May 3, 2026

ROGER KIMBALL: The Last Days of the Iranian Regime.

That’s one part of the story. The other part involves ordinary citizens smashing into regime sympathizers with their cars, killing them, or members of the Iranian diaspora happily reporting on an explosion that eliminated 14 IRGC leaders. Biggest understatement of the moment: the Iranian regime is collapsing before our eyes. President Trump gave an update a few days ago:

We don’t even know who the hell we’re talking to. We call, and Mohammed picks up, the cousin of the brother-in-law of the barber . . . and I tell them: Are you the leader? We’re looking for a REAL LEADER, not a scared duck! . . .

Whoever grabs the job lasts less time than a kebab in my hand. They’re like a headless duck team: they quack, they flap . . . and in the end, one always ends up fried.

Tehran’s current line is that they will stop their attacks in the Strait of Hormuz—piddly little expostulations that they are—if the US ends the war, lifts the blockade, and postpones talk about Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Trump’s answer? Forget it. And by the way, he noted, he doesn’t want Iran to abandon its nuclear program for 5 years, 10 years, 20 years. Iran may never acquire nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, as the clock ticks and Iran’s economy slips into drain-swirling oblivion, CENTCOM commander Admiral Brad Cooper has just briefed President Trump on “final blow” strike options, including “Iran’s remaining military equipment and installations, regime/IRGC leadership, and other infrastructure.”

President Trump may very well choose to redeploy the kinetic option. We’ll see. Either way, the regime is finished.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 12:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND: Islamism, not the cost-of-living, is the root of this anti-Semitic violence.

On Thursday night, the day after the stabbing of two Jewish men in north London, Green Party deputy leader Rachel Millward was asked a simple question on the BBC’s Question Time. ‘You’ve stated you’ve seen racial hatred in this country’, said a member of the audience. ‘Could you please specify where that hatred is coming from?’

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Basically, Millward’s response can be summarised as: supermarket prices and Nigel Farage are the reasons why Jews are being stabbed in London.

It isn’t hard to understand why Millward gave such a tortured and dishonest answer. Just hours before Question Time went to air, two Green Party candidates standing in next week’s council elections were arrested by Metropolitan Police officers on suspicion of stirring up racial hatred. It probably goes without saying that Saiqa Ali (a Muslim woman) and Sabine Mairey were not charged under Section 19 of the Public Order Act because they had posted inflammatory pictures of their latest receipt from Sainsbury’s. They were arrested for allegedly sharing anti-Semitic content.

Of course, Millward would have been in a bind even without these untimely arrests. Since the Green Party’s Islamo-leftist turn, there was never any chance that someone from the leadership would say anything critical of Islam, or even Islamic extremism.

Everyone with a pulse knows where the ‘racial hatred’ against Jews is coming from. A party awash with Islamist-inspired Jew hatred is never going to acknowledge this.

Meanwhile, back in the States, “You may recall the ‘Why Do They Hate Us’ campaign the left fired up immediately after the attacks to put blame on the US for the murder of 2,977 people on 9/11. That narrative was active by 9/12. And that was when the American left began its weird romance with Islam. Feminists seeing hijab and niqab, the suppression of women, as legitimate expressions of multiculturalism.”

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

And not by accident.

Related:

Posted at 9:23 am by Glenn Reynolds

IT’S LITERALLY ALL THEY’VE GOT:

They play the race card because they don’t have any others.

Posted at 8:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

HE’S A JERK AND VOTERS NEED TO BE CONTINUALLY INFORMED OF THAT:

Posted at 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

THE POLICE PROTECT CRIMINALS FROM SOCIETY, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. BUT IT’S A BARGAIN, AND IT CAN’T WORK IF BOTH SIDES DON’T KEEP IT:

If not, well, there are older remedies.

UPDATE: Reader comment now says the story didn’t happen. The point holds, however.

Posted at 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

NAME THAT PARTY: US Senate Candidate From PA Threatens To Kill Trump, Congressman’s Daughter: Affidavit.

A Pennsylvania man who recently launched a campaign for U.S. Senate is accused of leaving a series of violent voicemails threatening President Donald Trump and a member of Congress’s family, according to unsealed federal court documents on Friday, May 1.

Raymond Eugene Chandler III, of Wilkinsburg, was arrested and charged after a federal investigation into repeated threats made over voicemail, authorities said.

Chandler is charged with influencing, impeding, or retaliating against a federal official by threatening a family member and by threat, according to the affidavit.

The criminal complaint, unsealed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, alleges Chandler left multiple messages targeting an unnamed member of Congress and President Trump between April 2025 and April 2026.

In one voicemail on April 18, 2026, Chandler allegedly described a graphic scenario in which the congressman and his daughter would be attacked, saying they would be “pull[ed]… out of your house” and have their “throat… slit,” according to the affidavit.

Days later, on April 29, 2026, Chandler allegedly left another message urging the lawmaker to assassinate President Trump, telling them to “walk into the Oval Office with a gun in your hand… put it to the President’s head… and… pull the trigger,” the affidavit states.

“Better than Fetterman:”

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll

SCAM:

Posted at 7:03 am by Glenn Reynolds