Iran Shoots Down US Fighter Jet; Search Underway for Crew

 Democrats in hyper glee mode.

Newsmax.com

"One of the two crew members aboard a U.S. fighter jet shot down over Iran has been located and rescued by U.S. special forces, while the search for the second remains ongoing, Newsmax confirmed Friday.

"CBS News reported that the rescued pilot was recovered within Iranian territory.

"Newsmax confirmed that President Donald Trump has been briefed. 

The two crew members aboard the F-15E ejected safely after the aircraft was hit by Iranian fire, according to Axios.

"An Israeli official said planned Israeli strikes were called off to avoid interfering with the rescue operation, the report said. 

"A local Iranian state television channel reported that at least one U.S. pilot ejected from the jet after it was hit. The broadcast aired a message urging civilians to capture any surviving pilots and turn them over to authorities, offering what it described as a "precious prize."

"An on-screen crawl went further, encouraging viewers to "shoot them if you see them," referring to individuals allegedly seen in circulating social media footage.

"The message later changed to a bounty." . . .  More...

US pilot pulled from Iran in daring rescue mission as terrifying footage shows tribesmen shooting at search plane with second airman missing

If captured, the pilot will be kept close to their projected U.S. target for human shield. Just as the left worked with the North Vietnamese during Vietnam, so we must fully expect Democrats to join Iran in twisting the knife into President Trump. TD

Dave Portnoy lets rip at Bernie Sanders after attack on Donald Trump

 The Daily Express

 "What a funny way to congratulate Trump for negotiating Peace in the Middle East. By all accounts one of the most successful things any politician has done in recent memory and my man Bernie hasn't mentioned it once. It's just tough to take anything these people say seriously"

AF Branco

"Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy condemned United States senator Bernie Sanders for failing to recognize Donald Trump's role in brokering a deal for peace in Gaza.

"On Thursday's episode of "What Now? With Trevor Noah", Sanders described Trump as a "demagogue" before taking aim at the President for blaming America's issues on "powerless minorities."

" 'Instead of addressing the serious crises that working families face, he deflects attention away from them by blaming powerless minorities for our problems," Sanders' official X account posted Thursday.

"Sanders' comments came after Trump announced this week that Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of a peace plan for Gaza, a seismic development that could end the two-year war that has seen more than 67,000 Palestinians killed and 170,000 wounded, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.

"The deal was signed almost exactly two years after Hamas-led militants raided Israel on October 7, 2023.

Sitting on a fence eventually becomes far too painful

 Why We Stand With Jewish Women: Part 3 –

"This is the third post in our series about why non‑Jewish feminists are choosing to speak out against antisemitism. Here, Jean Hatchet describes how she moved from discomfort to direct action in her home town to confront rising Jew‑hatred in Britain. For the earlier posts in this series, see Part One and Part Two."

"Watching the feminist fallout after Hamas raped, murdered and kidnapped Jews on 7th October, 2023, it was much easier to say nothing. Or do a ‘both sides’ dance of evasion occasionally. Two groups of women I’d previously supported, ‘Southall Black Sisters’ and ‘Woman’s Place UK’ put out tardy statements on the terror attack which were far too cagily worded to effectively condemn Hamas violence, even that committed against women dragged bleeding into the back of trucks in front of the world’s media. Cracks amongst feminist lines began to form, and they didn’t stop.

"When female friends became vehemently pro-Palestine and grabbed flags to join vast marches against Jews, where songs calling for Jewish eradication from Israel were sung, and calls to ‘Globalise the Intifada’ spread rapidly, it was easier to shrug and say, ‘Well, Netanyahu is brutal’. Simpler to pretend to yourself and others that Hamas had not waged war in the most hideous of ways, in a time of relative peace. Or, as I did, to couch all comments in the context of male violence against women, suggesting women and children would be the main casualties and thus avoiding discussing the Hamas aggressors who committed a massacre. This was a cowardly avoidance on my part to openly show my support for Jews at one of the worst of times.

