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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 on Book Cover) World & Nation Trump Says US Forces Will 'Finish the Job' Soon in 1st Prime-Time Speech of Iran War  President Donald Trump said U.S. forces will “finish the job” in Iran soon as “core strategic objectives are nearing completion,” offering a full-throated defense of the war Wednesday night in his first national address since the conflict began more than a month ago. Trump got a wide audience and a chance to articulate clear objectives for the war after weeks of changing goals and often contradictory messages about whether he’s winding down or ready to escalate military operations — even as Iran kept up its attacks on Israel and Persian Gulf neighbors and airstrikes pounded Tehran. But he spent much of his time repeating some of the same things he said in recent weeks, while also suggesting that the U.S. was close to meeting its major military objectives in Iran and his estimated timeline for concluding operations within two to three weeks. He promised U.S. forces would continue to hit Iran very hard.
Pentagon Briefed Trump on Plan to Seize Iran's Uranium  President Donald Trump reportedly asked U.S. military leaders to propose a plan to remove nearly 1,000 pounds of highly enriched uranium from Iran, highlighting his administration's resolve to ensure Tehran never obtains a nuclear weapon. The War Department has developed a detailed and highly complex proposal that would involve deploying U.S. forces deep inside Iran, bringing in excavation equipment, and even constructing a temporary runway to airlift the radioactive material out of the country, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. The plan, presented to Trump in recent days, underscores the seriousness with which the administration is approaching Iran's nuclear threat.
Iran regime uses war to mask 'brutal' execution surge against political opponents Rights groups say the Iranian regime is on track to beat last year's record number of executions, with 657 in the first three months of this year alone  The Islamic Republic of Iran is on track to exceed the record number of executions it carried out against opponents in 2025, with 657 executions in the first three months of the year, according to the Iran Human Rights Society. Hiding behind the war with the U.S. and Israel, critics say the regime appears desperate to eliminate opposition, particularly following anti-regime demonstrations that shook the nation's rulers and resulted in tens of thousands being murdered by the country's security forces and militias. In March, the regime was met with condemnations, including from President Donald Trump, over the execution of 19-year-old wrestler Saleh Mohammadi. Trump says Iran ‘no longer a threat,’ US will keep hitting country ‘very hard’ in next phase
What you need to know: Five major takeaways from Trump’s Iran address Trump admonishes reporter for interrupting his answer on Iran operations: 'Lot of problems with you' FBI notified Congress last week of China-linked hack deemed 'major incident'  FBI officials recently reached out to members of Congress to alert them to a cyber hack classified as a "major incident." Fox News is told that China is the culprit and that the breach could pose a threat to national security. The FBI made this designation last week when notifying several members of Congress. Trump elevates immigration fight at Supreme Court, turning up heat on Democrats ahead of midterms Trump signed an executive order on his first day back in office, but federal judges blocked it from coast to coast  President Donald Trump's presence at the Supreme Court this week may not sway the justices, who appeared skeptical of the president's push to curb birthright citizenship for undocumented immigrants. But Trump's historic appearance — no sitting president has attended oral arguments at the high court before — showcased the president's great interest in his landmark effort to upend more than a century of legal precedent that allowed automatic citizenship to those born in the U.S. And the president's presence at the Supreme Court may pack a political punch by energizing MAGA voters ahead of the midterm elections, when Republicans will be defending their fragile House and Senate majorities. Bessent: Trump Steering US Economic Strength  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hailed President Donald Trump’s April 1 address as a defining articulation of how American economic power is being leveraged to achieve decisive strategic gains abroad — particularly in confronting Iran. Bessent, in a post on X following the president’s national address, credited Trump’s “decisive leadership” with building what he described as “the strongest economy in history,” arguing that this economic foundation is now directly enabling U.S. military and geopolitical success. “America’s economic strength feeds into our great military strength. Economic security is national security,” Bessent said, echoing the central theme of Trump’s address. “Under President Trump, those two forces are being aligned in a way that is delivering results.”
