Senate confirms Mullin to be DHS chief

There’s a New Plumber in Town

"The White House insists that some policies are non-negotiable, including allowing officers to use masks in the field if they fear they may be doxxed by activist groups."

POLITICO   "The Senate voted Monday to confirm Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma to be the next Homeland Security secretary, thrusting the first-term Republican into the leadership of a department in crisis.

"The 54-45 vote mostly fell along party lines. All Republicans except for Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky voted to confirm their colleague. Democratic Sens. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico voted to confirm Mullin.

Paul’s vote against Mullin was expected, as was Fetterman’s vote for him.

"Paul, who chairs the Senate Homeland Security Committee, sparred with Mullin at his tense confirmation hearing last week over past disparaging comments Mullin made about the Kentucky Republican. Mullin also faced questions from Paul and Democrats on the committee about “special missions” he claimed to have taken on behalf of the U.S. government during his service in the House." . . .

Trace Gallagher: Jimmy Kimmel digs himself deeper

Trace Gallagher: Jimmy Kimmel digs himself deeper

Why aren't these states called "Red" instead of Blue?

No bosses | Bruce Springsteen is the headliner at the flagship No Kings rally at the state Capitol in Saint Paul this afternoon.  . . . "Tim Walz, Keith Ellison, and Ilhan Omar will also be there. They wouldn’t want to miss the chance to rag on the King. Opposing the King has become the lodestone of their careers. Contrary to the theme of the proceedings, it comes at no cost and places them at no risk. " . . .

AF Branco - Townhall

More Truth About Newsom’s Busted California – Issues & Insights  "All is well in California, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom. The milk flows cool and creamy, and the honey has never been so sweet. But beneath the bluster lies bitter experience and, if nothing changes, a sour future. 

"The Golden State, says the presidential aspirant in a recent co-bylined op-ed published by Project Syndicate, offers policy predictability, a welcome home for global capital, and a green agenda like no other. 

"Newsom is correct in that policy is predictable in California. But that’s no virtue when policy is expected to always move in a single direction — toward weightier regulation, more punitive taxes, and a general tendency toward increasing government intervention in private matters. This has produced a state with stagnant employment, hostility toward business and enterprise, rising energy prices, unaffordable housing, and a cost of living that has sent residents fleeing to states where they have more freedom to pursue their happiness. 

"Newsom is also right when he points out that the state has one of the largest economies in the world. It’s either fourth or fifth, depending on who is doing the counting. But the Newsom economy has struggled.

"In 2021, California’s share of the domestic economy was a record 14.5%. By the second quarter of 2025, though, it had slipped to 13.8%, and today is being propped up by the valuations of a few artificial intelligence companies and legacy tech firms such as Apple, Alphabet (Google), and Meta (Facebook) that haven’t fled (yet) as so many other companies have." . . . 

Where’s The Outrage?   "Democrats have kept the Department of Homeland Security shuttered since mid-February because they were outraged that two Americans were killed by ICE agents while interfering with their work.

"Since then, terrorists have claimed four American lives – a number that could have been significantly higher had fortune not prevailed." . . .

Who Was Cesar Chavez—and Who Will He Become? ›

 Victor Davis Hanson  

"Or will [the liberals] revert to keeping quiet, as they surmise that, in order to make a good progressive omelet, inevitably even the most hallowed leftist saint regrettably sometimes callously breaks a few eggs and so should be forgiven for the collateral damage of a few utterly ruined lives?"

"Cesar Chavez, founder of the United Farm Workers, eventually became the symbolic leader of the entire Mexican American community of the 1960s and 1970s. Indeed, he was eventually enshrined in the pantheon of modern leftist activists and civil rights leaders alongside Saul Alinsky, Martin Luther King Jr., and Betty Friedan. His Chavez Foundation today emphasizes Chavez’s saintlike status as “a genuinely religious and spiritual figure.” His Tehachapi redoubt remains a national monument.

