A brief “The Unabomber Was Right” update: yesterday I explained how changes to my Apple phone caused me to miss a planned appointment because I couldn’t figure out the new “improved” alarm setting process. Later, the phone creeped me out. I had intentionally not put my email account on my phone because of security concerns, because people scrolling through their messages when I’m with them annoys the hell out of me, and because I didn’t know how to install it even if I wanted to. At exactly 5:47pm, my email inbox appeared on my phone anyway, without any directive from me, at least not a deliberate one. I’m sure there’s a rational explanation, but I don’t think I’ll like it.
Meanwhile…
1. Professor Turley is alarmed at the quality of faculty members elite universities are hiring now. “Welcome to the party, pal!” He writes in part,
“Professor Muhammad Abdou, who until recently taught students at Columbia University, appeared online this week to spread calls for religious-based violence and glorify the murder of Jews. He did so as part of an event at the Union Theological Seminary, an institution associated with Columbia. While the university recently ended Abdou’s teaching, it is important to remember that this unhinged fanatic was previously chosen by Columbia faculty and administrators to teach their students. Those individuals remain at Columbia… The Islamic studies scholar called on students to “be a threat” as part of the event titled “Death to the Akademy: How to be a thorn in their throat amidst snakes in the grass.” …Abdou told the students: “Let us engage in jihad, and there are rules for jihad, and Muslims know that Allah has commanded rules. We don’t engage in wanton violence, but we don’t accept the negative peace either.”…He praised Elias Rodriguez, the man facing multiple charges for the murder of a young Jewish couple. In what Abdou called the “assassination of two Zionists,” Rodriguez is accused of murdering Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, 26, the two Israeli employees in 2025 in Washington.
“He then reportedly praised their accused killer: “God bless him. He took action. … Take action. Not only that kind of action, just to be very clear, because there’s also building. We need to destroy. We need to create alternatives.” [His speech] is reminiscent of the speech of other radical faculty like Cornell Professor Russell Rickford, who celebrated the massacre in Israel on Oct. 7th. Their extremism was not a barrier to being hired. It was likely an enhancement.
“They are examples of why faculty members are unlikely to change the overwhelmingly liberal appointments. Conservatives and libertarians have been largely purged from most departments. While even a moderately conservative faculty candidate will often face organized opposition, radicals like Abdou and Rickford find an eager audience on faculties….Abdou offers just pure hate. There is no discernible intellectual content or insight. Just rage masquerading as scholarship.”
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/
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?