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‘Winning decisively’: U.S. has largely
defanged Iran’s military power despite
negative press replies
defanged Iran’s military power despite
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The Pentagon’s top leaders are confident that the Iranian regime’s military is being pulverized by American forces from the land, sea, and air, with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declaring that “we’re winning decisively” against the revolutionary Islamic government in Iran.
President Donald Trump announced at the end of February that U.S. and Israeli forces had launched a joint attack against the regime in Tehran, quickly killing Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei and soon greatly degrading the Iranian military, targeting ballistic missile sites, bombing drone production facilities, sinking naval ships, hitting the Iranian defense industrial base, and hammering strongholds run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The critical question is whether we will stop at weakening the Iranian regime or Hamas or move toward ensuring that they can never again recover as long-term threats to their neighbors or global security. At this moment, leaving those regimes in place – the ruling mullahs in Iran or Hamas in Gaza — is probably the most dangerous option.
Authoritarian regimes such as Iran's, and terrorist groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic State and the Taliban, rarely respond to setbacks by abandoning their ambitions. Instead, they pause, regroup, and rebuild.
Russia and China, each with its own anti-American calculations,
The Department of Health and Human Services is protecting parents’ rights to keep their children under their care, according to Assistant Secretary for Health Adm. Brian Christine.
“If you have a set of parents and their child has gender dysphoria and there are threats to remove that child from your care, that’s absolutely wrong,” Christine told The Daily Signal in an exclusive interview.
The HHS Administration for Children and Families wrote a letter to state child welfare agencies telling them that the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act prohibits them from removing children from their home because the parent doesn’t affirm the child’s gender identity.
Hochul is running from her high-spending
past — but Mamdani ties may sink her
re-election hopes replies
past — but Mamdani ties may sink her
re-election hopes replies
Gov. Hochul was fittingly ridiculed last week for urging wealthy New Yorkers who fled the state for Florida to return and bring their rich friends with them.
“We need your money” was the gist of her plea.
She has zero chance of success.
The rich didn’t get rich by being so easily duped, but Hochul had to know that. So why did she decide to make a fool of herself?
It’s not because she’s dumb, but because she thinks voters are — and that they have short memories.
After all, this is the same Hochul who, during her 2022 campaign, told her GOP opponent, Rep. Lee Zeldin,
(The Center Square) - U.S Gulf Coast LNG export plants are poised to increase shipments in global markets desperate for gas supplies as damage assessments show a year or longer will be needed to repair Qatar’s giant LNG production facility located along the Persian Gulf.
Iranian missile strikes late Wednesday caused extensive damage to the Ras Laffan Industrial City, the world's largest LNG export hub capable of loading several super-sized tankers simultaneously and processing over 77 million tons of gas annThe disruption has wiped out approximately 17% of Qatar's LNG capacity, leading to forced suspensions on long-term contracts to Italy, Belgium, South Korea and China.
The chairman of the Senate's most powerful investigative panel is urging President Donald Trump to declassify and make public any U.S. intelligence showing China's efforts to gain access to American voter registration data or to use measures to influence voters dating back to 2020.
"I wish they briefed the American people on it. I don't know why you want to keep this classified or hidden. This needs to be thoroughly investigated, and when we have the results of that investigation, make it available to the public," said Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., the chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
He added, "The sooner, the better."
Some things are easy to comprehend, even for the smallest of children. Our elders teach us that cheating is wrong, period. Dishonesty is not okay. And when we become adults, at least when most people do, we understand that our republican system of government protects us by the grace of God through the inalienable rights set forth in the U.S. Constitution. Among the most cherished of those rights are the voting protections afforded to U.S. citizens. The last two words are important. As readers may know, the U.S. Senate is debating the SAVE America Act on Saturday, meant to put in place common sense safeguards of those rights.
President Donald Trump fired off a social media post Saturday evening, warning the Islamic Republic of Iran that if it doesn’t ensure the crucial waterway of the Strait of Hormuz is fully opened within 48 hours, he will order the destruction of their power plants.
