Author Archive: Ed Driscoll

March 5, 2026

FLASHBACK: Iran’s “Keys to Heaven.”

 

 

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 5th, 2026

ON IRAN, DR. CORNEL WEST SAYS ‘BROTHER TRUMP IS A GANGSTER,’ CNN’S PHILLIP STAYS SILENT:

WEST: It’s just so sad because you see, Brother Trump, he is a gangster, and the gangster has a mentality that views himself as never accountable, never vincible, never answerable and therefore never responsible. So there’s a sense in which we don’t  shouldn’t focus just on him, he’s got enablers, he’s got supporters. And it’s a sign, I’m just thinking we’re going to put brother Jesse in the grave next few days — Jesse Jackson. And you know, Martin and Jesse talked about just how spiritually sick and morally decrepit and politically corrupt the country has become.

Good for West for attacking what’s become of CNN and his fellow leftists:  CNN Clown to Obama: ‘Go Gangsta Against Your Foes.’

—JammieWearingFool, February 11th, 2010.

The following year, actor Don Cheadle told an interviewer regarding then-President Obama, “I think he inherited an impossible situation. I wish he had not been so much of a consensus-seeker. I just wanted to see a more ‘gangsta’ president.”

In 2014, the Financial Times suggested: Obama needs a gangsta to lay down the law.

And while not specifically gangster and/or gangsta related, this metaphor from former CBS Face the Nation host John Dickerson sounds pretty violent as well: “Go for the Throat! Why if he wants to transform American politics, Obama must declare war on the Republican Party.”

—Dickerson at Slate, one of the remaining media redoubts of the Graham family, the former owners of the WaPo, January 18th, 2013.

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 5th, 2026

NAME THAT PARTY: Jury awards $2M in trial over wrongful death lawsuit against political donor Ed Buck.

A jury awarded $2 million Wednesday in the civil trial of a wrongful death lawsuit against high-profile Southern California political donor Ed Buck.

The brief trial started Monday and resulted in a verdict Wednesday, when a jury of five men and three women unanimously found Buck liable for the drug overdose death of Gemmel Moore in 2017 and awarded his mother damages.

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Moore and Timothy Dean died of methamphetamine overdoses 18 months apart — Moore in July 2017 and Dean in January 2019.

Buck denied the allegations, maintaining that 26-year-old Moore was a long-time drug user and friend, and that they used methamphetamine and other drugs together. Buck claims Moore willingly participated in the actions alleged by his mother.

Evidence in the criminal case showed Buck lured young Black men who were often experiencing homelessness, addiction, and/or poverty to his West Hollywood apartment for sexually charged so-called “party and play” sessions in which he would inject them with methamphetamine and drug them with sedatives, with and without their consent.

After less than a day of deliberations on July 27, 2021 — the four-year anniversary of Moore’s death — the federal jury in downtown Los Angeles found Buck guilty of all nine charged felony counts.

“Unexpectedly,” CTRL+F “Democrat” brings back zero results in yesterday’s NBC-LA story. But even NPR managed to include his party affiliation in their 2021 headline: Democratic Donor Ed Buck Is Convicted In Deaths Of 2 Men He Offered Drugs For Sex.

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 5th, 2026

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Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 5th, 2026

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Posted at 8:35 am by Ed Driscoll on Mar 5th, 2026

DATA REPUBLICAN: The Fall of the NGO-Administrative Complex.

The global order is no fan of Iran. Atlantic writer and former National Endowment for Democracy board member Anne Applebaum has consistently named Iran, alongside Russia and China, as one of the three greatest autocracies threatening the world. Senator Chris Murphy, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a speaker at the Council on Foreign Relations, drew an explicit parallel during the 2022 Mahsa Amini massacres, declaring, “Just as we stood together with the people of Ukraine during their revolution of dignity, the United States must continue standing with the people of Iran.”

One might think that these defenders of democracy would celebrate the removal of the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a brutal fundamentalist religious totalitarian.

Instead, those same voices are now loudly condemning the airstrikes. Murphy’s reaction offered no sympathy for the thousands of Iranians killed by the regime—only outrage at Trump: “In America, we don’t allow one doddering, self-obsessed old man to waste our money on a dangerous, disastrous overseas war.” Similarly, Applebaum has criticized Operation Epic Fury’s supposed lack of strategic coherence, not the target.

