THE PRESS: MAGA IS FRACTURING OVER THE WAR.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
March 9, 2026
HE COULD WRITE THAT THEN, NOW HE’D BE LYNCHED:
Before “MAGA whackos”, there was liberal American journalist Joel Stein, who wrote about why he soured on Indian immigration to the United States, based on his experience growing up in a town that changed demographically almost overnight. https://t.co/Cy0zUwd0MY pic.twitter.com/HImfCEw4xM
— Project for Immigration Reform (@PFIRorg) March 7, 2026
THEY HATE IT WHEN AMERICA WINS:
.@PeteHegseth has just overseeing his military as it annihilated the entire leadership, navy, and air defense system of a significant regional power with minimal losses.
I understand why Democrats are so angry about him. https://t.co/xfOY3a4IAG
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) March 8, 2026
ICYMI: ROGER KIMBALL: Unconditional Surrender: When Wars Are Fought to Win.
Within just four or five days, virtually all of Iran’s senior leadership has been eliminated. Then its replacements were eliminated. “Their army is gone,” President Trump said a few days ago. “Their navy is gone. Their communications are gone. Their leaders are gone. . . . Their Air Force is wiped out. . . . They have 32 ships. All 32 are at the bottom of the ocean. Other than that,” he quipped, “they’re doing very well!”
The assault is not just continuing; it is ramping up. Just a few days ago, Israel destroyed a massive underground complex in the center of Tehran from which the (late) Supreme Leader Khamenei had planned to conduct the war. As retired Lt. General Keith Kellogg told Fox News, President Trump is “going after everything. . . . There’s a huge target list out there, and there’s no restrictions.” Kellogg, noting that he had never seen an operation like this, said that it’s not “whack a mole” but “whack a mullah. . . . This is a massive win for the United States.”
It’s also a massive win for the Iranian people. Just a week ago, the populace was cowed by the mullahs, their immoral “morality” police, and the murderous Basij thugs who terrorized the population. Remember, in January, they maimed and murdered tens of thousands of protesters. Tens of thousands. Now, a popular game in Iran is sneaking up behind Islamic regime clerics and knocking off their turbans. I like to see it. Around the world, exiled Iranians—often alongside Israelis and other Jews—are demonstrating in favor of President Trump. In London, a group of Iranians held a vigil, replete with candles and singing of the American national anthem, to honor the six American troops killed in Kuwait by an Iranian drone strike.
It helps to be the strong horse.
MARK SIMON: Mr. President, We Need to Talk About China.
THAT’S HOW IT WORKS:
Vast majority of the electorate was unaware at the time, and is even less aware today, of the attempt to gun down a bunch of GOP Congressmen in 2017, that sent Scalise to the hospital. https://t.co/0oCHD7QsNi
— LoLNothingMatters (@DastDn) March 9, 2026
Evergreen:
IT SHOULDN’T, SO STOP IT.
Why does the American Bar Association (“ABA”)—the lawyer’s wing of the Democratic Party—have a monopoly on law school accreditation!? https://t.co/LWWxBKfPfy
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) March 9, 2026
March 8, 2026
HEH:
I would like to point out that Starmer has now managed to alienate the extreme centre
His plans for the evisceration of English culture will be outlined in a new Labour publication called 'Der Starmer' https://t.co/qG3YSLDcMi
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) March 8, 2026
THEY’LL KNOW THE ONE WHO ISN’T WHACKED IS THE ONE WHO WAS WORKING FOR US ALL ALONG:
New ayatollah, new target!
BBC re Mojtaba Khamenei "the power behind the robes … capable but forceful."
"Yet his selection could still prove controversial."
