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.

Tuesday Links - 17 March

William Teach at Pirate's Cove starts us off with NPR Seems Upset That Medicaid Data Shared With ICE Spreads Fear

Why would any illegal be afraid when NPR and other Democrats tell us that illegal aliens are not getting Medicaid?

The Silicon Graybeard - Firefly Aerospace makes it to seven

Almost exactly one month ago, February 15th, I posted a notice to "Keep an Eye out for this launch this week" about a scheduled launch by Firefly Aerospace, with the funny/cute mission name "Stairway to Seven."

Watts Up With That? - No, TIME, the Planet Isn’t ‘Heating Faster Than Ever’

TIME claims in a recent article, “The Planet is Heating Faster Than Ever Before,” that global warming has dramatically accelerated since 2015. This is demonstrably false.

William Teach again - HuffPost Has Ironic Meltdown After Trump Attacks Newsom

Do people not understand this is what he does? That he calls people “simply the most destructive and damaging individual in my lifetime”? That he mocks people’s weight? Calls people loser? Calls people broken? Oh, wait, those are just a few bits of Newsom’s attacks on Trump

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 15 March 2026: Wiffly Waffly Edition

Just how much responsibility do AI chatbots and the companies that create them hold for psychotic people acting psychotically? (Tech Crunch)

I'm torn between bankrupting the companies and bankrupting the lawyers bringing these suits.

Both is good.

Miguel Gonzalez - Cuba goes Carbon Neutral and Greta Thunberg loses it.

Send me the videos of you and your idiots compelling the Cuban government to get off the necks of the Cubans, promote free and fair elections and maybe we will begin to give a slight sample of shit about what you want.

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: Holding Our Own

Another 3-2 week for the Senators as we cling to second place in the Beta Division.

The Abode of McThag - The Highwaymen

Way back when the Kevin Costner movie "The Highwaymen" came out, I mentioned that I enjoyed it, but something just stuck that didn't at the time, though Beans mentioned it in the comments.

It's the first Bonnie and Clyde movie where the good guys are portrayed as the protagonists.

Be Prepared for Terror, and That Means Being Armed

Wayne Allyn Root at Root for America - It’s Time to Say It Out Loud: 1) It’s Open Season on Jews in America. 2) Jews Need to Carry a Gun At All Times. 3) President Trump Needs to Pass This EO. And 4) Yes, I’m Calling Out Tucker and Candace.

Another day. Another terror attack on Jews at a Michigan temple where innocent Jewish children were at day school.

At the same time at Old Dominion college, another terror attack by an ex-National Guardsman named Mohammed. Wanna guess what that’s about?

Read the whole thing. (Hat tip to Jews Can Shoot)

Hollywood Suffers an Outbreak of Common Sense

I know of no fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer who was clamoring for a Buffy reboot. I know of no one who wants ANYTHING rebooted or adapted at this point in time. The Lord of the Rings has been destroyed by Amazon. The Rings of Prime show is a disaster. Willow, The Wheel of Time. The Witcher. All these and more have been adapted to TV and destroyed. Disney tried to resurect the Netflix adaptations of Marvel to disasterous effect. Daredevil and Echo were awful. She Hulk was an abomination.

The people who wanted to reboot it, are the folks who have destroyed every other IP they own and are now looking for "What have we got left?" Why? Because they are incapable of doing anything original. Buffy. Xena. Even Hercules: The Legendary Journeys from the 1990s was fun. They were all original, or truly original takes on old stories. (A humerous treatment of Hecules done almost as a buddy cop show?)

I can't even imagine what Modern Hollywood would have done to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Buffy was the slayer, but she was, as the Drinker points out, a mess a lot of the time. Sad. Frightened. Heartbroken. Tired of the slog. She wasn't the perfect girlboss that is all Hollywood can write today.

This is Critical Drinker's video Buffy Reboot Cancelled - Let Her Rest In Peace

RIP Phil Campbell of Motörhead

Phil Campbell was lead guitarist for Motörhead from 1984 until they disbanded in 2015. He passed away on Friday the 13th of March.