"In public, Chavez stressed nonstop his common-man roots, his strong Catholicism, and his devotion to wife and family, and thereby turned the struggle to provide a livable wage and humane working conditions for farm workers into a broader civil rights movement—led by the Christlike martyr Cesar Chavez himself. He carefully constructed an image of the long-suffering moralist, at odds with greedy capitalist “growers,” whom Chavez often publicly said he loathed.

"Chavez frequently quoted Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. and went on well-publicized fasts and nonviolent marches. The Camelot Kennedys made yearly hajjes to California to meet with the holy man. 1960s college students ensured that table grapes were banned in campus cafeterias.

"In 1971, as a bumbling freshman farm kid entering UC Santa Cruz, I can remember being confronted my first day on campus by screaming students outside my dorm door for bringing to my new room a tiny box of grapes I picked on our small 120-acre farm.

"Trying to explain to furious (mostly) wealthy white kids from Los Angeles that family raisin farming had little to do with the labor fireworks over table-grape production in Delano was a waste of time. To these suburbanites, Chavez was a god. And anyone anywhere who grew any type of grape for any reason was Satanic. So effectively had Chavez spread his gospel of evil farmer oppression to the estates of Brentwood, Palos Verdes, and Malibu.

"Yet even then, there were always elements of the mythical Chavez that did not quite ring true. The supposedly nonviolent Chavez sent his toughs down to the southern border to form a “wet line” to stop and sometimes assault illegal aliens—in a way that would make ICE today look tame. But assaulting such “scabs,” Chavez preached, was necessary to ensure cheap nonunion “strikebreakers” did not drive down his union’s wages." . . . More...

California Renames Cesar Chavez Day After Rape Allegations   . . . "The California Legislature joins other governments across the country in removing Cesar Chavez’s name from parks, schools, streets and days honoring the U.S. farmworker movement, according to previous reporting from The Center Square. The Phoenix City Council on Wednesday voted to rename Cesar Chavez Day “Farmworkers Day,” while the city of Seattle took Chavez’s name off of one of its parks in the South Park neighborhood." . . .

Former San Francisco Supervisor Susan Leal behind Cesar Chavez St. name in 1995 wants to change it following abuse allegations - ABC7 San Francisco

Vote Fraud: Another ‘Science Is Settled’ Issue

  Ann Coulter   

"And that’s how we know for a fact that there’s no such thing as election fraud. It’s as fake as Hunter Biden’s laptop. As bogus as the natural immunity. As phony as lynchings in the Jim Crow South."

 

"Perhaps the left’s greatest contribution to public discourse is to threaten anyone who disagrees with them with financial ruin, slander, embarrassment, condemnation, homelessness and prison — and then announce the existence of a “consensus.”

"Their signature consensus-by-threat technique has been used to prove the truth of global warming, Russian interference with the 2016 election, COVID-19 lockdowns, Hunter Biden’s laptop as Russian disinformation, and — especially important today — the nonexistence of voter fraud.

"Dissenters from the liberal position on all these issues are slyly compared to Holocaust conspiracy theorists by calling them “deniers” — “climate deniers,” “COVID deniers,” “mask deniers,” “global warming deniers,” “science deniers,” and “election deniers.” Until very, very recently, “denier” was a word that referred exclusively to Holocaust deniers.

"Although I’m sure it’s fun, browbeating people into a terrified, cowering silence isn’t proof of anything. In fact, it kind of suggests beliefs of such dainty substance that raising the slightest objection could make the whole thing fall apart.

"Ask Soviet scientists who were sent to the gulag for refusing to renounce Lysenkoism about it. Oh, you can’t. They’re dead.

"Today, we’ll examine the left’s “consensus” on the question of voter fraud. With the SAVE Act (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act) under debate — which would merely require proof of citizenship to vote — we’re getting a lot of categorical, sweeping statements for which there can be no proof, such as, “the 2020 election was the most secure in U.S. history!”

