Jeff Metcalf is to blame for the murder of his son, according to one professor at a historically black university.

Dr. Stacey Patton, a journalism professor at Howard University, accused Metcalf of failing “to teach your boy that Black children have boundaries” in a personal Substack post on June 10, 2026, a day after Karmelo Anthony was found guilty in the 2025 murder of Austin Metcalf.

Anthony, of Centennial High School, pulled a knife on Metcalf, of Memorial High School, and stabbed him in the heart at a track meet in April 2025 moments after Metcalf asked Anthony to leave his team’s tent. Several witnesses testified that Anthony refused Metcalf’s request several times, saying five times, “Touch me and see what happens.”

According to Patton, however, Austin’s murder is a result of Jeff Metcalf’s failure as a father. She wrote, “YOU failed to teach humility, restraint, or the sacred fact that another person’s body is not your jursidiction. YOU failed to teach him that another child’s space is not a challenge to be conquered.”

She continued, “YOU obviously failed to teach your son that touching, confronting, crowding, testing, or policing another person can have consequences. And YOU failed to teach him that the same world that cheers white boys for being bold and aggressive will not always be there to save them when they mistake somebody else’s restraint for permission.”

During his victim impact statement, Metcalf asked Anthony to look at him as he spoke, which Anthony refused to do. Metcalf then stated, “You can’t even look me in the eye right now, but you can stab my fucking son in the heart.” This word choice held “power” and “refusal,” according to Patton.

“There was power in him not looking at you. There was refusal in it. There was survival in it. There was an ancient knowing in it,” she wrote. “Because Black people know what it means when a white man demands eye contact from a Black child after already deciding what that child is. We know the old ritual. We know that sometimes “look at me” is not a request for humanity. It is a demand for surrender. And Karmelo did not surrender.”

Daily Caller

Over the years, I’ve read a lot of stories written from the pro-abortion perspective. How? Primarily by understanding the mechanisms they use to shield themselves from what they are doing to hapless unborn babies. It’s a very grim reminder of what we are up against.

It’s not unusual to be lectured that snuffing out the lives of preborn babies is liberating/fulfilling/empowering. But “What I Learned From My Four Abortions” takes aggressive self-deception to a new level.

You would expect nothing less from the Rewire News Group. It specializes in pushing abortion advocacy to the outer limits under the guise of this being a “deeply personal and empowering journey that allowed me to make the best decision for my body and my future on my own terms,” to quote Larada Lee-Wallace, the author of this piece.

Of course, there is not the slightest inkling in Lee-Wallace’s essay that there could or should be hesitation before she undertook her “abortion journey” which “began early in the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and was punctuated by four pregnancies that I decided to terminate.”

The most fulfilling of all, we learn, was the last: her “self-managed abortion via pills” which “allowed me to make the best decision for my body and my future on my own terms.”

Lee-Wallace’s other three abortions were typically like her second abortion–at an abortion clinic–where

“I received an icy reception from the staff, their demeanor mirroring the sterile environment. Stripped of the comfort of familiar faces due to pandemic restrictions and social distancing measures, I felt loneliness, exacerbated by the impersonal nature of my surroundings.”

Loneliness. Not good. Abandonment—what her four babies experienced—infinitely worse.

You don’t have to be a psychologist to understand that her narcissism blinds her from grasping why she is pregnant in the first place—four times to boot. “My third pregnancy discovery arrived as unexpectedly as the first two.”

“Discovery”? The babies just appeared out of nowhere? Such a willfully cavalier attitude means Lee-Wallace cannot acknowledge cause and effect or accept any responsibility for the deaths of four unborn babies.

Abortion #3 is another off-putting experience for Lee-Wallace.

Lying sedated, the procedure itself unfolded in a blur of sterile surroundings and clinical efficiency. After the procedure, I grappled with a profound sense of dissonance, as the bleak realities of reproductive injustice collided with the rhetoric of choice and autonomy.

But thank heavens, so to speak, for “self-managed” abortions—“DIY” —”that was a stark contrast to my previous experiences.”

Empowered [that magic, all-absolving word] by my work as an abortion advocate and doula, I embraced the autonomy of managing my own care at home. Supported by my partner and armed with information, I navigated the process confidently, free from the bureaucratic burdens that had marred previous experiences. My partner was by my side as I transformed my office space into a sanctuary of compassionate care.

