Author Archive: Stephen Green

March 16, 2026

THE ENEMY WITHIN: US bracing for more ‘lone wolf’ terror attacks amid war in Iran.

Publicly, authorities have been hesitant to link the attacks to the Iran war. But some observers say it is not a stretch to consider the possibility that the alleged attackers were retaliating for American and Israeli military strikes on the Islamic Republic.

“I absolutely believe it is connected to the Iran war,” former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer, a NewsNation law and justice contributor, said Saturday. “Look, there are individuals in the United States who have been radicalized and are just looking for that push to decide to commit a terroristic act like this.”

Rather than terrorist “sleeper cells” orchestrated by foreign nations, Coffindaffer said the recent attacks appear to be homegrown lone-wolf assaults — individuals acting on their own, possibly inspired online.

Like so:

Dearborn, Michigan.

Posted at 8:34 am by Stephen Green on Mar 16th, 2026

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA:

Posted at 8:18 am by Stephen Green on Mar 16th, 2026

IS IT TRUE? I DUNNO, BUT IT EXPLAINS A LOT:

Posted at 7:47 am by Stephen Green on Mar 16th, 2026

HMM: Bond Market May Be a Last Guardrail on Far-Left Mayors as Moody’s Goes ‘Negative’ on Mamdani’s New York.

The ratings agencies are notoriously bad at judging risks and were heavily criticized after the 2008 financial crisis for slapping solid AAA ratings on debt that wound up in default. The agencies are paid by the bond issuers, so their incentives are not to be particularly harsh. They were late to discover the problems in Orange County, California, whose 1994 failure was, when it happened, described as the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

Yet for all those limitations, the agencies—and the bond markets they communicate with—at least provide some constraints, a reality check on the impulse of the mayors to spend recklessly without sufficient tax revenue to pay for it.

The New York City comptroller, Mark Levine, called Moody’s decision “a sobering wake-up call.”

“The fact that this is happening at a time of relative health in our local economy is all the more remarkable. The underlying challenge is clear: New York City is currently spending more than it is bringing in,” Levine said.

Mamdani, meanwhile, attacked the rating agency. “I think that the decision to revise the outlook, frankly, is premature,” he said at a March 12 press conference.

The outlook will be fully mature soon enough.

Posted at 7:32 am by Stephen Green on Mar 16th, 2026

ALL THAT AND WORLD WAR THREE:

Posted at 7:16 am by Stephen Green on Mar 16th, 2026

March 15, 2026

CAN’T STOP THE SIGNAL:

Translation: “They just hit the telecom complex in Hamadan, internet’s gotten super fast now.”

Posted at 3:04 pm by Stephen Green on Mar 15th, 2026

PRIORITIES:

You don’t have to be paranoid to read something sinister into that.

Posted at 9:36 am by Stephen Green on Mar 15th, 2026

March 14, 2026

THE PRESS DOESN’T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE TRUTH, JUST WHAT WORKS FOR THE LEFT IN THE MOMENT:

Posted at 10:08 pm by Stephen Green on Mar 14th, 2026

RIOT ACT, READ:

Posted at 1:25 pm by Stephen Green on Mar 14th, 2026

THIS IS WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY DO:

Posted at 12:54 pm by Stephen Green on Mar 14th, 2026

20 YEARS LATER: The Long Shadow of a Lie: The Duke Lacrosse Rape Hoax.

Nifong had been in the job less than a year, appointed by Gov. Mike Easley to fill the job after the governor picked the previous DA to fill a vacant judicial seat on the state’s superior court. In March 2006, Nifong was a candidate for his first shot at being elected as district attorney, and the Democratic primary was just two months away. North Carolina was then, as now, a “swing” state. Although George W. Bush in his 2004 reelection had carried North Carolina by a comfortable 12-point margin statewide, Durham County went more than 2-to-1 for Bush’s Democratic opponent, John Kerry, who got 68 percent of the vote in the county. In other words, if Nifong won the Democratic primary, he was practically guaranteed to be elected district attorney in this liberal bastion, but Nifong was opposed by one of his own assistants, Freda Black, in the primary. Nifong’s job was very much at stake when the rape accusation against the Duke lacrosse players landed in his lap.

Meanwhile, word of the case had spread across town and was reported in the March 24 edition of the Raleigh News and Observer. The same day, it was announced that Duke’s lacrosse team would forfeit its next two games. University President Richard Broadhead issued a statement saying that the players were “presumed innocent until proven guilty,” but added that it was “already clear that many students acted in a manner inappropriate to a Duke team member.” The next day, despite the scheduled lacrosse game against Georgetown being canceled, some protesters showed up at the stadium waving signs that read “Real Men Don’t Protect Rapists,” and one of the protesters told a reporter for the student paper: “I am fully aware a crime was committed by someone. It is too bad the rest of the team won’t fess up.” That night, “more than 175 incensed community members gathered for a candlelight vigil” in front of the house on North Buchanan Boulevard where the incident had allegedly happened.

