March 3, 2025
FORTUNATELY, I SLEEP LIKE A BABY: Poor sleep endangers health of two-thirds of people in U.S.
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
Virtually all of the Oscar nominees and Oscar voters would be tortured and murdered if they air dropped into Gaza. https://t.co/xazhyzxnii
— John Ondrasik (@johnondrasik) March 3, 2025
GOODER AND HARDER, CALIFORNIA: The Wellbeing Of Burglars.
Lifted from the comments, an illustration of progressive ethics. Or, How dare you defend your home and loved ones from sociopathic intruders with long criminal histories:
An example of the kind of law that shifts me ever further from the Democratic Party. I am as opposed to this as it is possible to be opposed to anything. I find it abhorrent and suicidal. Almost religiously offensive. Laws like this create a society not worth caring about. https://t.co/4rqhiXFGYG
— wanye (@wanyeburkett) March 1, 2025
The bill’s sponsor, Rick Chavez Zbur, claims, “The bill’s goal is to prevent wannabe vigilantes… from provoking violence and then claiming self-defense after the fact.” Which suggests that finding intruders in your home, or breaking into your home, intent on thievery and God knows what else, is somehow not in itself an obvious provocation. Or a basis for vigorous self-defence.
Instead, the bill would oblige homeowners to “retreat” wherever possible, thereby reducing the risk of “force likely to cause death or great bodily injury” to the burglar or burglars, whose wellbeing is apparently a matter of great importance, if only to progressive lawmakers. This restriction is framed as a “safety” measure, albeit one that prioritises the safety of the criminal, who will presumably be enabled to continue his trajectory of repeated home invasion, but with reduced resistance and ever greater boldness.
But remember, wokeness is just about being compassionate.
Well yes. And for that, we look to the opposite coast: Bizarro Boston: Dem Mayor Offers Condolences to Family of Man Shot While Allegedly Trying to Stab Others.
Tonight, a knife-wielding attacker tried to kill multiple people in Boston
Police stopped the threat and shot them@MayorWu went on television offering condolences—to the criminal
Unbelievable. This city cares more about protecting criminals than residents
Watch below pic.twitter.com/1VLMLVK0lg
— Bostonians Against Mayor Wu (@AntiWuCoalition) March 2, 2025
MARK JUDGE: The New Superman: Soaring Clear of Wokeness?
LET THIS FALL ON DEAF EARS: Dems Rise From the Grave: Their Three Paths for Regaining Power.
JOEL KOTKIN: American Jewish Geography Points South: The Jewish future has a southern accent. Fleeing woke antisemitism? You’re welcome here. Just learn from your experience, please.
Related: Jewish Students: Come Here to the South — Where You’ll Be Safe.
Also: In red America, standing up for Israel isn’t controversial.
BILL WHITTLE’S HOT MIC: Churchill and Zelensky: ALLIES vs. FRIENDS. “Two leaders of two nations facing extinction at the hands of a ruthless and brutal invader. One is a former comedian, the other a direct descendant of the legendary Duke of Marlborough. So why was the representative of the most powerful nation in the history of the world willing to come to the President of the United States of America as a polite, optimistic and gracious friend and supplicant, while the former vaudeville performer wasn’t?”
WINNING, STILL NOT SICK OF ALL THE: It’s Official: USAID Is All But Dead.
INTERESTING BOOK: The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living. #CommissionEarned
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Air Force selects Pacific landing sites to test space cargo deliveries. “In a notice scheduled for publication in the Federal Register on March 3, the Department of the Air Force will formally announce its intent to prepare an environmental assessment. The review will evaluate the effects of building and operating the landing pads on Johnston Atoll, where up to 10 reentry vehicle landings would be planned annually over four years. This testing phase aims to demonstrate and refine the capabilities of the Rocket Cargo program, which envisions delivering critical supplies to any point on Earth within hours.”
SHAMEFUL: Theology school cancels lecture by historian who challenges ‘colonialism’ narrative. “University of Oxford Professor Emeritus Nigel Biggar, an alumnus of Regent, said he is ‘ashamed’ of the school for its decision, according to the National Post. Biggar (pictured) and Portland State University’s Bruce Gilley haven’t been popular with the academic set due to pointing out there actually have been some benefits to British colonial rule.”
This is so obvious that only a leftist could pretend otherwise.
MAYBE THE OLD WAYS ARE BEST: South Carolina Murderer Will Die by Firing Squad This Week. “Sigmon himself chose the firing squad because he was afraid the electric chair would ‘burn and cook him alive,’ according to his attorney, Gerald King. He also declined a lethal injection because previous men killed via this method in South Carolina likely suffered. Their autopsies found that their lungs were swollen and filled with ‘blood and fluid.’ One man’s execution took 23 minutes.”
WINNING, ARGENTINA-STYLE:
🚨🇦🇷ARGENTINA'S ECONOMY SURGES—MILEI'S POLICIES DRIVE 7.1% GDP GROWTH PROJECTION
GDP is expected to grow 7.1% interannually in Q2 2025.
After a tough 2024, Milei’s austerity measures and economic freedom reforms are restoring confidence—just in time for the 2025 electoral… https://t.co/ZsYzoGOs9f pic.twitter.com/lZBGVdjBak
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 1, 2025
LIMITED TIME DEAL: BULLIANT Men’s Belt,Slide Ratchet Belt. #CommissionEarned
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dear News Cycle — I Really Can’t Leave You Unsupervised, Can I? “If ever a world leader needed an upbraiding from the leader of the free world, it’s this guy and his bad Gap chic wardrobe. I can’t shake the feeling that Zelenskyy is more concerned with being an international celebrity than bringing peace to his people. Yeah, that sounds outlandish, but the guy really is a traveling clown show. He’s severely out of his league for a battle of wills with President Trump.”
GAZA AND THE DEATH OF INTERNATONAL LAW: Last week, I spoke at a Scalia Law School Jewish Law Students Association memorial service for the murdered hostages, including the Bibas boys. My speech turned into a column, with this highlight:
Two particularly absurd manifestations of the IHL [international humanitarian law] world’s anti-Israel bias stick out in my mind. First, there was the condemnation of Israel’s pager operation against Hezbollah. For months, IHL activists had been alleging that at best Israel was not narrowly targeting Hamas terrorists and at worst was engaging in genocidal indiscriminate bombing. So you think these groups would rejoice and praise Israel when it managed to kill or wound three thousand enemy terrorists with almost no civilian casualties. Instead, various IHL organizations and prominent individuals accused Israel of terrorism.
After that, we may have reached the reductio ad absurdum a few months ago, when Amnesty International came out with a report accusing Israel of genocide. The report acknowledged that Israel’s actions didn’t really seem to meet what it called the prevailing “overly cramped interpretation of international jurisprudence” that would “effectively preclude” finding that Israel committed genocide. Amnesty’s solution to that quandary, since it really, really wanted to accuse Israel of genocide, was to make up a new definition of genocide that would encompass Israel’s actions.
MILO MINDERBINDER SMILES: Most People Don’t Know That the Europeans Are Helping Fund the Russian Side of the War. “Did you know that the European Union has sent more money to Russia in payment for petroleum products than they have provided aid to Ukraine?”
WELL, GOOD: Rubio signs declaration to expedite $4B in arms to Israel ‘wrongly withheld’ by Biden. “This important decision coincides with President Trump’s repeal of a Biden-era memorandum which had imposed baseless and politicized conditions on military assistance to Israel at a time when our close ally was fighting a war of survival on multiple fronts against Iran and terror proxies.”
Here’s how the New York Times framed it because, of course, they did: Rubio Bypasses Congress to Send Israel $4 Billion in Arms.
HOWEVER MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA…: Bessent Calls Out Media for Hiding Economic Crisis Until Trump Took Office.
AN IMPORTANT SECOND AMENDMENT CONSIDERATION IS WHETHER A WEAPON IS IN “COMMON USE.” I THINK WE’RE THERE. New York Times: AR-15 Sales Have Slowed Because Everyone Now Has One.
MARTIAL ARTS CHAMP PUT THE PISTOL IN HIS MOUTH: But the firing pin failed and that’s when the U.S. Martial Arts Hall of Fame coach’s life took a radical turn. His name is Jamie Vaughn and his testimony is on HillFaith today.
Dismiss it if you will, but there is an undeniable change in the man’s life. I don’t normally link here on Instapundit these testimonies that appear every Monday on HillFaith, but this one is such a remarkable story that I’m making an exception.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Gun ban contortions belie Polis’ ‘Free State of Colorado’ claims.
Senate Bill 3 would enact the first gun ban in Colorado history, making most semiautomatic guns and rifles, except for select hunting rifles, inaccessible to ordinary Coloradans to manufacture, sell or transfer as of Sept. 1.
At the eleventh hour in the Senate, progressive Democrats magnanimously carved out an exemption to appease Gov. Jared Polis and promote his “Free State of Colorado” propaganda. Most people who have lived here 10-plus years would surely argue that Colorado is now far less free – except for the freedom to use drugs, pitch a tent, and defecate in public.
The Polis amendment would allow Coloradans to continue to purchase common handguns and rifles only if these residents navigate a bureaucratic labyrinth which sponsors claim will encourage safety.
Of course, it does nothing to encourage gun safety among those who don’t care about breaking the law.
For starters, a Free State of Colorado citizen who wants to buy a specified firearm must seek the local sheriff’s permission and pay a fee just to be considered worthy. The sheriff can either grant that citizen a “Firearms Safety Eligibility Card” or choose not to do so.
Once this citizen of our free state has the sheriff’s blessing, he or she may then enroll in a government-approved “extended firearms safety course,” including a minimum of 12 hours of instruction over at least two different days. To take this course, a citizen must pay another fee which will be used to maintain a government database of those who have permission to buy a firearm.
That’s a whole lot of infringement.
