Source: Politico
“North Korean leader Kim Jong Un observed a test of an upgraded solid-fuel engine for weapons capable of reaching the U.S. mainland, and called it a significant development boosting his country’s strategic military arsenal, state media reported Sunday. While the test was in line with Kim’s stated goal of acquiring more agile, hard-to-detect missiles targeting the U.S. and its allies, some experts speculate North Korea’s claim may be an exaggeration. Missiles with built-in solid propellants are easier to move and conceal their launches than liquid-fuel weapons, which in general must be fueled before liftoffs and cannot last long. The official Korean Central News Agency reported Kim watched the ground jet test of the engine using a composite carbon fiber material. It said the engine’s maximum thrust is 2,500 kilonewtons, up from about 1,970 kilonewtons reported in a similar solid-fuel engine test in September.” (03/29/26)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/29/north-korea-conducts-engine-test-for-missile-capable-of-targeting-us-mainland-00849543
Source: Crooked Media
“Blue Wave Building in the Strait of Hormuz.” (03/27/26)
https://audioboom.com/posts/8879555-blue-wave-building-in-the-strait-of-hormuz
Source: Lions of Liberty
“Republicans Are Losing Because of ONE Word?” (03/27/26)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/tbns-republicans-are-losing-because-of-one-word
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“You host a website. Users can say whatever they want on this site. Next thing you know, a UK regulatory agency is sending you, an American organization based in the United States, a letter announcing a trillion-dollar fine for failure to comply with UK censorship demands. How much do you panic? If you’re 4chan, not much.” (03/27/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/03/27/fining4chan/
Source: The American Prospect
by Paul Starr
“The main theme in much writing on contemporary politics is how ideologically polarized Democrats and Republicans have become. But the truly consequential change is that Republicans have broken with their own past. Under Donald Trump, the party hasn’t just reversed its positions on specific policies. It has routinely betrayed basic tenets of the conservative philosophy that Republicans have long claimed was the bedrock of their party. No one is shocked by Trump’s betrayals. What is more surprising is that most Republicans haven’t seemed to care. I’ve been thinking about the Republican betrayal of the party’s own tradition because of a comment about my work by Glenn Loury, the conservative Black economist. When I was on The Glenn Show in December, he criticized my new book American Contradiction because of my ‘apparent disregard for the positive contributions of conservative thought and policy to American life.'” (03/27/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/03/27/apr-2026-magazine-how-republican-party-forgot-it-was-conservative/
Source: Associated Press
“Mongolia’s Prime Minister Zandanshatar Gombojav resigned Friday after rising tensions within the ruling Mongolian People’s Party and a parliamentary boycott by the opposition. The parliament accepted Zandanshatar’s resignation. The opposition Democratic Party earlier this month launched a boycott of parliamentary activity, citing concerns over the concentration of power within the ruling party. There have been months of corruption allegations against Justice Minister Enkhbayar Battumur, a close ally of Zandanshatar, who has not been accused.” (03/27/26)
https://apnews.com/article/mongolia-prime-minister-resign-zandanshatar-boycott-687a953be2131d06c2a459699fd23fe1
Source: Lions of Liberty
“New York is F’d w/ Rafael Mangual of the Manhattan Institute.” (03/27/26)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/tlpp-new-york-is-fd-w-rafael-mangual-of-the-manhattan-institute
Source: The Political Orphanage
“Interview with the Mega Warden.” (03/27/26)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/interview-with-the-mega-warden
Source: Quillette
by Carlton Bell
“The central risk of AI is not that machines will become malevolent. It is that human incentive structures, amplified by scalable technology, outrun our ability to govern them.” (03/27/26)
https://quillette.com/2026/03/27/the-innovation-trap-ai-technology-progress-risk/
Source: The American Conservative
by Andrew Day
“As analysts have emphasized, Tehran ‘gets a vote’ as to when this war ends, and it doesn’t plan to stop until the U.S. and Israel learn that attacking Iran comes with high costs and shouldn’t be repeated in the future. The U.S., unable to hammer out an agreement, has been hammering Iran to coerce it to the negotiating table. … The Trump administration misunderstands the nature of the problem. To end the war, it needs to get tough not with America’s adversary, but with its cobelligerent: Israel.” (03/27/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/to-end-the-iran-war-trump-must-divorce-israel/
