News of the Week (March 22nd, 2026)

Posted on March 22, 2026 by The Political Hat

 

News of the Week for March 22nd, 2026


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Firing Line Friday: Should Labor Power Be Reduced?

Posted on March 20, 2026 by The Political Hat

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.

     Union corruption has been around as unions themselves have. Both their power and the effects of corruption are just as relevant as they were sixty years ago when William F. Buckley, Jr. and Victor Riesel discussed if labor power should be reduced?

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Same March, Different Boots

Posted on March 19, 2026 by The Political Hat

     With many on the purported “Right” openly embracing Leftist tacics, theories, and frameworks, we are seeing not the opposition to the “long march through the institutions” but a continuation of said march, abet with different boots doing the marching.   As James Lindsay explains.

Let’s get some perspective. The Woke Right is not a reaction to the Woke Left; it is the CONTINUATION of the Woke Left into conservative institutions.

The Long March Through the Institutions effectively hit its Leftist limit by maybe 2022 or so at the latest. Leftists had taken or destroyed every institution they actually could take or destroy by then, more or less. And there was massive pushback from conservative institutions that weren’t just based but getting organized quickly and effectively.

The Long March Through the Institutions had to continue INTO conservative institutions (mostly faith and family, into any remaining honest “Alt Media,” together with the more solid wings of the Republican Party and the sectors of the right-wing think tank world that repelled it).

The Long March Through the Institutions has to march into EVERY institution, not just ones that are easy pickings for Leftist intellectuals and bureaucrat types, plus kids.

What does the Long March Through the Institutions do? One of two things. It runs entryist programming to get inside established institutions and to turn them to the revolutionary cause or, when it cannot do this, destroys them. The mechanism is internal infection plus external pressure almost every time.

So the Long March Through the Institutions ran as far as it could run into Left-susceptible institutions by 2022 at the latest, and it was mostly repelled by Right-standing institutions. But the Long March Through the Institutions had to continue into EVERY institution to truly transform society. There can be no remaining solid resistance.

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Brain Cells On A Microchip Taught To Play Doom Are Cyborg Gamer Catgirls And Other Kemonomimi Next?

Posted on March 18, 2026 by The Political Hat

     Perfecting the man-machine interface increasingly involves using neurons for computing, though teaching, or programming them, has bee difficult, until now. Scientists have taught human neuron cells to play Doom.

“According to Cortical Labs, the experiment builds on earlier work in which lab-grown neurons learned to play the classic 1972 game Pong, but Doom presents a far more complex challenge due to its 3D environments and enemy encounters.

“‘To bridge that gap, we needed to translate the digital world of Doom into the biological language of neurons, which is electricity,’ the researchers explained in a February 25 video.

“The system converts gameplay into electrical stimulation patterns delivered to different parts of the neural culture. When enemies appear on one side of the screen, corresponding electrodes stimulate that region of the neurons, which then respond with electrical signals interpreted as movement or shooting commands.

“‘If the neurons fire in a specific pattern, Doomguy shoots. If they fire in another pattern, he moves right, and so on,’ they said.

“Researchers said the cells are capable of basic learning and adaptation, though performance remains limited.”

     The ultimate goal is clear: Developing catgirls and doggirls to become gamers.

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Leviathan’s App Store

Posted on March 16, 2026 by The Political Hat

     The sudden drive of multiple states to require users hand over information just to use software is bipartisan, with bills in Utah, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas requiring both app store and app developers on mobile devices.

     The Utah bill, SB 142, puts the onus on both the app store, which may be anyone who offers apps, and app developers, which may be anyone who owns or provides an app that is so offered. Beyond this, it requires the Division of Consumer Protection to establish whatever standards they want for “age verification”. All of this would establish the state can define who can and can not use any software, and sets the technical precedent to go beyond mere “age verification”.

     In Alabama, HB161, does much of the same:

“Consumer protection, app store providers and developers required to take certain actions related to age verification and parental consent, Attorney General authorized to bring action for violations as deceptive trade practice, parents authorized to bring civil action”

     Unlike Utah, Alabama will rely on “industry standards”:

“A developer is not liable for a violation of Section 9(c)(2) if the developer: (i) uses widely adopted industry standards to determine the app’s age category and content description; and (ii) applies those standards consistently and in good faith.”

     Oh, and in order to fall into the “safe harbor” category they will needed to have used: “(1) Used a commercially reasonable age verification process.”

     Both Louisiana, which passed HB 570, and Texas, which passed SB2420 has the same requirements as Alabama. Louisiana extends this to virtual gaming devices and game systems.

     And just were would these standards and processes come from, and why are these bill all using the same age brackets? Maybe because it’s all being pushed by a someone who would financially benefit from it?

     This is about control, and these state legislators are allowing themselves to be used, all “for the children”.

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News of the Week (March 15th, 2026)

Posted on March 15, 2026 by The Political Hat

 

News of the Week for March 15th, 2026


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The Ides of March

Posted on March 15, 2026 by The Political Hat

I hear a tongue shriller than all the music
Cry “Caesar!” Speak, Caesar is turn’d to hear.

Soothsayer:
Beware the ides of March.

Caesar:
What man is that?

Brutus:
A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.

     A little mood music:

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Happy Pi Day

Posted on March 14, 2026 by The Political Hat

     Happy π Day everyone!

     The most accurate value for the number π was calculated in a quite innovative way.

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Firing Line Friday: Prayer in the Public Schools

Posted on March 13, 2026 by The Political Hat

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.

     With the Senate election in Texasm, with a potential match up between two candidates, one of who is getting divorced “on Biblical grounds” due to his behavior and the other being accused of heresy for religious justification of his woke views, the question of religion has come up on politics just like it did sixty years ago when William F. Buckley, Jr. and James A. Pike discussed prayer in the public schools.

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Having To Choose Between The 2nd & 4th Amendments In Minnesota

Posted on March 11, 2026 by The Political Hat

     In Minnesota, you may soon be required to choose between the 2nd Amendment and the 4th Amendment, surrendering one or the other in order to avoid braking state statutory law.

          Twin bills, HF 3443 and SF 3654 would ban a myriad of semi-automatic rifles, pistols, and shotguns for being “military-style weapons”. The following would be banned:

Semiautomatic rifles with detachable magazine and also one of the following: “Pistol grip” or even just a “protruding grip”, folding/telesocping stock, barrel shroud, or flash suppresor.

Pistol with either a fixed magazine larger than ten rounds or that can accept a magazine that also has a “protruding grip” for the non-trigger hand, a folding/telescoping/thumbhole stock, barrel shroud, magazine outside of the pistol grip, threaded barrel.

Any shotgun that has a pistol grip, thumbhole stock, a “protruding” grip that can be held by the non-trigger hand, folding/telescoping stock, holds more than ten rounds, or has a detachable magazine.

Also, any conversion kit or part, broadly understood.

Even worse, the “grandfathering” of current owners limits their possession to the home, a licensed firing range, or transportation therebetween… and requires that owners give up their 4th Amendment rights by preemptively agreeing to allow law enforcement to inspect the secure storage of the device without any real limitation.

For even just a smidgen of being permitted to exercise your 2nd Amendment rights, you must surrender your 4th Amendment rights!

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