Oh, Noes, The US Likely Maybe Broke The March Heat Record

By William Teach March 21, 2026 – 2:48 pm

First, we haven’t gotten out of March. Second, you had the huge cold snap in March. Third, they were also blaming your for the February record cold and snow. Fourth, I though they said one area having weather is not ‘climate change’ and doesn’t matter in the grand scheme

The US broke the all-time heat record for March. Yes, it’s climate change

An unprecedented heat wave in the West broke the record for the hottest March temperature anywhere in the United States: 108 degrees. It’s an alarming signal of how hot the planet is getting and how fast it’s happening.

Yuma, Arizona, hit 109 degrees on Friday afternoon, which broke the national March record of 108 degrees set at Rio Grande City, Texas, in 1954 and 1902, according to a database of weather records from the National Weather Service and other networks.

The new record could be even hotter. The temperature near Martinez Lake, Arizona, hit 110 degrees on Thursday and 112 degrees on Friday, but it’s a temporary weather station that is not quality controlled, which calls into question its accuracy. The National Centers for Environment Information told CNN it does not validate or confirm monthly temperature records.

Wait, it was super hot in 1902?

An unusually strong and sprawling heat dome is the catalyst for the heat, but the magnitude is undoubtedly being worsened by planet-warming pollution. Heat waves are becoming more frequent, more severe and lasting longer as the world warms.

“Undoubtedly” = We’re guessing. Scaremongering.

Also

And if things are so bad then why

California OKs a lot of new freeway lanes during climate change-fueled heat wave

The California Transportation Commission approved billions in funding for car-centric projects this week during a record-breaking March heat wave in the state fueled by climate change.

Supporters of the decisions praised the commission for a taking “balanced” approach in the State Transportation Improvement Program and the State Highway Operation and Protection Program — awarding money to safety-enhancing and climate-friendly projects as well as highway projects. But transportation advocates lined up to protest their funding choices for not more urgently prioritizing road safety and climate change.

Huh.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 21, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible carbon pollution made Bad Weather clouds, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Legal Insurrection, with a post on Trump considering winding down Iran operations after almost all objectives met.

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CBS News: Hey, Voting ID Is Pretty Darned Popular

By William Teach March 21, 2026 – 10:30 am

Oh, I see, CBS News is trying to say that it’s not really that popular

In voting process, photo ID gets wide support, CBS News poll finds

Requiring photo ID to vote and proving citizenship to register both find wide and often bipartisan support.

But that doesn’t mean everyone sees problems with the current voting system.

It is often Republicans driving the percentages of those who think there is widespread fraud — and often think it’s specifically in cities and Democratic areas — but even then, it’s not an overwhelming majority of them.

Elsewhere, including among many Democrats, there’s concern that proof of citizenship requirements will prevent eligible citizens from voting.

And there’s still a local-first perspective on running elections: Most Americans would have their own states, rather than the federal government, have the final say in how elections are run.

See, it’s popular, but, not really popular popular. Except

If they’re getting 65% of Democrats to want ID to vote, well, obviously it’s mostly Republicans who want it.

The perceived implications of needing to prove citizenship are sharply partisan, though: Democrats are more inclined to say it’ll prevent US citizens from being able to vote, while more Republicans say that it will block non-citizens from doing so.

Yeah, Dems do not like requiring proof of citizenship, with 50% thinking it would block citizens from voting. I’d love to hear an explanation of that. Who do they think are citizens?

Mail voting — which, in many states, is a substantial or even entirely the way they vote — draws mixed views. Most Republicans feel it should only be available to those unable to physically vote.

Republicans also tend to feel mail balloting brings more fraud.

Personally, I’m of the opinion that mail in should only be used in certain situations, not widespread. Going to college in another state? Fine. Overseas? OK. Disabled? Sure (though, NC makes a lot of accommodations for people with disabilities to show up at the polling places). Yes, fraud, but, people should not be voting weeks, a month before the election. Lots of things can happen to change a vote. I do not like when early voting is more than a week out.

