Days before the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting, Kimmel said during a late-night monologue that the first lady had “a glow like an expectant widow.”

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are taking aim at late-night television host Jimmy Kimmel over a joke he made about the first lady looking like an “expectant widow,” days before the shooting incident at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday.

In a fiery statement Monday on social media, President Trump criticized Kimmel’s joke and called on Disney — which owns ABC and airs the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” show — to fire the host.

“He showed a fake video of the First Lady, Melania, and our son, Barron, like they were actually sitting in his studio, listening to him speak, which they weren’t, and never would be. He then stated, ‘Our First Lady, Melania, is here. Look at Melania, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow,'” Trump said on his Truth Social platform. “A day later a lunatic tried entering the ballroom of the White House Correspondents Dinner, loaded up with a shotgun, handgun, and many knives. He was there for a very obvious and sinister reason.”

Earlier in the day, First Lady Melania Trump called Kimmel “a coward,” and also urged ABC to “take a stand” against the comedian.

“Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country,” Trump said. “His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America. People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate. A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him. Enough is enough.”

Kimmel made the joke two days before a gunman attempted to breach the ballroom where President Trump and the first lady were joined by more than 2,400 other guests to celebrate the First Amendment and the White House press. The suspect was charged Monday with attempted assassination.

However, It’s not the first time Kimmel and ABC have faced criticism from high-ranking political figures. Last year, President Trump repeatedly blasted Kimmel over controversial remarks he made following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The comedian was then briefly suspended from hosting his show in September but returned a week later.

Trump has also taken aim at other late-night comedians over jokes he doesn’t approve of. Earlier this year, he threatened to sue “The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah over a joke he made referencing Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The president and the first lady have repeatedly sought to distance themselves from Epstein. Both have also denied having ever visiting the disgraced financier’s island, where prosecutors say he trafficked and sexually abused underage girls.

Continued failed diplomacy is only a deferral of catastrophe.

Cognitive dissonance is in the air once again. Failed former Obama and Biden national security and foreign policy apparatchiks, Democrats in Congress, assorted globalists in Europe, pro-CCP influence peddlers, the European descendants of Neville Chamberlain, and the legion of legacy media talking heads have been doing their damnedest to undermine the long-delayed rescue operation of the Iranian people, who have been held hostage by a theocracy-driven autocracy since 1979.

And that is exactly what Operation Epic Fury is: the rescue of the downtrodden and long-oppressed Iranian people from a tyrannical regime. Epic Fury is setting the conditions for true regime change if the Iranian people have the collective will to act. This simple fact is ignored by all of the aforementioned naysayers in their fevered efforts to “get Trump.”

The rationale for initiating Epic Fury in 2026 is quite clear and is laid out below.

Regarding American Deaths Being “Far Away”

First of all, Iranian-linked American deaths since 1979 have been trivialized in order to remove this rationale for the campaign by suggesting geography diminishes responsibility. This misreads both law and strategy. The 1983 Beirut barracks bombing killed 241 American servicemembers—a sovereign military operation. The Khobar Towers bombing in 1996 killed 19 US Air Force personnel. Iranian-supplied EFP (explosively formed penetrator) IEDs were responsible for hundreds of American deaths in Iraq after 2003, with the Pentagon explicitly attributing these weapons to Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) supply chains.

The IRGC Quds Force directed these operations. These were not incidental—they were deliberate acts of war against American military personnel by a state actor. The “neighbor’s yard” analogy collapses entirely when the neighbor is actively manufacturing the weapons, directing the shooter, and publicly celebrating the outcome.

Iran’s Nuclear and Ballistic Missile Threat

The convergence of two existential timelines is ignored by the naysayers. Iran has significantly advanced uranium enrichment toward weapons-grade levels, with IAEA inspectors repeatedly denied access. Simultaneously, Iran’s Shahab and Khorramshahr missile programs—despite years of official denials—have demonstrated ranges approaching and potentially exceeding 4,000 km. This brings Western European capitals within range. Iran’s partnership with Venezuela, which has permitted Iranian military and intelligence infrastructure on South American soil, extends the threat vector toward the continental United States.

The combination of a near-nuclear state with demonstrated long-range delivery capability and established Western Hemisphere footholds is not theoretical; it is an operational threat matrix that cannot be addressed through diplomacy that Iran has repeatedly abandoned.

,Iran as the World’s Leading State Sponsor of Terrorism

The US State Department has designated Iran the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism continuously since 1984. This is not mere ideological labeling. Instead, it reflects documented material support for Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Houthi forces in Yemen, Kata’ib Hezbollah, and other Iraqi militias and networks operating across Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. The financial figures are staggering: hundreds of millions of dollars are provided annually to Hezbollah alone.

Suggestions from the Obama and Biden people who gave us the ridiculous pallets of cash and the smoke screen of the JCPOA that “better policies could defeat Iran financially and politically” ignore four decades under presidents from both political parties during which sanctions, diplomacy, and political pressure failed to alter the regime’s fundamental behavior or its terror financing.

“Death to America” as Operational Policy, Not Rhetoric

In their relentless efforts to attack Israel, some even characterize Iranian hostility to the US and Israel as rhetorical grievance about “Baal worship”—a fringe conspiratorial interpretation wholly unsupported by Iranian state documents, IRGC operational planning, or the regime’s own stated theology.

Since 1979, “Death to America” has been institutionalized state policy firmly built into the Islamic Republic’s constitutional framework, which explicitly designates the United States as the primary enemy of the Islamic revolution. For many years, Supreme Leader Khamenei repeatedly reaffirmed this in formal fatwas and state addresses, not as metaphors but as religious-political directives. His successor(s), whoever they are, show no signs of moderating these commands. Over a thousand Americans killed at Iranian or Iranian-proxy hands across 45 years is not simply some sort of rhetorical trick. It is a high body count.

Iran’s Wartime Actions Against the United States

At least four past Iranian actions constitute acts of war under conventional international law:

1) The 1979 hostage crisis, which involved the seizure of a sovereign US embassy and the 444-day captivity of 52 American diplomats—a clear violation of the Vienna Convention and an act of state aggression.

2) The 1983 Beirut barracks bombing—a state-directed mass casualty attack on US military forces.

3) Tanker warfare (1987–88)—Iran mined international shipping lanes and attacked US-flagged vessels, prompting Operation Praying Mantis.

4) The IED/EFP campaign in Iraq (2003–11)—state-directed lethal operations against US armed forces, killing and maiming hundreds. According to Pentagon assessments, Iranian-supplied munitions to Iranian-backed militias caused at least 603 American deaths and hundreds of wounds (including 861 from EFPs alone) primarily in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom—with far fewer documented cases in Afghanistan during Enduring Freedom and none during Desert Storm. This figure represents roughly one in six US combat deaths in Iraq and stems from explosively formed penetrators (EFPs) and other improvised explosive devices (IEDs), as well as rockets, mortars, and related attacks by groups like Kata’ib Hezbollah.

5) The 2024 direct ballistic missile and drone attacks on Israel—while not targeting Americans directly, these constituted Iran’s first open declaration of conventional warfare against a close US treaty partner, requiring direct US military interception.

Any single one of these actions, committed by a European state, would have triggered Article 5 NATO responses. Iran has committed all five.

On the Strait of Hormuz

Some naysayers (especially fellow travelers of the Chinese communists) claim that the petrodollar is a corrupt construct not worth defending. But the problem posed by the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz is not about dollar hegemony. Rather, it is about the physical movement of approximately 20 percent of the world’s total oil supply and roughly 25 percent of global LNG.

Prior to Epic Fury, Iran repeatedly threatened and rehearsed closure operations, including naval exercises simulating the mining of the strait and mock attacks on tanker traffic. The IRGC is now putting that practice into work as Iran has declared the Strait to be “closed” except for those vessels willing to pay the required toll for passage through it.

A sustained closure of even 30 days would trigger energy price shocks affecting every industrialized and developing nation on earth, collapsing supply chains, destabilizing emerging market currencies, and producing humanitarian crises entirely unrelated to geopolitics.

Epic Fry is not, contrary to what the Left and even some on the dissident Right contend, American imperialism; it is the elementary defense of global economic infrastructure on which billions of people depend.

Nuclear Deterrence and the 12th Imam Doctrine

Various opponents of Epic Fury assume that if Iran acquires nuclear weapons, standard MAD (mutually assured destruction) deterrence logic will contain them—the same logic that stabilized US–Soviet relations. This assumption is dangerously inapplicable. The Islamic Republic’s founding theological framework explicitly incorporates apocalyptic eschatology: the belief that sufficient chaos and conflict can hasten the return of the Hidden 12th Imam, an event the regime regards as its supreme political and religious objective.

This is not a fringe theological posture within the IRI. It informed Khamenei’s public statements and shaped IRGC strategic doctrine (which they still apparently cling to despite losing most of their leadership). A regime that depicts martyrdom—including of its own senior leadership—as a pathway to divine fulfillment cannot be reliably deterred by the threat of national annihilation. Deterrence requires a counterpart that values regime survival above ideological objectives. The IRI’s own doctrine explicitly subordinates survival to a purportedly divinely appointed eschatological mission.

