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Once war begins and American soldiers are under fire, a rational discussion of the pros and cons of war becomes nearly impossible. That is exactly why our Founders wrote a Constitution that demands a debate before the initiation of war. But there was no debate in Congress, let alone a vote. On Feb. 28, Americans awoke to discover that their country was once again embroiled in a war in the Middle East. Americans were not asked if they would bear the burdens of war. Instead, the American people were told, through a presidential eight-minute video posted around 2:30 in the...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- In a letter sent to Governor Gavin Newsom and other California officials this week, energy giant Chevron expressed its concerns over possible changes to state regulations. "They're setting us up to fail and making sure that imported products will be cheaper and more available to California consumers than in-state production," said Chevron spokesperson Ross Allen. Allen says the company is worried about proposed amendments to the state's cap-and-invest regulations, which set a limit on pollution and force companies to invest some revenue into cleaner energy. The regulations are created by the California Air Resources Board. "The...

Hungary said on Friday it had ⁠detained seven Ukrainians carrying around $82 million in cash and gold on suspicion of money laundering, as Kyiv ​accused Budapest of taking bank employees hostage amid a dispute over oil shipments. The Hungarian Tax Authority’s decision to have counter-terrorism forces swoop on two Ukrainian armored vehicles transporting cash to Ukraine marks a dramatic escalation of tensions that have already resulted in Budapest blocking tens of billions of euros in European Union aid for Kyiv. “The National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) is pursuing criminal proceedings on suspicion of money laundering,” the authority said in...

Day 8 👇 Iran Missile launches during the first 8 days of conflict: 🚀 Ballistic Missiles: 🔴 Day 1 — 350 🔴 Day 2 — 175 🔴 Day 3 — 120 🔴 Day 4 — 50 🔴 Day 5 — 40 🔴 Day 6 — 32 🔴 Day 7 — 28 🔴 Day 8 — 15 🛸 Drone Swarms 🟢 Day 1 — 294 🟢 Day 2 — 541 🟢 Day 3 — 200 🟢 Day 4 — 85 🟢 Day 5 — 45 🟢 Day 6 — 38 🟢 Day 7 — 30 🟢 Day 8 — 12

IRGC instructing operatives around the world to go active? Iranian dissidents communicating with US allies? Psyop? https://youtu.be/ErmbTpxAM7Q

It’s easy to forget that ten years ago, candidate Donald Trump was the only national politician who took China’s growing geopolitical power seriously. He talked about China so frequently and pronounced those two syllables so deliberately — Chi-na — that comedians and voters alike enjoyed doing imitations of the MAGA-man taking America’s geopolitical adversary to task. On the stump, Trump called both Republicans and Democrats “stupid” for how they had permitted the Chinese Communist Party to devour American assets. He would list beautiful American buildings and historic American real estate that the Chinese had acquired since President Bill Clinton and...

The Justice Department indicated that the documents were not previously released because they had been "incorrectly coded as duplicative." The Justice Department on Thursday released previously unseen documents from the Epstein files that included new summaries and notes from interviews the FBI conducted with a woman from South Carolina who made allegations against the late sex offender and President Donald Trump, according to an NBC News analysis. In a series of 2019 interviews with the FBI, the woman said she was a sexual assault victim of Jeffrey Epstein. She also alleged that she was assaulted by Trump in the 1980s...

X Freeze@XFreezeThe “Wikilaundering” scandal is finally blowing wide open and it’s worse than we thoughtA massive investigation by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism just exposed the ugly truth: Wikipedia is corrupt to its coreYou do not get information. You get propaganda.... articles manipulated by the highest bidder, billionaires, PR firms, and woke activistsHere’s exactly how the rot works:📍 Shadow Network: London-based PR firms like Portland Communications run secret “black hat” editors and middlemen to bypass every rule📍 Reputation Scrubbing on Steroids: They delete scandals, human rights abuses, and even controversial Epstein files for powerful politicians...... while scrubbing migrant worker deaths...

6 March 2026 Friday of the 2nd week of Lent St Fridolin Cathedral In Bad Saeckingen. GermanyReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(II).First readingGenesis 37:3-4,12-13,17-28Let us kill him: then we shall see what becomes of his dreamsIsrael loved Joseph more than all his other sons, for he was the son of his old age, and he had a coat with long sleeves made for him. But his brothers, seeing how his father loved him more than all his other sons, came to hate him so much that they could not say a civil word to him. His brothers went...

