DITTO:

Originally I supported Trump's war with Iran, but then I saw all the worst people in America came out against it, and now I support it even more.

— Han Shawnity 🇺🇸 (@HanShawnity) March 4, 2026

THE ENEMY WITHIN: U.S. Mosques Mourn ‘Our Leader’ Khamenei, Michigan Imam Might Have Dem Party Ties.

LAUGHING WOLF: Winter 26 Bleg.

I hate to do this, as your kind gifts over the last 4.5 years have kept me going. Right after I was hit by lightning that June, and things started going South rather rapidly, quite a few of you stood up and helped me out as I dealt with health issues, health bureaucracy, and general bureaucracy. At that time, I wanted nothing more than to get better and move to the desert SW. As I look out at the roughly inch of snow that fell here this morning, there is a part of me that still very much wants to move there.

That said, about 3.5 years ago, I found a new Church home and my desire for a new life took on a new meaning. It was something long building, as I had for years thought there was something I was supposed to be doing, though I wasn’t sure what it was that I was to do. It literally took getting hit by lightning to have a moment of clarity, and to slowly (I am a bit thick and slow) realize that the end doesn’t matter, only the path. Bit more on this later in the post.

It took more than three years to get a small monthly stipend going, and during that time your gifts literally allowed me to live as I had no real income during that time. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate those gifts, and all the prayers that came with them. Both mean more than I can ever truly express. Which is why I hate to ask for more, but my stipend is not huge and while things are improving, there is more to do than I can cover.

So, I’m going to do a formal Bleg. Haven’t done this in a while, but here’s what I’m looking at over the next year or so.

He’s a good guy and a sharp blogger. I chipped in.

THE LEFT IS FRICKIN’ INSANE:

JAMES TALARICO: "Our trans community needs abortion care too."

This is who Democrats just nominated as their senate candidate. pic.twitter.com/INHeOteRYs

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) March 4, 2026

From “Safe, legal, and rare” to “Abortions even for people who can’t get them!”

SARAH ANDERSON: Delcy Indictment? Machado’s Homecoming? Here’s the Latest From Venezuela.

CBS NEWS GOTTA CBS NEWS: CBS boss ‘OUTRAGED’ by clip showing Texas TV reporter being told not to cover jubilant Iranian protests after Trump had Ayatollah killed.

CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss is ‘fuming’ over a viral video that appears to show a CBS Austin reporter being instructed to downplay coverage of a pro-Israel-US protest then occurring behind him, it is claimed.

Weiss, 41, saw the footage and wants a network-wide crackdown as a result, a well-placed source told the Daily Mail.

CBS affiliates will not be exempt from the effort, the insider said Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The clip in question shows CBS Austin’s Vinny Martorano covering the procession outside the Texas Capitol building, and comes from a Facebook livestream posted by the station on Saturday.

Martorano was set to speak on a procession gathered to celebrate the US and Israeli strikes on Iran when a crew member passed him a phone.

‘What does that mean?’ Martorano says after several seconds of scrutinizing a message on the device’s screen.

‘It means they don’t want us to focus on this,’ one his crew mates explains – a command Martorano does not heed.

The moment was quickly clipped and reshared, earning Weiss’s attention in the process, our source said.

Let’s see if she takes any real action.

THERE’S BEEN A LOT OF THAT GOING ON THE LAST FEW DAYS: The Vindication of Iranian Journalist Masih Alinejad.

THEY SEE NOTHING, THEY KNOW NOTHING: Texas Democratic Senate candidates sidestep Islamic terrorism concerns following deadly Austin attack. “Crockett and Talarico did not address any mention of Islamic terrorism or whether it might pose an additional risk to Americans in light of recent U.S. military action against the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

As Glenn noted yesterday, “We do seem to be drifting closer to Kurt Schlichter’s The Attack. And — no surprise here — Democrats think they’ll find electoral advantage in ignoring it. While also pushing for more gun control, of course.

CHINA DOESN’T HAVE ALLIES AND IT CERTAINLY DOESN’T HAVE FRIENDS: China Cares About This Just One Thing and, Sorry Iran, But It Ain’t You.

EPIC FURY: When the Can Finally Stops Getting Kicked Down the Road.

Almost fifty years of being the murderous troll under the world’s bridge, threatening to blow it sky high every other week, even as it plucked travelers off the boards to consume and satiate its bloodlust.

Whatever manifestation of evil spewed forth from the bearded, turbaned trolls under the bridge, the world would always turn away, turn that other cheek. Ignore what was going on under the bridge, wiping a tiny tear for the random victims summarily pulled off the bridge, while coldly considering them sacrifices to keep the trolls themselves from climbing up onto the roadway and into our world proper.

Eyes averted, fingers in ears. Humanitarian aid, and pallets of cash feeding almost fifty years of malignant troll tumor growth.

Much of it is very personal to Marines. Much of it is very personal to our family.

Read the whole thing.

FASCINATING:

The thing about shipowners is they are simultaneously the most colluding and most competitive businessmen on planet earth.

Collectively they only want a trickle of traffic through chokepoints.

Why? Because longer voyages suck capacity out of the system, making freight rates… https://t.co/nzgYKfPQAc

— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) March 4, 2026

“Regardless of your opinion on Trump, everyone agrees he’s a master at playing competitive forces against each-other.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The GOP Can’t Be Rid of Thom Tillis Quickly Enough. “Tillis is one of those backstabbing members of the GOP who have me convinced that the Democrats have Manchurian candidate plants in the party. He’s not reliable on most big votes. If he does end up not screwing over his own party, it’s only after a lot of grandstanding so that he can get some all-important facetime in front of the cameras.”

