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Tehran is demanding unity and projecting strength after the confirmed killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
But Iran's women’s national soccer team just chose silence during the anthem of the Islamic Republic.
The moment unfolded Monday night at Cbus Super Stadium on Australia’s Gold Coast during Iran’s Asian Cup opener against South Korea.
When “Mehr-e Khavaran,” adopted in 1990, played over the loudspeakers, the players stood in formation.
They did not sing.
How the Israelis Did It
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No doubt there is much more to the story, but this is awesome:
Years before the air strike that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Israeli intelligence had been quietly mapping the daily rhythms of Tehran.
According to reporting by the Financial Times, nearly all of the Iranian capital’s traffic cameras had been hacked years earlier, their footage encrypted and transmitted to Israeli servers. One camera angle near Pasteur Street, close to Khamenei’s compound, allowed analysts to observe the routines of bodyguards and drivers: where they parked, when they arrived and whom they escorted
Two Outcomes For Iran
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Eran Ortal is a well-known Israeli military theorist. He gave an interview to the Jerusalem Post that coincides with my own thinking on Iran:
“There is no precedent for regime change through an air campaign,” Brig. Gen. Eran Ortal told The Media Line.
Which, however, is not necessarily a pessimistic evaluation:
Ortal framed what comes next as two broad paths. In the first, he said, leadership losses and a communications breakdown combine with extreme public pressure to produce a rupture that ends the regime—an outcome he stressed airpower alone has not historically produced.
Saying that this decision sends "a powerful message that the Constitution still protects families, and California schools are not above the law," parents and teachers in California have won a "monumental" ruling at the U.S. Supreme Court, halting California schools from secretly transitioning children and hiding the information from parents until the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issues its final decision.
The U.S. Supreme Court threw out a 9th Circuit Court ruling that allowed government-run schools to keep secretly transitioning children while California parents pursued a lawsuit against the state.
The 6-3 ruling means that the parents will be able to continue exercising their fundamental civil rights "under the Free Exercise
George F. Will, or as I like to call him George Fwill, absolutely LOATHES Donald Trump.
That should surprise nobody. The geek with a bowtie who often found Reagan beneath him surely would loathe Trump and his classless administration based as much on their crass style as their America First policies.
Unlike many NeverTrumpers, his raw hatred for Trump didn't turn him into a liberal; he is, as much as one person can be, the same as he was in 1979. Dry, arrogant, measured for the most part, and center-right. It's not like he went all Bill Kristol or George Conway on us, so I usually roll my
Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) can rest a little easier tonight knowing that her congressional district will remain in its current form ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court granted an emergency request from Malliotakis related to a New York court's order:
The Supreme Court on Monday sided with Republicans in ruling that the boundaries of the only GOP-held congressional district in New York City do not not need to be redrawn for the 2026 elections, despite a court ruling that the district is unfair to Black and Hispanic residents.
Spain has denied the US permission to use their shared bases to launch attacks against Iran. The country's socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez condemned Israel and the US for striking Iran and killing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said Spain wanted 'democracy, freedom and fundamental rights for the Iranian people', but it would not allow its bases to be used in the ongoing military action. The decision puts Spain at odds with its European partners including the UK, France and Germany, who on Sunday said they would defend their interests in the region through defensive action to destroy Iran's capability to fire missiles and drones.
Every now and then, a paper trail starts coming together that makes people stop and take a second look at what they were told was just business as usual. The Big Fani saga is still bubbling over, and this latest batch of evidence is raising new questions about what the real goal was.(snip)According to documents uncovered in a watchdog push, the Biden Justice Department allegedly steered around $2 million in grant funding to Willis’ office during the same time frame her Trump lawfare plot was ramping up. Dems claim, hey, nothing to see here;
Donald Trump has laid out four goals in Iran and said the US campaign had been projected to last four to five weeks but could “go far longer than that”.
On Monday, the US president offered his most extensive comments yet about the war, going beyond two video messages and a series of brief phone interviews with reporters that offered sometimes conflicting objectives.
