Ace, Iran Claims It Shot Down an F-15 Fighter and Is Searching for the Pilots, "Is this true? Well, Iran media has no credibility, except with the corrupt American propaganda media." Dave Strom, Iran Shoots Down F-15; Rescue Helicopter Hit? Second Plane Downed, Pilot OK. An F15 was shot down by Iran, the pilot recovered, but the weapons operator is still being sought. An A10 Warthog also downed during search, pilot recovered. WarMonitor @WarMonitor3, "There is nothing catastrophic about one plane being shot down in 5 weeks of operations against a supposed regional powerhouse, with one member of the crew already rescued as the US has created such aerial dominance it can fly into Irans airspace and extract a downed pilot." Richard Grenell @RichardGrenell, "Have you ever read a book? Yikes." Quote Fareed Zakaria @FareedZakaria "Has any US military action ever racked up so many costs for so few gains? My latest column: https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/"/03/iran-war-trump-hormuz-mistake/." Insty says HAHA, Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby, "Both of the Iranian commanders in this video are dead." Quote Jackson Hinkle @jacksonhinklle, " IRAN IS NOT PLAYING GAMES!" Neither is Israel. Duane Patterson at Hat Hair asks Who's Ready For Flintstonistan? So far the US and Israel have spared civilian infrastructure, but that may end as they put more pressure on the Mullahs and IRGC. Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby, "Two days ago, Israel passed a law that allows for convicted terrorists to be sentenced to death—they received international condemnation. Since the start of this year, the Islamic Republic has executed 637 innocent Iranians—there has not been a word of condemnation. Weird."
At Hat Hair, Capt. Ed says Boom! US Adds 178,000 Jobs In March. Sundance at CTH is on it with March Jobs Report Triples Expectations – 178,000 Net Jobs Gained and NEC Director Kevin Hassett Responds to Latest Jobs Data and Economic Impacts from Iran Conflict. VodkaPundit at Insty says HMM: The case for Trump’s tariffs looks strong a year on from ‘liberation day.’ From RCP, Why Small Business Matters More as Iran Drives Costs Higher. At NewsMax, Trump Admin Presents New Plan to Slash Two-Thirds of Consumer Watchdog Workforce, since the courts won't let him eliminate them entirely.Betsy Stauffer at LI, France Joins China, Russia in Blocking Gulf Nations’ Bid to Use Force to Open Strait of Hormuz. David D. Chapman @DavidD_Chapman, "France was the only Western country to vote 'NO' at the UN Security Council to authorize Arab nations to use force to open the strait. France voted with China & Russia. That was yesterday. Today, French ships are passing through the strait. I don't believe in coincidences." Quote Open Source Intel @Osint613 "JUST IN The French‑linked container ship CMA CGM Kribi has successfully exited the Strait of Hormuz, marking the first known Western‑affiliated transit through the strategic waterway since the Iran war began, sailing under a Maltese flag..." Roger Simon at American Refugees, Why Meloni Backstabbed Trump "Can Old Europe be saved?" Bonchie @bonchieredstate, "No matter how many times you guys say this, it won’t change the fact that the EU is funding Russia’s war machine (the most important aspect of all this) and is currently helping a Russian ally in Iran. Look in the mirror." Quote William HJ @WilliamHj15 Replying to @bonchieredstate, "You must be anong the dumbest supporters in world history. Look at what Trump is doing, he is the one empowering Russia - not the EU." Hat Hair's Josh Hammer asks the big picture question, What Exactly Is the Purpose of NATO in the Year 2026?. It's hardly to save Europe from Russia; Russia has been take to a draw by little Ukraine. Matt Vespa at TownHall on Why the NYT Had to Issue a Monster Correction for This Piece About Trump and NATO. Sasha Issenberg @sissenberg, "Does the @nytimes know what NATO stands for?" Omri Ceren @omriceren, "This is what happens when you let woke children run newsrooms." Sundance calls it One Picture to Personify American Media. NYT promised a "correction" in the next print edition. Brandon Straka #WalkAway @BrandonStraka, "UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns the organization faces collapse without continued U.S. funding, which contributes roughly $2.2 billion to its core budget. "the United Nations is on the brink of total collapse"" Sarah Anderson at PJM, The New Monroe Doctrine: It's Getting Hot In Here...
Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "So SecWar Pete Hegseth just fired Maj. Gen. William Green Jr., the US Army’s (now former) Chief of Chaplains. I have zero insider information on this, but I have my own theories as to why it happened. Green’s most important event as the Chief of Chaplains was to produce the United States Army’s “Spiritual Fitness Guide.” Published in July of 2025, Stars & Stripes wrote an article on this with a link to the guide. (I’ll put all related links in a comment email one below.) I’ll save you the trouble of clicking on that link — it goes to the US Army’s website, and it’s “404 Page Not Found.” That kind of explains a lot, doesn’t it?..." John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad, "Wait. Wait. Wait. I thought everyone knew about the chaplain corps move. Based on my DMs, maybe not. Navy Chaplains assigned to the Marine Corps were resistant to the cultural revolution happening across the force. So… Admiral Gilday, the avowed defender of Ibram X. Kendi, and General Mark Milley moved the entire Navy Chaplain School from South Carolina to Rhode Island to, in their words, “shift it culturally and intellectually” towards the Naval Woke College. They said it out loud. The chaplains who wouldn’t bend the knee got relocated..." Streif at RedState notices Hegseth Slammed for Barring Catholics From Good Friday Religious Services - There's Just One Tiny Problem. "There is literally no way Catholic and Protestant worship on Good Friday even vaguely resembles one another. The only thing nefarious here was the cheap shot taken at Pete Hegseth." Cathy Salgado at PJM notes Hegseth declares Military Bases Are No Longer Gun-Free Zones “Not all enemies are foreign, nor are they all outside our borders,” said Hegseth in an April 2 video. “Some are domestic. Confirming your God-given right to self protection is what I'm signing into action today. And I'm proud to do so.”