Uh, sure. If he lasts more than a day or two. Does anyone else want that bullseye on them?https://t.co/IX6uWC8ATd
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) March 9, 2026
LOL, GEORGE CONWAY:
Never forget this guy was an avowed Trump supporter until he learned that Trump was not going to name him to be Solicitor General in the first Administration. https://t.co/aRcv5DCvqD
— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) March 8, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
HAHA:
One of the more creative aspects of the demonstration by the Iranian community in Dublin yesterday is that they started chanting ‘your sugar daddy’s dead’ at the Paddystinians who came to harass them.
— Rachel Moiselle (@RachelMoiselle) March 8, 2026
BACK WHEN I WAS ON THE NASA PLANETARY PROTECTION SUBCOMMITTEE, IT WAS ACCEPTED THAT THIS COULD HAPPEN: Did Earth life actually begin on Mars? Asteroid impacts could let microbes planet-hop, study suggests.
#JOURNALISM:
Just because the jihadis were incompetent bomb-makers, @nytimes pretends it was not really a bomb (and that they weren’t really jihadis).
— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) March 8, 2026
THEY MEAN, BESIDES A SPACECRAFT: Confirmed: Humanity Changed an Object’s Orbit Around The Sun For The First Time. “n 2022, NASA made history, deliberately smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter the object’s orbit around its larger companion asteroid. We already knew that the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission was wildly successful, reducing the orbital period of the asteroid pair Didymos and Dimorphos by an astonishing 33 minutes. But new measurements have revealed something even bigger: The impact also changed the entire orbital path of the Didymos-Dimorphos system through space.”
FLASHBACK: Bring Back Our Knobs: Analog vs. Digital. “Not so long ago, if I wanted to adjust the heat in my car, or the volume on my car radio, I could grab a nice, simple knob. Turn it to the right, and the car got warmer, or the radio got louder. Turn it the other way, and the opposite occurred. I could always sense how far I was adjusting things—without ever taking my eyes off the road—because millions of years of evolution have produced a neurological feedback mechanism that lets me know just how much I’m turning my wrist. Easy, effective, intuitive. That’s simply good design, right? You’d think. But in most late-model cars, making those kinds of adjustments requires pushing buttons multiple times, or navigating menus within menus, and—almost always—taking your eyes off the road.”
This is a column I wrote for Popular Mechanics in 2009. But if you follow the original URL, instead of the archived one above, you get a new column on the same theme by someone else, from 2025. Why?
I NEVER THOUGHT OF NICK SEARCY AS FLUENT IN THE LANGUAGE OF DIPLOMACY, BUT HE HAS THIS ONE RIGHT:
They were meant to be insulting, you pissant. https://t.co/odBkrLAuPy
— Nick Searcy, Actor/Director/Producer/Author (@yesnicksearcy) March 8, 2026
PALESTINIANS ARE ENTITLED LOSERS AND SHOULD BE TREATED AS SUCH:
This is so funny! Qatar is angry that the Palestinians won't condemn Iran for bombing Qatar even after everything Qatar has done for them. This reminds me of the Palestinians in Kuwait during Saddam Hussein's invasion. Spoiler: there are no longer Palestinians in Kuwait.
— Uri Kurlianchik (@VerminusM) March 8, 2026
SORRY, TOO BUSY LOOKING AT MORGANTOWN REAL ESTATE TO ANSWER: How Many People Will Move to West Virginia Just to Buy a Machine Gun?
THIS MONTH, FREE IRAN. NEXT MONTH, FREE CUBA:
This photo won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize. A priest gives the last rites to a Cuban farmer, the owner of his land, who refused to work for the Castro regime.
He was executed without being given the right to defend himself.
The murderous regime that started with Castro will soon… pic.twitter.com/9rYg8xNisZ
— BowTiedMara (@BowTiedMara) March 8, 2026
Related:
Just heard from my husband's family in Cuba. 5 cities of people protesting against the Cuban regime. Begging for Trump not to take another week. Help them now.
It's crazy how our own American citizens hate President Trump, while other countries look at him as a savior.
This is…
— Sassafrass84 (@Sassafrass_84) March 7, 2026