In The Mailbox: 12.22.25 : The Other McCain

Posted on | December 23, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

News – Senator Mike Lee introduces the Cartel Marque & Reprisal Reauthorization Act.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Captain Sweeney leads her gallant crew of privateers against Venezuelan oil tankers and drug boats (2026, colorized)

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: A Day in the Life of a Pompeian Slave, The Great Feminization, AI Time Travel – Arriving at Ellis Island 1907, A Walking Tour of Andersonville Prison 1864, and The Decline of Expertise & Meritocracy
357 Magnum: Electric Vehicles Were Always a Bubble
EBL: Michelin Quality Salmon, Hidden Fjord Atlantic Salmon, Pan-Roast Cod, Zooey Deschanel in Elf, and Oklahoma Onion Burger
Twitchy: Ezra Klein & The NYT Ask a Very Stupid Question – X Supplies Answers!, Moronic Congresswoman Appalled That Trump & Vance Can’t Stop with the Openly Racist Comments, and Hilarious NPR Memo Ends Carl Tobias’ Reign as Rent-A-Quote King
Louder With Crowder: Kamala Harris attempts to explain why Biden never released the Epstein Files, Nicki Minaj STUNS crowd at Turning Point with her uniquely pro-Trump, pro-Christian message, Jasmine Ratchet throws fit after JD Vance mocks her fake street girl persona, Woke ESPN host lashes out at Uber drivers he claims are “musically profiling” him, and School bus driver gets fired during the holidays for asking students to please speak English
Vox Popoli: Fixing Kimura, Alabama-Oklahoma, Bankrupt Them All, Never More Blessed, and The Probability is Zero
Cedar Sanderson: Forensics for Writers Part 2,also, Trail Manners
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Joyous Noel Part 3,also, About the Valkkykettu
Based Book Sale: The Black Friday 2025 After Action Review
Jim McCoy: Troll Hunter

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Failed State Of Minnesota, also, Can Trump Convince America of His Domestic Agenda?
American Greatness: Slouching Toward Open Season on Jews, Columbus, Ohio City Officials Openly Defy ICE, and Trump Never Sleeps—But the Media Keeps Dreaming
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: U.S. Bombs Islamic State in Syria, Ukraine Secures $105 Billion Loan From Europe, and Japan Halting Photoresist To China?
Behind The Black: China’s Long March 12A launches but fails to land the first stage, The first launch by South Korean rocket startup Innospace fails shortly after liftoff, Tory Bruno resigns as CEO of United Launch Alliance, Florida opposition grows against renewing Blue Origin’s wastewater permit, and There is little good will on the left, and the right seems eager to lose it too
Cafe Hayek: Oh That the Absurd Mercantilist Concept of “Balance of Trade” Had Never Been Devised, also, On Reagan, China, and Protectionism
CDR Salamander: The Lessons of Pearl Harbor At 84, also, The Australians Give a Sober View of American Naval Decline
Chicago Boyz: Affordability continued, also, The Hallmark-Style Flannel Romance
Da Tech Guy: Under the Fedora
Don Surber: America Alone updated
Elizabeth Nickson: 400,000 Women Left the Workforce This Year,
First Street Journal: And now the news you missed, also, Twitter has become a go to site for left-wing propaganda
Gates Of Vienna: Election Jihad Coming to a Jurisdiction Near You, Memo to the Australian Public, Biden Funded Jihadi Terrorist Groups; Trump Still Wobbly, and Islam: Religion of Peace? — Not for Women
The Geller Report: Australia’s Response to Islamic Terror – SUBMISSION, US Carries Out ‘Massive’ Strike Against Islamic State in Syria, Jury Finds Left-Wing Judge Hannah Dugan GUILTY Of Obstructing ICE, Toronto Muslims Arrested For Attempts to Kidnap Jewish Women & Other Crimes, and RECKONING – Epstein Files Photos Hit Democrats Hard
Hollywood In Toto: Powerful Anemone Highlights This Legend’s Startling Return, Rob Schneider Roasts ‘Grifter’ Candace Owens, Jay and Silent Bob Stare Down Middle Age, Late-Night Hosts Go Silent on Massive Minnesota Fraud, and Jimmy Kimmel to Face Ultimate Free Speech Test in U.K.
Legal Insurrection: New Bird Flu Strains Appear to Target Dairy Cattle More Effectively, Feds Open Investigation Into Brown Univ Over Security Failures, as Campus Police Chief Placed on Leave, Professor Jonathan Turley Reacts to News About Lack of Republican Profs at Yale, Waymo Robotaxis Stall and Snarl San Francisco Traffic After Massive Blackout, and EEOC Chair & VP Vance Urge White Men to Sue Over Discrimination
Matt Taibbi: Life in the Fast Lane with Robinhood Markets
Nebraska Energy Observer: Fourth Sunday in Advent, also, Follow the Flag
Outkick: NFL Suspends DK Metcalf For Interaction With Fan In Detroit And Sides Have Lawyered Up, Taylor Swift Fans Again Rig Pro Bowl Fan Votes For Travis Kelce Making Process As Much A Joke As Event, Biff Poggi: Michigan’s ‘Malfunctioning Organization’ After Latest Scandal With Sherrone Moore Has To Be Fixed, USC-Notre Dame Rivalry The Latest Casualty Of Modern College Football, and Nicki Minaj Pops Off At AmFest, Sydney Sweeney Gets Schooled On ’90s Toys & A Few Good Dogs
Power Line: Trump Delivers Pharmaceutical Affordability, Today in Minnesota fraud, Lawyers: An Official Adjunct of the Democratic Party, and What’s wrong with this sentence?
Shark Tank: Cory Mills Calls For War Department To Prioritize American Firms
Shot In The Dark: I’m a Uniter, also, A Local Secret?
STUMP: Movember 2025 Wrapup
The Political Hat: 12 Posts of Christmas, 2025 (Day 8), (Day 9), and (Day 10)
This Ain’t Hell: Biased Minnesota media reporting facilitated Somali fraud, also, The US military launches strikes against ISIS in Syria
Transterrestrial Musings: The Dark Ages
Victory Girls: Walz And Lapdog MN Media Cover Up $9 Billion Somali Fraud, also, Bondi Beach: Albanese Halfheartedly Apologizes To Jewish Community
Watts Up With That: Quit Lying, TNR – Climate Change Isn’t Threatening ‘Favorite Holiday Foods’, New York Unheated EV School Bus Horror, The Wind Energy Paradox, Wind turbine eagle-kill secrecy may soon end, and Trump Dismantles Climate-Industrial Complex
The Federalist: The Health Care-Industrial Complex Is Lying About Obamacare Premiums Doubling — And They Know It, Noncitizen Says She Voted In Multiple Georgia Elections, Try To Avoid Sending Christmas Letters About Your Perforated Bowel, Ohio Enacts ‘Commonsense’ Law Requiring All Mail Ballots Be Returned By Election Day, and Michigan Election Integrity Warriors Stop ‘Disastrous’ Ranked-Choice Voting Drive
Mark Steyn: On the Town: A Continental Christmas, Christmas Rations – Ginger Rogers in I’ll Be Seeing You, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Christmas in the Age of Bollards, and Next-Level Groomers

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