Stephen Kruiser
The Morning Briefing
March 23, 2026
In 1925, 132 nations signed the Geneva Protocol, prohibiting chemical weapons and biological warfare. The survivors of the first World War realized that there are some weapons that must be unanimously prohibited by humanity, as they are so dangerous, so evil, and so antithetical to sustaining any form of life on this planet that they could only be used by the most evil of individuals or nations.In Other News
In 1980, the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons recognized the same dangers and evil in weapons that had multiple warheads and indiscriminate effects or “cause unnecessary suffering or superfluous injury,” especially to civilian populations, and made them universally illegal. This was further strengthened and made more restrictive with the Convention on Cluster Munitions, adopted in 2008, which prohibits and makes illegal the use of cluster munitions and any weapon designed to disperse them, such as airdropped cluster bombs and ground-launched rockets.
So if these types of multiple warhead weapons have been forbidden by international law for over 40 years, why are the leaders of the world not outraged and unified in their efforts to destroy and replace the evil Iranian regime?
Northwest Georgia voters went to the polls on Tuesday to elect a replacement for former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. Greene represented Georgia's 14th congressional district for exactly five years before resigning in January after a heated and very public falling out with President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.In Other News
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp called for a special election on March 10, and there were 22 qualifying candidates, including 17 Republicans, three Democrats, a Libertarian, and an independent. Because the field was so fractured and because it was a jungle primary — all candidates from all parties were on the ballot together — everyone under the sun figured the race would lead to a runoff on April 7. Those predictions were correct. None of the candidates got 50% of the vote
Democrat Shawn Harris will face off against Republican Clay Fuller next month, according to Decision Desk HQ projection.
Evening In A Sugar Orchard
by Robert Frost
From where I lingered in a lull in march
outside the sugar-house one night for choice,
I called the fireman with a careful voice
And bade him leave the pan and stoke the arch:
'O fireman, give the fire another stoke,
And send more sparks up chimney with the smoke.'
I thought a few might tangle, as they did,
Among bare maple boughs, and in the rare
Hill atmosphere not cease to glow,
And so be added to the moon up there.
The moon, though slight, was moon enough to show
On every tree a bucket with a lid,
And on black ground a bear-skin rug of snow.
The sparks made no attempt to be the moon.
They were content to figure in the trees
As Leo, Orion, and the Pleiades.
And that was what the boughs were full of soon.