Programming note: Tonight, Monday, I'll be here with Part Eighteen of our current Tale for Our Time, Sax Rohmer's Mohammedan caper The Quest of the Sacred Slipper.
Week Two is underway:
~Send money now to sendmoneynow.com so we can save that Republican Congress:
Senate Republicans will not pass the SAVE Act, however DID vote in unison to have this plaque hung in the halls of Congress today.
It honors Capitol police officers who killed supporters of Donald Trump and lied on witness stands to have them imprisoned and civilly sued. pic.twitter.com/SAB426nozI
— Brandon Straka #WalkAway (@BrandonStraka) March 8, 2026
~On the other hand, just a little ways north, at a demo by Muslims outside the home of a Muslim mayor, two fine upstandng Muslims attempted to loose off some IEDs. One excitable Mohammedan has Turkish parents and the other has Afghan parents. But both families are "naturalised", so that makes these sons of Turks and Afghans as true-blue all-American as any Daughter of the American Revolution, especially if it's one of the johnny-come-lately trannifilarious kind.
And don't even think that some of these immigrants appear to be de-assimilating with each generation. That's just some niche Canadian's twenty-year-old conspiracy theory. America is a "proposition nation", yea, even if the proposition is a suicidal one.
~Meghan McCain has had it with Lindsey Graham:
I've known Lindsey Graham since I was a child. I am imploring anyone who will listen in the Trump administration to stop sending this man out as a surrogate. He is scaring people and doing damage to whatever message you're trying to sell to the American public about the Iran war. https://t.co/8SjGsIfMzT
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) March 8, 2026
Or, as the above-mentioned niche Canadian put it a long time back, whenever Lindsey Graham is on TV the President is losing. Israel has pledged to liquidate this week's Supreme Leader (who has already been mysteriously wounded), and Trump has demanded a right of approval over the next guy. I think the Assembly of Experts should take him at his word and appoint Senator Graham. He's got the Armageddonouttahere shtick down pat.
~Oil is up to $110 a barrel for the first time since ...well, the start of the last war, so big deal:
Surging oil prices will help Russia with its war in Ukraine
"War in Ukraine"? That's so 2022. And, in any case, Russia is as likely to use its increased oil revenue to invest in the explosive sex-toy sector of the economy.
But hang on, "helping Russia"? Aren't they on Iran's side?
"Please accept my sincere congratulations on your appointment as supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran," Putin says in a message published on the Kremlin website.
The Russian leader says he "reaffirms [Russia's] unwavering support for Tehran and solidarity with our Iranian friends".
Ah, well. The trick with this geopolitical-analysis racket is not to get hung up on details...
The multipolar dream of America's enemies is dead. Trump killed it. Nothing now stands in the way of another century of greatness, capitalistic achievement, and American exceptionalism.
— 🥷🦅Austin Petersen 🇺🇲🥋 (@AP4Liberty) March 7, 2026
~Meanwhile, back on the home front, this is ...odd:
One of Jeffrey Epstein's prison guards googled the sex predator minutes before he was found dead — and also made a mysterious $5,000 cash deposit 10 days before the predator's jail-cell suicide, new Department of Justice documents reveal.
Tova Noel was one of the two Metropolitan Correctional Center workers accused of falsifying records to say they checked on Epstein throughout the night before his Aug. 10, 2019, suicide.
The guards were fired but criminal charges against both were later dropped.
Of course.
Noel googled "latest on Epstein in jail" at 5:42 a.m. and then again at 5:52 a.m. — less than 40 minutes before her colleague, correctional officer Michael Thomas, found the disgraced financier dead in his cell by hanging at 6:30 a.m., according to an FBI record of Noel's internet search history that night.
Earlier that shift, Noel, 37, shopped for furniture online and snoozed on the job instead of making the mandated checks on Epstein every 30 minutes, while Thomas perused motorcycles, prosecutors said.
As to that series of mysterious cash deposits culminating in five grand a week-and-a-half before Epstein's suicide, they were enough to trigger a "suspicious activity report" from Chase Bank to the FBI.
~It should be said that, since 9/11, extremely modest sums are enough to have your bank alerting the feds to "suspicious activity". On the other hand, some amounts aren't suspicious at all:
Ayatollah Khamenei's son owns £50million luxury apartments overlooking Israeli embassy in London - as experts warn of 'serious security breach'
So, thanks to Sir Keir Starmer taking time off from undertipping his Ukrainian rent-boys to artfully triangulate his evolving posture, American bombers are about to take off from British bases to liquidate a respected British property owner...
~We had a very busy weekend at SteynOnline, beginning with Mark's column at the end of the war's first week. Our weekend music show celebrated the sesquicentennial of the telephone, while Rick McGinnis's Saturday movie date was the screen version of L P Hartley's The Go-Between, featuring the first of SteynOnline's two weekend citations of Lord David Cecil. On Sunday we offered a love song for employees of the utility company and presented Part Twenty-Seven of Mark's highly prescient demographic bestseller, America Alone. Our marquee presentation was Steyn's serialisation of The Quest of the Sacred Slipper, a Sax Rohmer caper about murderous Mohammedans on the loose in the London of 1914. Click for Part Fifteen, Part Sixteen and Part Seventeen. Part Eighteen airs tonight at SteynOnline.
If you were too busy this weekend sending money to John Cornyn, we hope you'll want to check out one or three of the foregoing as a new week begins.
