A TRAGIC VICTIM OF MAD SPOTLIGHT DISEASE, COMPELLED BY FORCES BEYOND HIS CONTROL TO RUN FOR ANY SPOTLIGHT:  Joe Kent Reportedly Wanted to Testify in the Trial of Charlie Kirk’s Assassin. This Story Is Nuts.

ISN’T THAT TEMU OBAMA’S TRADEMARK? EVERGREEN HEADLINE:  Hakeem Jeffries Was Asked the an Easy Question. He Failed Miserably Answering It.

MY FACE REMAINS SUPER-SHOCKED:  Brother, sister indicted in alleged IED plot at Florida Air Force base tied to Iran war; 1 suspect in China. The device was planted at MacDill Air Force Base, headquarters to CENTCOM and the US military’s special ops.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED. BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE:  Gee, more approved fraud in MN.

ALSO GOOD:  Trump Directs DHS Secretary Mullin to Pay TSA Agents.

GOOD:  Operation Box Cutter: Historic FBI Strike on China-to-Cartel Fentanyl Pipeline.

THESE DAYS, FORTUNATELY, THE INTERNET IS FOREVER:  “Instead of the unsinkable battleship we have the unsinkable Military Expert …”

THE ECONOMIST IS ON MESCALINE:  The Mullah Regime of Iran is in very deep trouble. Any critical thinker can see that.

X-cancel.

WE NEED MORE OF EVERYTHING!  Up-arm the Fleet? With What?

HOW MUCH OF WHAT WE’RE SAYING IS MISDIRECTION:  Also, Don Lemon is Still a loser:  Iran Strikes: Day 27.

GOOD LUCK ON THAT APOLOGY:  Eighth Circuit backs Trump on alien detention [With Comments].

FRANCIS AND I AGREED IT WAS TIME TO RERUN HIS POSTS ON ECONOMICS:  Something about Money (and cake) – Francis Turner – A blast from the past from December 2014.

OPEN THREAD: Because I love you and want you to be happy.

21st CENTURY HEADLINES: NASA’s ‘1st nuclear powered interplanetary spacecraft’ will send Skyfall helicopters to Mars in 2028.

FLASHBACK: RANDY BARNETT ON LIBERTARIANISM’S FAILURES:

I see five distinct ways that libertarian theory needs to up its game.

First, the need for natural law ethics in addition to natural rights; second, the need to distinguish between libertarian ideal theory and second-best libertarianism in a world of governments and competing nations; third, the need for a libertarian theory of citizenship and civil rights; fourth, the need to separate the public-private binary from the government-nongovernment binary; and fifth, the need for a more refined theory of corporate power and corporate rights.

Let me offer a few words about each.

Read the whole thing.

DON SURBER: Ice Deports Crime.

METFORMIN UPDATE: After 60 Years, Diabetes Drug Revealed to Unexpectedly Affect The Brain. In a good way.

NUKE THE FILIBUSTER, PASS A BUDGET AND THE SAVE ACT:

I salute them! Doubling down on stupid. Sooner or later, when they show consistency, you have to respect that. https://t.co/gQXLIBHy8h

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) March 26, 2026

IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Ancient DNA Reveals Medieval Secret Hidden Inside a 5,000-Year-Old Spanish Monument.

BIG SPRING SALE: Amazon Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition 32GB (newest model). #CommissionEarned

PLACEBOS ARE YOUR FRIEND: Sharper mind and body achieved in older adults with a fake supplement in just 3 weeks.

I THINK IT LOOKS NICER:

Woman who swallowed 3 liters of vodka pleads guilty to sticking googly eyes on $95K blob-like sculpture https://t.co/lKeJrkmwK2 pic.twitter.com/KPOajWN21d

— New York Post (@nypost) March 25, 2026

LIST: Most Reliable Cars Of All Time: These 5 Just Won’t Die.

NUKES IN SPACE: Here is NASA’s plan for nuking Gateway and sending it to Mars.

The centerpiece of Gateway, called the Power and Propulsion Element, is closest to being ready for launch. NASA’s rejigged exploration roadmap, revealed Tuesday in an all-day event at NASA headquarters in Washington, calls for repurposing the core module for a nuclear-electric propulsion demonstration in deep space.

This is not the first time NASA has announced a nuclear propulsion demo. More than 20 years ago, NASA was working on a nuclear-electric propulsion initiative called Project Prometheus. It was canceled. In 2021, NASA and DARPA, the Pentagon’s research and development agency, started work on a nuclear rocket engine known as DRACO. NASA and the Pentagon canceled the DRACO program last year.
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NASA will cannibalize the core module of Gateway for the SR-1 mission. The Power and Propulsion Element, or PPE, is under construction at Lanteris Space Systems in Palo Alto, California. The module will have the most powerful electric propulsion system ever flown in space, with three 12-kilowatt engines and four 6-kilowatt thrusters. The PPE would have originally relied entirely on solar power. Under NASA’s new plan, it will have solar arrays and a uranium-fueled fission reactor.

The goal for SR-1 Freedom is to “prove the US can build, launch, and operate a nuclear propulsion system,” laying the “foundation” for more capable missions to follow, said Steve Sinacore, NASA’s program executive for space reactors. Launch is just 33 months away.

There’s a lot of work to do in less than three years, but hopefully Isaacman’s reenergized NASA can pull it off.

GREAT MOMENTS IN ANTI-JOURNALISM:

Let me rephrase that for those who are confused by the gobbledygook in this headline.

Idaho lawmakers are making it illegal for men to pee in the ladies' room.

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) March 26, 2026