2. Yesterday Secretary of War Hegseth reprimanded the Axis media for its deceptive and anti-American propaganda in covering the Iran operation. Hegseth was right: the inattentive American—you know, like most of them—would get the distinct impression that the United States is losing the war. Amazingly, it appears that the Axis wants Iran to prevail—all the better to hurt President Trump and help Democrats win the mid-terms. Worse yet is social media, where conservative isolationists, anti-Israel bigots and the Mad Left gleefully circulate Iranian propaganda as if it is reliable. I have a friend, a conservative who holds every anti-Israel, anti-Semitic conspiracy theory imaginable (Jews sabotaged the “Titanic” and brought down the Twin Towers in a false flag operation, etc.) He is convinced that Netanyahu is dead, for example, based on “alternative news sources.” This wouldn’t happen if there were any trustworthy news sources, but there aren’t.
3. No, Tarik Skubal is not a “traitor.” I used to think baseball fans were smarter than other sports fans, but social media has disabused me of that fantasy. Skubal, for you sad, self-deprived non-baseball followers, is the best pitcher in the American League, having won the Cy Young Award two years running. This is his free-agent year, and if he pitches as well in 2026 as in 2024 and 2025, he stands to get a long-term contract worth nearly a half-billion dollars. The World Baseball Classic in going on right now, with MLB stars scattered into teams representing many nations, including the U.S., which, as it should, appears to have the strongest squad. Skubal was on it, but vowed only to start one game for the U.S. before returning to the more measured intensity of Spring Training with his team, the Detroit Tigers. For this exquisitely reasonable act of risk-avoidance, Skubal is being roasted on “X”, baseball blogs and sports call-in shows for being a “traitor.” Of course, none of these critics have heard of the Golden Rule: it’s fine to demand that someone else risk a catastrophic injury that could cost him mega-millions to win a meaningless (to most people) exhibition championship the U.S. should be able to win anyway, but I’d wager not one of these lounge-chair heroes would choose risk over a fraction of Skubal’s looming fortune if they were in the same position.
4.Today’s “Bias Makes You Stupid” feature: this. [Gift Link] Sony’s film division CEO extols his business, dismisses the doom-sayers, insists that the catastrophic drop in movie theater box office can be reversed (In 2019, there were 1.24 billion movie tickets sold in North America. In 2025, there were 780 million, a decline of 37%.) and explains that the only problem is that movies aren’t in theaters long enough, so everyone waits for them to be sort-of free on streaming services. Guess what he doesn’t mention, or even hint at? Hollywood makes terrible, politically obnoxious, virtue-signalling movies now that are more concerned with promoting DEI, LGBTQ+, anti-American, “good illegal immigrant” propaganda than either thoughtful adult dramas or family entertainment. “Snow White.” “The Bride.” Wait until the Oscars, when one presenter and award-winner after another decides to insult and denigrate half of the U.S.
I love movies too, especially good ones. Too bad Hollywood forgot how to make them.
5. Just a little reminder that there are terrible people out there...A U.K. judge this week sentenced Amanda Wixon, a mother of 10 (!), to 13 years in prison for forcing a woman to work as her “house slave” for more than two decades. The de facto slave was a teenager when she was taken into the Gloucestershire home, and suffered over 25 years of horrific abuse.
The 56-year-old Wixon forced the victim to do work and chores for the family, regularly assaulted her, and deprived her of food and health care. She would regularly beat the victim, who is now in her 40s, and knocked out her teeth on one occasion. She would also squirt washing-up liquid down her slave’s throat, splash bleach in her face and repeatedly shaved her head.
OK, that part isn’t so bad….
Why the un-named woman put up with this doesn’t make sense from what I could discern from the 13-day trial. She is described as having a learning disability, but now is said to be attending a college. And how did this situation escape notice by anyone outside the home for so long? As usual with UK criminal justice, the sentence is ridiculously mild for such a crime. Also: surely some of those ten children are adults by now. Are they being prosecuted as accessories? If not, why not?
6. Returning to more routine ethics outrages: The U.N. again is presuming to employ its warped international priorities and values to attack the nation that hosts its useless organization and that the U.N. relies upon for its existence. The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination warned last week that “hate speech” from U.S. political leaders, including President Trump, and intensified immigration enforcement near “schools, hospitals and faith-based institutions,” has sparked “grave human rights violations.”
The United Nations is ethically estopped from criticizing anyone for “human rights violations,” especially after doing its best to let Hamas escape responsibility and just desserts for its terrorist attack on Israel.
Our leaders have shared harmful stereotypes about migrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers, “portraying them as criminals or as a burden,” the panel blubbered. (Too many of our illegal immigrants are criminals and a burden.) The panel also wrote that derogatory and dehumanizing language “fosters intolerance” and may incite racial discrimination, hate crimes and hate speech, particularly on the internet and social media, noting it was deeply concerned about the insufficient measures to prevent and address racist hate speech.” Yeah, we know the U.N.’s members prefer censorship and criminal penalties for inconvenient opinions and facts.
The U.S. official response was, to paraphrase, “Bite me.”
Perfect.
Ethics Alarms 
2. Yesterday Secretary of War Hegseth reprimanded the Axis media for its deceptive and anti-American propaganda in covering the Iran operation.
I think that the Democrats and the main stream media deserve a lot of criticism in how they handle the operations in Iran. My impression is that the left wing opposition is mostly due to Trump Derangement Syndrome, as the left reflexively opposes everything that the Trump administration does.
Conservative media plus commenters use the term “useful idiots” and “giving aid and comfort to the enemy” for what the Democrats and the media are doing. My question is whether this assessment is correct.
My question is whether this assessment is correct.
