March 19, 2026

THAT DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP, NAZI:

Posted at 5:06 pm by Stephen Green

HEH. IT’S FUNNY BECAUSE IT’S TRUE.

Posted at 4:57 pm by Glenn Reynolds

THE OSCARS’ APPEAL IS BECOMING MORE SELECTIVE:

(Classical allusion in headline.)

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

JOHN NOLTE: Why Cesar Chavez Suddenly Became Politically Inconvenient to the Left.

You see, this year is the 99th anniversary of Chavez’s birth (he died in 1993), and celebrations had been planned for this event all over the country. Next year, though… Wow. One-hundred years. That’s the biggie, and you can bet that were it not for New Media, the left planned to feast on that anniversary.

There is just one inconvenient fact about the left’s secular saint…

Cesar Chavez opposed illegal immigration every bit as much as Donald J. Trump. Chávez understood that illegal aliens undermined the wages of legal migrant workers and their union bargaining power.

Cesar Chavez was so opposed to illegal immigration that, just like Minuteman Project of 2004, which was widely smeared in the legacy media as racist, Chavez put together his own militia to stop illegals from crossing the border. There are credible reports that violence was used as an example to others.

To form his United Farmworkers Union (UFW), it was Chavez versus the growers, and for obvious reasons,  the growers loved the open border.

For just as obvious reasons, Chavez did not.

And there you have it.

That’s why it was time to take Chavez down. The left feared, and not unreasonably, that as Chavez once again entered the public consciousness through these milestone birthday celebrations that New Media would co-opt him as a powerful symbol of the truth: that illegal immigration is devastating to the working class and benefits the rich and powerful.

Read the whole thing.

Related: Austin leaders want to rename Cesar Chavez Street in wake of abuse allegations:

The city of Austin is considering renaming Cesar Chavez Street after allegations emerged that the late civil rights leader sexually assaulted women and girls.

Chavez died in 1993. Shortly after his death, Austin renamed First Street — which stretches from MoPac Expressway through downtown to U.S. 183 — in his honor.

Local nonprofit El Concillo Mexican-American Landowners de East Austin led the movement in the early ’90s to name the road after Chavez. The group is now pushing to rename the street again in the wake of the allegations.

“We as El Concillo, who initiated through petition the renaming of the street, for Cesar Chavez, feel compelled that we have to be accountable and be respectful of the women victims who were part of this experience,” said Gavino Fernandez Jr., a spokesperson for the group. “It is not in the best interest of our organization to be affiliated any longer with him.”

Council Member Vanessa Fuentes told KUT News on Wednesday that the city should respond quickly.

Fortunately, Iowahawk and his X followers are on it!

UPDATE:

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

CHEERFUL STORY DEPT: Defensive Gun Use: Homeowner’s Gun vs. Midnight Moron. “Our fearless homeowner, clearly in no mood for the early morning demands of a wacko, grabbed his firearm and called the cops. He also delivered a clear warning to the window breaker to cease the unlawful behavior. Or else. ‘Go Away! I’m armed. Police are on the way.’ Mr. Window-Smasher didn’t listen and broke out the window and commenced to enter the home. The homeowner, living out every “What would you do if…?” scenario Reddit loves to argue over, did exactly what was needed to stop the violent and illegal entry. He fired to stop the attack.”

Just think of it as evolution in action.

Posted at 4:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

FASTER, PLEASE: F-47 Won’t Be Available Until Mid-2030s, Top Lawmaker Says. “Top Air Force leaders have set an ambitious goal to have the F-47 flying sometime in 2028, which would be about three years after the March 2025 contract award to Boeing. The F-35, by comparison, had its first flight in 2006, five years after Lockheed Martin beat Boeing to win the Joint Strike Fighter contract.”

Posted at 3:51 pm by Stephen Green

YES, HE WENT THERE [UPDATED BELOW]:

No matter where you might be right now or what you’re doing, it’s OK to stand up and cheer.

Update: “I think he might have just wrapped up the midterms.”

I dunno about that, but it was certainly worth another chuckle.

Posted at 2:55 pm by Stephen Green

AT THIS POINT, IS ANYONE SURPRISED?

Posted at 2:33 pm by Stephen Green

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

Posted at 1:31 pm by Stephen Green

DOUGLAS MURRAY: The latest Guardian attack on Nigel Farage is desperate stuff.

In general, Nigel Farage seems to me to be a man of pretty sound judgment. But he obviously does not share my intensely suspicious, not to say gloomy, Celtic nature. And so it seems that when he was out of the front line of British politics, Farage did indeed sign up to do personalised videos for Cameo. He appears to have been rather good at it, as I would have expected him to be. And in fact I can imagine a certain type of person who would have been thrilled to get a personalised video of Nigel raising a pint for their friend’s birthday or something.

But now the Guardian newspaper has tried to use this interregnum in Farage’s career to do a number on him of the type I had feared for myself. Some fearless – and presumably bored – Guardian journalists have trawled through a remarkable 4,366 clips that the Reform UK leader has made for Cameo since joining the platform in 2021. The short videos he has sent fans and supporters have included personalised messages wishing people a happy birthday, happy Christmas or even (and I do think this a bit odd) a happy Valentine’s Day.

Of course, the Guardian being the Guardian, they trawled through all of these innocuous greetings in the hope that at least some of them would be videos celebrating Hitler’s birthday, mourning the German defeat at Stalingrad, or sending Valentine’s Day good wishes to David Irving.

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Finally, there is also a clip where Farage appears to have become irritated with the technology he is using and swears. Or, as the article puts it, it shows ‘a side to him that contrasts with his amiable public persona’. I am sure that Guardian journalists only ever say sweet things when they have a problem with their iPhone.

And their bakery shops.

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll