IS THIS ONE OF THOSE “DAY ENDING IN Y” REPORTS? NYT Panics Over Religious Freedoms, ‘Particularly Christian’ Groups.
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March 31, 2025
THIS HAD BETTER COME WITH SOME TAX RELIEF ELSEWHERE OR IT MIGHT COME WITH HELL TO PAY FROM PEOPLE WHO ELECTED TRUMP TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE HIGH COST OF LIVING:
White House promises that next week, it will impose the largest peacetime tax increase in America history outside of World War II – $6 trillion over the decade.
Middle and lower earners hit hardest. Indefensible that Congress handed presidents the power to do this unilaterally. https://t.co/jbhszrkfXS
— Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 (@JessicaBRiedl) March 30, 2025
WOEING: NASA Is Investigating Boeing Starliner’s ‘In-Flight Anomalies.’
But when — or if — Starliner will make its next launch attempt, with or without a crew on board, remains to be seen.
“Once we get through these planned test campaigns, we will have a better idea of when we can go fly the next Boeing flight,” said NASA’s Commercial Crew Program manager Steve Stich in the update. “We’ll continue to work through certification toward the end of this year and then go figure out where Starliner fits best in the schedule for the International Space Station and its crew and cargo missions.”
“It is likely to be in the timeframe of late this calendar year or early next year for the next Starliner flight,” Stich added.
Another flight test would be paid for out of Boeing’s pocket. There are rising costs (the company has already lost $1.6 billion on the fixed-price Starliner program) and only so many more manned missions remaining before the ISS is deorbited in 2030.
ROBERT SPENCER: Whose ‘1984’ Is It, Anyway? “The Times can call Trump’s words about Jan. 6 ‘Orwellian’ because it is familiar with the old leftist tactic of accusing the enemy of doing what the accuser is actually doing himself.”
PRIVACY: 23andMe bankruptcy: With America’s DNA put on sale, market panic gets a new twist.
DNA testing has become a valuable tool for hobbyists and novice genealogists. For some, learning they are the 10th cousin of Paul Revere or the 15th great nephew four times removed of the last King of Prussia is worth the perceived risk of sharing a DNA sample. But what happens when the company harvesting the DNA goes bankrupt?
That was the question posed to millions of Americans last week when 23andMe, the company that popularized consumer genetic testing and had early backing from Google, filed for bankruptcy, leading to a wave of calls for Americans to delete their DNA from the company’s database.
While it’s not 100 percent clear if the “delete your DNA” calls were warranted, privacy experts are alarmed, and Americans who had taken the genetic test took the advice to heart.
According to data from online traffic analysis company Similarweb, on March 24, the day of the bankruptcy announcement, 23andMe received 1.5 million visits to its website, a 526% increase from one day prior. According to Similarweb, 376,000 visits were made to help pages specifically related to deleting data, and 30,000 were made to the customer care page for account closure.
What were people thinking, sending DNA samples like that?
THIS ONE’S IMPORTANT AND THE LEFT IS FIRED UP: Elon Musk Goes All In on the Wisconsin Supreme Court Race.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: 1st-ever orbital rocket launch from European soil falls to Earth and explodes seconds into flight.
Germany-based Isar Aerospace attempted to launch the first orbital rocket from European soil on Sunday morning (March 30). The company’s Spectrum rocket lifted off from Europe’s Andøya Spaceport in Norway, but suffered an anomaly 18 seconds into the flight.
Dramatic video from the launch shows the rocket tumbling just seconds into flight before plummeting to the icy ground below and exploding in a brilliant fireball.
It’s unclear what caused the anomaly, but it appears that Isar’s Spectrum rocket began tumbling just seconds into its debut flight. Video from the incident shows the rocket plummeting to the ground with its engines off, so it’s likely that flight controllers terminated the flight once the vehicle began tumbling.
There were no payloads aboard Spectrum’s first test flight today. Isar Aerospace was simply attempting to collect data about the vehicle during the maiden launch.
