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US President Donald Trump has said that the CIA told him that Iran’s newly appointed supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, may be gay, quipping to Fox News that it puts the cleric “off to a bad start.”The claim comes amid failed US-Israeli regime change efforts in Iran, a country where homosexual conduct is illegal under Islamic Law.Trump had previously made other disparaging comments regarding Mojtaba Khamenei, dismissing him as a “lightweight” and an “unacceptable” leader. However, critics have noted that such claims have only consolidated Iranian public opinion against Washington. The president’s latest insult comes as the US and Israel continue their…

On Thursday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC) said that the Trump administration has to give Congress more information on what it’s considering in Iran. Co-host Kailey Leinz asked, “Your Chairman on the Armed Services Committee, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), as well as the Chair on the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), have both expressed, in recent days, some frustration about understanding from the administration what exactly the options are they are considering when it comes to putting further troops into the Middle East right now. Of course, you had Rogers saying that,…

United States Air Force veteran Richard Williams has died at the age of 83 after he was pushed onto subway tracks in New York City, allegedly at the hands of a four-time deported illegal alien. On March 10, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) arrested 34-year-old illegal alien Bairon Posada-Herandez of Honduras on attempted murder charges after he allegedly pushed Richard Williams and Jhon Rodriguez onto the subway tracks as they waited for the train in the Upper East Side. The attack, police say, was random. Rodriguez has said that he saw Williams, who has three daughters and two grandchildren, bleeding…

House Democratic leaders and much of their caucus expressed support for the Senate-passed bill to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security as they emerged from a closed-door meeting Friday. “The only thing standing between ending this chaos or not are House Republicans,” Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said. “There’s a bipartisan bill that emerged from the Senate with uniform support, and it should be brought to the floor immediately so we can pay TSA agents, so we can end the chaos at airports across the country and stop inconveniencing millions of Americans.” Democrats say they want to end the…

“War is the health of the state.” That phrase, coined by Randolph Bourne, explains why opposition to war is a priority of many libertarians. War allows governments to increase spending, taxes, and regulations in order to feed the war machine. Wars can justify measures that remain in place long after the wars end. An example of this is income tax withholding that was created to fund World War Two. The use of war as a justification for increased interference in the market is reason enough for libertarians to oppose war. However, war also enables the government to violate liberty. During…

Restrictions on Japan’s coal-fired power plants were relaxed Friday as the Asian industrial giant seeks to ease an energy crunch caused by the Middle East war choking oil supplies. AFP reports the plan was made official at a meeting of a panel of experts, who approved the proposal, the government industry ministry said on its website. “Given the current situation in the Middle East affecting fuel prices, we believe that uncertainty regarding future LNG procurement is increasing,” an industry ministry official said at the meeting, as Japan looks to follow other countries in returning to burning coal for a reliable source…

The United States should not greenlight Chinese drugs while drowning American companies in red tape, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said during an event with Breitbart News, highlighting the threats of China. Part of the discussion centered around the shocking reality that the U.S. is allowing Chinese companies to make knockoffs or compounds of American drugs with what host Matthew Boyle described as “cheap, weird ingredients that they’re unclear about.” These are pushed into the country, and the FDA is still green listing the products. Cotton said that should not be happening. “Unfortunately, again, China, using illegitimate means, has a lot…

If I were going to make fun of newly-confirmed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin for anything, it would be for his being too lazy to put a space between his first and middle names. This unwillingness to correct an obvious mistake on his birth certificate has sentenced the rest of us to years of typing out “Markwayne.” Thanks for nothing … Mark. But former comedian Jimmy Kimmel, being the insufferable, elitist, and basement-rated snob that he is, found it high-larious that our new DHS secretary once worked as a plumber. Can’t imagine what Kimmel thinks about Lincoln splitting…

The House Rules Committee advanced a measure Friday evening that would fund the entirety of the Homeland Security Department through May 22 — without setting up debate or a separate vote on the funding bill itself. The panel, after a raucous meeting that devolved into shouting at multiple points, voted 8-4 on party lines to advance the measure to the floor. The rule includes a “deem and pass” provision, a tactic that allows legislation to be passed by the House automatically once the rule itself is adopted. While there will be one hour of floor debate and a vote on…

Two lawmakers have threatened Budapest over its refusal to approve more aid for Ukraine amid an ongoing oil blockade by Kiev US lawmakers are seeking to impose sanctions on officials in Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government, citing Budapest’s stance on Russian energy imports and its ongoing diplomatic dispute with Ukraine.A bill threatening Hungarian officials was announced on Friday by Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat, and Senator Thom Tillis, a Republican, who co-chair the US Senate NATO observer group.Ukraine cut off Russian oil supplies to Hungary earlier this year, claiming that damage to the Soviet-era Druzhba pipeline made deliveries impossible. Orban…