SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS IN REMISSION: Michigan Synagogue Jihadi’s Brother Was Hezbollah Commander.
March 16, 2026
GAZA IS GARBAGE;
Even in Nazi Germany, there were Germans who risked everything to help Jews by hiding them, feeding them, or helping them to escape. We call them Righteous Among the Nations.
In Gaza, during the captivity of our hostages, not a single man or woman stepped forward to help them,… https://t.co/hoYopYqmau
— Shelley Blond (@BlondShelley) March 15, 2026
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IS IT TRUE? I DUNNO, BUT IT EXPLAINS A LOT:
The story gets even juicier. The word is Tucker is invited to WH by Trump. President tells him not to worry. We are bluffing. We have no intension of bombing Iran ever again. It's all a bluff to bring Iran to table. Tucker runs back to Mullahs & tells them our plan. CIA is…
— Wayne Root – Wayne Allyn Root – TV & Radio Host (@RealWayneRoot) March 15, 2026
SIX YEARS AGO TODAY: “15 Days to Slow the Spread.”
The federal government issued new guidelines Monday for Americans on how to combat the coronavirus pandemic, titled “15 Days to Slow the Spread.” The 15 days are seen as a trial period for the new recommendations and add to previous guidance about practicing good hygiene, staying home if sick and following state and local authorities.
Or as Erick Erickson later wrote: Trump Platformed Fauci and Shut America Down [Six] Years Ago This Week.
Though Donald Trump and his supporters do not want to admit it, this week, [six] years ago, American kids were forced out of schools and into their homes. The President of the United States had chosen to give Tony Fauci a big platform and advocated shutting everything down. On Donald Trump’s last day in office, instead of pardoning the people who’d stormed into the Capitol on January 6th, he was giving a presidential commendation to Fauci. That’s the actual history. Here’s the video of Trump, Fauci, and Deborah Birx laughing it up as they shut down America.
Fauci and Birx’s glee during the announcement is something to behold:
Remember when everybody had to stop going to school and start living inside their houses? Newscasters started broadcasting from home and everything? All that weird stuff?
And, oh yeah, they broke the economy like snapping a dry twig over their knee.
These people. https://t.co/d9CsJ55TsD
— Daddy Warpig (@DaddyWarpig) March 17, 2023
Birx’s excitement is driven in part because in her mind, she was playing the (very) long game: Dr. Birx Praises Herself While Revealing Ignorance, Treachery, and Deceit:
Recall that for the remainder of the year, the White House was urging normalcy while many states kept locking down. It was an incredible confusion. The CDC was all over the map. I gained the distinct impression of two separate regimes in charge: Trump’s vs. the administrative state he could not control. Trump would say one thing on the campaign trail but the regulations and disease panic kept pouring out of his own agencies.
Birx admits that she was a major part of the reason, due to her sneaky alternation of weekly reports to the states.
After the heavily edited documents were returned to me, I’d reinsert what they had objected to, but place it in those different locations. I’d also reorder and restructure the bullet points so the most salient—the points the administration objected to most—no longer fell at the start of the bullet points. I shared these strategies with the three members of the data team also writing these reports. Our Saturday and Sunday report-writing routine soon became: write, submit, revise, hide, resubmit.
Fortunately, this strategic sleight-of-hand worked. That they never seemed to catch this subterfuge left me to conclude that, either they read the finished reports too quickly or they neglected to do the word search that would have revealed the language to which they objected. In slipping these changes past the gatekeepers and continuing to inform the governors of the need for the big-three mitigations—masks, sentinel testing, and limits on indoor social gatherings—I felt confident I was giving the states permission to escalate public health mitigation with the fall and winter coming.
As another example, once Scott Atlas came to the rescue in August to introduce some good sense into this wacky world, he worked with others to dial back the CDC’s fanatical attachment to universal and constant testing. Atlas knew that “track, trace, and isolate” was both a fantasy and a massive invasion of people’s liberties that would yield no positive public-health outcome. He put together a new recommendation that was only for those who were sick to test – just as one might expect in normal life.
After a week-long media frenzy, the regulations flipped in the other direction.
Birx reveals that it was her doing:
This wasn’t the only bit of subterfuge I had to engage in. Immediately after the Atlas-influenced revised CDC testing guidance went up in late August, I contacted Bob Redfield…. Less than a week later, Bob [Redfield] and I had finished our rewrite of the guidance and surreptitiously posted it. We had restored the emphasis on testing to detect areas where silent spread was occurring. It was a risky move, and we hoped everyone in the White House would be too busy campaigning to realize what Bob and I had done. We weren’t being transparent with the powers that be in the White House…
Read the whole thing.

As Glenn wrote at the end of 2021: We must make public health authorities accountable for their COVID lies.
The ratings agencies are notoriously bad at judging risks and were heavily criticized after the 2008 financial crisis for slapping solid AAA ratings on debt that wound up in default. The agencies are paid by the bond issuers, so their incentives are not to be particularly harsh. They were late to discover the problems in Orange County, California, whose 1994 failure was, when it happened, described as the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
Yet for all those limitations, the agencies—and the bond markets they communicate with—at least provide some constraints, a reality check on the impulse of the mayors to spend recklessly without sufficient tax revenue to pay for it.
