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 My son has narrated the last book I wrote. Please consider listening to it and encouraging others to do so too. (Click HERE) World & Nation GOP Blocks Yet Another Bid to Rein In Trump as Iran War Rolls On  Senate Republicans voted largely in unison Wednesday to defeat yet another Democrat-sponsored war powers resolution that would have prohibited President Trump from continuing military operations against Iran, according to The Hill. The vote marked the fifth time that Republicans have rejected an effort to rein in Trump and bring about an end to the weeks-old conflict, The Hill reported. The Senate voted 46-51 to defeat a motion to discharge the resolution from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, with only Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., breaking ranks among Republicans to support advancing the measure, according to The Hill.
Trump says he ordered Navy to ‘shoot and kill’ Iran mine-laying boats in Strait of Hormuz  President Trump claimed Thursday he had ordered the US Navy to take lethal action against Iranian mine-laying vessels attempting to obstruct trade through the Strait of Hormuz — in another apparent blow to the recently extended cease-fire between Washington and Tehran. “I have ordered the United States Navy to shoot and kill any boat, small boats though they may be (Their naval ships are ALL, 159 of them, at the bottom of the sea!), that is putting mines in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “There is to be no hesitation. “Additionally, our mine ‘sweepers’ are clearing the Strait right now. I am hereby ordering that activity to continue, but at a tripled up level!” Navy secretary fired after feud over Trump's 'Golden Fleet' with Pentagon leaders, including Hegseth US forces stop, board another ship transporting oil from Iran  The Pentagon released video Thursday showing U.S. forces carrying out "a maritime interdiction and right-of-visit boarding of the sanctioned stateless vessel M/T Majestic X transporting oil from Iran, in the Indian Ocean within the INDOPACOM area of responsibility." "We will continue global maritime enforcement to disrupt illicit networks and interdict vessels providing material support to Iran, wherever they operate," the Department of War said. "International waters cannot be used as a shield by sanctioned actors. The Department of War will continue to deny illicit actors and their vessels freedom of maneuver in the maritime domain," it added. Iran releases video purporting to show commandos seizing ships in Strait of Hormuz  Iran has released a video purportedly showing armed, masked commandos seizing two cargo vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. The propaganda clip was pumped out by state media Wednesday after the regime boasted it had seized the Panama-flagged MSC Francesca and Liberia-flagged Epaminondas vessels, just hours after the cease-fire was extended. In the video, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps soldiers are seen speeding toward a container ship that had MSC emblazoned on the side before scaling a ladder and boarding the vessel. Trump says Iran won’t execute 8 women after he demanded their release
Son of former Iranian diplomat goes viral for flaunting jet-setting, extravagant lifestyle Sen. John Fetterman says Dems forgot Iran is ‘the real enemy’ as war powers deadline approaches US military seizes sanctioned tanker transporting Iranian oil MN lawmaker takes action to get answers on Omar's alleged fraud ties after she skips key hearing: 'Ghosted us' Omar did not respond to an invitation or show up to a fraud hearing in Minnesota this week  A Minnesota Republican lawmaker is demanding answers from Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., after the Democrat failed to appear at a state hearing examining her potential connections to the sprawling pandemic-era fraud scandal. State Rep. Kristin Robbins, chair of the House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee, sent a formal letter to Omar on April 22 criticizing her absence from a scheduled committee hearing she was invited to and requesting extensive documentation related to the "Feeding Our Future" investigation that has gained national attention in recent months. "Minnesotans and the Members of the House Fraud Prevention & State Oversight Committee were disappointed that you failed to appear before our committee to answer questions," Robbins wrote in the letter, obtained by Fox News Digital, referring to Omar’s no-show at a hearing focused on the MEALS Act, a federal COVID-19 relief measure passed in 2020 and sponsored by Omar. Despite Omar’s absence, Robbins said the committee still expects answers and is now formally requesting records from the congresswoman’s office in addition to several questions outlined in the letter. Navy secretary fired after feud over Trump’s ‘Golden Fleet’ with Pentagon leaders, including Hegseth  Secretary of the Navy John Phelan was fired Wednesday after months of feuding with his Pentagon bosses, particularly over his handling of President Trump’s “Golden Fleet” shipbuilding initiative. Tensions among Phelan, War Secretary Pete Hegseth and Deputy War Secretary Stephen Feinberg had been simmering for months, according to the New York Times and a Republican source. Phelan didn’t get along with Pentagon brass and his management and leadership style were “incongruent” with Hegseth and Feinberg, one GOP source familiar with the fired Navy secretary’s standing at the Pentagon told The Post. “The