DEMOCRATS JUST GOT ONE STEP CLOSER to seizing presidential elections. Newly elected Gov. Abagail Spanberger signed the state onto the National Popular Vote Interatate Compact.

[Update] Two steps closer, as apparently Virginia voters approved Democrat gerrymandering just in time for the mid-term and 2028 elections.

ENDORSED: Sony Pictures boss Tom Rothman urges theater owners to stop having 30 minutes of trailers.

In other words, don't follow television. Their price is higher in terms of ads (trailers) and their product is worthless.

It sometimes seems like television is owned by the Ad Council -- constant ads interspersed with tiny bits of news and 'entertainment'.

And the ads suck....

TRUTH: "Feminization equals wokeness."

GOVERNMENT-AIDED HOSTAGE TAKING: Google is quietly censoring pro-gun websites — and it's working.

DON SURBER'S SUBSTACK: Even Reddy Kilowatt is leaving blue states.

WHEELS (SPINNING) ON THE MARXIST BUS: Obama And Mamdani meet using toddlers as props.

Mentally they're (pre)toddlers themselves.

MONDAY NIGHT FROM SARAH HOYT: The right to keep and bear memes shall not be infringed.

Go see the memes.

I THINK THE PERCENTAGE IS WAY LOW: 90% of social science research leans left.

To reprise an old Moral Majority bumper sticker: 'SOCIAL SCIENCE IS NEITHER'.

MAMDANI YET AGAIN: NYC Mayor Mamdani admits city-owned grocery stores have limited ability to lower prices on many items.

Without subsidies your tax dollars, that is.

MAMDANI ANNOUNCES his plan to destroy NYC's bodegas will take effect next year.

And it will fail quickly, just as all his other 'free stuff' plans have so far....

COULD A SOMALILAND BASE emerge as US foothold against Iran, Houthis in key sea lanes?

The Republic of Somalia (Somilialand) is NOT Somalia; it is a partially recognised (by Israel) state in the Horn of Africa located on the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden and bordered by Djibouti to the northwest, Ethiopia to the south and west, and Somalia to the east.

CHINA MUST BE SMILING watching America’s pundit imbeciles.

Linked from Instapundit.

WE WON'T COMPROMISE: In-N-Out CEO says no to delivery and East Coast expansion.

Well, In-N-Out moved its HQ to Tennessee in 2025, so maybe Lynsi Snyder-Ellingson (its CEO) will be kind and put an In-N-Out near me in northwest Georgia. It's been (more than) a few years but I believe Lynsi was in the same high school in Lancaster CA as my daughter when we lived there.

BY ALL MEANS let the war crimes trials begin!

Gen. Curtis LeMay smiles....

In his 1965 autobiography ... LeMay is quoted as saying his response to North Vietnam would be to demand that "they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression, or we're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age. And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power—not with ground forces." ... Later, in a Washington Post interview LeMay said that "I never said we should bomb them back to the Stone Age. I said we had the capability to do it. I want to save lives on both sides."

He was right then, and PresidentTrump should follow his footsteps.

POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures has two favorites this week.

Now go see the rest.

SPRING LEAVES 2026, Week 7 (+ 1 day): It seems like every cycle I miss at least one Sunday, so if nothing else I'm consistent. Everything else has bloomed and growing nicely, and finally -- finally -- the trees are showing actual leaves, so this will be a short post. Herewith are the usuals: pond, fire pit, and trees across the street.

The pond is looking good. The trees on the other side are now beginning to photograph as greening, and the ground cover (brush) on our side is finally poking through the leaves. The same is true around the fire pit; the grass in the yard is finally growing thicker and the plants along the walkway are doing well. All along the street the trees are now robustly showing leaves

And finally the homestead has begun to show its summer colors.

Next week will be the last of this year's Spring Leaves series. Until then....

A BIT LATE, BUT -- TAX EXTENSION FILERS BEWARE: Payments are were still due to the IRS by April 15.

