March 1, 2026

WHY, INDEED?:

Posted at 5:19 pm by David Bernstein

NOAH POLLAK: “One of Trump’s greatest legacies will be how he blew up a half-century of western diffidence, restraint, and failure on terrorism.”

Blowing up a half-century of western diffidence, restraint, and failure is pretty much Trump’s wheelhouse, as Glenn wrote in 2022: Donald Trump and America’s New Class War.

Posted at 5:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

THE GOODBYE LOOK:

Posted at 5:02 pm by Stephen Green

IT’S SATIRE…OR IS IT?

Posted at 4:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

ITS ORIGIN AND PURPOSE, STILL A TOTAL MYSTERY: 3 dead, 14 injured in Austin shooting; suspect identity confirmed as Senegal national.

Three people are dead and 14 others are injured following a mass shooting at Buford’s on West 6th Street early Sunday, officials said. The suspect was fatally shot by police officers at the scene.

CBS News has confirmed the identity of the suspect as Ndiaga Diagne, a naturalized American citizen born in Senegal.

The FBI is now involved with the investigation into the shooting, authorities confirmed at a press conference around 9:30 a.m. Sunday morning.

It takes Austin’s CBS affiliate 16 paragraphs to get to these details:

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Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

WHIP INFLATION NOW!

Shot:

In 1964, the first heroic period of the Space Age was just opening; the United States had set the Moon as its target, and once that decision had been made, the ultimate conquest of the other planets, appeared inevitable. By 2001, it seemed quite reasonable that there would be giant space-stations in orbit round the Earth and—a little later—manned expeditions to the planets. In an ideal world, that would have been possible: the Vietnam War would have paid for everything that Stanley Kubrick showed on the Cinerama screen.

—Excerpt from Arthur C. Clarke’s 1982 epilogue to his 1968 novelization of 2001: A Space Odyssey. 

Chaser:

(Classical reference in headline.)

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

FUN:

“We control the horizontal and the vertical.”

Posted at 3:47 pm by Glenn Reynolds

SO WE WON’T BE HEARING MUCH ABOUT THIS SHOOTING:

Posted at 3:44 pm by Glenn Reynolds

DEATHS ONLY MATTER IF THEY CAN BE USED AGAINST REPUBLICANS:

Posted at 3:42 pm by Glenn Reynolds

HEH, INDEED:

Posted at 1:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

WE WIN. THEY LOSE:

(Classical reference in headline.)

Posted at 1:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH BOY GEORGE IS A VOICE OF SANITY:

Posted at 12:44 pm by Ed Driscoll

I’M SORRY, GIVEN HOW LONG IT TOOK TO BUILD UP OUR MIDDLE EAST ARMADA, THE PROTESTORS COULD HAVE AT LEAST ASSEMBLED SOME GIANT PAPIER-MÂCHÉ PUPPETS:

Tweet continues, “Communism is a cult without a God. It demands your entire life in service to them. You’re seeing that there are a lot of Communists out there who are dedicated to destroying the country.”

Including feminist and clean energy icon Jane Fonda, who is all-in to mourn the oil-rich mullahs:

UPDATE:

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

ANOTHER AUSTERE RELIGIOUS SCHOLAR MOURNED BY THE WAPO: WashPost Touts Khamenei as Man With an ‘Easy Smile’ and Love of ‘Poetry.’

In the wake of Iranian Supreme Leader Aylatollah Khamenei coming down with a killer headache after getting a U.S. warhead on his forehead, on Saturday, The Washington Post published one of their infamous glowing remembrances of Islamic terrorists. The paper fondly remembered the brutal Islamic dictator as a “avuncular figure” with an “easy smile” and love for “Persian poetry.”

Readers might remember when The Post fluffed up the former leader of ISIS as an “austere religious scholar”; well, they back at it again with Khamenei in their obituary titled: “Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, is dead at 86.”

The sub-headline brushed over Khamenei’s authoritarian rule: “He played a behind-the-scenes role in Iran’s Islamic revolution, served as president in the 1980s and dominated the country for more than three decades.”

“Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Shiite Muslim cleric who played a behind-the-scenes role in Iran’s Islamic revolution, served two terms as president in the 1980s and dominated the country for more than three decades as supreme leader, was killed Saturday as Israel and the United States launched a joint attack on Iran. He was 86,” wrote William Branigin.

Flashback: Washington Post faces backlash for headline calling ISIS terrorist ‘austere religious scholar.’

UPDATE:

 

Posted at 12:14 pm by Ed Driscoll