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Friday, March 20, 2026

So much for Arkies being welcoming

"Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the governor of Arkansas and former White House press secretary, says she was having lunch with two mom friends at a restaurant called The Croissanterie in Little Rock when the owner kicked them out. Her presence at the restaurant, the owner told the governor, made the employees feel “threatened and uncomfortable” because of her political views. As they left, she was given the middle finger."

. . . "Sanders politely left the restaurant; she later left the administration, returned to Arkansas, and was elected governor in 2022. The Red Hen permanently closed in 2023." . . .

Peeling back the layers on Gov. Sanders' Croissanterie debacle - Arkansas Times

. . . "The Croissanterie released a lengthier statement, which includes more details such as the fact that Sanders’ posse arrived unannounced, overstayed the 90-minute table limit and lingered for a bit after she was asked to depart. Here’s the statement in full:

When Governor Sanders arrived unannounced, staff served her and her party without interruption.
As her security presence became more visible in the dining room, some employees and guests expressed discomfort. After the party completed their meal, a member of the security detail was quietly asked to help conclude the visit in line with our standard 90-minute table policy.
The request was not immediately received, and the party remained for an additional period before departing without incident once communication was established.
We want to be clear: there was no disruption in the restaurant. Claims that an employee made an inappropriate gesture are incorrect—it was a customer, and the situation has been addressed.
This was not a decision made lightly. We chose to prioritize the comfort of our staff and guests while continuing to provide service respectfully and without escalation.

"If you’ve ever been to The Croissanterie, you know it gets busy there. And, if you’ve ever worked in a restaurant, you likely know that they lose money when tables stay for an extended period and new customers can’t be seated. " . . .

Since we looked at both sides of this issue, perhaps a scholarly examination of the patrons giving them obscene gestures as they left would be in order. TD

California’s Real Governor Is Donald Trump

Issues & Insights

. . . oil refined in California is shipped “from overseas, with a significant share traveling through the Strait of Hormuz,” which, for now at least, is a hotly contested war zone. When crude can’t make it through, the state, which has stranded itself on an energy island, suffers.

"California has already sued the Trump administration at least 54 times a little more than a year into his second term. State Attorney General Rob Bonta claims the lawsuits are an effort to hold President Donald Trump accountable. But litigation goes both ways. The administration is now suing California over its zero-emission (in effect, electric) vehicle mandate.

"The Justice Department says that California’s ZEV mandates and its stringent standards for CO2 emissions violate federal law, which expressly prohibits states from setting their own fuel economy standards for cars, adding that the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) mandates “also harm the interests of the United States in ensuring American consumers’ access to and choice of reliable, affordable motor vehicles.”

"According to the DOJ’s March 12 filing, the rules “should be declared unlawful and unenforceable, and the defendants should be permanently enjoined from enforcing them.”

"CARB and Executive Officer Steven S. Cliff are listed as the defendants, with Cliff “responsible, directly and through CARB, for the promulgation, implementation, and enforcement of” California’s CO2 standards. Like all members of the Air Resources Board, Cliff was appointed, not elected. The agency, as are many others across the state, is “responsible when major regulations raise costs, eliminate jobs, or disrupt entire industries,” says state Sen. Tony Strickland of Huntington Beach.

"California’s EV mandate was not approved by voters in a ballot measure nor enacted by the legislative process. It was kicked off in 2020 by a wave of the hand of Gov. Gavin Newsom, who handed down an executive order that requires all new-auto sales in the state to be zero-emission vehicles by 2035, then “codified” two years later by selected-not-elected CARB.

"Last year, the Trump administration overturned the rule. California sued in response. But the administration’s decision makes sense, just as the DOJ lawsuit makes sense.

"The EV mandate is oppressive, in that it strips consumers of their right to choose, and expensive, as upfront EV costs are as much as 42% higher than conventional cars. While there is a niche market for electric vehicles, it’s primarily made up of trend-conscious wealthy Californians who feel the need to express their virtue. Quotidian buyers have made it clear that they just don’t want them. " . . . More...

