THOSE ARE ROOKIE NUMBERS: Nearly 28,000 Colorado concealed carry permits issued in 2025.

Despite a Democrat-led state legislature hostile to the lawful carrying of concealed handguns, new data show at least 27,901 Coloradans still subjected themselves to the government scrutiny and costs required to become concealed handgun permit (CHP) holders in 2025, while another 21,871 renewed existing permits. That’s according to a recently published County Sheriffs of Colorado annual report.

Notably, the report lacks data from Adams, Garfield, Pueblo and San Juan counties, which combined accounted for over 5,000 new permits in the prior year, meaning the numbers for 2025 may well be under-reported.

Regardless, while the number of new permits trails the 29,495 issued in 2024, it outpaces the 25,218 issued in 2023.

The Crime Prevention Research Center in 2025 estimated that over 19 percent of the Colorado population 21 or older holds a carry permit. A CHP is valid for five-years.

It’ll be difficult to pump up those rookie numbers with the new statewide restrictions and requirements imposed by Democrats in Denver.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UVA ‘ecofeminist’ course has students listen to ‘birds,’ ‘lichen’ to understand oppression.

FAIL, BRITANNIA:

Ok so in the news this week it's quite clear the UK is undergoing a Cultural Revolution.

The Chinese Cultural Revolution attacked "The 4 Olds" in an attempt to destroy the past.

The UK is no different. The 4 Olds of the UK:
1. Old History – removal of historic figures from…

— James Clark 📈📉¯_(ツ)_/¯ (@mr_james_c) March 11, 2026

Not your father’s Britain. It isn’t even the Britain I visited 20 years ago.

HEH: Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Megyn Kelly Are the New Trans Kids.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: ANALYSIS: ‘Death to America’ chants echo across campuses due to Iranian influence and radical professors.

CHANGE: YouTube is now the world’s largest media company, and it is only getting bigger. “The video-streaming service, which is owned by Alphabet Inc., took the top spot last year with $62.3 billion in revenue, according to data compiled by MoffettNathanson Research, narrowly beating out the $60.9 billion brought in by Disney’s media properties.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: It’s Not a Phobia If They Keep Showing Up With Bombs. “Between Operation Epic Fury and the latest daily outrage from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, there are plenty of opportunities for oh-so-concerned leftists to shout ‘Islamophobia!’ from the hills. It’s the golden ticket for terrorist types — any criticisms of them can be met with with a quick charge of Islamophobia and that’s supposed to end the conversation.”

PRIORITIES: Seattle may have to ‘delay or defer’ transportation projects to pay for anti-ICE signs.

Nope, not the Bee:

The city of Seattle may need to “delay or defer” transportation projects or programs because of the expense of installing hundreds of signs warning that city property cannot be used by federal authorities for immigration enforcement actions.

A fiscal note provided for Tuesday’s (March 10) Public Safety Committee meeting states, “To the extent that appropriations made in the 2026 Adopted Budget support other activities, and for which SDOT cannot find efficiencies / savings to otherwise support, SDOT may have to delay or defer projects or programs to free up funding for the signage costs that will be incurred pursuant to this legislation. Cost for signage is indeterminate at this point as FAS has not yet completed a review of all the properties that would be covered by this legislation.”

The Seattle Department of Transportation is responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of Seattle streets, roadways and bridges, in addition to running two streetcar lines.

The note does not list possible potential cuts that could be made by the SDOT.

A Feb. 24 city council research staff memo said that the posting of 656 signs on city property was expected to cost SDOT $45,000 to produce the signs and an unspecified amount to install them.

If the city wants to blame delays on $45,000 worth of pointless virtue signaling, you have to wonder A) what the real reason is, or B) where the project money actually went.

Maybe both.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE? Science Has A Major Fraud Problem: For decades, scientists were above reproach. Not any more. Joe Nocera investigates the murky world of fraudulent research, and the sleuths exposing dishonest science.

Flashback: The Suicide of Expertise.

ENDORSED:

RFK jr should launch a national study to nail down the clear connection between men who vote Democrat and extremely low testosterone levels pic.twitter.com/jzE4ifewtJ

— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) February 14, 2025

REPORT: US destroys Iranian navy vessels — including 16 minelayers — near Strait of Hormuz.

Wait, what is this “Strait of Hormuz” you speak of?

YOU DON’T HAVE TO KEEP SELLING ME, I ALREADY VOTED FOR HIM:

The Pakistani-American columnist Wajahat Ali warns that Pakistanis no longer wish to immigrate to the United States 'thanks to Trump.'