"Seventeen intelligence agencies agree! Wait – no, that was about Putin hacking the 2016 election to elect Trump.

"To the extent liberals bother trying to marshal any proof that voter fraud doesn’t exist, their evidence is: . . ."  More...

Just think of these people as Democrats

"Hey, New York, Had Enough Of Your New Mayor Yet?" * (Below)

Here it comes, New York! There have been 22 major nations that have declared themselves as “socialist,” or “Marxist,” or “communist” in modern history. All of them have failed. Those that struggle on have adopted some version of capitalism to keep their socialist hells alive. This is the future New York chose when it elected Mamdani. Domestic intifada and socialism."

CANCELED: Muslim-led plans for EPIC City in Texas have been shut down after intervention from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

State officials raised legal and constitutional concerns, making it clear that any development operating outside U.S. law would not be permitted.

In Texas, American law comes first.' Terrence K Williams

ZOHRAN MAMDANI: “My anti-Semitic wife accidentally illustrated a book calling Jews ‘cockroaches’”

"Jillian Michaels reveals yet another example of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani trying to make excuses for his wife’s virulent Jew-hatred." (Language)   

Anti-Israel activist who called Jews 'cockroaches' has multiple links to Mamdani family

. . . “Reports show that Rama Duwaji, the First Lady of New York City, chose to illustrate and attach her name to a project by a woman who has a long history of celebrating terror and demonizing Jews, including calling the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks ‘a spectacular moment’ and calling Israel a ‘demonic parasite,’ and a litany of vile, antisemitic posts,” said the Anti-Defamation League in a statement Monday.

“Collaborating on a project with Susan Abulhawa goes beyond First Lady Duwaji’s deeply troubling liking of pro-October 7 posts and demonstrates a troubling pattern." . . .

Mrs. Mamdani's name at top right of this illustration.

*Hey, New York, Had Enough Of Your New Mayor Yet? – Issues & Insights

"A little more than two months ago, when Zohran Mamdani was still in his first days as New York City’s boy mayor, we suggested that he should be driven from office. It was that bad. Has the situation improved since then? No, it’s only become worse.

"Let’s start off with the mayor hosting a Ramadan iftar dinner on March 11 at City Hall, where he was joined by Muslim city workers.

"Well, isn’t that the prerogative of the mayor? After all, Christian elected officials have used government buildings for prayers and faith-based observances since the beginning of the republic.

"But was this just devout Muslims practicing their religion? Or something more? Such as a public embrace of Islamism, which Center for Renewing America fellow Nathan Pinkoski describes “is best understood as a political ideology, a global project that aims to subordinate all aspects of government and civil society to Islam.”

"Somali-born author and one-time Dutch lawmaker Ayaan Hirsi Ali, herself a former Muslim, has noted that “political Islam implies a constitutional order fundamentally incompatible with the U.S. Constitution and with the ‘constitution of liberty’ that is the foundation of the American way of life.”

"With that as background, understand that one of Mamdani’s “guests” apparently flashed an ISIS one-finger salute. In case you’ve been in a state of suspended animation for the last 25 years, ISIS is a terrorist group and a sworn enemy of the U.S." . . . More...

The Parents of Charlie Kirk’s Prodigal Assassin

 RealClearPolitics 

 This family summoned their prodigal son home. While we rightfully think of their son as moral monster, they still had familial claim and power over him. And with it, they brought him home and then to justice.

"Charlie Kirk’s murderer came from somewhere. We all do.

"Since the “In the beginning …” times, our species has wrestled with the fundamental logic – and perceived unfairness – of holding parents responsible for the sins of their children. Or the other way around. In the Old Testament book of Ezekiel, the prophet makes this explicit:

"The person who sins will die. A son will not suffer the punishment for the father’s guilt, nor will a father suffer the punishment for the son’s guilt; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself.

Yet we mortals struggle with this idea. It’s a matter of self-preservation. The unifying idea is that we must bear some responsibility for the behavior of our own kids. Our kids are reflections of us because we put our stamp on them. Functional societies have a justifiable fear of the ripple effects of other people’s bad parenting.

"Healthy families are civilization’s frontline schoolhouse of needed humans – producers of good men and women, and citizens. Bad parents can easily replicate themselves, and often do. It is a rare and beautiful testament to the enduring nature of the good to see exceptions to the rule.

"The inverse happens, too. I have met a many a good parent of a bad kid – a bad seed who grows up to be a bad adult. Or a good kid who leaves the home for school, falls in with the wrong crowd, and rejects root and branch the ways of his family.

"Modern parents know at some point we must give our offspring over to a hard and secular world outside the home threshold, a world that undermines good parenting at every turn. A school system that inverts the established, time-tested ways for purposes of political indoctrination. A culture that has lost any sense of moral and natural limits. An algorithmic media that is set on setting people into warring tribes with desensitized, brutish ways.

"Charlie Kirk’s assassin was born and raised in southwestern Utah. Mormon territory. He was the son of a mother and father who raised kids in the Mormon way, which creates exemplary fruits that are missionaries to the world. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints – its formal name – instills family loyalty, stewardship, tolerance, sobriety, hard work, and sharing. They tithe. They contribute. They are impressive people." . . . More...

Celebrities Who Publicly Mourned Charlie Kirk’s Death  Good of them, but some I am forced to feel would rejoice the Death of President Donald Trump. TD

Why Your Place at the Table Changes the Way You Connect

 Pizza Time

"Have you ever wondered what your instincts say about you? Sometimes, even the smallest choices—like where you choose to sit—can reveal hidden aspects of your personality.

"In this simple test, you enter a room with a long table, a warm fireplace, and nine chairs. One person is already seated. The question is: Which chair would you choose?

Why This Test Is Interesting

"At first glance, it feels like a random decision. But in reality, your choice reflects your comfort zone, your social behavior, and even how you deal with power, distance, and connection.

"Most people don’t overthink their answer—they simply feel drawn to one seat. That instinct is exactly what makes this test revealing." . . . More...

Rep. Brandon Gill Eviscerates Philadelphia DA After He Vowed to Arrest ICE Agents at Airports

 Dmitri Bolt

"But what you're seeing right now is so incredibly disgusting the way that Democrats in the media and in Congress and, I mean, elected officials who are attacking ICE agents," [Gill] added."

“DA Larry Krasner,” editorial cartoon by Tom Stiglich for The American Spectator on Mar. 26, 2026.

Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) blasted Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner after he vowed to arrest Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents assisting the TSA at airports in the city, as Democrats continue to block funding the Department of Homeland Security in a now 41-day partial government shutdown.

"Well, first of all, Larry Krasner's a thug who ought to spend the rest of his life in prison for what he's done to that city," Rep. Gill said. "But of course, Democrats are doing anything they can to defund and delegitimize ICE agents and immigration enforcement, and Senator Schmitt's exactly right. This is about demoralizing them, stopping anybody from wanting to join the force."

"What we're going to make sure, as Republicans in Congress, is that ICE has the tools that they need to continue carrying out the president's immigration agenda," he continued. "We would like to see that funded through the Department of Homeland Security. There may be other ways, perhaps reconciliation, to get that money where it needs to be, otherwise without the kind of strings attached that the left would like to put on it." . . .

What explains the utter heartlessness of the Democrat party as currently constituted?

Patricia McCarthy - American Thinker  

"No protests over their deaths materialize like they do for the likes of anti-ICE protesters Renee Good or Alex Pretti.  They are truly heartless.  They have betrayed their country for their quest for power."

"As anyone aware of current events surely knows, another young woman was murdered by an illegal immigrant with, yet again, a long criminal record but on the streets because sanctuary cities don’t believe in jailing the violent thugs Biden allowed to invade our country.  

"This time it was in Chicago, the victim, an eighteen year-old freshman college student, Sheridan Gorman.  

"Walking with friends in a part of the city the reprehensible Gov. J.B. Pritzker has vowed is completely safe, the killer, dressed in black and masked, fired as the girls fled, killing Sheridan.  She was shot in the neck.  This was yet another murder of a young American woman, one of many, at the hands of known violent illegal migrants who came into the country during the Biden administration, arrested over and over again, released onto the streets again and again to re-commit crime after crime with impunity.

"Curiously, (not really), not one Democrat will comment on her murder.  Pritzker blamed President Trump even though he is one of the Democrat governors who has refused to cooperate with ICE.  As a “sanctuary city” Pritzker has even refused to turn over Gorman’s murderer to ICE! He values his life over Sheridan Gorman’s.   

"Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson refused the opportunity to apologize to Gorman’s family.  Alderman Maria Hadden posted a video essentially blaming the victim for “startling” the man with a gun!  

"One has to wonder what her take would have been had Sheridan been black. This level of pitilessness is impossible to explain without concluding that the party of the American left today is brutally Marxist.  They embrace everything and anything that is against American traditional values. They truly hate those of us who love this nation.  Their plan, if they regain power, is going to be all about retribution, not the American people. They are vowing to criminalize President Trump and everyone in his cabinet, any lawyer who dared to represent him.  They have vowed to further impose communism with an Islamic patina on the United States.    

"One has only to listen to Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut to see how far gone his party is.

"He is on the record averring for his party that “The people we care about most are illegal migrants.” . . .  More...

Jury Finds Nine Antifa Members Guilty of Terrorism Charges in Attack on Texas ICE Detention Center

 The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

“Antifa is a domestic terrorist organization that has been allowed to flourish in Democrat-led cities — not under President Trump,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi."

BREAKING — Ngo Comment report: Verdict reached in the first-ever federal Antifa terrorism trial over the Texas ICE ambush where an officer was shot in the neck. All cell members have been CONVICTED. Antifa supporters had threatened witnesses during the trial.…   — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) March 13, 2026

"A jury found nine Antifa members guilty of terrorism charges in an attack on an ICE detention center in Texas.

The nine indicted defendants: Cameron Arnold, a/k/a Autunm Hill, Zachary Evetts, Benjamin Song, Savanna Batten, Bradford Morris, a/k/a Meagan Morris, Maricela Rueda, Elizabeth Soto, Ines Soto, and Daniel Rolando Sanchez-Estrada.

Last 4th of July, nearly a dozen Antifa members dressed in black bloc and body armor descended on the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas.

The terrorists fired off explosives, vandalized federal vehicles, and fired shots at police officers.

"A police officer was shot in the neck.

"The defendants were found guilty on riot charges, providing material support to terrorists, conspiracy to use and carry an explosive, and using and carrying an explosive, three counts of attempted murder of an officer, three counts of discharging a firearm during a violent crime, corruptly concealing a document and conspiracy to conceal documents.

“Today’s verdict shows the FBI remains committed to identifying, locating, and dismantling Antifa and its funding networks across the country,” said FBI Director Kash Patel. “Acts of violence against our law enforcement partners will not be tolerated, and we continue our work to protect communities across the country from domestic terrorism.”  . . .

Hollywood Leftists’ Awful Night: Time To Rethink The Oscars

Hollywood Leftists’ Awful Night: Time To Rethink The Oscars; Issues & Insights  

Hollywood Communists Suffer From A Perennial Plague. It Was On Display At The Oscars — Geoffrey Ingersoll, Daily Caller

Duvall slighted, Bardot snubbed? Politics may be hard to ignore — Greg Richter, American Thinker

Why Movies Suck: It’s The Spirit Of The Age — Andrew Klavan, The New Jerusalem Substack

How the Oscars Made Everyone Hate Them — Sasha Stone

Who Killed Hollywood? Or Did it Kill Itself? – PJ Media

. . . "It's the production crews who suffer most from Tinseltown's downfall, and by and large, they aren't woke Hollywood progressives. They're workingmen and women who tend to be far more centrist or even conservative than the stars and studios they work for. 