What is louder than the condemnations of the establishment now is what they failed to do over the previous four decades. They never deployed the same aggressive democratization strategies toward Iran that they’ve applied across the Middle East and Africa. Instead, successive administrations released billions in frozen Iranian assets, negotiated the infamous Iran nuclear deal, and—as Politico’s 2017 Project Cassandra investigation documented—deliberately limited prosecution of Hezbollah drug trafficking networks operating inside the United States to protect those negotiations.

In short, those backing the so-called “rules-based liberal international order” actually wanted Ali Khamenei’s regime to remain in place. Actions speak louder than words. For an order that defines itself by the spread of democracy, this is a striking paradox.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 8:22 am by Ed Driscoll on Mar 5th, 2026

TRUMP’S ENDGAME:

The first major decision he faces is whether to insist on formal acceptance of all three objectives before declaring a ceasefire—effectively demanding unconditional surrender. Past patterns and his public messaging suggest he will not. Such an ultimatum risks prolonging the war, alienating allies weary of rising energy costs, and inviting domestic backlash over casualties and economic disruption. Trump has already signaled openness to talks with members of the regime, framing negotiation as proof of American dominance rather than weakness.

If Trump announces a ceasefire while the regime remains intact, he will de facto choose regime preservation. Negotiating with the regime to dismantle its capabilities is therefore not merely a diplomatic step—it is a strategic decision to leave that regime in power. This is the most likely outcome. He will point to degraded missile stocks, crippled naval assets, damaged nuclear infrastructure, and weakened proxies as evidence that his concrete promise to the American public, the West, and Israel has been fulfilled. The aspirational promise to the Iranian people—freedom and dignity—would remain unresolved.

But ending the war without securing a path to regime change raises three critical follow-up questions. Does Trump force Tehran to accept, as the price of a ceasefire, all three core demands—nuclear dismantlement, missile elimination, and an end to proxy financing? Does he try to settle for progress on the nuclear file alone? Or does he repeat his behavior of last June and end the fighting before receiving any concrete commitment from the Iranians at all?

Tehran, of course, will seek a ceasefire without binding conditions. If forced to make a concrete concession up front, it will discuss, as it did in the recent talks in Geneva and Oman, nuclear compromises while resisting negotiations on missiles and proxies.

Trump cannot afford to blink here. The endgame requires a comprehensive settlement, not tactical trades.

If Iran dismantles its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief while retaining its missile arsenal and proxy networks, the regime will simply rebuild. Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and Iran-backed militias in Iraq would soon be flush with cash. Tehran has demonstrated repeatedly that it can regenerate these capabilities even under pressure.

All three demands must therefore remain a single package. Ideally, Trump should make a ceasefire conditional on formal, authoritative, and public acceptance of all three. At a minimum, Trump must make clear that no sanctions relief—on any front—will come until there is verifiable agreement on the full set. Anything less would leave the regime intact while allowing it to regenerate the very capabilities the war was meant to eliminate.

Partial concessions would merely postpone the problem, allowing a battered but surviving regime to regroup and threaten the region again. Trump’s “maximum pressure” strategy loses its edge the moment relief arrives prematurely.

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Posted at 8:22 am by Ed Driscoll on Mar 5th, 2026

MARK JUDGE: ‘VHS Forever’ and the Transformative Power of Tech and Entertainment.

Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, a professor at Miami University, is the author of a great new book, Videotape, which offers an insightful history of the VCR and the VHS tape, from their invention in Japan to the last-standing Blockbuster store in Bend, Oregon. One of the most interesting chapters, “Viewing Parties and the Party,” recounts the history of the VHS in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the 1970s and ’80s. As VCR players became more affordable and popular in the ’80s, more and more of them were smuggled into Communist countries. Kenworthy describes the “viewing parties” that sprang up in the Eastern Block:

