a dreadful thing it would be to “turn back the clock” to those days!

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Unlike feminists, I’m not an ideological ax-grinder madly pursuing a utopian idée fixe. As explained Saturday, my motive is an honest one, which Samuel Johnson once described: “No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.” Pretty sure Harper-Collins isn’t going to offer me a six-figure advance to write a book (Carter Sherman Is a Skank and Other Facts About Feminism) which is why I’m rattling the tip jar this Memorial Day weekend — just $5 or $10 would help — and reminding readers that the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

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