Regime change via Operation Epic Fury is therefore not simply an aggressive option. It is the only strategically coherent long-term solution.

Iranian Operations on US Soil

Epic Fury opponents also downplay this dimension, but it is among the most compelling justifications for action. The FBI and DOJ have documented and prosecuted multiple Iranian intelligence operations on American territory, including:

A 2011 plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador on US soil using a Mexican cartel intermediary, directly authorized by the IRGC Quds Force. A 2022 plot to assassinate former National Security Advisor John Bolton and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Ongoing cyberespionage campaigns targeting US critical infrastructure, defense contractors, and federal agencies, attributed directly to IRGC-affiliated units. Active attempts to smuggle intelligence assets across the southern border, documented in FBI counterintelligence reporting. FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before Congress in 2021 that Iranian-linked networks inside the United States represent one of the most active foreign threat environments currently monitored. These are ongoing hostile intelligence operations on sovereign American soil, not hypothetical threats.

The Iranian People as a Strategic Asset and the Question of Timing

Perhaps the most significant analytical failure is the naysayers’ assumption that military action means “blowing them sky high” and foreign boots on the ground with no internal counterpart. This analysis misreads the strategic landscape entirely. Iran is not a cohesive, unified adversary. Persians constitute less than half the population in a nation of seven major ethnic groups—namely, Azeris, Kurds, Arabs, Baloch, Turkmen, and Lurs—many with deep grievances against the Persian theocratic center.

The 2009 Green Movement, the 2019 fuel protest crackdown that killed hundreds, and the 2022 Mahsa Amini protests that spread to every major Iranian city demonstrate that the regime’s internal legitimacy has been severely eroded. Iran’s youth population, among the most educated and Western-oriented in the Middle East, has shown a consistent willingness to challenge the regime at personal risk.

Economic mismanagement, hyperinflation, water scarcity, and energy poverty have compounded political repression into a comprehensive legitimacy crisis. Targeted air power that destroys the IRGC’s coercive infrastructure—the instruments by which the mullahs suppress internal dissent—creates the precise conditions under which the Iranian people themselves can be the decisive force.

The timing of Epic Fury is therefore not arbitrary: it reflects the convergence of an imminent nuclear threshold, a weakened regime, and an internally mobilized population. This window will not remain open indefinitely.

The Futility of Negotiating with Iran: The Witkoff Disclosures

The 2025–26 Trump administration negotiations with Iran produced perhaps the most damning firsthand account ever delivered by an American envoy of an adversary’s bad faith. In doing so, they validated decades of skepticism about whether Iran was ever a genuine negotiating partner.

The broader history of negotiating with the IRI confirms what the Witkoff disclosures made clear. Every major negotiating framework—the 1994 Agreed Framework’s regional analog, the 2015 JCPOA, and the 2025 talks—followed the same pattern: Iran accepts talks under economic duress, extracts sanctions relief or diplomatic breathing room, refuses structural disarmament, and resumes or accelerates its program when pressure eases. The Iranians have used negotiations as a strategic cover for continuing their development of nuclear weapons. Senior Trump administration officials have stated that the Iranians never offered to significantly compromise and that their proposals would have allowed Iran to continue pursuing a nuclear bomb.

Witkoff stated this in plain terms: “We went in there and tried to make a fair deal with them. It was very, very clear that it was going to be impossible, probably by the end of the second meeting, but we then went back for the third meeting just to give it the last college try.”

The Trump Administration’s Strategic Framing

Trump administration officials and associated media reporting have framed Operation Epic Fury within a coherent strategic doctrine: that the Iranian nuclear program has crossed irreversible red lines; that prior administrations’ reliance on JCPOA-style diplomacy enabled rather than restrained Iranian weapons development; that the Abraham Accords created a regional coalition architecture capable of sustaining post-action stability; and that the cost of inaction—a nuclear-armed Iran with intercontinental reach and active terror networks on five continents—vastly exceeds the costs and risks of decisive military action now.

The preferred alternative expressed by many Trump opponents and those afflicted by Trump Derangement Syndrome of “financial, political, and religious” pressure has been the operative US strategy, in various forms, for 45 years. It has not prevented a single Iranian proxy attack, has not halted uranium enrichment, and has not moderated the regime’s fundamental hostility toward the United States. Continuing that approach while Iran crosses the nuclear threshold is not a coherent or sound strategy. It is, at best, a deferral of catastrophe.

