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Is This Washington’s Pretext for a War with Iran? |
Remember these early-2000s George Bush quotes?
“We will free the people of Iraq from the clutches of a tyrant and help them build a free and peaceful country."
“The people of Iraq should be free… It is our moral duty to act on behalf of the oppressed."
“Our mission is clear: to free the Iraqi people from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein and to help them build a better future."
Reading those in hindsight is chilling. By advancing those sentiments, the disgraced former president used the American ideal of freedom to justify killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, destroying the lives, futures, and families of thousands of United States troops, wasting trillions of dollars, and further destabilizing the already turbulent Middle East. Your antennas should go up whenever any politician deploys the same kind of rhetoric.
Plenty are. This week, over 150 lawmakers introduced a resolution to bring freedom to Iran, embracing eerily similar language to what Bush used over two decades ago.
The American people “are “looking forward to a free Iran in the very near future,” Congressman Lance Gooden said.
“It’s not inconceivable to me that within the next few years, we will be celebrating the liberation of Iran,” Rep. Tom McClintock chimed in, adding that the Iranian regime has become a “supreme source of misery, injustice, and oppression for its own people.”
“Now is the time” for change, Rep. Randy Weber also passionately proclaimed.
Years from now, Americans may recall this story as the beginning of a pivotal phase of their country’s destruction. Read it here.
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You Wanted All of the Epstein Files? Not So Fast… |
You’re probably feeling disappointed if you hoped Thursday’s Epstein releases would yield anything groundbreaking. Although the names in his contact list are interesting, they do not come close to offering information that will lead to arrests or the exposure of the notorious pedophile and his associates’ darkest secrets. His friends are safe for another day.
There may be a reason behind the documents’ underwhelming contents. According to Attorney General Pam Bondi, the FBI withheld “thousands of pages” of Epstein information from her despite repeated requests for the full files. Why would it do that?
Bondi demanded the Bureau turn over all documents by this morning. Whether that happens will be telling of how deep the Deep State really is. Read more.
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Volodymyr Zelensky Is Here |
Volodymyr Zelensky will meet with Donald Trump today.
The event is centered around the leaders’ expected signing of their recently negotiated mineral deal to reimburse the United States for its billions of dollars of war funding. Although the agreement does not include security guarantees for Ukraine, Trump and Zelensky are expected to discuss what measures can be taken to assure Eastern Europe’s war stops for good once the fighting finally ends. Trump expects Vladimir Putin to keep his word after agreeing to a peace deal.
The American president has said the U.S. working on mineral extraction in Ukraine would amount to “automatic security because nobody’s going to be messing around with our people when we’re there.”
“It’s a great deal for Ukraine too, because they get us over there and we’re going to be working over there,” he added. “We will be on the land.” Read more.
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WATCH: Vance Confronts Britain Over Free Speech Crackdowns |
The White House hosted British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday as part of preparations for the Zelensky summit, but things between the two nations’ leaders were not all jolly good. Starmer and JD Vance sparred over Western Europe’s ongoing free speech censorship during their on-camera Oval Office meeting.
"I said what I said,” Vance remarked in reference to his scathing Munich Security Conference speech. “Which is that we do have, of course, a special relationship with our friends in the U.K. and also with some of our European allies. But we also know that there have been infringements on free speech that actually affect not just the British. Of course, what the British do in their own country is up to them, but [it also affects] American technology companies and, by extension, American citizens.”
Starmer responded by assuring, "We’ve had free speech for a very, very long time in the United Kingdom, and it will last for a very, very long time," which is false. Just last year, British authorities convicted an Army veteran for silently praying for his unborn son outside an abortion clinic.
Read more here and watch Vance and Starmer’s exchange here.
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Democrat Senator Thinks Americans Want to Be Put Last |
Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego ripped Donald Trump’s European policy during an MSNBC appearance on Thursday, claiming it “does not reflect the values of Americans.”
Gallego accused Trump of “basically turning the country’s back to an 80-year relationship with Europe” and said senators who somehow “still believe that NATO is a functioning alliance that is a force of good” need to be “reminding people that what Trump is doing is not it does not reflect the values of Americans and it does not reflect what we truly believe.”
What, exactly, does Gallego think U.S. citizens “truly believe”? Do they “truly believe” they’re morally obligated to get ripped off by disproportionately funding Europe’s defenses? Or that destroying Russia and refusing to pursue peace should be Washington’s most important foreign policy objective? We seriously doubt it.
Speaking of Russia…
Gallego added that “Russia, China, North Korea and all these other people, all these other countries, are aggressors,” not-so-subtly endorsing the former Biden policy of driving America’s top nuclear competitors toward an anti-U.S. alliance. Because that really helps our country. Watch here.
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Mexico Sends Drug Dealers to America, But in a Good Way |
More than two dozen drug cartel suspects from Mexico are in U.S. custody after America’s southern neighbor decided to get ‘em out.
Mexican authorities deported the 29 drug trafficking suspects to the United States on Thursday, signaling a commitment to cooperating with the Trump administration’s ongoing border control efforts.
“For those of us who have investigated Mexican cartels for many generations, this is truly a historical moment," former DEA operations head Ray Donovan said. "We have never seen this many sent from Mexico to the U.S. in one day.”
The Mexican government flew the deportees into America, where Pam Bondi says they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The roster includes cartel members, foreign terrorists, and at least one charged murderer. Read more.
