Alistair Begg - The Man on the Middle Cross
"This is a great way to explain Christianity and the afterlife to a non believer. None of us are good enough to go to Heaven, but by the Grace of Jesus, we can. He is the bridge between us and God. What a great way to start the day! Look to the cross, as a self check. Everyday is a new one. He has us all here, at this time, for a reason. He chose us all to be here, right now. Amen." Comment to this video
Conor Murray, Forbes Staff (live updates)
The U.S. military continued its search Saturday for a missing American pilot whose aircraft was shot down Friday by Iranian forces, one of two U.S. warplane crashes in the region, while Iran conducts a competing search as it urges locals through state media to find the “enemy pilot.” More...
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US special forces enter Iran to rescue downed airman . . . "Instantly, anti-Maga social media lit up with memes contrasting Donald Trump’s claims with Tehran’s surprise success. With two-thirds of Americans in favour of ending the war fast, Trump’s enemies laughing at every pratfall and knives drawn between isolationist zealots and mainstream Republicans, the latest setback was seized as an emblem of failure.
"Yet it also cuts the other way. The lost airman has loomed large in the American psyche ever since the Vietnam War, when downed pilots were tortured in the notorious “Hanoi Hilton” jail. This catalysed the Prisoners of War/Missing in Action movement, with bracelets inscribed with the names of the missing becoming hugely popular. The black “you are not forgotten” flag, which emerged in the Vietnam era, flies above federal buildings to this day." . . .
"The sheriff leading the search for Nancy Guthrie has been called on by local officials to answer questions about his past as he faces growing scrutiny over his handling of the case.
"Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has come under fire for allegedly mishandling the probe into NBC Today Show host Savannah Guthrie's missing 84-year-old mother.
"Nancy was abducted from her $1 million Tucson, Arizona, home in the early hours of February 1, and there have been no arrests or suspects named in the two months since.
"In the wake of the bungled investigation, Nanos has been accused of workplace retaliation and of lying about his employment history
"The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted on March 24 to require Nanos to submit a sworn statement addressing those concerns, according to public records.
"It is part of an effort that could see Nanos removed from office, the Arizona Daily Star reported." . . .
"An anonymous source alleges that the investigators in the case were inexperienced." Beware "anonymous sources".
"The Nancy Guthrie case has been bungled from the start, an anonymous source alleged in a Thursday interview with NewsNation.
" 'Speaking with some people, that actually know the intimate knowledge of this investigation, told me that there was a rush to judgment of what was happening at that scene, and it was that Nancy had somehow wandered off," the source said. "So they rushed to that judgment, stayed with that judgment, and then ran this investigation as if it were a search and rescue issue, as opposed to a possible criminal issue."
"The anonymous source also alleged that the people on the scene were not "tenured homicide detectives" and that they "didn't have a lot of experience," which happens when people install their friends into positions.
"The individual said they don’t get the sense that there are suspects.
"The people I've talked to that are still in the know on this investigation tell me that there’s no direct suspect right now," the source said. "No name on the table."
"The unnamed source said there was "extremely low" morale tied to Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos.
"When asked what the department would say to Savannah, the source answered, "Just because we have an incompetent lead doesn't mean that we don't care. That we don't want Nancy to be brought home safely and that we're not with her in this. We are completely with her and her family on this.". . .More...
Nancy Guthrie informant begs sheriff to step aside after 'ruining' department
"The NBA’s players should defend Ivey and demand that all franchise owners keep out of politics and let their players prove themselves on the court."
"After Jaden Ivey expressed opposition to the NBA’s promotion of “Pride Month” on the basis of his Christian faith, the Chicago Bulls immediately waived him. This means that after a 48-hour period, he will become a free agent who can try out for other teams. Lest anyone misattribute this cut to Ivey’s inability to play due to injuries, the Bulls made it abundantly clear they waived Ivey due to purported “conduct detrimental to the team.”
"Nevertheless, the word “conduct” is misleading here because it implies some sort of egregious activity, like committing a felony or assaulting someone. But, as we all know, the NBA is perfectly fine with giving a pass to violent felons. Where the league draws the line is speech that goes against its leftist agenda.