Just another instance of the government taking your paycheck, spending whatever they want and 'giving you back' whatever's left over (or billing you if you didn't earn eneough).

THE REAL DANGER ISN’T DUMB PEOPLE — It’s smart people without wisdom.

MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ Never mind the letters & numbers. What does the + stand for?

RANDOM THOUGHT: Progressives are ruining America.

GOD AND MAN AT THE OBAMA LIBRARY: Pope Leo XIV meets with Obama surrogate.

Looks like Obama's planning to compete with Stacy Abrams for President of United Earth.

AMERICANS ARE DONE with feckless, useless, and weak fake allies.

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON AND BILL NYE never put a damn thing into orbit besides their own egos.

Read the comments. They're not kind.

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION kills the most annoying car feature Obama forced on drivers.

Now turn off all the remaining health & safety beeps/warnings/lights on my wife's new Subaru and I might actually drive it....

NATO IS IN FAR BIGGER DANGER THAN ANYONE REALIZES. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets.

NEW POLL: Generation Z is thinking that AI isn't all it's cracked up to be.

They're learning what those of us with engineering backgrounds learned long ago: "To err is human; to really fuck things up requires a computer."

RANDOM THOUGHT: Democrats manage problems; Republicans solve them.

NEW RULES, swank continental edition.

CREATING A PERMANENT UNDERCLASS of reliable Democrat voters is what Democrats do best.

IT'S (ALMOST) TOO LATE: The greatest threat to American prosperity will come from Washington’s inability to control its own spending.

DONALD TRUMP channels Bugs Bunny; the Iranian Regime hardest hit.

WOKE -- The definition of decadence.

NYC MAYOR MAMDANI launches $70M government grocery store plan.

Now explain how your government is going to pay for it. With other peoples' taxes?

STATES PUSH AGGRESSIVE TAX PROPOSALs as voters push back on tax burdens.

Maybe, just maybe, the states should focus on cutting spending.

IF I WANT YOUR OPINION, I'll give it to you.

And you won't like it....

WHAT CEASEFIRE? Iranians threaten to attack American Navy ships that enter the Strait of Hormuz.

OOPS: US Navy warships cross Strait of Hormuz for the first time.

Update: Mine clearing begins.

MASTERS COVERAGE RUINED BY ESPN, which defiled Augusta National golf tournament.

Morons. And that's being generous.

THE WEEK IN PICTURES: No Queens edition. My personal favorite:

But there are many, many good ones this week -- the very first Tim Walz cartoon sets the stage for all the rest. Go see them all.

MICHAEL MOORE: Still dumber than a box of rocks.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Even the news networks I (used to) trust are now trolling for (moron) clicks.

GOODBYE AND GOOD RIDDANCE: Mr. Kiss Kiss Fang Fang crashes.

ONLY DOCUMENTED CANS accepted.

Read the comments. My favorite: "ALL CANS ARE LEGAL ON STOLEN LAND!!!"

WHO'S READY for Flintstonistan?

COLORADO SPRINGS MAN sentenced for hate crime hoax that probably flipped the city's mayoral race.

They're just barely above killing people to win. And I'm not sure about 'barely'....

2026: A MICROSOFT ODYSSEY:

Which explains why I hate Microsoft's Windows 11.

KETANJI BROWN JACKSON is not the idiot you think she is.

She's worse. Much worse. I hope for a future impeachment.

THE IRAN CEASEFIRE TALKS have imploded.

Coming soon -- The Middle East gets a new parking lot....

SPRING LEAVES 2026, Week Six: There's been a bit of change this week, since it's clearly warming. Let's start with the usuals, the pond and fire pit views:

Unlike the view last week taken from beyond our 'yard' the ground is still mostly bare but the trees are beginning to bud out. Like last week, the view this week is from my usual side.

Around the barn, the flowers are coming along nicely, but the grass is still being lazy.

From north to south along our road the flowers are coming along nicely. We're beginning to clean out weeds from the flowerbeds -- it's taking a few more days, and lots more mulch than anticipated.