You knew, even before reading her conclusion, that this “sanctuary of compassionate care” would come equipped with a television that “illuminated the room, casting a soft glow that belied the gravity of the moment while I passed the pregnancy” and be “infused with the aroma of my favorite nag champa incense.”

But the point is simple: “self-managed abortions” skip over—avoid–the cold, impersonal, “sterile” atmosphere of the abortion clinic where there might be just a tiny hint of judgment. Lee-Wallace concludes

As I reflect on these journeys, the safety and effectiveness of self-managed abortion emerges as a beacon of hope amid the mounting legislative restrictions.

But for the four unborn babies she sacrificed on the altar of “dismantling barriers” and “unfettered access” to abortion, it was no “beacon of hope” but a reckoning with brutality, cruelty, and callousness.

National Right to Life

Former President Barack Obama trashed President Trump’s deal with Iran during an interview with ABC’s Robin Roberts.

The full interview will air on Wednesday on Good Morning America.

President Trump on Saturday confirmed that the Iran deal will be signed on Sunday.

Trump said the Strait of Hormuz will be opened and no money will change hands as he trashed Barack Obama’s disastrous Iran Nuke Deal (JCPOA).

“Barack Hussein Obama’s Deal with Iran, the JCPOA, was an easy, beautiful, smooth road to a Nuclear Weapon, which Iran would have had six years ago, and would have used long before now,” Trump said in a Truth Social post.

“My Agreement with Iran is the exact opposite, A WALL TO NO NUCLEAR WEAPON! In fact, they no longer want a Nuclear Weapon, nor will they have one, either through purchase, development, or any other form of procurement,” Trump said.

“Unlike Obama’s Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in payments to them, including 1.7 Billion Dollars in green, cold cash, no money will exchange hands,” Trump said, savaging the former president.

Bitter Obama trashed Trump just hours before the deal was set to be signed.

“You spent a lot of time wrestling with a nuclear Iran. How do you think things are being handled right now?” Robin Roberts asked Obama.

“It is doubtful that any agreement that arises is going to be significantly different or a significant improvement from the deal that we had in the first place, and had worked for a long stretch of time before we–the United States pulled out,” Obama said.

Cristina Laila, Gateway Pundit

Doctors Without Borders or Medecins Sans Frontieres under its French name is one of the larger left-wing ‘global aid’ NGOs intertwined with the UN and which function as the best friends of Islamic terrorists.

In between the usual preening fundraisers for more aid (give us money or the children will die) and parroting Islamic terrorist propaganda (every air strike on terrorists actually kills babies), Doctors Without Borders were doing the usual thing that ‘professional humanitarians’ do in war zones.

After whistleblowers reported that MSF personnel had been trading food and water for sex to underage girls and other sexual abuses of women and girls who had fled Sudan for Chad, Doctors Without Borders conducted a quicky report and handed it ‘exclusively’ to the AP which tried to spin it as positively as possible.

The practice is slimy and if the rest of the media had any integrity, it would be speaking out against this catch and kill cover-up, instead it’s just echoing the MSF\AP story which tries to put the best possible face on trading food and water for sex to underage girls.

As much as that’s possible.

But it’s not as if Doctors Without Borders is unique in this regard. The UN has repeatedly been caught doing the same things in war zones. So have other NGOs. There’s a reason these people collaborate with Islamic terrorists and it’s not just because of their politics. Much like all the leftists who loved traveling to Cuba, notorious for its sex trade in underage girls, or Iraq before the Gulf War, where there were entire prisons full of children that they partook of, there’s more than one kind of payoff that happens here.

And this isn’t the first round for MSF. There’s a reason I used to call the leftist group ‘Doctors Without Pants’ after previous sex scandals like this one in 2017-2018.

Speaking anonymously, a former employee at the aid agency said a senior colleague claimed it was possible to barter sex in exchange for medication.

She told the BBC programme: “He said it’s so easy to barter medication with these easy girls in Liberia … He was suggesting lots of the young girls who had lost their parents to the Ebola crisis would do anything sexual in return for medication.”

Back then MSF got 40 complaints about sexual assault or harassment in just one year.

