The Morning Report — 3/23/26

Good morning kids. So, tick tock, tick tock. . .

Trump Draws Red Line: 48 Hours To Open Strait Or U.S. Strikes Begin

The president has promised to "obliterate" Iranian power plants if Tehran does not comply.

Well, time's up. . .

On Saturday, March 21, President Donald Trump delivered a 48-hour ultimatum to the Iranian regime to stop terrorizing the strategic Strait of Hormuz or face devastating consequences. The Iranian Islamic regime has defied the ultimatum and promised to shut down the strait altogether.. . .It is hardly surprising that the Iranian regime is doubling down, considering that it is run by fundamentalist Muslim fanatics who truly believe Allah has given them a mission to fight the “great Satan” America to the death. This defiance does, however, illustrate clearly to the world why the joint U.S.-Israel Operation Epic Fury is necessary and how fully justified Trump is in carrying through on his ultimatum.

Trump had warned, “If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

It is a shame that the long-suffering Persian people are going to suffer even more because of the intransigence and belligerence of the Mullahs who are hell bent on bringing about Armageddon as the precursor to global Shiite Islamic conquest.

For those who question if this trip was necessary, give Iran's 47-year bloody wave of terror not only in the Middle East but across the globe, (that has spilled rivers of American blood to the tune of "Death to America!") which is on top of Islam's 1500 year wave of terror. So, if scimitars, firearms and tanks and planes won't do the trick, there are always ICBMs.

The position taken by Obama, Democrats, the media and, more recently, Tucker Carlson, is that we should accept Iran’s claims about its military capabilities, whether it comes to its nuclear weapons or its ballistic missiles. After all, a bunch of Islamic terrorists would never lie to us. Would they? . .

. . . Iran launched ballistic missiles at the joint US-UK military base in Diego Garcia on Friday, demonstrating a weapons capability that goes beyond what Tehran was known to have possessed.

The base, a strategic airfield that can host B-2 stealth bombers located nearly 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) away from Iran, suffered no damage, according to a person familiar with the matter speaking on condition of anonymity.

The media is now busy pretending that we had no idea that Iran had that kind of capabilities despite repeated warnings, including the Obama Iran Deal, that Iran had missiles capable of hitting European capitals. . . Netanyahu said in an interview with right-wing podcaster Ben Shapiro on Monday that Iran is developing intercontinental ballistic missiles with a range of about 8,000 kilometers, warning that Tehran’s expanding weapons program could threaten major American cities. The Iranian missiles could “put New York City, Boston, Washington or Miami under their atomic guns,” the Israeli prime minister said.

. . . imagine that the ICBMs Iran lied about having don’t simply travel 2,000 miles, but 4,000 miles or more, which would allow them to strike a major city in the United States. “That’s what they’re planning to do. Now, imagine that those ICBMs are tipped with nuclear warheads, which they were planning to do as well. So, we have to face a very difficult situation,” he said before noting that while gas prices are temporarily higher as a result of the war, they will return to normal.

And speaking of tyrannical regimes and malign, evil oppressors . . .

So many people inside the United States believe the left’s narrative about the United States today, the question becomes very real: can the nation survive the presence within it of a large and growing population of people who hate it and wish to see it destroyed?

For the left, the truth doesn’t matter as much as the narrative. And if the narrative is incendiary enough, and they can convince enough people to believe it, it could indeed be destructive, and even bring the whole nation down, with incalculable effects for the world at large. The narrative that the left is pushing hard right now is a variation on a theme it has harped upon repeatedly since the war in Vietnam and even before that, from the time of the beginning of the Cold War. . . And so we come to one Joe Iosbaker, a 67-year-old leader of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), which describes itself as “a national organization of revolutionaries fighting for socialism in the United States. Our home is in the working class.” FRSO’s rhetoric is pure 1930s-era Marxist agitprop, as if the Stalinist purges, the gulags, the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Khmer Rouge killing fields had never existed: “We are organizing the united front against monopoly capitalism — with the strategic alliance of the multinational working class and oppressed nationality movements at its core. This is our general strategy for revolution in the U.S.”

With that from friend and friend of the blog Robert Spencer as the set-up, Raw Egg Nationalist takes it further, a lot further than maybe we'd like to go . . .