Concluding Thoughts

President Trump was right to act now. In fact, it was his duty as president to do so when he recognized the imminent threat that the IRI posed. Their continued intentions to obtain a nuclear weapons capability that could threaten the world (and the US directly) were made apparent during the Witkoff negotiations in Paris.

President Trump is interested in solving generational threats, not kicking cans down the road for future presidents to deal with, and the theocracy in Tehran, which has chanted “Death to America” for decades now, is a festering boil that should have been excised long ago. Trump deserves our continued support.

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American Greatness

On this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said impeaching President Donald Trump will not be the Democrats’ priority if they win the majority in the House in November.

Host Shannon Bream said, “I love to talk with you more about these redistricting fights. That Virginia referendum goes to its state supreme court tomorrow, and many others. But obviously, Democrats are feeling bullish on flipping the House. And this week, Axios reported that there’s a push for day-one impeachment — Democrats pushing their colleagues to begin building the case against President Trump. Now, in anticipation and anticipation of a day one impeachment vote if they retake the House. If you become speaker, is that your top priority?

Jeffries said, “Of course not. And I’ve made clear from the very beginning that our top priority is going to be to drive down the high cost of living. We believe in this country. You work hard, you play by the rules. You should be able to live an affordable life, a comfortable life, in fact, to live the good life. And that means a good paying job and good housing. Good health care, good education for your children. And when it’s all said and done, a good retirement. That’s been the American dream for decades. But for far too many people, that American dream has slipped out of reach, and we should be focused on actually doing the type of things necessary to ensure that people in this country cannot simply survive but they can thrive. And that, of course, will be at the heart of all of these midterm campaigns.”

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“Democrats, fearful of a repeat of President Donald Trump’s upset victory in 2016, are reportedly losing sleep over their candidate, Joe Biden, potentially seeing his lead in the polls evaporate and ultimately losing the election.
On Friday, the Los Angeles Times noted that Democrats are nervous about Biden falling behind in the final stretch of the presidential race when it matters most.” [Breitbart]

Normally, I would say “good”. But we already know what leftists do when they panic: place us under house arrest; set cities on fire; defund the police; and use social media to censor us. So brace yourself, regardless of the election outcome. The Democratic Party is both morally and mentally unhinged. If they win, they will enslave us under Communism and fascism; if they lose, they will enslave us under anarchy.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

Donald and Melania Trump entered the hall at 8:16 to cheers and applause. “Hail to the Chief” was followed by presentation of the colors and the National Anthem.  We had a brief introduction from Weijia Jiang, this year’s president of the White House Correspondents Association, followed by dinner.

Two questions hovered in the background. One, how would President Trump treat the press? And two, would he, as had many presidents in the past at this event, treat the audience to a little self-deprecating humor? “Donald Trump” and  “self-deprecation” are not words you often hear together, but who knows?  The President is also a master communicator who reads his audience well.  

We never found out. At about 8:35, four loud noises were heard from the back of the room. They were shots.

What I heard inside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

The Secret Service rushed on to stage. “Get down, stay down!” The President and First Lady, and rest of the head table, were evacuated. Cabinet secretaries and other dignitaries were hustled out of the room. It emerged that a couple of protesters had made their way to the red carpet upstairs where they waved signs calling for Pete Hegseth to be arrested. There is still much about the incident that we do not yet know. We do know that the shooter, a 31-year-old Californian man, is in custody. What will the anti-Trump press say about this incident? How about Chuck Schumer? Will there be any remorse, any self-reflection on the consequences of their industrial-strength hatred for Donald Trump? I am not counting on it.

Meanwhile, the President seems to be taking the event in stride. “Quite an evening in D.C.,” he posted shortly after the shooting. “Secret Service and Law Enforcement did a fantastic job. They acted quickly and bravely. The shooter has been apprehended, and I have recommended that we ‘LET THE SHOW GO ON’ but, will entirely be guided by Law Enforcement. They will make a decision shortly. Regardless of that decision, the evening will be much different than planned, and we’ll just, plain, have to do it again.” Sang, meet froid.

The President then added this addendum: “Law Enforcement has requested that we leave the premises, consistent with protocol, which we will do, immediately. I will be giving a press conference in 30 minutes from the White House Press Briefing Room. The First Lady, plus the Vice President, and all Cabinet members, are in perfect condition. We will be speaking to you in a half an hour. I have spoken with all the representatives in charge of the event, and we will be rescheduling within 30 days.”

