Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has been pushing President Trump to continue the war against Iran, arguing that the U.S.-Israeli military campaign presents a “historic opportunity” to remake the Middle East, according to people briefed by American officials on the conversations.
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Also, Mr. Trump, Sir, It Was MBS
Glad we are grouped with, and doing much of the dirty work of, the worst people in the world.
Dems Will Give Trump Anything He Wants, Now
Joke, but members of Congress are lost without their perks.
Apparently just as fed up as the rest of us, Atlanta's Delta Airlines announced this week that it s suspending its stand-alone service for members of Congress until the TSA is fully funded.
"Due to the impact on resources from the longstanding government shutdown, Delta will temporarily suspend specialty services to members of Congress flying Delta," the statement read. "Next to safety, Delta's No. 1 priority is taking care of our people and customers, which mas become increasingly difficult in the current environment."
I Coulda Banged Markie Post
Trump's brain is firmly lodged in 1987, even for things you don't expect!
Appearing a few weeks later at a New Hampshire rotary club event in 1987, Trump sneered at how the Iranian navy — “little runabouts with machine guns” — had held America to ransom. “Why couldn’t we go in there and take some of their oilfields near the coast?” he asked.
The then 41-year-old businessman put it even more starkly in a 1988 interview with the Guardian: “One bullet shot at one of our men or ships, and I’d do a number on Kharg Island. I’d go in and take it.”
Monday, March 23, 2026
Sounds Safe
I do not think you can run LAGUARDIA with one ATC guy.
The unidentified air traffic controller was in charge of both air and ground traffic at the time of the crash. While that's not necessarily out of the ordinary — especially for late-night hours — it should be. It meant that he was in charge of telling both planes in the air, planes on the ground and vehicles on the ground where they needed to go. While ATC Specialists are undoubtedly highly trained, it can certainly become too much for anybody, particularly at really busy airports like LaGuardia.
And How Will They Do That Then
I don't know what Trump believes ICE will be doing at airports, but I think reporters should not headline this obviously unrealistic purpose.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were deployed to airports on Monday to help ease security lines.
The Play Inside The Play
We all (often deservedly) mock "security theater" and some of the more ridiculous rituals of the airport experience, but I don't doubt that there is some purpose to airport security. The prevention of hijackings and plane bombings seems to be an important goal, whether or not the way we go about it is precisely the right approach.
Throwing a bunch of untrained dickheads whose core function is harassment and violent kidnapping does not seem likely to improve the speed and efficiency of that!
Gravitas
Repeating myself, but for all that was wrong with the journalism/commentary leading up to and during the Iraq war, there was some sense, or at least pretense, that war was a big deal, that civilian deaths were a big deal.
Now we just see whether the line is going up or down in response to various things.
Peace Through Strength
The problem is that Iran started a war with us 47 years ago because Sleepy Joe Biden gave all the weapons to Ukraine. Now that Donald Trump made the military strong again, we no longer have a war with Iran.
Apparently peace talks (denied by Iran) have happened and the stock market is soaring, baby!
Iranian state TV claims "Trump withdrew his 48-hour ultimatum out of fear of Iran's response"
Iran's official state television network IRIB said on its official Telegram social media channel Monday that President Trump had postponed his deadline for the Islamic Republic to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to international maritime traffic "out of fear of Iran's response."
Sunday, March 22, 2026
Mr. Trump, Sir,
It was that nasty Netanyahu, little Marco, Pete Hegseth and... umm... Samuel Alito who got you into this mess.
What Could Go Wrong?
Many things, actually.
Homan told CNN’s “State of the Union” he was currently working on a plan for the deployment with the leaders of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Transportation Security Administration. He said he believed it would begin at large airports that have seen longest wait times and that agents would cover security points but wouldn’t provide help with baggage screening
4 Times The Size Of California
I am sure strikes on power plants can do a lot of damage, and I am not going to pretend to be an instant expert on Iran's power grid, but even immense damage does not lead to inevitable "surrender."
President Donald Trump threatened Saturday to “hit and obliterate” Iranian power plants if Tehran does not reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours.I am also not going to pretend to be a war expert, but we do have a recent, and ongoing, example of the futility of certain approaches in Eastern Europe.
Saturday, March 21, 2026
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