Here's a view of a 'finished' flowerbed along the carport.

Until next week....

Update: I forgot this picture

of our dogwood tree. They're just past peak bloom and fading fast into summer leaves.

ON EASTER, NO LESS: The European mind can't comprehend why we're such bad asses.

To quote the last sentence: "Is it any wonder they're so damn good?"

ON WINNING without fighting.

Practice, practice, practice....

PAYBACK: If this is terrorism....

Courtesy of Instapundit.

AMERICA HAS A SIGNIFICANT MORON PROBLEM. Our own ruling class desperately wants to lose this war.

POSTPONED FOR (MAYBE) TWO WEEKS: Throw Iran to the wolves.

CARVILLE GLOATS that Democrats will go after Trump's 'stupid jacka-- kids and their spouses' after midterms.

No wonder Carville's been retired by the Dimocrats (not misspelled).

EUROPE needs to hear this harsh truth.

DROP SITE NEWS CONTRIBUTOR calls for 'wiping out Israel' in Instagram post.

Change 'Israel' to 'Islamists' and I could agree....

IRANIAN WOMAN CONFRONTS ANTI-WAR PROTESTER — with a stunning result.

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: We're halfway there. And on our way home.

ABOUT TIME: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth cuts Ivy League ties in military education shake-up.

Good: Hillsdale College is on Hegseth's approved list for military education.

THE RESPONSE to the Democrats' 'No Kings' protest rally was fantastic.

Linked from Townhall.

SPRING LEAVES 2026, Week Five: Here's the pond, taken from a slightly different view this year.

Everything is pretty much the same as last week. The deciduous trees are still bare, but beginning to bud, just not yet visible in the picture.

Again, a slightly different view of the fire pit. The chairs are back up now that the winds are quieter, the grass is greener, and the plants along the walkway are back and growing.

And the dogwood trees are now blooming. Here's our one nearest the house. This picture was taken yesterday and it's even fuller of blossoms today. We have others scattered through the property and all are in bloom.

Here are the flowers along the fence borders north and south. All the plants are growing and even the roses are beginning to show signs of blooming.

Finally a quick view of the trees downhill and the flowers growing alongside the carport. Until next week then.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Progressive Democrats and Islamist Muslims are cut from opposides of the same cloth.

TALK ABOUT STEPPING IN IT. David French says Trump is the worst free-speech President of his lifetime.

He hasn't lived very long has he? French should go back to kindergarten and start over.

SOME OF THESE NOVEMBER PREVIEWS ARE SURPRISINGLY FUN: Jon Ossoff’s ID hypocrisy was begging for mockery and Mike Collins delivered.

Mike Collins just won my vote for Georgia's next Senator.

THANK HEAVEN FOR SMALL FAVORS: Democrats in decline.

DOES THE NEW YORK TIMES know what NATO stands for?

Linked from Instapundit.

'NO KINGS’ PROTESTERS are dumber than you think.

Impossible. They can't be dumber than I think....

CEO OF WORLD'S LARGEST BANK has some harsh reality for blue states: Population exodus is your own fault.

Is fly-over country about to become fly-to country?

EVEN DEMOCRATS. EVEN SOME MICHIGAN DEMOCRATS: Michigan State Representative Karen Whitsett says faith drove her from the Democratic Party. "I’m not a co-signer of crazy."

REALLY? You don't think there's a plan?

CLEANING UP AMERICA'S BEACHES: Cops turn beach bash into a perp parade.

KURT SCHLICHTER: The victory option.

WOULDN’T IT BE NICE if New York City were as clean and well-run as San Salvador?

YES, IT'S FROM AMERICA'S NEWS OF RECORD: Tiger Woods awarded honorary California CDL.

Linked from Instapundit.

EXALT THE CRIMINAL, ignore the innocent. As noted by the author, "Democrats are sick people."

A BIT LATE, DON'CHA THINK? Federal judge halts White House ballroom project after ruling Trump lacks authority.

