March 6, 2026

GOVERNMENT IS STUPID, EXHIBIT #1,000,006:

There’s no surer way to make something more expensive than government trying to make it more affordable.

Posted at 11:59 am by Stephen Green

NOTHING TOO LUDICROUS FOR MSM ON IRAN: Brian Stelter, CNN’s Media Analyst, doesn’t have a clue about U.S. presidential decision-making or military planning, as is clear from his declaration that “Trump clearly has no plan or intention to explain to the American people why we went to war with Iran and what happens next and what victory looks like.”

Richard Pollock points to that Stelter demand and multiple others like it in the Mainstream Media as evidence that that these folks know nothing about what they are talking about and he reminds them that there was a reason FDR did not disclose to the media anything about the D-Day plan prior to that memorable day.

Posted at 11:50 am by Mark Tapscott

GOOD GAL WITH A GUN: Felony Stupid: Woman Forces Entry on Des Moines Home.

There’s dumb and then there’s felony stupid. Stannita Wilson probably couldn’t spell “felony stupid” but she lived it boldly and with pride. At 46, Wilson should have known that life is harder if you make stupid choices, but bless her heart, she still tries. In this case, the questionable decision-making turned a Saturday night in Des Moines into a one-woman home invasion tour.

A homeowner, probably minding his or her own business with a cup of warm milk and a Wheel of Fortune rerun on the tube before bed, heard a shrieking lunatic in their back yard and banging on the door. That was Wilson.

Then the banging started on the back door. The far-too-polite soul unlocked it — probably because Midwestern manners, you know — and BAM, in stormed Wilson like she owned the place, acting like a violent fool and attacked the homeowner.

Fortunately, in addition to Midwestern manners, the victim was also in possession of a firearm. The un-named homeowner had grabbed it before calling 911, a move that may have saved their life.

Exit quote: “Please don’t shoot me no more.”

Posted at 11:44 am by Stephen Green

CONSISTENCY IS THE HOBGOBLIN OF LITTLE MINDS OR WHATEVER:

At least admire the rapid turnaround time.

Posted at 11:28 am by Stephen Green

HOW CHINA CORRUPTS ACADEMIC RESEARCH. I knew it was bad, but sheesh. Even Xi Jinping is an academic fraud, apparently, having had his dissertation ghost-written. And, of course, pointing out that fraud is even harder in China than it is here, since you might just catch a bullet for your trouble.

Posted at 11:19 am by Robert Shibley

HMM:

Not sure if I buy this report or not, but it isn’t as though Chinese gear has proven effective in either Venezuela or Iran

Posted at 10:57 am by Stephen Green

EVERYONE HAS A PLAN UNTIL THEY GET PUNCHED IN THE MOUTH: Iran had a plan to fight Israel and the US. It all collapsed after October 7.

And yet, since the joint US-Israeli airstrikes against Iran began over the weekend, killing its supreme leader and devastating the regime’s military and infrastructure, the response from the axis of resistance has been fairly feeble.

The Iran-backed Lebanese militia Hezbollah, which in the past has boasted of the ability to destroy Tel Aviv, fired a “handful” of rockets into Israel, which prompted a much larger campaign of airstrikes by Israel in southern Lebanon and Beirut. Wary of being dragged into yet another war, the Lebanese government has taken the unprecedented step of banning military activities by the group. Yemen’s Houthis, who dramatically shut down most global shipping through the Red Sea two years ago, have been conspicuously quiet. Militants in Iraq claimed a drone attack on a US military base in Erbil, but the attack was intercepted without any casualties, and some groups seem to be staying quiet.

The impotent response is part of a larger story of the Iranian regime’s collapse from a fearsome military power to a weakened state fighting for its survival against an emboldened America and Israel. Rather than secure it from attack, its strategy of backing proxy forces in conflicts abroad played a critical part in dragging it into the existential crisis it faces now.

And while there are a number of factors that led to its unraveling, there’s one clear moment when it all started to go south: Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel.

That terror invasion was so despicable that it required being a vicious antisemite — or a fairly ordinary leftist — to dismiss or excuse it.

