March 4, 2026

LAUGHING WOLF: Winter 26 Bleg.

I hate to do this, as your kind gifts over the last 4.5 years have kept me going. Right after I was hit by lightning that June, and things started going South rather rapidly, quite a few of you stood up and helped me out as I dealt with health issues, health bureaucracy, and general bureaucracy. At that time, I wanted nothing more than to get better and move to the desert SW. As I look out at the roughly inch of snow that fell here this morning, there is a part of me that still very much wants to move there.

That said, about 3.5 years ago, I found a new Church home and my desire for a new life took on a new meaning. It was something long building, as I had for years thought there was something I was supposed to be doing, though I wasn’t sure what it was that I was to do. It literally took getting hit by lightning to have a moment of clarity, and to slowly (I am a bit thick and slow) realize that the end doesn’t matter, only the path. Bit more on this later in the post.

It took more than three years to get a small monthly stipend going, and during that time your gifts literally allowed me to live as I had no real income during that time. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate those gifts, and all the prayers that came with them. Both mean more than I can ever truly express. Which is why I hate to ask for more, but my stipend is not huge and while things are improving, there is more to do than I can cover.

So, I’m going to do a formal Bleg. Haven’t done this in a while, but here’s what I’m looking at over the next year or so.

He’s a good guy and a sharp blogger. I chipped in.

Posted at 12:44 pm by Stephen Green

YEP:

Posted at 12:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

ED MORRISSEY: Iran News Services: Mojtaba As Nepo Babytollah? Not So Fast.

As NBC News points out this morning, no one’s seen Mojtaba in a vertical and respiratory status since his father’s death. Supposedly, he’s mourning his father and working remotely, or something:

The New York Times report comes after semiofficial Iranian news agency Mehr news reported that Khamenei’s son was alive and well after the deadly strikes launched by the U.S. and Israel that killed his father and other family members, including Mojtaba Khamenei’s wife.

Mehr reported yesterday that Mojtaba Khamenei was “overseeing matters related to the martyrs of the family, managing affairs, and providing consultation and review on important national issues.”

At just the moment when his father’s regime needs to demonstrate continuity and survival, Mojtaba decides to … go on family leave? Maybe Mojtaba is pining for the fjords after a prolonged squawk, too.

One reason for the chaos? Israel just blew up Iran’s “Assembly of Experts” as it gathered to choose a new Supreme Leader.

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

THE LEFT IS FRICKIN’ INSANE:

https://x.com/townhallcom/status/2029214441615626249

From “Safe, legal, and rare” to “Abortions even for people who can’t get them!”

Posted at 12:28 pm by Stephen Green

THE EU WORLD WAS ALWAYS A CASTLE BUILT ON SAND:

Posted at 12:01 pm by Glenn Reynolds

CBS NEWS GOTTA CBS NEWS: CBS boss ‘OUTRAGED’ by clip showing Texas TV reporter being told not to cover jubilant Iranian protests after Trump had Ayatollah killed.

CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss is ‘fuming’ over a viral video that appears to show a CBS Austin reporter being instructed to downplay coverage of a pro-Israel-US protest then occurring behind him, it is claimed.

Weiss, 41, saw the footage and wants a network-wide crackdown as a result, a well-placed source told the Daily Mail.

CBS affiliates will not be exempt from the effort, the insider said Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The clip in question shows CBS Austin’s Vinny Martorano covering the procession outside the Texas Capitol building, and comes from a Facebook livestream posted by the station on Saturday.

Martorano was set to speak on a procession gathered to celebrate the US and Israeli strikes on Iran when a crew member passed him a phone.

‘What does that mean?’ Martorano says after several seconds of scrutinizing a message on the device’s screen.

‘It means they don’t want us to focus on this,’ one his crew mates explains – a command Martorano does not heed.

The moment was quickly clipped and reshared, earning Weiss’s attention in the process, our source said.

Let’s see if she takes any real action.

Posted at 11:42 am by Stephen Green

THEY SEE NOTHING, THEY KNOW NOTHING: Texas Democratic Senate candidates sidestep Islamic terrorism concerns following deadly Austin attack. “Crockett and Talarico did not address any mention of Islamic terrorism or whether it might pose an additional risk to Americans in light of recent U.S. military action against the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

As Glenn noted yesterday, “We do seem to be drifting closer to Kurt Schlichter’s The Attack. And — no surprise here — Democrats think they’ll find electoral advantage in ignoring it. While also pushing for more gun control, of course.

Posted at 10:40 am by Stephen Green

EPIC FURY: When the Can Finally Stops Getting Kicked Down the Road.

Almost fifty years of being the murderous troll under the world’s bridge, threatening to blow it sky high every other week, even as it plucked travelers off the boards to consume and satiate its bloodlust.

Whatever manifestation of evil spewed forth from the bearded, turbaned trolls under the bridge, the world would always turn away, turn that other cheek. Ignore what was going on under the bridge, wiping a tiny tear for the random victims summarily pulled off the bridge, while coldly considering them sacrifices to keep the trolls themselves from climbing up onto the roadway and into our world proper.

Eyes averted, fingers in ears. Humanitarian aid, and pallets of cash feeding almost fifty years of malignant troll tumor growth.

Much of it is very personal to Marines. Much of it is very personal to our family.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 9:38 am by Stephen Green

FASCINATING:

“Regardless of your opinion on Trump, everyone agrees he’s a master at playing competitive forces against each-other.”

Posted at 9:25 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The GOP Can’t Be Rid of Thom Tillis Quickly Enough. “Tillis is one of those backstabbing members of the GOP who have me convinced that the Democrats have Manchurian candidate plants in the party. He’s not reliable on most big votes. If he does end up not screwing over his own party, it’s only after a lot of grandstanding so that he can get some all-important facetime in front of the cameras.”

Posted at 9:07 am by Stephen Green

SADLY TRUE:

Related:

Posted at 8:58 am by Glenn Reynolds

FASTER, PLEASE: Federal bureau approves lithium mine expansion.

The mine sits alongside the roughly 250 person town of Silver Peak and has been in operation since 1965 by international mining company Albemarle. It pumps water from local brine water aquifers into open air ponds, then distills the lithium down with solar evaporation. Annually, the mine produces around 5,000 tons of lithium, according to the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

“I don’t have any issues with the expansion of the mine,” Shaaron Netherton, executive director of the Friends of Nevada Wilderness, told The Center Square of the mine, which employs roughly 60 people. She added later, “It’s sort of the lifeblood of the little town of Silver Peak.”

Netherton also said that the environmental disruption to the Silver Peak area had already been done over the mine’s past 60 years of operation, which would likely see minimal new damage from the expansion.

The Silver Peak mine expansion has been billed as a matter of national security, with less than 1% of global lithium production coming from within the U.S., according to the Dallas Fed.

Speed up rare earths, too, please.

Posted at 8:36 am by Stephen Green

I’M OKAY WITH THIS, EVEN IF JEALOUS WESTERN WOMEN AREN’T:

This is the tweet she’s responding to, which has been so thoroughly wrecked by responses that X’s bots have decided it’s abusive.

Related:

Posted at 8:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

THE LEFT NEEDS A MASSIVE CLEANUP: Masked Man Arrested Outside GOP Campaign Event – Cops Bagging Multiple Rifle and Pistol Magazines – No Injuries. “The man reportedly had no identification on him. A staff member on Paxton’s campaign team said that the man had asked to go into the hotel to use the bathroom, a story he doubted. The man insisted he was an Uber driver, a story which the staffer told the Times he doubted, given that the car he was driving allegedly had no plates.”

Posted at 8:10 am by Glenn Reynolds