The scandal ended up entangling the whole World Health Organization and UN infrastructure of allied NGOs.

The investigators received testimony from 75 alleged victims — 63 women and 12 men — who ranged in age from 13 to 43 years, with an average age of around 20. The youngest, a girl identified as “Jolianne,” said she was approached by a WHO driver who offered her a ride home and instead raped and impregnated her.

The review team recorded nine allegations of rape. Twenty-nine women and girls became pregnant as a result of the alleged abuse and 22 carried their pregnancies to term, the report said. Other alleged victims said their abusers had forced them to have an abortion, while others claimed to have had miscarriages.

The other organizations included UNICEF, World Vision, the medical charity Alima, Oxfam and Doctors Without Borders, some of which launched their own internal inquiries.

This was always followed by promises that it would never happened again… until it happened again.

These NGOs and professional humanitarians pretend that they’re there to help people, and some of them are, many others do this for political reasons or a sense of adventure, and there’s a culture of preying on the locals that won’t be expurgated.

Daniel Greenfield, Front Page Magazine

The fastest path to a free Iran isn’t more American troops—it’s giving Iranians the means to overthrow the regime themselves.

If the last argument of kings is war, the best response from the subjects is guns.

Machiavelli wrote that “the chief foundations of all states . . . are good laws and good arms.”

Those good arms must be in the hands of citizens, and the world is waking up to the need for guns for themselves to fight the tyrants who persecute them or seek their extermination. We Americans are not fools for holding onto our firearms. Corporate media stateside and around the world can laugh at us or condemn us for the high number of gun-related deaths, but when controlled for location (big Democrat-run cities vs. Rest of America) and reasons (self-defense vs. murder), the numbers even out, and America comes out better.

Americans are safer and freer than the rest of the world because of our guns.

In a previous article, I argued that Trump should pressure other countries to adopt their own version of our Second Amendment in their respective constitutions. If other countries want to make their countries great again, then good citizens need good arms to ensure the enforcement of good laws.

There’s no better example of this need than Iran. President Trump took out their nuclear capabilities last year. Israel and the United States have escalated the war to break the will of the Islamic militant government and finish it off.

The United States cannot finish the job alone. The Europeans are unsure about stepping in, and China has only pressured Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz. One key demographic must intervene for freedom: the Iranian people themselves.

How do we assist the Iranians? The ayatollahs and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are committed to global jihad, even if it means mowing down their own people, and nearly 50,000 have been wiped out.

For ancient Persia to be free once again, the Iranians need guns. We can supply them, too.

There is precedent for this.

In 1944, American forces airlifted weapons into Poland to assist the resistance against the Nazis. We also supplied the French maquis resistance fighters.

Arming Iranian citizens will serve several purposes:

1. Allow the citizens to rise up, which would force the unelected IRGC to focus on internal matters.

2. By overloading and reprioritizing their attention, the ayatollahs and IRGC would have fewer resources to police or frustrate the Strait of Hormuz.

3. This effort would save lives. The unelected IRGC will likely murder more of their own people. Arming those “defenseless citizens” would give the innocent a fighting chance to protect themselves.

4. This maneuver would cost the United States far less in terms of blood and treasure. Dropping arms into key locations across the country will assist the Iranian resistance and flip the balance of power in the country.

Can we trust them to fight back? Would they raise their arms against the regime?

They have every right to!

Their faith declares that killing one’s Muslim brothers is strictly prohibited. Quran 4:93 says, “But whoever kills a believer intentionally—his recompense is Hell, wherein he will abide eternally, and Allah has become angry with him and has cursed him and has prepared for him a great punishment.”

Despite this severe admonishment by the Prophet, the corrupt leaders in Iran have slaughtered fellow Muslims with irreligious abandon.

Between the corrupt regime of Iran and its proxy militia, they have murdered hundreds of thousands more Muslims around the world since 1979. In fact, the unelected Iranian leaders are an “occupying government” that has slaughtered far more Muslims than their inflated claims against Israel and America suggest.

Furthermore, Iran’s leaders are stealing the people’s money to foment revolution in Sunni-dominated countries. These funded militant radicals in other countries (e.g., Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, etc.) murder other innocent Muslims on Iran’s behalf. When the present conflict started, Iranian terrorist dictators attacked fellow Muslim countries more than the United States!