But Trump undercut the gravity of his remarks by abruptly pivoting to tout his plans for a new White House ballroom, boasting that it would be the “most beautiful ballroom in the world”, coming in “under budget” and “ahead of schedule” for “$400m or less”.
President Donald Trump told CNN in a nine-minute phone interview Monday morning that the US military is “knocking the crap” out of Iran – but the “big wave” is yet to come.
“We’re knocking the crap out of them,” Trump told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “I think it’s going very well. It’s very powerful. We’ve got the greatest military in the world and we’re using it.”
Trump addressed a wide range of topics in the interview, including the expected length of the conflict, his surprise at Iran’s widespread retaliation and the country’s expected succession plan.
The U.S. State Department is now telling all U.S. Citizens from 14 middle east countries to make immediate plans to exit the region. These are not travel advisories, these are specific instructions to leave the region.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Mora Namdar posted on the social media site X that Americans in countries, including Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Israel, should “DEPART NOW” using any available commercial transportation. (image - guidance) The guidance comes as many major airlines have canceled flights to and from the region as the war that began when U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday. It has since grown into a wider
WASHINGTON — President Trump told The Post Monday that he’s not ruling out sending US ground troops into Iran “if they were necessary” — adding that Operation Epic Fury was “way ahead of schedule” after taking out dozens of Tehran’s top officials.
“I don’t have the yips with respect to boots on the ground — like every president says, ‘There will be no boots on the ground.’ I don’t say it,” Trump said after launching strikes Saturday to decapitate Iran’s military and political leadership. “I say ‘probably don’t need them,’ [or] ‘if they were necessary.'” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said at a Monday morning Pentagon press conference that no American
House Speaker Mike Johnson said the U.S. strike on Iran was a defensive operation designed to prevent “staggering losses” to American troops and assets, arguing that waiting for Iran to strike first would have resulted in devastating casualties.
Johnson spoke to reporters at the Capitol on Monday, where he emphasized that the most critical point of the operation was that it was defensive in nature.
“Israel was determined to act in their own defense here, with or without American support,” he said. “Israel faced what they deemed to be an existential threat. Iran was building missiles at a radical, and at a rapid clip
Texas AG Issues Opinion Making It Illegal
for Mental Health Providers to ‘Transition’ Children replies
for Mental Health Providers to ‘Transition’ Children replies
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a legal opinion on March 2 that says it is illegal for state-licensed mental health care providers to “transition” children.
Texas passed Senate Bill 14 in 2023, which banned using “gender-affirming care” procedures such as puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgeries to treat gender dysphoria in minors.
In Paxton’s opinion, he writes that because SB 14 made it illegal for health care providers to transition children, the law also applies to mental health care providers licensed by the Texas Behavioral Health Council.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, socialist of Vermont, and Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California best known for trafficking in Epstein-related conspiracy theories, are pushing legislation that would impose a new 5 percent annual wealth tax on billionaires and use the revenue to give money to everyone earning less than $150,000 a year.
The bill, which the politicians are calling the Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share Act, would raise $4.4 trillion over a decade, according to a letter from Emanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, economists at the University of California, Berkeley, that was released by the leftist politicians. The March 2, 2026, letter from the two economists,
A Reconstruction-Era Republican once described the dull-minded and buffoonish Democratic President Andrew Johnson as “always worse than you expect.”
Nowadays, we may apply that same simple assessment to public education, particularly in Democrat-run cities.
In a post Sunday on the social media platform X, school-choice advocate and research fellow Corey A. DeAngelis of the Heritage Foundation shared a chart with data on Chicago Public Schools that seemed so ludicrous as to defy belief. The chart, courtesy of the Illinois-focused nonprofit research company Wirepoints, listed “Chicago Public Schools’ 20 most-empty schools.”
Incredibly, Douglass High School, with a student capacity of 912, had only 28 students enrolled.
