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March 14, 2026
THE ENEMY WITHIN: University of Maryland student government to pledge solidarity with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Losers backing losers.
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THE ESTABLISHMENT IS VICIOUS WHEN CORNERED:
Hello Brad Duplessis,
You pre-emptively blocked me here on 𝕏, so I am forced to make this "Hello" a standalone post.
You are a retired Army infantry officer. You served in Iraq and Afghanistan. You graduated from the National War College in 2018. You are now an Assistant… pic.twitter.com/DOQqmxOJ5c
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) March 14, 2026
OH, CANADA:
A stupid Canadian general wanted to show the Americans how tough our soldiers are, and ordered them to stay out on exercise during dangerously cold weather. The Americans went home.
It cost dozens of our guys fingers and toes.
But that's not the worse part. The army tried to… pic.twitter.com/jK6baoHtoO
— Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker (@Martyupnorth) March 14, 2026
THAT IS GOOD NEWS: Good News: Trump Mulls Suspending Jones Act to Alleviate Oil Crisis.
Don’t mull it, just do it.
OOPS: Flu vaccines didn’t work that well in the US, officials find. “This season’s vaccines were around 25% to 30% effective in preventing adults from getting sick enough from the flu that they had to go to a doctor’s office, clinic or hospital, according to a CDC report this week. Children who were vaccinated were about 40% less likely to get treatment at a doctor’s office or hospital. Officials generally are pleased if a flu vaccine is 40% to 60% effective. Judging from past CDC research, this season saw one of the lowest effectiveness rates in the last two decades.”
THE DONROE DOCTRINE: The New Monroe Doctrine: The Fear Is Gone.
CHANGE: Havana is expected to allow Cubans in Miami, elsewhere to own businesses on the island.
The Cuban government is expected to announce as early as next week economic reforms to allow Cuban Americans living in South Florida and elsewhere in the U.S. and around the world to invest and own private businesses on the island, the Miami Herald has learned.
The economic opening comes amid unprecedented pressure by the Trump administration, which has cut off oil supplies to the Cuban government, and ongoing talks between the two countries acknowledged by Cuban leaders for the first time on Friday.
“The return of the Cuban diaspora is imminent,” said one source who is knowledgeable about the expected measures and who asked not to be identified to speak of the sensitive matter. According to the source, the Cuban government is likely to allow Cubans living abroad to own private enterprises the Cuban government has labeled mipymes — pronounced mee-PEE-mes —the Spanish acronym for micro, small and medium enterprises.
As Glenn asked last month on his Substack, “Will Cuba be Libre soon, and if so what happens next? And after that?”
CONSEQUENCES:
Seems like an expedient way to bring that third world piracy shtick to a screeching halt. What took them so long? Three or four guys with automatic weapons, AT4s, whatever. (Quad .50s would be a wicked cool throwback.) Probably cheaper than Lloyds of London.
OK, now Iron DomeTF… https://t.co/fNuJOODSdz
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) March 13, 2026
TRUMP MAKES GAVIN NEWSOM AN OFFER HE CAN’T ACCEPT: President Trump orders oil drilling operations to resume off California.
The Trump administration has signed an executive order to resume oil drilling operations off the southern California coast.
The order will be prove controversial despite potentially to bring down gas prices, which are the highest in America.
The move aims to restart oil production at a cluster of offshore platforms run by Sable Offshore (SOC.N) .
Gas prices continue to rise in the wake of the war on Iran, which lead the Trump administraton to temporarily drop sanctions against Russian oil. Prices hit $103 a barrel, and
President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order to let the secretary of energy take actions under the Defense Production Act.
Given California’s Potemkin energy policy for decades, it will be fun to watch Newsom and Sacramento in general fight executive order this tooth and nail, thus ensuring that the state will continue to have the highest gas prices in the nation, which won’t do much to benefit his presidential campaign.
THE PENIS MIGHTIER: Why is it worse to use problematic language to describe something than to acknowledge that thing is actually problematic?
think most people have missed the point of Judge VanDyke’s “swinging dicks” dissental. Of course he used vulgar and coarse language. (I for one would not use this approach in my writing.) That was VanDyke’s point. He was trying to draw a double standard. Thirty members of his court expressed their outrage at VanDyke writing about “swinging dicks,” but not one of them was willing to review a case that involved actual “swinging dicks.” How can it be that describing “swinging dicks” in a women’s spa is a bigger problem than the state permitting actual “swinging dicks” in a women’s spa? Judge VanDyke proves the old saw is true: “The pen is mightier than the sword.” Or, as Sean Connery would say on SNL Celebrity Jeopardy!, “The penis mightier.”
This is a common feature of contemporary debate: it is worse to use problematic language to describe something that to acknowledge how that thing is actually problematic.
Actually the ban on language is supposed to prevent the acknowledgment too.
JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: Wargaming an AGI cyber surprise.
IT’S COME TO THIS: Wanted fugitive killed by Dallas SWAT officers worked security for Rep. Jasmine Crockett, sources say.
A man shot and killed by Dallas police earlier this week was a familiar figure in North Texas law enforcement – and part of the security detail for U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, sources told CBS News Texas.
Multiple law enforcement sources tell CBS News Texas the man, known publicly as Mike King, had been using aliases while running a business that placed officers in off‑duty jobs.
King was killed Wednesday night after a standoff with Dallas police SWAT officers. Police say he fled into a hospital parking garage, barricaded himself inside a vehicle, and was forced out by tear gas before pulling a gun on officers.
Sources say he was wanted for impersonating a law enforcement officer and had claimed to be one while operating Off Duty Police Services, an online platform connecting North Texas officers with off‑duty work. Authorities have not released his real name.
Wait, Crockett has security protection? She doesn’t want you to have any:
Here is Defund the Police activist Jasmine Crockett in 2021:
"The Defund movement seeks to actually bring about healing… Defund is about finally being smart on crime." https://t.co/N7qRk3z603 pic.twitter.com/qQMiFwrTYy
— McCormick War Room (@TeamMcCormickPA) October 18, 2024
IT’S LIKE THEY NEVER CARED:
I am getting an almost uniform sense from my sources in the black community that there are fears that immigrants are taking over the Democratic Party, and not even offering power sharing. Mandani’s commie cabinet is remarkably devoid of black men.
— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) March 13, 2026
FIRE NATASHA BERTRAND:
This is really nasty from the single worst Pentagon/NatSec reporter I’ve ever seen. Not even close to what he actually said.
— P.T. Ward (@HTWardish) March 13, 2026
A DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO AVOID REALITY: Norfolk’s Soros-Backed DA Blames GOP’s ‘Gun Absolutism’ for Old Dominion Shooting.
DO INVESTIGATE, AS SOME PEOPLE ARE REALLY RILED UP AND LIKELY TO BOOM: Ground Stop Issued at Three DC Airports as FAA Investigates ‘Strong Chemical Smell’.
THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULDN’T LET BUREAUCRACIES EVEN NEAR HEALTH: Box-ticking won’t fix the NHS maternity care crisis.
OUR CONSTITUTION IS DESIGNED TO PROTECT FREEDOM AND LIMIT DEMOCRACY: Peter Thiel and the inexorable rise of the technocrats.
CIVILIZATIONS BEING SACRIFICED ON THE ALTAR OF CLIMATE CHANGE: The climate scaremongers: Ed’s mad objection to North Sea gas.
