The Morning Report — 3/19/26

Good morning kids. So yesterday a 7-ton meteor almost slammed into Cleveland, and today we have this. . .

On Wednesday night, the Washington Post reported that "U.S. officials detected unidentified drones above the Washington Army base where Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth live" and that those officials have not yet determined where they came from. . . One of the sources, who the newspaper says is a "senior administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity" said that the military is currently monitoring threats more closely due to the "heightened alert level as the United States and Israel strike Iran." 

. . . Back in the fall, several news outlet reported that both men had moved to military bases, along with Donald Trump's Homeland Security advisor, Stephen Miller. Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem also had to move to a military base. According to the Atlantic, other members of the administrative have as well. 

Well we are at war with Iran, which, it cannot be stressed enough, has been at war with us for 47 years but the difference is we finally have a President who understands the threat to our national security and the peace of the world that an Islamic Iran poses.

And with the usual fifth columnist backstabbers questioning the war and demanding to know what the President's "Exit Strategy" is, the exit strategy should be, and I thought was, Total Victory with the complete defanging of the Mullahs if not their utter collapse and the ascension of a government that is minimally a peaceful nation state that will no longer foment terrorism in the name of annihilating the USA and advancing Islam across the region and the globe.

With that, the President's repudiation of the State of Israel over its attack on an Iranian oil field makes no sense at all in light of all the players involved.

“Israel, out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East, has violently lashed out at a major facility known as South Pars Gas Field in Iran,” Trump said. “A relatively small section of the whole has been hit. The United States knew nothing about this particular attack and the country of Qatar was in no way, shape, or form, involved with it, nor did it have any idea that it was going to happen.” “Unfortunately, Iran did not know this, or any of the pertinent facts pertaining to the South Pars attack, and unjustifiably and unfairly attacked a portion of Qatar’s LNG Gas facility,” Trump added. “NO MORE ATTACK WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars Field unless Iran unwisely decides to attack a very innocent, in this case, Qatar – In which instance the United States of America, with or without the help or consent of Israel, will massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field at an amount of strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed before.”

. . . The South Pars gas field is the world’s largest natural gas reserve and is jointly operated by Iran and Qatar.

Considering we have military bases in Qatar and they are putatively an ally, as well as the effect on world markets the crippling of this field would have, this might have something to do with Trump's response to Israel's attack. But that said, either we are in this to win it or what the hell are we doing in the first place?

While we're on the subject of existential threats to the United States of America:

Democrats’ DHS funding blockade, framed as civil liberties, instead weakens core security agencies during wartime—exposing Americans while advancing an increasingly radical agenda. . . Financed in part by malign foreign powers who seek to defeat the United States, radical left activists have co-opted the Democrat Party. Rep. Brad Schneider of Illinois, head of the supposedly centrist New Democrat Coalition, typifies the illogic. “My concern about DHS is their absolute disregard of the Constitution and American citizens’ civil rights,” he said, adding, “So until we see officers who abuse citizens’ civil rights held to full account, until we restore full congressional oversight, I’m not giving another penny to ICE and CBP.” . . . By providing the energy, funding, and activists who increasingly guide the Democrat Party, the Marxist wing has become its base, electing avowed Socialists including Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Zohran Mamdani, Rashida Tlaib, and more than 100 other officials. A Fox News survey released last week found record 38% support for socialism, including 66% of very liberal voters. Many Democrats are defunding Homeland Security because of the current Middle East war, not despite it. In their heavily refracted perspective, Iran is a peaceful nation that, as Sen. Mark Warner, top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, claims, poses no threat to America. To the Marxist wing and growing numbers of other Democrats, Iran balances the “genocidal” or “apartheid” regime in Israel. . .