Here’s the video:
Another angle showing the Isar Aerospace Spectrum hitting the water by @AndoyaSpace https://t.co/bRjekL60W3 pic.twitter.com/SkNlG83V8w
— VSB – Space Coast West (@spacecoastwest) March 30, 2025
Better luck next time.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dems’ Media Water-Carriers Are Starting to Get Sore Backs. “In the past, the Democrats would have identified at least one legitimate problem that could have helped them change course, then gotten back to the hunt for bogeymen. What’s the difference now? Why, Trump Derangement Syndrome, of course.”
THE SOVIETS USED TO HOLD FAKE ELECTIONS IN WHICH THE PEOPLE COULD ELECT ANY CANDIDATE THEY WANTED, SO LONG AS IT WAS ONE OF THE TWO PRE-APPROVED COMMUNISTS:
Marie Le Pen, front runner in the next French election, has been barred from running. The Romanian courts throw out the primary and order new elections because their chosen candidate lost.
Because 'We Must Save Democracy!' So sayeth the Elites, and the Elites are honorable men! pic.twitter.com/BcOBp4POWk
— John Ringo SF Author (@Jringo1508) March 31, 2025
I’m afraid Glenn had it right about the lampposts.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Colorado Senate Bill 3: Gun licensing scheme much broader than claimed.
The Colorado legislature is close to final passage of Senate Bill 25-003, to impose one of the most restrictive licensing systems in the nation on many, but not all firearms. Legislators and the public should understand that the bill would apply to all semiautomatic centerfire handguns. The kinds of handguns that Coloradans typically choose—from companies such as Glock, Ruger, or Smith & Wesson—would become much more onerous to purchase.
Senate Bill 3 seems cunningly written. It purports to apply only to the “gas-operated semiautomatic handgun.” (p. 4). The bill then provides five types of gas operation. Cumulatively, the definitions cover almost every centerfire semiautomatic handgun.
The bill does not apply to semiautomatics that fire the puny .22 rimfire cartridge.
There is only one centerfire semiautomatic handgun model that does not fall within the bill’s definitions. That unique item is the Benelli B-80, a collector’s item last manufactured in 1990. The identical gun was produced in six different calibers, model numbers 76 through 82.
As for every other model of semiautomatic pistol, Coloradans will be forced to navigate their way through one of the most onerous systems in the nation, far exceeding even California’s.
The new system includes three additional fees on top of the ones already charged to firearms purchasers in Colorado, and none of those fees are capped. Unlike Colorado’s system for issuing handgun carry licenses, no government official has any obligation to make a decision on an application within a time frame.
That’s a whole lot of infringement.
IT DIDN’T TAKE LONG TO ESCALATE FROM KEYING TO ATTACKING: Flagstaff women say they were targeted, assaulted for driving Tesla car.
Recently, a woman who wants to remain anonymous under the alias “Susan,” told Arizona’s Family that she was along Route 66 in Flagstaff when another vehicle started chasing her.
“I’m just appalled,” said Susan. “I didn’t buy my car for a political statement. I bought my car because its really fun to drive. My politics have nothing to do with that. I’m ashamed of our society and what they are doing.
Susan has video of the Tesla attack in Flagstaff last week. It shows a green car pulling up next to her Tesla and then swerving in front of it to box it in.
The driver then walks over to the 61-year-old woman in the Tesla and, reportedly, starts hitting her while she’s behind the wheel.
“I started to say, you cut me off what’s your problem, but I didn’t know how much he heard me,” said Susan. “He got out and started to punch me with a closed fist.”
At one point, the victim said she bit the man’s hand. Moments later, the passenger of the green car appears to walk over and pull the attacker away. Finally, they get back in their car and drive off.
Flagstaff police later cited the suspect, who is now due in court on Monday.
Here’s the video:
🚨#BREAKING: Absolutely horrific footage shows 61-year old woman driving her Tesla, being boxed in by another driver, and then being beaten while still inside her car.
The woman was able to fend off the attacker by biting him.
