March 22, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Iran has a message

Featured image The Iranian regime made a statement in its own way Friday night. It fired two two-stage intercontinental ballistic miles at the US-UK base in Diego Garcia, some 2500 miles from Iran. For the benefit of eager American chumps who served in administrations before and after President Trump’s first term, Iran has previously denied developing such missiles. The missiles did not make it to their intended target this time, but the »
March 22, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Sunday morning coming down

Featured imageThis past Sunday I watched the Oscar-nominated film Blue Moon instead of watching the Oscars. The film is a portrait of Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers’s first lyricist. I found the movie on cable and watched it while we were snowbound at home. The movie was directed by Richard Linklater, written by Robert Koplow, and stars Ethan Hawke. It’s the first time I’ve ever heard a reference to “feminine rhyme” in »
March 21, 2026 — Bill Glahn

Maryland Man to Liberia?

Featured imageFrom ABC News, Trump administration seeks to move ahead with removing Abrego Garcia to Liberia. You will recall the long saga of our Maryland Man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, of El Salvador. ABC reports, The Trump administration is moving forward with its plan to swiftly remove Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia as soon as a court allows. In a series of filings on Friday, administration officials asked a judge to dissolve »
March 21, 2026 — Bill Glahn

DHS shutdown, Day 36

Featured imageI love Trump’s idea of having ICE agents fill in for no-show TSA agents at airports. I don’t blame TSA people, they aren’t getting paid, so many are not showing up to work or even quitting outright. So have ICE show up and be on the lookout for any illegal aliens looking to fly the suddenly unfriendly skies. From CNBC, Trump threatens to deploy ICE agents to airports if DHS »
March 21, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Iran Fired and Missed, But…

Featured imageIran fired two intermediate range ballistic missiles at the important U.K.-U.S. base at Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean. They missed: one reportedly failed in flight, while the second was intercepted. But the significant point is that Iran has intermediate range missiles, something they have consistently lied about. Diego Garcia is around 2,500 miles from Iran, which means that Iranian intermediate range missiles can hit much of Western Europe. The »
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March 21, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Americans Support Iran Campaign

Featured imageOr they did, anyway: this Rasmussen survey was conducted March 8-10 and published on Monday: The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 61% of Likely U.S. Voters say that, based on what they know, the military operation against Iran has been successful so far, including 35% who consider it Very Successful. Twenty-nine percent (29%) don’t consider the Iran war successful so far, including 12% who see »
March 21, 2026 — Scott Johnson

United States v. Harvard

Featured imageAssistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon and others under her supervision have sued Harvard over the university’s “toothless non-response to the ongoing relentless antisemitic on-campus discrimination.” Ira Stoll covers the lawsuit for the Washington Free Beacon and links to the 44-page complaint posted online here by the Department of Justice. We have all witnessed the almost unbelievable nonfeasance of the Harvard administration in the face of the torment of Jewish students. »
March 21, 2026 — John Hinderaker

The Week In Pictures: Gayatollah Edition

Featured imageAs the “endless” conflict in Iran neared third weeks old, it continued to dominate the news and, to a large extent, the memes. Reports of a gay Ayatollah prompted a great deal of meme-merriment. Of course there was other news: the Democrats’ shutdown of DHS continued, freedom for Cuba glimmered on the horizon, Chuck Norris died. Allegedly. And, finally–Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Oh wait, one more thing–reportedly there was some »
March 20, 2026 — Bill Glahn

Another one bites the dust

Featured imageFrom the New York Post, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps spokesperson Ali Mohammad Naini has been killed in ‌strikes ⁠launched by the US and Israel, ⁠Iranian state TV reported ⁠Friday. Naini, also the agency’s deputy of public relations, was assassinated just days after Israeli forces eliminated the clerical regime’s de-facto leader, Ali Larijani, and its anti-protest enforcer Gholamreza Soleimani. I’m enjoying the recurring theme, Hours before his death, Naini insisted »
March 20, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Inside Temple Israel

Featured imageUnless you watch the CBS Evening News, you missed the report taking viewers inside Temple Israel and the damage done by family guy Ayman Mohamad Ghazali. As I say in the linked post, the family guy had mass murder on his mind. In the event, thanks to what seems like divine intervention, the damage he did was limited to the security officer who stopped him and to the building itself. »
March 20, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Family guy

Featured imageThe photo of Ayman Mohamad Ghazali all but shrieks, “Don’t Cry For Me, New York Times.” The Times, however, wanted it known that the guy with mass murder on his mind — the mass murder of Jewish children at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan — was just a grieving family guy. He was grieving the loss of his Hezbollah brother and wanting to contribute to the cause in his »
March 21, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Remembering the Shutdowns

Featured imageThe international covid shutdowns were among the worst public policy disasters (or crimes) of modern times, and yet there has been no accountability. In the Telegraph, Daniel Hannan sums up the effects of the shutdowns on Britain: “Six years on, the Covid lockdowns are still ruining our lives.” Was there truly a legal argument about whether a Scotch egg counted as a meal? Were we actually offered guidance on the »
March 21, 2026 — Scott Johnson

When hell was in session

Featured imagePower Line reader John Flenniken worked as a crew member on the 2000 film Prisoners of Hope, capturing the testimony of former American prisoners of war in North Vietnam. Among them are Leo Thorsness, author of Surviving Hell, published and kept in print by Encounter Books, and Porter Halyburton, author of Reflections on Captivity, published and kept in print by the U.S. Naval Institute. Among other former POWs featured in »
March 20, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Blue Flight Continues Apace [Updated]

Featured imageThe most important contemporary phenomenon for our politics and, perhaps, for the future of our country is the ongoing sorting of our citizens into red and blue states. The dynamic is pretty simple: people are leaving blue states for red states, with the single exception of those whose first priority is lavish welfare benefits, who therefore seek out blue states. This might seem like a terrible deal for the blue »
March 20, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Australian PM Driven Out of Mosque

Featured imageAustralia’s left-wing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visited that country’s largest mosque this morning. You might expect Australian Muslims to show a little humility following the Bondi Beach massacre, but no: Albanese was met with protests and denunciations: He is a simple man https://t.co/lZfeyHfCQR — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 20, 2026 Albanese tried to put a positive spin on the event, calling it “incredibly positive.” Apparently some members of the mosque »
March 20, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Proof

Featured imageStar Tribune Washington reporter Sydney Kashiwagi reported in the paper’s March 17 Morning Hot Dish newsletter: Zeroing in on Omar once again. Trump especially fixated on Omar during his announcement [of a fraud task force], elevating the unproven claim that she married her brother and committed immigration fraud and is thus “here illegally and she’s a congresswoman.” Trump urged Vance and members of the task force to look into the »
March 20, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Spring can really hang you up the most

Featured imageAs a break from the news of the day I’m taking the liberty of reposting this tribute to a great song with an unusual story behind it. Since I first wrote this 20 years ago, YouTube has become a resource that allows me to fill out the story. Stretching back from Ella Fitzgerald to Fran Landesman to T.S. Eliot and Geoffrey Chaucer, this is the bare-bones version of the tale: »