TODAY'S NEWS, March 17-18, 2026
- Larry Schweikart
- 12 hours ago
- 5 min read
HEADLINES: Al-Jazeera says Iran campaign continues with success; Another R special election win in a blue district; More AI related firings
The News of Today is the History of Tomorrow
IN POLITICAL NEWS
1) Joe Kent resigned as director of the National Counterterrorism Center over Iran in his view not being a threat. (He previously argued it WAS a threat). Tulsi Gabbard says the opposite. Libs and the no-wars people are freaking out. Meanwhile, Iran confirmed its national security director was rendered room temperature by allied blasts. At home, who woulda thunk it? Looks like the DemoKKKrats and the Hoax News Media have been lying about the progress of the war, which the non-partisan, non-profit Institute on the Study of War says is going pretty darn well. Here is a handy-dandy list of all those rendered "unalive" since the beginning of ops. Not sure this is who you want cheerleading, but Al-Jazeera said Trump's Iran strategy is working, degrading every aspect of the Iran threat. The picture, say the Jazeees, is "one of systematic, phased degradation of a threat that previous administrations allowed to grow for four decades.” I want to repeat: Al-Jazeera says that the campaign is successful in "strategic disarmament." It ridicules Iran for closing its most strategic asset---the Strait of Hormuz---likening it to a bank robber who locked himself in the bank. This historian would liken it more to the Confederate States of America who refused to sell cotton to the Brits and French, thinking it would force them to help the CSA. Nope.
2) Illicit Mullah Omar, who married her own brother, claims Trump wants to sleep with his own daughter. Meanwhile, there was an antisemitic beating by attorneys in an "upscale shopping district" in . . . where else? Kollyfornia.
3) Are things turning? A deep-blue VA district just elected an R over a Muslim D in a special election for a county commissioner. This follows four wins over the last two weeks for Rs.
4) Grief authoress Koury Ritchens was found guilty of murdering her husband. So, is the grief gone now?
5) Just when you think they can't get any more evil, Kollyfornia DemoKKKrats want to make two Muslim "holy days" state holidays. I might go for making a national holiday over the day Iran surrenders. Meanwhile, the Garbage State prepares for a massive teacher strike that would affect 400,000 students . . . except would anyone notice?
8) Stanford researcher Paul Ehrlich, who wrote the Population Bomb in 1968---which was 100% wrong, and from which he never recanted, died without fanfare five days ago. Few liars have had so few of their lies go unchallenged for so long---only Marx and Lenin come to mind.
9) Strange headline from the Blaze that made it appear that AIPAC backed a loser in IL local races. Yes, but they backed 2 others who won. These are DemoKKKrats, but not the craziest of the DemoKKKrats. No wonder the DemoKKKRats need to pay homeless people $7 to $10 a day to "farm" votes.
IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS
10) Anyone remember Cesar Chavez, the guy who led the grape boycott? Yeah, well, he is being erased from labor group events because of new revelations that he abused women and kiddos. Oops. Is he in the Eppy Files?
IN CULTURAL NEWS
11) Health guru Jillian Michaels has squared off against the fats, who accuse her of "fat shaming." Except what she says is true: excess weight is not an advantage to health or lifespan in any way, shape, or form.
12) The University of Arkansas has disbanded its TPUSA chapter, rebranding as Young American Revival, claiming TPUSA was "using" Charlie Kirk's death to make statements on his behalf.
13) Interesting song with Jelly Roll and the troubled Miley Cyrus, "Hear My Cry (Lord)."
IN TRANSOID NEWS
14) A transoid Tacoma shelter employee was charged with assaulting a six-month-old. These people are permanently damaged.
IN ECONOMIC NEWS
15) The U.S. Post Office is in trouble, needing higher stamp prices and the ability to borrow. Don't know if that will happen.
18) This could be a huge breakthrough for crypto, as SEC regulators announced they will no longer treat bitcoin as a "security." Hope so. My Unicoin investment is ready to make me a trillionaire!
19) Median rent fell for the fourth straight month.
IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS
20) If this doesn't start the chickens clucking, I don't know what will. Now the wind industry in Mediocre Britain is begging for the country to re-open North Sea oil drilling. They know that the country will collapse without energy, that their stupid windmills can't even remotely power a modern country, and that to keep up the green grift they need a country in the first place. Meanwhile, the Euros are simultaneously trying to claim that "green" energy is lowering prices while complaining about the fact that energy prices are 50% higher. Ah, to be a libtoid greenard whose brains have calcified into some sort of earwax. Green tech contributes oh-so-much, you know, that the oil and gas companies have slashed their funding for "alternative energies."
21) A little more evidence that the ChiComs were absolutely rattled by the effortless takedown of Iran's anti-aircraft systems (which they supplied). Xi just fired three more military tech leaders, including people in radar and missile guidance. Hmmm.
22) Chy-na is seeing its lowest growth projections in decades.
IN INTERGALACTIC NEWS
23) A former Air Force missile officer claims a UFO disabled a U.S. nuclear arsenal in Montana during the Cold War.
IN ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
24) Taylor Sheridan can do little wrong. On top of the smash hit "Landman," he has revived Kayce Dutton in a new CBS (!) series, "Marshals," had 20.6 million viewers. I like this show a lot. yes, you have to have two girl badasses (one of them is just gorgeous) but overall, like "Cross," this is an excellent series.
25) Certainly when things happen to some of the Hollywoodites I do not celebrate. Actor Mickey Roarke, who was great in "Diner" and made a comeback with "The Wrestler," is facing eviction from his house (built in 1926) and has approved a GoFundMe page. His rent is $60,000 in arrears.
IN MEDICAL NEWS
26) A judge, already thrice-overruled, has temporarily halted RFK, Jr.'s ACIP committee meeting that would provide a code for individuals to report vax-related injuries to insurance companies. This will be overturned, but again, will stall justice.
27) Yakety-yak. Don't talk back. The gene from a Himalayan yak shows promise in restoring myelin for MS patients.
AND FINALLY . . .
28) We kind of dream about this. A person threw a coin in the bin for bus fare in Leeds. The cashier, who took care of all the money, noticed something odd. It was a 2000-year-old Phoencian coin. Has to be worth more than a nickel, right?
Larry Schweikart (@CyberneticsLS on Truth)
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