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.

The Silicon Graybeard -

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.

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