IT’S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO IMAGINE:

Jimmy Lai is one of the most notable Catholic martyrs alive in the world today. Can anyone imagine the Great Pope John Paul2 keeping silent about such an obvious example of Communist repression? As St Thomas More said, "Silence gives consent." https://t.co/Zd04hALio6

— David Asman (@DavidAsmanfox) March 6, 2026

UNEXPECTEDLY: Canada’s Suicide Culture Is Devolving Into an Assisted Suicide Death Machine.

COULD BE!

🔴 Iran delays naming next supreme leader due to concerns that the new leader could be targeted – report

— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) March 6, 2026

I guess that means there’s no one to accept Trump’s “unconditional surrender,” and the campaign will continue.

BECAUSE OF COURSE: Democrat’s Illegal Immigrant Guest to State of the Union Exposed as Assault Suspect.

REQUIRED READING:

https://t.co/v0dmJvj1Y2

— Rob Maness (@RobManess) March 6, 2026

Exit quote: “America’s military remains the greatest fighting force because of its people—not despite them. But when senior service college education produces more bureaucrats than warriors, we risk losing the next war before it starts. Denial won’t fix that. Reform will.”

BATTLESWARM: Iran Strikes Day 6. “They now have an inalienable right to a pine box.”

HEGSETH’S DECISION NOT TO LET THE PENTAGON USE CLAUDE LOOKS SMARTER ALL THE TIME:

Yes https://t.co/KQGsbSysak

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 6, 2026

NOT ANTI-WAR, JUST ON THE OTHER SIDE: 53 Dems Vote Against Calling Iran the Biggest State Sponsor of Terror.

GOVERNMENT IS STUPID, EXHIBIT #1,000,006:

Fascinating to watch policymakers continue to address artificially constrained supply by subsidizing demand. pic.twitter.com/And1j8GQUK

— Yoni Appelbaum (@YAppelbaum) March 6, 2026

There’s no surer way to make something more expensive than government trying to make it more affordable.

GOOD GAL WITH A GUN: Felony Stupid: Woman Forces Entry on Des Moines Home.

There’s dumb and then there’s felony stupid. Stannita Wilson probably couldn’t spell “felony stupid” but she lived it boldly and with pride. At 46, Wilson should have known that life is harder if you make stupid choices, but bless her heart, she still tries. In this case, the questionable decision-making turned a Saturday night in Des Moines into a one-woman home invasion tour.

A homeowner, probably minding his or her own business with a cup of warm milk and a Wheel of Fortune rerun on the tube before bed, heard a shrieking lunatic in their back yard and banging on the door. That was Wilson.

Then the banging started on the back door. The far-too-polite soul unlocked it — probably because Midwestern manners, you know — and BAM, in stormed Wilson like she owned the place, acting like a violent fool and attacked the homeowner.

Fortunately, in addition to Midwestern manners, the victim was also in possession of a firearm. The un-named homeowner had grabbed it before calling 911, a move that may have saved their life.

Exit quote: “Please don’t shoot me no more.”

CONSISTENCY IS THE HOBGOBLIN OF LITTLE MINDS OR WHATEVER:

Two months ago you were attacking Trump for not doing regime change in Iran pic.twitter.com/QoroTKEbBt

— Sunny (@sunnyright) March 6, 2026

At least admire the rapid turnaround time.

TRUMP: Iranian Regime Must Give ‘Unconditional Surrender’

HMM:

Breaking news: China secretly supplied Iran with 50 CM-302 supersonic anti-ship missiles. Reports say Iran launched them during the ongoing war, but none hit their targets and none were intercepted by the United States. The missiles may have failed mid-flight due to technical… pic.twitter.com/HqAhunUCMI

— The Great Translation Movement 大翻译运动 (@TGTM_Official) March 6, 2026

Not sure if I buy this report or not, but it isn’t as though Chinese gear has proven effective in either Venezuela or Iran

EVERYONE HAS A PLAN UNTIL THEY GET PUNCHED IN THE MOUTH: Iran had a plan to fight Israel and the US. It all collapsed after October 7.

And yet, since the joint US-Israeli airstrikes against Iran began over the weekend, killing its supreme leader and devastating the regime’s military and infrastructure, the response from the axis of resistance has been fairly feeble.

The Iran-backed Lebanese militia Hezbollah, which in the past has boasted of the ability to destroy Tel Aviv, fired a “handful” of rockets into Israel, which prompted a much larger campaign of airstrikes by Israel in southern Lebanon and Beirut. Wary of being dragged into yet another war, the Lebanese government has taken the unprecedented step of banning military activities by the group. Yemen’s Houthis, who dramatically shut down most global shipping through the Red Sea two years ago, have been conspicuously quiet. Militants in Iraq claimed a drone attack on a US military base in Erbil, but the attack was intercepted without any casualties, and some groups seem to be staying quiet.

The impotent response is part of a larger story of the Iranian regime’s collapse from a fearsome military power to a weakened state fighting for its survival against an emboldened America and Israel. Rather than secure it from attack, its strategy of backing proxy forces in conflicts abroad played a critical part in dragging it into the existential crisis it faces now.

And while there are a number of factors that led to its unraveling, there’s one clear moment when it all started to go south: Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel.

That terror invasion was so despicable that it required being a vicious antisemite — or a fairly ordinary leftist — to dismiss or excuse it.

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES:

So if somebody keys his car, can they appeal to precedent?