The Hilton was the site, in 1981, of John Hinckley Jr.’s attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan. The venue is still used, but the security is much tighter… Watching this year, I wonder whether so much self-satisfaction was ever crowded into a single room? The judges are still out on that question. This 105th iteration of the media’s celebration of itself, in which some 2600 souls are stuffed into the Hilton’s ballroom, might give us an answer. Beforehand, among many other celebrities, much of the president’s Cabinet milled around the red carpet and White House Correspondent Association’s step-and-repeat upstairs while the cameras flashed, the microphones bristled, and the video rolled. RFK Jr. was there, as was Lee Zeldin, Doug Bergum, Tulsi Gabbard, Scott Bessent, Marco Rubio, Kari Lake, Pete Hegseth, and others.

“The First Amendment,” “Free Speech,” “A Free Media” are different ways of enunciating what the dinner is supposed to be all about. Not much mention, if any, will be given to the clamp down on free speech under the Biden administration or the liberating revolution sparked by Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter and his campaign to restore speech to the platform and hence to the wider media environment.

Donald Trump has probably given the media more access to his thoughts than any president in history. At least part of many of his Cabinet meetings are open to the media and he seldom boards or exits a plane without stopping to answer questions. If he thinks a question is stupid or ill-informed, he will say so. Fake news he treats as fake news. The media hates that, of course, but has anyone ever treated them more like adults?

As you likely know the Southern Poverty Law Council was indicted this week for Wire Fraud, False Statements, and Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering.

A grand jury in the Middle District of Alabama returned an 11-count indictment charging the SPLC with six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, according to the Justice Department (DOJ). Between 2014 and 2023, according to the DOJ, the SPLC “secretly funneled” more than $3 million in donations to at least eight individuals associated with violent extremist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, United Klans of America, the Nationalist Socialist Movement, Unite the Right, Aryan Nations affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club, and more.

The bottom line is that the SPLC was acting in a Munchausen-by-proxy kind of manner. They were making the patient sick so they could bring the cure.

The disease was hate and their condemnation was the cure, not to mention their scoring bog donations from it.

Among their targets were the Turning Point USA, the Family Research Council, Moms for Liberty and Wildman’s Civil War Surplus and Herb Shop in Kennesaw GA.

They chose to instigate hatred because hate as a commodity was running low, and that was something they shared in common with the Democrat party.

Hate.

In that regard the Democrat party and the SPLC share a common MO- hate fills the coffers.

For years I have repeated something frequently- the most poisonous phrase over the last several decades to plague this nation was “celebrate diversity.” It’s a total shitshow.

That phrase has caused more pain and hatred than anything I’ve seen in my lifetime. Its fatal flaw is its intrinsic focus on what makes us different from one another. It is the antithesis of the greater American family. It is the antithesis of the American melting pot. It is the opposite of assimilation.

We all have friends who share our values- that’s what binds us. Of course, we have our differences, but we do not dwell on them. Emphasis on our differences lead to suspicion and doubt. Enough of that can lead to hatred.

And that’s what Democrats live for.

Barack Obama set race relations back 50 years. A Bill Ayers protege and Alinskyite, he was all about division. He wanted people to be and stay angry. He wielded racial power like Tiger Woods’ ex-wife wielded a nine iron.

When is the last time you saw Al Sharpton come to a racially charged event and try to calm it down?

Democrats used to oppose illegal immigration but now you’re the hateful one if you oppose it.

The Democrat party is now overflowing with politicians who compete with one another in a “who can hate Trump the most” competition.

It starts with a crusade against ‘ghost guns.’ It ends with government bureaucrats able to see everything you do.

Trish Randall | April 25, 2026

One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one’s house.”

—James Otis, patriot

As an American citizen, whenever legislators deploy the ever-flimsy progressive banner of “public safety,” I feel decidedly unsafe.

Newly proposed and enacted legislation targeting 3D printers and CNC machines would impose restrictions more severe than those the Supreme Court rejects for actual guns.  In conjunction with restrictions on tools, states would create a category of computer source code illegal to possess.

The excuse? “Ghost guns”!

There’s abundant hair-on-fire rhetoric, even written into legislation.  Washington’s recently enacted HB2320 states, “Undetectable and untraceable firearms and firearms components presents a growing threat to public safety.”  The author of California’s AB 2047 testified, “These firearms are incredibly dangerous because they are not part of our regular flow, meaning they are not marked, they are not permitted, they are made in someone’s home, and we don’t even know they exist.”  Not actual use, but private possession frightens this lawmaker.

Plain text on the ATF’s website states that personally manufactured firearms (PMFs) are legal to own and make, even with 3D printed components.

