Source: The Hill
by Don Wolfensberger

“‘Is it an earthquake or simply a shock? Is it the good turtle soup or merely a mock?’ Those opening lines from Frank Sinatra’s 1962 hit song ‘At Long Last Love’ came to mind when President Trump parried with reporters on March 13 over how to characterize the U.S.-Israeli aerial bombardments of Iran. Trump called it a ‘little excursion.’ Some thought he meant to say incursion. But when a reporter pressed him and asked, ‘which is it, a war or an excursion?’ Trump stuck to his semantical guns and hedged: ‘Well, it’s both. It’s an excursion that will keep us out of a war, and the war is going to be — for them it’s a war, for us it turned out to be easier than we thought.’ … The president’s semantic juggling over whether to call our current military operation a war or an excursion cannot gloss over that we are already at war with Iran.” (03/26/26)

https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/5800394-trump-war-excursion-iran/

Source: The Findings Substack
by Paul Rosenberg

“Rules and obedience have never elevated anyone to heroism and greatness, but I know what does, and I discovered it in the rubble of 9/11.” (03/26/26)

https://thefindings.substack.com/p/the-recipe-for-heroes-and-saints

Source: Law & Liberty
by John O McGinnis

“The Declaration of Independence was both performative and expressive. It announced the United States as a separate entity from Britain. It also articulated the core political premises on which the new nation was established. The commemoration of its 250th anniversary will mostly focus on its first function, because a nation, like a person, most readily celebrates its birth. But especially at our time of division and polarization, a renewed focus on our founding principle has never been more urgent.” (03/26/26)

https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-declarations-lost-moral-world/

Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone

“As soon as you accept that Israel must exist as a ‘Jewish state’ no matter what, you are accepting that there will never be peace in the middle east. Because Israel cannot exist as it is without nonstop violence. Show a Zionist a map where Israel does not exist as a Jewish state and a map where the entire middle east is on fire except for Israel, and then ask them to pick a future, and they’ll pick the second one every time. That’s the worldview that’s baked into Zionism. The worldview you’re not supposed to bring up in mainstream discourse about the Zionist ideology. You’re not supposed to mention the demented murderousness inherent in the premise that Israel must exist as a Jewish ethnonationalist state no matter how many people need to be killed in order to make that happen. But that’s the reality.” (03/26/26)

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/03/26/israel-has-a-right-to-exist-is-psychopathic-bullshit/

Source: USA Today

“The Commonwealth of Virginia is poised to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an agreement already joined by 17 other states and Washington, DC, in an attempt to effectively eliminate the Electoral College. Both the state senate and state house approved the measure, and the bill is now awaiting the governor’s signature. Electoral College opponents will celebrate, but they shouldn’t. Americans do not realize what is about to hit them if the national popular vote becomes reality.” (03/26/26)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2026/03/26/national-popular-vote-eliminate-electoral-college-elections/89301781007/