Author Archive: Stephen Green

April 21, 2026

WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT…:

Posted at 5:22 pm by Stephen Green on Apr 21st, 2026

DRAIN THE SWAMP:

Full details here.

Posted at 4:35 pm by Stephen Green on Apr 21st, 2026

BREAKING:

Trump: “Based on the fact that the Government of Iran is seriously fractured, not unexpectedly so and, upon the request of Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, of Pakistan, we have been asked to hold our Attack on the Country of Iran until such time as their leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal. I have therefore directed our Military to continue the Blockade and, in all other respects, remain ready and able, and will therefore extend the Ceasefire until such time as their proposal is submitted, and discussions are concluded, one way or the other.”

So the regime not showing up in Pakistan for the talks might have been less about intransigence and more about political chaos.

Regardless, the blockade remains in place, and that’s the most important pressure point.

UPDATE:

If — again, if — the IRGC has seized what’s left of the civilian government leadership, it’s hard to see how the ceasefire extension lasts very long. Those guys are hardcore revolutionary Islamists.

Posted at 4:25 pm by Stephen Green on Apr 21st, 2026

MORE ON ACTBLUE:

Maybe the entire Democratic Party needs to come under RICO scrutiny.

Posted at 4:04 pm by Stephen Green on Apr 21st, 2026

CORN, POPPED:

Posted at 3:03 pm by Stephen Green on Apr 21st, 2026

A VERY PUBLIC EDUCATION:

Posted at 2:02 pm by Stephen Green on Apr 21st, 2026

I’M EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM… LOTS OF THEM, ACTUALLY:

If the Islamic Republic wants war, that’s what it’ll get.

Posted at 1:29 pm by Stephen Green on Apr 21st, 2026

EVEN SAN FRANCISCO CAN SELF-CORRECT… EVENTUALLY:

What a shame there will be no accountability for the people responsible for the mess now being cleaned up.

Posted at 12:58 pm by Stephen Green on Apr 21st, 2026

A DATA REPUBLICAN THREAD ON THE COLOR REVOLUTION HERE AT HOME:

Read the whole thing, but this part stands out: “The color revolution playbook has one tool for security forces: social pressure through professional networks to induce defection. Driscoll is embedded in those networks. He can be pulled away. Hegseth isn’t.”

Aside from Trump, Hegseth might be the most important individual in the entire executive branch, and for reasons most Americans can’t even imagine.

Posted at 12:27 pm by Stephen Green on Apr 21st, 2026

HMM: Are We Seeing the Makings of an Iranian Civil War? “So we see that when Iranian President Pezeshkian, who seems, as a rule, more pragmatic than the IRGC, signaled he’s ready to be reasonable and will negotiate, the IRGC didn’t follow along, but rather launched a war against Iran’s civilian government. It is the IRGC who have been working against every diplomatic channel that Pezeshkian has been trying to open.”

Posted at 12:12 pm by Stephen Green on Apr 21st, 2026

AID AND COMFORT? YOU MAKE THE CALL:

UPDATE (Charlie): Regular readers know I’m suspicious of most cries of “treason” for all the reasons stated in Federalist 43 and various SCOTUS rulings. But then there’s ex Parte Bellmon (1807): “To constitute that specific crime [of treason] war must be actually levied against the United States.”

I think the current unpleasantness makes treason a colorable claim.

UPDATE (From Ed): In 2023, the local Fox affiliated reported “Murphy pushes back against Senate Republican resolution that targeted LGTBQ+ kids.” Today, he’s rooting for the side that hangs gay people from construction cranes. That’s one serious case of TDS running amok.

Also apparently Murphy approved:

MORE (From Ed): Predictably, Murphy falls back on the “botched joke” get out of jail free card:

Posted at 11:50 am by Stephen Green on Apr 21st, 2026

OBAMA MADE EVERYTHING WORSE. EVERYTHING:

Posted at 11:25 am by Stephen Green on Apr 21st, 2026

CHANGE (IT BACK): ‘Killing the idea of a Palestinian state’: West Bank settlement of Sa-Nur reestablished.

Cabinet ministers, members of Knesset, local politicians, and hundreds of settler activists celebrated the reestablishment and repopulation of the settlement of Sa-Nur in the northern West Bank on Sunday, nearly 21 years after it was evacuated under the Disengagement Plan.

Samaria Regional Council Chairman Yossi Dagan, who was one of the residents evacuated from Sa-Nur in 2005, was one of the 16 families who took up residence anew in the settlement on Sunday.

Speaking at the ceremony, Defense Minister Israel Katz repeated previous promises that the government is working on legalizing 140 illegally established farming outposts around the West Bank.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich described the reestablishment of Sa-Nur as a “national holiday” and a “historic correction” to the “sinful expulsion from northern Samaria,” in reference to the four settlements in the northern West Bank, including Sa-Nur, that were evacuated under the Disengagement, which also saw Israel dismantle all its settlements in Gaza and pull out of the Strip.

“On this moving day, we are honored to make a historic correction to the sinful expulsion from northern Samaria,” said Smotrich. “We are abolishing the disgrace of expulsion, killing the idea of ​​the Palestinian state, and returning to the settlement of Sa-Nur. This is a day of celebration for the settlement movement and a national holiday for the State of Israel.”

The Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank rejected statehood in favor of terrorism, so this is what they get.

Posted at 10:39 am by Stephen Green on Apr 21st, 2026
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