INCENTIVES, HOW DO THEY WORK?

People don’t want to be punished for success.

It is not wrong to want to preserve your wealth. pic.twitter.com/csDO9bNtj7

— PNW Conservative (@PNWConservative) March 19, 2026

Full story here.

Meanwhile, in California: Billionaires Tax Supporters Up in California By Nearly 2-to-1, Poll Shows.

And California’s exodus has already begun.

FASTER, PLEASE: Pentagon Eyes Second B-21 Production Line.

The U.S. military struck a $4.5 billion deal last month to increase the rate of production on its new B-21 bomber. Now officials are considering whether they will open up an entire second production line to go even faster in constructing the sixth-generation stealth Raider.

Adm. Richard Correll, head of U.S. Strategic Command, told lawmakers March 17 that his command still believes the Air Force needs to increase its planned B-21 fleet to 145 airplanes—a figure his predecessor Air Force Gen. Anthony J. Cotton endorsed last March. A second production line could be a way to reach that goal.

“There are, of course, investments that have been made to increase the production rate and to potentially open a second production line,” Correll told the House Armed Services Committee’s subcommittee on strategic forces. “That decision has yet to be made, but clearly the B-21 represents a really significant capability both from a conventional and a nuclear perspective.”

The current Air Force program of record specifies a minimum of 100 B-21s, to be built by Northrop Grumman at its Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif. The planes are needed to replace aging B-1 Lancer and B-2 Spirit bombers in the 2030s.

Aside from Bidenflation and COVID lockdown-related delays, the Raider program is progressing remarkably well for modern, large procurement effort.

But if the B-21 is to do double deterrence duty against Russia and China, conventionally and the in nuclear role, we likely need 300 of them.

Related:

What's China doing with nukes?

An opinion piece in The Washington Post argues that growing evidence of China’s secret nuclear testing and rapid arsenal expansion should force the United States to reassess its strategic posture. The article points to U.S. intelligence claims that… pic.twitter.com/0jrykjiVHI

— JP Lindsley | Journalist (@JPLindsley) March 20, 2026

NEXT!

🚨 Big night on the eve of Nowruz, as multiple senior Islamic Republic commanders have been eliminated.

❌ Ali Mohammad Naini, IRGC spokesperson
❌ Esmail Ahmadi-Moghaddam, Basij intelligence chief
❌ Mehdi Gharish, aerospace forces commander
❌ Kavous Dehrood, special forces… pic.twitter.com/82IS0YHoaT

— The Iran Watcher 🇮🇷 (@TheIranWatcher) March 20, 2026

Busy night.

ICYMI, IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: There’s Something Weird Going on in Ukraine.

EVERYBODY LOVES THE FA, BUT SO FEW PLAN FOR THE FO:

Dear Kathy Hochul,

Thanks to some kind and benevolent conservatives, I was able to learn what a computer is and type this out to you. I had to resist the urge to stop at a liquor store while sitting and learning, but I made it.

Anyway, back in 2022, you made comments where you… https://t.co/rrmN3lgebw

— Zeek Arkham 🇺🇸 (@ZeekArkham) March 19, 2026

More:

Anyway, back in 2022, you made comments where you urged conservatives to leave New York and go to Florida. We did. We took our money with us as well, because that’s how those things work. Now you want us back? Nah…

See, you’re in the “FO” stage of “FAFO.” It’s pretty glorious to behold. Good luck with all your social justice programs without the capital to fund them.

Don’t blame me, I voted for Lee Zeldin.

Heh.

NASTY: Iranian cluster munitions pose additional challenge for Israel’s air defenses.

Iran has launched dozens of missiles with cluster munition warheads ​at Israel since the start of the war, posing a challenge for Israel’s missile defense shield as they need to be ‌hit before they split and disperse into smaller explosives.

Israel failed to intercept one of the cluster missiles overnight, and its small bomblets scattered into civilian areas in Tel Aviv. A couple in their 70s was killed, and one of Tel Aviv’s main train stations suffered damage.

Israeli military spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani told reporters that the couple ​was killed in their apartment by a single, cluster munition bomblet.

“This cluster bomb was fired by the Iranian regime towards a ​center of mass population, firing dozens of rockets towards the civilians, deliberately targeting civilians,” he said. “This is a ⁠war crime by the Iranian regime.”

Cluster munitions have their uses, but not like that.

REDUNDANCY AND INVENTORY LOOK LIKE INEFFICIENCIES… UNTIL YOU NEED THEM:

All of this⬇️ https://t.co/DDui24l1I9

— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) March 20, 2026

RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: The ‘Holy Month’ of Ramadan Is Ending, and Here’s the Death Toll.

IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: There’s Something Weird Going on in Ukraine.

THAT DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP, NAZI:

When Pete Hegseth was going through is confirmation hearing, Elizabeth Warren wrote an entire letter about how his "Deus Vult" tattoo made him "a right wing extremist" unfit for service.

