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I don't think many people saw this one coming, but it makes sense in a perverse way. Events in the Middle East have conspired to create a situation in which Ukraine has become an indispensable ally and munitions supplier to Gulf Arab states. Nobody in the world has as much experience fighting Iranian drones as does Ukraine, and they have become extraordinarily proficient at destroying them before they do any damage, and at a price that cannot be beat. The Gulf states, having blown through an awful lot of their anti-air magazines, are having to quickly learn how to defend...

Connecticut already has some of the toughest gun restrictions in the country, and a new bill advancing in the state legislature targets Glocks and Glock clones. Backed by Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D), state House Bill 5043 advances a ban on popular handguns that have been on the market for over 40 years and are commonly used for lawful self-defense. The measure, advanced last week in a partisan vote of the House Judiciary Committee, ambiguously bans the future manufacture, sale, and importation into the state of "convertible pistols" defined as "any semiautomatic pistol with a cruciform trigger bar" that could...

VIDEOBrian Craig, in his first radio broadcast since returning from his Steve Kane Radio Show luxury cruise to the Caribbean, made a bold prediction. He predicted that AOC (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) would blame January 6 PTSD for causing her to ILLEGALLY use campaign contributions to buy expensive crazy pills aka ketamine treatment. We shall see if Brian Craig is correct but if he is your humble correspondent is predicting that the very first person to laugh out loud over that wild claim will be... Jussie Smollett.

On Monday’s CNN This Morning, the network cast President Trump less as the Commander-in-Chief than as a common street criminal. Global affairs analyst Kim Dozier -- who was a longtime overseas reporter for CBS News -- likened Trump’s negotiating posture toward Iran to an armed robbery, suggesting the U.S. was telling Tehran: agree to Washington’s demands, “or else this is a stick-up.” Discussing the gap between competing U.S. and Iranian proposals, Dozier brushed aside diplomacy as little more than window dressing. “The fact of the matter is the 15-point plan that the U.S. has put forward versus Iran's five-point plan...

Why would an American citizen with enough intellect to obtain an I.D. to vote see merit in assisting American citizens without enough intellect to obtain an I.D.?That is my question. Who favors and who disfavors Voter ID?

Car crash-prone Tiger Woods won’t hire a driver to cart him around because he’s too private — and doesn’t want anyone knowing his whereabouts. The 50-year-old golf legend opts to drive himself everywhere because he doesn’t want employees to “watch over him or know what he is doing,” a source told People. “And he thinks he is fine to drive,” the source added. Woods — who is worth $1.5 billion, according to Forbes — was arrested on suspicion of DUI following another rollover car crash in Jupiter Island, Fla., last Friday. Woods, who was forced to crawl out of his...

https://x.com/LimitlesCobz/status/2038108210368745554 LimitLess@LimitlesCobz·Mar 28Do you understand what happened in the last 72 hours..> Egypt shut down its shops at 9pm, mandated work-from-home Sundays, and the government internally called it "war economy mode".. four days after the IMF praised them and unlocked $2,300,000,000..> Turkey's central bank burned through $30,000,000,000 in March defending the lira.. the finance minister everyone called a genius is now considering SELLING the national gold reserves..> Pakistan's PM went on national TV on Eid and announced government salary cuts and a 50% fuel allocation reduction.. they approved a $358,000,000 "austerity fund" and nobody asked austerity from what..> Russia banned...

An 18-year-old contestant at the Miss Grand Thailand 2026 preliminaries has gone viral for a horrible reason, after her veneers dislodged during her on-stage introduction. The contestant handled the awkward moment with remarkable poise. The preliminary round of the pageant took place earlier this week in Bangkok. Kamolwan Chanago, representing Pathum Thani province, was introducing herself to judges and the live audience when her upper veneers began to slip, noticeably affecting her speech. Video of the moment shows Chanago briefly stopping, turning her back to the camera and audience to fix her false teeth, then continuing her intro. Her response...

President Donald J. Trump tours Graceland, Monday, March 23, 2026, in Memphis, Tennessee.

https://x.com/amuse/status/2038599107544007023 @amuse @amuse·3h DRIVE-BY MEDIA: The New York Times hired a new infographic team to criticize everything. The latest example is the new White House ballroom. I like John’s satirical critique of a US carrier. h/t @johnkonrad ransomnote: click image to view full size March 30, 2026 ransomnote: The ballroom image is attributed to the New York Times so I won't post the full image here. But the aircraft carrier has no attribution.

Every once in a while, one has to remember the unfortunate fact that Canadians exist. He's literally doing air guitar to let the deaf folks know ... the guitarist is playing guitar. Who is this for, honestly? The woke HR ladies who run the CBC? Why isn't this in both French and American sign language? I'm sure they'll get letters for that! Take a bow, Canada

The View, 3.30.26 In promoting an Islamic show off-Broadway’s “Ismael Loutfi: Heavenly Baba”. Ismael Loutfi: I'm from Ocala FL.. the people are not very nice... they are conservative... as an artist: I protest ICE, I say "free Palestine" - as soon as he uttered the last two words, he got a cold shoulder --even from these pro liberal-- audience.

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Alcoa (AA) up 11% and Century Aluminum (CENX) up 10.5% in Monday's trading after Iran attacked two aluminum production sites in the Middle East over the weekend, threatening to deepen global supply disruptions and sending prices on the London Metal Exchange surgimg to nearly four-year highs (LMAHDS03:COM). Also, Constellium (CSTM) up 3.3%, Kaiser Aluminum (KALU) up 3%, and Rio Tinto (RIO) up 2.9% on Monday. The Middle East is home ​to 7M metric tons of aluminium smelting capacity, accounting for ~9% of ​global capacity.

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A Delta plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Brazil late Sunday after an apparent engine glitch sent flames and sparks shooting from the packed jet. Delta Flight DL104, which was bound for Atlanta with 272 passengers and 14 crew on board, suffered a mechanical issue with its left engine as it was taking off at Sao Paulo’s Guarulhos International Airport. The airline blamed a “mechanical issue” for the wild mishap. “The Airbus A330-300 landed safely and was met by ARFF (Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting), then customers were taken by bus to the terminal,” a spokesperson said in...

Four teenagers have been charged following an attack on a search and rescue volunteer and his trained dog. Three boys, one aged 13 and two aged 15, and a girl aged 16, have been charged with various offences including assault. Ryan Gray, from K9 Search & Rescue NI, was walking his dog Max through Bangor on Friday evening when they were both assaulted.

I got this email: Your Experian credit file has new alerts, including an increase in credit balance. Then they want me to log on to my (rarely used) account. There's no urgency in the tone of the message. And they say there's an increase in a credit balance. Yeah, maybe it's because I use a credit card for a lot of purchases (which, I pay off regularly). ??

When Vladimir Putin has been asked to justify his war for control over Ukraine, his answer is typically that Ukraine and Russia have always been one country. And there is some truth to that. The Russian state traces its roots back to something called the Kievan Rus in the 9th century, with its capital at Kyiv. In the period prior to the 20th century, there were times when parts of today’s Ukraine were controlled by other states (like Poland or Lithuania), but never a time when Ukraine was a fully independent country separate from Russia. And yet somehow a tremendous...

President Donald Trump suggested, late Sunday, that he is getting ready to move on from Casey Means — his Surgeon General nominee — amid heavy criticism of her qualifications. Speaking with reporters on board Air Force One, the president opened the door to pulling Means’s nomination. “Are you considering withdrawing Casey Means for Surgeon General and nominating someone else?” A reporter asked. “Well, we’re looking at a lot of different things,” Trump said. “I don’t know how she’s doing in the nomination process. I’m more focused on Iran. But, you know, something like that would be possible. We certainly have...