"I was at that time linked to many feminist women who had become pro-Palestine zealots. They joined the hate marches, and they snubbed those of us who did not. Staying quiet was not enough to save me in those groups, and my relative silence was eventually used to smear me as “Zionist”, the term intended to make all around shudder and ostracise the accused woman.

"By contrast, the Jewish women I know simply remained my friends. They applied no pressure to do the right thing and speak out to condemn Hamas, but my silence, and the silence of other feminists, must have seemed like a very painful betrayal." . . . More...

President Trump Lays Out His Iran War Endgame

"Trump’s Iran strategy aims for swift, decisive victory—crushing nuclear ambitions and ending the war in weeks, not years, without risking American boots on the ground."

 Fred Fleitz › American Greatness  

So instead of kicking the Iran problem down the road to the next president, Trump is dealing with it now. That’s the kind of decisive leadership America voted for. 

The American Spectator

"Somehow, I received an invitation to the White House to watch President Trump’s prime-time address to the nation on Wednesday evening, where he laid out his endgame strategy for the Iran War. In addition to observing the strong camaraderie between Trump’s cabinet members, I saw the president in great form, confidently articulating the war’s goals and achievements and how he is keeping his promise to the American people to end this conflict in a few weeks so it does not become a quagmire or an endless war.

"The president spoke about the overwhelming strength of the American military and how the war is a decisive and historic U.S. victory. Just one month after launching Operation Epic Fury, Trump explained how the U.S. and Israel shattered Iran’s nuclear weapons program, crippled its war machine, and stripped the mullahs of their ability to bully the Middle East and the world.

"President Trump spoke about how Operation Epic Fury devastated Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, ballistic missile programs, air defenses, navy, and command structure. Key nuclear facilities have been reduced to rubble. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ terror networks and proxy armies have been decimated. So has Iran’s ability to project power across the Middle East or threaten our allies with drones and missiles.

"As Trump explained, Iran is no longer a global bully capable of developing nuclear weapons. The regime that spent decades chanting “Death to America” while funding Hamas, Hezbollah, and attacks on U.S. troops has been neutered.

"Trump said America’s war objectives—destroying the missile arsenal, annihilating the navy, severing proxy support, and guaranteeing Iran never goes nuclear—are nearly complete. Only two to three weeks of focused, high-intensity air strikes are needed to finish the job. President Trump emphasized how much our military accomplished in only 32 days and compared the Iran War with numerous other wars that lasted years.

"President Trump also discussed the fate of Iran’s stockpile of near-weapons-grade enriched uranium, enough reportedly to fuel 9 to 11 nuclear weapons if further processed. Some experts have called for the president to send U.S. Special Forces into Iran to recover this nuclear material, which is believed to be buried under Iran’s Isfahan nuclear facility. I expressed my strong opposition to this idea in a March 13, 2026, American Greatness article because this nuclear material is probably destroyed, scattered, and entombed beneath massive debris—and would not be readily usable for weapons without extensive additional processing that Iran no longer has the capacity to perform." . . . More...

Ketanji Brown-Jackson demonstrates her smarts again, claiming that if she steals a wallet in Japan, she has 'allegiance' to Japan

"Not the brightest bulb in the box -- in a place where the best legal minds in the country have the power to issue rulings over us." This Democrat appointed justice argues not from the Constitution but from conjecture. TD

Monica Showalter  

"We don't have a court of any credibility when we have subliterate and specious morons making rulings that affect the fate of the republic with substandard judges drawing conclusions like these."

 

"The Supreme Court is supposedly comprised of the best legal minds in the country. Salmon P. Chase. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Antonin Scalia ...

"Then there's Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson, in the court hearing on birthright citizenship, showing us all her ace legal acumen: ? https://t.co/vy0R6Lx2

— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) April 1, 2026

"The argument is intended to support the constitutional proviso from the 14th Amendment, which begins with:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. 

"By her best-legal-mind-in-the-country reasoning, a foreigner stealing a wallet in Japan somehow has an "allegiance" to Japan, owing to Japanese cops busting that foreigner and hauling him off to the clink.

"Actually, a foreigner's contempt for the laws of Japan pretty well conveys the opposite of 'allegiance' to Japan -- marauders and invaders break laws, not good Japanese citizens. You could more easily argue that you have an 'allegiance' to Japan when you obey Japanese laws, but even that confuses allegiance with basic respect a foreigner owes as a guest in another country, which was agreed upon as part of his conditions of entry. But that's too complicated for her ace legal mind in this sequence. Steal a wallet, and you've proven allegiance.

"What she was likely trying to convey instead of 'allegiance' was 'subject to the jurisdiction thereof,' meaning, if you steal in Japan, you get busted in Japan, where, unlike many blue cities, laws are still enforced.

"But going to jail in Japan doesn't convey citizenship from Japan, or a right to live in Japan, let alone loyalty by the perpetrator to Japan. If anything, it's Japan sweeping the garbage out so that Japanese citizens can live their best lives, free from fear of thieves and other thugs. Citizenship is irrelevant because the law against thievery is supreme in Japan, and applicable to anyone in Japan for whatever reason." . . .

Supreme Court SHOCK—Liberal Justices TURN on Jackson | turleytalks.com

. . . "Jackson accused the court of fabricating legal rules to benefit Trump, a claim she has made repeatedly. However, this time she stood alone, as not even liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan supported her inflammatory accusations. Jackson has increasingly found herself isolated, unable to garner support from her liberal colleagues, making her the odd one out at the judicial table." . . .

Will Trump’s autopen executive order de-bench 237 leftist federal judges (including Ketanji Brown Jackson)? - Andrea Widburg

"With strong evidence that Biden was a puppet in the White House, Trump’s order voiding Autopen signatures can erase at least half of Biden’s presidency." Kevin Finn

Rhode Island Democrats Fan the Flames With Explanation on Why They Oppose Iryna Zarutska Mural

Sister Toljah – RedState   

"Providence Mayor on why wants the Iryna Zarutska mural to come down: “A movement was funded by some right-wing billionaires." “It wasn't bringing us together as a community."

"I think it's safe to say that Rhode Island Democrats have not covered themselves in glory with the way they have responded to a mural of Iryna Zarutska that was being painted on the side of a building in Providence.

"RedState reported Monday on how the city's woke mayor, Brett Smiley, had called for the mural of the murdered 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee to be removed on grounds that it was "divisive."

"I continue to encourage our community to support local artists whose work brings us closer together rather than further divides us," Smiley proclaimed in his original statement, citing the alleged "misguided, isolating intent of those funding murals like this across the country" (read: Elon Musk).

"As we also documented, the owners of the LGBTQ club that had allowed the mural to be put up had to issue multiple statements due to the outcry, first to reassure the community that they were, in fact, Democrats who didn't support President Trump, and then later to confirm they would be bending the knee to the mob and having the rendering removed.

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READ MORE: Intolerance in Providence: Woke Backlash Hits LGBTQ Club Honoring Iryna Zarutska—Here’s How It Unfolded

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"Not surprisingly, Smiley is doubling down on his own divisive rhetoric, admitting in two local interviews that the funding from Musk was the impetus behind his call to have the mural removed. 

"He also claimed that there was never a mandate from him that it be taken down, even though he knows full well and good that making public comments voicing his displeasure, along with what he felt should be done about it, undoubtedly would fuel the fire and make the flustered club owners feel they had no choice. 

"Also unmentioned in a lot of reporting on this story is the fact that the mayor is gay and married, a fact that could have pushed the bar owners to act out of a misguided sense of loyalty:. . . "   More...