— AmishDude (@TheAmishDude) March 6, 2026

Hey, conservatives aren’t the ones making the new rules — we’re just asking questions.

GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY, TRUMP-STYLE: ‘Decapitate and Delegate’: Trump Tests New Model of U.S.-Led Regime Change.

This century, America sank into two of its longest wars—in Afghanistan and Iraq—following lightning strikes that removed governments deemed threats to U.S. national security. Those quagmires helped fuel the MAGA movement, which rallied around Trump’s promises of avoiding overseas military entanglements.
Now, Trump is putting his pledges and American firepower to the test.

With an ethos that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summed up as “We’re not dumb about it,” Trump has committed the country to a war that he has said will last only weeks, following the success of a military raid that was done in one night.

In both Iran and Venezuela, Trump has said the target country’s fate is ultimately up to its citizens—even as he floats preferred successors and the U.S. exerts military pressure from above. The goal is to extract tangible wins for the U.S.—access to oil, reduced migration and decreased drug flows, a weakened adversary—without the risks of deploying large ground forces.

Trump’s approach reflects both his desire to avoid repeating this century’s wars and his disdain for what he has called the “failed policy of nation building.” His preference is to work with friendlier governments that can provide tangible benefits to be sold as “America First” triumphs.

Trump’s new strategy, a State Department official quipped, can be summed up as “decapitate and delegate.”

It’s working well enough so far in Venezuela.

DATA REPUBLICAN GETS RESULTS:

Had an amazing two days meeting with representatives from all over the world.

I discussed foreign NGO situations with representatives from:
🔹Estonia
🔹Romania
🔹France
🔹Germany
🔹Moldova
🔹Croatia
🔹Georgia
… and many more countries.

The takeaway: the NGO situation is…

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) March 6, 2026

“DataInterpretr and I are following up with every single representative to make sure we get names of specific NGOs so we can make sure that zero federal dollars are going to them.”

THE “SPREADING” IS BEING DONE BY IRAN, WHICH HARDLY HAS A NEIGHBOR LEFT IT HASN’T ATTACKED: More Tankers Come Under Attack as US-Iran Conflict Spreads.

A Bahamas-flagged crude oil tanker was targeted by an Iranian remote-controlled boat laden with explosives while anchored near Iraq’s Khor al Zubair port, according to initial assessments.

A second tanker at anchor off Kuwait was taking on water and spilling oil after a large explosion on its port side.

Nine vessels have come under attack since the conflict broke out between the U.S., Israel and Iran on Saturday. Iran launched a wave of missiles at Israel early on Thursday and also sent drones into Azerbaijan, injuring four people.

Hang on, bumpy ride ahead.

WELL:

Chinese air force activity around Taiwan has fallen sharply in recent weeks, with no flights at all in the past week, a sudden drop in what had been daily military manoeuvres that could signal Beijing is recalibrating its pressure on Taipei. https://t.co/vCA7nvXC1g

— Reuters China (@ReutersChina) March 5, 2026

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Trump’s Not Taking His Eyes Off of the Narcoterrorist Cartels. “It would almost be understandable of President Trump and his team got preoccupied with what’s happening in one part of the world and lost temporary focus in another. Not this crew. Despite everything going on in the Middle East, Team Trump is still focused on the major problems on this side of the world.”

THE EAST GERMAN JUDGE AWARDS NEWSOM A PERFECT 10 FOR THAT FURIOUS BACKPEDAL:

🚨 @GavinNewsom walks back calling Israel an apartheid state:

"I was specifically referring to a Tom Friedman column where HE used that word."

"I can't just sit back in terms of my values and beliefs," he says.

Does Newsom believe anything? https://t.co/7pDLyohbZW pic.twitter.com/cvn7UgXAMc

— POLARIS National Security (@PolarisNatSec) March 6, 2026

JOSH HAMMER: Donald Trump Is a Great Man of History.

Trump has met the moment and risen to the occasion in numerous foreign theaters besides China and the broader Indo-Pacific as well. He saw decades of American malaise, managed decline, and overextended empire, and he has promptly reversed course.

Trump and his administration have repeatedly proven willing and unafraid to criticize America’s European allies, nudging our core NATO partners to be better versions of themselves in such areas as military spending and defense self-sufficiency. He has responded to decades of buildup of murderous transnational nonstate cartels and Chinese and Russian entrenchment in our own hemisphere by reasserting the Latin America-centric Monroe Doctrine, as most spectacularly evidenced by January’s Operation Absolute Resolve extraction of fugitive Nicolas Maduro in Caracas.

And now there is the unfolding Operation Epic Fury in Iran.

He’s the first president since Reagan with that necessary “We win, they lose” attitude.

WORSE, AFTER 60-PLUS YEARS OF COMMUNISM, THE STUPIDITY IS WILLFUL:

If you've ever felt stupid, just remember there are people out there who actually believe this about Cuba.@MailynSpeaks pic.twitter.com/AKCu5rCYxC

— 🥷🦅Austin Petersen 🇺🇲🥋 (@AP4Liberty) March 6, 2026

EPIC FURY: Trump’s Play to Starve the Dragon?

STILL UP FOR THAT CHAT, JON?

How it started vs How it's going for the Pod Save America bros 👇 https://t.co/exaLNOAA7Q pic.twitter.com/8wtoVGkyUq

— Izengabe (@Izengabe_) March 5, 2026