So, in his honor, will will listen to a song on which he played guitar, and shared in the songwriting credit.

This song is "Under the Gun" by Motörhead, from the 2006 album Kiss of Death.

I saw the announcement on X/Twitter.

Don't Bring a BB Gun to a Gunfight

He apparently thought he could intimidate people with a realistic-looking BB gun. Teen pulls a BB gun during a road rage incident and it ended in a fatal mistake with hard lessons we should learn from - NewsBreak

Even the cops treated it like a real rifle at first. It wasn't until much later they determined it was not a firearm.

What started as a late-night case of road rage in Juneau, Alaska, ended in tragedy when a 16-year-old armed with a BB gun was fatally shot. According to Nolin Ainsworth of Alaska’s News Source, the teenager was driving a 2019 Volkswagen Jetta and began following a 24-year-old man driving a 2001 GMC Jimmy. The two circled a roundabout before stopping to confront each other.

At that point the teen pointed the realistic-looking BB gun at the other driver.

Believing his life to be in immediate danger, the 24-year-old pulled out a pistol and fired, killing the teen at the scene.

How would you react if someone pointed a rifle at you?

This took place in Juneau, Alaska.

The tragedy highlights an unfortunate reality – fake guns can get you killed. As Ed Combs and Kevin Michalowski of the U.S. Concealed Carry Association (USCCA) pointed out in their analysis of the case, the reasonable-person standard in self-defense law is there for situations like this.

“If you are a responsibly armed citizen and someone pulls out what reasonably appears to be a firearm, you are compelled to take action to save your own life,” Michalowski explained.

The shooter was released, because self-defense is a human right.

On The Recent Terror Attacks

Some thoughts (not mine) on the recent attacks at Old Dominion, and against the synagogue in Michigan.

From Bearing Arms we get a review of the recent terror attacks. Attacks on Synagogue, University Are Why We Need to Carry

Americans got two terrifying reminders today of the importance of armed citizens and our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms; not only for our own individual defense, but for the defense of others and our communities.

An attacker at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia was able to kill one ROTC cadet and critically injure another before he was stabbed to death by another cadet in the classroom where the ROTC course was taking place. Just hours later, a man in a truck plowed through the front doors of a synagogue in Michigan, but was shot and killed by on-site security before he could attack anyone inside.

In both cases, the attack was stopped by someone at the scene. There was no time to call 911 and wait for a response.

This is Colion Noir's video on the attacks. Two Terrorism Attacks in One Day, & People Said I Was Fear-Mongering. The video is about six and one-half minutes.

The Renewable Energy Fantasy

What do you do when your solar power farm is destroyed in minutes by a tornado? You fire up a conventional power plant. What else can you do?

This is MGUY Australia's video Massive SOLAR plant FLATTENED by tornado

Stay tuned for some incredible aerial footage of a destroyed solar factory. But first, you have to ask why solar panels would be located in areas well known for storms and tornadoes.

The video is just over 8 minutes

16 March 1984: The Moment Gary Plauché shot Jeff Doucet

A father killed the man who molested his son. 1984: Moment Gary Plauché shot Jeff Doucet on live television | Daily Mail Online

A 1984 moment shocked the nation. Jeffrey Doucet was being escorted through Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport by police when Gary Plauché turned around and shot him on live television. Doucet had kidnapped and assaulted Plauché's son, and had been abusing him for months.

Click thru for the video.

Plauché took a plea deal, and admitted to manslaughter; he served no prison time. He had community service and probation for 5 years.

So, is this justice, or was this justice not served?

UPDATE:

It’s Gary Plauché Day 🫡

On this day in 1984 Gary took out the pedophile that molested his son Jody.

Plauché was given a seven-year suspended sentence with five years' probation and 300 more hours of community service. When he was questioned as to why he shot Doucet, Plauché… pic.twitter.com/XdiYMYEmlt

— UnsubscribePodcast (@UnsubscribeCast) March 16, 2026

When The Hollywood Media Admits There Are Problems...

If The Hollywood Reporter is reporting on the problems in the movie industry, then things must really be bad. Jamie Lee Curtis Has Some Ideas on How to Protect the Film Industry

This article is mostly about a movie Curtis produced, and had a small part in, but if you get far enough in, you find the bit on the decline of Hollywood.

Curtis’s fast rise as a power producer has given her a front-row seat to the anxieties and struggles of the industry she grew up in. “I see the lists of actors who are available for work, and when you start going down these lists, these are people who have starred in movies, had their own TV series — and they’re willing to go on tape for a small part in either your movie or your TV show,” she says. “It is a desperate time. There is very little work available.” She worries about “consolidation” — referring, no doubt, to Paramount’s impending acquisition of Warner Bros. — and recently reposted a criticism of Timothée Chalamet’s viral comments about preferring to work in movies versus ballet and opera, art forms that he said are fueled by strained efforts to “keep this thing alive.”

Now why could that be? They told half or more of their audience to go away, and then were shocked when they went away. They stopped hiring based on merit, and started hiring based on what boxes you check in the demographic Olympics, and are now insulted if you say that the stuff they produce is bad. (It is bad.) Or they call you names for not liking stuff because it was created this group of that group. They hit you over the hear with The Message™ at every juncture, and don't understand why we don't want to consume the slop.

And Curtis does go to bat for ballet, but really when was the last time you listened to an opera, let alone attended a live performance, or went to the ballet?

Now some people are trying to do something about the decline. Zachary Levi is currently trying to build a studio in Texas, outside of the Hollywood bubble. He compared it to United Artists in a panel discussion I saw. A place where art would be allowed to be the goal, not just the over-produced slop we get from Disney with Marvel and Lucasfilm, Warner Bros. and DC, and the like. Something aside from sequels, prequels, etc. (If you watch that video from Zachary L, at that link, you will see why it won't be mentioned by the Hollywood media.)

Do You Think the Team Behind Lanterns Have Ever Read a Comic?

That is the question that Verbal Riot asks, and answers.

DC has released more info about what is sure to be another failed attempt to make a comic book show made by theater kids. They are basing the show on True Detective. Why? Why not base the story on Green Lantern?

This is the Verbal Riot video The Creative Team Behind Lanterns Revealed... You Should Be Worried!

Do you guys believe that anybody in this group has ever read a F*#^ing Green Lantern comic in their life?

I could say that 2 or 3 might have, but if so, they were told to shut up about it and never mention the dreaded source material. The video is about 14 minutes.

Another Failure of the Victim-Selection Process

WJAC Western Pennsylvania brings us the story. PSP: Intruder shot & killed by homeowner during alleged break-in at Somerset Twp. home

Police say the homeowner explained that he was awakened to the sound of banging on his kitchen window, where he reportedly discovered a male intruder trying to get into the home.

The would-be intruder was warned. He ignored the warning. The homeowner shot him in the head.

According to PSP, the homeowner was detained, however, a preliminary investigation appears to corroborate the resident's claims that he acted in self-defense.

Somerset County, Pennsylvania is about 45 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

Self-defense is a human right, and it appears to be a legal right in Pennsylvania.

Designer of the Urutau Arrested in Brazil

From Impro Guns: Ze Carioca, designer of the ‘Urutau’ arrested

Ze Carioca was the main designer of the Urutau, a bullpup 9mm version of the FGC-9 designed to be easily made anywhere in the world.

Click thru for the details, and photos of the Urutau.

The police described him as a "mastermind."

It is however more likely that he has been lumped in with other suspects and may have only been making dummy props or supplying incomplete or unregulated parts.

Because the powers that be hate the fact that they are losing the war to disarm the population.

Progressives Destroying State Economies

Let's start with California, because dunking on Newsome and company never gets old. Yamaha Leaving California for Greener Pastures in Georgia

Another major company is abandoning California and moving to a red state. Yamaha Motor Corp. has been in Cypress, California, for 50 years, but is now relocating to Kennesaw, Georgia.

Obviously that move, which impacts about 250 employees, won't happen overnight.

Yamaha plans to start the exit in late 2026, with the transition stretching into 2028.

