[CA Post] Schadenfreude, it's what's for breakfast
Posted by: Frank G ||
03/20/2026 12:03 ||
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It’s like a Baath Party rally after Saddam takes over.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
03/20/2026 12:49 Comments ||
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If it was already going down the tubes, I somehow doubt that Bari Weiss is the person who can turn it around. But then, I don't know who could. Are any objective, hard nosed, old school journalists left in this country or are they all committed to communist propaganda? And would the loony birds who run CBS ever let a real journalist into the building?
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
03/20/2026 13:35 Comments ||
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And no, I won't shed a tear for those who are losing their jobs. They deserve to lose their jobs for pretending to be actual journalists. They're all a bunch of frauds who are richly deserving of a place in the unemployment line. Let them all flip burgers in some small town fast food joint.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
03/20/2026 13:39 Comments ||
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#5
"Did somebody say bath party?!"
Posted by: A. Cooper ||
03/20/2026 14:42 Comments ||
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Bari Weiss is a good person who can be relied on to appoint replacements friendly to America and her allies. MAGA have come out of the closet as Jew-haters and they need to be dealt with.
[National Review] Paul Ehrlich died Monday, nearly 60 years after he published his book The Population Bomb, ushering in a wave of mass hysteria over the imagined consequences of overpopulation that persists to this day.
Ehrlich warned in the 1968 book that overpopulation would lead to "mass starvation" on a "dying planet."
"The battle to feed all of humanity is over," he warned in the book’s opening sentence, declaring that humanity had lost. He predicted "hundreds of millions of people" would starve to death in the 1970s.
Of course, his predictions fell flat thanks to the green revolution in Asian agriculture that made farming more efficient.
Ehrlich’s alarmist warnings spread like wildfire thanks in part to legacy media outlets and a major boost from NBC’s Tonight Show. Johnny Carson had Ehrlich on the show more than 20 times, including one segment ahead of Earth Day where he invited Ehrlich to speak for over an hour on population, birth control, and sterilization to his audience of millions. In 1977, nearly a decade after the book’s publishing, Carson called Ehrlich "one of my favorite guests on this show over the years."
As the New York Times wrote in Ehrlich’s obituary this week, the book sold three million copies and "transformed Dr. Ehrlich, who was 37 at the time, into one of the global environmental movement’s most recognized leaders."
Smithsonian Magazine reports that Ehrlich initially had difficulty gaining media attention — but that struggle didn’t last long.
In a New York Times "Books of the Times" column from February 1969, the paper describes the book as follows:
#4
OK, but can we leave Johnny out of it? Focusing on beloved old Johnny Carson instead of Erlich and his supposedly erroneous prediction is damaging to National Review's credibility.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
03/20/2026 13:50 Comments ||
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[Regnum] The strongest magnetic storm in two months will hit Earth in the next 24 hours. The geomagnetic disturbances will last for approximately six days, until March 24. This was reported on March 19 by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The magnetic storm is forecast to be the strongest since mid-January. The most powerful disturbances are expected from March 19 to 21, when Earth will be affected by two large plasma ejections. A weaker "tail" from the influence of coronal holes is predicted from March 22 to 24.
With such a geostorm intensity, auroras are possible on Earth, potentially visible at latitudes of 50–55 degrees, all the way to the Volgograd region. The first such event is expected as early as the night of March 20.
According to scientists, a sharp increase in the solar wind—its density and speed—will signal the onset of a geomagnetic storm. This will indicate that the first ejection of solar material has reached Earth.
On March 16, a solar flare of the penultimate class occurred, lasting 32 minutes. Three days earlier, scientists released footage of the ejection of a giant solar prominence. The plasma structure, they specified, was approximately 1 million km in size, three times the distance from Earth to the Moon.
[AlphaNews] The couple says they've received nearly 20 official Minnesota unemployment and paid leave letters for businesses that have never operated from their home.
A Lakeville couple says they are receiving a growing stack of official letters from Minnesota’s Unemployment Insurance and Paid Family and Medical Leave programs — all addressed to businesses they have never heard of and have never operated from their home.
Despite multiple phone calls and letters to the state, the couple says the mail keeps coming.
