SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE IN NONSENSE ON STILTS:  Cry Harder.

IT’S A CONSIDERATION:  Owning, Or Being Owned?

IT’S THE IRANIAN MONEY, STUPID:  This fact: “Oil revenue collapsed to roughly 5% of the national budget, down from 32% the prior year. Taxes increased over 60%. Food prices climbed at least 50%. ATMs across major cities are running out of cash.” Underlines a major point of mine.

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FASCINATING:  Ok, long legal autism explanation time, strap in this is going to be a wild ride: In 1934 the National Firearms Act was passed. The primary goals were to ban machine guns (especially the Thompson) and pistols (which could be concealed and used to ambush politicians), because FDR and his ilk were being wildly tyrannical at that time and certainly had cause to fear.

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BECAUSE IT’S TRUE:  America Points At Corruption Anew As Barrier To Trade And Investment With The Philippines.

PERSPECTIVE:

If you're under 53 years old, you have never once been alive while a human was farther than 250 miles from Earth. Tonight, four astronauts are heading 252,000 miles out. That's a thousand times farther than any person has gone in your lifetime.

The 250-mile ceiling is where the… https://t.co/h6fatOEsl9

— Anish Moonka (@anishmoonka) April 1, 2026

My concerns about the Artemis mission are real, but this is still something.

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS PROMISED: Individual Investors Could Get a Rare Shot at Buying Into SpaceX From Day One.

CHANGE:

Positive development. Headsup, Sir Keir, it'll be pitchforks by torchlight shortly.

(FYI Britain, in America, the traditional corrective on official abuse is tar and feathers. A little goes a long way. Do one, the others notice. Regrettably we've moved away from this practice.… https://t.co/xn5O1A6Tib

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 2, 2026

TOO MANY PEOPLE LOST IT OVER TRUMP:

I find it fascinating that the three guys responsible for the vast majority of "professional election analysis" in this country over the last 40+ years – Charlie Cook, Larry Sabato, and Stu Rothenberg – all had their brains utterly broken by Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/OYiTh3XEtk

— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) March 30, 2026

MICROBIOME NEWS: Giant Study Reveals Why Some Viruses Hide Inside Your Body For Life.

HMM:

The Woodrow Wilson Foundation did a 50-state survey of Americans' civic knowledge in 2019.

Men out-performed women in every state by a large amount. pic.twitter.com/YnljZw4Tvk

— Marc Porter Magee 🎓 (@marcportermagee) March 31, 2026

WAR:

Since Clausewitz, the West recognized "war as an extension of politics."

The corollary of that is "politics is an extension of money."

Iran doesn't have any money, thanks to hyper-inflation and now an 84% reduction in oil revenue.

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— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) April 1, 2026

JAPAN IS INCREASINGLY BASED:

With this Japan-America lovefest prompted by Trump's Pearl Harbor joke and Musk's X translation thingy, worth noting, Nihonjin might not know. Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, architect of the attack on Pearl Harbor, admired America, and thought attacking the US was a really bad idea.… https://t.co/ObaNJc97Sd

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 1, 2026

WARM AND WET IS GOOD: New Research Reveals Ancient Mars May Have Been Warm, Wet – and Possibly Alive.

BREAKING: NASA investigates potential battery issue ahead of lunar launch.

NASA engineers are reportedly investigating a possible battery issue Wednesday evening, as the space agency counts down toward its first lunar mission in over 50 years.

The possible battery issue is related to Orion capsule’s launch abort system, which could cause problems during the final minutes of the countdown, when a computer takes control of the Space Launch System rocket, according to NBC News.

Engineers are working to determine whether the issue was with a sensor or a battery itself, after one of the two batteries for the launch abort system was “out of temperature range.”

Standing by…

UPDATE:

Engineers investigated a sensor on the launch abort system’s attitude control motor controller battery that showed a higher temperature than would be expected. It is believed to be an instrumentation issue and will not affect today’s launch. https://t.co/3z3kjdp620

— Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex (@ExploreSpaceKSC) April 1, 2026

Godspeed.

ANOTHER UPDATE: NASA launches 4 astronauts to the moon on historic Artemis 2 voyage, a lunar leap for the 21st century.

NOW THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS PROMISED: Terraforming Mars: Modeling engineered aerosols to warm the planet.

A COMMON VIEW: Are Bright Headlights Pissing You Off? AAA Says You’re Not Alone.

WHEN HE’S RIGHT, HE’S RIGHT: Sen. John Fetterman bashes US media, says press is helping Iran with ‘selective coverage’ of Operation Epic Fury.

ICYMI: Europe Needs to Hear This Harsh Truth.

SPRUCE UP YOUR SPACE: 4×6 Area Rug – Machine Washable, Non-Slip Soft Carpet for Living Room, Bedroom, Office. #CommissionEarned

ENDOWED BY OUR CREATOR: That’s the title of a landmark new analysis by the Discovery Institute’s John G. West that I review today in The Washington Stand. West presents massive documentation that the signers of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 were unanimous in thinking the Christian God (or for a few of them a Supreme Being confirmed by natural reason) equally endows every man with inalienable rights.

West also presents a thorough documentation of how Confederate Vice-President Alexander Stephens’ 1861 repudiation of the Declaration’s fundamental principle was indicative of the early influence of what we know today as the evolutionary scientific materialism that has so corroded the influence of that founding document. West has produced a hugely important and wonderfully accessible scholarly work.

FIGHT THE POWER: Reserve Sheriff’s Deputy Sues VW After He Was Fired for Having His Service Weapon in His Car.

WELL: In Historic Settlement, NCLA Strikes Fatal Blow to State Department’s Censorship Industrial Complex.

The New Civil Liberties Alliance has reached a settlement in our The Daily Wire, The Federalist, Texas v. State Dep’t lawsuit against State Department-funded censorship of American media. The Department acknowledges that our clients engaged in constitutionally protected speech concerning Covid-19, sexual ethics, the biological reality concerning sex, and election integrity. Defendants agree they will not use, finance, or promote technology that suppresses or fact-checks the constitutionally protected speech of Americans and domestic media outlets. The settlement also bars the State Department from working with foreign governments or NGOs—formally or informally—for those purposes. Representing The Daily Wire and The Federalist, NCLA celebrates this important victory safeguarding American free speech and press.

NCLA’s lawsuit has revealed that the State Department used federal funding to promote some 300 “Countering Propaganda and Disinformation” tools, some of which mainly targeted domestic speech or press outlets. The Department actively encouraged private companies, government bodies here and abroad, and NGOs to use these technologies to target Americans’ speech and media outlets, pushing social media companies to ferret out what it deemed misinformation and disinformation on domestic policy topics like Covid-19 and vaccines.

Much more at the link.

JAMIE K. WILSON: Two Faces Speaking: When Language Barriers Disappear.