Tuesday, March 31, 2026
The Nonexistent Solar Wars
But nobody goes to war over solar panels for the same reason nobody goes to war over candles: they cannot power the things that economies, civilizations, and wars run on. A gallon of jet fuel contains 34 kilowatt-hours of energy in a package weighing six pounds. A lithium-ion battery storing the same energy weighs 250 pounds. That density gap is why every military on earth runs on liquid hydrocarbons, why every container ship crossing the Pacific burns bunker fuel, why every combine harvester in Iowa runs on diesel, and why every 747 landing at Heathrow runs on kerosene. The fact that nobody wages war over solar panels is evidence of their limitations not superiority.
Pure Emotion
Ann Althouse discussing an interview of Elissa Slotkin:
Did she answer the question "What is something Democrats do that is the opposite of alpha energy?" Only vaguely. They're "speaking from wonky details" and not "speaking about your gut and your emotion." Her statement of the problem is, ironically, lacking in the quality she's saying they need.
Are you kidding me? Speaking about their emotions is all Democrats do!
"F*ck ICE!"
"Diversity is our strength!"
"Immigrants built this country!"
"F*ck Trump!"
"No one is illegal on stolen land!"
"Medicare for all!"
Yep, super wonky! Ask a Democrat what his or her (yes, there are two genders) top-five policy ideas are.Africans Should Pay Slavery Reparations
So the British didn’t even have the courage to vote in their own self-interest, against the most grotesquely unfair money grab imaginable. Britain did, indeed, play an important role with regard to African slavery: it stamped it out. It was in Great Britain that the abolitionist movement was born, and it was the British Navy that suppressed the world-wide slave trade, to the great consternation of Africans. In the late 19th Century, the British Foreign Office issued a warning to its citizens not to travel in Africa. Englishmen in Africa were being murdered by tribesmen who were enraged that the British were ending their trade in slaves.
Africans exported most of their slaves not across the Atlantic, but East to the Islamic world. For a millennium or more, Muslim countries were always the largest consumers of slaves. So where do they figure in the U.N. resolution?
The Invasion Continues
I have countless clips of Muslims and Islamic leaders openly asserting that their goal is to destroy Western culture and replace it, and the entire history of Islam is one of conquest and colonization. All those TSA lines in airports exist today not just because Democrats want to make Americans suffer, but primarily because Islamic terrorists fly airplanes into buildings, make shoe bombs, and plot to kill Westerners.
"Diversity is our strength" is only the second-biggest lie we keep being told about immigration; the first is that "Islam is the religion of peace." We keep having the Crusades thrown in our face to explain why Muslims are angry at us, but the Crusades were an attempt to retake the Holy Land from Muslims who had conquered it, the Middle East, and all of North Africa, which, until the Muslims came along with their armies, were Christian and Jewish.
Even the briefest examination of history shows that Muslims invaded Europe countless times, conquered Spain, and had to be kicked out in almost endless wars.
Embrace Their Diversity!
Craig's switch on the issue says little about her. Like most politicians, she takes positions based on her assessment of where the voters are on any particular issue, not on things like principles or what would be best for the country. A politician doing an about-face for political purposes is as surprising as the sun rising in the East.
But this reversal tells you everything you need to know about how radicalized the Democratic Party has become. It is now toxic for a Democrat to have voted to expel criminals from the country. No matter the crime, no matter the danger the criminals pose to the community, it is imperative that we embrace their diversity because they are the ones who give us strength.
Team Columbus
Christopher Columbus, one of the greatest explorers of all time, has become something of a litmus test. If you celebrate the fact that he discovered America and opened the door to one of the most important sagas in world history, you are a conservative. If you think Columbus was a villain, and the European settlement of the formerly-Edenic America was a tragedy, you are a liberal.
Qualification?
A more normal person—more normal than most Democratic Party primary voters—might respond: 1) Everyone had traumas growing up. So what? 2) How does the fact (if true) that you had an unhappy childhood qualify you to be President? 3) If I take it at face value that you grew up in a screwed-up family, why should that make me want you to be my President? If anything, one might think, the reverse.
But in today’s therapeutic society, especially in its blue precincts, spilling the beans about one’s own family dysfunction is apparently a plus. God help us.