Crammed in small apartment buildings, a dozen or so people split the costs of the VCR rental or paid a small entry fee to the host of the party. News of the parties spread by word of mouth, from teenagers loitering behind the blocks of flats, to neighbors, relatives, or work colleagues. The most popular genres were films featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme or Bruce Lee, the action films of Chuck Norris, Sylvester Stallone, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, but also miniseries such as The Thorn Birds (1983), or Shogun (1980). Since most VHS tapes ran for two hours, and most feature films were 90 minutes, the space left at the end was filled with MTV music videos or even advertisements. Commercials were an unknown genre in the communist economy and, unlike in the West, where the videotape enabled viewers to fast-forward past the ads, in Eastern Europe, they functioned as sheer entertainment, since the products they promoted could not be found on the local market. In the Soviet Union, where the legal penalties against illegal videotapes were harsher than in Romania, people found even more creative ways to dodge the police. Instead of hosting in a private apartment, in Baku, Azerbaijan, grubby taxi minivans of Latvian manufacturing, popularly known as Rafiks, doubled as mobile screening rooms equipped with a VCR and a color TV. They’d tour the city and then show up in neighborhood streets at random times, like an American ice-cream truck, offering Soviet children a motley fare of Tom and Jerry cartoons, B-category action movies, and silly Hollywood comedies crudely dubbed in Russian, but immensely enjoyable anyway.

Kenworthy notes the irony of Nikita Khrushchev telling Richard Nixon in 1959 that he was wrong to boast of Americans having color TVs while the Soviets did not—that the technology responsible for color television was irrelevant. In fact, it was that very technology that, years later, would help bring down the Soviet Union.

As I noted last month in my review of John Kleinheinz’s 2023 book, The Siberia Job:

The Soviet Union began running episodes of the CBS nighttime soap opera Dallas in the early 1980s just to show how eeeeevil those scheming bourgeois Texas capitalist hoarders and wreckers could be. The best-laid plans of mice and Mensheviks backfired when Soviet audiences gazed in awe at the wealth of the Ewings and wanted a little of that for themselves. Even the quotidian details of American life seemed astonishing to them, as Karol Markowicz, now with the New York Post, wrote during her blogging days:

In 1977, the year I was born and the year my father, his mother, his aunt and many other Jews left the Soviet Union (my mother and I left in 1978), the Soviet propaganda machine began circulating a rumor. It went, roughly: life in America is so terrible that the old people eat cat food.

This was…perplexing.

People didn’t quite get it: they have food specifically made for cats in America? What a country!

A lot of things about America remained beyond their comprehension.

The disparity in quality of life previously threw both Soviet peasants and grandees a curve decades earlier, Jonah Goldberg wrote a couple of years ago:

Stalin allowed the film version of the Grapes of Wrath—retitled The Road to Wrath—to be seen in the Soviet Union because it was a searing indictment of the failures of capitalism. Soviet citizens saw it and were like, “Holy crap! The peasants all have cars and pickup trucks in America? Man, we’re poor.” Stalin quickly yanked it from theaters.

No doubt, the videos coming from America, plus photos of pre-Ayatollah Iran are helping to fuel the ongoing revolution there. In 1961, JFK’s FCC chairman Newton Minow infamously told the National Association of Broadcasters:

Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.

You will see a procession of game shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, western bad men, western good men, private eyes, gangsters, more violence, and cartoons.

And endlessly, commercials — many screaming, cajoling, and offending.

I think he meant all of that as being a very bad thing, not comprehending the eventual power of that metaphorical vast wasteland to inspire the defeat of the real thing.

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll on Mar 5th, 2026

March 4, 2026

FISH CALLED WANDA SUDDENLY DISCOVERS WATER:

See also, David Ellison’s earlier impact on former denizens of CBS News:

Posted at 9:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 4th, 2026

THE ABOLITION OF BRITAIN: How the Royal Navy shrank to its smallest ‘since English Civil War.’

In the mid-1990s, Royal Navy officers at staff college in Shrivenham were asked to map out their predictions for what the service would look like in 30 years. One submariner said the navy would have 30 of the American Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers, the same number of frigates and 20 attack submarines.

More than a decade earlier, the navy had deployed 127 ships for the Falklands conflict, including 43 warships. The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror had sunk the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano, killing 323 sailors onboard.

The submariner, who recently retired, cannot believe the size of the navy now. “Nobody wrote down that you would have six Type 45s [destroyers] that never work, two aircraft carriers we can’t man because we don’t have enough people, and seven frigates, many alongside. Nobody wanted this navy.”

Or the lack thereof, based on the numbers:

America’s Newspaper of Record posits that Iran’s numbers may be shrinking quite rapidly in the coming weeks:

 

Posted at 8:45 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 4th, 2026

FIND ANOTHER METAPHOR: O’Donnell Suggests Trump’s Military Operates like Hitler’s WW2 Forces.

