WHY HAVE SO MANY PEOPLE GONE TO THE DOGS MORE OR LESS AT ONCE?
I never cared much for Megyn Kelly one way or the other. Within the past year, I started to enjoy her program and listened from time to time. Then came her rapid unhinged descent into zionaphobia. Amazing. https://t.co/VCLuyod4Bv
— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) March 6, 2026
FASTER, PLEASE: The fall of the Islamic Republic is nigh.
In the eyes of Iranians, the Islamic Republic has long-since lost whatever virtue it might once have claimed to have. They have had to suffer basic shortages of electricity and water, while the regime pumps billions into promoting a genocidal war with Israel. And when they have tried to take back some measure of freedom – to dress how they please, to express a democratic view – they have been violently and lethally suppressed. All in the name of Islamic values.
This explains a telling paradox. The most ambitious theological experiment of the 20th century, this testament to Islamism, is now home to the most secular populace in the Middle East. In the heart of the Islamic Republic, un-belief is flourishing like nowhere else. So much so that in 2023, high-ranking Iranian cleric Mohammad Abolghassem Doulabi revealed that two-thirds of Iran’s mosques – 50,000 out of 75,000 – have been closed due to declining attendance.
Whatever happens after this awful war concludes, the Islamic Republic will fall. Not, as Islamists around the world will insist, because of Western force, be it economic or military. But because of this reactionary project’s own internal contradictions and pathologies. It talks of liberation, while demanding submission to ‘no other deity but Allah’. It commits a nation’s resources to fighting the evil of Westernisation and Zionism, while being unable to provide Iranians with even the most basic necessities of life. And in the name of revolutionary Islam, it murders its own people.
Like fascist Italy or Nazi Germany, the Islamic Republic was born of a very modern, counter-Enlightenment ideology. Let’s hope it too is soon consigned to the dustbin of history.
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This is a stunning exchange, not because of the briefing from the Florida Supreme Court, but because of how poorly Bostock has been received. I don’t know if there is any decision in recent Supreme Court history that has aged worse than Bostock. As a matter of substance, the Court has walked back the ruling in Mahmoud and Mirabelli, and will walk it back further in Chiles and the Title IX cases. As a matter of doctrine, not a single conservative would hold up Bostock as the proper way of doing textualism. The pirate flag of textualism barely flutters.
At this point, Bostock has become a laughingstock, so much so that a conservative judge asks a conservative litigant to disavow a Supreme Court precedent on how to read statutes. Of course, that ruling is not binding on the Florida Supreme Court. It is a fun academic question whether the Supreme Court can even set a precedent of how to engage in originalism or textualism. (Tara Grove suggests that the Court lacks the power to impose any methodology.) But I couldn’t help but chuckle at this exchange to see how Bostock fares in the real world.
It was not Gorsuch’s finest hour.
THEY BRAGGED AND CHEERED ABOUT BLOCKING DUBYA’S SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM PACKAGE, TOO:
Democrats literally bragged about blocking the refill of the SPR! https://t.co/DivKworxzF pic.twitter.com/5eer2PCtcP
— Andrew Follett (@AndrewCFollett) March 6, 2026
LET IT BE SO. MAKE IT SO.
The multipolar dream of America's enemies is dead. Trump killed it. Nothing now stands in the way of another century of greatness, capitalistic achievement, and American exceptionalism.
— 🥷🦅Austin Petersen 🇺🇲🥋 (@AP4Liberty) March 7, 2026
WHAT’S A LITTLE PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WHEN THERE’S A NARRATIVE TO MAINTAIN: Former Iranian Prisoner Drops a Truth Bomb About Iran That the Left Won’t Like.
OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.
THE ENEMY WITHIN:
Horrific, absolutely horrific. BBC is a propaganda network, but not even propaganda for its own country https://t.co/tz25PUw41B
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) March 6, 2026
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Rocket Lab launches mystery satellite for ‘confidential commercial customer.’
CUE UP THE 7TH GRADE PUNS: Can SpaceX Help NASA Reach Uranus Before It’s Too Late?
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Pedro Pascal Fan Club Revokes Actor’s Woke Status Over Rumors He Might Be Dating Zionist Man, Dined at Pro-Israel Restaurant.
HBO’s The Last of Us and Marvel’s Fantastic Four star Pedro Pascal — who has been open about his left-wing, pro-transgenderism of children views — nonetheless appears to have had his woke status revoked by a fan club outraged over rumors that he may be dating a man who might be pro-Israel.
“Well, as you probably already know, Pedro is supposedly dating a Zionist and, to top it all off, he went to dinner with Lux at a restaurant that donates money to Israel,” a Pascal fan account on X began in a recent statement.
“Yes, a man who has always shown support for Palestine and hosted a benefit concert, someone we have always loved and admired for his character and activism, is now on a wave of hypocrisy,” the X account, @acervopedrito, continued.
Why is the left such a cesspit of homophobic antisemitism?
UNEXPECTEDLY: BBC altered Hegseth speech on Iran war.
The BBC mistakenly altered a speech by Pete Hegseth on the war in Iran, making him appear to say the United States was targeting the Iranian “people”.
BBC Persian, which broadcasts to audiences inside Iran, mistranslated remarks by the US secretary of defence, telling viewers Washington was bringing death to the Iranian “people”.
In fact, Mr Hegseth had said the Iranian “regime” was being targeted.
The mistake was seized upon by pro-Israel media campaigners, who claimed that it cast doubt on the BBC’s impartiality. It also triggered a backlash on social media.