"Ivey is certainly not the first player to be targeted for dissent. In 2021, the Brooklyn Nets benched star point guard Kyrie Irving for refusing to take the Covid shot — he was entirely justified in his objections, by the way — which ended up costing him more than $100 million. Although the team’s leadership pretended this had to do with health concerns, it seemed more like a pretext to force an outspoken player into submission. This is just one example, but the NBA had long distinguished itself as the “wokest sports league,” even as it routinely kowtowed to Chinese authoritarians." . . . More...
Auguste Meyrat is an English teacher and freelance writer in the Dallas area. He is the founding editor of The Everyman, a senior contributor to The Federalist, and has written for essays for The American Mind, The Stream, Religion and Liberty, The Blaze, and elsewhere.
"Is Los Angeles waking up?
. . . "Pratt has been making impressive television appearances and writing with a nerd's knowledge about the Hollywood moviemaking industry on his substack, which undoubtedly contributed to his rise. Somehow, the underdog is getting word out on his own efforts.
"The polling period also concided with the release of this video by an independent group called LatinosPorPratt which came out on March 27 and rapidly went viral, drawing 168,000 views on X alone, and many more beyond that as influencers shared the video with much higher numbers. They were just freelancers doing their bit to support Pratt on their own dime, saying they had no connection to him." . . .
Spencer, Saca La Basura!
Debra Heine › American Greatness
“When will sanctuary politicians wake up and begin putting American lives FIRST?” the agency asked.
*Anibal Armando Chavarria Muy
"Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger (D.) and other local authorities are under fire over a recent string of very high profile and preventable crimes committed by illegal aliens in the sanctuary state.
"One of Spanberger’s first actions as governor was to sign an executive order barring state and local authorities from cooperating with federal authorities for federal immigration enforcement.
"Since then, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has pleaded with Spanberger and Fairfax County officials to stop releasing dangerous criminals back into the community without notifying ICE.
"In the past few weeks, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has lodged four hold requests for illegal immigrants charged with murder and other heinous crimes in Northern Virginia.
"Just this week alone, ICE has issued two detainers for two Guatemalan nationals charged in separate murders in Fairfax County.
"Misael Lopez Gomez, 28, was charged with second-degree murder and felony child abuse for allegedly beating his 3-month-old daughter to death. The baby was reportedly found unresponsive at the home on March 27, and died from blunt-force trauma. Gomez admitted to illegally crossing the United States’ southern border in July 2023 near Albuquerque, New Mexico, under the Biden administration.
“This cold-blooded killer murdered his own three-month-old daughter. We are calling on Governor Spanberger to commit to not releasing this barbaric animal from jail into Virginia communities,” Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement on April 1. “This monster should have never been allowed in our country by the Biden administration. We need cooperation from sanctuary politicians to stop criminals from being released from jail to perpetrate more crimes and create more innocent victims.”
*"Anibal Armando Chavarria Muy, 38, was arrested on March 30, 2026, and charged with second-degree murder following a fatal machete stabbing of a man in Bailey’s Crossroads, Fairfax County, Virginia. According to DHS, he entered the U.S. illegally at an unknown place and time." . . . More...
"It’s easy enough to dismiss Sen. Bernie Sanders’ endless lament that the rich don’t “pay their fair share of taxes,” but he should still be held to account when he flat-out lies about how much the rich do pay.
"In an op-ed published by the Guardian, Sanders repeats a number of leftist tropes: income inequality has never been greater, the Trump tax cuts benefited the rich and big corporations, the middle class is getting screwed. Yadda, yadda, yadda.
"But then he starts making some remarkable claims.
"He says that Warren Buffett’s tax rate is 0.1%, “while the average schoolteacher paid 9.8%.”
"Elon Musk, he says, faced a tax rate of 3.3%. Jeff Bezos’ is less than 1%. Michael Bloomberg’s is 1.3%, while “the average registered nurse paid 13.3%.”
"If that seems too outrageous to be true, that’s because it is.
