April 1, 2026

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Republicans Would Rather Cede Power To Democrats Than Their Own Voters.

While the SAVE America Act continues to languish, the Department of Homeland Security (including ICE and Border Patrol) remains unfunded, and dozens of Trump nominees await confirmation, Senate Majority Leader John Thune did what any typical Republican would do. He sent the upper chamber home on a two-week vacation.

The entirely predictable scenario came about after Senate Republicans agreed with Democrats to pass a DHS package devoid of ICE and Border Patrol funding in the early hours of Friday morning. The GOP maintained that the latter two agencies would be funded via reconciliation to overcome Democrats’ procedural blockade.

To their credit, House Republicans rejected that swampy proposal. The lower chamber instead passed a short-term continuing resolution (CR) that temporarily funds DHS — including ICE and CBP.

But rather than force senators to stay in session to consider that measure, other proposals, or debate the SAVE America Act (that is, actually put up a fight), Thune sent everybody home.

It would be far too kind to say that Thune has been a disappointment.

Posted at 9:38 am by Stephen Green

MORE NUKES IS GOOD NUKES:

Also, determining national energy policy by referendum is stupid.

Posted at 9:22 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Yeah, We Totally Should’ve Let Germany Have France After WWII. “Emmanuel Macron is one of the biggest weasels on the international stage. He’s also one of those European leaders who doesn’t grasp that his country and continent are vestigial shadows that have very few things to contribute to the free world. France could have been useful here, but Manny Mac opted to flush harder as his country swirls down the toilet.”

Posted at 9:07 am by Stephen Green

EVERYTHING. IT SAYS EVERYTHING.

Posted at 8:36 am by Glenn Reynolds

VDH: The Two Wars for Iran: The War in a Historical Context.

The administration needs to counter left-wing and far-right hysteria about the supposedly undue influence of Israel.

Israel and the U.S. have many shared agendas—not all, but many—and weakening Iran in this operation is certainly at the top of their shared list. We realize that because we are powerful and at a distance from Iran, while Israel is nearer and more vulnerable, it will, from time to time, have different views of and solutions to Iran’s existential threats and must operate for its own national self-interest, as we do for our own.

But when our national interests dovetail—no terrorist entity has killed more Americans in the last half-century than has Iran—then we are proud and lucky to partner with Israel, a democracy and free society with a formidable record of military competency and a larger air force than any of our NATO partners—including Turkey, France, the UK, and Germany.

Despite the frenzy, the military side of the operation has gone particularly well, often conducted in brilliant fashion. But the hysterical politics of the war have been dangerous to the degree that it now threatens the very mission itself.

That’s the real Vietnam Syndrome, and we have yet to find an effective counter to it.

Posted at 8:36 am by Stephen Green

WHAT IF THE GREENLAND CAPER WAS ACTUALLY ABOUT SMOKING OUT HOW WILLING — AND EVEN EAGER — OUR “ALLIES” WERE TO GO TO WAR WITH US?

Posted at 8:35 am by Glenn Reynolds

TO BE FAIR, THEY’RE ALWAYS OUTRAGED WHEN WE’RE WINNING:

Posted at 8:20 am by Stephen Green

JOHN ONDRASIK BRINGS THE HAMMER OF TRUTH:

Posted at 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

DISPATCHES FROM EURABIA:

It isn’t weird. It’s the inevitable result of increasing Islamification, which the UK press is happy to bend over backwards to accommodate. Lest they get blown up or beheaded, I suppose.

Posted at 7:49 am by Stephen Green

CORRECTING THE IGNORANT:

To be fair, Ms. Watson is a reporter for CBS, so you can’t expect her to know much. Worse yet, she likes candy corn. No, really, check her profile page. So what can you expect?

Posted at 7:43 am by Glenn Reynolds

CITY GRABS ANKLES, PREPARES TO VOTE: Shocking poll says half of Angelenos want a democratic socialist for mayor: ‘Holy Zohran Mamdani.’

The poll, conducted by Loyola Marymount University from February 11 to March 16, also puts incumbent Karen Bass second in the upcoming mayoral race at 17% of the vote, after progressive councilmember Nithya Raman, a member of the hard-left Democratic Socialists of America, listed at 32.5%.

About 47.7% of voters wanted a socialist in charge ahead of other listed types of candidates, such as a “moderate, business-oriented Democrat” and “conservative political outsider,” according to the poll.

The reaction from pundits and others: surprise and skepticism.

“Holy Zohran Mandami,” exclaimed Mike Madrid, an anti-Trump Republican strategist who co-founded the Lincoln Project.

Fernando Guerra, director of LMU’s Center for the Study of Los Angeles, told KPCC that the poll took an unusually different tactic in asking voters questions.

“Most polls, they just give the name,” Guerra said. “We kind of educated the voter before we asked, ‘Who would you support?’”

“Educated” is doing a whole lot of work in that sentence.

Posted at 7:34 am by Stephen Green

RIGHT?

Posted at 7:32 am by Glenn Reynolds

“URGENTLY ROLL OUT RENEWABLES”:

Since sending warships to the Strait of Hormuz is out of the question, I suppose pricing their manufacturers out of existence with ever-higher “renewable” energy costs is the next best thing.

Posted at 7:18 am by Stephen Green

FLASHBACK: Remembering the 2002 AOL/InstaPundit merger April Fool. The only April Fool I’ve done here, and probably the only one I ever will do, but it was fun — complete with a changed header to AOL/InstaPundit — and a surprising number of people bought it.

I would have enjoyed owning a Boeing, I think.

Posted at 7:11 am by Glenn Reynolds

#RESIST:

They need a revolución.

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

FROM MARY CATELLI:  Spells in Secret.

Magical doors and other mischief mix badly with tales about murder, as young scholars return to Graytowers.

Kenneth, as prefect, thought he had his hands filled with the beginning of the new session, but when one magical door takes him and another scholar far past the bounds of a prank, they barely escape with their lives, and their escape means only that they are in graver danger. They must hide, leaving the school, and casting all their spells in secret.

Posted at 7:00 am by Sarah Hoyt