Posts on Friday, April 3, 2026

It’s easy enough to dismiss Sen. Bernie Sanders’ endless lament that the rich don’t “pay their fair share of taxes,” but he should still be held to account when he flat-out lies about how much the rich do pay. In an op-ed published by the Guardian, Sanders repeats a number of leftist tropes: income inequality has never been greater, the Trump tax cuts benefited the rich and big corporations, the middle class is getting screwed. Yadda, yadda, yadda. But then he starts making some remarkable claims. He says that Warren Buffett’s tax rate is 0.1%, “while the average

As the U.K., Europe and Australia draw international alarm for seeking to censor online content far outside their borders, House Judiciary Committee Republicans are pointing the finger back at the Western Hemisphere for threats to Americans' speech. Brazilian officials led by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes "regularly issue global takedown orders to social media platforms demanding the platforms remove content, including specific social media accounts, or face daily noncompliance fines," frequently targeting criticism of its high court, according to "nonpublic documents" the committee obtained. They even ordered X to remove posts praising President Trump and criticizing —

Just the News investigation has detailed how a wealthy Marxist activist best known for the funding of a global financial network both inside the U.S. and around the world has extensive ties to Chinese Communist Party-linked organizations inside of China. China-based entrepreneur Neville Roy Singham lives and works in Shanghai, — which the American businessman now calls home — where he runs his network of pro-CCP news sites and other China-linked endeavors. Singham, who sold his ThoughtWorks tech company in 2017, has used the money to fund openly communist endeavors worldwide.

This week about 30,000 eggs from a North Carolina family farm arrived in Washington, destined for the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn. The farm-to-table concept is an important tenet of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, expanding exposure to healthy eating habits and nutrition. The eggs, supplied by Braswell Family Farms in Nashville for the fifth consecutive year, were highlighted by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, who visited the fourth-generation operation earlier in the week to tour its laying hen flocks, grading facilities and processing plant.

When the NFA was sold to the American public, it was defended not as an infringement of the Second Amendment, but as an action stemming from the federal government's taxation authority in the Constitution. It wasn't gun control, just a tax. The registry itself was simply a listing of everyone who had paid the tax. Easy peasy lemon squeezey. With President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill, the tax on short-barreled long guns and suppressors came to an end. However, the DOJ says it should keep the registry. To say it's being challenged is an understatement, and the groups fighting this just filed an amicus brief in the challenge.

The Supreme Court, trying to preserve the Constitution’s purity, might destroy it over birthright Citizenship. Will Cain said that “320K babies were born in 2023 to unauthorized or temporary immigrant mothers; that’s 9% of ALL U.S. births!” He added that the Court had better do the right thing. Don’t count on it, Will. The Supreme Court justices didn’t seem to be moved by the oral arguments. Turley said it will have to be dealt with a constitutional amendment. However, he doesn’t know if the people have “the political will to wage that war, wage that fight.” No one believes that the framers would have embraced what we have today. “We have become

It’s going to be very easy to buy Easter Eggs this year, thanks to President Trump. Egg prices are down by a staggering 80 percent. Remember when Trump had been reelected president for about ten minutes and Democrats started hassling him about the price of eggs, which had skyrocketed on Joe Biden’s watch? That was fun. Where are they now? Given all of the things Democrats have been outraged about since then, it seems like ancient history. This year’s Easter egg hunts may be a bit more fun and a lot less pricey. After getting shellacked by last year’s surge in egg prices, families heading into Easter this spring —

Don't look now, but FCC Chairman Brendan Carr and Jim Acosta agree on something: President Donald Trump is "winning" his effort to reshape the media landscape in his second term. Appearing on the "Power Lines" podcast with his fellow ardent leftists Oliver Darcy and Jon Passantino, Acosta glumly proclaimed, "I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to figure out that Donald Trump is winning in his, you know, quest to reshape the media in this country that he's cracked the code on how to hurt the press in the U.S." Acosta recently testified at a Democrat pseudo-hearing before Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.),

A few days ago, according to a leaked exchange, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told an Iranian military counterpart that their nation’s economy will face collapse in three more weeks without an immediate cease-fire. He’s not wrong. Conventional wisdom holds that an air campaign alone cannot trigger a popular uprising, so the combined US-Israel effort in Operation Epic Fury won’t result in meaningful regime change. But that fails to recognize there’s a second front in this conflict: economic warfare. And on that front, Iran has already lost. President Trump’s goal in his first term was to resolve the Iran issue through primarily economic means.

Even the Reds are seeing red. Mayor Zohran Mamdani has succeeded in at least one thing during his fresh-faced administration — infuriating everyone, including his typically ride-or-die lefty buds, over his bald-faced lie that the City Council’s budget plan cuts services. Peeved City Council members roundly ripped Mamdani after he used one of his slick social-media videos Wednesday to call out Speaker Julie Menin by name and wrongly portray her budget proposal — an alternative to his doomsday version — as slashing billions of dollars from city agencies.

The Gulf countries were trying to advance a resolution drafted by Bahrain in the United Nations Security Council that would allow the use of force to defend their shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. The resolution: Now that would seem simple, and primarily defensive, to be able to protect yourself and get through But the effort was effectively stymied on Thursday by three countries. You could probably guess two of them - Russia and China. But the third was ridiculous: France. They opposed any authorization of military action or use of force, according to a diplomat and a senior U.N. official..

The Catholic News Herald, “Connecting Catholics in North Carolina”, bragged that the refugee case coordinator for the Catholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte, had been recently honored. His name? Ashir Haji-Mohamed. The latter part of the name meant that he had made a pilgrimage to the Islamic holy city of Mecca. Haji-Mohamed, a former Somali refugee, had previously been in the news for helping resettle Syrian Muslims, as well as Jordanians and Turks, in North Carolina. After the Biden retreat, Catholic Charities of Charlotte had also worked to bring Afghans to North Carolina. The Islamic Center of Asheville doubled in size as Catholic Charities dispatched Afghans there, and then working with “a Catholic

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has overturned the controversial rule banning firearms from military installations. Up until now, it was nearly impossible for servicemen to obtain permission to carry personal firearms on military posts and bases. That is about the change. “Not all enemies are foreign, nor are they all outside our borders,” said Hegseth in an April 2 video. “Some are domestic. Confirming your God-given right to self protection is what I'm signing into action today. And I'm proud to do so.”

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger (D.) and other local authorities are under fire over a recent string of very high profile and preventable crimes committed by illegal aliens in the sanctuary state. One of Spanberger’s first actions as governor was to sign an executive order barring state and local authorities from cooperating with federal authorities for federal immigration enforcement. Since then, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has pleaded with Spanberger and Fairfax County officials to stop releasing dangerous criminals back into the community without notifying ICE. In the past few weeks,

Over at the New Statesman, a long hagiography of Ed Miliband blows a great deal of smoke on behalf of the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. According to Will Lloyd, to some acclaim from both sides of the climate policy debate, Miliband has become “the most powerful man in Government” and may even have been so during the 14 years of Conservative Party rule. Many words marshal some evidence towards Lloyd’s conclusion, but I believe that Lloyd makes far too much of Miliband’s meagre talents. Miliband is at once both a product of the crony-ridden technocratic bureaucracies that bloomed under the dark of Blair’s term,

Left-wing outlet The Guardian pushed a shaky narrative suggesting that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard could be on the chopping block. But the White House wasted no time obliterating the report, calling it fake news. According to The Guardian, Trump had allegedly been “considering” whether to fire Gabbard, citing anonymous sources who claimed the president was frustrated over her handling of former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent, who resigned after criticizing the administration’s rationale for confronting Iran. White House spokesman Steven Cheung issued a blistering statement to the press, setting the record straight:

California Governor Gavin Newsom has reportedly spent upwards of $20 million on a consulting firm that was going to search for ways to cut government waste. You could not make this up. This is the most Democrat government story ever. Newsom could have just looked at his state on his own and picked out expensive programs that aren’t working and recommended that they be cut himself, but then he would have to own those decisions. Democrat base voters would then be likely to come after him for this and hold him accountable. By burying this under a big expensive consulting firm, he can evade responsibility.

One month into Operation Epic Fury against the Islamic Republic of Iran, a long-overdue conversation has finally broken into the open: What, exactly, is the enduring rationale for NATO? For decades, this question has been treated in Washington foreign policy circles as heretical. But it isn't. And to their credit, President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are now saying so plainly. As Trump recently put it, "They haven't been friends when we needed them. We've never asked them for much. ... It's a one-way street." Rubio has been similarly blunt:

Happy Friday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Merrwysq felt that kombucha was the gateway drug to quoting Sartre in service elevators. It's a pretty safe bet to assume that most politicians are more self-involved than they are self-aware. Perhaps it wasn't always that way, but we know what we're dealing with here in the modern era. There are varying degrees of lack of self-awareness among politicians and few in history have been more clueless than the woman who recently spent four years being one heartbeat away from the presidency, Kamala Harris.

The FBI made multiple arrests Thursday in Los Angeles County in connection with allegations over a total of $60 million in hospice-related Medicaid fraud. First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli announced the arrests for Operation Never Say Die during a news conference. "Federal agents from multiple agencies descended on fraudsters throughout Southern California, executing multiple arrests and search warrants," Essayli told reporters. Eight people were arrested, Essayli said, and charges will be brought against 15 individuals who are accused of defrauding $60 million in health care fraud in greater Los Angeles County, including allegedly operating fraudulent hospice care businesses.

[WARNING: Adult Language] Wednesday on the “Politicon” podcast Democratic strategist James Carville predicted President Donald Trump will get impeached in 2027. Carville said, “You know who’s gonna turn on you? What’s left of the Republican senators. There may be 43 to 45 of them left. Now the House is gonna vote to impeach you. You’re gonna be impeached in 2027. These senators can’t stand you. These Republican senators, they can’t stand you. They have to be there because of their politics, back in their states, but it’s gonna be apparent to them that you’re a loser. You’re a losing * bet. You’re going to see all this come around

Every day I see a headline like these: from The Hill newspaper this morning, Trump approval rating hits new low as Iran war squeezes economy. “New low.” The Hill headline from yesterday read, Trump losing support from core supporters as approval drops to record low in new polling. “Record low.” The Tuesday headline in The Hill reads, Nate Silver on recent polling: Trump has ‘profound problems’ On Monday, The Hill told us, Donald Trump approval rating dipped to a new low.

James Carville is not exactly known for measured political commentary, but his recent rant on the Politics War Room podcast took things to a whole new level. The famed Democratic strategist unleashed a profanity-laced tirade directed at Donald Trump, and buried inside all the bluster was something genuinely revealing: a detailed roadmap for how Democrats plan to weaponize the federal government against Trump and his family the moment they return to power. "Listen to me, Trump, I'm gonna tell your fat * *something," he said. "You're getting ready to get the living crap kicked out of you."

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has overturned the controversial rule banning firearms from military installations. Up until now, it was nearly impossible for servicemen to obtain permission to carry personal firearms on military posts and bases. That is about the change. “Not all enemies are foreign, nor are they all outside our borders,” said Hegseth in an April 2 video. “Some are domestic. Confirming your God-given right to self protection is what I'm signing into action today. And I'm proud to do so.”

A month ago, CNN reported that suspicious activity had been detected on an FBI surveillance network. The FBI has identified a suspected cybersecurity incident on a sensitive network used to manage wiretaps and intelligence surveillance warrants, and officials are working to determine the seriousness of the incident, according to an FBI statement and a source familiar with the investigation. “The FBI identified and addressed suspicious activities on FBI networks, and we have leveraged all technical capabilities to respond,” the bureau said in a statement to CNN on Thursday, declining to elaborate.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is likely to hold a vote or vote on a resolution on the Strait of Hormuz as early as Friday, April 3. "The proposed resolution will authorize member states to use "all necessary and appropriate means of defense in the Strait of Hormuz and surrounding waters, including in the territorial waters of coastal states within or bordering the Strait of Hormuz," said Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani on Thursday, quoted by Antara via Sputnik-RIA Novosti. According to him, the effort is to secure transit routes and prevent attempts to close, block, or disrupt international navigation through the Strait of Hormuz.

DENVER — The Colorado Appeals Court issued a decision Thursday morning that threw out the current prison sentence of Tina Peters, but affirmed her conviction on several felony charges.[snip] The state appeals court heard arguments in the case in January. They issued their decision Thursday morning and said that her sentence should be set aside because it was based, in part, on improper consideration of her right to exercise free speech. Her case will be sent back to the trial court for resentencing. With no changes to her original sentence, Peters would have been parole eligible in early 2028.