TORREY, Wayne County (UT) — The three women who were shot and killed by an Iowa man at random without warning in southern Utah have been identified. Margaret Oldroyd, 86, Linda Dewey, 65, and Natalie Graves, 34, were killed by a man who had no prior connection to his victims and no ties to the area, but claimed it "had to be done" to steal their cars, according to prosecutors. Ivan W. Miller, 22, of Blakesburg, Iowa, was charged in 6th District Court Thursday afternoon with three counts of aggravated murder, a first-degree felony. He is accused of randomly killing...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement@ICEgov·20h.@RepBeccaB if you’re going to repeat the unhinged rantings of an activist judge, at least get your facts right.Director Lyons never even testified in the case you’re quoting from.Not only that, but the illegal alien you’re grandstanding over? She’s a Turkish national who got her student visa revoked for supporting the antisemitic Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement.Visas provided to foreign students to live, study and work in the U.S. are a privilege, not a right — no matter what this or any other activist judge says.When you advocate for violence, glorify terrorists that kill Americans and...

It looks as if the long romance between the Democrats and one of the worst governments of the 21st century is at last coming to a close. For nearly fifty years, there has existed a very strange dynamic between the Democrats and the Islamic Republic of Iran. While we don’t know the exact details of the relationship, it exists and has led to some bizarre twists in policy over the years. Jimmy Carter’s treatment of Iran was all of a piece with his backwoods Wilsonianism. More states shed democracy in favor of totalitarianism during the Carter administration than at any...

When I was a wee lad, conservatives used to argue that liberals were "soft on crime," and there was a lot of truth to the accusation. Liberals believed that criminals were victims of society and needed to be coddled to get them on the right track. If you lived through the 1970s, you were treated to movies that reflected society's increasing rejection of that line of thought, from the Dirty Harry series to the even darker Charles Bronson Death Wish.

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(3/6/26)[Prayer]A New Study For A New Year: PersonalitiesGenesis 32:24-32 24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. 25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. 26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. 27 And he said unto him, What is thy...

Robert Fico 🇸🇰@RobertFicoSVKREACTION OF THE PRIME MINISTER OF THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC, ROBERT FICO, TO THE BLACKMAILING BEHAVIOR OF UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT ZELENSKYYI express full solidarity with the Prime Minister of Hungary, @PM_ViktorOrban. If the Ukrainian president continues like this, it may happen that other EU member states will also block the 90-billion loan for Ukraine.And I officially ask all the highest representatives of the European Union and I will be very specific: 👉🏻 the President of the European Commission, @vonderleyen👉🏻 the President of the European Council, @eucopresident👉🏻 and also the so-called EU foreign affairs chief, @kajakallas☝🏻 to distance themselves from these...

The Minnesota legislature is considering HF 3433. HF3433 contains several significant infringements on the rights protected by the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. The bill was introduced in the Minnesota House of Representatives on February 17, 2026. HF 3433 has been referred to the Minnesota House of Representatives Committee on Public Safety Finance and Policy. 35 members of the House have signed up as authors of the bill. HF3433 bans a long list of firearms by name, bans firearms by specific features, requires people who desire to keep any of the firearms specified to register them, store them...

This isn’t one war, but two. There is a regional chessboard, on which Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the other Gulf states all play. Iran’s proxies, its drones and ballistic missiles, its nuclear ambitions, its funding of Hezbollah and the Houthis. All of that belongs primarily to this smaller game. Israel has always understood this board. So have the Saudis. So has everyone in the neighbourhood. But there is a second chessboard, vastly larger, on which the United States and China are the primary players. On this board, the central question of the next 30 years is being worked...

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Couric: Do you have a Zoolander problem? Are you just ridiculously good looking as Vogue said? What do you do about that? Newsom: You don’t do anything about it…It’s just who I am. Good. Lord.

Iran’s new Ayatollah has called for ‘the shedding of Zionist blood, the shedding of Trump’s blood’ as the war in Iran expands. Abdollah Javadi Amoli issued a rare call for violence from an ayatollah, telling state television viewers: ‘Fight the oppressive America, his blood is on my shoulders. ‘We are now on the verge of a great test and we must be careful to fully preserve this unity, to fully preserve this alliance.’ His remarks come after the US and Israel launched the war on Saturday, targeting Iran’s leadership, missile arsenal and nuclear programme while suggesting that toppling the government...