Indeed, Iranian citizens will rise if they receive arms to protect themselves. Muslim countries targeted by Iran could follow suit and help provide weapons to their fellow adherents.

Iran has a whole smuggling operation to get weapons into other nations for their overthrow. There is even new evidence that Iran has previously helped Shia Muslims in Pakistan. It’s time to return the favor to destroy this megalomaniacal regime.

In the Wild West, Americans called the handgun “the great equalizer” for a good reason. In fact, they say that the handgun won the American West; it brought law and order.

America and the Arab alliance can take advantage of boots on the ground by arming Iranian citizens. Unlike the militants in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Gaza, the majority of the Iranians would be happy to overthrow their government.

As they continue begging America to continue its pressure until the government is overthrown, Trump has told them to wait. Receiving handguns would signal that they no longer have to hold on. Give them the means to fight, and you give them a chance at freedom and protecting themselves. On a related note, it is vital that the United States not allow Iran to continue to nationally televise their propaganda. U.S. military action must block it or shut it down.

Will there be objections to this proposal? Certainly, from the CIA and foreign policy brass still wasting space in Washington, D.C. They are confirmed liberals who live and work in Northern Virginia. They watch MSNOW (formerly MSNBC) religiously, and they make large donations to the Democratic Party. Trump has hired better leaders this term, but those Deep State analysts embedded in the federal government are still causing trouble.

Let’s consider their possible excuses and refute them all.

CLAIM: Supplying guns to civilians will help topple the regime but cause someone worse to take over the country.

FACT: Iran’s government is already a suicidal cult. They believe that global war will hasten Allah’s return, and dying in the name of Allah will assure their heavenly rewards. There’s no risk because only saner minds will take over.

CLAIM: You cannot air-drop firearms because they would hurt civilians on the ground.

FACT: Deliveries at night and in secure packaging would reduce serious harm. Private firms engage in similar delivery methods. The United States can follow their example. One hundred thousand to 150,000 units must be provided, which would arm a massive civilian army that can achieve a successful revolution for the people.

CLAIM: The Kurds stole the weapons that we had delivered to them for this effort. Iranian civilians might do the same.

FACT: The Iranian people will most likely use the guns to resolve the largest problem facing them: annihilation by their government. Let’s trust them to serve their best interests.

CLAIM: If the Kurds didn’t fight, the Iranians wouldn’t either.

FACT: Besides the Iranians, regional groups, such as the Baloch, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, and many others, can lead a revolt. Providing the weapons will help them all.

President Trump has initiated a military action long needed but too long delayed.

Trump should release firearms in strategic locations to Iranian rebel groups prepared to organize and fight. With this savvy military move, Trump can finish off the IRGC, establish peace, and assure his party’s reelection chances in November.

American Greatness

Lesley Stahl has seen a lot of horrible things over the course of her career at 60 Minutes, but none of it can compare to the horror she experienced watching her fellow journalists lose their jobs for being obnoxious.

“Oh God, this was awful,” Stahl told Puck when asked about the half dozen veteran producers and personalities who were fired along with Scott Pelley, the veteran newsreader and combat survivor dismissed for insubordination. “This was by far the worst experience I’ve been involved in, or even witnessed.”

The worst experience she’s ever even witnessed. By far. The Puck reporter observed that Stahl’s voice “trailed off, as if she was still having trouble processing what had happened during the past week or so.”

Stahl is 84—even older than Joe Biden. She lived through 9/11 and the Jimmy Carter administration. She witnessed the self-inflicted debasement of her former colleague Dan Rather after he reported on forged documents purporting to cast doubt on President George W. Bush’s service in the National Guard. That was pretty bad.

What else might the iconic journalist have experienced in her career that was almost, but not quite, as traumatizing as corporate restructuring in a dying industry?

Well, Stahl’s first story as a 60 Minutes correspondent was about child trafficking in Romania after the fall of Nicolae Ceaușescu. She visited a family that wanted to sell their four-year-old son for $500 to buy a camcorder. The following year, Stahl interviewed survivors of Josef Mengele’s twisted human experiments at Auschwitz. In 2020, she was forced to endure interviews with Rick Wilson and Steve Schmidt, cofounders of the much-maligned Lincoln Project super PAC.

