March 31, 2026

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Newsom Is Murdering California’s Energy Industry.

The toll on everyday Californians I’ve talked to has been costly. Gas prices in California exceed the national average by nearly two dollars, and electricity rates are almost double those in states like Wyoming. Working-class families and small businesses are being squeezed by energy costs that barely register for the wealthy donors and coastal elites whose priorities seem to drive Newsom’s agenda. These are results that the rest of the country don’t want to see in our states.

And it’s only getting worse. Two refinery closures are about to nix 20% of the state’s refining capacity. This is occurring while California already imports over 60% of its crude oil from foreign countries instead of producing its own. They’ve even resorted to shipping in large quantities of gasoline from the Bahamas.

The Trump administration, trying to help, just directed offshore oil production that could provide real relief today and for years to come. Unsurprisingly, California’s politicians are fighting to prevent American oil from reaching their own constituents. Californians and other nearby states are stuck paying foreign prices at the pump because Newsom and his allies decided that far-left politics matters more than the people they represent.

To be fair, California voters keep getting what they vote for, good and hard. And when they no longer have Trump to blame, maybe they’ll just find a new scapegoat instead of changing their voting habits.

Posted at 7:33 am by Stephen Green

FROM NATHAN C. BRINDLE:  I’m The Beautiful But Evil Space Princess Who Rules A Galactic Empire But Really Wants To Leave People Ruthlessly Alone!

Alice is the Imperial Princess Regnant of the Galactic Empire. At 22, she has been thrust into power after her father (the Emperor) and her two older brothers have all died in various ways. Her Imperial Chancellor, Lord Rupert, does everything he can to support her, but has somewhat different ideas about how the Empire should be run than did his late Emperor.

Alice has one major problem: She cannot be crowned Empress Regnant until she marries and produces an heir.

But Alice, being kept busy three days a week by interminable audiences with petitioners, and the rest of the week with what she terms “mostly busy work”, has no real way to meet young men — well, reasonably eligible young men, anyway, and of her own age — with whom she might eventually take up and form a household. And she chafes at the necessity of trying to rule, hands-on, an Empire so huge it cannot be truly ruled by any one person to begin with.

She just wants to leave people alone, as her father and his predecessors did for centuries.

Then, into her life walks the Crown Prince of a planet many, many parsecs away from the Capital Planet…and her life begins to take on a life of its own…

Posted at 7:30 am by Sarah Hoyt

SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE, ERIC:

Posted at 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

FOG OF WAR:

Posted at 7:17 am by Stephen Green

YES, MEMORIES OF THE IRAN HOSTAGE CRISIS REMAIN RATHER GALVANIZING:

More details here:

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll

THIS SEEMS ABOUT RIGHT:

Posted at 7:09 am by Glenn Reynolds

IT’S ALL ONE BIG CON: Powerful human rights chief who led San Francisco defund the cops push has spectacular fall from grace. “A disgraced San Francisco human rights chief and her longtime beau have been arrested for allegedly grifting taxpayer funds for personal use through a city program intended to help the city’s black communities. Sheryl Davis, former heard of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, and her nonprofit boss partner James Spingola were taken into custody Monday on suspicion of multiple felony counts of misappropriating public funds and conflicts of interest.”

Posted at 7:03 am by Glenn Reynolds

IT DOES MAKE THEM SEEM LESS RELEVANT:

Related:

Posted at 7:02 am by Glenn Reynolds

WOKE WOMEN RUIN EVERYTHING: Heather Graham slams ‘awkward’ new reality of Hollywood sex scenes.

Graham, who starred in “Boogie Nights,” slammed the “confusing” new reality of filming sex scenes. She recalled a moment on set when she felt an intimacy coordinator overstepped.

“One time, I had an intimacy coordinator, and they started directing me on, like, how to have sex in a scene,” Graham remembered. “They were like, ‘When you do this, you can do this.’ And I was like, ‘You’re not the director, OK? I’m not asking for notes on how to have sex in the scene.’”

I guarantee you that these people are not experts on how to be sensual.

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

THOSE IDEAS DEPEND ON GOVERNMENT, SO YOU’RE MAKING OTHER PEOPLE PAY FOR THEM:  Motherhood Is Not Rational. And some ideas to improve it.

While I understand society needs kids… can we just facilitate allowing as many people as possible to work from home? Because that’s how I managed to be a working stay-at-home mom. And how my mother managed it. And my grandmother managed. And now tech allows us to have a whole lot of women (though of course, not all) work from home, if middle-management will only allow it.

Posted at 2:07 am by Sarah Hoyt