If that many people do not know the SAVE Act, that’s rather a big fail on the News Media. Also, there’s this wonderful thing called the Internet. People could take 10 minutes instead of cruising TikTok and doing stupid dance challenges, right?

There’s all sorts of questions trying to obfuscate 65/79/95 support for voter ID.

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Surprise: We Need To Change The Governance Of Property Due To Global Boiling

By William Teach March 21, 2026 – 7:00 am

I wonder what that change could be

Rethinking the governance of property can help communities adapt to climate change

Climate change is bringing threats such as flooding, wildfires, extreme heat, and drought to communities across the United States and the world, endangering people, infrastructure, ecosystems, and properties. Unfortunately, our current systems of property and land governance—including land use, taxes, insurance, and zoning—often limit how well we can respond to those threats. These systems tend to treat land as a fixed set of parcels mainly meant to build wealth, which can lead to inequality and an inability to collectively adapt at scale.

While property and land governance systems in the U.S. have historically supported democracy and opportunity for some, they have also contributed to divisions and disadvantages for others. This way of managing land is fueling growing inequality, housing crises, and racial wealth gaps. And in the process, it’s also leaving many groups more vulnerable to climate risks. A 2021 Environmental Protection Agency report found that socially vulnerable populations—including racial minorities, low-income individuals, and people with less education—are far more vulnerable to climate change hazards such as flooding and extreme temperatures. And as research by Brookings and others has shown, rental housing, public housing, and manufactured housing—which are forms of housing and land tenure disproportionately used by low-income households—all face elevated vulnerability to climate impacts.

Planning for climate adaptation often ignores the fact that property is a social institution that can change; people assume current systems are fixed and unchangeable. But they’re not, and we can do better. Addressing climate challenges is not just about engineering or funding (though both are important topics). It also requires that we rethink and improve our property institutions and practices so they serve everyone better.

This is a very long piece. I wonder where they are going with it?

The combined effect is that it is difficult for communities to adapt to climate change in ways that advance affordable, resilient housing and ecological restoration at a meaningful scale. In the absence of collective adaptation, reliance on individual property-by-property adaptation can widen inequalities, both in “sending communities” from which people flee and in communities that receive displaced people. These practices may also contribute to climate gentrification, in which resilience investments reduce housing affordability and contribute to the displacement of current residents. Research suggests that climate gentrification is already underway in some cities, including Miami, Tampa, and other South Florida communities.

Really, what they are saying is that government should be in charge of all property, essentially being a national HOA, telling you what you can and cannot do. “Collective adaptation.” Modern Socialism. Property will really be in the hands of government. Surprise?

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Phoenix Considers Banning Federal Immigration From City Property

By William Teach March 21, 2026 – 6:45 am

Maybe Phoenix should worry about all the illegal alien caused crime in the city. Maybe the uber-liberal city should have told Biden to calm down on allowing all the illegals in, which would have limited the federal enforcement from the Trump admin. Considered just telling ICE they caught an illegal breaking the law and they’re in jail and come get ’em

Phoenix Council to vote on barring immigration agents from city property without approval

The Phoenix City Council will vote next week on new framework to monitor and limit federal immigration enforcement activities.

The city council released the draft Community Transparency Initiative on Friday, nearly six weeks after initially directing staff to develop the plan.

The initiative, presented in a staff report for the March 25 council meeting, does several things to add a layer of local oversight to federal law enforcement:

  • Establishes a complaint portal for residents to report alleged crimes or civil rights violations by federal agents
  • Assigns additional police detectives to investigate such claims
  • Restricts use of city property for civil immigration enforcement operations

So, let me get this straight: the city would waste the time of police following up on claims involving illegal aliens, instead of crimes against American citizens? Criminals are going to love this. But, no complaining, Phoenix residents, you voted for this.

Then there’s this dipshit

Illegals are not New Jerseyans. Because they’re illegals. Dems are always more concerned with illegals than citizens.

