THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA to spend $20 billion on moon base, cancel orbiting lunar station.

Isaacman, who was sworn in at the agency in December, made the ⁠announcement ‌at the opening of a day-long ⁠event at NASA’s Washington headquarters at which he outlined a raft of changes he is making to the agency’s flagship moon program Artemis.

“It should ‌not really surprise anyone that we are pausing Gateway in its current form and focusing on ​infrastructure that supports sustained operations on the lunar surface,” Isaacman told delegates at the event.

The Lunar Gateway station, largely already built by contractors Northrop Grumman
and Vantor, ⁠formerly Maxar, was meant to be a space station parked in ‌a lunar orbit. Repurposing the craft for ‌a lunar surface base is not simple.

“Despite some of the very real hardware and schedule challenges, we can repurpose equipment and ⁠international partner commitments to support surface and other program objectives,” Isaacman ⁠said.

Lunar Gateway was designed to serve as both a research platform and a transfer station for astronauts to board moon landers before descending to the lunar surface.

The Lunar Gateway never made much sense, except as a multibillion dollar kludge to cover for SLS not having enough lift to make Artemis work. The real solution was to cancel SLS and Lunar Gateway, and work with SpaceX to get Starship up and running.

UMM…: Do Iranian Officials Secretly Love Donald Trump?

GET MORE VITAMIN D: ForestLeaf Vitamin D3 10,000 IU | VIT D. #CommissionEarned

MAKE IT THE LAST GASP: Is the Current Gun Control Push in the States a Rising Trend or a Last Gasp?

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: ‘Bostonian of the Year’ ordered to pay back $224K she stole from her own nonprofit. “Monica Cannon-Grant, the former community organizer who rose to fame leading a massive 2020 Black Lives Matter march through Boston, was ordered Monday by U.S. District Court Judge Angel Kelley to forfeit every dollar she made from her crimes — from diverting donations from her own nonprofit, collecting fraudulent pandemic unemployment benefits, and pocketing rental assistance she wasn’t entitled to.”

GOOD LORD: Murdered Girl’s Family Slams Dem Who Claimed Victim Startled Killer at ‘Wrong Time.’

YOU KNOW YOU WANT ONE: Ergonomic Long Handle Toenail Clippers with Catcher. #CommissionEarned

NIFTY: F-22 Raptor “2.0” Spotted Undergoing Flight Testing. “Most obvious on the model are the new stealthy fuel tanks, a critical addition to ensure that the F-22 is able to better cover the vast distances that would be involved in a potential future conflict in the Indo-Pacific. In the past, the Raptor’s notoriously short range has been mitigated by using non-stealthy 600-gallon tanks, but these are not a realistic option when faced by more capable hostile air defenses.”

MUCH MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE:

🚨 FLORIDA OFFICER TO MIGRANT TRUCK DRIVER: "What does this [sign] mean?"

DRIVER: "No, no."

OFFICER: "What's this sign mean? What do you have to do?"

DRIVER: "No…"

OFFICER: "Right now, you're gonna be placed out of service."

LFG 🔥🔥🔥pic.twitter.com/KKh7HGx5ev

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 24, 2026

THE DEEP STATE IS REAL…:

I said for years both Howell then Boasberg were in cahoots with Biden DOJ to rubber stamp, even advise, any strategy set forth by Jack Smith.

Howell "loves the idea." pic.twitter.com/e3Rt19LBW3

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) March 24, 2026

…and doesn’t give a damn about what you “little people” might have voted for

TRUE: As demand for GLP-1 pills and shots surges, healthy habits are still key.

QUESTION ASKED: Why Are Climate Doomsayers Never Fact-Checked?

The “climate emergency” pushers have pompously predicted planetary doom within ten years for more than 30 years. Why are they never checked? Author Kevin Mooney has a new book titled Climate Porn, and we discuss the remarkable imbalance of climate coverage and the nasty tendency on the Left to punish people who even gently question the panic.

MRC Business Associate Editor Joseph Vazquez joined the conversation. The subtitle of the book is How and Why Anti-Population Zealots Fabricate Science, while Targeting American Capitalism, Freedom, and Independence. In the year we celebrate America’s 250th anniversary, Mooney — who was a colleague of ours with CNSNews.com back when George W. Bush was president — argues that the climate doomsayers threaten a climate crisis to undermine our prosperity and liberty.

One of the most embarrassing alarmists of our times, the biologist Paul Ehrlich — who became famous with his book The Population Bomb in 1968, has just passed away at the age of 95. The New York Times was mocked on X when they suggested “his predictions proved premature.” He predicted mass famines in the 1970s. In 1989 and in 1990, NBC gave over chunks of the Today show to Ehrlich. He was not interviewed. He was the reporter-slash-narrator. We never stop talking about his prediction that soon, you’d tie your boat to the Washington Monument. That never happened.

Bryant Gumbel putting the “That’s good stuff” button at the end just adds to the unintended comedy of this bonkers 1990 clip:

Remembering Paul Ehrlich with one of his wackiest predictions from the Jan 11, 1990 Today show. One Day "You Could Tie Your Boat to the Washington Monument" pic.twitter.com/Cnlk4yNyXb

— Geoffrey Dickens (@GCDickens) March 17, 2026

Still though, why take chances? Tax the blue zones.

More wacky aquatic urban predictions here: Mile Markers on the Road to Detroit Atlantis.

#METOO: The Pentagon Has a ONE POINT FIVE TRILLION DOLLAR Wish List. “You might think that a trillion-and-a-half bucks would buy the military everything we need it to have, but the ‘stuff’ isn’t the problem; it’s the manufacturing.”

I WAS TOLD IT’S GOOD FOR YOU: Experts say CBD is ineffective for pain management.