The transformation of El Salvador dramatically illustrates a point made by Friedrich Nietzsche, one that’s often missed. In The Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche set himself the task of revealing the non-moral origins of various institutions, including morality itself. One of his main targets was the state and the notion of a primitive “social contract.” Far from originating in a friendly handshake and an agreement among equals, the state was birthed in blood. Before the state was the state, it was ravaging barbarians—the blonde beasts—who descended on less warlike peoples and subjugated them. Over time, through great violence, these pitiless lords shaped and molded their captives into citizens, self-regulating creatures that could live together, act responsibly, and obey commands. . .

The broader point—that great violence is an inescapable part of the civilizing process—is obviously true. Historians of medieval Europe have shown that, generation after generation, something like 1 percent of the male population was put to death in the name of law and order. The peaceful, high-trust societies that European governments are now destroying through mass immigration—societies where murder was no longer a valid social strategy, only the rare product of intoxication or sexual jealousy—existed because the most violent people were systematically put to death until their genes were expunged for good. . .

Predictions make fools of us all, they say. Bukele may prove a lone exception in the Americas: a leader of unusual will and a ruthless pragmatism who is prepared to assert the rights of the peaceful majority against those of the small minority of murderers, rapists, drug dealers, and pimps who once acted with impunity.

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• Two pilots dead, LaGuardia closed as flight, emergency vehicle collide: sources
  AIRPORT COLLISION

• El Salvador’s turnaround under Nayib Bukele suggests an uncomfortable truth: order often returns not through consensus, but through force most societies are unwilling to wield.
  Raw Egg Nationalist: Will There Be Blood? Can America and the West Be Recivilized without Violence?
  
• Robert Spencer: As pro-Islamic Republic of Iran Marxists rally in Chicago, the U.S. is finding out.
  How Long Can a Country Survive the Presence of Those Who Wish to Destroy It?

AMERICA & ISRAEL STRIKE IRAN!
• The president has promised to "obliterate" Iranian power plants if Tehran does not comply.
  Trump Draws Red Line: 48 Hours To Open Strait Or U.S. Strikes Begin
  
• This deployment raises the possibility that Operation Epic Fury, the U.S.-Israeli operation against Iran, may escalate to involve a ground component, such as an amphibious assault on Kharg Island.
  Trump Orders Even More Warships, Marines to Middle East.
  
• Cornered and cracking, the Islamic Republic turns to chaos and destruction.
  The Mullahs’ Doomsday Play
  
• “Iran’s civilian infrastructure belongs to the Iranian people and to the future of a free Iran,” Pahlavi declared. “The Islamic Republic’s infrastructure is the machinery of repression and terror used to keep that future from becoming reality. Iran must be protected. The regime must be dismantled.” He then addressed the leaders of the U.S. and Israel: “I ask President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu to continue targeting the regime and its apparatus of repression, while sparing the civilian infrastructure Iranians will need to rebuild our country. With the support of the US and Israel, and above all the sacrifice of Iranian patriots, the hour of Iran’s freedom is at hand. Long live Iran!”
  Crown Prince Pahlavi: ‘Iran Is Not the Islamic Republic’

• The decision aims to safeguard international shipping and prevent further economic disruption caused by Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
  Britain Grants Trump Use of Bases for Iran Strikes.
  
• Just as well that we find that out with a failed attack on Diego Garcia rather than a successful attack on America.
  Iran Attack on US Base Shows It Lied About its Missile Capability

• In a joint statement released on Saturday morning, the nations of Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Republic of Korea, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom condemned in the “strongest terms” the recent attacks by Iran against unarmed, civilian shipping vessels, its attacks on oil and gas infrastructure throughout the Gulf, and its move to shut down traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.
  Over 20 Nations Announce Readiness to Help Open Strait of Hormuz
  
• "Now, imagine that those ICBMs are tipped with nuclear warheads, which they were planning to do as well."
  Israeli Ambassador Reacts To Iran Strike With Message That Raises Stakes
  
• The Warthog didn't just show up; it stayed, loitered, and delivered precise firepower where it mattered, when it mattered. Fast jets hit and leave, while the Warthog sticks around to make sure the job's finished.
  Ugly, Cheap, and Deadly: The A-10 Proves Itself Again Over the Red Sea
  
• U.S. military strikes have systematically dismantled key elements of Iran’s military, including “thousands of Iranian missiles, advanced attack drones, and all of Iran’s navy, which they use to harass international shipping.”
  CENTCOM Chief: 8K+ Iranian Targets Hit, 130 Vessels Destroyed — ‘Largest Elimination of a Navy Since WWII’
  
