So I just got back from vacation

To this news: "BREAKING: Shots Fired at Correspondents Dinner, Shooter Neutralized, Trump Evacuated."

This is breaking news but what I'm hearing so far is that somebody tried to get through the metal detector and was shot dead by Secret Service after producing a gun.  Fox Business is allegedly reporting there is a separate person in custody.

So this is by my count the fourth assassination attempt on Trump by nutcases fomented into violence by the political Left.

Update - Now they're saying the gunman is not dead.  Hannity is saying that a Secret Service agent took a bullet to the chest but his vest stopped it.  Trump is supposed to speak in 30 minutes.

Update 2 - In custody: Cole Tomas Allen from California.

Update 3 - Red State: "WHCD Shooter Identified, a 31-Year-Old Teacher From California."  Usually when you reach your thirties, you develop some perspective and reason in your life but I guess not if you're from California. 

Hiatus

Gotta take a break for a couple of weeks.  Catch you later.

When journalism happens

PJ Media: "Maryland’s Wes Moore Gets the ‘Spotlight’ Treatment — and He’s None Too Happy About It."

There is nothing here that a good newspaper wouldn't pursue for a potential Presidential candidate, but all Wes Moore can do is complain that the Baltimore Sun has been taken over by a right-winger.  Sure thing, buddy.  Tell your story to Jen Psaki. 

As I predicted

Hot Air: "Vance: No Deal – And That’s Bad News For Iran."

The sum total of this "negotiation" was that Iran give up its efforts towards nuclear capability.  But they would never do that because they've spent nearly a half-century convincing themselves that opposition to America and Israel is the sum total of its existence. 

Every movement by the Iranians is geared towards delay.  The U.S. response should be geared towards this reality...and a prompt response. 

Overnight implosion

Townhall: "The Eric Swalwell Sexual Assault Story Is Now a Total Fiasco."

Damn, this whole thing went from zero to a 100 in record time.  Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.  I suspect that divorce and resignation from Congress is in his future given the severity of these allegations.

By the way: do you remember what Senator Al Franken did to be forced out of office?  He did an adolescent joke where he mimed grabbing a woman's breasts.  As of now, Swalwell is being accused of r*pe.  He can't remain in office.

We have a name

I've been keeping my powder dry on the Eric Swalwell sexual assault allegations but now it appears like the dam has broken open: "CNN: Three More Women Describe Sexual Misconduct by Rep. Swalwell."

Ally Sammarco is the named woman and there's enough panic that Swalwell's co-campaign managers have both resigned.  As is his wont, there is a 100% chance Swalwell will blame Trump for forcing him to Snapchat his junk.

Flashback: "Eric Swalwell's Fake 'Oh, You SURPRISED Me With That Question' Videos."

Extra - NY Post: "Eric Swalwell’s campaign falls apart as ex-staffer levels horrifying sexual assault claim."

More - Powerline: "Swalwell goes down."  This dirtbag was front-and-center with his baseless allegations against Brett Kavanaugh.  Time for Swalwell to live by the rules he created.

Then resign from Congress.

Nose rings and useless graduate degrees

Reason: "Why Is It so Damn Hard To Find Sympathetic Student Loan 'Victims'? - Less than half of the Class of 2024 took out college loans averaging $30,000—a manageable amount that buys over $1 million in extra lifetime earnings."

Is any subgenre of journalism more debased and alienating than the student-loan sob story? If paying for college with heavily subsidized, federally backed loans was in fact the cause of the new, universal serfdom we hear so much about, you'd think that places like The New York Times would be able to scare up highly sympathetic young adults who tug at readers' heartstrings like orphans in a Dickens novel.

Instead, in stories like last week's "Student Debt Burdened Them, So They Moved Abroad and Stopped Paying," you get characters like 37-year-old Amanda Lynn Tully, who "graduated in 2017 with a master's degree in historic preservation from the University of Oregon, $65,000 in federal student loans and no job offers in the conservation field." Tully, reports the Times, "felt misled" and so "made a drastic decision: She moved to Prague, where she had completed an internship, and defaulted on her loans. She hasn't made a payment in over seven years."

This grown-ass woman defaulted on her student loan and fled the country because she "psychologically" couldn't pay $60/month. 

