GERARD VANDERLEUN’S POETRY BOOK:  I find I don’t wish to explore new lands, but to explore again those I have already passed through, trying to see what I’d missed in the first hectic rush …

AMERICA IS REMINDING ITSELF, TOO: America and Israel Remind the World How Wars Are Fought to Victory.

The U.S. has joined the IDF in that enterprise, but Americans have not seen their military fight that kind of war in a long time. For some, it is a disorienting experience.

The United States Navy is the subject of withering criticism, for example. CENTCOM seemed rather proud of itself when it revealed that a U.S. attack sub used a heavyweight torpedo to break the hull of an Iranian frigate — a first for U.S. submariners, according to Pete Hegseth, since World War II. But this “cowardly attack,” according to a detractor, disregarded the fact that the Iranian warship was “uninvolved in the war.” In addition, according to the “historian” Craig Murray, the attack amounted to a crime of war. “Despite there being no threat of any kind, the US submarine sailed away with no attempt to pick up survivors, leaving them to drown,” he wrote.

“Literal Nazi behavior,” the British journalist Richard Medhurst said of the U.S. Navy for executing that attack “in international waters” well outside “the combat zone.” Contrary to those who have convinced themselves that the Iranian ship was no threat to U.S. forces, however, the IRIS Dena, one of Iran’s newest warships, “was armed with heavy guns, surface-to-air missiles, anti-ship missiles and torpedoes.”

Naturally, every platform that allows Iran to project power is a legitimate target in this war, and the advanced American attack sub didn’t surface because that would expose its position to the enemy. These are best practices in combat if the objective is to defeat an enemy force.

For some, the U.S.-Israeli air campaign is just as vexing as the war at sea. “They are just carpet bombing a place more dense and crowded than New York City,” Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King said of the attacks on Iranian regime targets in Tehran. We can at least comprehend King’s ignorance. He just doesn’t understand what he’s looking at.

King doesn’t seem to know that the vertical pillars of smoke erupting from these strikes are indicative of penetrating ordnance (the column shoots upward because it is funneled in that direction by the crater the munition had just made). Nor does he seem to know that virtually all of America’s gravity bombs are fitted with Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) kits that transform them from “dumb” bombs — the sort once used in “carpet bombing” raids designed to level a discrete area — into precision-guided weapons.
Indeed, the whole operation is “a war crime,” according to “human rights barrister” Geoffrey Robertson. “There can be no peace without justice, whatever happens to any future government,” he wrote, gesturing impotently in the direction of “international law.” The “warmongering powers” America and Israel “should have no say over a set of rules that should instead reflect the values of decent democracies,” he declared.

But the U.S. and Israel will have not just “a say” but unrivaled influence over the direction in which a post–Islamic Republic Iran progresses, because that is the spoil they will have won for themselves on the battlefield. Have we forgotten? That is how wars work.

What we’re witnessing is an informative exhibition of how complex military engagements are actually won — through the application of overwhelming and ruthless force.

We’re also demonstrating that “Human Rights” and “International Law” are just tools for ensuring that the United States doesn’t win. They have no relation to actual humanity, or to law, they’re just slogans aimed at intimidating the United States into an unsuccessful “limited” war. And to be fair, that approach has worked since Korea.

Chinese analysts, meanwhile, have been saying that it turns out the U.S. wasn’t so much in decline before as unwilling to use its power, and now that it’s willing the decline seems to be a figment.

Well, not an accidental one. It’s all midwit jabber from the NGO-Administrative Complex.

I THOUGHT THEY BANNED CROSS-DRESSERS:

TFW your society has brutally subjugated women for 50 years and now you gotta avoid the consequences by dressing up as one https://t.co/EBp0i4MKkV pic.twitter.com/WcGWz9WdV5

— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) March 6, 2026

FORTUNATELY, WE STILL HAVE THE B-3 BOMBER IN RESERVE IN CASE ALBANIA ATTACKS:

The B-2 is not a bomber. It is a key. And there is only one thing on earth it was built to unlock.

The GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator. Thirty thousand pounds. The largest non-nuclear bomb in the American arsenal, developed at a cost of $330 million over a decade of… pic.twitter.com/gsvFD1Fagk

— Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ (@shanaka86) March 6, 2026

Classical reference in headline:

SHARKS GOTTA SWIM, BATS GOTTA FLY: Bill Clinton Can Find a Loophole in a Stop Sign. Now He’s Rewriting His Oath Record.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D) + TEACH WOMEN NOT TO LIE ABOUT RAPE! (CONT’D): Creep nurse had sex with patient — then falsely accused him of sexually assaulting her.