DISPATCHES FROM AL-BRIṬĀNIYĀ:

But draw a picture of the Prophet Mohammed and display it publicly, and the police will treat you as if you’ve committed an act of terrorism.

Two-tier policing is an indisputable fact. We see it in British society every single day, and this is just one of many, many examples.. pic.twitter.com/oYO6RcvCkm

— Aɴᴛ (@AntSpeaks) March 24, 2026

FAIL, BRITANNIA: The Shocking State Of Britain’s Navy In 2026. “Successive governments have seen fit to think that only six destroyers are adequate, which is clearly deranged and incredibly irresponsible. So, out of six vessels, how many are operational in March 2026? A grand total of two. HMS Dragon, a vessel recently in the news that was supposed to be sent to Cyprus to protect British interests there, and HMS Duncan. The other four are all laid up for one reason or another. The class leader, HMS Daring, is preparing to return to service after an absence of eight years under refit. Given that it generally takes three to five years for a complete stem-to-stern overhaul and refueling for an American aircraft carrier, eight years for a destroyer seems beyond excessive.”

Much more at the link, all of it bad.

ANOTHER REGRETTABLE EDUCATION FAD: It’s flashy! It’s fun! It’s a waste of students’ time and attention!

“I ain’t saying you treated me unkind,” sang Bob Dylan. “You just kinda wasted my precious time.”

From X:

Figen posts a video of a teacher who brought a PlayStation to class to use Assassin’s Creed to teach about the Industrial Revolution.

This is a distraction and a waste of time, responds Tom Bennett. It gets students to expect bells and whistles.

SoL in the Wild agrees it’s “100% terrible.” He blames constant messages to teachers to make lessons fun, fun, fun. Learning is supposed to “feel relevant to students’ lives, be fun, and revolve around engaging, activity-based experiences,” he writes. But, dressing something as a game “distracts from the content and decreases the likelihood that students actually learn the concept you’re trying to teach.”

I don’t recall any of my best teachers being particularly fun. Just demanding.

THANKS, BARRY!

Barack Obama promised Obamacare would save the average family in America $2,500 a year!

Instead, healthcare costs increased by 92% since it was passed, while median family income increased by about 13%.

This is considered by most Democrats as Obama's greatest accomplishment! pic.twitter.com/w5oa7aVWUO

— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) March 23, 2026

Exit quote:

Go away, you've done enough harm to this country. https://t.co/lisiXhyHte

— @instapundit (@instapundit) March 24, 2026

SERIOUSLY, DON’T MISS IT:

No se pierdan este editorial que el Washington Post dedica a Pablo Iglesias y sus camaradas en el viaje turístico-comprometido a las miserias que atormentan a Cuba. pic.twitter.com/6PUczRhbnR

— David Alandete (@alandete) March 24, 2026

Translation: “Don’t miss this editorial that the Washington Post dedicates to Pablo Iglesias and his comrades on their tourism-committed trip to the miseries that torment Cuba.”

THIS SEEMS TO BE HAPPENING A LOT: Rare daytime fireball may have dropped meteorites on Texas.

LOOKS LIKE MOVEMENT: Senate Democrats May Finally Be Caving on Funding DHS.

This is another one of those “don’t get cocky” moments — the reconciliation part still has to get through the Byrd bath.

JIM TREACHER: Die, Trek, Die.

If you make a show that people want to watch, they’ll watch. If you don’t, they won’t. They’ll even watch fat alien broads if the story is good. You’d think Paramount would’ve gotten that by now.

The producers and actors probably won’t learn a damn thing, though. These days, the trend is for the custodians of these failed franchises to blame the audience.

“You didn’t like the all-female Ghostbusters reboot, fill of pointless dancing and cringeworthy ad-libs? You just hate women!”

“You didn’t see the point of Rose Tico or Vice-Admiral Holdo or any of the other forgettable characters in The Last Jedi? You just hate Asians! And women!”

“You didn’t even bother with The Marvels or Madame Web or Ballerina? Well, guess what?”

The word “woke” has become so overused that I don’t know what it’s supposed to mean anymore, but I do know that diversity, inclusion, and equity are very poor substitutes for good storytelling. You can’t guilt-trip a mass audience into showing up for your shoddy product by calling them bigots.

The original Star Trek, which aired on NBC from 1966 to 1969, lived on throughout the 1970s and ‘80s in reruns, until the movies and the Next Generation showed up, because it was about big ideas. Its writing was so timeless, the show transcended its plywood sets and primary color uniforms. In contrast, as John Nolte writes, Starfleet Academy feels stillborn, “stale the day it was released, like something from 2020 when there were still enough people high on their woke supply to make garbage like this a temporary hit.”

EVERYBODY LOVES THE FA, HARDLY ANYONE PLANS FOR THE FO: ‘Find Out’ Phase Underway as Sociopathic Anti-ICE Harpies Reap Convictions;

WE’VE BEEN INSOLVENT FOR YEARS, SO NO BIG SURPRISE: The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it. “The Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a disclaimer of opinion on the U.S. government’s FY 2025 financial statements — the 29th consecutive year it has been unable to determine whether the statements are fairly presented.”

But this is an opportunity for Trump to slash programs because of a “financial crisis.” Since, you know, there actually is a financial crisis.

A DAY IS A LONG TIME:

Chuck Schumer, yesterday: No one trusts that ICE is going to make things better at airports.

Local Philadelphia station, today: “This is an empty line right now. Yesterday this was all the way back to the garage." pic.twitter.com/kALwzhvs8H

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) March 24, 2026

How many thousands of Americans are learning that the ICE they see on the news is not the ICE they see with their own lyin’ eyes?