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"Solid B cities might not have the MoMA, but they are likely to have good museums, a great brewery scene, a functional bike path, and a minor-league stadium. To live in a place you can afford with a municipal government that works, this hardly seems like a consolation prize."

📊 2028 PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES 🔵 Harris: 41% (+2) 🔵 Newsom: 26% (+2) 🔵 Shapiro: 10% (=) 🔵 AOC: 8% (-6) 🔵 Pritzker: 7% ⚪ Other: 6% —— 🔴 Vance: 42% (-1) 🔴 Trump Jr: 20% (-7) 🔴 Rubio: 17% (+3) 🔴 DeSantis: 10% (+2) ⚪ Other: 5% Harvard/Harris | 3/25-26 | RV

Despite warnings from Israeli security officials, the Knesset voted 62-48 to pass a law mandating the death penalty for West Bank Palestinians convicted of terrorism. This is a major win for far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and his Jewish Power party.

(Usha Vance owns multiple hats)

The extent to which JASDF and JMSDF kept their jets cleaned made me think “do they do this all the time or just cuz we’re around?” As an American I’d cynically assume the later. But I’ll tell you a story that made me think the former. The ultimate in Japanese maintenance. ⬇️ It was 2012 and we had just gotten the first USN fleet P-8’s. We flew to NAS Whidbey Island for an ASW exercise and JMSDF P-3s were there. We had hosted a static display to show the jet off to the American and Japanese crews. When we got done, one of the Japanese pilots invited me to visit their jet. We walked across the tarmac and went onboard. The aircraft was FAR cleaner than an American P-3. Not even close. A USN jet would have had scuffs on the paint and floors, tears in seats and armrests, and plenty of cosmetic but non airworthiness issues. Not this airplane. Spotless inside. Suitably pleased I went down the ladder, and saw the ordnance team downloading sonobuoys. The P-3 has an array of external tubes where it caries sonobuoys, the miniature sonar sets used to track submarines. These are the diameter of a CD and weigh about forty pounds. Packed into the chutes, they are contained in a plastic liner called a sonobuoy launch container or “SLC”. The SLC in the P-3 is attached to a pyrotechnic device called a “cad” - basically a shotgun shell that creates pressure to launch the buoy out of the SLC and the chute. As this happens, naturally the SLC gets stained by the gas from the cad. For clarity the SLC is a completely expendable object. A meaningless plastic wrapper that’s thrown away after each flight. And yet, when I saw the ordnance crews they were wiping the insides of the SLCs with rags to clean them before they set them aside to throw them away. Totally expendable objects, being cleaned before being discarded. Maybe the Japanese crews were doing this for our sake. But having worked and flown with them I tend to doubt it. Whoever that JMSDF squadron was that day, they won some foreign hearts and minds.

In Charlotte, NC, an Imam discusses how Islam will take over America and Christianity. "50 years from now, Muslims will be the number one group in America. Calling Christians to Islam is the easiest thing to do. Not even Trump or Biden can stop me.”

Daniel Davis- “Is Iran really the sworn enemy of western values?” John Mearsheimer - “No. The greatest threat to western values at this point in time is Israel.”

NEW - U.S. Vice President Vance on UFOs: "I don't think they're aliens, I think they're demons."

Steve Witkoff on Iran: We want Iran to join the League of Nations.

When Evelyn Waugh was asked by Nancy Mitford how he managed his fan mail, he replied…