AOC to oppose all aid to Israel –even for Iron Dome after facing lefty backlash  Bronx and Queens Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declared that she will no longer support any military aid to Israel, even for defense purposes, buckling to intense pressure from the far left. Previously, Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) backed legislation to replenish Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, though she had been critical of sending arms to the critical US ally. “The Israeli government is well able to fund the Iron Dome system, which has proven critical to keep innocent civilians safe from rocket attacks and bombardment,” Ocasio-Cortez declared on X Wednesday. “I will not support Congress sending more taxpayer dollars and military aid to a government that consistently ignores international law and U.S. law.” Carville gloats that Democrats will go after Trump's 'stupid jacka-- kids and their spouses' after midterms Carville warned that upcoming political defeats and humiliation will feel like getting 'punched in the mouth by Mike Tyson'  Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville condemned President Donald Trump, gloating on Tuesday that he, his children and his children’s spouses will face investigations after the midterms. Carville warned Trump that he is in for a world of hurt after the Republican Party faced what many expect to be a defeat in the upcoming midterms. Carville, in his trademark southern style, said that it would feel politically like getting "punched in the mouth by Mike Tyson." "Let’s talk about your future, your post-November future," Carville said, anticipating widespread defeat of Trump and the GOP. "The Democrats are going to investigate you to no end." "They're going to start going after you. Then they're going to start figuring out where all the money stolen is," he continued. "Then they're going to go after your stupid jacka-- kids and their spouses and all the other bulls--- that you see, and they're going to investigate the s--- out of you." An illegal migrant may have exposed Kristi Noem’s husband’s salacious cross-dressing secret  An immigrant sex worker may have wanted to expose Bryon Noem’s double life as a cross-dressing fetishist as payback for his former DHS chief wife’s enforcement of President Trump’s immigration crackdown, according to a White House reporter. Marc Caputo of Axios revealed in the wake of the shocking scandal that a source tipped him off in February with a “weird lead” about Bryon Noem, purportedly coming from a sex worker – possibly in the US illegally – who claimed South Dakota’s former first gentleman made use of her services online. He said he didn’t pursue the lead because he couldn’t land an interview with the accuser and was therefore unable to verify the allegations. Kristi Noem said she was ‘blindsided’ by husband’s cross-dressing pics — but their marriage has been abnormal for years
Kristi Noem’s husband’s cross-dressing pics revealed a ‘crazy’ oversight in security vetting: experts Miranda Devine: Dems’ callous rebuke of an Iryna Zarutska mural exposes their own twisted, backwards ‘values’ By Miranda Devine
It’s fitting that the Iryna Zarutska mural in Providence, RI, is being removed on the say-so of the city’s lefty mayor before the artist could complete the murdered young woman’s face. Her long blond hair is there, and the outline of her beautiful features, but her identity is being erased by political sadists who do not want Americans to remember the 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee who was stabbed to death on a light rail train in Charlotte, NC, by a deranged homeless man with a long and violent rap sheet. Iryna fled a war zone, but it was more dangerous for her to ride public transport home from her job at a pizzeria in her work uniform at 9:45 p.m. on a Friday in a blue city. Providence Democrat Mayor Brett Smiley this week slammed the mural honoring her as “divisive and [it] does not represent Providence.” His equally callous Democrat stablemate, Rhode Island state Rep. David Morales, opined to a local NBC reporter that the artwork honoring Iryna “does not reflect” the “values” of Providence. Shutdown ends with America doubting there was ever any point to it in the first place By New York Post Editorial Board
Not only are TSA agents getting paid, the whole absurd Homeland Security shutdown will soon end . . . with a whimper, wouldn’t you say? It leaves all sides in Washington a bit disgruntled and the public (especially those about to fly!) simply relieved. Senate and House GOP leaders John Thune and Mike Johnson announced Wednesday that they’d pass the bill to fund everything except some immigration-enforcement functions, then cover ICE and so on (which are fine for now thanks to special funding passed last year) in a reconciliation bill (which dodges the Senate filibuster) in a few weeks. Of course President Donald Trump took the key steps in ending the standoff, first by sending ICE agents to airports to help out and then by issuing an executive order to get TSA agents paid and so remove whatever cudgel Democrats thought they had to force “reforms” to gut immigration enforcement. |
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