"Those numbers are based on an analysis by the leftist ProPublica, which compared the taxes paid by these billionaires with their wealth, not their income.
"But as anyone who pays taxes knows, the government taxes income, not some fanciful measure of wealth.
"That same ProPublica report shows that from 2014 to 2018, Buffett paid $23.7 million in taxes, against an income of $125 million. That’s a tax rate of 19%.
Jeff Bezos paid $973 million in taxes on income of $4.22 billion. That’s a 23% tax rate.
"Musk’s tax rate was even higher – 30% – since he paid $455 million on income of $1.52 billion.
"So how did ProPublica manage to force their “true tax rates” down to near zero? Simple, they estimated how much their wealth had increased over those same years using estimates compiled by Forbes of the value of their stock, property, and other holdings, then said that, because those “gains” weren’t taxed, their “true” rates are super low." . . . More...
This incident underscores the severe national security threat that illegal immigration and birth right citizenship pose to the United States.
Last week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) brought charges against 20-year-old Alen Zheng and 27-year-old Ann Mary Zheng after they allegedly orchestrated an attack on MacDill Air Force Base, including planting an IED on the premises.
Federal investigators allege that on March 10, 2026, a bomb threat at MacDill Air Force Base was called into the police. Investigators said Alen Zheng made the call, though no IED was found at the time. Two days later, the Zhengs left the U.S. for China.
On March 16, six days after the Zhengs allegedly planted the IED, an Air Force service member discovered the bomb. The following day, Ann Mary Zheng flew back to the United States from China and was arrested by authorities.
Her brother, Alen Zheng, is believed to still be on the run in China.
Alen and Ann Mary Zheng’s parents are Qiu Qin Zou and Jia Zhang Zheng, illegal aliens from China who were both ordered deported from the United States in 1998. The couple had their two children in the U.S., despite being illegal aliens, and therefore, their children were given birthright citizenship — anchoring their parents in the United States for decades.
“Automatically granting citizenship to children of illegal aliens born in the U.S. is based on a historically inaccurate interpretation of the Citizenship Clause and poses a major national security risk,” DHS’s Lauren Bis said in a statement:
"It's just that the party is too far into its diversity push to back off now. That white guilt they've been preying upon over there for decades can't just be wished away"
. "It's a pretty safe bet to assume that most politicians are more self-involved than they are self-aware. Perhaps it wasn't always that way, but we know what we're dealing with here in the modern era. There are varying degrees of lack of self-awareness among politicians, and few in history have been more clueless than the woman who recently spent four years being one heartbeat away from the presidency, Kamala Harris.
"The former Madame Veep is blissfully unaware of her stunning lack of popularity. In typical leftist fashion, she continues to blame her loss to President Trump on misogyny and racism, not the fact that she's incapable of stringing together three coherent sentences.
"Harris is still floating the possibility of a presidential run in 2028. The Democrats aren't really casting their eyes her way, however, just like they didn't in 2020. In fact, they might end up running as far away from the idea of Kamala Harris as they can. This is from Rick:
How flummoxed are the Democrats about 2028? With more than two years before the first primaries to choose a presidential nominee, some Democrats believe their best bet is to choose a candidate who looks and sounds like, well, a Republican.
These Democrats think that a straight, white, Christian man can put the party on his back and carry them to victory in 2028.
When they find one, they'll let us know in truth, this is pure desperation. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Republicans should be pleased. Democrats are not going to "out-Republican" Republicans when it comes to being normal.
"Rick is writing about an Axios article that shows just how ridiculous and wrong the Democrats are when they look at everything through a prism of race and gender. They stop seeing people, which leads them to greatly misread why their candidates succeed or fail. Democrats just saw that two women lost to Donald Trump. They can't admit to themselves that two monumentally flawed candidates lost to Donald Trump, and gender had nothing to do with it." . . . More...