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Unsurprising: Dem States Sue EPA Over Ending Endangerment Finding

By William Teach March 20, 2026 – 3:00 pm

What took them so long? I figured the suit would have been the next day

US states sue Trump EPA over decision to repeal bedrock climate finding

A coalition of 24 states, alongside a dozen cities and counties, has sued the Trump administration over its decision to revoke the bedrock scientific determination underpinning virtually all US climate regulations.

The new lawsuit, filed in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Thursday, is being led by the states of Massachusetts, California, New York and Connecticut. It argues that the Environmental Protection Agency’s February rescission of the 2009 endangerment finding – which the White House described as the “single largest deregulatory action in US history” – was illegal.

“When the federal government abandons the law and the science, everyday people suffer the consequences,” Andrea Joy Campbell, the Massachusetts attorney general, said in an emailed statement.

The finding was, shocker, not law. It was a rule passed by the EPA, one not required by any law. Rules can be done away with. Every state, city, and county involved, has a Democrat governor and AG (like NC) or is heavily liberals

The lawsuit seeks to reinstate the endangerment finding, which found that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare, and formed the basis for climate standards on cars, power plants, and other sources of greenhouse gas pollution. It also aims to reverse a related move from the EPA to repeal all limits on standards for planet-warming emissions from motor vehicles.

The rule was political, not science based.

When repealing the endangerment finding, the EPA claimed that the US Clean Air Act does not apply to carbon dioxide and other planet-warming pollutants. The law is only meant to regulate pollution “that harms health or the environment through local and regional exposure”, the agency argued.

You know what I’m not seeing in this article or others? An actual rational for the suit. Look at the link for “lawsuit” above: they just ask the court to review, for no reason. Read it. I’ve read it multiple times. The majority of the suit is the rescission, and asking for review.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 20, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is an area turning to desert from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Don Surber, with a post on friends in need, not NATO.

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Maine Looks To Protect Illegal Aliens In Apartments

By William Teach March 20, 2026 – 10:30 am

Of course they’re trying this. They will quickly learn that federal law regarding things like sheltering overrides state law

Bill to strengthen tenant rights amid heightened immigration enforcement advances

A bill to strengthen tenant rights amid heightened immigration enforcement is advancing to the full Maine Legislature, but committee members split over possible unintended consequences, issues likely to resurface in floor debates.

“Apartment owners shouldn’t be dragged into the middle of the fight between the Fed and the state over immigration,” Dan Bernier with the Central Maine Apartment Owners Association told Maine Morning Star. “That’s not the job of apartment owners, and they don’t have the expertise to figure out who’s right and who’s wrong.”

The legislation is intended to address a weakness in state law underscored by the large-scale immigration operation in January: a lack of clear protections against the disclosure or threatened disclosure of tenants’ personal information.

The version backed by the majority of the Judiciary Committee this week prohibits landlords from sharing a tenant’s personal information with the intent to harass, threaten, intimidate or evict them — except in response to a judicial warrant or in “exigent circumstances.” Those restrictions would also only apply outside of the judicial process outlined in the eviction statute and without a “legitimate business purpose.”

Yeah, it actually is the job of apartment owners, who should be not be housing illegal aliens, but, will have to respond if federal law enforcement comes asking.

In addition to making the restrictions on information sharing not applicable to evictions and other business purposes, the amended version specifies that information can be shared in response to a valid discovery request, subpoena, or judicial warrant; to a Maine state local or county law enforcement agency if disclosure is related to exigent circumstances; or if reasonably necessary to prevent or prosecute a criminal act.

Can’t wait till they learn about federal primacy when it comes to illegal aliens and other non-citizens. Why are Democrats so unhinged over protecting illegals?

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Starmer Regime Wants Pubs To Turn Off Fridges At Night To Save Energy

By William Teach March 20, 2026 – 7:00 am

Yeah, this is the next logical idea as the UK pushes so much “green” energy and gets rid of oil, gas, natural gas, coal, and nuclear

So, hey, I wonder if any reporter will ask Starmer if he turns most of his appliances off at night?