This, on the other hand, brings Democrats to their knees in remorse:

"As the Rhode Island GOP pointed out, this is not about art. It's about selective outrage. But it's also about priorities - and Rhode Island Democrats continue to tell us what theirs really are: Not the victims of violent crime, but rather the need for Democrats to try and squelch any and all debate about how their dangerous soft-on-crime policies that lead to repeat offenders being let back out onto the streets create more victims like Iryna Zarutska."   Stacey Matthews

Experts Absolutely Blast Daily Mail's Idiotic Reporting on Bullet Matching Story

Bearing Arms  

"Either way, it was journalistic malpractice at its finest. One is just stupidity, while the other is evil, but neither is acceptable or forgivable "

USA Today

"On Tuesday, the Daily Mail really stepped in it with its so-called reporting on the bullet that killed Charlie Kirk. It was an absolute trainwreck of misinformation, much of which was based on a complete lack of understanding about bullet matching.

"Cam covered the story for Bearing Arms. I wrote about it at our sister site, Townhall. In short, the whole thing was stupid and wrong.

"But hey, don't take our word for it. Instead, listen to the other folks who spoke with Fox News about it.

Some reporting on the filing misinterprets the result of the bullet analysis, as it does not rule out it being from the Mauser rifle recovered near the crime scene, which prosecutors allege had Robinson's DNA on it and had been given to him by his father. Instead, the filing noted it was inconclusive in definitively tying the bullet to the rifle, but that didn’t stop news organizations from publishing headlines that made it appear Robinson was essentially off the hook.

The Daily Mail published a story headlined, "Bullet used to kill Charlie Kirk did NOT match rifle allegedly used by suspect Tyler Robinson, new court filing claims," that was quickly condemned.

"The headline from the Daily Mail is an egregious example of media malfeasance, designed to profit from the online conspiracy industry that’s emerged after Charlie’s assassination," TPUSA spokesperson Andrew Kolvet told Fox News Digital.

...Media Research Center associate editor Nicholas Fondacaro, a gun enthusiast and staunch supporter of the Second Amendment, believes the Daily Mail’s framing of the ballistic test results are an example of the "worst tendencies and instincts of British tabloid journalism."

"The headline, X post, and first sentence of the article were intentionally worded to deceive the reader; to make it sound as though the bullet recovered from Kirk’s body didn’t match a test bullet fired from the recovered rifle. Only later in the article does it note the ATF wasn’t able to recover enough intact material from Kirk’s body to identify markings left by the barrel," Fondacaro told Fox News Digital.

"When a bullet is fired from a gun, the barrel leaves markings on the soft copper jacket that are fairly consistent bullet-to-bullet, basically becoming a fingerprint for the gun," Fondacaro continued. "Apparently, there was not enough left of the copper jacket to show that fingerprint."

"This isn't uncommon at all. Ballistics experts see this regularly. Plus, even if it had been intact, it might still not have yielded a match despite being the bullet fired from Robinson's alleged weapon.

"Why? Because ballistics, as a subject, isn't fool-proof. Cam termed it as more art than science, and that's pretty accurate. You're trying to match grooves that appear on a round fired by a particular gun that has also gone through a lot of friction, including a human body, and hoping that there's enough there to make a match." . . .

What happened to the Democrats?

 Robert Curry - American Thinker  There’s only one way such a deeply arrogant and out-of-touch party can continue to win elections.

"The opposition by Democrats to this commonsense reform is all Americans need to know about what the Democrat party has become."

"Michael Goodwin, writing at the New York Post, made a claim remarkable for its simple clarity: “The Democratic Party We Once Knew Is Dead.”  You and I can readily agree with Goodwin, but the party is certainly not dead and gone. What has it become? 

"Victor Davis Hanson provides the answer:

There is no Democratic Party. There’s a Socialist Party. But it’s a very weird Socialist Party. It’s a ... [pyramid] with a lot of very wealthy, globalized elites that run things at the top. Nothing in the middle of the pyramid. And then an expansive big base of poor people, of immigrants.

"The Democrats, Hanson explains, no longer champion their traditional constituency, those whom he refers to as “the white middle working class.”  As a result of abandoning their traditional source of political power, “the Democrats can’t win elections with open, transparent balloting, one-day balloting, and they know it.”  Consequently, the Democrats are going all out in their opposition to any and all election integrity measures and all out in championing the new constituency they are banking on: immigrants and (especially) illegal aliens. 

"America now has the largest number of residents not born in America in all of American history.  Hanson puts the number at 53 million, which is likely correct, but the Democrats already no longer need to compete with Republicans for the votes of the American middle, the middle that once upon a time decided the outcome of elections in America.  Thanks to mail-in balloting and a voting system that is non-transparent to a truly astonishing degree, even the homeless are being used by the Democrats to determine election outcomes.  For example, fraudsters have been caught on camera paying “homeless people to forge names, forge addresses and forge signatures of registered voters.” 

"Our current voting system allows for mail-in voting in much of the country.  Only the perpetuation of this system will allow Democrats to remain a going concern politically.  If and when they take control of the White House and Congress, the Democrats will make illegal aliens into citizens by the tens of millions, and Democrats will have a lock on every future election in America." . . .More..

Robert Curry is the author of Common Sense Nation: Unlocking the Forgotten Power of the American Idea and Reclaiming Common Sense: Finding Truth in a Post-Truth World.

Bruce Springsteen shrugs off ‘blowback’ over anti-Trump, anti-ICE rhetoric

 Bruce Springsteen shrugs off ‘blowback’ over anti-Trump, anti-ICE rhetoric: ‘I don’t worry about it’

"Following the January death of Renee Good, Springsteen has repeatedly taken aim at U.S. "Immigration and Customs Enforcement, even telling agents in Minneapolis to “get out” of the city during a concert earlier this year.

""If you believe in democracy, in liberty, if you believe that truth still matters, that it’s worth speaking out, that it is worth fighting for, if you believe in the power of the law and no one stands above it, if you stand against heavily armed masked federal troops invading American cities and using Gestapo tactics against our fellow citizens, if you believe you don’t deserve to be murdered for exercising your American right to protest, then send a message to this president,” Springsteen told a crowd.

“'And as the mayor of that city has said, ‘ICE should get the f*** out of Minneapolis,'” he added." . . .

Bruce should remember this: John Mellencamp Booed Off Stage For Praising Joe Biden

Paid to Rage: How Astroturf Protesters Hijack the First Amendment: Crowds on Demand

But first some context: Organize Protests & Rallies for Advocacy | Social Cause Protesting | CROWDS ON DEMAND  "Crowds on Demand is your home for impactful advocacy campaigns, demonstrations, PR stunts, and corporate events. Services available nationwide." . . .

 Jay Rogers - American Thinker  

"America’s experiment in self-government requires citizens at the controls, not contractors.  Time to require they wear a name badge."

"The First Amendment was written for citizens, not contractors. It was designed to protect the Boston Tea Party — not a corporate logistics operation with pre-printed signs, walkie-talkies, gas masks, and a direct deposit agreement.  Yet that is precisely what American protest culture has become in the era of billionaire-funded nonprofit networks.  The gap between the constitutional ideal and the operational reality has grown wide enough to drive a bus of Crowds on Demand participants through.

"Adam Swart, CEO of Crowds on Demand, confirmed to Fox News in August 2025 that his firm has seen a 400% surge in paid protester requests year over year.  Compensation runs from the low hundreds per gig — varying by location, duration, and, as Swart put it, the challenges of holding a progressive sign in rural Mississippi.  Swart insists that his roster consists of sincere advocates.  But when the marketplace for dissent has a clearing price and a staffing agency, what we are witnessing is not civic engagement. It is astroturfing — a term coined for tobacco-industry lobbyists in the 1980s and since perfected by a left-wing apparatus that has transformed manufactured outrage into a funded career path.

"The complaint here is on constitutional grounds.  When hidden money turns protests into paid performances and foreign-adjacent networks coordinate the logistics, the democratic signal that lawmakers and courts are supposed to interpret becomes noise.  As John Stuart Mill understood, the marketplace of ideas functions on honest exchange.  Conceal the subsidies, and you distort the debate.  People have a right to protest, but should billionaire-funded organizations operating like professional advocacy firms enjoy the same disclosure exemptions as private citizens gathering spontaneously at a town square?