It’s entirely plausible that Stahl was more disturbed upon learning that a handful of journalists had been fired by CBS. After all, she is a journalist, and many journalists have described Pelley’s termination alone as one the greatest tragedies to befall mankind.

Michael Tomasky, editor of the New Republic—a once-respected journalistic institution, much like 60 Minutes—said it would “reverberate in American journalism history as a symbolic execution of the single most groundbreaking and successful news program in the annals of U.S. broadcast television.” Pelley himself compared getting fired for insubordination to “your spouse being murdered.”

It’s also possible that Stahl has mild to moderate dementia. Perhaps she can’t remember watching parents negotiate to sell their children for color TVs. Her more recent output, on the other hand, is composed almost entirely of what industry insiders might call “vacuous fluffery.”

Over the last few years, Stahl has examined the benefits of “gender affirming care,” documented former congresswoman Liz Cheney’s abiding hatred for Donald Trump, and extolled the (alleged) comedy of former Daily Show host Trevor Noah. Despite her reluctance to “become part of the story,” Stahl performed a 60 Minutes monologue about her personal battle with COVID-19—a potentially harrowing ordeal given her advanced age, but less so given her exorbitant net worth.

Stahl encountered more traumatic experiences in 2025 while interviewing Yarden Bibas, an Israeli taken hostage by Hamas whose wife and two sons were killed in captivity. It’s not entirely clear if Stahl viewed the hostages as victims, given her egregious attempts to empathize with the Hamas terrorists.

When another former hostage, Keith Siegel, described how his captors were “beating” and “starving” him, Stahl wondered if the terrorists had deprived him of food because they were also starving. “No, I think they starved me, and they would often eat in front of me and not offer me food,” Siegel explained.

Please keep Stahl and her fellow journalists in your thoughts and prayers as they navigate this dark chapter of world-historic tragedy under the weight of  sorrow so profound that future generations will scarcely comprehend its magnitude.

Bless their hearts, the poor things.

Washington Free Beacon

Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard on Friday declassified evidence showing that the United States government has funded more than 120 dangerous biolabs in over 30 countries, including 40 “especially dangerous” labs in war-torn Ukraine.

In a press release, the outgoing DNI stated that biolabs researching dangerous pathogens in Ukraine have been “at risk of compromise” due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.

Gabbard stressed that risky Gain-of-Function research is continuing in some overseas biolabs despite President Trump banning the practice.

Gain-of-function research is a scientific process that genetically alters an organism to give it a new property or enhance an existing one, typically to increase a virus’s transmissibility, virulence, or host range.

Leading up to the COVID pandemic, former NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci and the NIH funded research involving bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China, which many believe led to the release of SARS-CoV-2.

On May 25, 2025, Trump signed Executive Order 14292 to end federal funding of Gain-of-Function research around the world.

The EO states: “Dangerous gain-of-function research on biological agents and pathogens has the potential to significantly endanger the lives of American citizens. If left unrestricted, its effects can include widespread mortality, an impaired public health system, disrupted American livelihoods, and diminished economic and national security.”

Despite this, many of the taxpayer funded biolabs have continued to conduct research “using hazardous and highly contagious pathogens, in some cases to include dangerous Gain-of-Function research, with very little visibility or oversight,” according to the DNI.

A newly declassified document alleges that over 40 biolabs in Ukraine have conducted research on “Especially Dangerous Pathogens (EDP),” including Anthrax, tuberculosis, Swine Fever, MERS, SARS, Marburg, Ebola, and the Plague.

Until now, evidence regarding the full existence and funding of these laboratories had been knowingly withheld from the American people. The information surrounding the existence, history, locations and funding of these US funded biolabs has been intentionally covered up by powerful people falsely, claiming that they do not exist and accusing anyone who says otherwise to be foreign assets and traitors to America,” Gabbard stated.

The DNI added that she has issued new guidance to the Intelligence Community directing increased oversight and collection on overseas labs, and has already learned that new clinical trials are currently being conducted at some of these facilities, “raising significant ethical, financial, and security concerns regarding these supposed public health initiatives and U.S. national security.”

