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A member of the Iranian women’s soccer team refused to board a flight in Australia at the last minute Tuesday — making an at-the-wire plea to join a number of her teammates already granted asylum there.
The players who have sought asylum say they are afraid they will be persecuted if they return home amid the US and Israeli attacks on Iran.
The last-minute rogue player, who hasn’t been named, made her Hail Mary pitch as the remainder of the team boarded a flight at Sydney airport, sources told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
She was not forced to board the flight.
Yet another player also is seeking asylum — bringing the total numbe
A federal judge in Tacoma is expected to issue a ruling no later than Tuesday in a closely watched case over press credentials for covering the Washington State Legislature. (snip) plaintiffs Brandi Kruse, Jonathan Choe and Ari Hoffman (snip) were denied press credentials in what the suit contends is a violation of the state and federal constitutions. U.S. Judge David Estudillo will decide whether the passes will be granted (snip.) an attorney (snip) argued for the defense that the plaintiffs are "opinion" journalists who are not entitled to credentials (snip) because all three have shown up at rallies (snip) for conservative issues (snip.)
Schrödinger's Cat is both (or is it neither?) alive and/or dead, but exists in an undetermined state inside a closed box along with a single radioactive atom, a Geiger counter, a hammer, and a vial of poison gas, because there's nothing weirder than a bored physicist.
The point of Erwin Schrödinger's Gedankenexperiment (thought experiment) was to highlight the absurdity of quantum superposition, where subatomic particles can exist in multiple states at once until measured by conscious human beings. The radioactive element might (or might not) decay at any given moment, activating the Geiger counter that's rigged to a hammer that smashes the vial filled with cyanide gas.
The City of Seattle may have to "delay or defer" transportation projects or programs because of the expense of installing hundreds of signs warning that city property cannot be used by federal authorities for immigration enforcement actions. A fiscal note provided for Tuesday's (March 10) Public Safety Committee hearing states, "To the extent that appropriations made in the 2026 Adopted Budget support other activities, and for which SDOT cannot find efficiencies / savings (snip) SDOT may have to delay or defer projects or programs to free up funding for the signage costs (snip.) Cost for signage is indeterminate at this point (snip.)"
On Monday night, Scott Jennings asked a simple question to a CNN panel, and it got me thinking. And what I thought about was quite disturbing.
The Department of Homeland Security has been shut down since Presidents' Day weekend. Democrats triggered it, and they've kept it going as a pressure campaign against the Trump administration's deportation agenda, specifically to hamstring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and use that as a cudgel to force policy changes in enforcement, most of which are absurd.
The Senate voted three separate times on DHS funding bills, and each time, Democrats blocked them — every single one, with the lone exception of Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.).
Predictions are hazardous, especially about the future and especially about politics, but the best prediction right now is that the 2028 Republican nominee for President will be either JD Vance or Marco Rubio, and the Democrat nominee will be either Gavin Newsom or Kamala Harris. The ones not nominated for President will likely be nominated for Vice President.
Before we employ these people for these important jobs, let’s do what employers do: Let’s look at their resumes.
A left-wing activist network is training liberals how to slip onto juries in federal cases and then vote “not guilty” to derail prosecutions brought by the Trump Justice Department.
Recordings and training materials tied to the group Freedom Trainers show activists being coached on how to conceal their left-wing views during jury selection and then use jury nullification once they are seated on a jury. The webinars, slide decks, and pamphlets behind the effort all push the same approach: Blend in during selection, say the right things to get seated, and use the jury room to block convictions.
NYC Mayor Hosts Anti-Israel Activist at
Gracie Mansion Days After Oct. 7 Praise
Controversy Hits replies
Gracie Mansion Days After Oct. 7 Praise
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has decided that one of the most controversial figures tied to the anti-Israel protest movement belongs inside the official residence of the mayor of New York City.
Last night, Mamdani welcomed Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil and his family to Gracie Mansion for an iftar dinner marking the one-year anniversary of Khalil’s detention by federal authorities. The mayor did not treat the moment as a quiet religious gathering or a private meeting between acquaintances. He turned the dinner into a political statement and broadcast it publicly.
Country Joe, RIP
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It had been a long time since I had thought about Country Joe and the Fish, until I saw Joe McDonald’s obituary in the New York Times. McDonald died recently at age 84, having pursued an obscure career as a solo artist after the breakup of the Fish.