Since mid-February, the homeowners say they have received more than 20 official letters from Minnesota’s unemployment and paid leave programs addressed to companies they say have no apparent record of existing.
“We’ve lived here for 22 years,” the homeowner told Alpha News. “We’ve never run a business out of this house. It’s a purely residential neighborhood.”
The first letter arrived Feb. 13, addressed to “STEL Building Materials.” The couple said they had never heard of the company. A search of the Minnesota Secretary of State’s business registry turned up no record of it. An online search yielded no apparent U.S.-based business by that name.
The following day, another unemployment letter arrived. Then came a letter from the state’s Paid Family and Medical Leave program addressed to the mystery company.
Concerned, the homeowner wrote a formal letter to the state of Minnesota stating that no such business had ever operated from the property and asking that the entry in the state’s system be corrected. The couple also returned the initial letters by certified mail.
But the mail didn’t stop. Instead, it multiplied.
By early March, the couple said they had accumulated roughly a dozen additional letters. More recently, a second business name began appearing on envelopes: “Bukowski Property Management,” which does not appear to be registered with the Minnesota Secretary of State or associated with any identifiable business in online searches.
“At first we thought it was a mistake. But when the letters kept coming — and a second business name showed up — that’s when we became concerned.”
The couple has not opened any of the letters, noting they are not addressed to them. They have instead photographed the envelopes and provided copies to a legislative office after reaching out for help.
Despite contacting state agencies by phone — and being told it could be a simple clerical error or transposed digit — the couple says no one has indicated the address has been flagged or corrected.
“They just said to mark them ‘not at this address’ and return them,” the homeowner said. “But they keep coming.”
FRAUD BACKDROP LOOMS LARGE
The unusual situation unfolds against the backdrop of the state’s ongoing fraud crisis, as well as the rollout of the new Paid Family and Medical Leave program.
The Lakeville couple says they do not know whether the letters tied to their address represent a clerical mistake, a data-entry error or something more serious. But they are concerned their home address could be linked to potential employer accounts without their knowledge.
“We just don’t want our address associated with something fraudulent,” the homeowner said.
Alpha News reached out to the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), which oversees both the Unemployment Insurance and Paid Family and Medical Leave programs, for comment but did not receive a response.
[Federalist] Does Election Day actually mean Election Day?
That’s the key issue the U.S. Supreme Court is going to consider when it holds oral arguments in a pivotal elections case next week.
Known as Watson v. RNC, the legal dispute centers around a challenge to a Mississippi law allowing election officials to accept mail-in ballots up to five business days after Election Day so long as they are postmarked on or before the day of the contest. The issue of accepting late-arriving ballots has become a prominent issue in elections in recent years, with more than a dozen states permitting such a practice.
In the case before SCOTUS, the justices will decide whether these state statutes violate existing federal laws that establish an election day for federal races. Speaking with The Federalist, Honest Elections Project Executive Director Jason Snead predicated that a favorable decision from the high court rendering them unconstitutional would go a long way in upholding the law and boosting Americans’ confidence and trust in elections.
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^#4
Said in jest...
But what about their internal Eco agenda problem?
Surely cutting down trees to print more ballots must cause environmental concerns?
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#6
I am OK with getting the counting done in one day. I did not like the “certification” process being run like the swarm robbing of a CVS in 2020. There ought to be an opportunity to get it right without moot, laches and standing preventing any checks on a Dem win. Also hand recount does not mean feeding the ballots back into the same machine by hand. Also ballot challenge distance is not 10 feet or through a window covered with cardboard.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
03/20/2026 7:50 Comments ||
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Needs to be done in front of multiple observers with paper in one day and only allow 24 hours to count. People that can't make it to the voting booth get one week before with certified voting observers going there and letting them fill out the ballot. No more electronic voting machines.
#2
Preston Byrne needs to follow up with a notice to Ofcom of prosecution under Section 242 of Title 18 USC, Deprivation Of Rights Under Color Of Law. Get DoJ to obtain a extradition request for the members of Ofcom.
[The Hill] The U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba, is urging American citizens to avoid large crowds amid reports of "anticipated pro-Cuban regime and anti-U.S. policy protests and rallies" in the coming days.
