Monday, March 23, 2026

Leon Panetta: Trump has no choice but to go big or go home

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  ... He advises Trump to abandon his magical thinking and “face the fact” that he must use the military to open the strait, neutralise Ira...

Iranian parliament Speaker threatens to target U.S. financial institutions on Sunday, Trump chickens out by breakfast Monday

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  Iran threatens U.S. Treasury buyers as Trump’s 48-hour ultimatum looms Published Mon, Mar 23 2026  12:28 AM EDT  ... In a social media pos...
Sunday, March 22, 2026

Trump approval hits another new low

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  Latest Polls: Trump Job Approval Falls to 2nd Term Low in RCP Average - 41.6%

Two weeks in the news

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  The economy has Strait of Hormuz deadline for Trump: Two weeks ...  For now, the C-suite has its own view of the matter: it’s roughly two ...

Because they have nothing better to do

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 ICE agents might as well try security theatre after deportation theatre flopped at the box office earlier.     ICE agents will be deployed ...

If we already won in Iran why is this still happening?

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  Iran Resumes Hanging Protesters Wall Street Journal

When the Bully Pulpit is the Seat of Polluted Discourse

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Stephen Miller is full of it, as usual

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  Stephen Miller: Every Blue State Has Refused To Share Their Voter Rolls So We Can Remove Non-Citizens   Map Shows States That Have Handed...

On day six of no talking filibuster someone really should do a welfare check on Senator Mike Lee

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Saturday, March 21, 2026

WTI crude oil at $15.05 on average in 1986 adjusted for inflation to January 2026 would be just under $45, but it's over $93 on March 16

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Year to date silver is down 5% and gold is up almost 4%

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Friday, March 20, 2026

Trump approval hit a record low 41.8% yesterday in the Real Clear Politics average

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Disapproval with Trump at 55.9% retests the high from Feb 23.  

GOP liars portray passing routine legislation under reconcilation rules as a standard part of the process when the gimmick is restricted to budgets and wasn't used for the first time until 1980

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Now they want to make everything fall under reconciliation in order to make an end run around the filibuster.  The Byrd Rule codified in 199...

Mad King Ludwig unendorsed Jeff Hurd CO-3 on Feb 21 as a RINO, but one month later il Donaldo Trumpo gives him his total endorsement

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 Trump is clearly 25th Amendment material and belongs nowhere near The Football. Unfortunately his cabinet happily wears the Florsheims he g...

Loon meets loon

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  LOOMER MEETS THE LAMA...   Dalai Lama: So, I might take rebirth as an insect, or an animal—whatever would be of most value to the largest ...

How come this isn't the end of Starmer's government when it was the end of Truss'?

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Trump thinks high interest rates are all Powell's fault when they are HIS: The war in Iran, the tariffs, the addition of $2 trillion in debt in seven months

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Trump creates an emergency by attacking Iran, turns right around and declares an emergency to by-pass Congress and sell weapons to Persian Gulf states even though we need another $200 billion from Congress for weapons

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    Trump invokes emergency powers with $23 billion in Gulf arms sales as Iran war wages on: WSJ report ... For some of the deals, the Ameri...

The Trump administration learned nothing from its fight to a draw with the Houthis last year

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... Iran is still believed to have a vast stockpile of mines, cruise missiles on trucks and hundreds of undamaged boats in hidden faciliti...

Larry Kudlow has really devolved, falsely calling Fed Chair Powell the Fed’s first forever board member

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Larry knows that's a lie. He knows it's Senator Thom Tillis who is stopping Kevin Warsh from getting a Fed chair confirmation hearin...