On Monday night’s opening to The Last Word, host Lawrence O’Donnell, in his usual deranged fashion, decided to compare President Trump’s military actions in Iran to Adolf Hitler’s “rules of engagement” against Americans in World War II. He then implored Barron Trump and Donald Trump Jr. to go fight in Iran since Trump started the “burden of war,” without pointing out the Iranian uprising arose without the help of Trump.

O’Donnell opened his show with a vast display of opposition and rage to military operations in Iran. His outrage spiraled into comparisons of the US Military under Trump to Nazis, because Secretary Hegseth said they weren’t going to issue any of the infamously “stupid” rules of engagement he was subject to in Iraq and Afghanistan:

The Defense Secretary also said today that there are, quote, these are his words, “No stupid rules of engagement.” And that means the American military under Donald Trump will be operating under the same no rules of engagement used by Adolf Hitler’s forces in World War II against Americans.

Last Thursday, before many Iranian leaders began to assume room temperature, O’Donnell, a self-described “socialist. I live to the extreme left, the extreme left of you mere liberals,” brought on 88-year old actor Morgan Freeman for another round of redlining the Godwin Meter: On M-SNOW, Actor Morgan Freeman Compares Modern US to Nazi Germany.

As Freeman appeared to promote the series The Gray House about a group of Southern women who spied for the Union during the American Civil War, host Lawrence O’Donnell brought up the time Freeman read the final message of civil rights icon John Lewis* for O’Donnell’s show, leading the actor to remark, “The world today is not the world he left.”

The MS NOW host then posed: “With all your life experience, and to say that the world he left is a different world from where we are now, how would you describe where we are now?”

After pausing, Freeman commented: “Can I use any profanity? … Well, we have somebody sitting in the White House who’s leading us down a s–t hole.”

He invoked President Donald Trump’s history of being prosecuted for felonies by Democrats, leading O’Donnell to follow up: “Were you, with your life experience, did it feel like we were going backwards? Did it feel like the country was on, as Martin Luther King would say, you know, the arc of history was turning toward progress all the time, and did this feel different?”

Freeman then jumped into his Nazi Germany comparison:

Very different, very different. I’m constantly reminded of Germany in 1935, what was happening there, the Brownshirts, those people that are marching through particularly Berlin, rounding up people and putting them in box cars and sending them off. Now, this administration wants to build large detention centers and — for what? Question.

Residents of Martha’s Vineyard can easily answer that question. Naturally of course, the Nazi-obsessed M-SNOW will avoid giving Graham Platner, a one-man Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, the third degree in the coming months:

* Is Trump a bigger Nazi than Newt Gingrich? In 1995, Lewis wasn’t much of a fan of Gingrich and the new Republican Congress. “Democrats John Lewis and Charles Rangel compared silence in the face of the new conservative agenda to silence in the early days of the Third Reich. They didn’t just disagree with conservatives; they Nazi-fied them.”

And how: “During the debates over the Contract with America Rep. John Lewis read Martin Niemoller’s timeless speech about the Nazi takeover: ‘They came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews … trade unionists … Catholics … Protestants …’ And then with all the gravity he could muster he said, ‘Read the Republican contract. They are coming for the children. They are coming for the poor. They are coming for the sick, the elderly, and the disabled.’”

Similarly, in 2008, “Obama surrogate Congressman John Lewis (D-Georgia) invoked Alabama racist George Wallace in talking about McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin.”

Long before Lewis skipped Trump’s first inauguration in 2017, “Lewis and [Barbara] Lee, along with some other Democratic lawmakers at the time, also boycotted to make a point when President George W. Bush was inaugurated in 2001. The Washington Post reported at the time that Lewis ‘thought it would be hypocritical to attend Bush’s swearing-in because he doesn’t believe Bush is the true elected president.’”

Posted at 8:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 4th, 2026

SEAL-TURNED-SENATOR SAVES THE DAY WHEN A SPICY PROTESTER FIGHTS CAPITOL POLICE:

Anti-war protester Brian McGinnis, who also happens to be the Green Party candidate running for U.S. Senate in North Carolina, was festooned in his Marine uniform while he mounted his protest against Operation Epic Fury. McGinnis’s bio indicates he did one tour of duty from 2000 to 2004 before being honorably discharged.