As we’ve reported, 20 percent of the world’s oil travels through the narrow strait off the southern coast of Iran, and the embattled regime has been attacking ships and threatening to fire missiles, which has set off volatility in the world’s oil markets.
Zack Polanski has set out a plan for the Greens to bring in a radical agenda of a PR voting system, wealth taxes and faster Net Zero by exploiting divides on the Right and holding the “balance of power” in a hung Parliament after the next election. The Mail has more.
The Greens are hoping to exploit divides on the Right to force through radical change after the election.
Zack Polanski said he wanted the party to win enough MPs to hold the “balance of power” in Parliament.
He suggested that would give them maximum leverage to secure policies such as proportional representation, a wealth tax and faster progress on Net Zero.
Ukrzaliznytsia reported a tragic incident that occurred as a result of a Russian attack. During the evacuation of people on the Odesa Railway, a train conductor was killed, and a passenger sustained moderate injuries, according to the company’s press service.
“Unfortunately, today we also have an extremely sad incident: on the Odesa Railway, while the train was stopped and passengers were being evacuated, a conductor was fatally struck by an oncoming train that was also heading to its evacuation stop,” the press service wrote.
A passenger who sustained moderate injuries was also reported. A thorough investigation into the accident is currently underway.
Iran After Larijani and Khamenei
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The assassination of Ali Larijani on March 17 has shattered what remained of Iran’s fragile leadership, accelerating its descent into a fractured autocracy—defiant in ideology but paralyzed in function. Just weeks after the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Larijani’s elimination removed the last credible link between the clerics, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and President Masoud Pezeshkian’s reformist‑leaning government. With no unifying authority and relentless bombardment underway, Tehran now faces its most vulnerable moment.
She's trippin'. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spent nearly $19,000 in campaign cash last year on a shrink who specializes in controversial Ketamine therapy. (snip) The expenses were marked as "leadership training and consulting." It is unclear what the sessions consisted of or who participated. Ocasio-Cortez's campaign did not respond to requests for comment. (snip) "While she describes these expenditures as 'leadership training,' Dr. Boyle has no experience in that area, unlike several Democratic consultants," Kamenar added. "This looks like yet another example of misuse of campaign contributions."
Commuters in Los Angeles are going through hell. And there's statistics to prove it. Crime on Los Angeles Metro has risen a staggering 58% since 2019 -- despite bureaucrats pumping $192 million into safety measures. Crime has risen from 2,747 reported incidents in 2019 to 4,354 in September 2025, according to Metro data. The data during the Covid period and recovery is not included. Rider complaints logged through Metro's Transit Watch app also repeatedly flagged the same problems: open drug use, smoking, alcohol, graffiti, harassment and disorder. Over the course of a week, the Post confirmed what riders have been describing, witnessing homeless passengers unraveling (snip.)
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon has revealed that a massive DOJ review of between 50 and 60 million voter records has uncovered hundreds of thousands of ineligible registrations, including over 300,000 DEAD people still listed as active voters and tens of thousands of non-citizens who have already cast ballots in federal elections.
As The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively, Dhillon’s team has been waging war on dirty voter rolls since President Trump took office.
Back in December 2025, we told you how an initial review of just 47.5 million records found 260,000+ dead voters and thousands of illegals registered to vote.
President Donald Trump threatened to place U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at airports if Democrats don’t agree to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
In a post on Truth Social, Trump explained that if Democrat lawmakers “don’t immediately sign an agreement” to fund DHS, he would place ICE agents at airports to “do Security like no one has ever seen before,” including allowing them to arrest all illegal aliens in the United States.
With the return of President Donald Trump to the White House, panicked liberals fearful of a Fascism that never seems to happen outside of their fervid imaginations are seeking an escape route via obtaining foreign citizenship. Also key to their escape from Orange Man Bad is getting foreign passports as chronicled on Monday in the New Yorker by Lauren Markham, "Seeking a Second Passport." The subtitle only adds to the hilarity of their inflated paranoia: "For some Americans, citizenship in a country their ancestors fled is now an insurance plan." To get an idea of how much of a bubble Markham
Alternate headline: Iran Lied. Again.