FASTER, PLEASE: Federal bureau approves lithium mine expansion.

The mine sits alongside the roughly 250 person town of Silver Peak and has been in operation since 1965 by international mining company Albemarle. It pumps water from local brine water aquifers into open air ponds, then distills the lithium down with solar evaporation. Annually, the mine produces around 5,000 tons of lithium, according to the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

“I don’t have any issues with the expansion of the mine,” Shaaron Netherton, executive director of the Friends of Nevada Wilderness, told The Center Square of the mine, which employs roughly 60 people. She added later, “It’s sort of the lifeblood of the little town of Silver Peak.”

Netherton also said that the environmental disruption to the Silver Peak area had already been done over the mine’s past 60 years of operation, which would likely see minimal new damage from the expansion.

The Silver Peak mine expansion has been billed as a matter of national security, with less than 1% of global lithium production coming from within the U.S., according to the Dallas Fed.

Speed up rare earths, too, please.

“THE ATTACK” WAS FICTION, RIGHT? RIGHT? Leftist Influencer Tells Audience How to Commit Drone Terror Attacks.

THIS IS THE HARDEST THAT THE ATLANTIC HAS EVER ATLANTICKED: Pete Buttigieg in the Wilderness. “He has a beard, a splitting maul, and a house in Michigan. Is that enough to convince America that he’s a man of the people?”

This brings us back to what we might call the IOP problem: Buttigieg has punched his card, has followed all the prescriptions, has received every honors grade and service patch one can get by the age of 44. But it turns out that lots of people, and not just jealous Ivy Leaguers, hate this. They hate pretensions of expertise. They hate people who work to become what they are not—even when they work to become better people, or better presidents. “I’m like you,” Gavin Newsom told a crowd in Atlanta in February. “I’m no better than you. I’m a 960 SAT guy.” That score is well below average. The audience cheered.

Buttigieg’s critics seem to fault him for the vaguest reasons, many of which come down to: he’s too perfect; he’s not authentic; he’s not a man of the people. It’s an odd line of attack. Is it possible to be too perfect? Is perfection a flaw? Social psychology has documented something known as the “pratfall effect”: the distrust of people deemed too perfect.

I swear to you this is a real Atlantic piece and not a Babylon Bee or old-school Iowahawk sendup.

Related (From Ed): Iowahawk does have thoughts on the Atlantic giving Buttigieg the full Annie Leibovitz treatment, though:

Rugged Lumberjack Pete sits at authentic rustic diner awaiting a heaping breakfast plate of carburetors, while Annie Leibovitz captures him in a moment of deep reflection https://t.co/52OgDhd5we pic.twitter.com/Unz6GxyyQQ

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 3, 2026

IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH:

🚨 BREAKING: Jasmine Crockett has LOST the Democratic Primary for US Senate in TX, putting an END to her career in Congress

Jasmine had to decline reelection for her present seat in the US House in order to run for Senate, so she’ll be OUT after this year.

Bye! 👋🏻 pic.twitter.com/SySzwzzEF5

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) March 4, 2026

WATCH: Rubio Destroys Media’s False Israel-Iran Narrative — To Their Faces.

UGH: Victims of Austin Jihad Shooting Revealed.

NICE SHOOTING, FELLAS: Israeli military says it killed Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander in Lebanon. “His elimination has significantly degraded PIJ’s ability to carry out terrorist operations against Israel.”

ICYMI: The War’s Going Pretty Well, Ackshully.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: How long do electric vehicle batteries actually last?

As the fleet of EVs on the road ages, new data pooled from tens of thousands of vehicles is showing those batteries are lasting longer than expected.

Lithium-ion batteries undergo two kinds of aging. First, there’s calendar aging: They degrade as time goes on, holding less juice, even if they just sit in storage.

Then there’s cyclical aging, which is how much a battery degrades based on its use — being charged and discharged, over and over again.

That means there’s no way to dodge degradation. Whether you use a vehicle a lot or a little, eventually, the battery will hold less energy.

But the trajectory of aging isn’t a straight line. Recurrent, a research firm that pulls in data from over 30,000 EV drivers, describes it as an “S curve.” There’s a rapid decline at the beginning, a long leveling off, and then a more rapid decline at the end.

It’s nice that they last longer than initially thought. But that’s still a very expensive replacement with no repairability.

RE-OPENING THE STRAITS:

BREAKING: President Trump says US government will backstop war insurance for all shipping in the Persian Gulf.

In addition, he says the U.S. Navy will provide naval escort to tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. But note the “… as soon as possible…” which isn’t very reassuring pic.twitter.com/ifPUmv9Y3h

— Javier Blas (@JavierBlas) March 3, 2026

OUR SPANISH NATO ALLY: Spain Gets Owned: Trump Moves to Cut All U.S. Trade.

I DON’T KNOW WHO SAID IT FIRST, BUT THE SOCIAL CONTAGION THEORY HAS BEEN AROUND FOR ALMOST AS LONG AS THE “IDENTITY” EXPLOSION:

This will be an extremely controversial article. Prof. @jean_twenge shows that young adults are walking from LGBTQ+ identity and it was more of a social contagion than an orientation. There’s been a 21% decline in young adults identifying as LGB+ in just 3 years. pic.twitter.com/ZwZJSIUu0t

— Anthony Bradley (@drantbradley) March 3, 2026

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: It Appears the Supreme Court is Likely to Let Marijuana Users Own Guns. “It appears more likely than not that Hemani will prevail and that most marijuana users will gain the right to own a gun, even if the justices still cannot figure out what to do with Bruen.”