FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!  Further developments in the Great Washington Income Tax Saga. Not going down without a fight.

WE SHOULD HAVE TAKEN THEM SERIOUSLY WHEN THEY CHANTED DEATH TO AMERICA:  The Reason We are Facing this Moment.

YES INDEED:  There’s ordinary virtue signalling, then there’s virtue costuming.

GOOD LORD:  The French aircraft carrier Charles De Gaulle has arrived to protect the British Sovereign territory and Armed Forces base RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. If that doesn’t make you feel embarrassed to be British then nothing will.

HUMANS AREN’T EVER NOBLE SAVAGES. THERE IS NO GLORY IN BARBARISM:  Humans invented writing to track debts. The world’s first writing system, cuneiform, emerged in Mesopotamia around 3200 BC to record who owed what to whom. Clay tokens for accounting date back as far as 8000 BC. Debt isn’t some corruption of a golden age. It’s so fundamental to human cooperation that we created literacy because of it.

AND FOR: The Cancelled of X.

TYRANTS TYRANNIZE:  Washington State DemocRat Tyranny. Not an exaggeration.

NO. IT REALLY IS NOT:  The Key to Understanding National Socialism and the “Nazi” Label.While ICE’s operations have fallen out of the news cycle, the reflexive desire to call them “Nazis” continues unabated. But is the term being used correctly?

MY ASSISTANT HAS BEEN EATING RED MEAT:  Hello.

THAT LONG AGO? SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY:  Memories of the 2011 Tsunami.  Fifteen years ago today, a massive tsunami devastated northeastern Japan.

CNN SHOULD ISSUE AN APOLOGY:  CNN Deletes Sympathetic Post About Alleged New York City Bombers.

YES, INDEED:  Space Force Proves Its Worth as Trump’s Vision Pays Off During Epic Fury, Midnight Hammer.

THEY DON’T SEE THE WORLD FOR THEIR THEORY:  Leftist Activist’s Self-Preservation Fail Illustrates Left’s Blindspots. (Video)

CONVENIENTLY, I’VE ALREADY BEEN SUCKING UP TO MILEI ON X, CARAJO!  Musings On Yellowstone.

ALSO BLAKE IS HAVING A:  Winter 26 Bleg Update.

YOUR DAY 11 WAR REPORTING:  Iran Strikes: Day 11.

FROM HOLLY CHISM:  The Dragon’s in the Details.

Six stories of dragons hiding in today’s world:
A Friend, Indeed–A little girl meets the best friend she could ask for when she finds a dragon sleeping in her wagon.
Tempest–What do you do when you find a dragon in your favorite teacup?
Clowder–These are absolutely not cats, no matter what they look like, and will take offense at your mistake.
Back Yard Birds and Other Things–If the dragon defends your chickens, you invite it to stay.
Houdini–When the pet supplier sends the wrong kind of dragon, the pet store’s got a problem.
Hoard–Not every dragon cares for gold, gems, or cash.

A SWEET LITTLE STORY:  Footsteps in the Dark. Maybe the house is haunted, maybe it isn’t.

GO READ:  Book Review: Ruin and Redemption.

WHAT HE SAID:  The al-Durah affair is the greatest media manipulation of modern times: “There is nothing more dangerous for the Jewish people and Israel than left-wing Jews”.

FASTER PLEASE:  Voyager to make “a multi-million-dollar strategic investment” in Max Space’s inflatable habitats.

GOOD:   Australia Will Give The Iranian Women’s Football Team Asylum.

AND I WAS HERE FOR IT. AND IT’S GLORIOUS:  Decline and fall of the expert class.

WITH A FEATHER YOU COULD KNOCK ME OVER:  Epstein-Linked Billionaire Bankrolled Democratic Party, Records Show.

INDEED:  When Hegseth was proven right.

AND TILTING AT WINDMILLS IS HAVING A SALE: And damn worth it at the price.

YOU CANNOT HATE THE MEDIA ENOUGH:  Manipulating reality.

UH:  Actuarial Warfare: How Seven Insurance Letters Closed the World’s Most Critical Chokepoint and Why Markets Are Mispricing Duration by 300%. Private Reinsurance, IRGC Fragmentation, Interceptor Depletion, and a Dead Nuclear Fatwa Have Produced a Crisis No Military Victory Can Resolve.