Inside Barron Trump's 'next phase' as he turns 20: 'He's a carbon copy of his father' with one difference

People

Barron Trump, the youngest child of President Donald Trump, turns 20 years old on Friday, March 20
Sources close to the family tell PEOPLE that Barron has "inherited his father’s interest in making money and a name for himself," with one notable difference
The youngest Trump is already estimated to be worth roughly $150 million thanks to cryptocurrency investments, Forbes reported last year

Barron Trump turns 20 years old on Friday, March 20, and sources close to President Donald Trump's youngest son tell PEOPLE how he's preparing for his "next phase" of life — which may involve treading over a few of his father's footsteps.

“Barron has inherited his father’s interest in making money and a name for himself, and is well on the way to becoming an entrepreneur,” a social source tells PEOPLE. “He is smart, focused and resourceful. He is always looking for areas that interest him and is quite ambitious for such a young age.”

The college student was reportedly the motivating force behind the Trump family's multiple cryptocurrency ventures, which have earned them billions over the last few years, according to Forbes. As of September 2025, the publication reported that Barron alone was already believed to be worth a staggering $150 million, plus millions more in locked-up tokens that can't yet be traded.

“He has been actively pursuing successful ventures for several years,” the source says. “Turning 20 is indeed a turning point for him as he gets older and wants to engage with projects that not only interest him, but will make him a lot of money."

As the youngest and least public-facing Trump, Barron is reportedly motivated to prove himself amid the successes of his father and siblings.

"This is how to impress his family," the source notes. "He wants to make his own mark.”

"He has always thought about business and truly is interested in it like his father. A lot of this ambition has to do with his desire to look good to Donald, as well as to his mother. He is more gung-ho than most.” . . . More...

Worst war coverage ever

Don Surber

But once President Trump launched Operation Epic Fury, press coverage went cynical. Skepticism is one thing. An objective press should question authority, but what we have today is a press that doesn’t question authority. None dared question cloth masks, social distancing and just why three funerals for George Floyd were safe while I couldn’t hold one for my son.

"America and Israel began Operation Epic Fury (Rising Lion in Hebrew) by assassinating the Supreme Leader and seven or eight of Iran’s top generals. Then quickly and methodically the two destroyed its air defenses, its air force and its navy. The attacks continue as the duo destroy Iran’s army and its morality police who serve as a Gestapo for an Islamic terrorist regime.

"I am in awe of the Pentagon’s and IDF’s systematic destruction of a rogue regime without simultaneously destroying Tehran and the very people we are trying to save. R&D spending has yielded weaponry that is so precise in bombing that lives are spared. I am also overwhelmed by Mossad’s intelligence capabilities.

"The Fall of the Wall has begun. 19 days into Operation Epic Fury, Eli David tweeted with video, “Iran’s sun and lion flag has been raised on Iran’s embassy in Copenhagen. Several diplomats at the embassy, including the ambassador himself according to some reports, have applied for asylum in Denmark.”

"Yes, there have been civilian deaths—but far fewer than the 40,000 protesters the Islamic Republic killed in January.

"Ah, January seems years ago. Back then, Mark Theissen of the Washington Post wrote:

There is no downside to striking the regime. Trump has already done so twice, and each time, Iran was unable or unwilling to retaliate. Indeed, the Soleimani strike came at a time when Iran was much stronger than it is today. Since then, Iran has suffered repeated blows that have left it weaker than at any time since the 1979 revolution." . . . More...

Joe Kent vs. Iran’s Imminent Threat; Iran’s 47-year record of active war against America.

The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

The realization that human beings are always out there who are decidedly capable of the sheerest evil. And ignoring them, pretending that they don’t exist or are not planning anything “imminent” when it comes to using today’s weapons of mass destruction will never work.

American Thinker *

"Kentucky Republican Congressman Thomas Massie has succinctly captured the problem.

"Over there at Fox News is this from Rep. Massie on the much-ballyhooed resignation of Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center: “Said Massie of the Kent resignation: ‘Another insider sees what we see: no imminent threat, just lobby pressure. This is why we need to defund and debate.’”

"No “imminent threat” from the Iranian war machine? Seriously?

"One wonders whether Massie has done any studying of history.

"Over there at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs is this from Center President Dr. Dan Diker and Tirza Shorr, a senior researcher and program coordinator at the Center. The title: “Understanding Iran’s Imminent Threat to America,” with the subtitle, “A 47-year record of attacks, nuclear brinkmanship, and explicit threats reveals why ‘imminence’ can no longer be measured by outdated standards.”

"In this very perceptive piece, Diker and Shorr say, among other things, this, with bold print for emphasis supplied:

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its global proxy network have killed more than 1,000 Americans since 1979. Iranian-backed forces conducted over 180 attacks on U.S. military bases in 2023–2024 alone. Iran’s stockpile of 440 kilograms of 60% highly enriched uranium reached a one-week breakout threshold for nuclear weapons before the June 2025 strikes. And just eleven days before Operation Epic Fury commenced, Iran’s Supreme Leader publicly threatened to send U.S. warships to the bottom of the sea. The question is not whether Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States. The question is why it took 47 years to respond to its longstanding threats.
Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who headed the CIA in the 1990s, determined that the Iranian nuclear program has constituted an imminent threat: “If their policy is to go to the threshold but not assemble a nuclear weapon, how do you tell that they have not assembled? I don’t actually know how you would verify that.” By the time the United States knows with certainty that Iran has crossed the nuclear threshold, it may be too late to act. . . . More

* Joe Kent’s story gets worse when Candace’s name comes up

. . . "Very quickly, though, we learned about the problems with Kent’s narrative and then with Kent himself.

First, there was a strong countervailing voice to Kent’s claim that Iran posed no threat to us. That voice, of course, was...Joe Kent:

. . . "With that information, Nathan Livingstone has put 2 plus 2 together and come up with a very interesting and believable 4. He contends that Kent was leaking to Candace Owens.

Yes, Candace, the woman who contends that the moon landing was fake, that Brigitte Macron is her own brother, that Israel assassinated Charlie Kirk, that Erika Kirk and Turning Point USA were happy to get rich off of Charlie’s death, that Israel and the Mossad control everything in the world Candace doesn’t like, that Jews aren’t really Jewish at all, that the Holocaust never happened, and on and on...that Candace: . . .Much more to this here...

if Kent was leaking, it warrants investigation.

"Officials argued Kent’s claims mischaracterize both the intelligence picture and the policy decisions that led to the conflict, dismissing his accusations as inaccurate and politically loaded. "

if Kent was leaking, it warrants investigation.

Report: FBI Has Been Investigating Joe Kent for Months Over Classified Leak Allegations

"Joe Kent walked out of a top U.S. intelligence role, accusing allies and insiders of dragging the country into war with Iran. Now, fresh reporting suggests he’s been under federal investigation for months.

"The former director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) didn’t just resign quietly. He lit a match on the way out, publicly breaking with the administration and accusing key players of pushing the United States into a conflict he argued never should have happened.

"In his resignation, Kent made clear this wasn’t about a policy disagreement. It was about a fundamental break over war.

“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”

"That alone would have been enough to shake Washington. A sitting intelligence chief of the NCTC accusing both foreign allies and domestic political actors of driving U.S. military action is not routine dissent. It’s a direct shot at the credibility of the intelligence and policy apparatus he was part of. ". . . More.

Thursday, March 19, 2026

You just might be a Democrat — The list of Democrat absurdities is growing long.

Eric Utter

*If you are adamantly for Ukraine in the fourth year of war, but are disgusted with the United States entering the third week of its war with Iran, you just might be a Democrat.

Democrats are at it again, providing conservatives with more material with which to identify them with certainty. So here goes with volume five:

*If you believe that most workers should be paid more … and also believe that many things should be free, you just might be a Democrat.

*If you think that women are oppressed in America … and are also strongly against the deportation of convicted illegal alien rapists and Muslim men, as well as President Trump's mission to liberate Iran, you just might be a Democrat. (Or a RINO.)

*If you would — literally — stand up for criminals but not for American citizens, you just might be a Democrat.

*If you actually did kneel in the name of George Floyd and BLM but refused to stand for the parents of a young female Ukrainian refugee who was senselessly murdered on a train by a black repeat offender, you just might be a Democrat.

*If you are greatly troubled by the plight of the spotted owl but are a fanatical proponent of unfettered abortion, you just might be a Democrat.

*If you performatively “celebrate diversity” but cannot tolerate conservative political opinions, you just might be a Democrat.

*If you talk of “how bad” something is “in this country,” but have no idea of the historical horrors in most others, you just might be a Democrat. Full article here...

This Would Be the Funniest Thing...

Code Pink, Rashida Tlaib, Greta Thunberg, and the Communist Party against the Cuban people. These useful idiots sided with Hamas, socialism, and pretty much every regime whose victims risked their lives to flee from.. The Tunnel Dweller

FREEDOM CHANTS: Cubans attack Communist Party building, set fires in streets amid reported gunfire as island nation faces worsening blackouts and fuel shortages. https://t.co/hIT0aCn5QU
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 14, 2026

David Strom

"It may be too much to ask for, but the funniest thing to happen would be for all the socialist and communist simps who have begun their aid "flotilla" trip to Cuba to arrive just after the regime falls."

. . . "These people are fools, of course, but not benign for being so. They have a lot of sway with the younger folks, who somehow have become convinced of two opposite things at once: that communism is far superior to capitalism, and that communist countries need to trade with capitalist countries to survive.

Communist countries are poor only because the US won't trade with them, the bastards! "

Cubans are betting on Trump for freedom. Venezuela shows what they may get ..."Like thousands of Cubans who settled in South Florida, Perez came to the United States under a Biden-era humanitarian parole program that President Donald Trump has moved to dismantle. That has not shaken his support for Trump.

“Every president talked about Cuba like it was untouchable. Trump was the first who treated it like a problem that could actually be solved.”

"Perez is part of a Cuban diaspora that has watched, with a mix of hope and anxiety, as the Trump administration tightens an oil blockade on the island, opens secret negotiations with Havana, and promises that regime change is only a matter of time.

“Everybody is extremely, extremely optimistic. It’s almost a surreal moment,” Marcell Felipe, who chairs the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora, told CBC News. “We realize that this is our Berlin Wall moment.”

"His optimism comes as the Trump administration has imposed what some experts have called the most effective U.S. blockade of Cuba since the Cuban Missile Crisis, cutting off the island’s oil after seizing tankers carrying Venezuelan crude oil and threatening tariffs against any country that fills the gap. Blackouts now last up to 15 hours a day. Flights have been grounded. Food is scarce." . . .

100% FedUp

New: AZ Sheriff Overseeing the Guthrie Abduction Case May Soon Have to Face Voters in Recall – RedState . . . "The Pima County Sheriff was later called out for a stunt he reportedly pulled by refusing to allow the feds to handle the processing of crucial evidence, collected at the scene, at their renowned Quantico facilities, as we wrote.

RedState also reported about the joint efforts of federal and local investigators leading to the search of a Tucson home, and a vehicle being taken away by police. Authorities detained at least four people while the home was searched by a SWAT team. As my colleague Bonchie wrote:

NewsNation's Brian Entin was on the scene when a mixture of local and federal authorities arrived. He was eventually told to exit the perimeter, but reported that none of the law enforcement had left at that point.

. . . " SHERIFF RECALL EFFORT: We’ve confirmed with the Pima County Elections Department that a recall effort has been launched for Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos. It was filed on March 12th.

The sheriff says, “We’re aware of the recall and it’s the right of the people. We’ll always honor the will of the people and that’s what makes democracy.”
To move forward, 120,000 signatures have to be collected in the next 120 days to prompt the actual recall.
This comes in the wake of scrutiny over the handling of the Nancy Guthrie investigation.

"84-year-old Nancy Guthrie has been missing for around 6 weeks now, and investigators basically have no leads.

"Recall that this sheriff delayed working with the FBI at a critical moment early in the investigation by refusing to send key evidence to Quantico.

"In a case like the Guthrie disappearance, time is of the essence.

"Now, Arizona Republican congressional candidate Daniel Butierez is leading the charge to recall Sheriff Nanos." . . .

"He says that Nanos’ own deputies wanted to initiate the recall process, but they were afraid he would punish them for doing so." . . . The New York Post has more:

Ridiculous CA Wildlife Bridge Aims to Prevent Inbred Mountain Lions, but .....

But, like the Governor; the bridge looks so beautiful.

Ridiculous CA Wildlife Bridge Aims to Prevent Inbred Mountain Lions, but Will Be a Wildfire Express Lane "The tale of Gavin Newsom's $114 million wildlife bridge in Southern California dominated political talk on Wednesday, and for good reason. As of this date, its projected cost has doubled, and the estimated completion date of "2025" is in the rear-view mirror - all to ensure that less than two dozen mountain lions can get to the other side of the road and mate with a lion it's not closely genetically related to.