Anti-Civilization
The assembled leftists took time out to express their support for “Palestine,” which again raises the question, what does Islamic extremism have to do with Communism? The answer is that leftism is anti-civilization. Leftists will happily endorse any movement or theory that tries to destroy civilization.
They have gotten their way, as civilization in both Cuba and “Palestine” has been thoroughly destroyed. And leftists will continue to cheer on that destruction, right up to the last gasp of the evil regimes that have perpetrated it.
Reminder: Diversity is Our Strength!
Here’s the funny thing. In 2019 the Star Tribune published a 3,000 word page-one story — the most-read Star Tribune story of 2019 — revisiting the issue of Omar’s marriage to her brother. The story drew on documents that had just been released by the state board of campaign finance in its investigation of her 2016 campaign and other social media material we had reported on Power Line.
In my view, the 2019 story proves far beyond a preponderance of the evidence that Omar married her brother for some fraudulent purpose. I think I could persuade a jury of it based on the evidence in the Star Tribune story, though there is much more for anyone inclined to look. The Star Tribune story by itself is full of evidence tending to prove that Omar married her brother. I wonder if Kashiwagi is familiar with the story published by her own paper.
The Power of Words
Liberals have a faith in the power of words that is typical of primitive cultures. They seriously seem to believe that if they pass a law that says, for example, all electricity most come from wind or solar power by 2035, it will happen. It’s the law! Unfortunately, the laws of physics are not impressed. The entire “green” edifice is a house of cards that is rapidly crumbling.
Illegal Aliens Built This Country!
Democrats are proving that there is literally no crime for which an illegal alien can be deported in their eyes. They object to ICE arresting rapists, murderers, child molesters, and fraudsters. Illegal aliens can get arrested 10, 20, 30 times and Democrats will refuse to turn them over to ICE.
They will cover up sex crimes against children to protect illegals, because that is how they roll. They will sacrifice American citizens to protect illegals because illegals built this country, you know.
It is now the official position of the Democratic Party that illegal aliens should vote, and that requiring proof of citizenship would "disenfranchise" millions of people. Illegal aliens should be allowed to remain in the country even if they rape or murder people. That gang members should be allowed to terrorize people. And that protecting Americans is not the primary responsibility of the US government.
Sunday, March 29, 2026
The Government Racket
So, what are “our values”? Liberals always claim to be acting on behalf of the poor and disadvantaged, but those aren’t the ones who get most of the money. Government has largely become a money-laundering operation, in which people who actually do productive work pay taxes, and the government then gives their money to NGOs, consultants, and politically-favored companies, all of which purport to be doing good, but in fact are corrupt rackets.
Thus, to take just one example, New York City reportedly spends $81,000 to $97,000 per homeless person, more than the city’s median income. Does that mean that homeless people in New York are rolling in dough? No, it means that politically-favored Democratic Party constituencies are siphoning off enormous amounts of money while doing virtually no good.
Contradictions
The global left is losing all its favorite regimes, and it is driving them absolutely crazy. Suddenly, they are all about increasing oil consumption, demanding American capitalists save a communist country from collapse, so that the communists can use it as a base to destroy...evil capitalism.
Allies
For one thing, we can evaluate the effectiveness of several nations’ armed forces. The U.S. and Israeli militaries have both performed brilliantly, and in close harmony. Some liberals question whether Israel is a valuable ally. I am not sure why; I think a case could be made that Israel is our only valuable ally. What other nation, besides us, performs with their effectiveness?
Will to Survive
Sunday, March 15 is the International Day to Combat Islamophobia, and the day couldn’t possibly have come at a better time. It looks as if it was planned this year specifically in order to demonstrate the fact that “Islamophobia” is a spurious propaganda concept designed to intimidate people into thinking it’s wrong to stand against jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women.
It’s the best possible time because there have been four jihad attacks in the U.S. in the last two weeks, demonstrating in the most vivid and indelible way possible that criticism of Islam is not only not a manifestation of “hatred” or “bigotry,” much less “racism,” but a healthy manifestation of a society’s will to survive.
Motivations
Speaking of evidence, I have seen no evidence that Boasberg even referred to the issue before him, i.e., the Fed’s building boondoggle. The evidence presented to the grand jury was sufficient to cause them to issue the subpoenas, which is what counts. This is an investigation, not a prosecution.