“Despite the obvious potential for catastrophic global impact research on dangerous pathogens in biolabs can have, politicians, so-called health professionals like Dr. Fauci, and entities within the Biden administration’s national security team lied to the American people about the existence of US-funded and supported biolabs, and threatened those who attempted to expose the truth,” she stated, stressing that ODNI will continue working with the US Intelligence Community “to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain to end dangerous Gain-of-Function research that threatens the health and wellbeing of the American people and people around the world.”

American Greatness

Israelis across the political spectrum have said the agreement appears to leave fundamental security threats posed by Iran unaddressed.

The main headline of Sunday’s Yediot Aharonot, a popular Hebrew daily, summed up in two words the prevailing sentiment in Israel over President Trump’s emerging cease-fire agreement with Iran: “Bad Deal.”

Israel waged two wars against Iran in the past year, the most recent one the campaign launched in late February with U.S. forces. Now Israel, which had not been a party to the Trump administration’s negotiations with Iran, is being left out of the potential peace.

Even before the announcement came on Sunday that a cease-fire agreement had been reached, the details that had surfaced in news media reports prompted a flood of criticism and expressions of discontent from Israelis spanning the country’s political spectrum.

American and Iranian officials have said that under an initial “memorandum of understanding,” Iran would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping route for the global economy, and the United States would lift its blockade on Iranian ports. The cease-fire that the two sides agreed to in April would be extended for 60 days. During that period, both sides would commit to holding detailed negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, and over the lifting of U.S. sanctions on Iran.

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That would fall far short of the goals that Israel set at the start of the two wars.

At the outset, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that the objective was “to remove the existential threats” to Israel. That meant destroying any nuclear threat from Iran and its ballistic missile program, he said, as well as “creating the conditions” for the Iranian people to topple the government.

The Israelis have also demanded an end to Tehran’s support of its proxy forces hostile to Israel, including Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen, as well as support for Hamas in Gaza.

Israeli experts were alarmed that elements key to Israel appear not to have been mentioned at all.

“No matter what will happen, President Trump will declare victory, a total win,” said Jacob Nagel, a former acting national security adviser to Mr. Netanyahu.

“It’s very easy to say what topics” will be up for future negotiations, Mr. Nagel told reporters on Sunday in a video briefing. But, he said, Iran’s ballistic missiles and its support for proxy groups in the region do not even appear as topics in the publicly circulating details.

Mr. Netanyahu’s opponents, commenting before the announcement of the cease-fire, were less charitable.

“A catastrophe from Israel’s perspective,” Avigdor Liberman, a former Israeli defense minister and a right-wing politician, wrote in a social media post on Sunday. Once an ally of Mr. Netanyahu, he is now a bitter critic.

Yair Lapid, the centrist leader of Israel’s parliamentary opposition and a former top government minister, said he hoped the reports about the agreement with Iran were not true. “But if they are,” he said in a statement, “this is one of the most shocking failures of Israel’s foreign and security policy.”

Current Israeli government officials have said little, apparently for fear of upsetting Mr. Trump.

Mr. Netanyahu issued a statement on Friday saying: “As long as I am the prime minister of Israel, Iran will not have nuclear weapons. President Trump and I are in full agreement on this issue.” His statement neglected to mention ballistic missiles or proxy forces.

An Israeli who had been briefed on the deal with Iran, and who requested anonymity to discuss diplomacy, listed Israel’s main problems with the proposal:

• There are no clear answers regarding the treatment of Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium, and not enough curbs on Iran’s nuclear program, with the deal appearing to rely on Iranian good will.
• Instead of creating the conditions for the collapse of the Iranian government, the deal would allow funds to start flowing back into its coffers.
• The deal lays out no clear mechanism for forcing Iran to halt its support for its proxy forces. But it would mean the suspension of Israel’s campaign against Hezbollah, the militant group it is fighting in Lebanon.

The latest round of fighting in Lebanon erupted after Hezbollah fired at Israel days after the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran began in late February. Iran has insisted that any broader peace agreement extend to the conflict in Lebanon.

Israel has sought to prevent any direct link between a deal with Iran and its military campaign against Hezbollah, noting that the militants are on its doorstep, but its influence appears to have been limited.