🇺🇸🇵🇰 pic.twitter.com/vK9mpquaQ1

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) March 11, 2026

ARE YOU IN SACRAMENTO OR ITS ENVIRONS?:  Please come to this ACA7 event (sponsored by America’s Future) if you are!  ACA7 (the latest effort to gut Prop 209) just barely made it through the Assembly.  I feel confident that we will stop it in the Senate if we can just force the members of the California Senate to focus for 5 minutes on how stupid this bill is.  Events like this one are intended to attract Senate staffers (and sometimes senators themselves), but we need as many people in attendance as we can get.  If you can make it, you can RSVP here.

Yes, I will be there.  It’s going to be fun.

ICYMI: Introducing Schrödinger’s Ayatollah.

LOL, KATIE COURIC:

Katie Couric made an anti-gun documentary, and in the climactic scene, she asked a room full of gun owners a tough question, to which they had no answer.
It was a total fabrication. They edited in silence from another point. In truth, the gun owners all had answers.
Nobody… https://t.co/42EfJpN3QQ

— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) March 10, 2026

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

This is what I have been trying to tell you all

Listen to Iranians, they know the playbook https://t.co/7fW6DzvXAG

— Shaun Maguire (@shaunmmaguire) March 11, 2026

LIGHTING DEAL: REDTIGER Golf Rangefinder with Slope Switch. #CommissionEarned

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW. Combat Lasers Shoot Down Drones and Missiles in Iran War.

NOVEMBER PREVIEW: Trump takes his war against Thomas Massie straight to his home Kentucky home district.

Trump endorsed Massie’s primary opponent, Ed Gallrein, who will be at the event in Hebron, Ky., per his campaign. The president will also be making a stop in Ohio.

“You can have differences, but you have to be constructive. He is not constructive. In fact, he’s the Democrats’ favorite member,” a senior administration official told The Post.

Massie has outraged the White House on multiple occasions: he refused to support Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” which was the president’s signature domestic policy agenda; he criticized Trump’s foreign policy and accused him of executive overreach on the attacks on drug boats and Iran; and he led the charge on demanding the Justice Department release all its files in the Jeffrey Epstein case.

Now Trump is going to Massie’s district along the Ohio River to campaign against him, with the primary election just a little more than two months away, on May 19th.

Previously: Does This Mahrouq Money Explain Thomas Massie?

ALWAYS GOOD:  March New Releases. The weather continues to be unpredictable. Pick up and read a book – it will be safer!

THEY ALL GOT TOGETHER AND PERPETRATED A HOAX TO KEEP A BLACK WOMAN FROM BEING ELECTED:

Now it can be told! Hope Jasmine Crockett understands how her own team united to beat her. https://t.co/SbdAfoROla

— Karol Markowicz (@karol) March 9, 2026

BLUE STATE BLUES:

DEVELOPING: Starbucks founder Howard Schultz announces that his family is leaving Seattle for Florida the same day Democrats passed an income tax on Washington state

Starbucks corporate is moving to Nashville

The wealth exodus is underway. Democrats have killed WA's economy pic.twitter.com/4O8Dk0tPaI

— Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) March 11, 2026

HOW COOKED MUST IRAN BE? The BBC is actually doing journalism grilling the Iranian ambassador to the UK: Iranian ambassador warns UK to be ‘very careful’ about further involvement in war.

Amazing. https://t.co/lvSzuovsiY

— Christina Hoff Sommers (@CHSommers) March 11, 2026

FROM JOE HUFFER:  Hoosier Flats: A Novel of the Greatest Generation.

In rural small-town 1930’s Indiana, a boy becomes a bootlegger– and a man too.

Fifteen-year-old Matt Wyatt knows the Depression is squeezing the life out of his family’s farm. When the Crawford clan offers his father a lifeline — cash in exchange for quiet runs of moonshine–Matt becomes the least-suspected bootlegger in Polk County. What starts as a thrill soon plunges young Matt into a world of violence, loyalty, and moral compromise.

Anchored by the girl who steals his heart, Matt navigates dusty back roads, outlaw justice, and the tin divide between right and wrong as one run goes terribly wrong and the consequences will follow him far beyond the Indiana flat lands he calls home.

Spanning the last days of Prohibition to the shock of Pearl Harbor and World War II, Hoosier Flats is a coming-of-age novel about duty, family, and the heavy price of growing up in hard times.

EPIC FURY: Fallen Troops’ Families Told Trump ‘Finish the Job’ on Iran.