March 4, 2026

THE DARK NIGHT OF FASCISM IS ALWAYS DESCENDING IN THE GOP AND YET LANDS ONLY ON DEMOCRATS:

Although to be fair, deflecting for Democrats, no matter how terrible, seems to be The Bulwark’s unpublished mission statement.

Posted at 2:54 pm by Stephen Green

PERSONNEL IS POLICY:

Posted at 2:33 pm by Stephen Green

UPSETTING THE GLOBALIST CROWD IS A FEATURE, NOT A BUG:

Posted at 1:55 pm by Stephen Green

I CAN’T WAIT TO GET OUT OF THIS STATE: Alcohol ‘fees’ another end-run around Colorado voter consent.

Volumes could be written on the misguided language and intent of the bill, which incorrectly assumes that it is someone else’s fault for individuals choosing to partake in alcohol consumption, and that they must therefore be punished.

However, for our purposes, let’s focus on the bill’s insidious attempt to bypass voter consent.

Despite the constant catastrophizing about not having enough revenue, Colorado lawmakers deliberately continue to ignore the fact that state government has grown far beyond what was ever intended by TABOR.

While tax revenue subject to voter consent has grown by only 44% since TABOR passed, voter-consent-exempt cash funds, such as those generated by HB-1271, have grown by 588%.

But it gets worse. Because of the meteoric increase in enterprise revenues, voters passed Proposition 117 in 2020 to require ballot-box approval of new enterprises whose expected revenues would exceed $100 million in the first five years.

With utter disregard for Colorado voters, legislators now use the scheme of creating several enterprises in place of a single enterprise to keep revenue below the threshold set by Prop 117, thus avoiding voter approval.

Not only that, but it’s guaranteed that the bill’s “three new enterprises in the Behavioral Health Administration” will prove nothing more than a taxpayer-funded money stream to lefty groups.

Posted at 1:46 pm by Stephen Green

OH TO BE IN ENGLAND: Outraged by grooming gangs? You’re an extremist.

I hear you’re a fascist now. Indeed, if the Home Office’s leaked review into extremism is anything to go by, the details of which are splashed across the newspapers today, potentially millions of Brits are falling for ‘right-wing extremist narratives’.

Home secretary Yvette Cooper commissioned this ‘rapid analytical sprint’ last summer, following the horrific Southport murders and the race riots that followed. True to form, the end product seems oddly preoccupied with smearing ordinary people, at the expense of tackling those who advocate genuine hatred, violence and terrorism.

The Policy Exchange think-tank got its hand on a copy of the review and was stunned to find – alongside the usual stuff about Islamists, neo-Nazis and the like – passages that portray even mainstream criticisms of the multicultural state as somehow dodgy and beyond-the-pale.

Apparently, complaints of ‘two-tier policing’ are one example of a ‘right-wing extremist narrative’. Far-rightists, we’re told, also ‘frequently exploit cases of alleged group-based sexual abuse’ (ie, grooming gangs). Remarkably, this is the primary reference to the rape-gangs scandal in the report, even though there is an entire section devoted to misogyny, looking at incels and pick-up artists.

Flashback: The BBC expected contrition from Kemi Badenoch. It owes us an apology instead.

“Have you seen ‘Adolescence’?” Yes, Mein Fuhrer: but I’m starting to wish I hadn’t. Oh, to inhabit the world of Kemi Badenoch, who innocently went on BBC Breakfast imagining they’d talk solely about tariffs, China or thermonuclear war – the sooner it comes, the better – but was invited to review the telly instead.

“Have you watched ‘Adolescence’ yet?” asked Charlie Stayt. The “yet” was impatient, as if Charlie were tapping a baseball bat in his hand. Kemi is notorious for not yet watching the TV show everyone who works in TV is talking about – and when she replied that she still hadn’t and “probably won’t”, co-host Naga Munchetty looked tempted to call Prevent.

“It’s prompting conversations about toxic masculinity,” she said, plus “smartphone use… Why do you not want to know what people are talking about?”

