March 3, 2026

I LIKE THAT NOBODY’S PUTTING UP WITH THIS BS ANYMORE:

Posted at 9:12 am by Glenn Reynolds

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Reactions to Operation Epic Fury Are Quite the Surprising Mixed Bag. “I’ve written on a few occasions about my old neighborhood in West Los Angeles. There were a lot of Persian Jews there who had fled in 1979 and I heard a lot of great stories over the years about what an incredible country Iran was before the Islamists took over. The tales were wonderful and the looks in the eyes of those telling them were heartbreaking. I can assure you that none of those people were upset about Operation Epic Fury.”

Posted at 9:06 am by Stephen Green

WHY ADAMS AND JEFFERSON WOULD APPROVE TRUMP’S IRAN ACTION: John Adams was America’s second President and the head of the Federalist Party. Thomas Jefferson was our third Chief Executive and the chief author of the Declaration of Independence (with a lot of help from Adams). But Jefferson was also leader of the Democratic-Republican Party that was founded in opposition to Adams’ Federalists.

But despite their vast differences on so many other issues, Adams and Jefferson pursued virtually identical courses of action when the time came for American military power to be exercised overseas. Both did so without asking Congress for a declaration of war.

Rod Martin explains why this fact is so hugely important today as President Donald Trump directs the U.S. military’s joint destruction of Iran’s radical Islamic Republic terrorism machine. A good many folks on the Right should especially read and think about Martin’s analysis because they could very well otherwise end up playing the useful idiot role for the Left in coming days.

Posted at 8:59 am by Mark Tapscott

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

Posted at 8:36 am by Glenn Reynolds

SORRY CENK:

Posted at 8:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

NEXT!

Posted at 8:19 am by Stephen Green

HE’S ECHOING WHAT ALL THE IRANIAN BOTS ARE SAYING ON X:

Posted at 7:50 am by Glenn Reynolds

EVERYTHING IS ABSURD: The Air Force’s new ICBM is nearly ready to fly, but there’s nowhere to put it.

The $141 billion figure is already out of date, as the Air Force announced last year that it would need to construct new silos for the Sentinel missile. The original plan was to adapt existing Minuteman III silos for the new weapons, but engineers determined that it would take too long and cost too much to modify the aging Minuteman facilities.

Instead, the Air Force, in partnership with contractors and the US Army Corps of Engineers, will dig hundreds of new holes across Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Wyoming. The new silos will include 24 new forward launch centers, three centralized wing command centers, and more than 5,000 miles of fiber connections to wire it all together, military and industry officials said.

Sentinel, which had its official start in 2016, will be the largest US government civil works project since the completion of the interstate highway system, and is the most complex acquisition program the Air Force has ever undertaken, wrote Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi) and Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Nebraska) in a 2024 op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal.

Gen. Dale White, the Pentagon’s director of critical major weapons systems, said Wednesday the Defense Department plans to complete a “restructuring” of the Sentinel program by the end of the year. Only then will an updated budget be made public.

The military stopped constructing new missile silos in the late 1960s and hasn’t developed a new ICBM since the 1980s. It shows.

We used to do this kind of thing quickly and at a price we could afford with a much smaller economy.

Posted at 7:33 am by Stephen Green

POINTING THIS OUT AND MOCKING THEM WILL HELP:

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds