Trump and Iran both reject international efforts to launch ceasefire talks |

 The Times of Israel

Broc Smith

One day ago: . . . "The lack of interest from Washington and Tehran suggests both sides are digging in for an extended conflict, even as the widening war inflicts civilian casualties and Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz sends oil prices soaring.

"US strikes on Iran’s Kharg Island, the country’s main oil export hub, on Friday night underscored Trump’s determination to press ahead with his military assault. Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has vowed to keep the Strait of Hormuz shut and threatened to step up attacks on neighboring countries.

"The Israel Defense Forces has assessed that between 4,000 and 5,000 Iranian soldiers and commanders have been killed since the start of the war."

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Ahhh, the curious silence. Democrats Silent on Party Paying Reparations for Slavery

The Party of Race

. . . "Reparations for slavery are in the news, and yet again, there is a curious and very selective silence from those reparations supporters.

The news this week brings to light the views on race-based reparations that are being advocated by one Frederick Haynes III, the pastor of the much-hailed-by-leftists Rep. Jasmine Crockett. Haynes is now running to succeed Crockett in her Texas seat. 

"As headlined in this Fox News story: “Crockett’s potential successor has repeatedly railed against US in reparations push: ‘It’s been evil,’” with the subtitle, “Frederick Haynes III, previously praised notorious antisemite Louis Farrakhan as a ‘wonderful and great man.’”

"The story reports:

In 2022, speaking at a “Solidarity for Reparations” event at a San Francisco church, Haynes advocated for reparations on the grounds that America owes it to the African American community ….. “America, you owe us. What you done to us has been immoral. It’s been evil. It’s been unjust. It’s been downright wrong and the only way to bring salvation to America — you gotta pay us what you owe us,” Haynes said. “I’ve come by to say San Francisco, California, Texas, United States of America, if you want salvation to come to this house, you’ve got to engage in reparations.”

"Notice anything? Haynes mentions those he says owe reparations. What does he not mention? That would be the political party he depends on for its political support.".  . More...

Democrats were just an obstacle for these warriors

IDF: Michigan Synagogue Jihadi’s Brother Was Hezbollah Commander

PJ Media  

"But like so many other Muslims around the world, including his brother the Hezbollah commander, Ghazali decided to turn Ramadan into the “month of Jihad.'”

"Multiple people and outlets have cited the fact that several of Ayman Ghazali’s family members died in an Israeli counterstrike recently as some sort of excuse for why he tried to blow up a Jewish school and synagogue in West Bloomfield. Even the initial reports indicated that Ghazali’s family had terrorist ties, but the IDF has now defined the position of at least one of Ghazali’s brothers, making it obvious why he was the target for an Israeli military strike — and where Ayman’s views came from.

“INTELLIGENCE REVEALS: BROTHER OF TERRORIST BEHIND U.S. SYNAGOGUE ATTACK WAS A HEZBOLLAH TERRORIST” shouted the IDF X post headline on Sunday, March 15.

"The IDF explained, “Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Muhammad Ghazali was responsible for managing weapons operations within a specialized branch of the Badr Unit. The unit is responsible for launching hundreds of rockets toward Israeli civilians throughout the war.” Some Israeli towns had the majority of their buildings damaged or destroyed." . . .More

The Michigan shooter who attempted to murder toddlers at a Jewish preschool claimed he had lost “family members” in an Israeli strike in Lebanon.
Those “family members” were his brothers, who were members of Hezbollah, a U.S. Designated Terror Group. pic.twitter.com/ayOILKFWYU

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) March 13, 2026

Jesse Jackson's son blasts Barack Obama and Joe Biden for politically charged eulogies

Jesse Jackson's son blasts Obama, Biden for using father's memorial to take shots at Trump

From comments to this post: "I definitely was no fan of Jesse Jackson, however, Jesse Jackson Jr. and others have every right to be infuriated and disgusted at how 3 former US Presidents and a Vice President strongly politicized the eulogy of this man's father. It disgusted me to hear them to be very honest. Democrats as a whole are way out of control these days. Republicans were kind of a problem 3 years ago, but now it's the Dems who have gone so far woke left that it literally makes me sick. Since 2008 I voted democrat, but I'm now completely done with them. Three months after Trump took office I became pleasantly surprised this time by him, and am even more so today more than ever before. Trump has been doing what this country desperately needs (except for food costs!), and he is doing what he was elected to do. Trump is a strong leader, and in this day and age we need that to face our adversaries around the world. Biden and Harris were and are a disaster."

Jury Convicts 9 Antifa Operatives in Texas Riot, Shooting at ICE Facility

Townhall

"Song faces a minimum penalty of 20 years and a maximum of life imprisonment. Arnold, Evetts, Morris, Rueda, Batten, Elizabeth Soto, and Ines Soto each face a sentence ranging from a minimum of 10 years up to 60 years in federal prison. Sanchez Estrada faces up to 40 years in federal prison."

"Nine North Texas Antifa Cell operatives were convicted today by a federal jury in Fort Worth, Texas, for rioting, using weapons and explosives, providing material support to terrorists, obstruction, and attempted murder of an Alvarado police officer and unarmed correctional officers at the Prairieland ICE Detention Center on July 4, 2025.

"In a 12-day trial that began on February 23, 2026, jurors heard testimony from more than 45 witnesses and considered over 210 exhibits supporting the charges against nine indicted defendants: Cameron Arnold, a/k/a Autunm Hill, Zachary Evetts, Benjamin Song, Savanna Batten, Bradford Morris, a/k/a Meagan Morris, Maricela Rueda, Elizabeth Soto, Ines Soto, and Daniel Rolando Sanchez-Estrada.

"Seven others, Seth Sikes, Nathan Baumann, Joy Gibson, Susan Kent, Rebecca Morgan, Lynette Sharp, and John Thomas, pled guilty last year to one count of providing material support to terrorists.

"Testimony and other evidence at trial established that the defendants were members of a North Texas Antifa Cell, part of a larger militant enterprise made up of networks of individuals and small groups primarily ascribing to an ideology that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and the system of law.

"An expert testifying in the government’s case told the jury that Antifa’s coordinated efforts involve obstructing Federal law through organized riots, violent assaults, and armed confrontations with law enforcement officers, increasingly targeting agents and facilities related to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement in opposition to the agency’s deportation actions." . . .

Trump’s Iran War Strategy: Precision Strikes, Clear Objectives, and a Swift Return to Peace

"Trump’s Iran campaign follows the America First formula: crush the nuclear threat, keep U.S. troops out, finish the mission quickly, and end the war before it becomes another endless quagmire."

 American Greatness   

"Once these non-mine threats are adequately degraded and the strait is open to safe commercial transit, U.S. strategic goals—dismantling Iran’s missile arsenal, naval capabilities, nuclear pathways, and proxy threats—will have been decisively accomplished, clearing the way for a swift wind-down of major combat operations."

"President Donald Trump campaigned on ending endless wars, not starting them. Just over a year into his second term, he is delivering this on his terms. The U.S.–Israeli 2026 military campaign against Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, which began following Iran’s reckless provocations in the wake of the 12-Day War, has already achieved its strategic goals. With only a small number of remaining nuclear facilities left to neutralize and the Strait of Hormuz on track to be fully secured within the coming weeks, the United States stands ready to proclaim mission accomplished and swiftly conclude major combat operations.

"This means no quagmire. No U.S. troops on the ground. No forever war. Just decisive action, goals met, and a return to peace on America’s terms. This is President Trump’s America First approach to U.S. national security in full effect: strength that deters, precision attacks that succeed, and the wisdom to know when the job is done.

"Let’s be clear about what the United States set out to do in Operation Epic Fury. The main objective is to eliminate Iran’s pathway to nuclear weapons. Other top objectives are preventing Iran from creating a “missile shield” to protect its nuclear weapons development, deterring future aggression against our allies, and restoring U.S. deterrence after years of weakness under the Biden administration.

"The military campaign is also designed to open a rare, historic window—one in which the Iranian people themselves can finally reclaim their nation from the grip of their repressive, radical Islamist regime. Should they succeed, the result would mark a huge gain for security and stability in the Middle East and around the world.

"The United States will stand firmly beside the Iranian people in their pursuit of liberty once the fighting ends. But the decisive step must come from within: the Iranian people themselves must rise up and overthrow the murderous government that has oppressed them for so long.

"The heavy lifting is already done. During the 2025 12-Day War and the 2026 war, U.S. and Israeli forces dismantled the heart of Iran’s program: the underground uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, the deeply buried enrichment facility at Fordow, key production buildings at Isfahan, a heavy-water reactor at Arak, a covert weapons-development compound at Minzadehei, and labs doing nuclear weapons research at the Lavisan 2 complex." . . .More

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Gavin Newsom

Gavin is preferred by those who actually believe Israel attacked Hamas first that October 7th

Deroy Murdock 

. . . "To call his comments vacuous is an insult to vacuums. The inside of a light bulb has more weight than what he sputtered to Friedland. Chances are, the ghost of Werner Heisenberg would have trouble locating even a particle of substance in the governor of California’s comments." 

. . . "Believe it or not, the fictional McKay and the non-fiction Kennedy were one-man think tanks compared to the metric ton of greenhouse gas that Newsom embodied while laboring to explain his aspirations if elected president.

Newsom appeared on the March 4, 2026, Adam Friedland Show, in part, to promote his new book, Young Man in a Hurry. Their conversation is worth quoting at length.

“Like, what is your defined political project?” Friedland asked one hour and five minutes into his podcast. “Like, throughout your career and right now, what is the thing you want to accomplish, like, politically?”

Newsom: “I don’t have, like, a brand. I don’t have a tag — ‘Make America Great,’ or the ‘Great Society,’ or something like ‘Medicare for All’ or, you know, ‘tax the billionaires.’

“But I, you know, for me — no b******t — it’s just standing up for ideals, striking out against injustice. That defines my ‘Why’ in every way, shape, or form. Stand up for ideals, strike out against injustice.

“I’m a Sargent Shriver Democrat. I’m into that whole ’60s, the vernacular of the ’60s, solving for ignorance and poverty and disease, and the spirit of the ’60s, and the spirit of King, and, you know, the non-violent movement, and Gandhi, and, you know, Havel, and, you know, Mandela — that whole set of moral authority, that whole space. That’s the Zeitgeist.

“And, so, that’s me. That’s my dad. That’s my mom. That’s the book, and that’s my ‘Why.’ And, so, standing up for ideals is what gay marriage was about. The work I’m doing right now — sort of push back. You know, we can lose this country. And just feeling like I have to be held to account and strike out against the injustices of the day.” . . .More

Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News Contributor.

 RedState  "Israel has been relying in part on target information sent by ordinary Iranians for strikes carried out during the current war with Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

"The report said this was the case on Wednesday night, when an Israeli Hermes UAV struck Basij checkpoints in Tehran, citing a senior Israeli security official.

The official said Iranians on the ground have been transmitting information in Persian through Israeli social media accounts. According to the report, the information is first verified and vetted by Israeli authorities, and action is taken only after it is found to be accurate." . . .

   

                   

"I wrote earlier about how the new "Supreme Leader" of Iran, Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the old leader, shouldn't be making any long-term plans. 

"Given the circumstances, both the U.S. and the Israelis have indicated that he's a legitimate target for a future strike. The U.S. and Israel have already taken out a ton of Iranian leaders, and they've decimated a lot of their military capacity. 

WILD: The predicted “future” came within 24 hours. This is Israeli Air Force footage of drones and jets blowing up Basij checkpoints all around Tehran today, based on tips called in by Iranian citizens. A revolution with air support against a regime with no air defence. https://t.co/SZNn3mseMU pic.twitter.com/JRvRNUWZQP

— Saul Sadka (@Saul_Sadka) March 13, 2026

"The Basij are the security force primarily engaged in the repression of the people. They've helped maintain the mullahs in power over the years. Imagine what it must be like after years of being oppressed, you can now call in a strike on the people who may have killed your friends and your family members. Crowdsourced air support for a revolution."

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Family goes after Soros-backed prosecutor for allowing illegal to murder their daughter…

Revolver  

"Repeat felon Robert Andrew Reed (DOB 10/29/1968) stabbed Marvin Waters at the Huntington metro station bus stop on June 10, 2025—less than a year after his release from federal prison for child sex abuse and kidnapping. Descano’s office is planning to DROP THE MURDER CHARGES because they “can’t prove it.'”

"There’s nothing a Democrat loves more than a career criminal.

"The left has been pushing the same dangerous idea for years now.They believe criminals deserve more sympathy than the people they victimize.

"You’ve seen it everywhere. Who can forget that insane Defund the Police movement, or the radical anti-ICE groups. And one of the worst pro-criminal programs is their bail “reform” laws that send violent offenders right back onto the streets just hours after they’re arrested. Left-wing prosecutors seem more interested in protecting criminals than protecting the communities they’re supposed to serve.

"And law-abiding Americans are the ones paying the price for this warped ideology… sometimes with their lives.

"Which is why, when the worst finally happens, and an innocent person is murdered after being repeatedly put in harm’s way by soft-on-crime policies, the people responsible never seem to face any real consequences.

"But that could be changing. One Virginia family says the prosecutor who repeatedly let their daughter’s (illegal alien) killer walk free should finally be held accountable.

"This latest case centers around Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano, a Soros-backed prosecutor who’s a tried and true “criminals first” guy.

"But it may finally come back to bite him, because the family of a murdered Virginia woman says his dangerous policies had deadly consequences." . . .  More

Talarico self-owns when he warns fascism will 'be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross'

Joseph MacKinnon   The radical Democrat's answer to American conservative Christianity is Christian-themed LGBT radicalism.

" 'Democracy is a Christian value, and Christian nationalism is a threat to democracy," added Talarico, fretting that some of the Christian Americans with whom he disagrees seek, in Jesus' name, to ban homosexual "marriage" and the slaying of unborn babies."

"Democracy is a Christian value, and Christian nationalism is a threat to democracy," added Talarico, fretting that some of the Christian Americans with whom he disagrees seek, in Jesus' name, to ban homosexual "marriage" and the slaying of unborn babies.

" 'James Talarico, the Democratic nominee hoping to succeed Republican John Cornyn in the U.S. Senate, routinely concern-mongers about traditional Christian views and their influence on American society.

"For instance, Talarico stressed during his recent interview with CBS late-night host Stephen Colbert the supposed need to confront "Christian nationalism" — a catchall term he and other radicals use to describe their ideological foes who also happen to be Christian in a nation almost entirely founded by Christians and where today over six in 10 adults are Christian.

"The hypocrisy of Talarico's criticism was highlighted in an excerpt of one of his sermons that resurfaced this week.

"Talarico — a part-time Presbyterian seminarian who has attempted to use scripture to justify abortion, protested the public display of the Ten Commandments, voted against sparing kids from sex-rejection mutilations, and claimed there are six sexes — discussed the separation of church and state during a sermon at his home church on June 30, 2024." . . .

Colleges Are Becoming Abortion Clinics  "The University of Oregon, which hosts 24,000 students on its Eugene, Oregon, campus, has announced that its student health services center will now abort students’ babies.

"Beginning this fall, students will be able to obtain mifepristone and misoprostol from the university’s health clinic. Students will then birth what is often a recognizable dead baby, presumably in their dorm rooms." . . .  

“A college dorm room is no place to have a do-it-yourself abortion,” said Roy, “and the American taxpayer should not be paying for the destruction of innocent human life on our college campuses.”

James ‘Six Genders’ Talarico Says White Guys Have ‘Greater Responsibility’ to ‘Love…Trans Kids’

   . . . "Let me just state right here and right now that people who “love trans kids” do not — as Talarico constantly does — advocate for queering, sexualizing, chemically sterilizing, and performing irreversible “gender affirming” mutilations on them.

"The bottom line is this: James Transarico is a full-blown monster deliberately perverting the Christian faith to obtain power. I’ve never seen anything like this guy. He’s a demon with a baby face."

 

Trump reportedly wants to seize Iran's Kharg Island. He floated the idea 40 years ago

 

"US President Donald Trump mulled over taking over Iran’s oil-export hub Kharg Island as a way to assert US power in the Gulf and punish the Islamic Republic. The idea came to him nearly 40 years ago.

"I’d be harsh on Iran. They’ve been beating us psychologically, making us look [like] a bunch of fools,” Trump told the Guardian in 1988.

"“One bullet shot at one of our men or ships, and I’d do a number on Kharg Island. I’d go in and take it,” he added.

"The interview is notable now as several news sites have reported US and Israeli discussions about seizing the island, where Iran exports around 90 percent of its crude.

"Axios reported that the US and Israel held discussions about seizing Kharg Island last week.

"The 1988 Guardian interview demonstrates that this idea is not new. In the interview, he also said that "It’d be good for the world to take them (Iran) on". 

"Trump’s comments then came against the backdrop of the Iran-Iraq War, a brutal conflict against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and the Islamic Republic, which saw around 500,000 people killed.

"In the late 1980s, the US Navy escorted vessels through the Strait of Hormuz and attacked Iranian oil installations and mines.

"Trump’s hostility to Iran can be traced back to the Guardian interview.

“Iran can’t even beat Iraq, yet they push the United States around. It’d be good for the world to take them on,” he said." . . .

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Top 30 Things That Will Not Happen in 2026

Oleg Atbashian

1. A WaPo fact-check will conclude with: “we were wrong, sorry.”
   
2. A celebrity will say: “maybe I should shut up about politics” & follow through on it.
   
3. A major university will finally discover the value of diversity of opinions.
   
4. A media outlet will run a headline: “this story has no racial angle.”
   
5. Media will start referring to the political right without adding ultra-, far-, or extreme.
   
6. A war will end because of a really powerful hashtag and social media filters.
   
7. A school board will prioritize math and reading over “feelings-based grading.”
   
8. Congress will pass a bill after reading it, understanding it, and not adding pork.
   
9. A climate conference will end with: “we’re flying coach next time.”
   
10. “Rising waters” celebrities will abandon their oceanfront properties and move to higher ground.
    
11. European officials will call an Islamist terror attack by its real name.
    
12. A debate moderator will ask both sides the same hard questions.
    
13. A prosecutor will charge a rioter, and the headline won’t include “legitimate grievances.” More...