Pubs may risk serving warm beer by switching off fridges overnight to cut energy bills

Pubs could risk serving warm beer by switching off bottle fridges overnight to cut energy bills.

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has launched an advice tool he believes will help ease rising costs for Britain’s ailing hospitality businesses.

It encourages firms to reduce unnecessary electricity use by turning off bottle fridges overnight and to monitor hotspots such as extraction systems, ovens and lamps.

Emma McClarkin, chief executive of the British Beer and Pub Association, said: “There are a host of appliances that you simply cannot turn off, many for health and safety reasons. So it is not just help with reducing eye-watering energy bills that the beer and pub sector needs the Government to help with but the overall cumulative costs of doing business including disproportionate tax bills.”

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero claimed the government-funded carbon-reduction tool had saved trial participants £48-a-week. It hopes to expand the trial to 525 more businesses.

They’re trying to link this to the Iran war, but, consider that Britain has vast reserves of petroleum just offshore. They also get a lot from Libya (remember, that’s why Obama helped France and the UK with the war in the way back). It’s all the “alternative” energy in the UK that’s the problem, and that their are wackjob Warmists running things in the UK government.

Anyhow, good luck when the peasants revolt over warm pints.

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Trump: “I’m Not Putting Troops In Iran”

By William Teach March 20, 2026 – 6:45 am

Of course, the way he said it gave the NY Times the vapors, and allows them to fearmong

Trump Says He Won’t Send Troops to Iran But Leaves Wiggle Room

President Trump asserted on Thursday that he had no plans to commit ground forces to the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran, even though he has acknowledged he is contemplating moves that could drag the military into land combat operations.

Mr. Trump’s comments still left some room for him to reverse course.

“I’m not putting troops anywhere,? Mr. Trump told a reporter who asked about using ground troops. “If I were, I certainly wouldn’t tell you.”

Yeah, that’s not about leaving wiggle room, that’s simply Trump being Trump. One would think the NY Times would understand that after not only being president for a term, winning a non-consecutive term, and all those years covering Trump when he was just a big, brash, NYC businessman. And doing the TV shows. And running for office. But, TDS is a hell of a thing.

Besides, why in the hell would he tell a reporter?Was FDR supposed to discuss the D-Day invasion of Europe, or island hopping in the Pacific?

The president has spent several days alternating between threats to escalate strikes on Iran — which at times he has insisted are an “operation” or an “excursion” instead of a war — and promising that the hostilities are on the brink of completion.

His latest comments come just two days after Mr. Trump said that he was “not afraid” to put U.S. boots on the ground.

Really, this is all about keeping the Iranian regime, what’s left of it, and their military guessing. With an added benefit of tweaking the noses of the Credentialed Media.

He said on Thursday that while he hated to attack Iran, he felt it was necessary, even though oil prices would rise and the economy might “go down a little bit.”

“I thought there was a chance it could be much worse,” he said. “It’s not bad, and it will be over with pretty soon.” He provided no further explanation.

Democrats would prefer that Trump, the U.S., and Israel lose against Iran. That they just stop and give up, because they hate all three. Meanwhile

Gulf states press US to neutralise Iran for good as Hormuz crisis deepens

Gulf Arab states did not ask the U.S. to go to war with Iran, but many are now urging it not to stop short by leaving the Islamic ?Republic still able to threaten the Gulf’s oil lifeline and the economies that depend on it, three Gulf sources told Reuters.

At the same time, these sources and five Western and Arab diplomats said Washington ?was pressing Gulf states to join the U.S.-Israeli war. According to three of them, President Donald Trump wants to show regional backing for the campaign, to bolster its international legitimacy as well as support at home.

The ME nations have had to deal with Iran since 1979. The terrorism, the backing of extremists, intimidation, and more. Not just Israel. They would love to see the regime ended and Iran de-radicalized. That’s not what the leftist media and Democrats want, though.

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