The left is canceling Cesar Chavez, a famous union activist, for unspecified allegations of misconduct.

 

Cesar Chavez. AP file photo. 

The United Farm Workers union is distancing themselves from Cesar Chavez following unspecified allegations of misconduct. AP. The Union said that Chavez had been accused of abuse of young women or minors. They did not say they had any direct knowledge of these allegations and have not received any direct reports of abuse. Chavez was a famous organizer for farm workers unions and organized strikes against poor working conditions for farm workers. He died in 1993 at the age of 66. 

My Comment:

This is a fairly odd thing to happen. As far as I am aware there have never been credible accusations of Cesar Chavez being a sex pest. None whatsoever. It's very strange that all of a sudden the union he founded has distanced themselves from him and are encouraging their supporters to do anything but celebrate the man and his legacy. 

And he does have a major legacy. Chavez is someone that most people find pretty impressive given that he was able to protect workers on farms from bad conditions. He organized strikes and got better conditions for workers. He's the kind of guy that the Democrats have lionized for years and it's absolutely shocking to see him cut loose after this, especially after he's been dead for 30 years. 

What is even more shocking is that this is happening before any allegations have even been released. Supposedly the New York Times is writing a long form article that will detail these allegations. But the article hasn't been released yet and nobody has even vetted the allegations 

This is crazy to me as the left has been very reluctant to cancel other heroes they have. Martin Luther King was credibly accused of extramarital affairs and even accused of rape, but his legacy remains intact. Harvey Milk was openly dating a 16 year old boy and he didn't get canceled either. But they are canceling Chavez now?

This tells me one of two things. The first possibility is that Chavez is a next level sex pest. It would have to be worse than extramarital affairs or openly dating a 16 year old. The allegations are for abuse of young women and minors and that could mean anything from "he dated a 17 year old consensually" to "he abused small children". If it's the latter than I could see why they are distancing themselves so dramatically. 

It's also possible that this is a huge over reaction The New York Times piece, if it even exists, has not been released and hasn't been vetted. Like I said, these allegations are totally new and do not gel well with what we know about Chavez and his personal life. It's very possible that the allegations are bunk and they are just cutting him lose.

Why? Part of it is due to the impact of #MeToo. In today's Democrat Party you can't even be accused of any kind of mistreatment of a woman, no matter how long ago it happened and how weak the evidence is. Though #MeToo is not the force it once was, it still had a major impact on the way the Democrats and left feel. 

But honestly? It was probably because Chavez was opposed to illegal immigration. He considered illegal immigrants to be strike breakers and called INS (the forerunner to ICE) on them. He was even opposed to guest worker programs that would put him two the right of most Republicans and President Trump himself on the issue. Indeed, it's almost certain if Chavez was around today he would have voted for Trump just because of this issue alone, at least the 1970's version of him. Given that illegal immigration is now a sacred cow on the left, it's not surprising they are canceling Chavez. 

Trump hints that Cuba may have major changes soon.

 

President Donald Trump. Politico/AP. 

President Donald Trump is hinting that Cuba may have a major change in leadership soon. Politico. Cuba may have been sent a warning as Trump said that he "might have the honor of taking Cuba" and that he could do "whatever he wanted" with the communist nation. Cuba and the United States have had some talks but the island is under an extreme energy crisis after being cut off from Venezuelan oil. Cuban Americans have wanted Cuba's communist government to fall for decades now. 

My Comment:

The communist regime in Cuba is at it's weakest point in recent history. Cutting of the oil and money from Venezuela has been a disaster for them and nobody has picked up the slack to provide them oil due to the extreme pressure from the United States. Power went out completely today to the point where even essential services aren't working. 

It's not something Cuba can sustain long term. There is a limit that the Cuban people will accept and losing power long term is not something they will tolerate. If a deal isn't made soon, the Cuban people might just take out the regime themselves. 

Talks are ongoing and the sticking point is likely the Trump Administration's demand that Cuba's president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, step down. How strict that demand is isn't something I know, but I am guessing it's pretty non-negotiable. Trump wants to do what he did in Venezuela, replacing a hostile president with a lot more friendly attitude. 

The real question is if they are going to keep the regime without the leadership like they did in Venezuela or are they going to go for a full replacement? I can't see the Cubans going for the 2nd option, but I would also think that Marco Rubio and other prominent Cuban American settling for the 1st. Perhaps some kind of compromise where the regime stays in place for now but new elections are held soon?

Regardless, I do think that the Cubans will be motivated to make a deal. They simply don't have much of a choice. Getting cut off from energy is going to destroy their regime, and fairly quickly as well. Like I said, they won't want to wait until the Cuban people take matters into their own hands. 

