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He just won’t die. Mojtaba Khamenei was rushed to a Tehran hospital after the February strikes targeting his father nearly killed him, only to be “pulled from the rubble” again after the United States and Israel bombed the medical center, an Iranian cleric revealed in an interview with Qatari television this week. After obliterating Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Tehran compound to launch the war on Feb. 28 — killing the 86-year-old supreme leader and dozens of his top leaders — the allies also reportedly bombed three different hospitals in Tehran at some time in the days that followed. The younger Khamenei,...

Video Transcript SummaryTommy Robinson’s speech at the “Together For The Children” demonstration in London (uploaded September 26, 2026). The video is Robinson’s full address at the event. He opens by congratulating organizer Phil (Hickin) and the volunteers (many of whom also helped with his own events) for the hard work and stress involved. He specifically thanks behind-the-scenes “predator hunters” and others who work daily against child sexual exploitation and abusers without public recognition. He highlights survivor Nicole, the first person to speak out in his “The Rape of Britain” series. Her willingness to describe the rape, torture, and abuse she...

Iman Dashti, a Michigan University student, confronted Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed this week about his habitual whitewashing and rationalization of Islamic terrorism. Dashti, who said his family is a victim of the Iranian regime’s theocratic persecution, pressed the candidate at a college town hall, asking him numerous times to denounce one of the world’s most odious tyrannies. Did El-Sayed regret not speaking out against the tyrannical clerics of Iran? Would he now renounce those who held vigils supporting the mass murderer Ayatollah Ali Khamenei? Would he “unequivocally” condemn the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — a group that’s not only...

PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel says he's worried about whoever Republicans put forth in 2028, even if it's his ally Vice President JD Vance. During an interview on the "MD Meets" podcast posted on Thursday, Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner asked Thiel whether he thinks Vance or Secretary of State Marco Rubio would be a better GOP standard-bearer in 2028. "I am still a Vance partisan," Thiel said. "I worry that it will be very hard for either candidate to win. And so, I don't know, my pessimistic thought is that that's the wrong question." Before he entered politics, Vance worked...

President Donald Trump signaled he’s in no hurry to make a deal with Iran and rejected Tehran’s latest proposal, as the U.S. military facilitates the transit of more oil through the Strait of Hormuz. The Islamic Republic had reportedly offered a seven-day ceasefire, during which it would fully reopen the strait and resume nuclear talks. In return, the U.S. would lift its naval blockade, unfreeze Iranian assets, and end sanctions on its oil exports. “They want to make a deal and I think that’s fine,” Trump told reporters outside the White House on Saturday, saying Iran is “losing so badly.”...

Since the first time I saw the first meme of "Marco Rubio Has a New Job", it has tickled me to no end! The one that really got me interested in it was the one where he needed to take on the role of Karoline Leavitt when she left her post! I began collecting them, and when I had enough, I intended to make a collage of them. And then today, I stumbled across this website:LINK: The Museum of Marco Rubio Jobs; A Living CollectionSo I made a game: Match up the image with the person or job! The answers...

Chapter 1: Government accountability Ladies and gents, how's it going? Have the snack bar Have the snack bar boys bitten off more than they can chew? Seems like they might have. I hope that they have because it seems like the locals have got the bit between the teeth. We've had a new plan unveiled by Mr. Law, which sounds fantastic. And even the mainstream media, the likes of the Daily Express, are pointing out the obvious that they might have started a ball rolling that they don't want to see where it ends up. Uh the migrant boat was...

The Supreme Court’s decision Friday to revive the Trump administration’s expanded SAVE database for the midterms also suggests the justices may be eager to weaken one of federal law’s most important safeguards against last-minute voter purges. In its ruling, the Court acknowledged that the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) prohibits states from conducting “systematic” voter removal programs during the quiet period — the 90 days before a federal election. The majority said that restriction “limits the potential impact” of restoring the administration’s SAVE database weeks before the midterms. But the majority noted that “individualized inquiries” remain permissible during the quiet...

For decades, serious scholars of all races have been saying that the obsession with diversity, equity, and inclusion that grips so many of our colleges has adverse consequences. Although it seems benign and helpful to insist on hiring and promoting people from certain backgrounds—the so-called marginalized groups—doing so has unintended and harmful consequences. To cite just one example, that is Thomas Sowell’s argument in his 1991 book Preferential Policies. Adverse consequences usually cause people to stop and reconsider their actions when they directly suffer those consequences. In non-profit organizations, however, the leaders rarely feel any harm from having made poor...