The Capitol Police attempted to remove McGinnis from the hearing room in order to stop his incessant disruptions, but they were not successful because McGinnis tightly gripped the door jamb while shouting, “No one wants to fight for Israel!” The CP could not break his grip.

This is when [Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT)] stepped into action. Sheehy exited the dais, calmly walked over to McGinnis and the Capitol Police, and spoke with him, asking him to settle down. When McGinnis still would not release his grip on the door jamb, Sheehy used a maneuver which forced the protestor to release his grip on the door. This allowed the Capitol Police to get McGinnis upright in order to escort him out.

Here’s the crazy on top of the crazy. While Sheehy was working his jujitsu (or whatever he did) on McGinnis’ hand, other protesters screamed, “Let go of his hand!” “The Senator broke his hand!” “A U.S. Senator just broke the hand of a Marine!”

Tweet continues, “Capitol Police were attempting to remove an unhinged protestor from the Armed Services hearing. He was fighting back. I decided to help out and deescalate the situation. This gentleman came to the Capitol looking for a confrontation, and he got one. I hope he gets the help he needs without causing further violence.”

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 4th, 2026

GROUND WAR ERUPTS IN IRAN AS THOUSANDS OF US-BACKED KURDISH FIGHTERS SURGE ACROSS BORDER IN DRAMATIC ASSAULT:

Thousands of Kurdish fighters have a launched a ground invasion in Iran, according to a US official.

The Kurdish militias, based across the border in Iraq, began the offensive in northwestern Iran on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump on Sunday night spoke with the heads of Kurdish militant groups in Iraq to discuss the situation in Iran.

The CIA was exploring plans to arm the Kurdish forces with the aim of sparking a popular uprising, CNN reported Tuesday.

The Kurdish groups are widely seen as the most well-organized faction of the fragmented Iranian opposition and are believed to have thousands of battle-hardened fighters.

Their entry into the war could pose a significant challenge to the besieged authorities in Tehran and could also risk pulling Iraq further into the conflict.

Baghdad Bob says it’s not happening – so it’s likely happening:

Posted at 6:55 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 4th, 2026

OH TO BE IN ENGLAND: Outraged by grooming gangs? You’re an extremist.

I hear you’re a fascist now. Indeed, if the Home Office’s leaked review into extremism is anything to go by, the details of which are splashed across the newspapers today, potentially millions of Brits are falling for ‘right-wing extremist narratives’.

Home secretary Yvette Cooper commissioned this ‘rapid analytical sprint’ last summer, following the horrific Southport murders and the race riots that followed. True to form, the end product seems oddly preoccupied with smearing ordinary people, at the expense of tackling those who advocate genuine hatred, violence and terrorism.

The Policy Exchange think-tank got its hand on a copy of the review and was stunned to find – alongside the usual stuff about Islamists, neo-Nazis and the like – passages that portray even mainstream criticisms of the multicultural state as somehow dodgy and beyond-the-pale.

Apparently, complaints of ‘two-tier policing’ are one example of a ‘right-wing extremist narrative’. Far-rightists, we’re told, also ‘frequently exploit cases of alleged group-based sexual abuse’ (ie, grooming gangs). Remarkably, this is the primary reference to the rape-gangs scandal in the report, even though there is an entire section devoted to misogyny, looking at incels and pick-up artists.

Flashback: The BBC expected contrition from Kemi Badenoch. It owes us an apology instead.

“Have you seen ‘Adolescence’?” Yes, Mein Fuhrer: but I’m starting to wish I hadn’t. Oh, to inhabit the world of Kemi Badenoch, who innocently went on BBC Breakfast imagining they’d talk solely about tariffs, China or thermonuclear war – the sooner it comes, the better – but was invited to review the telly instead.

“Have you watched ‘Adolescence’ yet?” asked Charlie Stayt. The “yet” was impatient, as if Charlie were tapping a baseball bat in his hand. Kemi is notorious for not yet watching the TV show everyone who works in TV is talking about – and when she replied that she still hadn’t and “probably won’t”, co-host Naga Munchetty looked tempted to call Prevent.

“It’s prompting conversations about toxic masculinity,” she said, plus “smartphone use… Why do you not want to know what people are talking about?”

“All important issues”, replied Kemi. “But in the same way I don’t need to watch ‘Casualty’ to know what’s going on in the NHS, I don’t need to watch a specific Netflix drama to understand what’s going on.” BBC Breakfast’s viewers sat up in their hospital beds. Finally: someone speaks for reality! The only thing Kemi got wrong is that ‘Casualty’ has little to do with the NHS any more. Or medicine. I think it’s mostly about sex.

