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Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.
OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Alligator Has the Right of Way
Director Blue: An Open Letter to Tulsi Gabbard
EBL: Jim Lovell RIP, Sharing Scottish Culture – Bagpiper on train in Mumbai, Howard Stern Gets Cancelled By Sirius, How to Fillet a Small Fish, and You Need to Fillet Pompano Like This!
Twitchy: Scott Jennings Says Dems Are In A High-Speed Meltdown Over Citizens-Only Census, Frank Luntz Delivers Devastating News To Stunned CNN Anchors, and Ratchet Crockett Answers Staff’s Complaints That She’s a Bad Boss
Louder With Crowder: Uh-oh – Jasmine Crockett staffers are starting to speak out about what a horrible person she is, Shrill WNBA coach won’t calm down about green dildos, and New trend has grown adults sucking on pacifiers because they can’t handle being grown adults
Vox Popoli: A New Evolutionary Epicycle, Broken Idol, and Iran Still Has It
According To Hoyt: Out of Ammo, A Writer’s Bleg, Alas We Are Ronin, and So Tired
Monster Hunter Nation: WIP
Stoic Observations: A Midcentury Modern Mashup
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Trad Inc.
American Conservative: Eighty Years of the Bomb
American Greatness: DOJ Launches Grand Jury Investigation into Letitia James’ Prosecution of Trump, ‘We all know Democrats cheat’, How Intelligence Community Analysis Rules Were Flagrantly Violated in the Fraudulent Russia Collusion Intelligence Assessment, Trump Orders New Census Excluding Noncitizens, Potentially Threatening Dozens of Democrat House Seats, and ICE Says ‘Arrests and Deportations Will Continue’ After Arsonist Hurls Rock, Sets Fire at Back of ICE Building in Washington State
American Thinker: Governor Abbott’s Resolve Has the Backing of History, The Federal Job Cuts Disaster That Never Was, The ‘Ghastly’ Gamble – How the Clinton–Obama Intelligence Op Risked War to Take Down Trump, and Burn Notice – Russia Hoax Secrets Found in FBI Burn Bags
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News, Animal’s Red Thursday News, and Rule Five Trump Successor Friday
Baldilocks: Buried Treasure, Re-Introduction,
BattleSwarm: Russiagate – The Not Even Remotely Shocking Revelations, Texas Mail In Ballot Security Court Win, Sig’s P320 Problem Deepens, and LinkSwarm For August 8
Behind The Black: Jim Lovell, the world’s first space cadet, passes away at 97, Indian rocket startup Skyroot tests solid-fueled motor, Firefly’s stock value far exceeds the predicted price, ULA’s CEO provides update on Vulcan and the company’s launch plans, and Sending Juno to fly past interstellar comet 3I/Atlas?
Cafe Hayek: No, American Economic Growth Was Not Fueled by Protectionism, The Debate Is About Protectionism, Not Raising Revenue, More on the Underlying Justification of Trump’s Tariffs, and Trump 1.0 Compared to (So Far) Trump 2.0
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Why I Keep My Old Cars, Hiroshima & Nagasaki – A War Remembered, Six Hundred Million Years in K-12, and The Bomb at Eighty
Da Tech Guy: Invoking St. Myron of Crete on his Feastday with Song (to the Tune of Taking Care of Business)
Don Surber: Trump and Tulsi roped the dopes
First Street Journal: You in a heap o’ trouble, boy! also, You [also] in a heap o’ trouble, boy!
Gates Of Vienna: Subsidizing Our Own Demise: DHS Hands Big Grants to Terror-Linked Groups, Culture-Enriching Rape in Perugia, All Choked Up, and Got a Light, Guv’nor?
