Trump’s righteous warning to Iran’s leaders

January 05, 2026

Trump’s righteous warning to Iran’s leaders

President Donald Trump has warned Iran that the United States would come to the rescue of peaceful protesters if Iranian security forces killed them. “We are locked and loaded and ready to go,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. Iranian officials responded with their own counter-threats. This latest tension follows the U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear […]

This wasn’t an arrest in Venezuela. This was an unauthorized regime-change war

Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio both justified the United States’s overnight invasion of Venezuela and capture of its president, Nicolas Maduro, as a law-enforcement action, rather than an act of war. Thus, they argued, Trump didn’t need congressional authorization. But Trump’s own words — his description of the attack, his […]

Capturing Maduro was the extraordinarily challenging but easier part

Delta Force, the Army’s premier special operations unit, has just earned another testament to its deserved reputation as the world’s finest close-quarters battle special forces team. In a remarkable operation overnight Friday-Saturday, Delta Force and, presumably, a small number of FBI-Hostage Rescue Team operators, helicoptered into the Venezuelan capital of Caracas and forcibly seized dictator […]

What Trump should do if Ukraine peace talks collapse

Peace talks on ending Russia’s war on Ukraine are likely to collapse once Russia rejects binding security guarantees for Ukraine. Russia entered this war to break Ukraine’s capacity to defend itself. A secure Ukraine defeats the entire purpose of President Vladimir Putin’s strategy. A Ukraine backed by enforceable commitments, sustained Western military support, and credible deterrence would remain […]

Russia overextends its deception fetish with invented Ukrainian attack on Putin

Inventing a nonexistent Ukrainian assassination attempt against Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian officials have damaged their credibility and Putin’s diplomatic strategy about the war in Ukraine. Past experience makes it improbable that Trump will increase sanctions and other pressure on Russia in relation to this deception. Still, this incident illustrates the risks of the Kremlin’s […]

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California is the poster child for fraud and financial waste

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is trying to push back on the notion that California is rife with fraud and financial waste. Now would be a bad time to revisit the state’s precarious budget position heading into the new year. Newsom is on the defensive after the blooming Minnesota fraud scandal has turned eyes toward California. […]

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