California, Colorado, New York, Massachusetts, and Washington lawmakers are generating restrictions on certain tools and computer code, used to create millions of items unrelated to guns every day, to thwart Americans’ attempts to make a gun it’s legal to make.

In August, Colorado will forbid using a 3D printer or CNC to make any firearm or part, along with sale or distribution of digital firearm-making instructions to anyone but a student or instructor in an approved gunsmithing program.

Massachusetts’s General Laws Section 121 D bans 3D printers or CNC machines primarily used for making or assembling firearms.

California bill AB 2047 would outlaw 3D printer use to make an illegal weapon, “or the manufacture of any firearm using a 3-dimensional printer, as specified.”  Any firearm?  Like legal PMFs?

More sinister is targeting of source codes.  States intend to maintain databases of source code they declare to be firearms assembly blueprints and illegal to possess.

Makers and sellers of 3D printers and CNC machines would be required to preinstall software to prevent machines using forbidden code or generating forbidden shapes.  But the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ Bernstein decision says source code is protected speech.

Washington bill 2321 would require machines to “handshake” a government website to confirm code as innocent before initiating a print.  New York lawmakers are going farther, considering background checks to purchase a 3D printer.  Washington State’s recently passed HB2320 includes preinstalled future encroachment.  The attorney general will “adopt any rules or regulations to further establish standards for software control processes.”

The transcript of the April 14, 2026 hearing, memorializing member Ash Kaira’s words and muddled grammar, displays the unconstitutional intentions.

And by the way, the law has been on the books for over two years and hasn’t been overturned yet under Second Amendment grounds.  In regards to their privacy concerns, I think there are there [sic] if there’s a substantial public interest, the it [sic] does allow for limited legal legally justified restrictions on privacy rights.  I do think there is a substantial public interest, and this is clearly going to be challenged in the courts.  And we’ll let the courts decide whether we’re right or not on that.

That individual swore to uphold the Constitution.

Let’s put legally homemade firearms into a larger context.  There are an estimated 300 million guns in the U.S.  The ATF estimates that Americans created 45,240 personally manufactured firearms, about 7,500 per year between 2016 and 2021.  Approximately 692 of those PMFs were used in a homicide or attempted homicide (about 115 per year). 

Between 2016 and 2021, there were 116,876 homicides — about 19,500 per year.  Homicides have been decreasing since — down 6% in 2022, 13% in 2023, 15% in 2024, and a projected 20% in 2025.

When judging a restriction on firearms, the Supreme Court applies the standard of “text, history, and tradition.”  Text refers to conforming to the plain words of the Constitution.  History and tradition refer to conforming to the restrictions imposed on firearms when the Constitution was adopted.

Consulting a handy timeline of firearms regulations, from Massachusetts’s 1633 ban on transferring firearms, gunpowder, and ammunition to Indians to the 2024 Rahimi decision upholding the federal ban on domestic abusers possessing guns, guess what we don’t see: restrictions on tools used to make firearm.

Home and small business use of 3D printers has been increasing for over a decade, and CNC machines, since the 1970s.  In 2024, approximately 2.1 million 3D printers were sold in the U.S.  About 1.4 million Americans owned one.  Approximately $1.25 billion’s worth of medical, surgical and dental 3D prints will be made in 2026.

The ATF doesn’t report how many PMFs include any 3D printed material, but even if all the estimated 7,000–8,000 produced annually included some 3D printed part, that would be a vanishingly small percent of the total firearms available in the U.S., and an even tinier portion of items Americans 3D print every day.

Many who use 3D printers see the problem as proposed controls that can’t accomplish the stated goal.  Source codes are instructions for geometry, not intent.  A tube could be a gun barrel or a segment of tension pole for a shower shelf unit.  Too many ordinary prints would be blocked.

There are several increasingly common features of these tools that are already compatible with expansive government intrusion into our private spaces.  The control screens of many 3D printers alert the user to firmware updates.  If the user clicks, the manufacturer remotely, and quickly, installs updates.  A machine capable of remotely accepting firmware is capable of remotely accepting firmware from the government.  And many 3D printers and CNC machines feature cameras for users to remotely view, or control, printing in progress.

The case of Nancy Guthrie recently revealed startling information about doorbell cameras packaged with instructions saying a subscription is required or images and video won’t be stored.  Nancy hadn’t subscribed, yet investigators acquired images of her property from prior to her disappearance.

I look at my 3D printer, which has received firmware updates by the manufacturer and can be outfitted with a camera (which I skipped).  I consider what multiple American legislators have set in motion, on the excuse that, among the millions of objects 3D printed in America every day, a minuscule percentage might be attached to a homemade firearm — a firearm Americans are legally entitled to make.