The row risks putting the BBC on another collision course with Donald Trump, who launched a $10bn (£7.5bn) lawsuit against the corporation last year after The Telegraph revealed it had altered a speech in a way that made him appear to encourage the Capitol Hill riot.
Mr Trump has justified the ongoing war in the Middle East by arguing that Tehran’s leadership, not its population, poses a direct threat to American national security after repeatedly calling for “death to America”.
The BBC, which carried Mr Hegseth’s Pentagon address live on Monday, translated the word “regime” as “mardom”, the Persian word for “people”. It later issued a correction.
Flashback: Roger Kimball: Doctored Footage Fallout: Trump vs. the BBC: Trump’s lawsuit over the BBC’s doctored Jan. 6 clip now threatens to turn the broadcaster’s license-fee crisis into a full-blown reckoning over trust, bias, and billions.
BBC Defenders:
'Mr Trump is a Bad Man. So its perfectly OK to lie about his specches'
'But how do you know he's a bad man?'
'Just listen to his speeches!'
A self-serving, circular, worthless argument.
— Latimer Alder (@latimeralder) November 15, 2025
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PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE, ARKANSAS STYLE: Hero Dad Wins Arkansas Sheriff Primary Election While Awaiting Murder Trial.
Picture this: A sleazy 67-year-old creep named Michael Fosler sneaked around Spencer’s home, lured Mr. Spencer’s young daughter from her bedroom with unknown promises, and bolted away in his dusty pickup truck.
Spencer sensed that something was amiss. He looked into his daughter’s bedroom and saw that she was gone. Dad heard Fosler’s truck leaving with some urgency. Spencer wasn’t going to wait for the cops to finish their donuts to respond. He grabbed his gun and tok off in hot pursuit.
Minutes later, Spencer caught up to the child molester’s truck like he was Liam Neesom in Taken.
After Spencer forced the perv’s pickup off the road, words flew. An “altercation” ensued and…boom. Spencer plugged the creep ceasing any respiratory activity and rescuing his little girl from what could’ve been a lifetime of nightmares.
Heroic? Hell yes. But the local prosecutor decided he can’t just let a heroic dad “get away” with doing the right thing. He slapped Spencer with a murder charge. Because, you know, the justice system gonna justice.
Fuming, but far from finished, Spencer flipped the script, saying, in effect, “Screw this broken machine — I’ll fix it myself.”
Awesome. But he still needs to be found Not Guilty when the case goes to trial this spring to run in the general election.
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Zohran Mamdani’s wife liked social media posts celebrating Oct. 7 attacks.
EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN: I wrote this about reporting from the Middle East back in 2018, and in trying damndest to be fair to CNN, I revisit it here because once you step out of the “us vs. them” bubble, the reality is (and I can say this as a former combat correspondent) getting “clean” coverage out of hotspots is harder that most folks realize, and it is still invariably true.
“To be sure, as an aggrieved people the Palestinians have been abused en masse by many entities and governments, most particularly by especially their own Palestinian Authority. As in all conflicts, there are legitimate issues that ought to be raised. But as the old saying goes, “truth is the first casualty of war” and intelligent (not to mention peaceful) dialogue and resolution seems impossible. This is so because first, the manufactured and romanticized image of the Palestinians as “brave freedom fighters” does not wholly stand up to scrutiny. Second, the attention-grabbing images overpower an undeniable political fact: as New York Post columnist Frank Fleming wrote: “I think you’re always going to have tension in the Middle East when there’s people who want to kill the Jews and Jews who don’t want to be killed and neither side is willing to compromise.”
Does that excuse the constant anti-American gullibility of CNN in the current situation?
Of course not.
REPORTS REMAIN CONFLICTING: Will the Kurds Fight? If They Do, All Hell Could Break Loose in the Middle East.
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HMM: GOP’s Bruce Blakeman Narrows Gap With Kathy Hochul in New York Race. “New York, long viewed as one of the most Democratic states in the nation, has become increasingly competitive over the last few years. Hochul faced a closer-than-expected race in 2022, and former Vice President Kamala Harris underperformed past Democratic presidential candidates against President Donald Trump in 2024.”
Democrats keep pushing the boundaries with terrible candidates, but blue state voters keep going for them.
IT’S FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Finally, Another Stolen Ambulance. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn why you should wait for the paramedics to finish up, how ‘pickleball brawl’ entered the vernacular, and the worst time to pull off a robbery in Texas.”
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LAUGHING WOLF HAS THOUGHTS ON DECAPITATION STRIKES: Surprise, Response.
The thirty-minute window was predicated on detecting Soviet missiles being launched. Flight time from there to here is roughly thirty minutes. If we saw them fueling (Soviets/Russians use a lot of liquid-fueled ICBMs), longer period for response. That was sufficient: thirty or forty years ago.
Even twenty years ago, depressed trajectory shots from subs not too far off the coast cut that time from detection to impact to about fifteen minutes. The assurances the subs couldn’t get that close, and would be detected if they did, were deafening, though reminding me a bit of toddlers drumming their feet and yelling while having their fingers in their ears.
Today, we have massive container ships plying the waters of our country. If I can figure how to put one or more land-attack cruise missiles into a container for launch, I guarantee you others have as well. When you look at more modern drones, boy howdy are you talking the ability to get things in the air and to target with little or no detection. Iran has the capability (or did) and China has been openly experimenting with it. For all the open, think iceberg and know others have as well, a lot of others.
We lost our sense of seriousness about these things during the Clinton administration, and never fully got it back.
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