Iran consistently promoted and sponsored terror throughout the Middle East and the world. They’ve been chanting “Death to America” for half a century. They’ve been working on a nuclear bomb for decades. Their radical Islami-fascist theocracy repeatedly vowed to wipe Israel off the map, because they believed Allah willed it.
War with Iran was therefore inevitable. The only question was when.
We could have waited for Iran to attack us. America’s unspoken policy over the years, after all, has been not to attack an adversary until the adversary attacks us first.
An Iranian-linked mosque in Manassas, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C., held a memorial service Sunday evening honoring Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, calling him "our leader" and sending "glad tidings on the martyrdom of His Eminence." A now-deleted post on Manassas Mosque's Instagram page detailed the Sunday evening service to honor the now-obliterated strongman they saw as their leader, noting a "potluck" meal would be take place before the commemoration. (X) Although the mosque has nuked that post after receiving some blowback in conservative media, their Telegram channel is still showing the above image, along with this message:
There were many defining moments featured in the months-long battle for the ownership of Warner Bros. Discovery: sit-downs to woo President Trump, high-profile congressional hearings, a brutal bidding war, and a tampon.
Yes, a tampon.
During the negotiations, while Netflix was telling skeptical GOP lawmakers that it wasn’t a left-wing company looking to get more powerful by snapping up WBD, a delegation of legislators paid a visit to its headquarters, and one was both shocked and disturbed to find a basket containing tampons in the men’s restroom.
A missing man in Florida was found and rescued after being buried shoulder-deep in quicksand.
Dramatic bodycam video footage showed the rescue of the man who had been reported missing before first responders found him stuck in the sand pit at Vulcan Materials Company, according to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office.
The Jacksonville man, identified as 36-year-old Andrew Giddens, was reported missing last month after a welfare check following concerns about his depressed state of mind due to a break-up, according to a Fox Weather report.
The illegal migrant who was arrested and charged for allegedly stabbing a Virginia woman to death at a city bus stop has an appalling criminal record of thirty previous arrests and was let out of jail every time.
Abdul Jalloh, 32, was charged with the brutal murder of 41-year-old Stephanie Minter, who was found dead at a bus stop in Fairfax County, Virginia, on Monday night.
Jalloh, a migrant from Sierra Leone who does not appear to have ever had any legal status in the U.S., was reportedly on the same bus as his victim and followed her off the bus to attack her at the bus stop, the Daily Mail reported.
A driverless Waymo robotaxi obstructed emergency vehicles attempting to reach the site of the mass shooting in downtown Austin that left two people dead and 14 others injured early Sunday morning.
The KXAN reports that an autonomous Waymo vehicle caused a delay for emergency responders racing to the scene of a deadly mass shooting at a popular Austin bar in the early morning hours of Sunday. The incident has renewed concerns about the deployment of self-driving vehicles in urban environments, particularly during emergency situations.
Matthew Turnage, who had ordered an Uber ride after leaving a nightclub in the area around 2:00 a.m., captured video footage of the autonomous vehicle
Saturday, February 28th, 2026, will be commemorated as the date the ghosts of Jimmy Carter’s debacle at Desert One in 1980 – the worst military humiliation in U.S. history – were finally exorcised.
It took more than four and a half decades for a President of the United States to be willing to conduct the unfinished business of overthrowing the Ayatollah Khomeini’s Islamist regime in Iran, which began its long reign of terror by seizing 53 American hostages and keeping them in harsh conditions for 444 days from 1979 to 1981.
The feckless President Carter, who had already suffered the Soviet Union’s
The horrific shooting at Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden in Austin shines a light on a gun control in Texas that prevents even licensed concealed carriers from being armed for self-defense in a bar setting.
Texas has a gun culture that is second to none, but the Lone Star State also has a “51 percent” law that makes it illegal for law-abiding concealed carriers to be armed in an establishment that derives at least 51 percent of its money from alcohol sales.
The San Antonio Report noted:
The 51 percent sign is a gun control sign established in 1993 to protect bar owners.