In The Mailbox: 09.12.25 (Evening Edition) : The Other McCain

Posted on | September 13, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

“Upon a cross, upon a hill/He’s waiting still/To take that pain from you…”
Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Good Guy With a Gun Stops Two Bad Guys
EBL: MAGA Je suis Charlie , Cheeks on Cubera Snapper, Manufactured Hate, SUSPECT ARRESTED IN CHARLIE KIRK MURDER, and Marcy Borders RIP
Twitchy: Office Depot’s Propaganda Ploy, Wajahat Ali’s Vile Smear, and Rep. Jonathan “Nepo Baby” Jackson’s Big Mouth Lands Him In Hot Water
Louder With Crowder: Three Friday examples of how the media is a failed institution that sucks at life in the Charlie Kirk aftermath
Vox Popoli: Who the Left Wants Next, Conservatives are Waking Up, They Got the Patsy, and Ben Shapiro Takes Charge
According To Hoyt: And Now Starts, Look, I’m Contractually Obligated to Do This, A request from Holly, No. It’s Important, and The Wounded Beast
Defending The Wood Perilous: Beyond the Black Cauldron
Cedar Sanderson: Shikari
The Bugscuffle Gazette: We Remember

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Yes Australia, it is a Divine Punishment
American Conservative: Who’s Behind the Epstein Cover-Up?
American Greatness: Who’s Next? Bluesky Posters Call for Deaths of Prominent Republicans, Conservative Media Figures, We Need More Charlie Kirks, Colorado High School Shooter ‘Radicalized by Some Extremist Network,’ Sheriff’s Office Says, Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Is a Turning Point for America, and Trump Vows to Catch ‘Each and Every’ Person or Organization Involved in Assassination of Charlie Kirk
American Thinker: The Democrats’ True Face Revealed (Again), Charlotte’s Crime Sanctuary: You Can’t Spell Violence Without Vi, A Tragedy Worse Than Epstein’s Island, But With Less Paperwork, The Transgender Castration Cult, and A Turning Point for America?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, Animal’s Daily Supreme Court Wins News, Animal’s Hump Day News, Animal’s Red Thursday News, and RIP, Charlie Kirk
BattleSwarm: The Charlie Kirk Assassination And The Failure Of Woke, Saudis Find Out Chinese Lasers Are Crap, A Cyberpunk Revolution, 475 Illegal Aliens Busted At Hyundai Battery Plant, and LinkSwarm For September 12
Behind The Black: House committee support for threatened NASA missions is actually quite questionable, Italian rocket company Avio commits $469 million to expand operations, SpaceX launches Indonesian commercial communications/broadband satellite, America’s educational system is failing because it no longer teaches students how to think, and The left’s face of evil
Cafe Hayek: Civilization Is Not Built By Violence, MAGA Orwellianism, Further Thoughts on the National-Defense Exception to the Case for Free Trade, Your Imagination Is No Good Guide to Policy, and Daniel Hannan Is Brilliant On Trade
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Book Review – No Man’s Land, They Live, About Yesterday, Everybody Knows, and Of Springs and Cables (updated)
Da Tech Guy: Five Fast Under the Fedora Thoughts, Always Trust Predictions by DaTechGuy Iryna Zarutska Murder in Charlotte Edition, Trump Cancels Qatar’s Insurance Policy, and Dear Leftists: If We’re All Nazi’s Why Didn’t We Start Shooting you Dead Yesterday?
Don Surber: Fourth Amendment fools
First Street Journal: Bummer: Reports Say There Will Be 1.6 Million Fewer “Immigrants” In The US, Your Fault: People Are Eating More Sugar, The Philadelphia Inquirer supports immigration lawlessness, Abuse of the asylum claim system, and Never Forget, Never Surrender
Gates Of Vienna: Swedish Gangsters Improve Their Marksmanship, Deadly Knife Action in Magdeburg, It’s Come to This, Maybe the State Department Has Gotten the Message About Jihad, But the FBI Has Not, and Hell Just Froze Over!