"The fingerprints of George Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF) are not subtle.  A September 2025 report by the Capital Research Center documented that since 2016, OSF has directed more than $80 million to organizations tied to terrorism or extremist violence.  More than $23 million went to seven U.S.-based groups the FBI classifies as engaged in domestic terrorism, including the Ruckus Society, which trained activists in property destruction during the 2020 riots.  Another $18 million flowed to the Movement for Black Lives, which co-authored a guide glorifying Hamas’s October 7 massacre and instructing activists in infrastructure blockades and false identification.  OSF denied the characterizations.

Jay Rogers is President of Alpha Strategies and a financial professional with more than 30 years of experience in private equity, private credit, hedge funds, and wealth management. He has a B.S. from Northeastern University and has completed postgraduate studies at UCLA, UPENN, and Harvard. He writes about issues in finance, constitutional law, national security, human nature, and public policy.

All Quiet on the Leftist Front

 Guest Essay by Bree Lindquist  

"I find it deeply ironic that those who fling the word “Nazi” around the most freely in 2025 seem to have no problem with actual mass-killings of Jewish people."

. . . "Why was antisemitism ever fashionable, in the United States, no less?

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.  -Aldous Huxley

"Blind piety isn’t goodness. Standing up for your own rights is not hatred. And sacrificing society’s most vulnerable on the altars of ideology and agenda is hardly “progressive.” Most reasonable people living in a free society would agree with all of the above claims, but depending on who you ask, the devil is in the details. “Pious”, in what way? What exactly are the “rights” you’re standing up for? And who are society’s most vulnerable?

"Increasingly, the answers leftists give to the above questions fail to satisfy my sense of justice. I don’t believe that only fundamentalist conservative Christians can be blindly pious towards some ideal or cause. I reject the claim that “rights aren’t like pie”, because sometimes, the demands of one group will absolutely infringe on the rights of another. And I call bullshit, with my whole chest, on the claim that the most vulnerable people are comfortably first-world men in dresses who want access to women’s protected spaces, because the most vulnerable remain who they have always been: women and children, like Shiri Bibas and her sons Ariel and Kfir.

"A society that fails to prioritize the safety and welfare of women and children has achieved terminal velocity toward its fall. This can be illustrated in the culture of terror nurtured so lovingly by Hamas in Palestine, where their own women and children are used as human shields and chattel, and neighboring women and children are raped and slaughtered without remorse or shame.

"Hamas did not just kill these gentle innocents. They were brutally murdered, in fear and pain, a reality that their surviving husband and father must contend with for the rest of his life. He survived, but he may never live again, learning in increasingly lurid detail how the futures of his most precious loved ones were snuffed out." . . .

Children murdered by Hamas' bare hands

New ransom note detail raises alarm over Nancy Guthrie's fate, claims she has 'gone to be with God

 MEAWW   

“I think the reason they didn’t pay—if, in fact, they didn’t, and I don’t believe they did—is because they never got proof of life. I mean, you and I knew at the beginning something was off, in that the ransom was not requested immediately.

"Nearly eight weeks into the disappearance of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, the case has taken another uneasy turn due to a troubling claim buried inside one of several ransom notes.

"Nancy, the mother of 'Today' anchor Savannah Guthrie, vanished from her Tucson, Arizona home on February 1. Since then, her family has put up a $1 million reward for any information leading to her recovery.

"In the days after she disappeared, multiple ransom notes began surfacing. Savannah later revealed in an interview with Hoda Kotb on 'Today' that two of them were believed to be legitimate. One reportedly landed at KOLD News 13, while another was sent to TMZ, demanding a hefty Bitcoin payout.

"During a March 28 appearance on 'The Megyn Kelly Show', former FBI agents James Hamilton and Maureen O’Connell weighed in after host Megyn Kelly cited an X post claiming one note “allegedly states the sender apologized, claiming they did not realize how serious her heart condition was and that she had ‘gone to be with God.’” . . . More...