Author Archive: Stephen Green

March 18, 2026

BLUE STATE BLUES:

Posted at 8:51 am by Stephen Green on Mar 18th, 2026

DON’T LET UP NOW: ‘Worst of the worst’: Latest ICE roundup nabs murderers, pedophiles.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday announced the arrest of several violent criminals, including convicted murderers and pedophiles, as part of its latest “worst of the worst” roundup.

The “worst of the worst” series is part of an effort by DHS to highlight the criminal nature of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) priority targets amid President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts.

“Yesterday, ICE arrested criminal illegal alien murderers, pedophiles and sex criminals – the very definition of depraved,” acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said. “Under President Trump, if you come to our country illegally and break our laws, we will find you and arrest you. There is nothing that will stop ICE from putting American families, American children and American lives FIRST.”

Trump has set a goal of deporting as many as 22 million illegal aliens from the country. As of January, DHS stated that roughly 3 million had left the country through a combination of physical deportations and voluntary exits.

Topping the list was Sergio Colin-Aviles of Mexico, who was convicted of homicide or manslaughter.

Dems want to keep them in the country, free-range.

Posted at 8:36 am by Stephen Green on Mar 18th, 2026

THIS RIGHT HERE IS THE BEST ARGUMENT FOR THE SAVE ACT:

Posted at 8:20 am by Stephen Green on Mar 18th, 2026

HMM: Flight Costs Are Up, but Travelers Aren’t Deterred, U.S. Airlines Say.

At an investor conference on Tuesday, executives from most major U.S. airlines said that robust travel demand was offsetting the effects of winter storms and a huge rise in the cost of jet fuel since the start of the war in Iran. The price of jet fuel on Monday was about 50 percent higher than it was before the war began on Feb. 28.

Executives at American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines said they had incurred $400 million each in higher fuel costs, but that they were not changing their profit forecasts for the first three months of the year because ticket sales remained strong. The executives said their airlines had broken daily or weekly records for ticket sales this year.

“It’s across all segments, covering corporate, covering international, covering premium leisure, covering main cabin, covering our domestic system,” Delta’s chief executive, Ed Bastian, said at the J.P. Morgan 2026 Industrials Conference in Washington. “We’re seeing strength in every market that we look at.”

It’s the same story with beef prices. They’re at or near record highs, but consumer are still buying — there’s little-to-none “protein substitution” going on, even with 80/20 ground beef nearing $7 a pound at Walmart.

Whatever the press tells you about how pinched consumers are, we’re still spending on the things we like.

Posted at 7:34 am by Stephen Green on Mar 18th, 2026

NEXT!

Posted at 7:19 am by Stephen Green on Mar 18th, 2026

March 17, 2026

DID AN IRANIAN EMBASSY JUST DEFECT?

UPDATE (From Ed):

Posted at 6:50 pm by Stephen Green on Mar 17th, 2026

I DUNNO, IT’S SO HARD TO TELL THE HOST FROM THE PARASITE:

Posted at 4:53 pm by Stephen Green on Mar 17th, 2026

HMM:

Exit quote: “The bottom line – Iran is transitioning into an extremist military regime where Mojtaba Khamenei acts as a mere ‘puppet’ of the Revolutionary Guards, who completely control the country.”

That’s in line with my thoughts from a week or two ago, so naturally I’m inclined to agree. Heh.

What’s the mean going forward? Predictions are hard, the wise man said, especially about the future.

Posted at 4:35 pm by Stephen Green on Mar 17th, 2026

PANSPERMIA: Asteroid Ryugu Contains All 5 DNA and RNA Building Blocks, Study Shows.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the Hayabusa2 mission in 2014, sending a spacecraft on a 186-million-mile (300-million-kilometer) journey to Ryugu. One year after reaching the asteroid in 2018, the spacecraft landed on its surface and fired a projectile into it. Hayabusa2’s “catcher” then gathered up the chunks of ejected debris, and the spacecraft carried them back to Earth.

Astronomers have run many analyses of the Ryugu samples since then, but Koga and his colleagues are the first to find all five nucleobases inside them. The researchers studied samples that were collected and curated under strictly controlled conditions and conducted their analysis in a cleanroom to further prevent contamination. They also ran tests to confirm the molecules formed on Ryugu rather than coming from Earth.

Fascinating.

Posted at 2:49 pm by Stephen Green on Mar 17th, 2026

BELIEVE THEM WHEN THEY TELL YOU WHO THEY ARE, PARTICULARLY WHEN THEY DO IT EVERY TIME, GOING BACK DECADES:

Posted at 2:32 pm by Stephen Green on Mar 17th, 2026

SAIL ON: Aircraft carrier Nimitz service life extended until 2027.

Amid the strain of extended deployments, the Navy told Breaking Defense it has officially decided to keep its oldest active aircraft carrier in the water a little longer, prolonging the service life of the USS Nimitz to March 2027.

A service official revealed the change late Friday, pushing back previous plans to mothball the ship this May.

Extending the Nimitz’s service life means that the Navy could maintain its fleet of 11 carriers. The service is awaiting its newest aircraft carrier, the second Ford-class John F. Kennedy, which is currently slated for delivery in March 2027.

The Nimitz departed Naval Base Kitsap in Bremerton, Washington on March 7 to head to Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia as part of a scheduled homeport shift for the remainder of its service life. It will then undergo its inactivation and defueling of the reactor at HII in Newport News.

Nimitz was the first of the class of 10 carriers that basically defined American power projection for five decades.

Posted at 12:45 pm by Stephen Green on Mar 17th, 2026

I POSTED SOMETHING ON THIS YESTERDAY, BEFORE WE KNEW THE REST OF THE STORY:

Posted at 12:27 pm by Stephen Green on Mar 17th, 2026

MEANWHILE, OVER AT X…:

Full text:

I’ve read the poetry of Jim Morrison; the columns of Maureen Dowd; the backs of countless boxes of Boo Berry Cereal; the 1988 Libertarian, Republican and Democrat political platforms in their entireties; the works of various Brontë sisters; particularly heartfelt lines from love letters I wrote to my high school sweetheart; I even read George Friedman’s The Coming War with Japan — which he wrote in 1991.

These are the credentials you need to know when I tell you: In the 54 years since I learned to read, I have read some really stupid shit.

But I have never read anything quite so stupid as your post.

And since BBC “presenter” John Simpson chose to delete the post rather than defend it, here it is:

Posted at 12:06 pm by Stephen Green on Mar 17th, 2026
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