The Geller Report: ISLAM IN AFRICA – Muslims BEHEAD Christians in Mozambique, Burn Church and Homes, Trump Brokers Peace Deal Between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Corrupt Fulton County DA Fani Willis and Bill Barr Worked Together on the RICO Case Targeting Donald Trump, Germany Will Halt Weapons to Israel Despite Images of Tortured, Emaciated Jewish Hostages, and President Trump Orders New Census EXCLUDING ILLEGALS
Hollywood In Toto: The Bad Guys 2 Saves Very Best for Last, Weapons Confirms a New Horror Auteur Has Arrived, Why Didn’t Pedro Pascal Stand Up for Gina Carano? We’re About to See a LOT of Sydney Sweeney, and Ebony & Ivory – Oh Lord, Why Must We Watch This?
Legal Insurrection: Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak in Harlem Leaves 3 Dead and Over 65 Sick, Can ‘Wokeness’ Be Defeated? Massachusetts Teachers Association Pushing New Tax to Fund ‘Free’ College, Cincinnati Police Did Not Ask Attack Victim’s Name, Take Statement, Or Call an Ambulance, and Appeals Court Halts Judge Boasberg’s ‘Turn the Planes Around’ Criminal Contempt Finding
Matt Taibbi: The Deep State Is Alive & Well Selling The Same Old Lie
Outkick: Lions-Falcons End Preseason Game In Prayer Circle After Terrifying Injury To Detroit CB Morice Norris, While Manfred Downplays Salary Cap Showdown With Harper, MLB Lockout Appears Inevitable, NASCAR Driver Toni Breidinger’s Day Derailed by Theft and Late-Race Mechanical Issue, WNBA Cracks Down on Dildo-Tossing Fans, Threatens Criminal Prosecution, and Heidi Klum Grabs Attention For Two Obvious Reasons, NASCAR’s Natalie Decker Gets Wild & New Sydney Sweeney Ad!
Power Line: Dems, Democracy and the Census, Leclerc at Dachau, Moriarty no more, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Rep. Gimenez Looks To Oust Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Guatemala City) Over Guatemala Loyalty Comment
Shot In The Dark: Brand of Bothers, Kind of a Good News/Bad News/Worse News Situation, and One Day At MNDFL HQ
The Political Hat: Not Quite GamerGate Redux, Quick Takes – Queering Academia: Queer Marine Biology; Queer Archeology; Queer Dictionary, and Firing Line Friday – A Look at the Hillside Stranglers
This Ain’t Hell: Jim Lovell dies age 97, Judge Boasberg’s contempt orders against Trump officials reversed, Transgendered Airmen denied early retirement, President Donald Trump reportedly ordered the military to go after the cartels, and Valor Friday
Transterrestrial Musings: Jim Lovell, This Appears To Be An Amazing New Flick, Howard Stern, Commercial Space Station Policy, and A Rare Event
Victory Girls: Trolls Go After Sydney Sweeney’s “Nazi” Dog, California’s Latest Anti-Parent Bill Alarms Even Liberals, and Kristi Noem, South Park, And The Art Of Taking A Joke
Watts Up With That: La Niña Continues – Globe To Keep Cooling For Another Year, Media Math Fail: Why Everywhere Can’t Warm Faster Than the Global Average, All Spin Aside, the Emerging AI Data Centers Will Rely on Natural Gas, and Comment Submitted On EPA Proposal To Revoke Biden-Era Power Plant Regulations
The Federalist: Make Vaccine Injury Compensation Fair Again, DOJ Appoints Prosecutor To Probe Adam Schiff, Letitia James Mortage Fraud Allegations, Trump Order Targets Self-Appointed ‘Experts’ Funneling Tax Dollars To Leftist Pet Projects, Wrist Slap For Man Who Attacked Pro-Lifers Proves The FACE Act Was Always A Lawfare Tool, and Virginia Dem Gubernatorial Candidate Refuses To Condemn Letting Boys In Girls’ Bathrooms
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet – Why Are They Doing This? DOGE vs DREGS, The New West, The Napoleon of Crime, and Going Dutch
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