“All important issues”, replied Kemi. “But in the same way I don’t need to watch ‘Casualty’ to know what’s going on in the NHS, I don’t need to watch a specific Netflix drama to understand what’s going on.” BBC Breakfast’s viewers sat up in their hospital beds. Finally: someone speaks for reality! The only thing Kemi got wrong is that ‘Casualty’ has little to do with the NHS any more. Or medicine. I think it’s mostly about sex.

Badenoch wasn’t missing much by skipping it, as once again a moral panic focuses entirely on the wrong issue because, to coin a phrase, “better dead than rude:”

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

DITTO:

Posted at 1:30 pm by Stephen Green

US SUB SINKS IRANIAN WARSHIP NAMED AFTER TERRORIST LEADER WHO TRUMP ASSASSINATED — IN FIRST SUCH ATTACK SINCE WWII:

An American submarine sank an Iranian warship named the “Soleimani” in the Indian Ocean overnight — the first such US attack on a member of an enemy fleet since World War II, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday.

The “quiet death” strike on Iran’s prized vessel the IRIS Shahid Soleimani unfolded late Tuesday off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Hegseth said, telling reporters during a Pentagon briefing that the ship “thought it was safe in international waters.”

“Instead, it was sunk by a torpedo. The first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since World War II,” Hegseth added. “Like in that war, back when we were still the War Department, we are fighting to win.”

Meanwhile, the Iranians keep pumping out AI slop of imaginary wonder weapons. Was it over when Yuri Gagarin bombed Pearl Harbor?

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

LAUGHING WOLF: Winter 26 Bleg.

I hate to do this, as your kind gifts over the last 4.5 years have kept me going. Right after I was hit by lightning that June, and things started going South rather rapidly, quite a few of you stood up and helped me out as I dealt with health issues, health bureaucracy, and general bureaucracy. At that time, I wanted nothing more than to get better and move to the desert SW. As I look out at the roughly inch of snow that fell here this morning, there is a part of me that still very much wants to move there.

That said, about 3.5 years ago, I found a new Church home and my desire for a new life took on a new meaning. It was something long building, as I had for years thought there was something I was supposed to be doing, though I wasn’t sure what it was that I was to do. It literally took getting hit by lightning to have a moment of clarity, and to slowly (I am a bit thick and slow) realize that the end doesn’t matter, only the path. Bit more on this later in the post.

It took more than three years to get a small monthly stipend going, and during that time your gifts literally allowed me to live as I had no real income during that time. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate those gifts, and all the prayers that came with them. Both mean more than I can ever truly express. Which is why I hate to ask for more, but my stipend is not huge and while things are improving, there is more to do than I can cover.

So, I’m going to do a formal Bleg. Haven’t done this in a while, but here’s what I’m looking at over the next year or so.

He’s a good guy and a sharp blogger. I chipped in.

Posted at 12:44 pm by Stephen Green

YEP:

Posted at 12:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

ED MORRISSEY: Iran News Services: Mojtaba As Nepo Babytollah? Not So Fast.

As NBC News points out this morning, no one’s seen Mojtaba in a vertical and respiratory status since his father’s death. Supposedly, he’s mourning his father and working remotely, or something:

The New York Times report comes after semiofficial Iranian news agency Mehr news reported that Khamenei’s son was alive and well after the deadly strikes launched by the U.S. and Israel that killed his father and other family members, including Mojtaba Khamenei’s wife.

Mehr reported yesterday that Mojtaba Khamenei was “overseeing matters related to the martyrs of the family, managing affairs, and providing consultation and review on important national issues.”

At just the moment when his father’s regime needs to demonstrate continuity and survival, Mojtaba decides to … go on family leave? Maybe Mojtaba is pining for the fjords after a prolonged squawk, too.

One reason for the chaos? Israel just blew up Iran’s “Assembly of Experts” as it gathered to choose a new Supreme Leader.

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

THE LEFT IS FRICKIN’ INSANE:

From “Safe, legal, and rare” to “Abortions even for people who can’t get them!”

Posted at 12:28 pm by Stephen Green

THE EU WORLD WAS ALWAYS A CASTLE BUILT ON SAND:

Posted at 12:01 pm by Glenn Reynolds