Posted at 10:42 am by Stephen Green

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: How did San Francisco become such an abomination of a city? As Adam Carolla notes, “San Francisco represents the progressive movement at its purest form. This is when they get to do everything they want. That’s San Francisco. And so I’m not even going to make a judgment call. I’m just going to say take a bunch of Americans, show them San Francisco then, show them San Francisco now, and go this is the result of them doing everything they want.”

And unlike New York, which had a major reset by Rudy Giuliani starting in 1994, and continued for another decade years by Mike Bloomberg (albeit with hundreds of miles of new bike lanes), San Francisco’s last Republican mayor left office at the beginning of 1964.

Posted at 10:35 am by Ed Driscoll

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES:

Hey, conservatives aren’t the ones making the new rules — we’re just asking questions.

Posted at 10:26 am by Stephen Green

THE FEMALE-CENTERED SOCIETY: Camel Toed Karens are pissed at Professor Gad Saad. Love the way he stands up for His Side: “A man dared commented on our dresscode!” He says: “F*ck off, and grow a spine.”

Posted at 10:15 am by Helen Smith

GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY, TRUMP-STYLE: ‘Decapitate and Delegate’: Trump Tests New Model of U.S.-Led Regime Change.

This century, America sank into two of its longest wars—in Afghanistan and Iraq—following lightning strikes that removed governments deemed threats to U.S. national security. Those quagmires helped fuel the MAGA movement, which rallied around Trump’s promises of avoiding overseas military entanglements.
Now, Trump is putting his pledges and American firepower to the test.

With an ethos that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summed up as “We’re not dumb about it,” Trump has committed the country to a war that he has said will last only weeks, following the success of a military raid that was done in one night.

In both Iran and Venezuela, Trump has said the target country’s fate is ultimately up to its citizens—even as he floats preferred successors and the U.S. exerts military pressure from above. The goal is to extract tangible wins for the U.S.—access to oil, reduced migration and decreased drug flows, a weakened adversary—without the risks of deploying large ground forces.

Trump’s approach reflects both his desire to avoid repeating this century’s wars and his disdain for what he has called the “failed policy of nation building.” His preference is to work with friendlier governments that can provide tangible benefits to be sold as “America First” triumphs.

Trump’s new strategy, a State Department official quipped, can be summed up as “decapitate and delegate.”

It’s working well enough so far in Venezuela.

Posted at 10:11 am by Stephen Green

DATA REPUBLICAN GETS RESULTS:

“DataInterpretr and I are following up with every single representative to make sure we get names of specific NGOs so we can make sure that zero federal dollars are going to them.”

Posted at 9:55 am by Stephen Green

THE “SPREADING” IS BEING DONE BY IRAN, WHICH HARDLY HAS A NEIGHBOR LEFT IT HASN’T ATTACKED: More Tankers Come Under Attack as US-Iran Conflict Spreads.

A Bahamas-flagged crude oil tanker was targeted by an Iranian remote-controlled boat laden with explosives while anchored near Iraq’s Khor al Zubair port, according to initial assessments.

A second tanker at anchor off Kuwait was taking on water and spilling oil after a large explosion on its port side.

Nine vessels have come under attack since the conflict broke out between the U.S., Israel and Iran on Saturday. Iran launched a wave of missiles at Israel early on Thursday and also sent drones into Azerbaijan, injuring four people.

Hang on, bumpy ride ahead.

Posted at 9:40 am by Stephen Green

WELL:

Posted at 9:24 am by Stephen Green

HOW THE ALAMO SAVED AMERICA: It was 190 years ago today that the 182 men of the Alamo finally succumbed after 13 days battling and delaying dictator Santa Ana’s Mexican Army of 5,000. Those 13 days gave Texas Gen. Sam Houston time to rally the troops who would inflict a humiliating defeat of Santa Ana at the Battle of San Jacinto.

But, as Rod Martin explains in a column that every American ought to read, it was not just the Texas Republic that the Alamo made possible. Had Santa Ana crushed the Texas rebellion, he could well have conquered New Orleans and thus strangled the American economy.

Even without taking New Orleans, it’s reasonable to envision him being in a position to make trade on the Mississippi exorbitantly expensive, which would also have inflicted tremendous damage to the emerging American economy.

There are even more serious consequences that would have accrued to the U.S. had the Texas rebellion been defeated. Martin memorably lays it all out.

Posted at 9:20 am by Mark Tapscott