March 23, 2026

WHEN A TERRORIST STATE WAGES STATE-LEVEL WARFARE:

More:

🇸🇦 Ras Al-Khair Desalination → LARGEST in the world → millions lose water
🇸🇦 Shuqaiq Power Plant → southern Saudi grid GONE
🇶🇦 Al Kharsaah Power Plant → Qatar grid hit
🇶🇦 Ras Laffan C Power + Water → Qatar’s lifeline GONE
🇦🇪 Taweelah Desalination → one of Gulf’s biggest → UAE water supply hit
🇦🇪 Barakah Power Plant → UAE’s NUCLEAR plant → strike = fallout risk
🇧🇭 Al Dur Power + Water → Bahrain’s PRIMARY water source → 60% dependent
🇰🇼 North Zour Power Plant → Kuwait’s largest → 90% desalination dependent
🇯🇴 Aqaba Thermal → Jordan’s south grid
🇯🇴 Samra Power Plant → 40% of Jordan’s total electricity

💀 12 named facilities
💀 6 countries
💀 ZERO military bases on the list
💀 100% civilian infrastructure — water and power

Every target on this list keeps people alive. Not soldiers. CIVILIANS.

If this is how the IRGC wants to go, I can’t imagine it will go well for them.

UPDATE: “Account Suspended.” Your guess is as good as mine.

Posted at 11:55 am by Stephen Green

FALLOUT:

Posted at 11:26 am by Stephen Green

HOW THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN:

Make you wonder if Ritter was coopted long before he got caught.

Posted at 10:53 am by Stephen Green

INFRASTRUCTURE: Natural gas prices in Texas plunge deep into negative territory and producers are burning it off, while the rest of the world braces for shortages.

Over the past week, spot prices at the Waha gas trading hub in the Permian Basin fell as low as -$9.75 per million British thermal units, with expectations that it could hit -$10 when pipeline capacity tightens as operators perform seasonal maintenance later this year, traders told Bloomberg.

That’s because drilling in the prolific Permian Basin yields both oil and natural gas. But while an extensive network of pipelines exists to bring crude to market, there’s less infrastructure to transport natural gas, creating bottlenecks and localized surpluses.

As a result, negative gas prices aren’t that unusual in West Texas, and have been that way more often than not so far this year. But last week saw the lowest weekly average Waha spot price on record.

Since negative prices mean producers have to pay to someone to take the supply off their hands, excess natural gas is often burned off, and so-called flaring events this season are at five-year highs.

What a shame they can’t move the stuff and sell it.

Posted at 10:38 am by Stephen Green

DIVERSITY IS THE UK’S STRENGTH:

Yes, but does the UK have Learing Centers?

Posted at 10:22 am by Stephen Green

ISRAEL ALLIANCE IS A BARGAIN FOR U.S.: Rod Martin lays out the decisive strategic case for the U.S. maintaining a close, mutually supportive alliance with Israel. Contrary to the anti-semites Right and Left who claim America gets nothing from its relationship with Israel, the alliance is an absolute bargain. Martin frames the alternatives:

“When America retreats, Iran advances. When America hesitates, Russia probes. When America grows confused, China arrives with money, ports, telecom networks, surveillance systems, and diplomatic cover. That is the actual choice-set. The world does not freeze while Washington holds seminars and struggle sessions.

“Israel helps prevent that outcome in the Middle East by being the one country in the region both willing and able to confront the West’s enemies on a daily basis. And because Israel does so with its own soldiers rather than ours, the United States spends far less blood and treasure.

“This is the point the anti-Israel Right keeps missing. They speak as if support for Israel ‘drags’ America into war. In fact, a strong Israel is essential to keep America out of unnecessary wars. Indeed, in all of history, only in the last year have U.S. and Israeli forces felt the need to fight side by side in any offensive war.”

Much, much more here that needs to be said and heeded.

Posted at 9:57 am by Mark Tapscott

I MISS RUSH:

Posted at 9:51 am by Stephen Green

BECAUSE OF COURSE SHE DID: NYC first lady Rama Duwaji created artwork for DSA’s anti-Israel campaign.

First lady Rama Duwaji, who Mamdani has bizarrely claimed isn’t a public figure, created artwork for the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America as the lefty group unleashed a public campaign called “PalestineOnTheBallot.com.”

The effort promoted candidates running in Democratic Party primaries who snubbed funding from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and vowed to support the Not on Our Dime Act — a bill that would punish or dissolve registered charities found to support “Israeli settler violence.”

The bill was sponsored by her husband, who was then a state Assemblyman.

Lovely couple.

Also: New Yorkers fume as Mamdani breaks Ramadan fast with Rikers inmates— but can’t be bothered to visit injured cops.

Just think of it as constituent service.

And some additional perspective:

Posted at 9:36 am by Stephen Green

WIKIPEDIA ISN’T DEAD, IT’S THE LIVING DEAD:

Posted at 9:20 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Chuck Schumer Is Taking a Rough Ride on the Struggle Bus. “Although Chuck Schumer is a classic Trump Derangement Syndrome-sufferer, getting him out of leadership or the Senate wouldn’t be much of a help for the Republicans. Next in line in the Senate is 81-year-old Dick Durbin from Illinois. And, because there is always someone worse waiting in the wings over there in Dem Land, many think that AOC will be the one to depose and replace Schumer.”

Posted at 9:05 am by Stephen Green

MAKING CLEAR WHICH SIDE IS WHICH IN IRAN:

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Posted at 8:50 am by Glenn Reynolds

STOP PUNISHING AMERICAN CONSUMERS FOR CHINA AND INDIA’S BAD ACTORS:

Posted at 8:49 am by Stephen Green

DECLINE IS A CHOICE: The new normal: Conditioning Colorado to power outages.

I’ve lived in Colorado since 1970. And you know what Colorado had back in 1970? High winds blowing down the Front Range.

I moved to Boulder in 1984 and have been there ever since. And you know what Boulder has had all that time? A freakin’ lot of high winds.

I remember as a college kid walking around the CU campus after windstorms, stepping around uprooted trees and massive broken branches that made the sidewalks impassable.

I’ve seen rooftop shingles go flying off Boulder buildings, signs ripped down, and semi-trucks overturned.

All of which is to say that for the last 55 years I have personally witnessed a crap-ton of high winds in our mountain state.

But only in the last few months have I witnessed our power utilities preemptively turning off electricity during high winds to “prevent fires.”
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Colorado’s energy elite understands the math.

They know sizable power disruptions are in our future — because they ordered them. So, they’d better start getting YOU used to it.

Nah, I’ll be gone before then.

Posted at 8:34 am by Stephen Green

IS IT WRONG TO LAUGH?

I feel like this guy probably told fired coal miners and steelworkers to “learn to code,” so I’m gonna say not really.

Posted at 8:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

IT’S SELF-LICKING ICE CREAM CONES ALL THE WAY DOWN:

Posted at 8:18 am by Stephen Green

I’M SURPRISED THEY’RE EVEN THAT HIGH, TO BE HONEST: Don Surber: Bad war coverage, bad ratings: TV audiences down 42% from the Persian Gulf War. “Elon Musk, meanwhile, said X broke a record in engagements on the first day of Epic Fury, a record users broke the next day.”

Plus: “People want the news but the cable news channels don’t deliver news. They deliver panels. Usually the panel is a black guy, a white guy and three ladies.”

Posted at 8:15 am by Glenn Reynolds