Already, a narrative had begun to develop — the lacrosse players were protecting their guilty teammates, and the university wasn’t doing enough.

Why should the press investigate the truth, when there’s a convenient and self-serving narrative to push?

Posted at 12:31 pm by Stephen Green on Mar 14th, 2026

March 13, 2026

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA says its Artemis 2 moon rocket is all fixed up. It could launch astronauts to the moon on April 1. “Once back in its hangar, NASA engineers diagnosed and addressed the issue with enough confidence to target Artemis 2’s April launch opportunity. The problem was traced to a quick-disconnect (QD) seal on SLS’ upper stage. The QD is the interface where umbilicals from the rocket’s launch tower transfer fuel into the vehicle. A similar problem led to an aborted countdown during the first Artemis 2 WDR, when hydrogen was detected leaking from a QD on the SLS first stage.”

Posted at 4:54 pm by Stephen Green on Mar 13th, 2026

IT’S FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Armed With an Ax, Brought Down by an MMA Fighter. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn what not to take on your 18th birthday, why you don’t bring an ax to an MMA fight, and which personal items will get your luggage snagged at the airport.”

Posted at 4:23 pm by Stephen Green on Mar 13th, 2026

MORE IS BETTER: 19 is Not Enough: Inside the Air Force’s Rush Order for New B-21 Stealth Bombers.

Operation Epic Fury has yet again shown that stealth bombers are a first-night necessity for American airpower. It started on night one. “American B-2 bombers, which, again, similar to Midnight Hammer, flew a 37-hour roundtrip sortie from the continental United States, dropping precision penetrating munitions on Iranian underground facilities across the southern flank and slightly deeper,” Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine said at the Pentagon on Mar. 2.

The success of the B-2 bombers with their stealth and precision is indispensable. The problem, of course, is that the entire B-2 fleet consists of just nineteen aircraft. 20% of the fleet was in action on the first night of Operation Epic Fury.

Fortunately, as fighters and tankers were flowing toward bases in the Middle East last week, the Air Force quietly accelerated production of the B-2’s replacement, the new B-21 Raider stealth bomber, by a hefty 25%. The Feb. 23 rush order was an unusual move, made possible by a sophisticated production line and drama-free flight tests. The B-21 is literally the first stealth aircraft ever to run ahead of schedule. But the one main reason for the surge is clear: America’s air force is desperately in need of more stealth bombers.

There’s never enough of everything to go around, but the deep cuts we made in the ’90s were dangerously foolish.

Posted at 3:52 pm by Stephen Green on Mar 13th, 2026

IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™ — Demo-taurs Devour Billions, Demolish Trust. “So much corruption exists here that you can’t unsee it. All along the West Coast, Messed Coast™ the Demotaurs in power have devoured billions of dollars, all while demolishing citizens’ trust. The Demotaurs’ sanity is eaten away by hubris and greed.”

Posted at 3:21 pm by Stephen Green on Mar 13th, 2026

BUT DON’T WORRY, LEFTIES RUN TOTALLY HONEST AND FAIR ELECTIONS IN THIS COUNTRY:

Posted at 3:05 pm by Stephen Green on Mar 13th, 2026

SAD: Liberal Gun Owners Don’t Matter Enough to Democrats to Make a Difference. “Right now, Democrat politicians have no reason to listen to liberal gun owners, because at the end of the day, liberal gun owners still show up to vote for them. And as long as they vote for them, politicians don’t really care if you complain about them online afterwards.”

You could say the same of several traditional Democrat voting groups.

Posted at 2:50 pm by Stephen Green on Mar 13th, 2026

PRIORITIES:

Posted at 2:43 pm by Stephen Green on Mar 13th, 2026

BELMONT CLUB: Regime Change. “This is notably being tried by the second Trump administration. Instead of invading hostile states with large ground forces, it has used a discontinuous series of actions to continuously nudge states in a preferred direction, rather like a tugboat pushing a ship rather than boarding it and seizing the helm. To use a construction industry metaphor, the Trump approach to regime change more closely resembles renovating and remodeling an old building rather than demolishing it and replacing it with a new structure.”

Read the whole thing.

I had similar thoughts last week.

Posted at 2:19 pm by Stephen Green on Mar 13th, 2026

BATTLESWARM: Iran Strikes Day 13. “U.S. forces pass the 5,500 targets mark, the regime starts emptying the bank accounts of citizens to stay afloat, China’s weapons are (still) garbage, more Iranian planes cratered on runways, a tanker burns off Iraq, Weekend at Mojtaba’s, and the idea that our troops in harm’s way might be eating well enrages the Democrat Media Complex.”

Posted at 1:48 pm by Stephen Green on Mar 13th, 2026

BRAVO:

Posted at 1:02 pm by Stephen Green on Mar 13th, 2026
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