With Israeli national elections expected to take place by late October, Mr. Netanyahu is under intense pressure from within his governing coalition and from critics outside the government not to accede to dictates from Mr. Trump. He has been reluctant to oppose Mr. Trump publicly, not least because he has championed their close relationship as one of his main political credentials.

Isabel Kershner, a senior correspondent for The Times in Jerusalem, has been reporting on Israeli and Palestinian affairs since 1990.

Wishing President Trump Happy Birthday!

From Iran to Space X to the World Cup, it’s been a good week. 

Clarice Feldman | June 14, 2026

On June 21, 2025, the U.S. bombed three facilities in Iran dedicated to nuclear enrichment, which enrichment would have allowed Iran to move in a short time to making nine nuclear bombs.  This was a terrific mission that took more than 35 hours of flight time, and Iran’s three facilities deep in the mountains were decimated.  Despite the success of the bombing in destroying these sites, satellite photos “showed trucks leaving Iran’s Fordow site just before U.S. airstrikes” said to be carrying enriched uranium.  “Now, over 400kg of highly enriched uranium is unaccounted for. … [The] U.S. calls the strikes a success — but where is the uranium?”

Subsequently, Pres. Trump initiated Operation Epic Fury in March 2026.  At that point in time, he announced that the air strikes against Iran had four purposes:

1. To destroy Iran’s missile capabilities.
2. To destroy Iran’s navy.
3. To ensure that Iran can never obtain a nuclear weapon.
4. To ensure that the Iranian regime “cannot continue to arm, fund, and direct terrorist armies outside of their borders.”

The same website that lists President Trump’s objectives for these attacks also lists statements by a variety of military leaders as well as by our secretary of War and secretary of State.

This writer was particularly gripped by the statement of purpose for our attack made by Admiral Brad Cooper: “Our military in the Middle East is undertaking an unprecedented operation to eliminate Iran’s ability to threaten Americans, as they’ve been doing for nearly half a century.”

This statement carries a broader vision of the military venture in Iran that needs to be received by the public.  Admiral Cooper understands clearly that the threatening and killing of Americans that Iran has done for decades is the right and sufficient justification for our aggressive stance.  He understands that Iran’s portrayal of the USA as the Great Satan to stir up the animus of the Muslim world (and particularly the Shi’ite believers within that political and religious culture) is in service to a bloodthirsty ideology of belligerence, hatred, and violent disrespect of Western mores and beliefs.

“Threaten Americans.”  Think about this.  The present ayatollah government wants to threaten us with suffering and death because we believe in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  The leadership of Iran, under the acronym IRGC, hates us because we live under phrases like “endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights” and “all men are created equal.”  They are obsessed that so many of us live claiming to be Protestant or Catholic Christians.  Their envy of our economic successes drives them into a murderous rage, as even their own oil productivity and production depends upon the engineering knowledge and exploratory gifts of the West.

When this writer briefly taught high school at a private school in Iran two years before the present fanatical scoundrels took control of that country, U.S. engineers laughed discreetly at the Iranians who were on their teams who were building missile manufacturing and launching facilities for the Iranian army.  At a party in my apartment at the time, an American engineer said that if there was a testing protocol in place at a missile manufacturing site and parts were not available for the test to be properly completed, the Iranians would go ahead anyway.  The engineer said this would be like having three people lay a pipe.  The first would dig the trench, the second would put in the pipe, and the third would fill up the trench and cover the pipe.  However, he mockingly said of the Iranians that if the second man was not there to put in the pipe, Iranian three would reflexively fill in the trench without the pipe.

After the 1979 revolution that brought the ayatollahs to power, all the books in the library at the school where I had taught were burned in the courtyard of the school.  The American principal of the school who had lived and worked in Iran for decades left the country in 1980, and the school today is exclusively for boys.

The only aspect of Admiral Cooper’s above statement that needs to be qualified is that our operation in Iran is an “unprecedented operation.”  The vast scope and advanced weaponry involved are certainly unprecedented, but in the early years of our republic, we faced an extremely violent threat from the Barbary pirates of the Islamic world for thirty years, from 1785 until 1815.

Those pirates captured two of our ships as early as 1785, and each one had 25 sailors.  Thomas Jefferson, who was serving as our ambassador to France at the time, tried to negotiate, but the reader will not be surprised that the negotiations got nowhere.  Then the U.S. government changed from the Articles of Confederation to our present Constitution, and George Washington became our president.  Nevertheless, headway in recovering the kidnapped sailors went nowhere.  In fact, about two fifths of the American sailors captured died of disease and horrible conditions in captivity.

The U.S. kept on negotiating and negotiating, but the piracy and capture of our sailors did not abate.  Only after we defeated the British soundly in the War of 1812 did the Islamic enemies in Algiers retreat from their piratical ways, because that victory showed our growing strength and also smashed the British-Algiers alliance that was in effect at the beginning of the War of 1812.

It’s now confirmed that the raid was to capture documentary evidence that the Russiagate claims were false. They had been manufactured to defeat Trump and Obama believed that evidence was hidden in Trump’s residence.

She also revealed that, despite their repeated denials, the Obama Administration, including Dr. Fauci, had 120 gain-of-function biolabs in 30 countries, including Ukraine. Russia had claimed they did. Russian claims proved to have been true

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The viral 2022 map that got a man branded a “fringe QAnon extremist” just got confirmed by the DNI — and Trump…

“After months of searching through intelligence community holdings and files,” she said, “today I’m releasing new evidence of long-standing US government funding of more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries.” Before you ask — yes, all 30 countries have lax regulations, legacies of official corruption, and long histories of dependency on USAID.

It’s not just routine bio-research. “Many of these U.S. government-funded biolabs are currently or have previously engaged in research using hazardous and highly contagious pathogens, in some cases to include dangerous Gain-of-Function research, with very little visibility or oversight.”

“Politicians and so-called health professionals like Dr. Fauci” — I love how she modified health professionals with so-called — “and entities within the Biden administration’s national security team lied to the American people about the existence of U.S.-funded and supported biolabs, and threatened those who attempted to expose the truth.”

Lies and threats. That’s the sitting ODNI accusing top government officials of malfeasance. It made history. The only comparable incident I could find was Tulsi’s own July 2025 release that accused Obama’s national security team of manufacturing the Russia-collusion intelligence narrative.

Tulsi is systematically dismantling the 2016-2024 intelligence establishment narrative. Which is probably why the corporate media quietly nudged the whole story behind the break room fridge with its Birkenstocked foot.

Grand juries in Florida are still sifting through evidence and listening to witnesses. CIA Director John Ratcliffe confirms that his predecessor John Brennan, former FBI Director James Comey, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are likely to be indicted in connection with their roles in this scandal.

I wouldn’t be surprised to find indictments respecting the 2020 presidential election corruption as well.

Remigration marches and rallies have expanded beyond Northern Ireland and Great Britain to France, Italy, Spain, Germany, and Poland. I don’t know how much longer the European Union, which keeps demanding more third-world migration to Europe, will continue to hold together.

Speaking of Europe, X viewers have been charmed by the accounts of various Europeans who have toured the South and other less-traveled spots in the U.S. while here for the World Cup. A young German, “Freddy,” among others, was taken with local foods like Texas Barbecue, enormous stores full of wares like rifles and even shooting ranges, and fast food, ice for drinks, free drink refills, open roads, and the enormous geographic and demographic diversity of a country mostly familiar to them in movies painting dystopian pictures of America. Rod Dreher was inspired:

Rod Dreher (@roddreher) on X

“Proposal: resurrect USAID, and dedicate all its funding to sending Europeans on field trips to Buc-ee’s, Costco, and Bass Pro Shop.”

In my experience, few Europeans appreciate the sheer size and variety of the USA. They look with astonishment at the offerings in big box stores, not understanding that many people have refrigerators and freezers the size of many European flats or the sheer distance most of us travel to shop in cars, rather than on bikes or public transportation. European bien pensants have always worked to diminish the new world. In the 18th century, prominent French intellectuals believed North American animals were smaller and inferior to those in Europe. Thomas Jefferson, then our Minister to France, was, as you may recall, very tall (more than six feet), and he found the claim preposterous. He took time to compile comparative charts of mammals. After he was challenged on the matter at one dinner party in France, he responded by bringing at his own cost a massive bull moose, which he had paid to be hunted, stuffed, and shipped to Paris. In another, perhaps apocryphal account, he had guests line up by height, which he marked on the wall behind them to prove the Americans were taller.

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