• Roger Kimball: Iran’s regime and its media enablers insist they’re winning—even as their capabilities are dismantled, their reach exposed, and the clock on their survival runs out.
  ‘Tis But a Flesh Wound: Iran’s Delusional Victory Claims Amid Regime Collapse
  
• Trump has a grand strategy for containing Iran -- heard in his speech ten months ago in Riyadh.
  Enforced Demilitarization: How Trump’s Coalition Strategy Is Boxing In Iran
  
• Certainly, Israel is waging war against the country of Iran, but many Iranian people seem more grateful than resentful.
  Is Israel helping—or not helping—the Iranian people?
  
• Miranda Devine: As we enter the fourth week of the Iran war (or "excursion"), here are two great ideas about how to deal with some of the consequences — both from outside the Beltway.
  2 great ideas on how to deal with the Iran war consequences that Trump should consider
  
• Washington cannot maintain strength and credibility if it allows militias to continue escalating attacks against the U.S. embassy and other U.S.-affiliated sites.
  America Must Destroy Iran’s Militias in Iraq
  
• Iran’s mullahs execute a national hero.
  The Murder of Saleh Mohammadi
  * * * * *

• The agent of Iran’s near success in going nuclear.
  Barack Obama and the Iran War

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

• They truly believe they have a monopoly on intelligence and morality.
  The Liberal's Insufferable Superiority Complex

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

• Realistically, this is the last opportunity to deport illegals, while Republicans control all branches of the federal government and public opinion strongly favors border control.
  If ‘Temporary Refugees’ Aren’t Removed Now, They Never Will Be
  
• What can we do about foreign drug cartel and terror leaders born in the U.S.?
  Birthright Citizenship is National Suicide
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: Who created our current Frankensteinian monstrosities? We did. (We, VDH?! - jjs)
  Why today’s immigrants to America are so hostile to their new country
  
• Jose Medina-Medina, 25, allegedly murdered 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman early Thursday morning while she walked along the Chicago lakefront with her friends.
  Dangerous game Illegal migrant accused of executing Loyola student was cut loose into US twice under Biden: DHS
  
• Never assume that, because someone appears to be a true conservative, he really is. Every voter must always apply Reagan’s “trust but verify” principle.
  Grady Judd’s Illegal Alien Amnesty Turn is the GOP’s Wake-Up Call

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• The Democrats hope to use the suffering of American travelers to force Republicans to cave to their demands to kneecap ICE enforcement. But the president played a . . . trump card.
  Foiling Dems’ airport insanity with ICE — Trump is 100% right
  
• Radicals like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are still hard at work scapegoating the software, which, during the Trump 2.0 affordability rebound, has even recommended lower rental prices.
  Pass the 21st Century America Housing Act!
  
• After decades of drift, the troubled city has a chance to restore public order and competitiveness.
  Can St. Louis Make a Comeback?

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• British institutions are relentlessly embracing Islam, attacking classic British culture, and turning a blind eye to Islamic crime and antisemitism.
  The Islamization of Britain is Almost Complete
  
• The March 22, 2016 attacks claimed by the Islamic State group left 32 people dead and more than 300 wounded — Belgium’s worst peacetime massacre.
  Belgium Marks 10 Year Anniversary of Deadly Islamist Bombings in Brussels

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

• Mueller, who became the director of the FBI in September 2001, served under “presidents of both political parties.” While at the FBI, “Mueller set about almost immediately overhauling the bureau’s mission to meet the law enforcement needs of the 21st century”:
  Robert Mueller, Former FBI Director, Special Counsel For Russiagate Hoax, Dies at 81
  
• FBI surveillance powers meant for foreign threats were turned inward—targeting Trump advisers, hiding exculpatory evidence, and leaving innocent Americans financially and reputationally wrecked.
  FBI Misled Court to Spy on Second Trump Campaign Adviser
  
  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• The decision affects 60-70 employees and ends nearly a century of CBS News radio broadcasting, impacting 700 affiliated radio stations.
  CBS News Slashes Staff, Shuts Down Radio Division.
  