administration really wanted to accelerate the shipbuilding program because of the president’s agenda … and the secretary seemed incapable of accomplishing those goals, and he wasn’t well-liked,” the source said. “When you combine incompetence with arrogance, it usually doesn’t end well.” How SPLC’s $520,000-per-year CEO helped turn civil rights group into a ‘partisan smear machine’  The ex-boss of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Margaret Huang, helped oversee the nonprofit’s shift from a respected civil rights group — into an alleged “partisan smear machine.” The Justice Department indicted the group on Tuesday, alleging it paid millions to members of hate groups to work as informants and “stoke racial hatred.” Huang, whose compensation totaled $522,000 in 2023, took over as President and CEO in 2020 after the group’s co-founder, Morris Seligman Dees Jr., was axed following accusations of sexual harassment and being “complicit” in racial discrimination among the staff. Senate GOP rams through blueprint to bankroll ICE, Border Patrol through end of Trump era Schumer criticized the plan, saying nobody 'respects' ICE and Border Patrol as the GOP eyes billions in spending  Senate Republicans pushed their immigration funding plan forward early Thursday, adopting a budget blueprint after an all-night vote series that sets up billions for ICE and Border Patrol while sidelining Democrats. Senate Republicans adopted their budget resolution, which tees up funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol, and effectively cuts congressional Democrats out of the process entirely. It’s the first major step toward unlocking the budget reconciliation process, which Republicans are diving into once again after Democrats refused to fund ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) without stringent reforms. Trump Blasts 'Rigged' Virginia Redistricting Vote  President Donald Trump on Wednesday blamed a "massive mail in ballot drop" for giving Democrats a "rigged election" victory and the right to redraw Virginia's congressional map. Trump sharply criticized the outcome of Tuesday's referendum, alleging that Republicans had been leading until late-arriving ballots shifted the result in Democrats' favor. "All day long Republicans were winning, the Spirit was unbelievable, until the very end when, of course, there was a massive 'Mail In Ballot Drop!'" Trump wrote on Truth Social, arguing the final outcome did not reflect the will of voters.
EU Approves Massive Loan Package for Ukraine After Hungary Lifts Veto  The European Union on Thursday approved a massive loan package to help Ukraine meet its economic and military needs for the next two years, the bloc’s Cypriot presidency said, after Hungary lifted its veto. The EU also approved a new raft of sanctions against Russia over its war on Ukraine. The measures were prepared early this year and set to be announced in February to mark the fourth anniversary of the conflict, but Hungary and Slovakia opposed the move. Hungary and Slovakia have been locked in a feud with Ukraine since Russian oil deliveries to the two EU countries were halted in January after a pipeline was damaged. Ukrainian officials blamed the damage on Russian drone attacks.
End the filibuster, pack the Court, kiss the Constitution goodbye Adding five progressive justices would create an eight-vote bloc that could override all existing precedent By Hugh Hewitt
The Democratic Party wants to break the United States Senate’s legislative filibuster in order to pack the Supreme Court with jurisprudential clones of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who has quickly emerged as the most radical of the nine justices. (Justice Jackson is also the most loquacious, as Mollie Hemingway points out in her new bestseller, "Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution." Justice Jackson uttered 78,215 words from the bench in a recent term. Justices Gorsuch and Kagan got the silver and bronze in the spoken-word competition, but it wasn’t close, as they were both around 50,000 words apiece.) President Joe Biden supported expanding the court to 14 members in April 2021. Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey is one of many senators who have also applauded the number 14. That’s no surprise, as adding five radicals to Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor would lock in an eight-vote bloc of justices who, after that revolution, would simply be legislators in robes. Kiss the Constitution goodbye if and when "the Nine" becomes "the Fourteen." Hard-left progressivism, whatever the flavor of that day may be, will be in the saddle. The Fifth and 14th Amendments to the Constitution guarantee every American "due process of law." Do those guarantees stand between a left-wing Congress and a left-wing president bent on torching the Constitution? The left’s ‘Dignity Index’ is a weak attempt to disarm Republicans – and disguise their own hate By Miranda Devine
The latest effort to neuter conservatives and force Republicans to surrender comes from a deceptively titled device called “The Dignity Index.” The ruse is fronted by Kennedy relative Tim Shriver, who appears on Fox News in the guise of a perfectly reasonable moderate Democrat, the type we all wish still existed. His pitch is for politicians to treat your opponents with respect, lower the temperature of public debate and restore civility to public life. Who could be against such laudable goals? But who does the pitch not remind you of? |
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