Depends on how patriotism is defined. If the sensibility of waging such neo-imperialist adventures is the issue of concern, one must avoid the partisan conflicts (Democrat vs Republican) and ask if 1) the adventures will succeed (or fail horribly), 2) if they will result in positive gain for the country on the whole, 3) if the policy choices since WWll are sound (and moral) and finally 4) if becoming Israels bitch and having US national policy taken over by Zionist Israelis is a good choice for the nation in the long run.
There is a definite downside to America’s subservience to Hebrew historical objectives (there are advantages as well) but this issue can be put to the side, for now. Once in a fight (quoting Polonius!) you must win it.
The Iranian regime, and the entire nation if they will not submit, must be utterly crushed. Life for those who subscribe to that bellicose dominating political religion of Islam, must be mercilessly defeated. If martyrdom has such value, then it must be given without restraint.
The next phase must be ridding America of any and all who say such things or whisper them. Sadly, the guarantees of “free speech” will have to be broken. That itself involves definite dangers (of totalitarian control). Then Europe must be cleansed of Islamists. Especially England and France (but we must not abandon Nederlands). The popular will to channel contempt and hatred must be excited and encouraged. “Back to your own lands!” they must be willing to say.
It is a time of war on many levels. This must be acknowledged. There will be many levels if upheaval and there will be lots of “tragedy” but that is the way of the world in the “ici-bas”.
3. Skubal said he was only going to pitch a single game and he did. Free agent year or no, I don’t understand why anyone’s upset with him. I’m not sure why any pitcher would screw up their exhibition season schedule for the World Baseball Classic. By the way, the U.S. team was almost eliminated in the first round by, wait for it, Italy.
By the way, Skubal spent his high school years in, of all places, Kingman, Arizona!
2. Couldn’t the Department of War be doing a better job of explaining what’s been done by U.S. and Israeli forces? I’m guessing it’s better to keep info close to your vest, but they need to counter the relentless reportage on the wan Iranian response. For example, the AUC reports how many Iranian missiles and drones are launched but they don’t report how many are destroyed en route. There just seems to be some sort of imbalance that the Trump administration is failing to adequately address.
One important facet of patriotism is faith and belief in the aims of the military and state. If we ask too many poignant questions that could itself be taken as undermining resolve.
Watters here clearly indicates what is being achieved militarily. Sone are talking of asymmetrical warfare. Like the flea can do harm to the cat. But the cat must be utterly resolved: If you do not take up those mines; “if”If you attack even ONE tanker then an electricity supply station to a minor city will be destroyed” (and thousands will die). Do it again and TWO cities will be wrecked. (We cannot do great damage to the oil though. That is the stuff of world economic need. It must be protected until after a settlement.)
Once Iran is “recovered” than the other minor Shi’ah-oriented states and regions must be dealt merciless blows.
https://youtu.be/g0HlkxBxEJ4?si=g_n6PBi3UGes0TrQ
I do not know to which media you are listening; I do not follow the AUC media as I refuse to being lied too and gaslighted. No matter what the quality of Trump’s communication is, count on the AUC to misrepresent it. So I will have to satisfy me with FoxNews, NewsMax for reporting that is at least fait to Trump.
National Review is positive about the war, but has some criticism about how Trump to be clear about the definition of the mission, the exact war aims, and how to define victory. Does this include regime change? What does unconditional surrender man? Do we need boots on the ground?
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-weekend-jolt/the-iran-war-fog/
What does unconditional surrender man?
I worked on this intuitively perhaps more than practically and what I came up with it that they must choose to recall all their money (bills) and reprint it all. Mohammed must be pictured finally on the money on the left side, on his knees and begging for mercy, and a fat hog must appear on the other side. The hog will have an Uncle Same hat 🎩 in red white and blue and also the Persian equivalent of FAFO as the new national motto.
Surely some sectors will not feel so good about it but what can you do?! Can’t please everyone!
Defund everything that’s not STEM and start over. Not realistic at all, but it would definitely get rid of all the crazy stuff in the humanities and social “sciences.”
2. CNN Officials Caught Celebrating Regime At Iranian Embassy Party
Newsbusters reports about a story in The Telegraph that exposed how some UK political officials attended a celebration at the Iranian embassy, complete with comments made by the hosts about how their leadership has thrived, despite the rude meddling by those of us in the West. According to Newsbusters:
“On March 12, the U.K.-based newspaper The Telegraph published an article about the unfolding scandal engulfing Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government where his Foreign Ministry attended a February 12 celebration at the Iranian Embassy to mark the founding of the Islamic Republic. The party was happening at the same time they were slaughtering thousands of their own citizens in the streets. The newspaper reported:
In one of the images captured by Iranian state media, Iran Press and shared by The Telegraph, CNN London bureau chief Andrew Roy and CNN chief global affairs correspondent Matthew Chance can be seen meeting and shaking hands with Iran’s Ambassador to the U.K., Seyed Ali Mousavi.
The CNN officials didn’t appear to be attending the event as journalists. No camera crew are visible and neither was there any form of recording equipment. No voice recorders. No note pads. No visible press credentials that would show they were there for work.”
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2026/03/13/cnn-officials-caught-celebrating-regime-iranian-embassy-uk
This raises the question on whose side the CNN is. Is the CNN a propaganda arm of the Iranian regime?
President Trump has the gumption to see this through, to eliminate the threat posed by Iran. And I’m not sure how much more clear this administration could be about the goals. Iranian negotiators made it clear they were weeks away from developing as many as 11 nuclear bombs. They will never submit on this point. No one should have nuclear weapons, much less hate-filled, radical crazy people. Get it done!
Pretty well covers it!