March 31, 2026

EXALT THE CRIMINAL, IGNORE THE INNOCENT:

Posted at 3:02 pm by Stephen Green

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Ex-Amazon Studios Head Slams Woke Hollywood.

Price stepped aside as head and founder of Amazon Studios, the company behind the Ryan Gosling smash, before it conquered Hollywood.

Price can still appreciate both the film and the message it hopes to share with major movie studios.

Audiences want to be entertained, not lectured. “Project Hail Mary” does the former oh, so well.

Price shared a jaw-dropping op-ed in, of all places, The New York Times, slamming Hollywood for losing the plot. It’s why the film industry is in big trouble, he argues. The only hope may be more movies like “Project Hail Mary.”

Smart. Uplifting. Original. Human.

Fun.

Fun sells tickets and popcorn. Lectures, not so much.

Posted at 2:47 pm by Stephen Green

ALLIES:

But there’s this from the full report: “Corriere della Sera added ‌that ⁠permission was not granted as the U.S. had not sought authorisation and Italy’s military leadership was not consulted, as required under treaties governing ​the use ​of U.S. ⁠military installations in the country.”

Bad communications, perhaps?

Posted at 2:31 pm by Stephen Green

WORSE, THEY AREN’T EVEN LOYAL TO THEIR OWN INTERESTS…:

…although that’s been increasingly true for two decades or more.

Posted at 1:58 pm by Stephen Green

SAVE GIRLS’ SPORTS: DOJ sues Minnesota, state high school league for allowing boys to compete in girls’ sports.

According to the DOJ, the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) and the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) have engaged “in sex-based discrimination by requiring girls to compete against boys in athletic competitions that are designated exclusively for girls and allowing boys to invade intimate spaces designated exclusively for girls.”

In doing so, MDE and MSHSL have openly defied Title IX, which prohibits sex-based discrimination in any education program or activity that receives federal funding, the DOJ said in a press release.

“The Justice Department cannot ignore a state’s brazen defiance of federal antidiscrimination law,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division. “In service of radical gender ideology, Minnesota’s actions violate Title IX and deny female athletes their hard-earned trophies, records, dignity, and safety.”

The lawsuit highlights the story of Marissa Rothenberger, a biological male who pitched for the girls’ varsity softball team as a junior at Champlin Park High School.

Rothenberger threw multiple shutouts, including a complete-game shutout in the Class 4A state championship game, leading the Rebels to the 2025 title.

Previously: “Never been hit so hard in my life”: Angela Carini Quits Boxing Bout After Punch By Male Opponent.

Posted at 1:45 pm by Stephen Green

HMMM: Trump “is priming the the public (and world) with a new mental frame: the Strait of Hormuz is not Iranian sovereign territory anymore:”

And at the moment, it seems to be moving again:

Related: In other aquatic news:

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

THE NEW SPACE RACE REALLY IS SPACEX VS. THE WORLD:

Posted at 1:29 pm by Stephen Green

“IT’S REALLY HARD TO OVERSTATE JUST HOW BADLY CHINA’S MILITARY INDUSTRY HAS BEEN HUMILIATED IN THE PAST YEAR:”

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

ALL THE DEMOCRATS HAVE TO DO IS NOT BE CRAZY, AND THEY CAN’T EVEN DO THAT:

 

Posted at 12:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

4-D CHESS:

Left unsaid: Dragging Venezuela (and perhaps even Iran) away from the China-Russia Axis undercuts their efforts to undermine the petrodollar system that underwrites the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.

So there’s more to it than just making Beijing pay the global market price for oil.

Posted at 12:27 pm by Stephen Green

ACCOUNTABILITY: The Unlikely Ensemble Leading Trump’s Hunt for 2020 Election Fraud: Senior officials are pursuing theories the Trump campaign had earlier dismissed.

In Atlanta, FBI agents have sifted through thousands of paper ballots confiscated from the main election office there. Federal officials have also seized voting machines in Puerto Rico, locking them in a basement of an intelligence campus in Bethesda, Md., at the behest of the office of Trump’s intelligence chief, Tulsi Gabbard, according to current and former officials familiar with the matter.

At the center of many of the efforts is Kurt Olsen, a campaign lawyer who was heavily involved in Trump’s failed “Stop the Steal” fight in 2020 and was tapped to lead the new push at the White House last fall. In recent weeks, Olsen has briefed Trump on a range of allegations, pushed the president to declassify a swath of documents, and asked for up to $10 million in funding to pursue his mandate, administration officials familiar with the efforts said. He has traveled to Florida to meet with Jason Reding Quiñones, the U.S. attorney in Miami.

The probes into alleged improprieties in the 2020 election range from foreign interference to duplicate, fraudulent and missing ballots in states Trump lost. Olsen spends much of his time at the Justice Department, according to administration officials, as prosecutors pursue criminal investigations on the topic in Atlanta, Phoenix and elsewhere, according to people familiar with the matter.

The biggest news here is that the WSJ is treating election fraud as a serious story, instead of just dismissing it out of hand.

Posted at 12:24 pm by Glenn Reynolds

A BRIGHT NEW DAY IS COMING:

Posted at 12:09 pm by Glenn Reynolds