April 5, 2026

QUESTION ASKED: Why Are They Here? 

It seems that one can best explain America’s immigration policies with the supposition that they were crafted by our enemies to do as much harm as possible. That thought is prompted by news that the niece and grand-niece of Iran’s arch terrorist, Gen. Qasem Soleimani, killed by an American missile during the first Trump administration, are to be deported[.]

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Afshar may have reviled the U.S. as the Great Satan, but she herself reveled in a luxurious Los Angeles lifestyle, presumably courtesy of the oppressed people of Iran[.]

If she appeared in public looking like that in Soleimani’s Iran–no head scarf, not to mention being scantily clad–she would be in danger of having her eyes gouged out. No such worries here in “Satanic” America.

Imagine how those photos are playing in Iran — and the rest of the Middle East — right now:

UPDATE:

Posted at 12:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

“IT’S A TESTAMENT TO THE U.S. MILITARY THAT NO AMOUNT OF EQUIPMENT IS MORE VALUABLE THAN A SINGLE AIRMAN’S LIFE:”

Tweet continues:

Rather than charging aggressively and risking heavy infantry casualties, U.S. forces relied on overwhelming firepower—staying at a distance and expending vast quantities of artillery with little hesitation. Thanks to unmatched industrial production and logistics, fresh supplies were always available.

This approach allowed relatively smaller American units to wear down much larger and well-entrenched enemy forces.

In contrast, German and other European doctrines often emphasized aggressive maneuver and were sometimes more willing to accept high casualties to achieve objectives or preserve key equipment.

This material-heavy American style surprised many Germans, including Hitler, who had long dismissed U.S. soldiers as soft and lacking in fighting spirit. He believed soldiers were cheap and expendable; he discovered too late that Americans fought to conserve lives by expending machines and ammunition instead.

It was one of many reasons for Germany’s defeat—perhaps the hardest for some foreigners to fully understand.

Americans place a high value on the lives of our soldiers. Equipment and shells could always be replaced.

Why, it’s as if:

Sadly, the timing of the rescue probably ensures that there won’t be a Hollywood movie about it:

Oh, and speaking of timing:

Related:

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

THE EUROPEAN MIND CANNOT COMPREHEND THIS:

Or this, either:

I’d argue the worst failures we’ve suffered in the last 50 years were when we failed to do things like Americans.

Posted at 11:50 am by Stephen Green

YOUR DAILY DOSE OF SCHADENFREUDE:

Posted at 11:16 am by Stephen Green

AN IMPORTANT REMINDER:

Exit quote: “Our enemies have spent decades creating an environment to try to bring about the destruction of America. Now they have a bunch of allies in America actively trying to assist, whether because they don’t like the current administration or because they want to undermine our current system. But what they are doing is obvious and no one should forget who is playing a role in it.”

Posted at 10:33 am by Stephen Green

IMPRESSIVE… MOST IMPRESSIVE:

Related:

It’s how our guys have done things for a long time, and it’s great to see that they’ve still got it.

Posted at 10:09 am by Stephen Green

LEFTISTS KEEP CALLING PETE HEGSETH INCOMPETENT AND YET WE KEEP SEEING THINGS LIKE THIS:

Posted at 10:09 am by Glenn Reynolds

JEALOUS LOSERS GONNA BE JEALOUS LOSERS:

And read this, from Australia:

Excerpt:

Somehow, we have landed the deal of a lifetime with the USA that says, “when the baddies come, you’ll save us ok?” Because we can’t save ourselves.

And we live in peace. But we keep gnawing away at freedoms, keep enabling China, and get flabby and disinterested about our military because Uncle Sam’s got it.

And, let’s be honest, Americans are widely looked down on. To add insult to injury, we don’t think that highly of our protectors.

So, the USA is finally saying “enough.” I am here, I can tell you what the vibe is, and that’s it. Trump is doing what people want in this regard. They’re over it.

And we come across all shocked and hard done by. We behave like people with no self-insight at all.

Yes, the global alliance system is all over the place now. From America’s perspective, it’s about time.

And I must say, though I be a proud Australian, I am forced to agree. Something has to change.

Indeed.

UPDATE:

A high risk tolerance coupled with tremendous ability to execute that makes the risks, though not zero, lower than adversaries calculate.

Posted at 9:29 am by Glenn Reynolds

COVID IS SO OVER: ‘Humiliating’: Pfizer cancels COVID vaccine trial for lack of interest as global scrutiny mounts.

Five years after their wide deployment, first on a voluntary basis, then under threat of firing for nearly 100 million Americans at the direction of the White House, COVID-19 vaccines for at least low-risk groups may be on the way out amid higher regulatory requirements and indifference to the jabs by the vast majority of Americans.

Pfizer and its COVID mRNA vaccine partner BioNTech abruptly pulled the plug on their trial for healthy 50-64 year-olds, telling trial investigators in a March 30 letter they were coming up short on the 25,000-30,000 enrollment needed to generate enough data to evaluate the jabs, Reuters reported, citing a letter it viewed.

Friday was the last day that Pfizer was scheduled to monitor trial participants for signs of COVID illness, the letter reportedly said. “Two sources from companies” that manage 9% of trial sites told the wire service that Pfizer told them in writing weeks earlier to stop recruitment.

“This study is not ending as a result of any safety or benefit-risk concerns,” Pfizer and BioNTech told the wire service, citing their “inability to generate relevant post-marketing data” with lagging enrollment.

And yet there are still people wearing cloth masks.

Posted at 9:16 am by Stephen Green

THE NIGHT THE LIGHTS WENT OUT IN IRAN:

Posted at 8:46 am by Stephen Green

GIVE BARI WEISS CREDIT FOR 60 MINUTES REPORTING ON CALIFORNIA’S HIGH-SPEED RAIL BOONDOGGLE:

LBJ had a similar “desire named streetcar” after the world witnessed the Japanese Bullet Train at the 1964 Olympics, but then Johnson’s Great Society attempted to do pretty much everything, simultaneously, with often disastrous results. Buying union votes was likely a key motivator for his own goal to bring a form of high speed rail to America — or at least the Northeast Corridor — in the form of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Metroliner cars. And while those cars had numerous mechanical issues, at least they (usually) ran, which is far more than Newsom can say about his efforts:

Posted at 8:14 am by Ed Driscoll

STAY STRAPPED:

Posted at 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

HOW “COMPASSIONATE” GOVERNMENT WORKS:

It’s not like there’s just some fraud in the system, which might be reduced by sharper management. The fraud is the purpose of the system, and the system is explicitly designed to facilitate it.

When you understand that, all sorts of things become clear.

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

April 4, 2026

OPEN THREAD: You know what to do.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds