Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 21 March

The Right Way is first with Top of the News

In The Mailbox: 03.17.26 - The Other McCain
Trouble in Paradise: Dem Candidates Reportedly Refuse to Support Hakeem Jeffries - Fox News

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 03.18.26

Glenn Reynolds: Don’t Drone Me Bro
Hollywood In Toto: Trump Effect? Oscar Ratings Crater in Second Term

EBL - Cesar Chavez

Instapundit: Cesar Chavez cancelled
When they realize Cesar Chavez was against illegal immigration, the Democrat party chooses.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 20 March 2026: Dove Grey Afternoon Edition

The Verge is having another normal day. (The Verge)
By which I mean they are barking at the moon.

Don Surber - Friends in need, not NATO

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said, “I do not understand how they claim to defend Islamic causes while attacking Islamic countries. They are not attacking just one nation—Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE, Oman, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Türkiye, ...

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 03.19.26

Racket News: Kash Patel Embraces Big Brother
Shark Tank: DeSantis Rebukes Sheriff Judd On Illegal Immigration Enforcement

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - LinkSwarm For March 20, 2026

Iran hit the Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery in Kuwait.
Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) reveals the real leader of his party: Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Vlad Tepes - Charting where the slide to totalitarian communism is, and isn’t: Links post 1 for March 19, 2026

2. Sweden: Arab charged after attempting to bite and gouge out eyes of male doctor for working with his wife
The doctor also suffered bite wounds that later became infected.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 3/20/2026

UK: COVID Inquiry Finds Lockdowns May Have Cost Thousands of Lives
The authoritarian COVID lockdowns and stay-at-home orders sold as life-saving measures have been unmasked once again as a deadly failure of big government overreach.

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 03.20.26

Transterrestrial Musings: Project Hail Mary, also, The Imperial Order Is Over
Victory Girls: Secret Service Suspends Butler Agent Again, Just Fire Her Already

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Quicky DIY edition

Ace of Spades HQ - Without Oil, Cuba Is Burning
The Trump Dividend - Don Surber
Japan Signs Major $56 Billion Energy Deal with U.S

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism, 03/20/2026 – Back to The Economist!

America’s war aims may be diverging from Israel’s
Wait a minute – two war allies’ objectives are not in 100% alignment? Where can we get more of this hard hitting journalism?

The Glibertarians - Thursday Morning Links

The plot thickens. This will be interesting.
He seems stable. I can’t believe the union let him get fired though. That would have never happened if he was in NYC.

Maggie's Farm - Wednesday morning links

The Great Effeminization of the Academy
How Bad Is It Living In New York?
“These People are Crazy:” Climate Science and the Cult of Self-Loathing

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 3/18/26

Creeping Sharia targets children - with help from leftists.
Canada: School Bans Kids From Eating To Not Offend Muslims During Ramadan

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Facts Justify President Trump's Actions on Iran

• "Worse Than Nord Stream": Iran's Attack On Qatar's LNG Sends Shockwaves Across Global Energy Markets - ZH
• Kathy Hochul Begs Rich People to Come Back to New York - David Strom

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 03/19/2026

A very long Open Source Research piece on the disappearances of a possibly UAP-associated General, the researchers under him who died and disappeared, and then the spate of strange deaths of various researchers whose work could connect to the field.

I leave you with Wednesday Memes … from MaddMedic, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #3499 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, Midweek Memes from Granite Grok, and Friday evening's gifs from Wirecutter.

We All Need to Spend More Time at the Range

From FOX13 Memphis: Homeowner fires shots at suspects during home invasion in Raleigh

In this instance, Raleigh is a neighborhood in north-central Memphis.

The Memphis Police Department said a masked man rushed into an apartment unit at the Country View Apartments on Stephanie Lane.

"I ran to go grab my protection, and then I started firing shots," the homeowner said. "Especially when I turned and saw them coming in, so I fired shots because I needed them to get out."

It appears, that while they ran like rabbits, no one was injured by the gunfire.

The homeowner’s fiancé and their child were also inside the home at the time of the shooting.

Everyone, including a neighbor, "feels unsafe."

While they may have believed they were safe before this, they were not. You are not protected from crime by the magic dirt under your feet.

Self-defense is a human right, and it appears to by your legal right in Tennessee.

NY Governor Hochul Realizes That She Needs Taxpayers

From The Daily Signal we get the following: Hochul Begs Wealthy Floridians to Return to New York. She Can Pound Sand.

New York’s desperate governor is turning to a well-known practice in New York City: aggressive begging.

While speaking at Politico’s “New York Agenda: Albany Summit” last week, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, admitted that the state’s tax base has eroded and that it faces a deepening fiscal crisis.

She then put out a call for wealthy, former New Yorkers to come back to the state so they can be robbed again by beneficent government overlords.

The irony in the situation (I always try to look for the irony) is that it was not that long ago, that Kathy Hochul was telling New Yorkers, who dared to disagree with her, to get the F- outta town. Now she's upset that they took her at her word. See the embedded post from X below.

She makes the point that remote work is to blame. In my lifetime, if you wanted to work in certain industries, you would need to commute to an office in a city center. In many ways, cities like New York are a 19th century (or older) solution to a communications problem. If you need to speak with someone, at a rate faster than mail correspondence, you needed to spend at least some part of the week in close proximity to that person. As communications technology improved, that requirement to be in the same location has disappeared.

🚨BREAKING: New York Governor Kathy Hochul is facing BACKLASH after telling Republicans to “jump on a bus and head down to Florida” not long ago. Now, she’s urging wealthy New Yorkers to come back to New York. pic.twitter.com/GzsoUtxHlq

— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) March 19, 2026

So, does Kathy Hochul want Republicans to leave New York, or does she want them to come back and pay taxes? She should really make up her mind.

As for the people who left, I doubt many will be heading back to the nightmare state that is New York.

Some Kind of Feeling

Orianthi is an amazing musician. She doesn't get as much attention as I think she deserves.

This is "Some Kind of Feeling" by Orianthi. It is the title song to her 2025 album.

Reality TV Star Crashes, Burns, Takes Show with Her

Shouldn't it be called "unreal TV?" There Is a Reason Why Taboos Exist : The Other McCain

You are an intelligent, responsible adult, which is why you’ve never heard of Taylor Frankie Paul. Until Thursday, I hadn’t heard of her either because — as an intelligent, responsible adult — I pay zero attention to “reality TV.” But before getting to her recent failed attempt to break out from that entertainment ghetto, let’s start at the beginning: By 2022, when she was 28, Taylor Frankie Paul had accumulated a massive following on TikTok.

Sounds perfect for "reality TV." Or maybe not.

Cultural taboos ignored? Check. Narcissistic tendencies rampant on social media? Check (or so it seems to me).

So, not only is she a 31-year-old single mom, but she’s also a dangerously violent lunatic. That was enough for ABC to cancel the whole season.

ABC (owned by Disney) canceled the entire season a few days before it was supposed to air.

Click thru for commentary (there is a lot), details (there are many), and some humor.

If only someone had warned them that Crazy People Are Dangerous.

The real idiots of the piece are the ABC/Disney executives who saw no trouble with this troubling behavior, and said, "Sure, we can base an entire season of a show around this insanity."

Another California Bridge to Nowhere

This one almost makes sense. It certainly makes more sense than the High Speed Train to Nowhere™.  From The Other McCain: Gavin Newsom’s ‘Cougar Crossing’ Is the Perfect Symbol of Californication. (That's a maximum "almost.")

Behind schedule and over budget and probably doomed to failure — this is a succinct summary of what is officially known as the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, but is now being sarcastically called the “California Cougar Crossing,” a monumental waste of California taxpayers’ money.

This is a wildlife bridge over the Ventura Freeway. The freeway isolated a group of mountain lions, and the isolated population is not doing well. Also several mountain lions have been killed attempting to leave the isolated pocket by crossing the freeway. It is 10 lanes of California driving, so, no surprise there.

Note that it is “nearing completion” and “almost ready,” which are euphemisms for overdue and running behind. The project was supposed to have been completed in 2024 and, having failed to meet their original deadline, the people in charge of it are now promising to finish by the end of this year, but if past performance is any predictor of future results, it won’t be done before 2028.

This thing has cost $114 million, which is cheap on the scale of California infrastructure projects. $77 million of that are taxpayer funds, the rest donations.

I read somewhere that people are worried because it will give the mountain lions access to suburban neighborhoods. What could possibly go wrong?

Wouldn't it have been much cheaper to capture and relocate the mountain lions in question?

Click thru for the typical California touches, like the “Indigenous team members,” the shamanistic rituals, and the ethnobotany, whatever that is.

And for some context/contrast, here is some info on a similar wildlife bridges.

Here is one that was constructed in Colorado for about 10 percent of what California is spending.

Colorado built this wildlife overpass last year for $15 million. It’ll pay for itself within five years from the avoided collisions.

California spending $114 million on a failed wildlife overpass is absurd. https://t.co/AmOr9LDpFW pic.twitter.com/K8vh9LTpoZ

— Benji Backer (@BenjiBacker) March 18, 2026

One in Washington State was even less.

The one in Washington was only $6.2M pic.twitter.com/Qs5hL4Zhee

— Andrew 🟦🟩 (@aknox92) March 18, 2026

RIP Chuck Norris

Chuck Norris passed away on Thursday. 10 March 1940 to 19 March 2026

I saw the news earlier in the day, and was going to look for some clip or something that summed his career up, but Pierry Chan, at Nerdrotic Daily did his usual great job of finding images that sum up his career, with a bit from FNT.

This is the Nerdrotic Daily video THE WORLD JUST LOST A BADASS – Chuck Norris Dies at 86 | Rest in Peace, Legend (1940–2026). It is a 4 minute excerpt from the start of Friday Night Tights.

Friday Links - 20 March

Alice Jones Webb at Take It Outside is up first with Two Years of Writing Without Guardrails

After copious tears and an unhealthy amount of Fleetwood Mac, I realized I was in love with the idea of working full-time at a legacy outdoor publication. The everyday reality felt a lot more like being chained to a desk, which isn’t really my style.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 17 March 2026: Not Even We Know What DLSS Stands For Edition

Encyclopedia Britannica has sued OpenAI for "stealing our shit". (Engadget)
They may not have used precisely those words.

The Gun Writer - Iran proves the value of our Second Amendment

It is estimated that Iranian police, military and paramilitary forces have murdered more than 36,000 unarmed citizens in the past few months. No one will know the actual number until after the current regime falls.

Meep at STUMP - Geeking Out: Accidental Causes of Death in the U.S. -- By Age Group and Sex, by Major Category

Except during the pandemic, “accidents” have been the #3 cause of death behind heart disease and cancer for quite some time. But the problem is that I know there have been a variety of things in that “accidents” category.

MaddMedic at Freedom Is Just Another Word… - Woke Hollywood Celebrities Leave Oscars Theater Buried In Tra sh Minutes After Demanding America ‘Do Better’ For The Planet.

And you expected???????

George Shay at Chicago Contrarian - Chicago’s Mayor Blames America First

In a recent social media post, Johnson explained that the real cause of the massive wave of migrants arriving in cities like Chicago is decades of what he calls “temerarious violence abroad.” According to the mayor, the United States has destabilized countries around the world, forcing their citizens to flee and seek refuge in humane cities like ours.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Good News: Cuba Becomes Net Zero!

Hey, Trump’s just trying to get Cuba off their dependence on Evil fossil fuels. Warmists should be congratulating Trump

Echo Chamberlain - The Bride - The Third-Worst Bomb of the Twenty-First Century

The abiding feeling, after suffering through The Bride, is one of relief, that the actual Mary Shelley will never be reanimated to experience watching The Bride, and exclaiming, with perhaps her first use of profanity, what the fuck is this?

The Silicon Graybeard - So then, the space company said, "let's grab a small asteroid..."

... and bring it back to a "safe" spot near Earth.

Clayton Cramer - Stories That Make My Day

This is a big win for my friend Don Kilmer who pursued this absurd case for a number of years.

In a larger sense than just guns: the idea that advertising sells people stuff they do not already want is absurd. If advertising can create demand, explain the failures of the 1950s Edsel, the IBM PCJr,, and New Coke.

Self-Defense Is Catching on in Chicago

The reporters are also coming to understand the difference between victim and criminal. Chicago shooting: 27-year-old robbery victim shoots, kills armed 16-year-old suspect in West Pullman, Chicago police say - ABC7 Chicago

Chicago police are investigating after a man shot and killed a teenager who was trying to rob him Wednesday on the city's South Side.

The shooting happened around 3:36 p.m. in the 11700 block of South Normal Avenue in West Pullman, Chicago police said.

West Pullman is one of the 77 neighborhoods in Chicago. It is located on the far south side of the city,  about 15 miles south of the Loop.

Police did bring the 27-year-old man in for questioning, but as of Wednesday evening no charges have been filed.

Slowly, very slowly, legal self-defense seems to be coming to Chicago. Given the state of the Criminal Justice System (so called) in Chicago and Cook County, it is not really a surprise.

Self-defense is a human right. It might be your legal right in Chicago, depends on the new State's Attorney. (Hat tip to USA Carry)

Do We Need More AI in Our Life?

Do we want more AI? Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony brings us a story of AI and gaming. Daily News Stuff 17 March 2026: Not Even We Know What DLSS Stands For Edition

Gamers, already upset with Microslop over AI in Windows, are now upset with NVIDIA, which I didn't think was possible.

Nvidia held its keynote address at its annual GPU Technology Conference, where it showed off a preview of its new DLSS 5 software, two months after DLSS 4.5 was released at CES. (Tom's Hardware)

DLSS 5 goes all-in on AI, changing game graphics into the AI developer's idea of game graphics. It's... Not great.

It uses face detection to overlay what it things faces should look like on your game's graphics, adding twenty years to the age of characters while leaving their clothes untouched and sometimes leaving random items looking like they've just been dragged backwards through an industrial recycling facility.

And it achieves all this in real time using the power of your own graphics card... Assuming you have dual RTX 5090s, which you don't.

The memes have been brutal - because it takes decisions away from the game developers and gives it to the AI, and so it makes decisions on what the AI (and the developer) thinks is best.

A Publisher Not Part of the Manhattan Insanity

Something that is needed. Publisher Stuff - by Ian - The Bugscuffle Gazette

Given the current state of arts in America, we need all of the alternatives we can get. Will everything be great? Of course not. But what was the last great book you read, and when was it first written and published?

We’ve been talking with an author who’s been burned — a lot — by publishers in the past; and is — quite understandably — a tiny bit skittish, so we thought we’d do a quick post for those authors who suddenly seem to be finding us.

Hello! This is Raconteur Press, and Ian and Rita are the co-CEOs.

Before we go any further, this is the important part: Ian and Rita don’t have a clue how to be publishers. Ian did some Army time, and retired from law enforcement after 26 years; and Rita taught English at a liberal arts college for a brief while before realizing it was less stressful to counsel pilots.

The current breed of Woke that has an iron grip on publishing in Manhattan has decided that they will simply not publish anything by straight white men. (Racist? Yes, but they can't see that.) I don't know if they have expanded that ban to straight white women, or straight men in general, but I would not be surprised.

We are a small press, and we don’t have a lot of reach — yet.

We believe in treating our authors fairly, with open books and transparent accounting.

Our guiding light is: “It Must Be Entertaining, All Else Is Negotiable”, and we stick by that. We publish rollicking, entertaining stories in the vein of the old pulps; and just about the only thing we don’t want is erotica, romance, grimdark, or anything where the good guys lose, and the world sucks.

This is what Raconteur Press has to say about themselves on their website.

"Have Fun, Get PAID!!" Raconteur Press is an independent publisher of SF/Fantasy Anthologies in the tradition of the great pulp magazines of the 1930s-50s.

Self-Defense in Canada

You can defend yourself in Canada, just not effectively. Vaughan Home Invasion Ends in Shooting, Raises Self-Defense Questions

Early Tuesday at a home near Carrville Woods Circle and Crimson Forest Drive in Vaughan, a homeowner defended their residence against three intruders using a legally owned firearm. The York Regional Police reported that the suspects, one of whom was armed, forced their way into the house. During the confrontation, the homeowner shot one intruder, who later showed up at a Toronto hospital with a gunshot wound and is now in police custody.

In Texas this would be no big deal. In Oklahoma, cops would say something like, "Well done!" This, however, took place in Canada where even if you are faced with an armed intruder, defending yourself with a firearm "raises questions."

For residents in Ontario, this incident highlights important legal aspects of self-defense in home invasions. While the homeowner was not charged, it underscores the need for proper understanding of self-defense laws and the conditions under which force can be legally used. Knowing the legal boundaries can protect homeowners from potential legal repercussions when defending their property.

Hey, stupid reporter. He was defending his life from an armed intruder. Property doesn't enter into it.

Vaughan, Ontario, Canada, is a suburb of Toronto. It is about 10 or 11 miles north of Lake Ontario, directly north of downtown Toronto.

Self-defense is a human right, but Canada refuses, for the most part, to recognize it as a legal right. I think this homeowner is extremely lucky to not be in jail.

Afroman v Adams County, Ohio, Sheriff's Department - 1st Amendment Victory

The suit between Afroman and various Sheriff's Deputies of Adams County, Ohio, is over.

In addition to the 3 songs that made use of security video taken when the Adams County Sheriff's department raided his house back in 2022, he made other videos. The deputies were claiming that he had defamed them.

The original warrant, obtained on the say so of a "confidential informant," said that the sheriff's department would find narcotics, and kidnap victims held in a dungeon. They found none of that. Just the home of a successful entertainer who used his money to move away from the Hellscape that is Los Angeles, and buy some property in the country, to raise his family. This pissed off someone in Adams County. We don't know that it was someone in the sheriff's department, but the sheriff, and whatever judge signed the warrant, were sure quick to believe the worst about this guy.

This is Legal Mindset's video Afroman's Wild Case Against Ohio Cops (Fast Facts)

I have been thinking about the 3 original videos (link below) after all of this got started. The reason that the Adams County Sheriff's Department was so bent out of shape is ridicule. Ridicule is a fabulous weapon, and they were not expecting to look like idiots in front of the whole world. Of course, the more they draw this out, the more people see those videos. Apparently cops in Adams County have never heard of The Streisand Effect.

Here is a link to the post I created back in 2023 when this exploded after the videos were released. If you click thru you will find the video "Will You Help Me Repair My Door," and links to the videos "Lemon Pound Cake," and "Why Are You Disconnecting My Video Camera?"

The deputy featured in the video "Lemon Pound Cake" had to sit in court and watch the video be played. It is hilarious.

NEW: Afroman's music video "Lemon Pound Cake" played in court as "Officer Poundcake" was forced to sit and watch.

Adams County Sheriff's deputies are suing Afroman after he released a music video following a botched raid on his home.

At one point during the trial, the video was… pic.twitter.com/NMh2QT3lMN

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 18, 2026

And the good news for the First Amendment...

Verdict is in: Afroman FULL victory, with no claims going to any of the Adams County Sheriff plaintiffs, total courtroom W for @ogafroman

Solid news for First Amendment protections of free speech, parody, artistic creation and fans of Lemon Pound Cake. pic.twitter.com/6FP4hUzazB

— Legal Mindset (@TheLegalMindset) March 18, 2026

W Pound cake W AfroMan pic.twitter.com/WHanggHqeF

— issa//Shame (@IssaxShame) March 18, 2026

The State of Movies and Why They Suck

From The New Jerusalem: Why Movies Suck - by Andrew Klavan

Well, the Oscars have come and gone, and I really can’t say how much I enjoyed not watching them. Not watching the Oscars has become one of the high points of my entertainment year. Conversely, one of my entertainment low points is listening to conservatives whine about what some lefty said when he accepted the statuette for his lousy leftist movie. I mean, really. It’s like going to a Communist cell meeting and complaining that everyone there is some kind of Communist.

I share that joy of not watching the Oscars. They have been meaningless for a very long time.

Klavan then goes to describe how Americans used to go to movies regularly, but now don't, because movies are mostly not interesting to people.

He has video (see below) about Oscar winners from 1980 through 2010, and how things became a bit strange as time went on.

Dances with Wolves, which, like Pocahontas and Avatar, partakes of the Rousseauian fallacy that there is something innocent and benevolent about the lives of primitives. Schindler’s List, which presents itself as the authoritative movie about the Holocaust, and yet centers on acts of decency that were so rare an exception as to be nearly non-existent. The English Patient, a dishonorable and subtly antisemitic picture, in which the primary act of love involves giving traitorous aid to the Nazis because who wins the war doesn’t matter so much as getting the girl. (The opposite theme of Casablanca, a far, far better film.) And American Beauty, a picture that pretends to be about a straight man but isn’t, and hasn’t got a single honest frame in it from start to finish.

This is the video Andrew Klavan Ranks Best Picture Oscar Winners: Part 2

Part one can be found at Klavan Reviews Best Picture Oscar Winners Over the Decades. That video covers 1940 to 1980.

Wednesday Link Roundup - 18 March

William Teach at Pirate's Cove is up first with Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

12. Liberty’s Torch: What We Walked Away From
13. Moonbattery: Democrats Strive to Cripple Antiterror Defenses at Worst Possible Time

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 03.16.26

Shot In The Dark: Liberators
The Political Hat: Happy Pi Day, The Ides of March, and Leviathan’s App Store

EBL - MAGA Ides of March ☀️🦏🗡️

Mark Steyn: The Faint-hearted Hyper Power
Instapundit: Save Act Massive Support

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 16 March 2026: Lunchables Edition

Electric vehicle sales are booming in countries where a hundred miles is a long distance and nobody has children. (Electrek)
Less so in places with a future.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 3/16/2026

Democrat Mayor Arrested for Horrific Crimes Against Children
Former Gettysburg Mayor Chad-Alan Carr, a Democrat, has been arrested on multiple charges related to child abuse and exploitation

Political Hat - News of the Week (March 15th, 2026)

VP Doing the Most To Sell Trump’s Iran War? Pence, Not Vance
The vice president is suddenly everywhere as he makes the case for war with Iran.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump Strikes Kharg Island, Cuba Talks Turkey to Trump

No, seriously, The Atlantic is talking about the war “dragging on” after less than two weeks." Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "The Democrat/Media Complex is actively rooting for America's military to fail in Iran.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 03.17.26

Transterrestrial Musings: “Because It’s Wrong”
Victory Girls: Trump Talks Cuba and Now We’re All Waiting for the Havana Tower Rendering

Vlad Tepes - Ultra-vires judges in US, Canada, CBC and active measures: Links 1 for March 17, 2026

2. Perhaps an expert on US law can explain how a federal judge can somehow stop changes in vaccine policies by the top health agency in the USA? Can judges just override any and all federal laws and regulation? How does this possibly happen?

Don Surber - HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK

ITEM 4: Vox reported, “Bugs were supposed to be the future of food. Now, the insect farming industry is collapsing.”
What were they thinking? No one wants to eat Bugs. He’s a beloved cartoon rabbit.

Bacon Time!!!! - Sunday Linkange

Pirates Cove UN “Experts” Totally Want To Pass A Resolution On Tackling Hotcoldwetdry
Freedom Is Just Another Word.. .Saturday Memes…

The Glibertarians - Saturday Morning Après le Deluge Links

“Let’s tax already-taxed assets. It’s taxes all the way down.”
It’s heartwarming to see families doing activities together.
“Self-radicalized” seems to be the bullshit phrase of the day.

Small Dead Animals - Saturday On Turtle Island

The Democrat Party’s America: The Gay Scouts. Feminists and the mullahs. Douglas Murray.
Davos Carney’s Canada: Most transparent government ever. Musqueam.

Maggie's Farm - Saturday morning links

When Government Decides What You Can Read (Part 1)
Because of rent regulation, New York’s rental housing stock is older, more outdated, and less well-maintained than the housing of any other American city.

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 3/16/26

Burning the Canadian flag is however legal.
Canadian Cops Arrest Man for Burning Iranian Flag

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Donald Trump Checkmates Iran On Day 14

• All Things Considered – A Good Geopolitical Recap - CTH
• President Trump Calls on Oil Dependent Nations to Send Military Ships to Backstop Security in Hormuz - CTH

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 03/16/2026

Netanyahu posts a video of himself getting coffee in a coffee shop to prove he was not killed:
Some disinfo seeded on 4Chan, like this screenshot from the video which shows that according to the date on an ordering kiosk it was shot in 2024, however ... it actually says 2026

I leave you with Sunday Memes … from MaddMedic, Sunday Funnies For 03-15-26 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #3489 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, Memes that made me laugh 303 from Bayou Renaissance Man, and Monday Memes … from MaddMedic.

Another Failure of the Victim-Selection Process

It is generally speaking a bad idea to break into an occupied home. New Iberia apparent self-defense shooting leaves 1 hospitalized | KADN

Police in New Iberia responded to a shooting at 11:30 in the morning. Perhaps the would-be bad guy thought no one would be at home. The homeowner shot the intruder.

[Capt. Leland Laseter with NIPD] said the victim was taken to a hospital in Lafayette for treatment.

He added at this point in the investigation, it appears the person was shot in self-defense.

New Iberia, Louisiana is about a 20 mile drive southeast of Lafayette, or about 45 miles southwest of Baton Rouge.

The guy who got shot was listed in critical condition.

Since this took place in Louisiana, and not in New York, the finding of self-defense has meaning.

Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0.

Believe the Science? Not With This Much Fraud

From Joe Nocera by way of RUTHFULLY YOURS: Science Has a Major Fraud Problem

For decades, scientists were above reproach. Not any more. Joe Nocera investigates the murky world of fraudulent research, and the sleuths exposing dishonest science.

As these things often do, it starts with a single instance.

Theo Baker was the son of two journalists, so when he enrolled in Stanford, he joined The Stanford Daily. He began an investigation of neuroscientist Marc Tessier-Lavigne.

Tessier-Lavigne had become rich based on some research into Alzheimer’s disease.

Except that, as Baker was discovering, the supposed breakthrough was nothing of the sort. Inside Genentech, he discovered, some of the company’s top executives believed “that the research had been based on falsified data.” At least one believed the problems were serious enough that Tessier-Lavigne should retract the paper. He refused. It also turned out that Genentech had been unable to replicate Tessier-Lavigne’s results, casting further doubt on their veracity. But this fact was never disclosed to shareholders or the general public. By 2012, a year after Tessier-Lavigne left the company, Genentech quietly abandoned its research effort based on the 2009 paper.

Click thru for those details.

Science has a fraud problem. Scientific progress requires experiments that rigorously and objectively test hypotheses. Yet a surprising number of experiments conducted today are neither rigorous nor objective. Science is now rife with retracted papers, doctored images, and hyped results. Scientists have sometimes replaced the images from one experiment with images from a different one to make the results look better. They have made claims unjustified by the underlying research. And far too often, they’ve designed experiments that aren’t really experiments at all because the results are preordained.

There is more.

Hat tip to both Maggie's Farm and William Teach at Pirate's Cove.

Hanuman

How did a love of Heavy Metal lead to some great acoustic guitar? Rodrigo y Gabriela are a pair of guitar players from Mexico City who met due to a common love of Heavy Metal. But the music they play, or what little I have heard, is definitely not Metal.

Hanuman is the Hindu God of strength, wisdom, knowledge and devotion.

This song is "Hanuman" by Rodrigo y Gabriela from their 2009 album 11:11.

St. Patrick's Day Weekend in Chicago

It is always a crazy weekend. St. Patrick's Stupidity - HeyJackass!

Given what the weather usually is in March, in Chicago, these numbers are pretty bad. (Cold weather puts a dampener on the festivities most weekends.)

The river will be dyed, the parades will march and the bars will be at full vomit-inducing capacity. Additionally, the weather is somewhat agreeable to both drunken revelers and subsequent walks of shame while doing little to prevent the usual nonsense elsewhere around town.

The final tally was 3 killed, 12 shot and wounded, which is about an average St. Patrick's Day weekend in Chicago.

The image above is of the Chicago River, after it has been died green for St. Patrick's Day, from a few years back. (It is amazing what you can do with many 55 gallon drums of food coloring.