AFTER A DECADE, San Francisco discovers that teaching mathematics is key in ensuring students learn mathematics.

Lazarus Long responds: "Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable sub-human who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house."

Which describes most Democrats....

LIBERALISM is a mental illness.

Hat tip TO Instapundit.

DEMOCRAT VIRGINIA GOVERNOR ABIGAIL SPANBERGER blames ICE as repeat offender kept getting released.

PROBABLY FOR THE BEST: OpenAI “indefinitely” shelves plans for erotic ChatGPT.

Then again, maybe not. It might keep the nutcases off the streets until our mental institutions can be rebuilt....

LIBERAL MINDSET IN A NUTSHELL: "The higher your educational attainment and the more shiny your credentials, the more likely you are to be a radical totalitarian with a love for technocracy."

PEOPLE LIKE MARKWAYNE MULLIN built this country. People like Jimmy Kimmel don't deserve to live in this country. An outhouse is too good for his kind.

GIVEN THE LEVEL OF HUMAN STUPIDITY EVIDENT TODAY I don't think it's possible to overestimate AI's ability to think like humans.

GOODBYE:

Our country is already great; go home and work on yours.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Anything said, written, or posted by a certified-by-the-mainstream-media 'expert' is almost certainly wrong.

I'm reminded by the wisdom of Lazarus Long: "Always listen to experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done and why. Then do it!"

INTERNATIONAL ACTORS are involved in the State Department led color revolution.

Data Republican's Twitter post is here. You'll need a speaker to listen to the last part of her post.

THE BLOWS JUST KEEP COMING for residents of Washington state.

MY FAVORITE from Powerline's Week in Pictures says it all:

Now go see the rest.

I KNEW THIS YEARS AGO. Apple co-founder warns 'you are owned' by big technology.

I bought a new Windows 11 based computer a few months ago and use it sparingly (because my old Windows 7 computer still mostly works) until I can remove copilot, auto-update, and all the cloud-based features on Windows 11.

Assuming that's even possible.

HEH: The Democrats problem with young white men.

OK, now do the Obama library.

THEY'RE TOO STUPID TO PANIC: Democrats should be panicking about this.

[VIP] I'M ALREADY HELPING -- and increasing my assistence -- daily. Bourbon waste may power the future, and I'm happy to help.

LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE: Democrats narrative crumbles as ICE agents deliver perfect response to unhinged person in airport.

Click on both videos.

PJ MEDIA'S KEVIN DOWNEY JR. celebrates yesterday's 'No Kings' rallys. Click on all the picture links.

SPRING LEAVES 2026, Week Four: We begin again with the two usuals, the pond and fire pit views:

There's still not a lot of difference from last week. A little bit of growth on the ground and the trees are just beginning to bud if you're close enough to see, but nothing yet in the photographs.

It's difficult to see in this picture but one dogwood on the south side of our house has just begun to bloom. Next week maybe we'll see actual blossoms from both dogwoods. Unfortunately that side of the house doesn't get much sun so the dogwoods can't really grow grow and the steepness of the terrain makes it difficult to take out the small stuff that interferes with their sun.

Looking across the valley where our creek runs, you can actually see the trees on the other side. That won't last as the forest fills out.

Here's the other side of our abode along the road. It's looking pretty good - all the plants and flowers are growing nicely, although the roses have still yet to begin flowering.

Finally across the road from our house, the trees are still bare. No obvious budding out yet. Until next week, then.

YOUR FIELD GUIDE to observing the seasonal 'No Kings' display.

Enjoy the astroturf you paid for with your (stolen) tax dollars....

IF YOU THINK DEMOCRATS CARE ABOUT YOU, you’re an idiot.

I'll be generous and go with moron.

IT PAYS TO BE EXTRA-SKEPTICAL of anything published in medical journals — particularly when it involves firearms.

It pays to be extra-skeptical of any mainstream news (or advertising) source....

DEMOCRATS: Elect us, we're miserable too.