And Another Thing: I always liked Spade, but only recently learned that he's no Hollywood wokester, either. “I don’t want half the crowd tuning me out,” Spade told Variety in 2019, explaining why he didn't jump on the TDS bandwagon with the rest of the industry. "When people do things, I think it’s fair game to make a few jokes, and then you move on – not too personal, of course."

Some say the economics of streaming — particularly Netflix — are to blame, but as Carvey told Spade on the same podcast, "The amount of productions is dying, and so they have to do something so more production comes back, and that starts with negotiating with the union and also subsidizing the industry tax breaks to compete with Romania."

California and L.A. stopped competing for big-ticket productions, which is why studios decamped to Georgia, the U.K., and, yes, even Romania. But there's more to the story than just California's business-hostile environment driving filming out of state.

Whether filmed in Los Angeles or Timbuktu, Americans increasingly won't buy what Hollywood sells." . . .

Colbert's 'Lord of the Rings' Gig Reveals Ugly Hollywood Truth  . . . "Colbert is one of the most divisive figures in entertainment. He’s spent a decade attacking President Donald Trump and every major right-leaning figure. Night after night. Week after week. Year after year.

"If you’re running a film studio, would you hire someone to pen an expensive project knowing his presence would keep people far away from the theater?

"Of course not. Yet someone OK’d Colbert’s writing gig." . . .

Vince Vaughn Slams 'Agenda-Driven' Late Night TV   

. . . "Raw, unplanned banter is missing on too many broadcast shows, they argued.

“People rejected it because it didn’t feel authentic. It felt like they had an agenda. It stopped being funny, and it started feeling like I was in a f***ing class I didn’t want to take,” Vaugn added, noting the subsequent ratings droop across the late-night landscape wasn’t an accident. “I’m getting scolded.” . . .

The People Around Cesar Chavez Knew What He Did and Said Nothing

"The canonized legacy of Cesar Chavez is collapsing under revelations that recast a sainted activist as a deeply flawed—and possibly predatory—man the Left can no longer easily defend." VDH

The People Around Cesar Chavez Knew What He Did and Said Nothing

"Victor Davis Hanson reflects on arriving for college at UC Santa Cruz in the early 1970s and how he immediately faced the strong, uninformed opinions of student activists influenced by Cesar Chavez, the prominent American labor unionist and political activist. Hanson, whose family owned a raisin farm, had real agricultural experience, so when some of his college peers tried reprimanding him for eating table grapes in his dorm room, he educated them, explaining that they were home-picked raisins and proceeded to question them about their activist beliefs."

Cancel Cesar Chavez, Whether the Allegations Are True or Not  "Cancel culture is back in the news, this time over long-gone United Farm Workers founder and leader Cesar Chavez.

"He survived and thrived among leftist thought leaders and liberal politicians because he was an icon of the organized farm labor movement for decades. He even received his own holiday in California, Barack Obama created a national monument in his name, and the Navy plastered his name on a WWII Liberty ship.

"Now, all of that has come crashing down." . . . More -

A massive bombshell report from the New York Times has cast a pall on that legacy.

Who Was Cesar Chavez—and Who Will He Become? › American Greatness  

"Despite the rhetoric, most of the table-grape growers of Delano in the central San Joaquin Valley whom Chavez fought were not so easily caricatured as evil billionaire corporate predators. Most were successful family-run farms and packing houses, founded in the Depression by tough first-generation immigrants who came with nothing from Sicily, Croatia, and Serbia."