Country Joe and the Fish were associated with the anti-Vietnam War movement, with their best-known song being “I Feel Like I’m Fixin’to Die Rag”:
And it’s one, two, three,
What are we fighting for?
Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam;
And it’s five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
"This is not 2003," Pete Hegseth declared at a press conference this morning. The days of nebulous missions and nation-building are "dead," the Secretary of War emphasized while promising to put all resources and efforts into winning the conflict with Iran rather than managing not to lose it.
If anyone doubts that resolve, Hegseth challenged, wait to see what Day 10 of the war shows. He promised the most intense attacks on the Iranian regime yet, while noting the "bifurcation" of the regime's responses: The Wall Street Journal noticed a message change from yesterday, perhaps prompted by the Iranians. Yesterday, Donald Trump suggested that he might be open
Dumbest Story of the Day
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I've seen some stupid reporting in my time.
Not to mention lots and lots and LOTS of propaganda, hoaxes, and BS leaks meant to shape the information battlefield against common sense.
But seriously, this story has to be one of the stupidest of the...day? week? Certainly not of the month, because CNN or MSNOW has probably broadcast that, or The New York Times has printed it. Still, this is amazingly stupid. The Daily Mail wants you to believe that a US Navy E-6B Mercury command and control aircraft flying eastward toward Europe is a warning that we are inching closer to World War III.
Mamdani hosts anti-Israel activist Mahmoud
Khalil and his family at Gracie Mansion
for Ramadan replies
Khalil and his family at Gracie Mansion
for Ramadan replies
Mayor Zohran Mamdani hosted controversial anti-Israel activist and accused Hamas sympathizer Mahmoud Khalil, his wife and their young son for dinner at Gracie Mansion for the holy month of Ramadan.
“Last night, as we marked the one year anniversary of his detention, Rama and I were honored to welcome Mahmoud, Noor, and their son Deen to Gracie Mansion to break our fast together,” Mamdani wrote in a Monday Instagram post.
The mayor included a photo of the celebration, showing his wife, Rama Duwaji, holding a plate of food while standing next to a seated Khalil, who was enjoying his meal with a giant smile.
A federal judge on Monday fired three new leaders in the US Attorney’s Office for New Jersey.
US District Judge Matthew Brann, an Obama appointee, said the current leadership in New Jersey’s US Attorney’s Office exceeds the Attorney General’s authority.
“One year into this administration, it is plain that President Trump and his top aides have chafed at the limits on their power set forth by law and the Constitution. To avoid these roadblocks, this administration frequently purports to have discovered enormous grants of executive power hidden in the vagaries and silences of the code,” Judge Brann wrote.
When the bombs started falling on Iran, Americans on the hard right and hard left melted down quicker than the plastic slip covers on Ayatollah Khamenei’s couch: Israel had led America down this path. This is “Israel first!” There was no “imminent threat” to America. How does this improve Americans’ lives? In Congress, the opposition thundered that it was an “illegal” act of war. They’re wrong on all counts.
First, the politicians. The Constitution gives only Congress the right to declare war but is silent on the commander-in-chief’s right to take military action. In fact, war has been declared very few times in our 250-year history, and never since 1941.
When the Texas candidate cites his Christianity, it’s often in service of a trendy progressive position.
When Jasmine Crockett announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in Texas in December, I immediately did two things: (1) celebrated riotously; (2) began reading up on her remaining opponent in the Democratic primary, Austin-area state legislator James Talarico. I had a feeling that Crockett might blow this race — I long ago accurately took her measure as a genuine counterfeit, a media-generated hologram —
President Donald Trump slammed congressional Democrats for holding out on funding the Department of Homeland Security amid threats of terrorism from Iran.
When asked about reports that Iran has activated terrorist sleeper cells abroad, Trump said his administration is “very much on top of it,” though the ongoing DHS shutdown is a challenge.
“One of the things we have to do is get the Democrats to stop the Democrat shutdown,” he said. “Because, as you know, the apparatus that looks into that [Senate Minority Leader Chuck] Schumer and the Democrats have shut it down, which tells you they probably hate our country a lot, but the Democrats have to open that up.”