KURT SCHLICHTER: No, MAGA is not falling apart.

POVERTY TOURISM: Poverty is good for little people.

Like Cuba....

WELL, THEY'RE GOOD AT PLAYING TRAUMA VICTIMS: Are you ready for the Democrats’ 2028 Presidential Childhood Trauma Olympics?

In a 1960s interview, John Wayne said, “Ten or 15 years ago audiences went to pictures to see men behaving like men… today there are too many neurotic roles.”

Now that's how Democrats audition for the role of The Most Powerful Man in the World.

Linked from Instapundit.

CONFIRMED: Another one gets a dirt nap.

FIVE DAYS AND $19 LATER: "For shits and giggles, I decided to see just how hard it would be to replace my birth certificate, Social Security card, AND my marriage license, since Democrats think women are too stupid to figure it out."

The Patriot Post agrees.

I LIKE ELON MUSK but as a former Austinite, moving facilities there is a bad call.

On the bright side, however, Lockheed Martin's old Austin facility may still be available....

ISRAELI ENVOY: Iranians likely to overthrow regime.

One can must hope.

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ spent $19K on ketamine-linked psychiatrist.

According to my web sources, at lower doses ketamine is used as a treatment for pain and treatment-resistant depression. It is not used to treat stupidity....

REPUBLICANS PUT SENATE on the record in vote on biological men in womens' sports.

Read the record -- and weep for America.

SEN. JOHN KENNEDY [R-LA] goes full beast mode on cowardly colleague.

CROWN PRINCE PAHLAVI: Iran is not the Islamic Republic.

BREAKING: Senate votes for Markwayne Mullin for DHS Secretary.

I agree with Sarah Anderson (the author) on this one: you do need a college (preferably Ivy League) degree to be a Congressional idiot.

UGLY, CHEAP, AND DEADLY: The A-10 proves itself again over the Red Sea.

ENGINEERING is magic (to those who can't do math).

YEAH, RIGHT: Something is screwy is going on in the Georgia election fraud investigation.

It's called Fulton county.

I GUESS CAMERAS are now racist.

Linked from Instapundit here.

DEPENDS ON THE SIZE OF THE CUP: Scientistes may have found the ideal amount of coffee to lower stress.

Fun comments here.

MAMDANI'S LATEST PROPOSAL: Stripping the dying of their assets.

That'll certainly hasten NYC's devolution into a third-rate township in rural New York....

THE MORE THINGS CHANGE

the more they stay the same.

COMMON SENSE? FROM NEW YORK? Oops, that climate law was a mistake...

Yes. Yes, it was. So is taxing millionaires and billionaires....

THE DEMOCRATS' HIVE MIND has received today's message: ICE may "brutalize or in some instances, kill" people at airports...

Starting Monday.

I GUESS I'M 'PRE-CLASSIC': The day we become classics.

CHARLES DARWIN RETURNS: Progressive crackpots vs. environmental wackos.

theory of evolution in In his book 'On the Origin of Species' in 1859, Darwin theorized that the hardier species evolved while those less hardy disappeared. With the advent of modern medicine, those lesser species have evolved into 'progressive crackpots' and 'evvironmental wackos'.

I don't have a humane solution other than perhaps to not let them vote....

MR. PRESIDENT: Change the name of the Department of Homeland Security to the (no longer used) Department of Defense and dare the Democrats to defund it.

Something I suggested earlier.

IT GOES FOR THE USA, TOO.

THE DEMOCRATS are locked in a Möbius loop of crazy.

THE ULTIMATE ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY:

You have none. Linked from here. There are more; go see the rest.

More memes in the comments here.

TRUTH: Trump post casts Democrats as main threat to America.

SENATE DEMOCRATS are lying even harder about the TSA mess they've created.

Another "Schumer shutdown" and the Democrats are trying to lie about it by blaming Republicans.

SPRING LEAVES 2026, Week Three: As usual, we begin with the pond and fire pit views and, as to be expected, not much has changed except for the sun angle.