• No matter the story, the one thing that most journalists today want to see is Trump lose, even if that means America loses, too.
  CBS’ 60 Minutes Reflects Modern Journalism’s Defeatism
  
• As legacy media wage partisan war on Trump under the guise of reporting, the real danger lies in losing both trust in journalism and commitment to First Amendment principles.
  The War Over the War
  
• No one really knows what triggers obsessions. Tucker Carlson’s obsession with Jews and Israel is no exception.
  Tucker’s Obsession
  
• Only Tucker can go to China.
  Tucker Carlson Urges U.S. to Share Power With China

• Ali Velshi has a great knack for ignoring the obvious facts and telling lies to his viewers.
  Facts Forged: MS Now Labels Racist Democrats As GOP
  
• David Harsanyi: How Islamists are given special dispensation by the media.
  When ‘Islamophobia’ Becomes a License to Lie

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• No one can predict exactly when and by how much energy prices will rise or fall.
  How to Handle Higher Gas Prices
  
• Oil prices have climbed since Operation Epic Fury began, with WTI crude futures closing at $98.32 on Friday, up more than $30 from $67.02 on Feb. 27 — the day before the conflict with Iran began — according to Investing.com. Analysts claim effects from Iran’s efforts to close the Strait of Hormuz on the prices of multiple commodities could linger beyond the moment active hostilities cease, according to Axios.
  Economic Shocks Will Permeate Long After Iran Strikes Stop, Analysts Predict
  
• Pensions are causing a fiscal calamity most US taxpayers are not even aware of. There is a way to fix them, but it will take courage.
  The Public Pension Death Spiral
  
• Efforts underway in several states to abolish the tax could lead to heavy-handed, anti-growth government. Here’s how to reform it instead.
  Ending Property Taxes Would Be a Mistake

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• Borne was booked on 40 counts of possession of child sexual abuse material and one count of possession, trafficking, or importing a child sex doll, with significant legal penalties if convicted.
  ‘Roblox’ Programmer Faces 40 Child Porn Charges.

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

• This is not the future that the greenie globalists imagined.
  The New World Order Runs on Hydrocarbons
  
• The entry into modern forms of nuclear power, driven by free markets, would shatter the walls of the green trap.
  The EU and the Nuclear Energy Transition

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• Democrats don’t want to put terrorists in prison or deport illegal aliens, but they’d love an excuse to put you away on a gun law technicality.
  Democrats Love Gun Control And Violent Criminals Because Both Can Punish You

  AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

• COVID fallout based on bad government recommendations is still coming.
  Massive new study finds myocarditis and pericarditis only in COVID-19 vaccinated youth

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

• County elections officials have disputed the claims by Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a Republican. California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, called Bianco’s move unprecedented and says it is designed to sow distrust in elections. Bianco held a news conference Friday saying his office had launched the investigation after receiving a complaint from a local citizens group about the ballot count from a November 2025 special election on redistricting. In the special election, voters approved a measure to redraw congressional district lines to favor Democrats in the upcoming midterm election. The measure passed in the county by a margin of more than 80,000 votes.
  California sheriff running for governor seizes more than a half million ballots from 2025 election
  
• Mike Lee dismantled SAVE Act opposition—will it be enough
  "If we cannot secure the most basic element of our elections of any free and fair system of elections, we’re inviting a level of distrust that this country cannot afford."
  
• Americans who believe voter verification is essential to free and fair elections need to contact senators now and let them know.
  Memo To Senate: Saving America’s Elections Is Your No. 1 Job Right Now

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

• The governor, who is known to have a strained relationship with President Donald Trump, reportedly selected oil and gas executive Alan Armstrong to succeed Mullin, the junior Republican senator of the Sooner State the president nominated to replace Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem, pending Senate confirmation. NOTUS first reported the news late Saturday, citing three anonymous sources. Oklahoma state law stipulates Stitt’s pick can only serve until the end of Mullin’s term in January 2027, after which the winner of the state’s November Senate election — in which Trump-endorsed Republican Rep. Kevin Hern is the heavy favorite — will take office.
  Oklahoma Governor’s Reported Replacement For Sen Mullen Is A Virtual Unknown Who Gave Money To Trump Foe

  POLITICS

• Time and time again, Trump has defied the odds and the experts — and MAGA has come to expect that.
  Declaring ‘The End Of Trumpism’ Has Never Been A Smart Bet
  
• Liberals are losing. MAGA is winning. And both groups know it.
  Republicans are optimistic. Democrats are pessimistic.
  