And what is the point of Boasberg’s reference to conflicting views as to interest rates? They have absolutely nothing to do with the issue at hand, the Fed’s building renovation. Jerome Powell is on his way out as the Fed Chairman. He will be gone in two months, so Boasberg’s theory makes little sense.
This is one of many instances of left-wing judges imputing invidious motives to the Trump administration, and ruling on that basis. But such speculation as to motives, inspired by Democratic Party talking points, is improper.
Another instance occurred just a few days ago, when a Democratic Party district court judge ruled that the Department of Homeland Security may not terminate the “Temporary Protected Status” of Haitian immigrants, which has been in effect since an earthquake in 2010. Obviously, that judge’s party wants the “temporary” status to be permanent. The judge’s rationale was that the DHS’s decision manifested an animus by President Trump and Secretary Noem against immigrants “of color.” Again, an inflammatory but wholly irrelevant consideration.
Any time a judge says that the Trump administration lacks the power to do something that would be perfectly acceptable if the president were a Democrat, based on the Trump administration’s alleged motivations, that judge is wrong and is acting as a partisan hack. I think the general public would be astonished at how often that happens.
Trump and the GOP Senators need to ram through as many ultraconservative, hyperpartisan judges as possible between now and next January.
The War Against Fantasyland
But imagine what it is like for a sane person to walk into and try to set straight a bureaucracy that thinks "Queering the Map" is a thing, no less a thing that the State Department should spend time and money on.
It's an "Uh, wat?" experience, for sure.
I can't imagine what it is like for Trump appointees who have to navigate the bureaucracies that have become corrupted or so off track that their value is negative and trying to fix them. It must not just be immensely frustrating, but akin to jumping through the looking glass and trying to make sense of it.
Another Example of the Obligation Inversion
So great figures from British history like Winston Churchill and Jane Austen are now “divisive.” One guess as to which group in the Isles claims to feel excluded by any acknowledgment of British history.
Cultural Enrichers
Wajahat is, as with Mamdani, one of the many Islamic immigrants who have immigrated to this country in order to lecture us about how awful we are, and assure us that they are here to change this evil country. If only America could be more like Pakistan!
And:
Given how many of these hatemongers are or have become American citizens, it's hard to see how we can clear them all out of our society in any manner that is constitutional. Perhaps Ali has pointed us to a good idea: make life uncomfortable for them here.
Also:
It should be, at minimum, slowing to a trickle immigration from Muslim countries, doing a deep vetting process of all who come, and a campaign to identify deportable Muslims who present any sort of threat, including ideological.
We can't ban Islam, but we can do things that Wajahat Ali and his Pakistani family and friends hate.
Accommodations
Call me hard-hearted, but if you can’t complete a set of tasks in the same amount of time as your competitors, shouldn’t that impact the evaluation of your performance? In the real world, if it takes you twice as long as someone else to complete a task, you are only worth half as much on an hourly basis.
Higher education, at least at the “elite” level, has turned into something of a joke.
Suicide of the West Watch
As recently as 40 or 50 years ago, the idea that Germany might de-industrialize would have seemed absurd. Germany’s status as an industrial superpower dates to the 19th century, and it seemed impregnable. But that was before the “green” movement brought Germany to its knees. The German government’s war on energy, along with other policy failures, have made it increasingly impossible to manufacture products (automobiles, for example) competitively in that country. The result is a looming economic crisis, with third-world status by no means an impossibility.
Talarico's Creepy As Hell
The more you listen to this guy, the more you wonder why the authorities have not searched his hard drive yet. Rather than being an attractive face for liberalism, he is a parody of what leftists think conservatives want or need to hear in order to vote for a Democrat.
He is just another version of the Tim Walz strategy. Democrats think they can find a magic white man who can "code talk" to those of us who identify as one of the six scientifically proven sexes: men.
And:
The man is a low-T version of Beto O'Rourke crossed with California State Senator Scott Weiner.
They Just Say Sh*t
"We're dealing with what we're dealing with right now" is an excuse for the ages. "This is different," he begins, and yet he hasn't worked out how it's different. He just needs it to be different. A dangerous move when you're winging it and don't know the facts of the things you're saying are different. There are a few seconds — 0:26 to 0:33 — where Jeffries knows he's in trouble. He mutters the hilarious line, "First of all, I was not in Congress," and shows a flash of shame before resetting with the all-purpose segue "So we're dealing with what we're dealing with right now."