Our bellwether forsythia, which blossomed in full yellow even before I started taking pictures this year, is now almost fully green. The trees behind and to the south still haven't begun to bud out yet -- at least not visibly.

The same is true of the trees to the north, except that flowers and other plants along the fence line are perking up nicely.

So are the yards as our barn cat (Tuxedo) surveys his property

And finally, a look back at our house and the (bare) forest behind us.

Until next week then....

IMPRIMIS: Recovering the lost art of diplomacy.

Or, as I've been taught (when schooling meant something), war by other means....

FCC TAKES NOTICE as America’s most popular sport becomes increasingly costly, frustrating to consume.

Which explains why when fall rolls around I'll probably no longer be watching football.

NORWEGIANS don't want to be punished for success.

Linked from Instapundit here.

LET THAT SINK IN: San Francisco spends $141,852 per homeless person on average.

Instapundit nails it.

PRESIDENT TRUMP has pretty much the whole Muslim world against Iran and its allies now. Well, except for Britain and France.

POINT- GUN CONTROL’S ENDGAME: No guns for anyone.

COUNTERPOINT: Iran.

IT'S DIFFERENT THIS TIME: The Iranian people will overthrow their government even though the Iraquis couldn't because ....

I hope so, but ....

TOUGH LUCK, NYC. You voted for him, so suffer the consequences. And don't expect the rest of America to bail you out.

TOP AIDE TO TULSI GABBARD RESIGNS, blaming Israel for ‘Iran war.’

He purchased the podcaster starter pack: 'If I can't be in charge I'm taking my football and going home.'

UPDATE: Former counterterrorism chief Joe Kent under FBI investigation for alleged classified leaks.

INTERESTING: Elon Musk offers to pay TSA workers' salaries amid DHS budget standoff.

Normal Americans are pretty obviously getting pissed off with Dumbocrat Democrat obstruction.

COLD.HARD.FACTS: Data Republican (small r) is a national treasure.

This one is long, and has nothing, nada, zero to do with politics. What it does do is explain why she is so damned effective.

THE LAWS OF MAN do not constrain the laws of physics.

Read the whole thing.

THE BOTTOM LINE -- Iran is transitioning into an extremist military regime where Mojtaba Khamenei acts as a mere "puppet" of the Revolutionary Guard, who completely control the country.

Linked from Instapundit here.

IN THIS CASE, the host is the parasite.

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE MIKE JOHNSON [R-LA] exposes Democrats’ deadly priorities - illegals first.

ELISSA SLOTKIN & OTHER DEMOCRATS turn up the TDS meter at Markwayne Mullin's DHS confirmation hearing.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Don’t listen to idiots about the Iran war.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Our new ungracious immigrants.

NO SHIT, SHERLOCK: “These people are absolute freaking morons.”

THEY'RE NOT REALLY AFTER 'THE RICH'; they're after you.

DEMOCRATS REALLY ARE DISGUSTING, and this proves it.

As if more proof is needed.

THE OSCARS’ APPEAL is becoming more selective.

STEP RIGHT UP: The new head of Basij who replaced the previous head of Basij who was eliminated yesterday, was eliminated today.

Another leadership vacancy needing to be (temporarily) filled...

THESE DEMOCRATS wouldn’t stand for Americans — now they’re targets of an epic new midterm ad.

Name them and shame them. It would be a long list, but they should be individually shamed.

WE NEED WANT YOUR TAXES: NY Gov. Kathy Hochul asks the wealthy who left NY to return.

GUN CONTROL SEASON IS HERE. Expect gun control advocates to ignore these stories of armed self-defense.

WELL, GOOD: In an article on Robert Goddard, the New York Times admits an error.

They didn't understand physics then and probably still don't.

LIES AND LIARS: Let’s count the lies Virginia assault weapons bill author Saddam Salim tells in just three paragraphs.

WHO COVERS AI BUSINESS BLUNDERS? Some insurers cautiously step up.

I predict this to be the next great growth opportunity for the legal profession. Better even than political lawfare....