FROM CEDAR SANDERSON:  Tanager’s Fleet (The Tanager Book 3).

Captain Jem Raznick and the weary crew of the Tanager crave a moment’s peace after grueling evacuation runs across star systems. But spymaster Jade Star’s urgent summons shatters that hope, yanking them back to the fog-shrouded swamps of Boudreaux. Posing as orchid hunters, they must infiltrate the murky underbelly of the port to find missing operative Dilar Restin, and the explosive secrets he’s uncovered, before it’s too late.

What begins as a covert rescue spirals into a deadly trap: buried family betrayals surface, pirate shadows close in, and unexpected allies emerge from the mist with their own hidden agendas. Only when the true stakes are revealed, the culmination of Jade’s decades-long master plan, does the crew realize the galaxy itself hangs in the balance, with one wrong move dooming them all.

In this gripping space opera finale, Jem races to untangle a web of galactic deceit, protect his makeshift family, and ignite a defiant legacy. Heroism isn’t born in solitude. It is forged in the fierce, unbreakable unity that defies the encroaching void.

PETER WOOD REVIEWS SCOTT GERBER’S NOVEL:  “A Cancelled Professor Wrote a Thriller.”

WORTH READING:  The American Revolution, as seen from across the Atlantic.

YOU’D THINK THE BRITS WOULD HAVE LEARNED THE RISKS OF UNCONTROLLED IMMIGRATION  FROM THE SAXONS, THE DANES, AND THE NORMANS:  Decades in the planning, the Islamic Republic of Britain.

INCENTIVES:

China is the nation facing the biggest economic catastrophe from the Straits of Hormuz being closed.

If the US and Israel cannot get the situation under control as fast as possible, then the Chinese economy will be the first to go into crisis. pic.twitter.com/o4Obvy0FgJ

— Jake Broe (@RealJakeBroe) March 5, 2026

WELL, THEY WERE TRYING TO BRING ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD:  Iranian Regime Is About to Find Out Why Attacking Arab Nations Was a Stupid Idea.

THIS AIN’T YOUR GRAN’PA’S GOP:  Secretary Hegseth Blasts the Democrats for Rooting for America to Fail in Iran.

INDEED:  A Reckoning Long Overdue.

THIS IS STUPID AND ENDANGERS THE RAZOR-THIN MARGIN. SORRY, THE LEFT DOESN’T DO THIS:  House GOP Leadership Asks Embroiled Rep. Tony Gonzales to Drop Out.

They’re politicians, not priests.

WHAT HE SAID:  Sinking, Surprises.

THIS WAS ALWAYS OBVIOUS:  America Hits Iran; China Takes the Blow.

THEY’RE NOT LAWS SO MUCH AS SUGGESTIONS:  “[I]nternational law is not law; it is a set of rules and claims that pretends to be law”.

IN A THEOCRACY, THE HOUSES OF WORSHIP ARE PART OF THE GOVERNMENT:  Yeah, About That.

As for the Ivy Leagues and most academia, what the man said.

OTHER STATES GOPS SHOULD CONSIDER THESE:  Propositions.

ABSOLUTELY JUSTIFIABLE: The Sinking of the Dena Was Textbook …the chart don’t lie…

ISLAM MIGHT NOT WANT TO GO TO WAR WITH AMERICAN DOGS. IT CAN’T WIN:  New York, Islam and Why Every Dog will Still Have its Day.

#JOURNALISM: Katie Couric asks Gavin Newsom if he’s “just ridiculously good looking” and whether he has “a Zoolander problem.”

Well, he has a Zoolander problem in that he’s dumb as a rock and obsessed with how he looks. . . .

HAPPY DEATH OF STALIN DAY FOR ALL WHO CELEBRATE! On this date in 1953, Joseph Stalin died, and the following day, the New York Times published this creepy bit of necrophilia for his obituary: Stalin Rose From Czarist Oppression to Transform Russia Into Mighty Socialist State.

In 2017, Armando Iannucci captured a far more subtle and nuanced take on the last days of the Soviet tyrant and the resulting scramble for control by his apparatchiks: The Red Reign of Error: The Death of Stalin Arrives on Netflix.

OPEN THREAD: Live, laugh, love.