IRAN: What Happens When the Money Runs Out? “Iran’s Asaluyeh gas and petrochemical complex is the largest in the world and an economic powerhouse, providing more than half of the regime’s income via LNG and petchem exports. While “next payroll” and “no more oil exports to China” might prove to be exaggerations, any reduction in shipping from Asaluyeh — plainly seen in those images — presents Tehran with a serious cash-flow problem.”

THOSE ARE ROOKIE NUMBERS: Nearly 28,000 Colorado concealed carry permits issued in 2025.

Despite a Democrat-led state legislature hostile to the lawful carrying of concealed handguns, new data show at least 27,901 Coloradans still subjected themselves to the government scrutiny and costs required to become concealed handgun permit (CHP) holders in 2025, while another 21,871 renewed existing permits. That’s according to a recently published County Sheriffs of Colorado annual report.

Notably, the report lacks data from Adams, Garfield, Pueblo and San Juan counties, which combined accounted for over 5,000 new permits in the prior year, meaning the numbers for 2025 may well be under-reported.

Regardless, while the number of new permits trails the 29,495 issued in 2024, it outpaces the 25,218 issued in 2023.

The Crime Prevention Research Center in 2025 estimated that over 19 percent of the Colorado population 21 or older holds a carry permit. A CHP is valid for five-years.

It’ll be difficult to pump up those rookie numbers with the new statewide restrictions and requirements imposed by Democrats in Denver.

FAIL, BRITANNIA:

Not your father’s Britain. It isn’t even the Britain I visited 20 years ago.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: It’s Not a Phobia If They Keep Showing Up With Bombs. “Between Operation Epic Fury and the latest daily outrage from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, there are plenty of opportunities for oh-so-concerned leftists to shout ‘Islamophobia!’ from the hills. It’s the golden ticket for terrorist types — any criticisms of them can be met with with a quick charge of Islamophobia and that’s supposed to end the conversation.”

PRIORITIES: Seattle may have to ‘delay or defer’ transportation projects to pay for anti-ICE signs.

Nope, not the Bee:

The city of Seattle may need to “delay or defer” transportation projects or programs because of the expense of installing hundreds of signs warning that city property cannot be used by federal authorities for immigration enforcement actions.

A fiscal note provided for Tuesday’s (March 10) Public Safety Committee meeting states, “To the extent that appropriations made in the 2026 Adopted Budget support other activities, and for which SDOT cannot find efficiencies / savings to otherwise support, SDOT may have to delay or defer projects or programs to free up funding for the signage costs that will be incurred pursuant to this legislation. Cost for signage is indeterminate at this point as FAS has not yet completed a review of all the properties that would be covered by this legislation.”

The Seattle Department of Transportation is responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of Seattle streets, roadways and bridges, in addition to running two streetcar lines.

The note does not list possible potential cuts that could be made by the SDOT.

A Feb. 24 city council research staff memo said that the posting of 656 signs on city property was expected to cost SDOT $45,000 to produce the signs and an unspecified amount to install them.

If the city wants to blame delays on $45,000 worth of pointless virtue signaling, you have to wonder A) what the real reason is, or B) where the project money actually went.

Maybe both.

ENDORSED:

YOU DON’T HAVE TO KEEP SELLING ME, I ALREADY VOTED FOR HIM:

ARE YOU IN SACRAMENTO OR ITS ENVIRONS?:  Please come to this ACA7 event (sponsored by America’s Future) if you are!  ACA7 (the latest effort to gut Prop 209) just barely made it through the Assembly.  I feel confident that we will stop it in the Senate if we can just force the members of the California Senate to focus for 5 minutes on how stupid this bill is.  Events like this one are intended to attract Senate staffers (and sometimes senators themselves), but we need as many people in attendance as we can get.  If you can make it, you can RSVP here.

Yes, I will be there.  It’s going to be fun.

LOL, KATIE COURIC:

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

NOVEMBER PREVIEW: Trump takes his war against Thomas Massie straight to his home Kentucky home district.

Trump endorsed Massie’s primary opponent, Ed Gallrein, who will be at the event in Hebron, Ky., per his campaign. The president will also be making a stop in Ohio.

“You can have differences, but you have to be constructive. He is not constructive. In fact, he’s the Democrats’ favorite member,” a senior administration official told The Post.

Massie has outraged the White House on multiple occasions: he refused to support Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” which was the president’s signature domestic policy agenda; he criticized Trump’s foreign policy and accused him of executive overreach on the attacks on drug boats and Iran; and he led the charge on demanding the Justice Department release all its files in the Jeffrey Epstein case.

Now Trump is going to Massie’s district along the Ohio River to campaign against him, with the primary election just a little more than two months away, on May 19th.

Previously: Does This Mahrouq Money Explain Thomas Massie?

THEY ALL GOT TOGETHER AND PERPETRATED A HOAX TO KEEP A BLACK WOMAN FROM BEING ELECTED:

BLUE STATE BLUES: