March 18, 2025

THIS IS SOLID ADVICE, DEMS. PLEASE HEED IT:

https://twitter.com/bonchieredstate/status/1901722417984356726

Posted at 9:37 am by Stephen Green 0

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Posted at 9:07 am by Glenn Reynolds 17

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Israel Opts to Put Hamas on the 72 Virgins Express. “The consensus of the sane people in the world is that the ‘war’s goals’ should definitely involve the complete elimination of Hamas. Israelis are at risk as long as any of them are still roaming around Gaza. Even if there are just a few, they’ll get right to work grooming young Gazans for the next generation of attempts to wipe Israel off the map. Those same innocent Gazans that spoiled American college students are using as excused to become latter-day Brownshirts.”

Posted at 9:06 am by Stephen Green 19

CHANGE? China vows to ‘vigorously boost consumption’ to revive weak economy.

Financial authorities in Beijing on Sunday released a 30-point “special action plan” with priorities including boosting incomes, halting the fall of property prices, stabilizing the stock market and providing child-care subsidies. They ordered local governments to “expand domestic demand in all directions.”

“There is still a lot of work to be done to boost consumption, expand domestic demand and better meet the people’s needs for a better life,” Li Chunlin, vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, the government agency in charge of economic planning, said at a news conference Monday.

Analysts said the plan was light on specifics and will do little to fix China’s bigger problems. “The basic takeaway is that these are very incremental and limited steps,” said Logan Wright, a partner at Rhodium Group, a research group focused on China’s economy.

Wright said the bigger risks for the country are persistent deflation, unemployment and low household income. “These are structural problems that are not easily solved with a few subsidies here and there,” he said.

Beijing has been promising to boost consumer spending for at least a decade but little has ever come from those promises. People would much rather save than spend in authoritarian countries.

Posted at 8:35 am by Stephen Green 82

THE HOUTHIS ARE THE SYMPTOM, IRAN’S MULLAHS ARE THE DISEASE:Trump warns Iran it will face ‘consequences’ of further attacks from Yemen’s Houthi rebels. “The comments by Trump on his Truth Social website escalate his administration’s new campaign of airstrikes targeting the rebels, which killed at least 53 people this weekend alone. U.S. officials said the strikes were carried out against more than 40 targets and more airstrikes were planned in the coming days. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details of military operations.”

Posted at 7:33 am by Stephen Green 48

AL JAZEERA ON THE POTOMAC: That’s what I’ve been calling the Washington Post on social media, but I may have been understating things.

Posted at 7:28 am by David Bernstein 27

911? I’D LIKE TO REPORT A MURDER:

Jim Acosta really should have warned Kasie Hunt what happens when Democratic party operatives with Chyrons tangle with Miller.

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll 92

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:

Posted at 7:14 am by Glenn Reynolds 75

LESSON #1: DON’T HOLD BACK. WIN DECISIVELY, NOT TENTATIVELY. MAKE THE RUBBLE BOUNCE AND LEAVE THE SURVIVORS TREMBLING AT THE THOUGHT OF THINGS STARTING UP AGAIN. Lessons for Western Militaries from the Gaza War: Israel’s experience in Gaza provides a sobering preview of what high-intensity urban warfare can entail, and how modern militaries must evolve to achieve decisive and ethical victories in any future conflict.

Curtis LeMay and Arthur Harris — and William Tecumseh Sherman — have thoughts.

Posted at 7:06 am by Glenn Reynolds 109