April 2, 2025

WORTH READING FOR THE VULNERABILITY OF CARRIERS (OR LACK THEREOF):  “The problem is, we have exited the era of fortress battleships, and entered the era of cheap, plentiful drones and missiles. Which means that modern navies have precisely two types of craft: Submarines, and targets.” This is a common conclusion for entirely understandable reasons but it’s woefully incorrect, and since it substantially impacts your analysis it’s worth going into detail on why. (The fact you can 1. understand it and 2.

And for the x-less.

Posted at 1:34 am by Sarah Hoyt 10

April 1, 2025

BREAKING: Crucial Wisconsin Supreme Court Race Decided.

The Democrat candidate for a crucial state Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin is projected to win Tuesday’s special election.

Dane County Judge Susan Crawford, a former prosecutor and the Democrats’ pick, faced off against Waukesha County Judge and Republican pick Brad Schimel for the 10-year-term court seat. At publishing time, Crawford is ahead 57.8%-42.2% with 36% reporting. This is disturbing news for Wisconsin, a state Trump won by just 30,000 votes in 2024, as the future of the state could well depend on this state Supreme Court seat.

As PJ Media’s Paula Bolyard wrote, the Crawford-Schimel race could well “determine whether the state will become a liberal hell hole like Illinois or if common sense will prevail.” Former Gov. Scott Walker also emphasized the race’s importance, as Wisconsin had a leftist majority before the election, which is now solidified.

So much for common sense prevailing:

 

Posted at 9:57 pm by Ed Driscoll 176

A BIG WIN:

This, along with the wild record turnout, bodes well for the still-go-be-decided Supreme Court and legislative races.

UPDATE: Or not. The Democrat candidate for a crucial state Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin is projected to win Tuesday’s special election. “Dane County Judge Susan Crawford, a former prosecutor and the Democrats’ pick, faced off against Waukesha County Judge and Republican pick Brad Schimel for the 10-year-term court seat. At publishing time, Crawford is ahead 57.8%-42.2% with 36% reporting. This is disturbing news for Wisconsin, a state Trump won by just 30,000 votes in 2024, as the future of the state could well depend on this state Supreme Court seat.”

Posted at 9:48 pm by Glenn Reynolds 90

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds 1373

ELECTION NIGHT SO FAR: Two wins in Florida. Wisconsin looking like there may be shenanigans.

Posted at 8:37 pm by Glenn Reynolds 86

THIS JUST IN: Hunter Biden agrees to give up law license in Washington DC. Just the News is reporting that:

“Former first son Hunter Biden has agreed to give up his law license in Washington, D.C., according to an affidavit that was unsealed by the Board on Professional Responsibility on Tuesday.”

The DC Bar docs can be found here.

Posted at 6:38 pm by Charles Glasser 151

DOGE RAISED THREE QUESTIONS THAT MUST BE ANSWERED: In my latest Substack column, I ask the questions nobody else seems to be asking about why multiple Congresses, Inspectors-General and Chief Executives failed to expose the deep-rooted waste, fraud and corruption now being made public.

Posted at 6:34 pm by Mark Tapscott 112

WOOF! Scott Jennings Drops Leslie Stahl for Asking Jewish Hostage If He Thinks Hamas Meant to Starve Him:

60 Minutes prominently featured in Richard Landes 2005 Pallywood video about how the Palestinians run a propaganda factory to supply material for useful idiots in the western media, and Stahl’s question is a reminder that nothing has changed in the news division of the now badly tarnished “Tiffany Network:”

Posted at 5:30 pm by Ed Driscoll 53

“REMEMBER THE WHIGS!” IS AN UNUSUAL RALLYING CRY:

I dunno. The Occam’s Razor answer is probably that they are just that stupid.

Posted at 5:30 pm by Stephen Green 92

COVID, FIVE YEARS ON: How It Started: “15 Days to Slow the Spread.”

How it’s going: Make America Healthy Again:

The mass culling of the labor force of the Department of Health and Human Services began on Tuesday morning. And early indications are that it’s a bloodbath.

Multiple officials who work in the department told The Bulwark that entire offices were being eliminated. Much of the focus appeared to be on the administrative side of things. But not all of it. We were sent an email, for instance, that Vence Bonham, the acting deputy director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, told colleagues this morning that he had been “unexpectedly” placed on administrative leave. He had a 20-year career as a researcher and leader at NIH. Within a few moments, it was gone.

To get a fuller sense of the despair, head over to the NIH’s Reddit forum; or the HHS forum. It’s bleak. That’s what happens, we suppose, when a weeks-old administration decides that it will eliminate 10,000 full-time employees from one of its most critical departments.

Elsewhere in HHS, another email we were sent shows that people put on leave were told they would no longer have access to their buildings starting today. That today happened to be April Fools was treated as a nice little sadistic touch. Was this a ruse?

Of course not. In fact, quite the opposite. Colleagues said they were spending their mornings fielding distraught emails and calls from friends whose lives had been upended, while simultaneously checking their own inbox to see if the ax would drop on them.

This news may not be generating the same level of sympathy it’s receiving at Bill Kristol’s Bulkwark:

Or to put it another way:

Posted at 5:14 pm by Ed Driscoll 175