March 6, 2026

IN A THEOCRACY, THE HOUSES OF WORSHIP ARE PART OF THE GOVERNMENT:  Yeah, About That.

As for the Ivy Leagues and most academia, what the man said.

Posted at 2:00 am by Sarah Hoyt

OTHER STATES GOPS SHOULD CONSIDER THESE:  Propositions.

Posted at 1:32 am by Sarah Hoyt

March 5, 2026

HAPPY DEATH OF STALIN DAY FOR ALL WHO CELEBRATE! On this date in 1953, Joseph Stalin died, and the following day, the New York Times published this creepy bit of necrophilia for his obituary: Stalin Rose From Czarist Oppression to Transform Russia Into Mighty Socialist State.

In 2017, Armando Iannucci captured a far more subtle and nuanced take on the last days of the Soviet tyrant and the resulting scramble for control by his apparatchiks: The Red Reign of Error: The Death of Stalin Arrives on Netflix.

Posted at 9:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

OPEN THREAD: Live, laugh, love.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

HOWARD DEAN IN 2005: “I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy.”

Get cracking Howard — the calls are definitely coming from inside the house: The Complete (And Growing) List of Things the Left Simultaneously Believes.

I am a science teacher. In science, I teach my students that a hypothesis that contradicts itself is invalid.

So I made a list.

THE COMPLETE (AND GROWING) LIST OF THINGS THE LEFT SIMULTANEOUSLY BELIEVES

Buckle up. This one is going to take a minute.

1. “My body, my choice”… but you MUST get a vaccine or lose your job, your ability to travel, and your right to eat inside a restaurant. Both things. At the same time.

2. “Believe all women”… unless the woman is Tara Reade, Juanita Broaddrick, or Paula Jones. Those women apparently came with an asterisk nobody mentioned.

3. “Tax the rich”… said by a woman worth $120 million (Pelosi), a man worth $9 million (Schumer), and a senator who owns three houses (Bernie) — all while their stock portfolios grow on insider access the rest of us will never have.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 9:25 pm by Ed Driscoll

STARMER’S “SMART DIPLOMACY:” UK Becoming a Pariah in Gulf.. “Jordan was ‘fxxkking furious’, a former minister with friends in Amman says. ‘The Emiratis, Kuwaitis, and even the Canadians are all asking, “What the fxxk are you doing? Whose side are you on?”’”

As always with Labour, the wrong side.

Posted at 8:58 pm by Glenn Reynolds

HMMMM: Trump’s Axing Of Evil Ends Both Neocon And Mad MAGA Ideology.

There is no pretending that in the contest of ideas in the Trump universe, the Mark Levins and the Lindsey Grahams have not won, and the Tucker Carlsons and Marjorie Taylor Greenes have not lost. The “Let Reagan Be Reagan” routine, the notion that the president’s “evil advisers” are always conning him into betraying his true principles, won’t go far when it comes to Trump. Nobody believes Donald Trump is not his own man and can be bamboozled by those he has hired. Trump never stops being Trump.

A Carlson podcast several months ago, garnering 1 million views on YouTube, is entitled “It’s Time to Decide: America First or Lindsey Graham’s Psychosexual Death Cult.” In it, Carlson claimed that Graham has been talking about “killing Americans on behalf of another country, a foreign power,” meaning Israel. It’s actually nothing new for Carlson, to whom Graham has been a bane for years. According to Carlson, Graham’s positions on national security are explained by his lack of a wife and children, the cause of an absence of concern for the future.

This weekend, Carlson called Trump’s attack on Iran “absolutely disgusting and evil” and claimed that, as regards MAGA, it will “shuffle the deck in a profound way.” It is hard not to see Trump returning that fire, even though his vice president, J.D. Vance, is Carlson’s close friend, a fact that may have led to Trump putting the Ohioan on the ticket in 2024.

Will the MAGA movement crack up, parts of it turning against the two-time president for betraying their isolationism? It’s difficult to see it happening over their leader vanquishing the preeminent terrorist enabler in the world, a regime that has murdered thousands of Americans, in what is, as Trump called it, “a noble mission.” Losers lie, and Carlson’s attacks on a hawk like Graham consist of dubiously contending that he takes pleasure in bloodshed because he advocates sticking the U.S. military on fanatical killers. More likely his and like voices will soon become less relevant – especially if Trump targets him for ridicule as a kook, even if the insults are subtler than his lambasting of “Marjorie Traitor Greene.”

It is said that Donald Trump is obsessed with securing his place in history, and that it has influenced some of his decisions for the worse. But giving the 92 million people of Iran a chance at liberation is likely to push far aside President Trump’s moral shortcomings and erratic style. As regrettable as they may be, they will be of as much pertinence in the eyes of history as George Washington’s wooden teeth.

Not least of which: We Have Now Redeemed Ourselves As a Nation From Desert One. “The failure of Operation Eagle Claw was almost certainly one of the key reasons Jimmy Carter lost the 1980 election. The hostages were released on the same day that President Ronald Reagan was inaugurated; the Iranians obviously realized that there was a new sheriff in town, and that Reagan wasn’t going to play patty-cake. The hostages had been held by the vicious savages in Iran for 444 days. When Ronald Reagan took office, American families all over the nation were able, finally, to take down all those yellow ribbons.”

The Simpsons we’re joking with the “History’s greatest monster” riff about Carter, but in retrospect, not by all that much, though:

Posted at 8:50 pm by Ed Driscoll

Here is the advice from a doctor I interviewed for my book that readers said moved them:

My advice is ‘don’t settle, take your time to find the right person.’” “How do you know the right person?” I asked. “Do they give as much as they take?” he said. “This sounds so simple,” I thought, “but it isn’t.” In our society, men are expected give protection, affection, financial support,and a host of other things in a relationship, and women are told that they are enough as they are—they give too much already. This is a myth for the most part but one that many men have swallowed. If you want happiness in a relationship, ask yourself if she gives as much as she takes. If the answer is “yes,” you are a lucky guy. If the answer is “no,” think long and hard about whether this should be a permanent relationship.

Do you think this advice is accurate?

Posted at 8:33 pm by Helen Smith

THE REPLIES ARE CLASSIC HERE:

Does David French secretly enjoy being dragged?

UPDATE: Related:

Posted at 7:48 pm by Glenn Reynolds