I'm inclined to match you and raise you one. So many to choose from.
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I'm inclined to match you and raise you one. So many to choose from.
Well, that clears everything up.
"We will not leave [Trump] alone. He must pay the price for what he did. He killed our leader...We won’t leave him alone until we reciprocate what he did."
--Iran's security chief, Ali Larijani
What goes around comes around.
www.timesnownews.com/world/ayatol...
"Bill Buckley's only fear in life is the fear of being bored. He likes to dazzle even his most fervent supporters with his ability to flirt with inconstancy or implausibility or indefensibility."
--assistant Neal Freeman, 1984
"That’s the significance of the Talarico moment — not the old news that a Christian can be progressive, but rather that Christian politicians can actually act like Christians. Kindness still has a place in the public square, even if it doesn’t always seem that way."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/o...
Too chicken to invoke the 25th. VACO and RACO.
Whenever I say we should return to 1940-1980 tax levels for the super wealthy (billionaires) of 91%+ marginal tax I hear, "If you do that, billionaires will leave the USA."
To which I say:
1. Promise? Because it didn't happen last time.
2. Don't threaten me with a good time.
#AbolishBillionaires
I'd switch Hegseth and Vance, maybe?
"Everywhere we see greed and bigotry being celebrated and bullying and mockery masquerading as strength, we see science and expertise denigrated while ignorance and dishonesty and cruelty and corruption are reaping untold rewards."
--former President Barack Obama
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
"they were apex predators ordained by nature to exploit and subjugate others. This creed allowed the Edge set to steer intellectual history into its current fascist dead-end."
"But conditions, threats, and capabilities change, so moral and political imperatives do, too. Changes in modern circumstances, including technologies, often strengthen, if not the argument for, then the opportunity for, executive unilateralism."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
So immigrants were “taking our jobs”…
but now fewer immigrants means fewer jobs?
The math on their propaganda never works.
William F. Buckley, Jr., a 3rd-party candidate for mayor of NYC in 1965, when asked what he would do if elected:
"Demand a recount."
"The president can now claim credit for firing a very bad employee...Ms. Noem can take solace in knowing she is not the first ambitious woman who tried to remake herself in the MAGA image only to be misused and ultimately discarded."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/o...
"In the history of warfare there has never been such an asymmetry between the cost of attacking and the cost of defending."
What American inventors/entrepreneurs are doing to close the gap.
open.substack.com/pub/rational...
bsky.app/profile/mark...
Targeted killings as a 'gateway drug.'
"We all need a serious debate about how to avoid creating a global shooting gallery and a perpetual high-tech gang war."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Needed: "a grand bargain between the public and private sectors — where employers are responsible for defining skills essential to the A.I. economy and for creating pathways into jobs, and the government invests in training, incentives and safety nets..."
gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...
Needs Senate confirmation, I assume? Or is he just 'Acting'?
This from the same mathematician who believes that you can reduce a quantity, any quantity, by more than 100%.
Looks like war, walks like war, talks like war...
Yeah, reduce the whole planet to ash.
“I’ve just had a classified briefing and I’m not gonna . . .” before cutting herself off to step into an elevator.
Collins--evasive as usual.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
This is a good source for understanding the geopolitical ramifications of events in the Middle East (and elsewhere).
Subscribe already--it's free. 5 days a week, insightful and succinct.
archives.internationalintrigue.io/p/red-ab12
There we go.
Good overview here.
archives.internationalintrigue.io/p/iran-in-si...
Timely reminder.