. . . Auric Goldfinger told James Bond that he didn’t want a dialogue; he wanted Bond to die. Likewise, the Marxist wing isn’t seeking compromise. It seeks to bring down American exceptionalism by replacing American history with the 1619 Project, action civics, and critical race theory. My center-left friends steadfastly want it to be true that radical leftists share common values with other Americans. They don’t.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• This is a developing story. I'm writing just after midnight (EDT) on Wednesday night, so hopefully, we'll know more on Thursday.              
  Unidentified Drones Fly Over Army Base Where Rubio and Hegseth Live
  
• The Duke lacrosse hoax showed how accusation can outpace evidence—and how media, politics, and grievance can turn fiction into “truth” with lasting damage.
  The Ultimate Race Hoax

AMERICA & ISRAEL STRIKE IRAN!
• Israeli defense minister Israel Katz authorized the IDF to assassinate senior Iranian officials 'once the circle closes on them'
  Iranian Intelligence Minister Who Led Assassination Plots Against US Officials Eliminated In Israeli Strike, IDF Says
  
• A “source” reportedly confirmed to the Jerusalem Post that Israel had launched airstrikes on “facilities linked to Iran’s gas and oil industry.” The South Pars Gas Field is described as “the world’s largest natural gas reserve”
  Trump Calls for Israel to Stop Attacks on Iran’s South Pars Gas Field
  
• The U.S. intelligence community cautions that the Islamist government remains relatively intact and, should it survive the current military operation, U.S. intelligence agencies believe it will “seek to begin a years-long effort to rebuild its military, missiles and UAV forces.”
  Tulsi Gabbard Tells Senate that Trump’s Iran Strikes Are Strategic Success.
  
• "Were they building their offensive capabilities while they were negotiating with us?" Senator Mike Rounds asked.
  CIA Director Lifts Lid On What Iran Was Quietly Building At Blistering Pace
  
• But seriously…
  Joe Kent Quit Because Iran ‘Posed No Imminent Threat to Our Nation’
  
• The leaking probe predates Kent’s resignation over Iran war
  Former Counterterror Chief Joe Kent Under FBI Probe For Leaking Classified Info
  * * * * *

• It is only a matter of time before the widening cracks in the EU translate into open secessionist tendencies. 
  Built on Sand: The Iran War Puts Europe Under Pressure

• Fear of nuclear proliferation has been a Trump theme for the last 40 years. 
  A puppet of Israel? Really?
  
• Disregard the warning signs at your own risk.
  Machiavelli’s Warning for the Middle East

  CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• Democrats’ DHS funding blockade, framed as civil liberties, instead weakens core security agencies during wartime—exposing Americans while advancing an increasingly radical agenda.
  The Marxist Wing of the Democrat Party
  
• Unless things change, a new dark age is upon us in the West.
  A devolutionary war?
  
• America has a problem with transgender terrorists. 
  RAW EGG NATIONALIST: What are the odds? If 25% of the most radical Antifa terrorists are transgender, transgenderism must be treated as a terrorism risk. 

• New tax proposal matches home value of white homeowners.
  Mamdani Proposes ‘White Homes’ Estate Tax

  
  "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• Despite the nature of the allegations, which are reportedly supported by hallway surveillance footage, the Fairfax County Public Schools principal, Georgina Aye, waited until March 12 to notify families. Her email described the incidents blandly as “the student touching students’ buttocks while they were transitioning in the hallways,” according to 7News.
  Fairfax County Protecting Illegal Immigrant Charged With Groping At Least Dozen Girls
  
• A total of 50 countries now face the visa bond requirement, impacting regions across Africa, South Asia, the Caribbean, and Central Asia.
  Trump Admin Imposes $15,000 Visa Bond on Foreign Nationals from 12 Countries.
  
• Border Czar Tom Homan: “Know the people we’re arresting are terrorizing communities, and that’s why we’re out there, putting our lives on the line to arrest people and take them off the street, make this country safer again.”
  DHS has Arrested Over ‘7,800 Criminal Illegal Alien Gang Members’ Under Trump
  
• 50 countries. $15,000.
  Can Visa Bonds End Tourism Mass Migration?
  
