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This weekend provides a rare treat for stargazers. Well, planets, to be more specific. Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter will will appear to line up on the horizon shortly after sunset on Saturday, Feb. 28. Four of the six planets will be visible to the unaided eye, while the other two will require a telescope. The rare celestial occasion, a planetary alignment or planet parade consists of three to five planets and can occur every few months to every few years. However a six or seven planet parade is more rare. Here’s what to know about Saturday’s “planet...

I mean, he’s probably one of the most shady congressmen out there. Still mind boggling HE was the first call Savannah Guthrie made…not to emergency services…not to the sheriff’s department…not 911…she called Mark Kelly of Arizona when her mom had disappeared. He seems more and more shady as time goes on.

In his state of the union speech, President Trump asked members of Congress to stand to show their support for the concept that "the first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens." While the Republican contingent had no qualms about acknowledging this responsibility, not a single Democrat did. In the Democratic response delivered by Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va), she pointed out that "American citizens are among the wealthiest in the world. They are capable of protecting themselves. There are billions of folks in other countries who need America's help. Former President Biden invited tens of millions of...

Missiles streaked across the skies of the Middle East on Saturday morning as the United States and Israel began “Operation Epic Fury,” a joint operation targeting the Iranian regime—and one that President Donald Trump hopes will not only destroy the Iranian ballistic missile and nuclear program, but deliver regime change itself. After months of moving American military assets into the region, the Americans and Israelis began their attack by striking regime infrastructure. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Tehran palace was turned to rubble, killing the Supreme Leader, according to officials. Additional reports said that the Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, had been targeted....

Guitarist Eric Gales playing a guest solo with jazz-funk band Snarky Puppy on their song Take it.

With President Donald Trump calling for regime change in Iran, the country’s leadership now faces an existential threat and is likely to respond to U.S.-Israeli airstrikes accordingly, experts said.So far, the Islamic Republic appears to be launching fewer missiles and drones in retaliation compared to its barrage in June 2025, when the U.S. joined Israel’s 12-day war on Iran to target nuclear facilities.But retired Admiral James Stavridis, former NATO supreme allied commander, told CNN on Saturday that Iran has two options. One is to continue launching missiles at the current tempo and hunker down.“Option two: if they truly believe they’re...

I mean…it’s been a rough week for them. A huge cash flow for their elections just got eradicated, apparently. Are investigations in their future?

Brandon Straka: "All over the world people have come out to celebrate Donald Trump striking Iran Everyone is cheering and celebrating for the people of Iran being freed from living under strict oppressive Sharia Law Democrats and the media don’t want you to see this"

TEHRAN — Iranian military leaders are reportedly "really kicking themselves" for not just having their latest meeting over zoom. In hindsight, the Iranian generals who were still alive felt that perhaps gathering all of the military's leaders together in one physical location was a mistake. "We may have made a bit of a boo-boo," said newly promoted Iranian general Heydar Rahimi. "You know, looking in retrospect, I can now see that maybe gathering all the top generals into one building was not that smart. They could have so easily just met on Zoom. But, the generals' pagers said to go,...

TEHRAN — Iranian officials have promised that Ayatollah Khamenei will give a speech just as soon as they have located the rest of his body. The Iranian government has said it will prove that the strikes on Iran have been a complete failure by showing Khamenei alive and well. How6ever, the speech will have to wait until they can find his legs. "The world shall see how the cowardly attacks of America could never touch Allah's chosen one," said an Iranian official. "The Ayatollah himself will speak to his people, as soon as he has, ah, gathered himself. We are...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Iran this morning, an Israeli official tells Israeli media. “ Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was assassinated in an Israeli strike on Tehran, with his body found under the rubble caused by an Israeli airstrike, senior Israeli officials were informed on Saturday evening,” the Jerusalem Post reports. “Documentation of Khamenei's body was reportedly shown to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.”

Fox News is reporting that the coalition of anti-Trump nonprofits that have been leading the Anti-ICE protests notified its network to mobilize against Operation Epic Fury.They knew about the strikes even before they were announced, likely because they were notified by their Chinese Communist Party allies overseas.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani slammed President Trump’s strikes on Iran as an “illegal war of aggression.” “Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war,” Mamdani posted on X. The US and Israel launched “Operation Epic Fury” early Saturday morning — striking the Tehran office of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other targets.

The combined political and liberal media counteroffensive against President Trump was underway within hours of the Iran strike. As socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) launched a frontal assault on Trump’s decision — declaring the military action “absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment” — the New York Times provided covering fire, unleashing a barrage of skepticism about the justification for the strikes. [snip] With American forces engaged overseas, the political and media barrage began at home within hours — unrestrained even as service members moved into harm’s way.Get the rest of the story here.

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Explanation: Fans of the western sky after sunset have lately enjoyed this month's remarkable array of bright planets. Witnessed from some locations, on February 18 planet Mercury even appeared to slide behind the Moon, an event known as a lunar occultation. These two snapshots, taken in early evening skies show before and after telescopic views of the rare disappearance of innermost planet behind young Moon. The top panel finds bright Mercury just visible at the northern (right) edge of the earthshine-illuminated lunar disk. In the bottom panel the bright planet has emerged in darker skies beyond the Moon's sunlit crescent....

[Catholic Caucus] The structure of a ‘Synodal Church’ would cause a definitive rupture: here’s whyChanging the structure of the Church to a synodal model would shift its guidance from the Holy Spirit to a mere natural basis.Successive disturbing news filtering from the Vatican causes observers to paraphrase the saying of the Bard of Avon: “There is something rotten in the state of… the Vatican.” Cardinal Parolin’s recent refusal to join President Trump’s Board of Peace is very revealing. His rejection is in line with the goal of present leaders in the Vatican to reorganize the structure of the Church along...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in an Israeli airstrike this morning on Iran, with his body being found recently among the rubble, Israeli officials tell The Times of Israel.

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Leo’s silence on the LGBT agenda is fueling sexual revolution in the ChurchPope Leo XIV’s public affirmations of marriage contrast with private audiences and appointments that embolden advocates of changing Church teaching on sexual morality.Editor’s note: In Part 5 of his essay, Father Enoch relates more recent developments regarding the promotion of the homosexual agenda within the Church and concludes his essay. Click here for Part 1, here for Part 2, here for Part 3, and here for Part 4.To purchase his book The Trojan Horse, click here.(LifeSiteNews) — On this same issue of homosexuality as presented...

RunTime 15 m 23 s ... the U.S. and Israel’s major combat operations against Iran, announced by President Trump as Operation Epic Fury, are being miscast as “Iraq 2.0” and “regime change.” She cites Trump’s message to Iranians to “take over your government” and JD Vance’s statement that there is “no chance” of a years-long Middle East war, framing the strikes as targeted to stop Iran’s nuclear ambitions rather than an occupation. Barbara shows Iran’s leadership has long served a British-centered financial system rooted in the 1908 BP oil concession, reinforced by events such as the 1953 Mossadegh coup and...