Our Long Road to War With Itan
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Until last year, for some 46 years, Iran enjoyed a North Korea-like reputation in the heart of the Middle East: always unpredictable, reckless, dangerous, inevitably to be nuclear, self-destructive, and nihilistic. All that said, was it really ever all that formidable? The mullahs came into power after the removal of the Shah and, subsequently, the interim secular socialists. They did so by taking American hostages, murdering opponents, executing former supporters, and transforming the most secular and modern of the Middle East Muslim nations into the most medieval that routinely hung homosexuals, adulterers, and almost anyone who questioned the authority of the ayatollahs.
President Trump will use his stop in Kentucky on Wednesday to try to get his congressional nemesis out of office.
His target is Rep. Thomas Massie, a seven-term congressman who the White House has named the “Democrats’ favorite member.”
Trump endorsed Massie’s primary opponent, Ed Gallrein, who will be at the event in Hebron, Ky., per his campaign. The president will also be making a stop in Ohio. Hebron is located in Boone County, Ky., just south of Cincinnati.
The White House made its feelings on Massie clear. “You can have differences, but you have to be constructive. He is not constructive. In fact, he’s
A local Republican committee in a deep red Virginia county is in turmoil after RINOs and Democrats staged what some members are calling a “coup” by using a disorganized meeting to hold a flawed election to pick a new chairman and oust more than 100 people.
Chaos ensued during the Warren County Republican Committee’s (WCRC) February 12 mass meeting in the town of Front Royal as ballots were inexplicably passed out to Democrats, dozens of Republicans were blocked from entering the venue, and at least one person was allegedly physically pushed by the sheriff of the county.
The mass meeting occurs every two years, serving as a membership reset and an election
"The Democrats are betting on failure.”
That’s how National Review’s Noah Rothman characterizes the Democratic Party’s response to the U.S.-Israeli attacks on the terrorist regime that controls Iran.
But Rothman has it only half right. Democrats aren’t just betting on failure in Iran. They are trying to engineer it. And not just in Iran, but at home as well, where they are actively trying to undermine the economy.
Because, you see, the midterms are coming up, and to Democrats, what matters isn’t the well-being of Americans or ridding the world of its chief terrorist threat. The only thing that matters is winning elections.
Coast Guard cutter Munro returns to California
home after record-breaking 11-Ton cocaine seizure replies
home after record-breaking 11-Ton cocaine seizure replies
A U.S. Coast Guard cutter and its crew returned to their home in California following a 119-day mission in which they seized more than 22,000 pounds of cocaine, the largest maritime drug seizure in 18 years, in the Atlantic in support of the Trump administration's effort to target drug traffickers. The cutter Munro left its port in Alameda on Nov. 3, 2025 for training and participation in Resolute Hunter exercise offshore of San Diego, before sailing into the Pacific Ocean to conduct counternarcotics patrols in support of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Operation Pacific Viper.
However, the ship was diverted to the Atlantic Ocean in support of Operation Southern Spear,
NBA legend Michael Jordan is often attributed for uttering something along the lines of “Republicans buy shoes, too.”
(Jordan has largely distanced himself from that quote, which he reportedly told family when he was asked to endorse a North Carolina Democrat once upon a time.)
Turns out, Republicans not only like to buy shoes. One particular Republican apparently loves to give them out, too. According to The Wall Street Journal, President Donald Trump is apparently quite the magnanimous giver of shoes, as he appears to be enamored with one specific brand.
Trump has reportedly been gifting pairs of shoes to all manner of people in his orbit, from agency heads, lawmakers, and
A left-wing activist group is teaching liberals in Washington, D.C., and "across the United States" how to increase their chances of serving as jurors on cases brought by the Trump Department of Justice so they can undermine its chances of securing convictions, training materials reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show. Freedom Trainers, whose fiscal sponsor is the George Soros-funded group Community Change, is working to make "jury nullification"—the practice of voting against a conviction even if the defendant broke the law—a go-to legal weapon for the Left.
President Donald Trump celebrated a report that the FBI obtained election records from Arizona’s largest county, a move that follows a federal raid last month on a Georgia county’s elections department.
Maricopa County, the site of the reported FBI raid, has been a contentious jurisdiction for elections, particularly after Joe Biden beat Donald Trump narrowly in the state in 2020.
Trump wrote “Great!!!” in a Truth Social post about the report of the FBI demanding election records. The state Senate conducted a forensic audit of the 2020 election returns in Maricopa County.
State Senate President Warren Petersen,