SOCIAL MEDIA GIANT META eyeing massive layoffs as costs for emerging technology skyrockets.

ISOLATIONIST WEIRDOS TO THE LEFT, NEOCONS TO THE RIGHT: Stuck in the middle with JD Vance.

On reading the post I'm reminded of Robert Heinlein's "Crazy Years" (a term coined in the early 1940s for his Future History stories) describing a period of social and moral decline in the United States, characterized by a deterioration of societal norms and institutions, leading to mass psychoses. This era is depicted as lasting from the mid-20th century into the early 21st century, with Heinlein suggesting a potential recovery afterward.

He was only about 70 years early and I'm not convinced a recovery is possible....

TOP DEMOCRAT accidentally reveals what her party really fears in the SAVE act.

RANDOM THOUGHT: I hate to even think it, but the current Democrat party gives morons a bad name.

IF YOU NEED A LESSON in the value of gun rights, just look at Iran.

“THESE PEOPLE are absolute freaking morons.”

BYRON YORK: The insane government shutdown.

FINALLY, Iraq is approaching the LeMay threshold: "If you kill enough of them, they will quit fighting."

Based on what I've seen in the news over the last 2-3 days, it seems to be working. Slowly, very slowly, but working.

MISTAH LARIJANI — he dead.

Also Gholamreza Soleimani, commander of the Basij force, the Islamic Republic's 'iron fist' used to suppress protesters internally.

Good riddance to both.

IT WAS STILL A DECENT STATE WHEN WE LEFT 10 YEARS AGO: Virginians at more risk thanks to Soros-funded prosecutors.

No longer.

DID AN IRANIAN EMBASSY just defect?

Look to see more in the coming days....

TRUTH: All cats are basically Americans.

NYC CITY COUNCIL'S UNBELIEVABLE PLAN to tackle self-checkout retail theft - punish business owners.

Well, they don't dare punish their own voters.

OBAMA’S PRESIDENTIAL CENTER seeking 100 unpaid volunteers to staff lavish facility.

They've got to save money to pay the lavish salaries of Obama's cronies. Obama certainly won't pay them himself....

THE BRITISH EMPIRE went from covering the world to covering its ass.

LEFTISTS, take Rubio's offer.

I WONDER WHY I don't see any Muslim countries on this list.

PORTLAND HOMELESS SHELTER NONPROFIT to close after claims of financial mismanagement.

I suspect it has already stolen everything, including the furniture.

POLITICAL QUESTIONS: "This is a case about swinging dicks." [Is it okay as long as the dicks swing?]

You'll have to scroll down to the third item, but go ahead and read the others along the way.

A GOOD START: Trump shrank federal workforce by 10%.

But only a start. Keep going, Mr. President.

DIRTY WORDS trump dirty deeds for the next SCOTUS pick.

A WARD CLARK SPECIAL: Clever critter outfoxes immigration authorities.

PRIVACY? PRIVACY? You only thought you had privacy.

IMPRIMIS: American Virtues – Victor Davis Hanson's 2025 commencement address to Hillsdale College graduates.

RANDOM THOUGHT: IED spelled backward is DEI....

SPRING LEAVES 2026, Week Two: I'll start the week (late, as I almost always am) with the usual pond and fire pit views.

As usual this early, not much difference from last week. The trees are still bare, as is the lawn -- though it is growing some, and the weeds around the driveway got mowed.

The iris plants are growing like weeds, but as yet no blooms. There are a few others blooming, and the roses are beginning to show some signs of growth, but that's about it so far.

Across the road, the trees are beginning to show signs of budding (upper left) and the iris plants are almost jumping out of the ground. I guess the deer aren't that hungry right now.

From Friday, here's a picture of the pear trees down the highway at a local church. They're blooming all over town. They haven't begun to drop their blossoms yet, although I'm sure that'll be next week as that 'bomb cyclone' plaguing the North is due to hit us tonight with a week of freezing night time temperatures.

Until next week....