The New York City comptroller, Mark Levine, called Moody’s decision “a sobering wake-up call.”
“The fact that this is happening at a time of relative health in our local economy is all the more remarkable. The underlying challenge is clear: New York City is currently spending more than it is bringing in,” Levine said.
Mamdani, meanwhile, attacked the rating agency. “I think that the decision to revise the outlook, frankly, is premature,” he said at a March 12 press conference.
The outlook will be fully mature soon enough.
THEY’RE NOT SENDING THEIR BEST PEOPLE TO CONGRESS:
a Democrat member of Congress went to court because she says she wasn't invited to the next Kennedy Center meeting — her lawyer "conceded she was in fact extended an invitation; it just went to her email spam folder"https://t.co/iPQiZwj3by
— Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) March 15, 2026
ALL THAT AND WORLD WAR THREE:
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) admits Iran had enough uranium to make nuclear bombs because of Joe Biden but that was fine because Iran’s missiles couldn’t yet reach the US.
That’s what Democrats thought was acceptable.
Good grief.pic.twitter.com/wDjNv5vY9b
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) March 15, 2026
STEVE HAYWARD: Paul Ehrlich, RIP.
Paul Ehrlich, author of the monster 1968 best-seller The Population Bomb, has died at 93. The book sold millions worldwide, and was translated into dozens of languages. Most college students from the time have told me they were assigned Ehrlich’s book in multiple classes.
I think it was Shostakovich who quipped that Vivaldi only had one idea, which he repeated 383 times. At least Vivaldi’s one idea was a good one. Ever since Ehrlich published his infamous book he came out with a sequel every year or two that repeated his basic Malthusian outlook on humans and the planet. I suppose at least Ehrlich deserves credit for recycling.
Because of course his main prediction was falsified, and quite quickly at that. He predicted that “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death.”
Somehow I missed this news as a teen in the 1970s.
Read the whole thing.
ON SUNDAYS I RUN A PROMO POST FOR (MOSTLY) INDIE AUTHORS. THERE’S ALSO A FUN VIGNETTE CHALLENGE: Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.
ICYMI: 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
ONLY SOME KNEW – DEM OPERATIVES AND LEGACY MEDIA (BIRM) WERE IN DENIAL: Minnesota Elections Official Finally Admits What We All Knew About Illegals Voting.
THE STATE IS RUN BY LEFT-WING EXTREMISTS; OF COURSE THEY’VE REACTED CRAZILY. IS THERE ANY OTHER WAY THEY WOULD REACT? There Have Been Some Crazy Developments on Virginia’s Firearms Situation.
DEM TALKING POINTS BEWAIL THE LOSS OF 13* AMERICAN LIVES IN TWO WEEKS: Unlike the 13 lost in two minutes to the abbey gate terrorist suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan (and boy, wouldn’t Bagram airbase be useful just now?) Also, some of us remember Bengahzi, if the left doesn’t: Trump: US Has ‘Beaten and Completely Decimated’ Iran ‘Both Militarily, Economically, and Every Other Way’.
IS THERE A WAY TO DO IT WITHOUT GETTING CREEPY? AZ Democrat Goes Creepy in Trying to Defend Males in Women’s Sports .
IF THEY PROCLAIM THEIR PERVERSE ALLEGIANCES FROM THE ROOFTOPS, THE LEAST WE CAN DO IS NAME AND SHAME THEM: What is to be done?
I CAN’T READ THIS WITHOUT THINKING OF THE DAY THE PEOPLE FELL BY CORDWAINER SMITH: China to begin construction of its Mars sample return spacecraft.
POOR WIDDLE APPEAL JUDGES. DID THE DISSENT HURT THEIR FEE FEES? Appeals Judges Upset By “Crude” Dissent Mocking Majority For Permitting Naked Men In Women-Only Nude Spa.
Again and again: Socialism kills. Fast or slow. By homicide or destruction of the economy that allows people to live. But it always kills.
I KEEP CRYING IN THE DESERT: CULTURE MATTERS: Illegal Alien Adult Student at High School in Fairfax, VA, Accused of Groping Multiple Girls.
OH, CAN’T WE? ON THE SCALE OF CORKS TO KINGS, HOW HARD WOULD YOU SAY IT WAS TO TAKE IT OUT? Kansas State official on DEI: “You can’t take it out”.
AND THIS IS WHAT MAKES FUTURISM CHALLENGING AND FASCINATING: In Saturday’s FEE Weekly, Diego Costa looks at the classic example of how the role of the bank teller changed when automated teller machines (ATM) were introduced.
However, fear not. There are very few buggy whip makers, let alone flintknappers on the unemployment line. the story of humanity is the story of saltational innovation. Chances are that this one is also survivable.
AND THIS IS WHY WE DON’T LET THE FAMILY OF TERRORISTS IN WITHOUT SCRUTINY: Brother of Michigan synagogue attacker was Hezbollah commander, Israel alleges. Ayman Muhammad Ghazali carried out Detroit-area attack after Israeli strike eliminated two brothers and other family members, police say.