Here a Crack. There a Crack. Everywhere a Crack Crack!Yes, if Politico is seeing cracks (of the GOP variety) then you know it must be election season. And right on cue with a little over a month left until the midterm elections Politico is seeing huge cracks in the Republican party. In fact they are so insistent on GOP cracks that you almost get the sense they want Republican-inclined voters to get demoralized and neglect to vote this year.For an example of how much Politico is desperately hyping the GOP Crack theme you need only to look at their Friday...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated a historic outdoor mass in Paris on Saturday — welcoming a record-breaking crowd of around 800,000. The pope told the massive crowd that only their faith could provide true happiness. “Only God can fill the emptiness within us,” he said during his homily outside the Place de la Concorde,

Prosecutors say the plan was coordinated between men in at least six states, taking shape in mere weeks ahead of the June 14 event at the White House. By the time the police cruisers rolled up to the teenager’s home in Ohio one night in June, he and his alleged co-conspirators already had amassed guns, bullets and body armor. He told officers he had never met the others in person. He did not appear to know their real names. They had converged online a few months earlier and, according to court affidavits, soon were developing plans for bloodshed. They arranged...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the USSF-385 mission from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on Sept. 26, 2026. It was SpaceX's third classified mission for the U.S. Space Force this month. Blastoff! SpaceX launches classified US Space Force mission for 3rd time this month | 9:03 VideoFromSpace | 2.14M subscribers | 6,403 views | September 26, 2026

A preacher at a radical church in NYC is going viral for all the wrong reasons. During the sermon “Father Flourish” stated that factually, God is non-binary and trans, Jesus is too. I give my comedic commentary along the way.

Over the past two generations, something remarkable has happened across the developed world: People have stopped having children. In the United States today, the average woman is expected to give birth to about 1.6 children over her lifetime—far below the level needed for a population to replace itself, and the lowest figure ever recorded. Sixty years ago, at the end of the baby boom, that number was more than twice as high. The details differ from country to country, but the direction is the same almost everywhere. French fertility has fallen from nearly three children per woman to fewer than...

A former banker now with Treasury Department made a secretive trip, warning countries to end flights and cut off banks A top U.S. Treasury Department official hopscotched across the Middle East and Europe this month with a warning to Iran’s trading partners: You either trade with Tehran or Washington. The commercial strongarming is working.In recent days, Iran has seen its airlines cut off from critical regional routes and its top commercial bank stopped from transacting in the United Arab Emirates and Turkey, both actions that came on top of longstanding sanctions and the continuing U.S. naval blockade.A growing distrust of...

Friday on FNC’s “Hannity,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) rebuked the creep of socialism into American politics. He highlighted its failures and warned against it coming to the United States. “[Y]ou had interesting comments about socialism recently,” host Sean Hannity said. “If you had to break it down and explain it because that’s what’s on the ballot this year, what do you tell people?” Kemmedy replied, “Well, Sean, I listen to these new leaders of the Democratic Party. Mayor Mamdani, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, Dr. El-Sayed in Michigan, and when I listen to them, they’re all socialists. When I listen to them, it’s...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Citing his violence against native tribes in the 1840s, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration is moving forward with a plan to remove the name of famed explorer John C. Fremont — a former U.S. senator for whom the Bay Area city of Fremont is named — from a state park on a prominent peak in San Benito County.

I am a graphically minded person, and have struggled with a way to effectively portray the reality of our political system in America, and none of the graphic descriptions I see describe it the way I see it. I have given this much thought over the years, and I have always found this particular question puzzling: why would they have ever given us this model shown below?The only way this graph above (which is the traditional one accepted by the vast majority of Americans) makes any sense is if it were created and pushed by people who were either Communists...

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has sued the state’s governing body for high school athletics over a policy that reserves two seats on its board of directors for racial minorities. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Marion County Superior Court, seeks to force the Indiana High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) to eliminate a provision reserving two of its 19 board seats for "qualified minorities." The association’s bylaws define a minority director as "an individual other than a white male or female." "Hoosier students should not be governed by a sports association that picks its leaders based on race," Rokita said in...