She just endorsed the guy with the Nazi tattoo. https://t.co/2mK7Y46Cav pic.twitter.com/dgktaz1KSt

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 19, 2026

RIGHT UP UNTIL PRIMARY VOTERS ACTUALLY HAVE TO VOTE FOR HER, MAYBE: Kamala Harris still Democratic favorite for 2028.

BECAUSE OF COURSE: El Salvador Gets Tougher on Crime. The Left Sides With the Criminals.

FASTER, PLEASE: F-47 Won’t Be Available Until Mid-2030s, Top Lawmaker Says. “Top Air Force leaders have set an ambitious goal to have the F-47 flying sometime in 2028, which would be about three years after the March 2025 contract award to Boeing. The F-35, by comparison, had its first flight in 2006, five years after Lockheed Martin beat Boeing to win the Joint Strike Fighter contract.”

UGH: A Georgia Grandfather’s Death Shows the Deadly Cost of Open Borders.

YES, HE WENT THERE [UPDATED BELOW]:

This might actually be Trump's funniest moment 😂

Japanese Reporter: Why didn't you tell us before you struck Iran?

Trump: "Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?" 💀🔥😂 pic.twitter.com/K1C85C4wzJ

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) March 19, 2026

No matter where you might be right now or what you’re doing, it’s OK to stand up and cheer.

Update: “I think he might have just wrapped up the midterms.”

I dunno about that, but it was certainly worth another chuckle.

PART OF WHAT RUMSFELD CALLED THE NEW EUROPE: Will Scandinavian and Baltic Europe Lead our European Allies to the Strait of Hormuz?

AT THIS POINT, IS ANYONE SURPRISED?

🚨 Tucker Carlson disgustingly defends 1930s British fascist Oswald Mosley – who was so aligned with the Nazis that he married at Joseph Goebbels’ house in Berlin, with Adolf Hitler as a guest – even calling him “patriotic.”

Carlson claimed Mosley’s “only crime was being the… pic.twitter.com/clb4wcKWPz

— Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) March 19, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM AIRSTRIP ONE: UK Teacher Banned From Teaching for Opposing Mass Migration.

WHEN BAD NEWS IS GOOD NEWS: Bad News for Gun-Grabbers: Fewer Firearm Thefts and Drastically Lower Violent Crime.

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

Ali Larijani’s daughter returns to Iran for her father’s funeral and goes on state media to praise her daddy.

Oh, and she’s been living in the U.S. and working at Emory University. https://t.co/TCpxfmpzM7 pic.twitter.com/HMG1XrzbDy

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) March 19, 2026

THEY HAVE ANOTHER: Let’s Discuss the Left’s New ‘Go-To’ Friendly Federal Judge for Anti-Trump Lawfare.

COVERING THE IMPORTANT STORIES. WITH A PILLOW:

This should have been on the front page of The New York Times.
I speak to students in America and most have no idea that more than 30,000 Iranians were killed for protesting and demanding freedom.
No names. No faces. No coverage. This silence kills me.💔

Thank you, Australia. pic.twitter.com/9ZyYmUEuj9

— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) March 19, 2026

THANKS BUT NO THANKS: China approaches Taiwan with an offer: reunification in exchange for energy independence.

China made an offer to Taiwan Wednesday, to provide the island nation with energy stability in exchange for “reunification,” which has long been the communist regime’s goal, and which Taiwan has always rejected, according to Reuters.

While energy supplies around the world are in a degree of turmoil, with the situation in Iran and through the Strait of Hormuz, since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on February 28, China apparently sees this as a good time to approach Taiwan with such a deal.

But Taiwan, which had been receiving ​a third of its LNG from Qatar and gets no energy from China, ​has said it is fine for now, with ⁠the United States as the island’s main international backer.

Become the next Hong Kong for free gas? Really?

GOOD LORD:

In 2015, Disney called 250 IT workers into a meeting.

They thought they were getting bonuses.

Disney told them they were being replaced by workers flown in from India on H-1B visas, and if they didn't spend the next 90 days training those replacements, they'd lose their… https://t.co/GmCm3qg6At

— bitchuneedsoap (@bitchuneedsoap) March 19, 2026

MEGAN FOX: AFROMAN WINS! Let’s All Make Fun of the Government Together! “The defamation trial against Joseph ‘Afroman’ Foreman came into our lives and out of it so fast it almost seems like magic engineered by the ghosts of Thomas Jefferson and Tupac to light up the country for some good old-fashioned American fun. And by old-fashioned American fun, I mean using vicious mockery against government officials. In this case, seven Adams County sheriff’s officers in Ohio who cannot take a joke, but can kick down a door, mishandle cash, eat your lemon poundcake, and cry about being made into a meme.”

From there, things get weird.