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Joy Behar Launches Slanderous, Racist, Anti-Musk Attack. Does She Want to Get Sued? |
Apparently The View hates immigrants.
Host Joy Behar launched a vicious on-air attack against Elon Musk on Thursday, calling the DOGE chief a “foreigner, foreign agent, [and] enemy of the United States” and asserting that “he was pro-apartheid” because he grew up in South Africa.
Pro-apartheid? That’s like saying someone from Germany is automatically pro-Holocaust or declaring that everyone from Israel naturally supports bombing civilians. Those assumptions, not Joy Reid’s firing and plenty of the race-obsessed Left’s other obsessions, would actually be racist.
Surely ABC will immediately remove a bigot like her from The View, right? Watch the tirade here.
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A Moment in MAGA Time: What Should Go in America’s 250-Year Time Capsule? |
Congress plans to bury a time capsule in honor of America’s upcoming 250th birthday. First, its members must determine what should go inside. Many already have thoughts.
A social security card. A Celsius can. A bottle of “good ol’ East Tennessee moonshine.”
Those are just a few of the things lawmakers reportedly want to leave for future generations to discover. With over a year remaining until a possible burial ceremony, they are sure to brainstorm plenty of other ideas.
What would you like Congress to include? The project aims to “preserve this moment in history for a distant generation” and “reflect history deemed important at the time of its burial.” The capsule will remain sealed and underground until the year 2276. Feel free to respond to this email with your ideas, and read more about the proposed plan here.
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ULTIMATE FBI: Kash Patel Wants His Agents to Train Like Champions |
Donald Trump’s cabinet members are ushering in a new era of governance. It may include UFC-trained FBI agents.
Kash Patel is reportedly pushing for the Ultimate Fighting Championship to enhance the FBI's ranks through martial arts training, seeking to establish a “formal relationship” with the MMA promotion company to help his thousands of employees improve their physical fitness.
Donald Trump, a known martial-arts enthusiast, has called UFC "the roughest sport I've ever seen.” The fighters “really go at it,” he added.
America’s FBI agents receiving training from people in that world sounds like a good idea to us. They should always be ready to rumble. Read more.
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The golf course can be an unpredictable place. PGA Tour pro Billy Horschel reminded us of that on Thursday.
Horshel had just finished the sixth hole at the Sunshine State’s PGA National when he saw an alligator emerge on the course and a police officer unsuccessfully trying to shoo it away. As a former University of Florida student, Horshel knows a thing or two about Florida Gators. So he sprung into action.
Armed with a 60-degree wedge, the golfer stared down, poked, and marched the intruder back into his course-side pond. The crowd went wild.
Horshel ended his round with four birdies, one eagle, and one gator, shooting a 66.
Read more here and watch the encounter here.
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The Epstein Story Matters. A Lot. |
We would never insult your intelligence by entertaining the possibility that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself. The government might think you’re imbecilic enough to buy the suicide narrative, but we certainly do not.
How could anyone believe their story? Recall what transpired the night the notorious pedophile “took his own life.”
Epstein was supposed to have a cellmate, but he just so happened to be alone during his final living hours. There goes a would-be witness.
Prison guards were scheduled to check on him every 30 minutes, but the pair assigned to his block fell asleep and left Epstein unmonitored for roughly three hours. Two more potential witnesses gone.
And as the cherry on top, the two cameras recording Epstein’s cell “coincidentally” malfunctioned, failing to capture footage of the high-profile inmate’s sudden demise. Up in smoke go the most ironclad observers imaginable.
Only one of that trifecta’s events wouldn’t have meant anything. Mistakes can happen, even in high-stakes environments. Two would have been shady, but not necessarily conclusive. Coincidences are possible. But all three? And at the same time? Come on. There’s no way.
Even the slightest ounce of common sense suggests the “suicide” was actually a murder, leaving those engulfed with curiosity stuck wondering who may have done it. That’s where the Epstein files come in.
While future DOJ releases are unlikely to conclusively expose any of Epstein’s potential pedo-ring co-conspirators, they will definitely give the public an idea of who could have had a reason to want the disgraced billionaire dead. He knew a lot of things about a lot of people. Silencing him for good was the only way to guarantee those secrets never went public.
One might think Epstein’s living situation would have protected him from whoever sought to take him out. He resided at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, known as the "Guantanamo of New York", a high-security prison in America’s largest city. It was supposed to be among the most secure places in the world.
But clearly it wasn’t. Whoever offed Epstein did it despite the government’s best possible efforts to keep him safe. That means there is some force, or likely forces, powerful enough to brush authorities aside like they’re nothing if it ever really wants to. The people “in charge” couldn’t protect Epstein from such a power, a man the public had a vested interest in keeping alive, which means they certainly wouldn’t be able to shield you, either. That’s why the Epstein files matter. If Americans can’t trust their leaders to keep them safe, then who is truly in control of this country? As much as we hate what the serial sex offender did, discovering who had it out for him could unlock the answer. | February 28, 1844: The explosion on the USS Princeton. One of the Navy warship’s guns self destructed during a Potomac River pleasure cruise, killing six people, including Secretary of State Abel Upshur and Navy Secretary Thomas Gilmer. President John Tyler was also aboard the vessel but suffered no injuries. Tyler did not have a vice president, so his death would have rocketed the United States into an unprecedented constitutional crisis. The disaster killed more top U.S. government officials than any other tragedy in history. |
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