In The Mailbox: 08.21.26 (Evening Edition) : The Other McCain

Posted on | August 22, 2026 | No Comments

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OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: Top 20 Things Democrats Said That Seem Too Insane To Be Real
357 Magnum: Lanterns, also So You Hired a 3rd Party to Manage Your Data
EBL:  Sure Like To Ball, Alligator Gar, Deportations Happening, “The Ballad of Nat Turner”, and Gates of Buda
Twitchy: “Stop Gaslighting Me!”, Men Dump Girlfriends Who Defend Lindsay Clancy, and Bill Melugin Highlights Illegal Who Poured Hot Wax On Kids – Then Schools CATO Open-Borders Goof
Louder With Crowder: Democrat Governor Signs Radical Abortion Legislation That Will Target Pro-Lifers, Here’s Another Group Of Angry Women Holding Children, This Time Violently Obstructing ICE Agents, Women wear pink, throw up hand signs, and hold babies in support of Lindsay Clancy...who murdered her three children, and That woman who TikTok’d herself setting the kitchen on fire and dripping wax on her kids? Turns out she’s an illegal, too
According To Hoyt: Honoring Our Own, Nostalgie De La Boue, Sorting, Smelling the Smoke, and Tech and Fear
Cedar Sanderson: A Poll and a Potato
Upstream Reviews: JR Handley’s Incomplete List of Epic Military SF Part II
John C. Wright: The Anger of Women

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: ICE Continues to Arrest ‘Worst of the Worst’, Relative Blasted Comey Over ’86 47? Seashell Message, UK Government Gives Asylum Seekers Guide Explaining Rape, Age of Consent, Women’s Rights, First U.S. Deportees Arrive in Liberia Under Trump Administration Agreement, and ActBlue Co-Founder Pleads Fifth in House Investigation Into Foreign Donations
American Thinker: Private Property Confiscation, Cuba: The Revolution That Needs Its Enemies, When Lenin Lost An Election, He Abolished Democracy, Dividing America On Race: Russia’s Enduring Geopolitical Strategy, and Can Comic Books Save Us from the Democratic Socialists?
Baldilocks: How Islam Inserted Itself Into Black America, also, A Solution Dangled In Front Of Me
BattleSwarm: Pro-Tip: If You Rob A Gun Store, Don’t Display Your Stolen Guns On Instagram, also, LinkSwarm For August 21
Behind The Black: Musk: A Starship chopstick catch won’t happen for several months, China isn’t rushing to reuse its recovered first stages, SpaceX launches 29 more Starlink satellites, Trump issues revised space policy aimed at faciliating 1,000 American launches and re-entries per year by 2030, and Blue Origin might be expanding its operations in Texas
Cafe Hayek: Rump? Libertarian?
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Cost centers and the space race, Of DSA, Nixon, and Pluto,
Don Surber: Does Swalwell still say believe all women?
First Street Journal: If someone was out to destroy transgender acceptance, what would he be doing differently?
Flopping Aces: Communists in America: Abolish The Police, Seize The Corporations, Erase The Borders
Gates Of Vienna: The Wayward Bus
The Geller Report: WELCOME TO BRITAIN: Migrants Handed Guides Explaining Not to Rape, Beat, Mutilate Children, Or Perform Vaginal Mutilation, Espionage, Political Targeting, and the Case of Eric Swalwell, “A Sick, Sick West — And An Even Sicker Middle East.”, ActBlue Pleads the Fifth, and Muslim Arrested in Plot to Bomb New York Capitol Building To Kill All The Senators During Legislative Session
Hollywood In Toto: Audiences Want to Be Entertained Again, Insidious: Out of the Further – Spooky Sixth Chapter for Die-Hard Fans, EXCLUSIVE: The 20-Year Journey Behind White Guilt, and Is Uber-Woke Camp Miasma Exception to Culture War Rule?
Legal Insurrection: Trump Cyber Strategy Taps Private Firms to Fight Foreign Hackers, U. Southern California Libraries Offer Book List of Previously Banned Pro-Trans Literature, Course on Black Politics at U. Florida Canceled Due to Low Enrollment, A Suspected Arsonist, a Wildfire, and California’s Failure to Protect the Public, and Sports Writer Resigns When Paper Rejected Column About Girls Not Wanting to Compete Against Boys
Nebraska Energy Observer: The Uses of Trade, also, Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Mavericks buy out Klay Thompson, ADF sends letter to WNBA over treatment of Sophie Cunningham supporters, Brittany Mahomes hits the gym and more WNBA drama, French troon phenom “Julie” Netart looks unstoppable but WNBA still silent, and Open marriage somehow leads to regret/Woman hooks up BF with sister’s ex/Dumb divorce excuses
Power Line: Signs and portents, Today’s Heartwarming Story, On CO2, We Are Irrelevant, Israel on trial, and Vindman revisited
Shark Tank: Rep. Giminez Calls For Economic Pressure On Nicaraguan Regime
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – College Classroom Craziness: Systems Of Oppression Class, also, Firing Line Friday: What’s Going On in China?
Transterrestrial Musings: American Shipbuilding, Forty Years Of Foresight, Dearbornistan, and Space Transportation Policy
Victory Girls: Prince Harry And Meghan Markle: Once Upon A U-Turn, also, CNN: The Network Who Thinks Its Viewers are Drooling Morons
Watts Up With That: The 1970s Oil Crisis: Never Forget, Climate News Worth Celebrating – The Earth Is Getting Greener, Deployable Energy’s new compact nuclear reactor, Aussie Renewables Win Tax Concessions the Government Claims Other Businesses Don’t Need, and NOAA Proposes Amending the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5)
The Federalist: DOJ Should End The Dangerous Loophole Shielding Illegal Abortion Drugs, SCOTUS Pauses Blockade On Trump’s White House Ballroom Construction, I Lived The Systemic Medical Abuse Of Trans Kids Detailed In New Federal Report, This One Insane Graph Explains The Lindsay Clancy Defender Dynamic, and Your Son Doesn’t Want You To Complain About His Deployment
Mark Steyn: I, Robot, also, We Shall Leaflet Them on the Beaches

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