She's now signed up for a gun safety course. pic.twitter.com/m3G1c7KE84
— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) March 30, 2025
I’m not sure anyone that antisocial and with so little self-control should be allowed bail. But kudos to Susan for signing up for a gun safety class.
NOTHING’S SHOCKING: You Won’t Believe What Insanity HHS Was Funding. “A whopping 61 grants from HHS subsidiary NIH for California DEI and ‘gender’ studies were also slashed, per Fox. The scale of federal fraud and waste is so vast it is difficult to comprehend.”
March 28, 2025
THIS IS A VITAL ELECTION AND THE DEMS ARE REVVED UP FOR IT: Wisconsin Supreme Court Race on Tuesday Could Make or Break the Badger State.
PROMISES KEPT:
‘Migrant influencer’ who urged other illegals to squat in US homes deported to Venezuela https://t.co/KIl5ttueRm pic.twitter.com/rmtDaqbOq7
— New York Post (@nypost) March 28, 2025
IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: Homeless Demand Tax $$ to Pay ‘RV Lord’ to Squat in Stolen Property
SUSTAINABILITY: CA lost 173K private jobs, added 181K government, largely part-time jobs.
California has lost 173,000 fully private sector jobs since January 2023, offset by a gain of 181,100 largely part-time government and government-supported jobs.
Thirty-eight percent of these new government and government-supported jobs are from elderly or disabled individuals using state funds to pay household members and others minimum wage for part-time care and assistance.
The report also found that while hourly wages are up, average hours worked are down, suggesting employers are cutting hours to reduce labor costs, such as those imposed by the state’s sector-based minimum wages.
According to the new report from the California Center for Jobs and the Economy, a project of the California Business Roundtable pro-business association, “California’s job growth has been dominated by government and government dependent jobs in Healthcare & Social Assistance.”
Fewer taxpayers and more taxpayer-supported jobs aren’t a winning formula. At the very least, they indicate California’s economy isn’t the dynamic tech paradise Newsom likes to claim.
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Chilling With a Beer in his Stolen Ambulance. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week we have our first stolen ambulance story in ages, so without further ado, let us begin as we always do with… The Most Florida Man Story Ever (This Week).”
MOST CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION IN HISTORY:
DOGE: EPA Administrator Zeldin has revealed the agency is a massive crime scene – the largest heist in world history took place in plain sight. Biden funneled billions to Democrat NGOs in the name of climate change.
pic.twitter.com/P5qACbZWjR— @amuse (@amuse) March 28, 2025
Where is Congress to zero out this theft?
BEEGE HAD WAY TOO MUCH FUN WITH THE LATEST INSANITY OUT OF CALIFORNIA: Buh-Buh-Buh-Billions: CA High Speed Boondoggle Needs at Least Seven More.
I WANT OFF THIS TIMELINE: The Hillary Clinton Political Comeback Begins TODAY!
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
If every American watched this, DOGE approval would hit super-majority levels. It’s also important for the outcomes to align with the way the mission is being sold here: https://t.co/HLnql6Xpd5
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) March 28, 2025
For all the Literally Hitler™ talk, Musk always comes across as far more reasonable and well-informed than any of his critics on the left.
KRUISER: Kaitlan Collins Really Likes to Get (Verbally) Spanked. “This isn’t just about CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, but about all of the idiots in the MSM who mindlessly and reflexively belch questions that are fed to them by their overlords at the Democratic National Committee. Ms. Collins just happens to be the idiot du jour. Or du however-you-say-week-in-French.”
ULTIMATELY, EDUCATION IS THE PARENTS’ RESPONSIBILITY: If a student isn’t learning, who’s responsible? “Teachers told that if students don’t learn — or even show up consistently — it’s their fault for not building relationships or being sufficiently engaging. It’s never the student’s responsibility to pay attention, participate in class discussions, do assignments or avoid distracting classmates. It’s not the parents’ responsibility to nag them about studying at home and get them to school. It’s all on the teachers, and it drives them crazy.”
HE’S GOT A CASE OF DOGE FEVER: Major Surgery: RFK Jr. Plans to Slash 20K Jobs at HHS.