"You might have heard something about it being a butterfly bridge, but that's not true." . . .

. . . "And, not surprisingly, it is brought to us by the exact same environmentalist nonprofits and public-private partnerships that allowed the Topanga State Park to become a fire trap, the same people who prevented the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) from fully extinguishing the Lachman Fire on January 1, 2025, before it became the Palisades Fire.

"The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, a California government agency and a leading force behind the project, owns 75,000 acres of land, including "the whole of the Santa Monica Mountains, the Simi Hills, the Verdugo Mountains and significant portions of the Santa Susana and San Gabriel Mountains." The agency refuses to perform prescribed burns at any meaningful level and has a list of supposedly endangered plants it refuses to allow heavy equipment near; for example, the milkvetch plant that was seen in Temescal Gateway Park, which prevented firefighters from bringing bulldozers and other equipment in to fully suppress the Lachman Fire." . . .

Europe builds these wildlife bridges by the dozens for about €4 million each. Utah builds them for $5 million. Washington state builds them for $6 million. Wyoming builds them for $9 million.
California has spent $120 million and is only half way done with one.
Now expand… pic.twitter.com/39vBtAo0fs
— Honus 💾 (@HonusWenger) March 19, 2026

Could this happen? Why not?

Here's More Cringe From the Woman in Charge of Newsom's Failed 'Butterfly Bridge' Project

California Fails to Deliver on Another Promise

“California does not have enough places where people can get this care and treatment. This shortage means that many people wait for care or do not receive." care at the right type of place.

The Abysmal Quality of the GOP Senate Caucus Is the Real Issue, and the SAVE Act Mess Has Made That Clear

The" American Spectator

For his part, Trump said Wednesday that the bill was the most popular piece of legislation to come through Congress that he’d ever seen, and stated that Thune would have to “be a leader” to get it to his desk."

"The Federalist’s Sean Davis did an excellent job of summing up the predicament the Republican Party finds itself in at the moment, with lots of time until the 2026 midterms (but no real indication that will make much difference

Understand what Thune is doing right now. It’s not enough for him to kill the SAVE America Act. Thune has to kill it while also protecting his worst RINO colleagues from being exposed for opposing it.
How does Thune accomplish his? By avoiding a simple majority vote at all costs. Thune knows a public vote where Republicans get less than 50 votes—with people like Tillis and Curtis and McConnell and Murkowski voting against IT—is electoral poison. He doesn’t want it to pass, but he also can’t have it die at the hands of his own puke colleagues.
So how does Thune do this? By refusing to move to the already-passed House bill (this only requires a simple majority because the House message is privileged) and instead moving to a new, standalone Senate bill. A new Senate bill is not privileged, and therefore the motion to proceed to it is debatable, meaning it requires 60 votes.
Thune needs to kill the SAVE America Act, not expose any of his GOP colleagues as being against it, and be able to pretend that he tried. This is the actual Senate GOP trifecta—doing nothing while pretending they tried everything and protecting the worst of the worst the whole time.
So when you watch the GOP Senate bring up a brand new SAVE America Act bill and hold a single vote on a motion that needs 60 to pass, know that they’re doing it because they think you’re stupid.

. . . "Let’s remember that more than four in five Americans want the SAVE America Act passed. Why? Because it’s a basic, obvious piece of common-sense legislation that installs voter ID and proof-of-citizenship requirements so as to keep our elections from being polluted by noncitizens, not to mention the undead, from voting.

"Without election integrity, there is no point to holding elections. You aren’t a representative republic anymore. You’re a mere facsimile of that. Your entire political system is a fraud. And Americans are increasingly aware that could be — is, if you prefer — what we have already." ...More

Scott McKay is a contributing editor at The American Spectator and publisher of the Hayride, which offers news and commentary on Louisiana and national politics, and RVIVR.com, a national political news aggregation and opinion site. Scott is also the author of The Revivalist Manifesto: How Patriots Can Win The Next American Era, and, more recently, Racism, Revenge and Ruin: It's All Obama, available November 21.