Parker Thayer @ParkerThayer, "ActBlue's comms team is now accusing both the New York Times AND their OWN LAWYERS of lying in the SAME press release. We're in uncharted territory folks, a truly generational comms team meltdown." Sundance at CTH, New York Times Reports the Primary Fundraising Mechanism of Democrats Willfully Accepted Foreign Donations. At CJ, The DSA Is Following the Soros Playbook, "The Democratic Socialists of America is prioritizing local elections to advance radical policies." Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes, "WOW. 2 of the NGO organizers of the No Kings Protests paid themselves $6 MILLION DOLLARS last year Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin are the co-directors of Indivisible. Indivisible is one of the organizers of “No Kings rallies” It’s funded by George Soros Payroll protest data: “Wait until you see how much Leah and Ezra paid themselves this year from their own organization that organized this event. Indivisible is a PAC, which means that all of their transactions and payments are public. We have the receipts right here..." Like the old dope peddler "Doing well by doing good." Althouse, "Wealthy Republicans were first to form a daisy chain of nonprofit giving to funnel anonymous money into the political system." ""But recently, this path has been exploited to a far greater degree by wealthy Democrats, many of whom are seeking anonymity to avoid reprisals from President Trump, even as they donate tens of millions of dollars at a time to defeat Republican candidates...From "Wealthy Donors Are Hiding Political Money in Secretive Nonprofits/Using philanthropy for campaign donations is illegal. But an exception for some nonprofits has allowed Democratic billionaires like Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg to remain anonymous when they want to play politics" (NYT)(gift link)."
The Free Bacon finds 'Yield Positions of Power to Those Otherwise Marginalized': Mamdani's Cash-Strapped Parks Department Trains Leaders on 'Becoming Anti-Racist' "The training, which recommends books from Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo, encourages supervisors to identify 'subtle' slights workers experience 'due to their group identity'." NPOV @npovmedia, " FORENSIC BREAKDOWN: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s and First Lady Rama Duwaji’s Wikipedia pages have been systematically sanitized, with praise for terrorists softened, endorsement of deadly attacks minimized, and verified racial & homophobic slurs blocked. THREAD."
Bonchie @bonchieredstate "He tried to fight a union worker for disagreeing with him and made a Gold Star mom cry." Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice, "RT if you miss having a President with empathy." (Biden).
Scott Pinsker at PJM thinks ‘The Epstein Files Released the Attorney General’ — and the Dems Mock a Pregnant Woman’s Weight Gain
John Sexton sees Demand Justice Warns Trump Could Fill Two More SCOTUS Vacancies, just not the two we most need to vacate.
From Fox, Parents of MacDill bomb suspects are illegal immigrants, DHS warns of birthright citizenship dangers "Trump administration argues the case underscores national security risks as birthright citizenship heads to Supreme Court." Chinese. Twitchy, Deportation? We Don't Do That: Illegals Squat for Decades, Their 'American' Kids Try to Bomb MacDill AFB. Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat, "Yes they hate us. Yes lots of them are like this. Yes they should be deported."
Josh Kraushaar @JoshKraushaar, "Social media isn’t real life. James Fishback, the antisemitic GOP candidate getting outsized attention on this platform and in parts of the mainstream media, polling at… Four percent in the GOP primary (trailing Donalds by 42 points!)." Quote Emerson College Polling @EmersonPolling, "NEW: FLORIDA POLL 2026 Gubernatorial GOP Primary Byron Donalds 46%." At PJM VodkaPundit thinks 60 Minutes Faces a 'Bloodbath,' but That's not the Worst of It. “Bari wants to make the show harder,” one source told The Post. “No one is talking about ‘60 Minutes’ on Monday morning.”A Driscolly post at Insty sees MILE MARKERS ON THE ROAD TO DETROIT, SOCAL EDITION: "Fears grow of ‘Detroit-Style’ decline as Hollywood jobs evaporate. Real fear is growing that Los Angeles’ once-thriving TV/film industry is taking a “Detroit-style” decline with Hollywood jobs evaporating over the last few years. A staggering 30% drop in film and TV employment since 2022 has experts warning that the city is following the path of the Motor City where the auto industry used to boom, according to the U.S. Labor Department, the Wall Street Journal reported. Recent stats show that as of March 2026, jobs in the motion picture and sound recording industries have dropped from where they were at their peak in July 2022 of more than 455 thousand jobs to 344,000. That’s a lot decline to hide!"
At the Am Mind, Inez Feltscher Stepman on what it's like Living Under the Feminist Gaze.
And plenty more at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 04.03.26, but the outside beacons.
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