• Despite that the sheriffs have been elected by Republicans and appointed to the State Immigration Enforcement Council by Republican Gov. Ron De Santis and Republicans, the council members are collaborating on a letter to President Trump calling for a more liberal focus on immigration policy.
  Florida Sheriffs Call for ‘Path to Citizenship’ for Illegal Migrants with Jobs

  
  THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE

• Gov. Gavin Newsom had a choice. When independent journalist Nick Shirley exposed over $170 million in suspected fraud in California's government-funded programs, he could have promised accountability. The fraud involved daycare centers, hospices, and adult care facilities billing taxpayers while allegedly delivering nothing. Newsom could have said his administration would investigate. . . Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) is calling out Newsom. "Why can't you celebrate any journalist or any activist doing that?" Fetterman asked during a podcast interview. "And Governor Newsom put out a disgusting video implying that he's a pedophile or he's that… why? That's kind of a smear. You want to disagree, but to imply that someone in one of the most gross kinds of terms like that — it's like, hey, shouldn't we agree, eliminate all the waste?
  Democrat Senator Nukes Gavin Newsom Over His Creepy Smear of Nick Shirley
  
  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• It’s not Patel’s fault that our foremost domestic counterterrorism agency has been degraded and politicized under his predecessors, but it’s his job to fix it fast and his defensiveness suggests a problem.
  Miranda Devine: The FBI’s repeated non-answers on US terrorism attacks raises alarming red flags
  
• The decision reinstates employees, voids Kari Lake’s actions as acting CEO, and restores most USAGM and subagency operations and broadcasts.
  Federal Judge Orders Voice of America to Reinstate Dismissed Staff, Resume Broadcasts. https://thenationalpulse.com/2026/03/18/senator-pushes-taxpayer-spending-transparency-as-part-of-anti-somali-fraud-drive/
  
• If anyone’s evoking ‘personal hostility,’ it’s rogue judges allowing their animus toward Trump to steer the outcome of cases before them.
  Roberts Is More Bothered By Trump’s Attacks On Judges Than Judges’ Attacks On The Constitution
  
• A Southern California overpass “for everything from monarch butterflies to mountain lions” is overdue and over budget.
  Gavin Newsom’s $114 Million Butterfly Bridge

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• How CAIR captured a major public school system.
  Islam’s Classroom Takeover in Philly
  
• The Islamic initiative, an arm of IU's School of Philanthropy, organized multiple events with Istanbul-based nonprofit Hayat Yolu Association
  Indiana University’s Muslim Philanthropy Gave Fundraising Advice to ‘Sham Charity’ Bankrolling Hamas

  
  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED, AND OTHER ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• The special guest of the Mayor at the breakfast was Mary Robinson, former Irish president and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. “Her solidarity is many things: unwavering, sincere, and chief among them Irish," gushed Mamdani. 
  Mamdani Compares Irish Experience in America to 'Palestinian' 'Oppression'
  
• Rama Duwaji also boosted a post that said Tel Aviv ‘Shouldn’t exist in the first place’
  Zohran Mamdani’s Wife Celebrated 'Palestinian' Terrorists, Including Plane Hijacker, In Social Media Posts From Early Adulthood

  SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
  
  

• James’ kangaroo-court win over Trump was set back big-time last year when an appeals court tossed Engoron’s near-$400-million fine as “excessive” and a violation of the Eighth Amendment; unless the state courts are completely corrupted, the entire verdict should be reversed in due course. Since this case otherwise stands as huge warning that doing business in New York exposes you to nakedly political lawfare, the state will be far better off when that reversal lands — ideally, with language harshly slamming James and Engoron for making a travesty of justice.
  Turns out Mar-a-Lago wasn’t overvalued, Tish

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• Chat AI models aren’t actually thinking; they are mimicking thoughts, emotions, and intelligence. 
  Artificial, Not Intelligent

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• The decision to hold the benchmark federal-funds rate steady in a range between 3.5 percent and 3.75 percent was approved on an 11 to 1 vote. Fed governor Stephen Miran, appointed to fill an unexpected vacancy last year, dissented.
  Fed Holds Rates Steady
  
• The Fed mistakenly believes prosperity causes inflation.
  The Fed Missed The Moment. Again.
  