Badenoch wasn’t missing much by skipping it, as once again a moral panic focuses entirely on the wrong issue because, to coin a phrase, “better dead than rude:”

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 4th, 2026

US SUB SINKS IRANIAN WARSHIP NAMED AFTER TERRORIST LEADER WHO TRUMP ASSASSINATED — IN FIRST SUCH ATTACK SINCE WWII:

An American submarine sank an Iranian warship named the “Soleimani” in the Indian Ocean overnight — the first such US attack on a member of an enemy fleet since World War II, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday.

The “quiet death” strike on Iran’s prized vessel the IRIS Shahid Soleimani unfolded late Tuesday off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Hegseth said, telling reporters during a Pentagon briefing that the ship “thought it was safe in international waters.”

“Instead, it was sunk by a torpedo. The first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since World War II,” Hegseth added. “Like in that war, back when we were still the War Department, we are fighting to win.”

Meanwhile, the Iranians keep pumping out AI slop of imaginary wonder weapons. Was it over when Yuri Gagarin bombed Pearl Harbor?

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 4th, 2026

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 on Mar 4th, 2026

CHANGE: Incumbent Rep. Dan Crenshaw loses Texas GOP primary race.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), who has served in the House of Representatives since 2019, lost his primary race Tuesday in the Lone Star State’s 2nd Congressional District.

Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL in his fourth term, was defeated by businessman and state representative Steve Toth.

With about three-fourths of the ballots counted, Toth had 58% of the vote to Crenshaw’s 40%. The Associated Press called the race for Toth at 1 a.m. EST.

President Trump did not endorse a candidate in the contest. Crenshaw was the only House Republican in Texas running for re-election that did not receive Trump’s seal of approval.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) endorsed Toth last week.

“Steve is an unwavering fighter for school choice, fiscal responsibility, and the next generation of Americans,” Cruz wrote in an X post announcing his endorsement. “Washington needs bold leadership and representatives who will stand up for Texans at every turn.”

Related: Cornyn and Paxton Will Advance to a Texas GOP Senate Runoff.

Posted at 7:44 am by Ed Driscoll on Mar 4th, 2026

BITTER JASMINE CROCKETT BLAMES ‘CHEATING’ AFTER VOTE COUNTS IN TEXAS SENATE RACE DON’T GO HER WAY:

Dem Rep. Jasmine Crockett (TX-30) has been a lightning rod for criticism due to her outlandish statements, ever-changing accents, and generally reprehensible behavior. Yet somehow, she thought she was ready for the United States Senate.

The voters are weighing in, and their answer so far is: yeah, maybe not so much.

Although the official vote count has not been made final, Crockett trails at this hour to her competitor, TX state representative James Talarico. There’s already some legal back and forth, and courts are involved, so the final outcome may not be confirmed for days. Already, though, Crockett is blaming her poor performance on… election fraud.

Wait, I thought it was a danger to Democracy to even suggest such things could ever occur in the United States of America?

A downcast Crockett went there anyway[.]

Stephen Colbert’s stunt to promote Talarico over Crockett and blame it on Trump worked perfectly.

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll on Mar 4th, 2026

March 3, 2026

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Posted at 9:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 3rd, 2026

MARK ZUCKERBERG BUYS $170M MANSION ON ‘BILLIONAIRE BUNKER’ ISLAND IN MIAMI:

  • Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan have purchased a $170 million property in Miami’s exclusive Indian Creek community

  • The mansion, still under construction, will feature nine bedrooms, 15 bathrooms, and luxury amenities like a 1,500-gallon aquarium

  • The purchase sets a record for Miami-Dade County and follows a rise in luxury real estate sales in Florida

Mark Zuckerberg is expanding his already impressive — sometimes controversial — real estate portfolio with a record-breaking purchase in Miami.

The Meta CEO, 41, and his wife, Priscilla Chan, 41, closed on a $170 million property in the sunshine state on Monday, according to the Wall Street Journal. A spokesperson for the couple declined to comment to PEOPLE.

Wait, how is that possible? Dan Rather assured me in 1982 that virtually all of Florida would be underwater by now thanks to global warming:

 

Posted at 8:44 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 3rd, 2026
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