The Embassy issued an alert shortly before 7 p.m. EDT on Thursday, citing the planned demonstrations and reports of a protest scheduled for Saturday on the Malecón, a 5-mile promenade along the coastline.
The alert advised people to stay away from gatherings, prepare for possible travel disruptions and take extra security precautions. Stay away from the US Embassy as well.
It comes at a time of heightened tension between the U.S. and Cuba, with President Trump renewing threats toward the Caribbean island as officials hold bilateral discussions about the country’s future.
"Whether I free it, take it, I think I can do anything I want with it," Trump told reporters on Monday. "You want to know the truth? They’re a very weakened nation now."
#5
Consider if you will, the following scenario:
Some fake comms...
A bit of radar-spoofing to generate synthetic targets to make it look like an invasion is underway...
Trump denying on live TV that an assault on Greenland is taking place...
Be funny if we could trick the Danes into blowing up their own runways.
[Daily Signal] Bad news: Tax Day is just one month away. But the U.S. Department of Treasury just announced a rare gift for taxpayers: A dose of sanity on college loans.
Today, the U.S. Department of Education and the Treasury Department signed an agreement that helps wind down the education agency, moves more responsibilities over college loans to Treasury, and simplifies the college lending process.
This is the 10th interagency agreement between the Education Department and other federal agencies. These agreements follow the White House executive order issued one year ago this week, calling for the end of the Education Department.
And this is a big one. Student loans make up two-thirds of the Education Department’s budget, and just under half—40%—of borrowers are not making any payments on their loans. Student loan debt has ballooned to $1.7 trillion and affects more than 42.8 million student borrowers. For decades, the Treasury Department has worked with the Education Department to collect on defaulted student loans. Treasury also handles general debt collections through the IRS, all of which makes this agreement a logical move for student loans.
And the announcement continues to build on the department’s promise to streamline federal education functions and cut red tape.
The move comes after years of instability in federal student loan policy. In 2023, President Joe Biden’s administration attempted to transfer up to $20,000 per student in outstanding debt from students to taxpayers, a plan the Supreme Court ultimately struck down as unlawful.
#2
Lending money and guaranteeing loans to people who would never qualify for such loans from the private sector is how we got the mortgage meltdown of 2008. One might also argue that it's probably the main reason why tuition has skyrocted. The government has no business in this business. All they can do is distort the economy with disastrous results.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
03/20/2026 14:00 Comments ||
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[The Hill] A senior Transportation Security Administration (TSA) official warned Thursday that the growing backlog at airport security checkpoints nationwide is likely "going to get worse before it gets better" as staffing becomes more strained as a result of the lingering Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown.
Acting Deputy TSA Administrator Adam Stahl told NewsNation host Blake Burman that the likelihood of a temporary pause in operations at smaller airports across the U.S. is increasing amid a rising employee callout rate.
"As this goes on without any sort of resolution from Congress, particularly from Senate Democrats, our folks will continue to call out," Stahl said during an appearance on "The Hill."
"And so again, small airports may be particularly impacted because they have fewer lanes and they have fewer people, and so, if a certain three or four out of 10 employees call out, we may, to ensure we’re not degrading security, we may have to temporarily suspend operations at those airports," he continued.
Stahl sidestepped questions about how many airports could be impacted, insisting there was no single "breaking point" in making the determination.
[ConnecticutCentinal]... Although there were 4,496 deaths reported to VAERS during that time frame, the study authors stripped details about the deaths from the article's abstract.
One in 10 U.S. adults who received a COVID-19 vaccine suffered "major" side effects, and over a third (36%) experienced "minor" side effects, according to a national survey conducted in November 2025.
Based on a U.S. adult population of 258 million in 2020, the results mean that about 17 million adults who got a COVID-19 vaccine experienced major health effects, and roughly 63 million had minor side effects, said Rasmussen Reports, which conducted the survey.
NOW! A question. Who in Government or the Private sector made $$$ Millions promoting or forcing Millions to take the shot and did they know?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[National Review] 
[ConnecticutCentinal]... Although there were 4,496 deaths reported to VAERS during that time frame, the study authors stripped details about the deaths from the article's abstract.