• The revelation, the result of an exclusive look at federal campaign records by the New York Post, shows the Bronx lawmaker hired Boston-based Dr. Bryan Boyle, chief psychiatric officer at a chain of clinics called Stella that focus on “innovative” or alternate treatment protocols that have emerged in recent years.
  Titty-Caca AOC’s Campaign Spent Nearly $19K on Psychiatrist Known for Hallucinogenic Therapy
  
• Dan Schnur, politics professor at USC, UC Berkeley, and Pepperdine, said the poll is “borderline catastrophic” for Bass despite her lead.
  Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass Leads Reelection with over 50% Disapproval Rating

• Who knew the wealthy would leave if you insulted them and told them to leave?
  Kathy Hochul sort of says: 'Oops'
  
• Overconfidence despite clear incompetence was evident in both Obama and Mamdani.
  The Dunning–Kruger Problem in Modern Governance
  
• Ami Kozak on groypers, free speech, and the future of MAGA.
  Prager U Video: Inside the Conservative Civil War

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• The Trump administration rejected the proposal, but it has sparked concern among European diplomats that the U.S. may cease assisting Ukraine in favor of prioritizing its agenda in the Middle East
  Russia Offered to Stop Sharing Intel With Iran If U.S. Stops Sharing Intel With Ukraine.

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• The state-run Cuban Electric Union attributed the failure to an unexpected breakdown at the Nuevitas thermoelectric plant in Camagüey province, the Associated Press reported. The malfunction triggered a chain reaction that knocked offline every generator connected to the grid. Officials activated isolated backup circuits to keep hospitals, water systems and other critical facilities running.
  Cuba’s Power Grid Flickers Out For Third Time This Month
  
• Deputy foreign minister warns island is ready for “military aggression” amid blockade and escalating rhetoric.
  Cuba Prepares For Possible U.S. Military Action As Tensions Surge
  
• Danish elections are complicated. Needless to say, that's why there is some uncertainty.
  Denmark: The Danes Go to the Polls
  
• “These approaches have stanched the bleeding for some liberal parties...The world has not yet known a liberal Europe that has no Uncle Sam to lean on...The connection between migration and Russia...has become surprisingly clear...Today, the stronger future project belongs to the populist right.”
  The Age of Fortress Liberalism
  
• "I've always said that Canada is like America with like 20% less assholes," said Rogan.
  Pierre Poilievre FINALLY went on Joe Rogan's podcast and showed why he should lead Canada

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• A Canadian study casts further doubt on a key plank of the harm-reduction agenda.
  Supervised Drug-Consumption Sites Don’t Save Lives

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• The orbital tug startup Exlabs has signed up a second payload customer to fly on its private ApophisExL mission to rendezvous with the potentially dangerous asteroid Apophis when it makes its April 13, 2029 close fly-by of the Earth.
  The missions to potentially dangerous asteroid Apophis
  
• Right now, however, our map [of the solar system] is comparable to that of the New World in the half century after Columbus, filled with blank spots and guesses. We simply don’t know very much. Worse, it appears to me we often think we know more than we do.
  Uranus: one glimpse and that was forty years ago

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

• The ruling challenges the HHS declaration, potentially allowing states to bypass restrictions on inflicting irreversible gender transition procedures on minors.
  Biden Judge Reverses RFK Jr. Ban on Transgender Surgeries for Minors.

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Christian Toto: Variety trashes Chuck Norris for daring to do what Hollywood won't attempt today
  Hollywood Media Sinks to New, Predictable Low
  
• Mass immigration and internal flight are dissolving America’s historic state identities, replacing rooted communities with transient populations and accelerating cultural and political upheaval.
  Americans Replacing Americans: Fleeing Diversity and Threatening Regional Identities
  
• They're not asking anything crazy, just basic respect for the atmosphere people are paying a fortune to enjoy. And guess what happened?
  Ruth’s Chris Asks Adults to Dress Like Adults, and the Internet Has a Full Meltdown
  
• As WNO’s programming has gone in a more politically charged direction, ticket sales and donations have been declining.
  From Woke to Broke at the Washington National Opera?

  HITHER & YON

• Paul Ehrlich didn’t inherit Malthus—he distorted him, trading flawed theory for a far darker creed that justified coercion, control, and contempt for human ingenuity.
  In Defense of Thomas Malthus

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