No free buses in NYC

PJ Media: "Comrade Mamdani Is Getting Smacked Around by Reality."

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani rode into office on a socialist unicorn after promising everything but free ice cream for life to the children of every voter. There are only two blocs in any electorate who vote for the kind of socialist utopian garbage that Mamdani spouted: young people who are too dumb to know any better, and older people who know better, but are so wealthy they don't care. The latter group is simply looking for a politician they might be able to control. Unfortunately, New York has a preponderance of both young, dumb voters, and rich, bored voters.

Imagine believing all these rainbow promises.  Politicians like Mamdani and AOC and Sanders keep insisting the "rich" are sitting on a Scrooge McDuck pile of gold coins and we can have every amenity under the sun if we just take it from them.

All the journalists' egos

Twitchy: "All the President’s Men Turns 50: The Movie That Gave Journalists an Unbearable God Complex."

I've read the book and seen the movie.  The most insufferable part of the Woodward & Berstein saga is how they were spoon-fed every part of the story by Mark Felt and yet they're held up as this paragon of journalism.  It wasn't like they made any big breakthroughs on their own.  They took this unbelievable piece of professional luck and turn it into a half-century grift where every couple of years they appear on some news show to say the latest scandal is "worse than Watergate."

I think I spotted the flaw in the system

Christopher Rufo: "Gavin Newsom’s $30 Billion Fraud Magnet - California’s In-Home Supportive Services Program is ripe for scams, experts say."

The system operates largely on trust. Providers self-report their timecards and check-in records. In roughly 60 percent of cases, providers and beneficiaries live together, delivering care in private homes—typically without the threat of random, unannounced visits.

Suicidal empathy rears its head again.

We'll see

PJ Media: "BREAKING: Trump Announces a Ceasefire."

Delay is a perpetual tactic of the Iranians so I'm not as sanguine as the market futures.

Always with the class warfare

Fauxcahontas is on the warpath again: "Eating Jeff Bezos - Senator Elizabeth Warren proposes a wealth tax on "ultra-millionaires." Note that in 1913, the federal income tax was sold as a tax on the richest of the rich in America."

Warren and Bernie Sanders have exactly one schtick: that guy has more money than you - let's take it.

That's a whole lot of babysitting

Two Eric Swalwell stories today: "Report: Group of Women Preparing to Accuse Rep. Swalwell of Harassment" and "Thread OWNING Eric Swalwell for Nannygate Payments Takes CRAZY Turn to 'OMG, Is He a CREEPER' Town."

The latter grabbed my attention because the rules for paying for child care during a campaign are strictly defined and, by all appearances, Swalwell just paid his nanny a regular salary out of campaign funds.  A whopping $240,000 went for "childcare" reimbursements.

I'm not saying that Swalwell was paying off his nanny to keep her mouth shut about an affair.  I'm just saying that's a lot of cash for somebody who - allegedly - is going to be accused of a lot of DM sliding.

There's always a catch

Just the News: "Iran rejects 45-day ceasefire plan."

There was one minor quibble:

🚨Breaking: My sources confirm that Iran and the US are VERY close to signing a deal. The only issue holding it up is Iran's insistence on destroying America

— David Keyes (@DavidMKeyes) April 6, 2026

Misdirection and logistics

It sounds like those factors are what saved that downed airman in Iran: "Second F-15 Pilot Rescued as Iranian Civilians Aid American Operation to Rescue Him."

The U.S. lured Basij militants to a location 100 miles away from where the guy was hiding while we built our own airport as a forward base.  Amazing.

Excellent news (if true)

Hot Air: "Unconfirmed Reports That F-15 WSO Recovered After Special Forces Battle IRGC."

The unconfirmed stories coming out sound like something from a Hollywood movie: the IRGC swarmed the area looking for their prize and the USAF mowed them down.

Confirmed - "US celebrates successful rescue of F-15E crew member as Trump's Iran ultimatum ticks down." 

Money laundering scheme

Federalist: "Report: ActBlue Likely Lied To Congress About Illegal Foreign Donations, Its Lawyers Feared Privately." 

Layers of fact-checkers

Fox News: "New York Times goes viral for erroneous print headline on Trump's NATO exit threat - Times spokesperson says the paper will issue a correction after wrongly calling it North American Treaty Organization."

Couldn't happen to a nicer newspaper.