The Geller Report: “WE HAVE HIM”: Charlie Kirk’s Assassin Now in Custody, Jihad Rep Ilhan Omar Says People Remembering Charlie Kirk Good Qualities Are “Full of Shit”, Vice President Vance Helps Carry Casket of Charlie Kirk Onto Air Force One, Tyler Robinson ID’ed As Charlie Kirk’s Assassin, and What If, After Pearl Harbor, We Opened Up Our Borders to Germany and Japan?
Hollywood In Toto: Rolling Stone Suddenly Cares About Free Speech, X Shames Stephen King into Apologizing for Charlie Kirk Slam, Hollywood’s Anti-Israel Blacklist Just Keeps Growing, Graham Linehan: My Arrest ‘Blew Up in Their Faces’, and Could FireAid Crush Future Celebrity Benefit Concerts?
Legal Insurrection: Exposed Private Chats From Anti-Israel Student Groups Reveal Shocking Radicalism, Academic News Site Suggests Charlie Kirk Was a ‘Bigot’ in Assassination Coverage, Illegal Alien Charged with Capital Murder in Gruesome Beheading of Texas Motel Manager, ‘You Are Morons’: Fetterman Says Ex-Communist Citizens Mock Far-Left Democrats, and Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk’s Widow: ‘This Movement Will Not Die. I Refuse to Let It Happen’
Matt Taibbi: Twitter Files – The Muzzling Of Charlie Kirk, Trump’s World Liberty Financial – Crypto Currency Revolution Or Another Trump U.? and An Arrest, Corrections, & Pure Horror
Outkick: Tennessee Is Buzzing Ahead Of Georgia Top-15 Showdown, Tom Brady ‘Absolutely Loves’ What He Saw From Vikings Rookie J.J. McCarthy In Comeback Win, Flyers Prospect Oliver Bonk Bulked Up With Jersey Mike’s Subs, Cubs Pay Tribute To Charlie Kirk After Shocking Assassination In Utah, and Maggie Sajak’s Red Dress Hypnotizes ‘Wheel’ Fans, Margot Robbie Lets The Cheeks Breathe & Crazy Stephen King!
Power Line: The Times Regrets the Error, Appeals court win for Trump, A bit of the Omar blight, An Empress Watson sidebar, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Steube Celebrates Passage of his NDAA Amendments
Shot In The Dark: Charlie Kirk, Downmarket, Design Notes Week 2, and Special Session To Nowhere
The Political Hat: The Ultimate Conspiracy Of Power & Oppression, Corporatism à la Vance, Commissarial Dictatorship Of Fallen Angels, and Twenty-Four Years Ago Today – NEVER FORGET
This Ain’t Hell: Midshipman and Cop kerfuffle during lockdown, Valor Friday, Charlotte stabbing, KC-46 mishaps’ reports released, and Last original member of the “Bloody Hundredth” dies
Transterrestrial Musings: A Book Recommendation, The Current Mood In The UK, Data Centers, Charlie Kirk, and A Compromise On SLS?
Victory Girls: Education And The Teacher-Ghouls Who Should Be Immediately Fired, Charlie Kirk And The Depravity Of The Left: A Dire Human Condition, and Kamala Throws Joe Under All The Buses In Her Book
Watts Up With That: Watching The End Game Of New York’s Climate Madness Begin To Play Out, Germany Just Noticed Renewable Energy has a Cybersecurity Problem, No, BBC, Climate Change Isn’t Causing Water Shortages in Scotland, No, Pinot Noir Isn’t in Peril, but Stocktonia’s Reporting Is, and Attribution and Misattribution
The Federalist: Why Florida Is Right To Leave Vaccine Decisions Up to Parents, Not Bureaucrats, He May Have Pulled The Trigger, But Charlie Kirk’s Suspected Killer Didn’t ‘Act Alone’, The Same Left That Called Luigi Mangione A Hero Is Now Laughing At Charlie Kirk’s Assassination, Congress Must Root Out Leftist Funding That Created Climate Ripe For Kirk Assassination, and After Charlie Kirk’s Murder, There Can Be No More Both-Sides-ism
Mark Steyn: Love and War – The Ugly Romantic Triangle in Since You Went Away, It’s the End of the World as We Know It, The Health of the State, Live Around the Planet – The Accelerating Unraveling, and The Turning Point

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