I see firmware updates of the Intolerable Acts.  British colonial bureaucrats had been granted authority to enter “any house, shop, cellar, warehouse or room or other place.”  Modern legislators would have for themselves not just authority, but a permanent virtual wormhole into “any house, shop, cellar, warehouse or room or other place” containing a 3D printer or CDC machine.

Looking at a tool I use to make things, I suspect they see a telescreen, and they’re preparing for the opportunity to see what Winston Smith might be up to.

While the Trump administration continues to put the economic squeeze on what and who is left of the Iranian government, the Iranian royal family in exile hasn’t been silent.

Reza Pahlavi, the Crown Prince and heir to his father, the late Shah of Iran, has been keeping up the constant drumbeat of return, even though he has been effectively iced out of any negotiations between the Trump administration and the Islamic regime.

That is as it must be. Operation Epic Fury had distinct parameters for the security of the world and the United States, and not one of them was returning a Pahlavi to the throne. The last thing Trump would need, especially in the middle of all this nutzoid Democratic squawking about losing, is being accused of installing a king.

Nope, nope, nope.

Although, as Trump has said, if the conditions arise where the Americans have eased the way for the people of Iran to rise up at last and overthrow the monsters who have held them prisoners for almost fifty years, he is delighted he could help.

If his current economic strangulation continues in the face of regime intransigence, it may finally collapse sooner rather than later, as those oil storage facilities reach their tippy tops and the Iranians face a choice. They either shut the wells down or pump crude into the Persian Gulf to keep them operational.

In any event, it’s a financial catastrophe.

Pahlavi was in Berlin today, a city that has an Iranian expatriate community of some 300,000 members and there was quite a welcome.

He held a news conference, and then, in a stunning breach of security, when he was leaving, one of the pro-regime protestors got close enough to the Crown Prince to fling either paint or tomato sauce on the back of his neck.

This is amazing to me in this day and age.

Where was the security guard?
He is the Shah of Iran. You must have taken care of him!
It is shameful.
Punish him !

The Telegraph UK said part of the press gathering had been focused on Pahlavi’s reaction to the on-again, off-again US-regime negotiations, which, unsurprisingly, Pahlavi is not a fan of.

…Mr Pahlavi is the son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iran’s former shah, who ruled the country from 1941 until he was forced from power in 1979, setting in motion the establishment of the Islamic Republic.

While he has spent his life in exile, Mr Pahlavi has been working to project himself as a future leader in the country, meeting with government officials, supporters and the media.

German media said hundreds of his supporters gathered to watch him speak at Germany’s federal press conference building on Thursday.

A supporter of the Israeli and US attacks on his country, Mr Pahlavi criticised the ceasefire announced by Donald Trump on April 3.

It’s easy enough to understand where he’s coming from, but he’s also on the outside looking in.

That’s just how it is.

What was really interesting was how he handled the European press. There is strong anti-Israel sentiment all through the European Union and that was obvious from one of the questions the Crown Prince received.

I don’t think the reporter was prepared for the strength of the answer he got back.

It was absolutely beautiful.

And then he gives the reporter a lesson on European democracies.

I edit the post:
He actually said “the only country in the Middle East that harbored Jews escaping Hitler..”— Mααԋι🐟 (@Luneamahsa) April 23, 2026

…After reminding them about Cyrus the Great, he added:

“In modern history, Iran is the only country that harbored Jews escaping Hitler and his regime.”

Mic. Dropped.🎤

It’s actually wild that a German journalist feels comfortable throwing shade on Jews and Israel. 

Prince Reza Pahlavi stays classy, stays truthful, and stays based.

But that wasn’t the end of what he had to say, although it was the end of the news conference.

When he got a few moments to himself, the Crown Prince issued a statement that surely should have singed some hairs in European quarters, had they any shame at all. A Europe that has cravenly taken the side of a murderous, fanatic, tyrannical regime over the people it has oppressed and abused for 47 years.

He called them all out for the posturing hypocrites they are.

🚨PRINCE REZA PAHLAVI JUST WENT FULL NUCLEAR ON THE ENTIRE EU PRESS & PARLIAMENT! 🔥🧨

I want to speak DIRECTLY to the people of Europe. In the past two weeks I held TWO MAJOR press conferences — one in Stockholm, one in Berlin. Over 150 JOURNALISTS showed up. We spent MORE THAN… pic.twitter.com/s9digeOfFd— Neo (@Realneo101) April 24, 2026

We spent MORE THAN TWO HOURS with them…

And guess what? 