But they have to be thinking about Trump's more aggressive foreign policy. They know that they won't have much of a chance if Trump decides to take them out, just look at what happened in Venezuela and Iran. President Diaz-Canel must understand that not making a deal with the United States is likely to end his life. 

I would not expect it to come to that though, and certainly there aren't the forces in the area to press the issue and there won't be until the Iran conflict ends. The US military probably could handle two conflicts at once, but there is the idea they should finish one conflict before starting another. 

But we can do two things at once. We can negotiate with Cuba and fight Iran at the same time. And if a deal is made we will get another vassal in our collection, to go along with Venezuela. Cuba isn't as valuable as Venezuela is, but they have been a thorn in our side for my entire lifetime and beyond and ending the Cuban regime would be a major accomplishment. 

Tucker Carlson claims that he will be charged as a unregistered foreign agent.

 

Tucker Carlson at TPUSA. Newsweek/AFP.

Tucker Carlson claims that he will be charged as an unregistered foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Newsweek. Carlson said that the CIA had read his text messages he had sent to people in Iran and were preparing to sent a recommendation to the FBI to arrest Carlson under FARA. Carlson has denied any wrong doing. Once a prominent pro-Trump voice, Trump himself has said Carlson has lost his way and was "not MAGA". Carlson has had a major shift in his coverage, almost exclusively critical of Israel, in the past year or so. 

When you discover the CIA has been reading your texts in order to frame you for a crime. pic.twitter.com/XgoluHw8EG

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) March 14, 2026

My Comment:

I have to say that I am very disappointed in Tucker Carlson. Carlson was a conservative darling for a long time but in the past couple of years he has gone full Nicholas Fuentes. It's very sad when someone falls into Israel Derangement Syndrome. 

That isn't to say that people shouldn't be critical of Israel. Like every country Israel has done some bad things. Those bad things aren't usually what critics like Carlson cite, but it's true. People should indeed be free to criticize Israel. 

But when only Israel gets criticized? Something else is going on. I think it's ok to be critical for the war against Iran, I question the wisdom myself (but not the results). But blaming it entirely on Israel is a joke. Israel had an influence, to be sure, but that's absolutely ignoring the fact that the Gulf States, most notably Saud Arabia, wanted this conflict as well. 

And so did President Trump! He's been an Iran hawk for years, even before he was politically active. Indeed, I am pretty surprised that folks were surprised when he did bomb Iran. It's not like he wasn't saying that he was considering it for years or anything. Indeed, I wasn't surprised at all when conflict with Iran happened, it was always backed in when it came to Trump. Is it fair to criticize Trump for that? Sure, and if his Iran gamble had failed I would do so. But the criticism should go to Trump for being Trump, not because Trump is some kind of "slave to Israel" like the nonsense Carlson is peddling. 

I tend to think that the anti-Israel right is just antisemitic. I'm not pro-Israel per se, but I think the criticism of Israel is so over the top that I can't take it seriously. Israel might do bad things, but their enemies do worse and if they want to help us destroy our common enemies than so be it. 

So is Carlson a foreign agent? I doubt it. If he is it will be easy to prove it as it would require him to have taken money from Iran or another foreign source, like Qatar. Plus, Carlson is a journalist so he would have first amendment protection as well. Unless he was passing sensitive information to Iran then I don't see how he could get charged.  

What I think is likely is that Carlson is worried about his texts with Iran being released. That has happened before, Carlson's attempts to get an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin were leaked in 2021 and I think the same thing is likely to happen here. 

I don't think Carlson is going to get charged with a FARA violation or anything else. He's just angry that his text messages to people in Iran are going to be released and it's probably going to be damaging to him. Folks aren't going to be happy that Carlson was talking to Iran, especially if he was bad mouthing America while he was doing it and this is just playing the victim. 

I do think that the CIA was probably reading texts that Carlson was sending. But that has nothing to do with Carlson and everything to do with the fact that the CIA was probably monitoring every communication Iran was sending. They have a clear government interest in doing do and honestly, what did Carlson expect to have happen? 

ISIS attack on ROTC class at Old Dominion University stopped by student.

 

Police at Old Dominion University. CBC News/AP.

An ISIS attack on Old Dominion University in Virginia was stopped by a student armed with a pocket knife. CBS News. The suspect, 36 year old Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, was a former Virginia National Guardsman who had been convicted in 2016 for being a member of ISIS and planning a similar attack. He entered the classroom and asked if it was an ROTC course and when he was told it was, he opened fire, killing the instructor, Lt. Col. Brandon Shah. A student armed with a pocket knife attacked the attacker and managed to kill him. Two other people will wounded in the attack. 

My Comment:

This wasn't the only Islamic terror attack in the United States today. There was also a car ramming attack against a Synagogue in Michigan, but in that case the only person that died was the attacker, though there were injuries due to the car hitting someone and smoke inhalation. This attack in Virginia is the more serious of the two as it resulted in a death. 

One has to wonder why Jalloh was out on the street. From what I understand he had served most of his required sentence and was out on supervised release. One wonders how he was able to get a firearm as he would not have been able to purchase one legally. One also wonders why he was still in the country. Jalloh was a naturalized citizen from Sierra Leon. From what I understand it wasn't possible to revoke his citizenship as he was already past the five year limit for doing so when you join a terror group. 

Since he wasn't denaturalized and deported, he was able to conduct this attack. The attack was mostly a failure as a courageous student stabbed him to death with a pocket knife. Given the circumstances, a gunman in a classroom, it was the smart thing to do, but it still takes an insane amount of bravery to attack a man armed with a gun when you only have a pocket knife. 

I don't think the cadet will be charged in this case. From what I understand he was able to carry a pocket knife in Virginia, even on campus. Plus, the prosecutor would have to be insane to charge the cadet under these circumstances, but if any state would be willing to do so it would be Virginia under their new far-left Governor, Abigail Spanberger.  

The motivation for this attack hasn't been specifically discovered, but given this was a member of ISIS it is pretty obvious. I don't know if this attack was related to the war in Iran though. Again, much like the attackers in New York that threw a bomb at a protest, this was a Sunni Muslim ISIS supporter. I doubt they care too much about Iran being attacked. I am guessing he did this because he hated his term in the National Guard and didn't like the idea that the US military was used against Sunni Muslims in the ISIS war last decade, with the Iran conflict being a tertiary concern at best, though it may have been the thing that stirred him into action. 

It does seem like I was right that the Iran war could "stir up the crazies". This is the third major terror attack since the war started that I am aware off, and thankfully most of them have been failures. This was the most successful one, and even though it's tragic that LT. Col. Shah was killed, it's still nothing compared to what we were seeing last decade. 

FBI warned that Iran could attack targets in California.

 

A recovered Shahed 131. US government photo. 

The FBI has issued a warning that Iran could attack targets in California with drones. ABC News. The FBI said they had gathered intelligence indicating that Iran could use drones in such an attack if a conflict broke out. The attacks could come from shipborne drone carriers or from troops in Mexico. However, Governor Gavin Newsom said that he was unaware of any threats. There have been major incidents with drones from the Mexican border, but those have been operated by the Drug Cartels, not Iran. 

My Comment:

It's very strange that this report is coming out now given that if there ever was a threat from Iranian drones, it's almost certainly over now. Iran's fleet is in taters at this point and their drone carrier, the IRIS Shahid Bagheri, has either been crippled or destroyed. I don't know if Iran possesses any vessels at this point that could even reach the United States, let alone launch a drone attack. 

In theory, the threat was serious. Iran theoretically could launch a drone attack from a ship, either their dedicated carrier or from a converted cargo ship. If they were able to achieve surprise they could potentially launch an attack. 

But even then, I doubt it would have been successful. The Pacific Ocean is protected by the US Navy and they are regularly patrolling for suspicious vessels. This has only increased due to naval operations against drug smugglers. The Iranians would have to somehow evade the US Navy an Coast Guard. 

And even if they launched an attack? They would have to have their drones evade our air defenses. US air defenses are pretty good and we have pretty good anti-drone technology as well. Indeed, we have used our anti-drone lasers and other weapons against drones threatening our homeland before. In theory, if Iran somehow achieved total tactical and strategic surprise, they might be able to evade our defenses. But right now, I can't see it happening. 

The main threat cited by the FBI was an airborne attack from the ocean. The ABC article cited an expert that said the threat could come from Mexico. That seems even less likely than the attack from the sea. Mexico does have a small Iranian presence, but I seriously doubt that the Iranians were able to get a bunch of drones into the country without anyone noticing. And, again, the border is where our anti-drone defenses are the strongest. 

Regardless, I generally think that this report is outdated and the threat was mostly theoretical in the first place. Iran could have tried this before their fleet was destroyed and their military capabilities were degraded but if there ever was a threat, it's gone now. 

Indeed, I don't think that Iran would have even wanted to do this. A direct attack on the US Homeland would be a massive escalation. If they had tried this and succeeded it would be the equivalent of Pearl Harbor. Blowing up a lot of Californians would likely unite the country and silence any anti-war voices and would invite a retaliation on a scale that the Iranians can scarcely imagine. And it could even lead to an actual ground invasion. Iran's strategy appears to just be to wait it out at this point and hope that President Trump will settle with the destruction of their military. Launching a major attack on the American homeland would be cross purposes for that.