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On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that he has cautious optimism about Operation Epic Fury and “I just don’t get what liberals don’t get about liberation.” He also stated that Iran “was a fascist theocracy, and nothing in the Middle East was ever going to get better while they were still there f*cking everything up.” Maher said, “I just want to reiterate what I said in the monologue, I’m cautiously optimistic, unless he puts boots on the ground, then he’s going to lose me. We’ll see, for now. I just don’t get what liberals don’t…
Lindsey Graham has described the ongoing conflict in the Middle East as “a good investment” The US will control almost a third of the world’s oil and reap record profits if it succeeds in toppling the Iranian government, hawkish Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told Fox News on Sunday.Graham made his comments as global oil prices surged past $100 per barrel, a rise that President Donald Trump dismissed as “a very small price to pay” for the US‑Israeli war against Iran, which was launched on February 28.Graham described the cost of the attacks on Iran as the “best money ever spent,”…
President Donald Trump is weighing options that could include deploying special operations forces into Iran to secure or destroy highly enriched uranium stockpiles as part of his pledge that Tehran “will not have a nuclear bomb,” according to multiple reports Saturday. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump suggested the possibility of a ground operation had not been ruled out, saying U.S. forces could move in at a later stage of the conflict if necessary. “Right now we’re just decimating them, but we haven’t gone after it,” Trump said, referring to Iran’s nuclear material. “But something we could do…
During his opening monologue on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that if President Donald Trump “puts boots on the ground, yeah, then I’ll hate it. Now, I know too many happy Iranian Americans. Sorry. And you cannot name one horrible thing that has happened in the Middle East in the last 50 years and not connect it to this fascist theocracy.” While recounting what’s happened recently, Maher said, “Also, this week, war. Did you hear about that thing? We bombed Iran, and it’s going on. Now, if you expected me to say I hate it.…
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is using her country’s non-intervention policy as a cover for the fact that Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia were not invited to President Donald Trump’s Shield of the Americas summit. This week, Sheinbaum claimed that her country believed in not interfering with other countries’ internal politics and in the peaceful resolution of conflicts. When asked this week if she would be attending the Shield of the Americas summit, Sheinbaum simply replied, “No.” As Breitbart Texas reported, the summit took place this week in Miami and included 12 presidents from Latin American countries who were in favor of…
Former President Joe Biden (D) compared his intellect with the intellects of mourners at Reverend Jesse Jackson’s memorial service on Friday in Chicago at the House of Hope arena. In attendance were former presidents Barack Obama (D), Bill Clinton (D), Clinton’s wife, Hillary, former Vice President Kamala Harris (D), and Reverend Al Sharpton, Fox News reported. Biden had been telling the mourners how as a child he stuttered and was mocked for it, noting that oftentimes people make fun of such things because they think it makes the person appear unintelligent. He continued his remarks by stating, “If I told…
They reportedly have had bad experiences acting as Washington’s proxy in past conflicts Iraq’s Kurds are against joining the US attacks on Iran, and have voiced concerns about being left facing Iranian retaliation with no ground or air defense support, Axios reported on Saturday.The CIA began working to arm Kurdish forces hostile to the Islamic Republic after the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran last Saturday, according to CNN. While US President Donald Trump initially voiced support for Kurds getting involved in the conflict, he backpedaled on the idea on Saturday.“The Kurds must not be the tip of the…
Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza has put an end to a recent controversy surrounding whether Austin Police officers who shot and killed Ndiaga Diagne, ending the downtown shooting, would face criminal charges. After concerns that Garza would present the case to a grand jury circulated on social media, Garza issued a statement that his office will not seek charges. In a recent statement, Garza commented on the actions of the officers, saying, “These officers are heroes, and it should go without saying that my office is not seeking any charges and would not seek charges. The accounts to the contrary…
Oil prices surged past $110 a barrel on Sunday evening, topping $100 for the first time in nearly four years, as the war in the Middle East entered its ninth day with no end in sight and the Strait of Hormuz remained effectively closed to tanker traffic. Brent crude, the international benchmark, briefly topped $110 soon after markets opened Sunday evening, while West Texas Intermediate rose to $109.05. Both benchmarks were trading around $60 a barrel in early January. President Trump on Sunday night sought to reassure Americans that oil prices would come down in short order. “Short term oil…
A man who objected to a vigil for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Manhattan was punched and kicked on the ground when he snatched a poster-size portrait of the cleric from a shrine set up to honor the dead “supreme leader.” The sparsely attended vigil in Washington Square Park on Thursday, which featured a table of photos and a man with a bullhorn pontificating about “brave martyrs” in the recent conflict, appeared outnumbered by a group supporters of the joint U.S.-Israeli military operation which has decimated the country’s theocracy. New York police were keeping the opposing groups separated by fencing. But…