Then there is Washington State. The Democrats in charge of that state decided that they needed to enact a state income tax, which they have never had. (Or not had for a long time, anyway.)

So Starbucks is leaving that state, as is the founder of that company.

DEVELOPING: Starbucks founder Howard Schultz announces that his family is leaving Seattle for Florida the same day Democrats passed an income tax on Washington state

Starbucks corporate is moving to Nashville

The wealth exodus is underway. Democrats have killed WA's economy pic.twitter.com/4O8Dk0tPaI

— Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) March 11, 2026

Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 14 March

The Right Way is up first with Top of the News

Gunman Opens Fire on U.S. Consulate in Canada - Bongino Report
Harvey Weinstein: Prison Is 'Hell' - NewsMax

EBL - Cat in the Hat

12 March 1957 : Cat in the Hat
AoSHQ: Morning Report 03.12.26

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 03.12.26

Don Surber: Ayatollah Press says Iran’s winning
Racket News: Jeffrey Sachs Is Trying to Fix The NYT Iran War Coverage One Email At A Time

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 13 March 2026: Animeoia Edition

Reducing Europe's nuclear energy sector was fucking stupid, says... Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission. (Reuters)
Yeah, Ursula. / We know. / Everybody knows. / Everybody knew the entire time.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Iran Planning Drone Attack on California?

Althouse finds "President Trump told Axios in a brief phone interview Wednesday that the war with Iran will end 'soon' because there is 'practically nothing left to target.’”

Small Dead Animals - Wednesday On Turtle Island

Conman Carney’s Canada: Unmarked graves scam. Canada is not well. Liberal Party TV. Toronto Police.
The Democrat Party’s America: Victor Davis Hanson – War with Iran. A leftist moment.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 3/12/2026

Inside $1B Silicon Valley Plot to Take on California Democrats
The California elite are reportedly setting up a nine-figure endowment fund to push back against the state’s political agenda, specifically the 5% wealth tax

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 03.13.26

Da Tech Guy: Five Iran War Thoughts Under the Fedora
Don Surber: Military is winning in Iran so media spins a lobster tale, also, How do I define victory?

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - LinkSwarm For March 13, 2026

Trump also said that we’ve eliminated all military targets on Iran’s Kharg Island.
“Israeli Drones Striking IRGC Goons in the Streets.”

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism, 03/13/2026 – Back to The Nation!

Yep, the lesson learned is that the Democrats didn’t do enough to embrace the “Death to America!” crowd. Well, it did work in New York City, and a lot more subtly in Virginia…
Texas’s Senate Primary Has Already Made History—and It’s Not Over Yet

The Glibertarians - Thursday Morning Links

Federal appeals court hands Trump win, overrules judge who blocked deportations to third countries
FAIR: Illegal Migrant Population Almost 19 Million

Vlad Tepes - Communism and Islamic destruction of Western existence in Canada and the UK, another Synagogue attacked in Michigan: Links 1 for March 12, 2026

2. Sometime before the Communist revolution went into its most active phase in 2020, I think 2017 or so, a Danish film maker named Michael Hanson made a movie called, Killing Canada

Maggie's Farm - Wednesday morning links

Starbucks corporate is moving to Nashville
Yamaha Leaving California for Greener Pastures in Georgia
Climate Change -- Where The Experts Make Fools Of Themselves

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 3/11/26

Dem seat flips Republican.
Mohammed Loses Election for Dems in Blue Virginia

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: President Trump Notes Briefing on Iranian Sleeper Cells that Entered During Biden Open Border Era

• Trump DOJ Is Finally Taking On The Corrupt DC Bar Association - Ben Weingarten
• Denial of Executive Privilege is the Latest Karmic Episode for Democrats - Julie Kelly

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 03/13/2026

Michigan synagogue hit by a mass shooter whose family was killed in an airstrike, and who was not allowed to attend the funerals,.

I leave you with MidWeek Memes from Grantie Grok, Wednesday Memes …. from MaddMedic, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #3480 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, and Friday night's gifs from Wirecutter.