That may not qualify as breaking news, since the Iranian regime has lied about practically all of its threats to the region and beyond. The theocratic-military junta has lied for 47 years about its sponsorship of terrorism, and they lied over and over again about their pursuit of nuclear weapons. Those lies got exposed over and over again, and yet leaders in Europe and the US kept insisting that the regime could become a trustworthy partner in non-proliferation talks.
Iran just exposed another lie, one that should rattle Europe. The IRGC launched a missile attack
Robert Mueller, who investigated allegations
of Russian election meddling, dies at
81, sources say replies
of Russian election meddling, dies at
81, sources say replies
Robert Mueller, a former FBI director who led the investigation into allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, has died, multiple sources told CBS News on Saturday. He was 81. A cause of death was not shared. Mueller is survived by his wife of nearly 60 years, Ann Cabell Standish, their two daughters, and three grandchildren. His death was first reported by MS Now. Mueller served as FBI director from 2001 to 2013. In 2017, the Justice Department appointed him special counsel to investigate potential coordination between Russia and the Trump team during the 2016 presidential election. The nearly
Let me start by saying there is a lot of misleading information circling current events, some of it by what CTH considers very dubious alt-right voices. I suggest just to be leery of “exclusive” insider information. There are motives and angles that are not obvious and would not be comfortable for those who follow events closely.
[As an example, the election/voting information -connected to the Intelligence Community- and recently outlined by John Solomon, is not new. What Solomon is rehashing is the background information exposed by Catherine Engelbrecht and True the Vote surrounding Chinese involvement in prior elections(snip) Engelbrecht gave the FBI the data, the FBI
Sheriff Chad Bianco Accuses AG Rob Bonta
of Intimidation In Prop 50 Discrepancy Investigation replies
of Intimidation In Prop 50 Discrepancy Investigation replies
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a leading Republican gubernatorial candidate, held a press conference Friday morning to expose what he described as repeated attempts by Attorney General Rob Bonta to intimidate and derail his office's investigation into a massive 45,896-ballot discrepancy in the November 2025 Proposition 50 special election. Bianco detailed a stunning mismatch uncovered through an audit of handwritten logs maintained by the Riverside County Registrar of Voters: county records show just 611,428 ballots cast. Yet Secretary of State Shirley Weber certified 657,322 votes to the state -- a gap neither Bonta nor Weber ever publicly questioned or explained.
As the World Burns...
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Time to dust off the "Mission Accomplished" banner?
~A Thought for the Day from David Blair in our comments section:
It's time to move past your reticence to have initiated the war and get behind Trump. Your fear that it might end badly is noted.
"Get behind Trump"? That might be better directed at Vance, Gabbard, Kennedy and other cabinet members whose discomfort with the strange turn of events is palpable either through their sudden absence from public life or when they're testifying to Congress and trying to walk the fine line between not getting fired now and not getting impeached by the incoming Democrat majority in January.
Blue Flight Continues Apace
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The most important contemporary phenomenon for our politics and, perhaps, for the future of our country is the ongoing sorting of our citizens into red and blue states. The dynamic is pretty simple: people are leaving blue states for red states, with the single exception of those whose first priority is lavish welfare benefits, who therefore seek out blue states. This might seem like a terrible deal for the blue states, and of course it is, in the long term.
But meanwhile, things are not all bad for Democratic politicians. They are getting rid of a lot of pesky businessmen and others who tend to vote against them,
Tesla and Space X CEO Elon Musk offered on Saturday to pay the salaries of TSA employees during the shutdown. "I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country," Musk wrote on X. By law, federal employees receive back pay after a government shutdown comes to an end. However, many TSA employees are reportedly calling out due to not receiving paychecks, resulting in long security lines.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday indicated that the Islamic regime would not be overthrown without a "ground component" to the current conflict. (snip) "It is often said that you can't (snip) do revolutions from the air. (snip) you can do a lot of things from the air (snip) but there has to be a ground component, as well. There are many possibilities for this ground component, and I take the liberty of not sharing with you all those possibilities."