In The Mailbox: 08.19.26 : The Other McCain

Posted on | August 20, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: The Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)
357 Magnum: Must Keep the Poor Folks from Exercising Their Rights
EBL: The End of Oak Street, Battle of Blue Licks, Octavianus Augustus Caesar, Florida Primaries, and Sicilian Summer Sardines
Twitchy: Bill Kristol – It’s Perfectly Legitimate To Ask What Natalie Harp Is Doing, SecTreas Scott Bessent Cuts Diminutive Commie Down To Size, and Maggie Haberman Calls Natalie Harp A “Human Binkie”
Louder With Crowder: Muslim Senate Candidate Smugly Compares Himself To Jesus, Grown man in cat ears demands boys be allowed in girls’ sports during a city council meeting, Lindsay Clancy’s Insane Apologists Announce Rally In Support Of Her, Boston Mayor is hunting down Americans working with ICE and threatening them, and Lindsey Graham’s Trump-endorsed sister BOMBS HARD in her only ever debate for the US Senate
Vox Popoli: Theology Adjacent, The Final Five Hours, By the AI, For the AI, and The New Carthage
Cedar Sanderson: A Song to Life
Defending The Wood Perilous: The Parable of the Keys
Mazelit Airaksinen: ZocDoc Responds To Scared Jew – “Free Palestine”
John C. Wright: Seven Inversions

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Former Fauci Advisor David Morens Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Defraud US, Derek Chauvin Seeks Dismissal of All Charges in Bombshell Petition Alleging ‘Entire Trial Was a Fraud’, FBI Reports Biggest Decrease in 90 Years for 2025 Violent Crime, Rubio Announces New Sanctions Against International Criminal Court Officials, and Transgender Defendant Gets 73 Months for Plot to Kill Treasury Secretary Bessent
American Thinker: Politically, We All Live In Piker’s World Now, Fake News ‘Journalists’ Love the Deep State, Washington Keeps Sending ‘Proof of Life’ About the Redskins And Chief White Calf, Unmaking The Commonweal, and The Cyclospora Panic of 2026
BattleSwarm: Abbott Wants Foreign Funding, H-1B Employment Banned In Public Schools
Behind The Black: Katalyst and NASA cancel any attempt to catch and raise the orbit of Gehrels-Swift, Space Force targets replacing its older DMSP weather satellites by 2028, “Honeycomb terrain” on Mars, New images detail damage caused by Ukrainian attack on Russia’s Soyuz-2 rocket factory, and SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites
CDR Salamander: Defending Down Under from Darwin to Perth
Chicago Boyz: Six Hundred Million Years In K-12, also, Still More Tales Of The Base Tour Guide – Host Nation Sensitivities
Don Surber: The hands behind the presidential meat puppet
First Street Journal: Journalism differences between the Lexington Herald-Leader and Philadelphia Inquirer. ** Updated! **, also, Let’s annex Canada, but leave out Ontario and Quebec!
Gates Of Vienna: You Can’t Shoot a Jewel Thief, also, Germany is Finished
The Geller Report: El-Sayed’s Mother Worked for Designated Terror Group That Provided Funding to Osama bin Laden, At Least 24,000 Noncitizens Illegally Voted in 2020—and Millions of Records Remain Unchecked, NYC Schools Rack Up Hundreds of Disturbing 250 Anti-Jewish, Anti-Israel Incidents, Abdulrahman Mohamed El Sayed Campaign Smears Rogers’ Classic Ford Ad as KKK Cross Burning, and Trump’s Handpicked DeSantis Successor BYRON DONALDS Wins Crowded GOP Primary
Hollywood In Toto: Tony Turns Flawed Chef Into Compelling Anti-Hero, These 6 Artists Censored Their Own Work, Rosie O’Donnell Calls Jewish Bari Weiss a ‘Nazi’, It’s Bill Maher vs. Jon Stewart for Democrats’ Soul, and These Twilight Alums Are on Radically Different Paths
Legal Insurrection: Nike’s Stock Collapse Vindicates a Warning From 2021, Discriminatory “Donor Intent” v. The Civil Rights Laws – EPP’s Complaint Against Florida State University, DSA Candidate Scores Stunning Upset Over Alexander Vindman in Florida Senate Primary, California’s New Tire Mandate Could Drive Up Costs, and Karmelo Anthony Trial Judge Removed Over Post-Trial Comments
Nebraska Energy Observer: The Night Old Canuckistan Died
Outkick: Ketel Marte’s absence gets stranger as Snakes fight for wild card, Ex-rep Matt Gaetz speaks out on helping Royce White prep for WNBA draft, Pat McAfee replaces Stephen A. Smith as face of ESPN, Yankees favored against Orioles as Birds’ postseason hopes fade, and Taylor Sheridan pours cold water on “6666” spinoff rumors
Power Line: The fraud never stopped, Doing the Dems’ Dirty Work, Speaking of Bad Polls, Democratic Violence and More, and After last night [Corrected]
Shark Tank: Florida GOP Highlights Dominant Tuesday Primary, Flips Page To November 
The Political Hat: Neo-Integralism
Transterrestrial Musings: The Miracle They Cannot Forgive, What Rubber Hits The Road, The Piscine Massacre, Data Centers, and The Need For Officer-Promotion Reform
Victory Girls: Minnesota Fraud: Somalian Refugee Involved In Medicaid And Sex Trafficking
Watts Up With That: Blue States. High Rates ($0.55/gallon premium), Washington Lit the Fuse for Africa’s Energy Explosion, Woke 1.0 Is Still Alive in the Democrats’ Energy Agenda, Hydrogen’s Not Market Ready, and The Climate Policy Trap – Why Failure So Often Leads to More of the Same
The Federalist: Trump’s Use Of National Defense Resources To Protect The Border Is Legal And Brilliant, A Muslim Illegal Alien Who Killed Roommate Escaped The Country After Virginia Officials Released Him From Custody, The NeverTrumpers Are Back. This Time Their Target Is J.D. Vance, Education Department Breaks Left-Wing University Accreditation Cabal, and Round River Docs Suggest FBI Misclassified Information To Hide Biden Family Crimes
Mark Steyn: Live Around The Planet: Wednesday August 19th, also, Fair Play

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