NOT ONE SINGLE of those 150 journalists asked about the 40,000 IRANIANS SLAUGHTERED on the streets of my country on January 8th and 9th! 

NOT ONE asked about the 19 political prisoners EXECUTED in the last two weeks.

When I told them 20 more are currently sentenced to death — CRICKETS. Not a damn question.

I stood right next to a grieving mother and father who lost their sons in that massacre and begged them to listen to their stories… 

NOT A SINGLE ONE of those 150 journalists asked them a thing.

Let that sink in.

My 40,000 BRAVE INNOCENT COMPATRIOTS who were butchered fighting for liberty? They don’t give a damn.

They are too busy criticizing America and Israel for taking out the dictator who’s been slaughtering our people for 47 YEARS — instead of going after the regime that’s actually doing the killing!

They’d rather dig up Iran’s history than talk about what’s happening RIGHT NOW or the free democratic Iran we’re fighting for. 

One EU parliament member even had the nerve to say Iranians aren’t ready for democracy. To that coward and to every fake journalist in the room I say this:

Iranians aren’t just “ready” for democracy… 40,000 of them just DIED for it! And I will NOT let their blood be in vain. 

SO HEAR ME LOUD AND CLEAR:

Whether Europe stands with us or not…

Whether your journalists do their damn jobs or not…

Whether your politicians grow a spine or not…  

I WILL FIGHT FOR MY PEOPLE AND MY COUNTRY. 

Even if we have to do this ALONE — we are fighting until IRAN IS FREE! 🇮🇷

Damn.

So powerful and so very, very true.

I sure hope he makes it to Tehran just for what he said in those sneering Euro-faces today.

Is there anything a Democrat won’t do?

Democrats can’t seem to do anything honestly.

Now we learn that their fundraising machine, ActBlue, is under investigation for taking foreign cash to elect Democrats, making Democrats bought men.

According to the New York Post:

WASHINGTON — ActBlue employees invoked their Fifth Amendment right at least 146 times in depositions with congressional committees investigating alleged donor fraud on the fundraising platform, according to an explosive report released Monday.

Two ActBlue officials, one of whom formerly served as VP of customer service, and three of its former lawyers “declined to answer a single one of the Committees’ substantive questions,” stated the interim staff report from the House Administration, Oversight and Judiciary Committees.

“Their unwillingness to testify only amplifies the Committees’ concerns,” the report added of the depositions between July and December 2025, also citing ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Wells’ seemingly “false statements to Congress” and withholding of documents pursuant to a subpoena for recor

One hundred forty-six times, which sounds a lot like Hillary Clinton’s ‘I don’t recall.’

There’s no such thing as Democrat cooperation in any operation that requires transparency. But as the Post continued:

ActBlue has repeatedly denied wrongdoing and in a recent statement through a spokesperson maintained that it has “always been forthcoming with Congress.”

I’ll bet. And you can bet that no one on that congressional panel was fooled, either. They sound like they are hiding something.

Yet the investigation raises serious questions about how many ‘bought men’ there are among the Democrats, in hock to foreign moneymen.

The Post continued:

It could “be alleged that ActBlue accepted and/or facilitated the acceptance of foreign-national contributions into American elections,” in violation of federal law, a February 2025 internal memo from the firm Covington & Burling found, according to The New York Times.

How many did China’s bidding, how many…

Monica Showalter

Beginning with Woodrow Wilson’s justification for getting America into WWI, America has been the world’s policeman, a role that escalated after it was the only wealthy nation standing in 1945. However, it’s not 1945 anymore. The Cold War is over, allegiances have shifted, and Europe is not Europe. That’s why it was simply awesome today when Secretary of War Pete Hegseth explicitly told Asia and Europe (although he was clearly speaking to NATO) that the “time for free-riding is over.”

In 1916, when the “Great War” in Europe was already in its second year, Woodrow Wilson won reelection in part by pointing out that he’d kept America out of the war and promising that he would continue to do so. However, for myriad reasons, by 1917, Wilson could no longer maintain that promise.

However, Wilson, a high-minded, racist, eugenics-believing progressive, needed a high-minded reason for tossing young American men into those bloody trenches. America, he said, was a savior. “The world must be made safe for democracy,” and America was the one to do it.

There was no room for self-interest:

We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.

Instead, virtue would be its own reward:

We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and the freedom of nations can make them.

Those same principles have guided American warfare ever since. Yes, we entered WWII after Japan attacked us and Germany then declared war on us, but in the aftermath of a war that cost us over 400,000 American lives, we dedicated ourselves to rebuilding a shattered Europe and protecting it from Soviet domination.