• The Jones Act shouldn’t even exist.
  Trump Waives Jones Act for 60 Days to Help Ease Gas Prices
  
• A country whose citizens depend on government for basics such as income, food, and shelter is going to have to make big changes.
  America Can’t Be A Welfare State And A Republic At The Same Time

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• Judge E. Grady Jolly made the law, not ideology, his North Star.
  Remembering a Judge’s Judge

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,

• Honda cuts production of 3 EVs slated for the U.S. market and other car manufacturers adjust their production to the new market realities.
  Electric Car Registrations in U.S. Plunge 41% as Gas-Powered Vehicles Gain Traction

  
  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Harvard is emptying its campus of Jews, enrolling the smallest percentage since before World War II.
  Harvard Won’t Explain Historic Decline in Jewish Enrollment

• Under former [so-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden, the department created the National Parents and Families Engagement Council ostensibly as a “partnership between parents and families, educators, district leaders, and entire school communities to support student success.” But behind the scenes, the short-lived council was composed of hand-picked activist organizations that focused on radical racial, gender and immigrant-focused ideologies. As Defending Education notes, “not a single right-of-center or conservative parent group was invited” to participate.
  EXCLUSIVE: Biden Junta Conspired With Teachers Union-Tied Orgs To Shape Far-Left Parents Council, Docs Reveal
  
• Yet the school-choice movement is burning up the nation: Too many families are now wise to what a racket union-controlled public schools have become. Choice is no cure-all, but at least it gives students an escape from a monopoly system run with zero regard for their interests.
  Teacher union greed is fueling a national demand for school choice
  
• More than half of the best 100 public schools in New York City as measured by performance on state math and English tests are charter schools, many of them located in poor neighborhoods and serving students that the city describes as economically disadvantaged.
  EXCLUSIVE: Charter Schools Dominate New York City’s Top 100 Public Schools by Math and English Test Scores
  
• As Democrats' views shift, and fewer seek college degrees, can higher education survive?
  College Education Flunks Out — By More Than 2-To-1, Voters Say It’s Not Worth It: I&I/TIPP Poll

  ABORTION

• Nobody passed a robust statute protecting religious freedom for the purpose of ensuring people could use the law to kill their unborn children.
  Indiana Court Murders The English Language And Law To Call Abortion ‘Religious Exercise’

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• The settlement arose from a lawsuit that was filed against California’s Marketing Firearms to Minors Law, which crossed into First Amendment territory by banning firearm advertisements.
  California Agrees to Pay $1.3 Million Settlement for Unconstitutional Ban on Gun Advertising

  THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH

• Former Senate staffer Rachel Bovard says the Senate is at least talking, and that’s a March Madness miracle in and of itself.
  To Save The SAVE America Act, GOP Senators ‘Need To Make This A Fistfight’
  
• Senate Democrats are currently blocking the SAVE America Act, which would require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote and photo ID to cast a ballot. They insist the legislation is unnecessary, arguing noncitizen voting is already illegal.
  22 Times Democrats Invited Noncitizens To Vote In U.S. Elections

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY

• In one bizarre line of questioning, for instance, once-rising Democrat star Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), who delivered the response address to Trump’s address to Congress last year, claimed that the president is preventing the United States from free and fair elections and suggested he would “try and steal” another election in the future.
  Democrats Turn Markwayne Mullin Confirmation Hearing into Debate on DHS Shutdown, 2020 Election, ICE

  POLITICS

• What the leftist wipeout says about the temperature of the voters.
  6 Squad Members, Including 2 Muslims, Lose in Illinois Dem Primaries
  
• While an extremely loud minority of Americans openly traffics in antisemitic rhetoric, most Americans continue to support Israel, and many back a hard line against Iran.
  Pro-Israel Democrat Candidate Wins IL-02 Primary: ‘Social Media Is Not Real Life’
  
• Democrat Texas congressional candidate Bobby Pulido addressed criticism of his past behavior and social media posts by claiming his humor sometimes “doesn’t translate.” Pulido, an award-winning musician challenging incumbent Republican Rep. Monica De La Cruz, has a lengthy record of troubling past behavior.
  Democrat Candidate Says He’s Not A Creepy Pervert, Just Mexican

  ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS

• Israel issued evacuation orders two weeks ago for all Lebanese civilians living south of the Litani River, an area that comprises about one-eight of Lebanon’s territory. Hundreds of thousands of civilians responded to the order, but some refused to leave their homes, including some Christian villagers who felt they should have no part in Israel’s conflict with Hezbollah. Hezbollah militants have been known to lurk around Christian villages, viewing them as safe havens from Israeli airstrikes.
  Israel Announces ‘Ground Operations’ in Lebanon as 1 Million+ Displaced

