March 20, 2026

PRIORITIES: Pittsburgh Public Schools earn poor marks for NFL draft closure.

In an email to district staff, Superintendent Wayne Walters said students will shift to remote learning for three days to minimize disruption and keep the focus on instruction. The NFL draft, taking place in downtown Pittsburgh, is expected to draw as many as 700,000 visitors, according to the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership.

Pittsburgh Public Schools operates 54 schools that serve students from kindergarten through 12th grade. Only one of those schools is located in the city core, while most are miles from the event. With a total enrollment of around 20,000 students, the decision affects not only students but also caregivers and the students at 136 private, parochial, and charter schools who rely on the district for transportation.

The district has to reschedule the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment testing to later dates that have not been released due to the closure of in-person learning.

In a news release Tuesday, Waters said the district’s priority is maintaining continuity of learning while recognizing the extraordinary circumstances the city will experience during the NFL draft.

Pretty sure we learned during the stupid COVID lockdowns that remote learning is BS.

Posted at 11:44 am by Stephen Green

WHAT’S NOT SO AMAZING IS THAT HE ALSO APPEARS TO BE LYING:

Posted at 11:29 am by Glenn Reynolds

2021-2024 WAS JUST A WARMUP ACT FOR WHAT THE DEMS ALREADY OPENLY ADMIT THEY’LL DO FROM 2029 ON:

You wonder what they haven’t openly admitted they’ll do?

Posted at 11:28 am by Stephen Green

PRIORITIES:

Posted at 11:26 am by Glenn Reynolds

WHEN “GENUINELY WILD” HAS BEEN S.O.P. FOR A DECADE:

Posted at 10:57 am by Stephen Green

NAH, THAT’S NOT CREEPY:

Posted at 10:26 am by Stephen Green

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:

Posted at 9:55 am by Stephen Green

IT’S NOT A POLITICAL PARTY IT’S A CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY:

Posted at 9:50 am by Glenn Reynolds

TIT FOR TAT: Trump says Israel will stop attacking Iranian gas field, but US will attack it if Iran strikes Qatar. “Unfortunately, Iran did not know this, or any of the pertinent facts pertaining to the South Pars attack, and unjustifiably and unfairly attacked a portion of Qatar’s LNG Gas facility. NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars Field unless Iran unwisely decides to attack a very innocent, in this case, Qatar – In which instance the United States of America, with or without the help or consent of Israel, will massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field at an amount of strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed before.”

Posted at 9:40 am by Stephen Green

YES IT IS.

Also, damn, Pritzker’s hitting the Ozempic awfully hard. He’s running for Prez for sure.

Posted at 9:17 am by Glenn Reynolds

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Trump 47 — Come for the Jokes, Stay for the Awesome President Stuff. “President Trump’s shoot-from-the-lip speaking style drives some people crazy, but I’ve always thought it’s a feature, not a bug. There’s the entertainment value, of course, but it also lends an honesty to his public persona that is lacking in most politicians.”

Posted at 9:09 am by Stephen Green

THEY’RE PROBABLY HIDING FROM DRONES:

Trump has pretty much the whole Muslim world against Iran and its allies now. Well, except for Britain and France.

Posted at 9:01 am by Glenn Reynolds

FASTER, PLEASE: Pentagon Eyes Second B-21 Production Line.

The U.S. military struck a $4.5 billion deal last month to increase the rate of production on its new B-21 bomber. Now officials are considering whether they will open up an entire second production line to go even faster in constructing the sixth-generation stealth Raider.

Adm. Richard Correll, head of U.S. Strategic Command, told lawmakers March 17 that his command still believes the Air Force needs to increase its planned B-21 fleet to 145 airplanes—a figure his predecessor Air Force Gen. Anthony J. Cotton endorsed last March. A second production line could be a way to reach that goal.

“There are, of course, investments that have been made to increase the production rate and to potentially open a second production line,” Correll told the House Armed Services Committee’s subcommittee on strategic forces. “That decision has yet to be made, but clearly the B-21 represents a really significant capability both from a conventional and a nuclear perspective.”

The current Air Force program of record specifies a minimum of 100 B-21s, to be built by Northrop Grumman at its Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif. The planes are needed to replace aging B-1 Lancer and B-2 Spirit bombers in the 2030s.

Aside from Bidenflation and COVID lockdown-related delays, the Raider program is progressing remarkably well for modern, large procurement effort.

But if the B-21 is to do double deterrence duty against Russia and China, conventionally and the in nuclear role, we likely need 300 of them.

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Posted at 8:38 am by Stephen Green