"Carville’s ability to predict anything in politics has been warped by his Trump Derangement Syndrome. But his predictions about what the Democrats plan to do: Trust me, he’s right. We know Democrats will do this." Video
"James Carville is not exactly known for measured political commentary, but his recent rant on the Politics War Room podcast took things to a whole new level. The famed Democratic strategist unleashed a profanity-laced tirade directed at Donald Trump, and buried inside all the bluster was something genuinely revealing: a detailed roadmap for how Democrats plan to weaponize the federal government against Trump and his family the moment they return to power.
"Listen to me, Trump, I'm gonna tell your fat f***ing a** something," he said. "You're getting ready to get the living crap kicked out of you."
Classy start, right? Let’s keep going, shall we? From there, he launched into what he clearly believes is a credible prediction, and unlike his 2024 election prediction, this one is probably accurate. Democrats, he said, intend to investigate Trump relentlessly once they retake power. "The Democrats are going to investigate you to no end," Carville warned, name-dropping Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) as the man waiting in the wings with subpoenas ready to go.
Any pretense of post-election civility, he made clear, would be purely theatrical. "They're gonna go down to the White House on November 10, and then you're gonna have some stiff photo of them sitting there, talking about collegiality and cooperation. Ha! Believe that bulls**t."
Then comes the part that should concern anyone who cares about equal justice under the law. Carville wasn't just talking about garden-variety oversight or legitimate congressional inquiry. He was talking about going after Trump's family. "They're gonna start figuring out where all the money stolen is," he said. "Then they're gonna go after your stupid jack*** kids and their spouses and all the other bulls**t that you see, and they're gonna investigate the s**t out of you."
He also floated the idea of leaving Trump exposed to the International Criminal Court. "The one thing that Democrats are going to insist on in the 2028 election is that if you're indicted by the international courts in The Hague or somewhere in the Netherlands, we're not gonna protect your a**."
And, of course, Carville predicts Democrats will impeach Trump. " . . .More...
Had this been Obama's or Clinton's project, all would have been well and good, even to the point of using government funds. Who could disagree with that? TD
The commission, which is led by Trump appointees, met last month to evaluate the plans and public comments, many of which were negative. Critics have blasted the project as "appalling," a "monstrosity" and "vulgar" in the public comments.
Will Scharf, the Trump-appointed commission chair, said he personally read every comment submitted to the commission and many of the negative ones were "unresponsive" and "dealt with issues beyond the scope of this commission," such as the ballroom's funding, the demolition process and Trump.
"Considering issues of this sort is not within our mandate," he said. "We are not some sort of free-ranging ballroom justice commission."
"We can only imagine what kind of Trump Derangement Syndrome-inspired comments Mr. Sharf had to read through; full credit to him for taking on that unpleasant task, presumably to make sure every procedural T was crossed and I dotted.
"One other commissioner objected to the proposed size of the ballroom:" . . .More...
Ward Clark hails from Alaska’s Susitna Valley, where he maintains his rural household in one of America’s last free places. Ward is a twelve-year veteran of the U.S. Army, including service in Operation Desert Storm and (in Germany in support of) Operation Joint Endeavor, and today is a staunch minarchist libertarian, along with being an author, novelist, self-employed small businessman, woods bum, and semi-professional bad influence.
Democrats in hyper glee mode.
"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...
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
"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"
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"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.
Bernie Sanders Is Lying To You About Taxes And The Rich – Issues & Insights
"It’s easy enough to dismiss Sen. Bernie Sanders’ endless lament that the rich don’t “pay their fair share of taxes,” but he should still be held to account when he flat-out lies about how much the rich do pay.
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"But then he starts making some remarkable claims.
"He says that Warren Buffett’s tax rate is 0.1%, “while the average schoolteacher paid 9.8%.”
"Elon Musk, he says, faced a tax rate of 3.3%. Jeff Bezos’ is less than 1%. Michael Bloomberg’s is 1.3%, while “the average registered nurse paid 13.3%.”
"If that seems too outrageous to be true, that’s because it is.
"Those numbers are based on an analysis by the leftist ProPublica, which compared the taxes paid by these billionaires with their wealth, not their income.
"But as anyone who pays taxes knows, the government taxes income, not some fanciful measure of wealth." . . . More...
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."
"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.
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"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...
"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
"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." . . .
"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