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• For over six decades, the disastrous communist policies of the Castro regime have forced Cubans to live through inhumane conditions of abject misery. The situation in Cuba has dramatically worsened in recent weeks after the rogue communists abruptly lost access to the virtually free oil it had been receiving for decades from the Venezuelan socialist regime following the United States’ arrest of dictator Nicolás Maduro on January 3, 2026.
  Cuba’s Puppet President Miguel Díaz-Canel Vows ‘Unbreakable Resistance’ in Anti-Trump Rant
  
• Jan Jekielek told the Daily Caller about the scale and horror of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) forced organ harvesting and the tactics they use to “other” religious minorities — including Christians.
  ‘Killed To Order’: Shining Light On CCP’s Forced Organ Harvesting
  
• After two-week lull, 16 Chinese aircraft entered Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone. Meanwhile, Japanese diplomat underscores his nation’s support for Taiwan and Taiwan’s Premier visits Japan.
  China’s Air Displays Fail to Deter Emerging Taiwan–Japan Alignment
  
• From Kabul to Tehran, Trump's message is clear.
  America Has Her Swagger Back

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• After years of obscurity, the FDA’s new system could finally expose hidden harms and force long-overdue accountability on a medical establishment that operated without it.
  MAHA Gets a (Figurative) Shot in the Arm With Updated Vaccine Injury Reporting System
  
• In opening Republicans up to a line of political attack on Medicare, Schweikert just made the task of the GOP retaining control of Congress more difficult.
  Rep. David Schweikert Mindlessly Gives Democrats Ammo To Attack GOP On Medicare
  
• To prevent medical providers who have been abusing the system from losing their gravy train, Bill Cassidy would have seniors pay roughly $132 more per year.
  Sen. Bill Cassidy Defends Medicare Scammers Over America’s Seniors

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Even though scientists have known for more than a century that the Sun’s eleven-year cycle of flipping the polarity of its magnetic field is the fundamental cause of the sunspot cycle, they actually know very little about the dynamo that causes that magnetic field, as this study implies. They not only don’t have any understanding of the fundamental processes that creates that dynamo or causes it to flip polarity every eleven years, they still aren’t entirely sure where it is located within the Sun.
  Solar scientists: We finally think we know the location of the Sun’s dynamo (Zombie Frank Zappa asks "does it hum?" - jjs)
  
• In other words, the data from these samples suggests that the formation of life on Earth was greatly aided by the deposition of these carbon molecules from asteroids onto the Earth. At the same time, some caution must be exercised.
  Scientists detect the five chemicals that make up DNA/RNA inside Ryugu samples

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• A pro-LGB culture is deeply disturbed by the T. People you mostly wouldn’t agree with agree with you on this.
  Transgender Skepticism Is The Ultimate Bipartisan Issue
  
• Them Before Us reports that Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index encourages child mutilation through transgender policies.
  Report: How Hundreds Of Businesses Bankroll The Mutilation Of Kids
  
• A movement in thrall to anti-western animus.
  The Feminists Who Hate MAGA More than They Hate the Mullahs

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Several organizations have canceled celebrations to mark this month’s Cesar Chavez Day after allegations surfaced that the commemorative holiday’s namesake may have engaged in sexually inappropriate behavior with both adults and children. (Meh he hated illegal aliens as much as we do, which is his real crime! - jjs)
  Cesar Chavez Day events canceled following sexual abuse allegations
  
• The Washington state capital, Olympia's, city council voted recently to put a few more shovel-fulls of dirt on the grave of the traditional nuclear family in the name of equity. 
  Another Leftist American City Votes to Destroy the Nuclear Family and Those Trad Wives
  
• To restore the American mind, we must first restore the American hand
  The Last Apprentices of Reality: Trade, Truth, and the Restoration of American Know-how
  
• Christian Toto: Gala draw smallest crowd in four years, but it's hardly alone on that front
  Trump Effect? Oscar Ratings Crater in Second Term
  
• Naomi Wolf: In fact, it is racist not to be.
  It’s Not Racist to be a “Culturist”

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