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Thursday, March 12, 2026

*Kenny Holston/The New York Times via AP, Pool*

President Donald Trump just made a big decision that will likely expose a lot of information that was not released about Joe Biden during his occupation of the Oval Office.

Trump has rejected Biden's claim of executive privilege to not turn over documents requested in various Senate probes, determining it is "not in the best interests of the United States."

White House counsel David Warrington wrote Monday in a letter addressed to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and obtained by Fox News Digital that Trump "does not uphold the former President’s assertion of privilege" over records sought in four congressional probes. The letter directs NARA to provide the materials to Congress.
The dispute centers on documents related to investigations into Biden’s health, alleged politically motivated probes into Trump and his allies, and the Biden family’s financial dealings, which Republicans argue go to the heart of Congress’s constitutional authority to conduct oversight.

That means that the White House is telling NARA to turn over anything about the "cover-up" of "Biden’s health and cognitive decline." Imagine all the potential documents that could involve — we could see all the machinations and who specifically did what regarding any concealing of his cognitive decline.

"The abuse of the autopen that took place during the Biden Presidency, and the extraordinary efforts to shield President Biden’s diminished faculties from the public, must be subject to a full accounting to ensure nothing similar ever happens again," Warrington wrote, quoting a prior letter.

Warrington had previously weighed in when Trump denied the executive privilege regarding the autopen issue.

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The White House argued that "the constitutional protections of executive privilege should not be used to shield from Congress evidence of a President’s efforts to imprison his opponent."

Then the third set relates to the "Biden family’s financial dealings and potential conflicts of interest." That could encompass a ton of interesting stuff, including the interactions with foreign nationals.

So Warrington directed NARA to turn over the three sets of records to the various congressional committees requesting them.

Democrats are always screaming about transparency — while not being transparent. Why should any of that information held back by the Biden team not be released — unless there are things in there that they just don't want us to see? We need to have it all come out if we are to have any accountability in those probes. We've had a glaring lack of accountability for Democrat misconduct for far too long. This may finally get us closer to some real action, in addition to exposing more of the truth.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/03/09/trump-executive-privilege-decision-may-lead-to-all-that-info-on-biden-coming-out-n2200009?utm_source=rsmorningbriefingvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Living in a Purple Neighborhood in a Blue City in a Red State

Living in a Purple Neighborhood in a Blue City in a Red State

Jennifer Rust

*Michael Henninger /Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP*

In November 2024, my neighbors fought the battle of the political yard signs. There were approximately zero Trump signs on my street before I put up a demure pink “Ladies for Trump” sign. In fact, there were no signs except for the neighbor with multiple yard flags for every liberal cause: “In this house, Hope not Hate, etc.”

In response to my provocation, that neighbor put up yet another flag: one for Kamala. An older gentleman who passes me every day when I walk the dog pulled me aside to share his concern: “Trump isn’t for women.” I merely chuckled, wished him a good day, and kept walking. The neighbor on my right put up a Kamala sign.

And yet, after I put up my Trump sign, two more neighbors put up their own. One middle-aged neighbor—a woman!—walking by smiled and nodded at me. The neighbor to my left added a Trump sign. One day, a 30-something woman jogging by came over and said, loud enough for anyone to hear: “I love your sign.” My neighbor with multiple liberal yard flags added more.

Ending the Battle of the Yard Signs

When I tired of the silent war, I ordered a specially made sign that said “We are all Americans.” No one had anything to say about that. live in a purple neighborhood in a city so blue it could be indigo, in the heart of a blood-red state, South Carolina. The precinct I’m in voted light blue. We’re next to four light-red precincts, one moderately red, and several blue. We’ve all been jostling along fairly well after the election. We all still wave at each other on our morning dog walks. We help each other out after storms.. Fortunately for our country, offline there are places where that happens still, as @BULLHAULERTIGER wrote:

Radio host Jesse Kelly encourages his listeners to move to red territory if they want a more peaceful life. Granted, I wouldn’t have had to deal with multiple “Hate Has No Home” signs if I had. However, the tradeoff has been not living in a bubble. I’ve learned to sharpen my arguments and back up my statements with facts—no emoting.

I’m not going to lie; lately, dealing with my left-of-center friends and neighbors has been a challenge. A new friend invited me to an event this past weekend, and I had to bite my tongue at a remark, or I may have wound up on a TikTok reel. A simple talk about places we’ve traveled turned to bucket-list destinations, and I talked about how lucky I was to have visited Israel in 2022. When I shared how I wanted to go back, lamenting the fact that the tourist guides I met were suffering, she said, “Well, they brought it on themselves.” After I started visibly, I stated forcefully that I don’t agree. I had to change the subject, as I was a guest in that home. Conservatives don’t crash out in emotional spasms. If I’d done it again, I’d have quietly pointed out that they didn’t bring on the Hamas invasion, but that’s what you think of after the event. That’s the price I pay for living in this blue city.

Divisiveness vs Keeping the Peace

Earlier that day, I gave a talk at my Toastmasters club about Dennis Prager’s new book, If There Is No God, The Battle Over Who Defines Good and Evil. As I wrote in my review in PJ Media, the book is about drawing our values from the Judeo-Christian tradition, not feelings.

Our club members’ perspectives reflect our city's divide. I’ve learned to listen to people whose ideas have nothing in common with mine. I needed that patience when the person who was assigned to evaluate my presentation said she doesn't think we should bring religion into our talks. She said it caused divisiveness in the club. Sweet little me! I would’ve been hard-pressed to be less divisive. Perhaps it was my mention of the dedication to Charlie Kirk that sent her over the edge.

Some of my liberal friends have assumed that because I am mild-mannered and don’t go off like a leftist whenever I hear something I don’t like, I agree with them. How does simply not screeching the way overly emotional, nose-ringed street protestors do mean I agree with you? Have you noticed that when a conservative simply states his beliefs, as I did in my speech, he is accused of being divisive? I refuse. That’s why I stay in that Toastmasters club – to keep bringing my ideas to others who would never hear them. If I want to be comforted by like-minded folk, I can drive the suburbs and be surrounded by Red State America. Perhaps in the coming years, when I am less flexible and more grumpy, I will move there.

https://pjmedia.com/jennifer-rust/2026/03/08/living-in-a-purple-neighborhood-in-a-blue-city-in-a-red-state-n4950398?utm_source=pjmediavip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm

We Have Now Redeemed Ourselves As a Nation From Desert One

We Have Now Redeemed Ourselves As a Nation From Desert One

By Ward Clark

I was 17 when the Iranian revolution happened. I remember watching on television, another instance in which my father insisted, "This is history being made, right now," and pushed me to watch: The embassy staff blindfolded, an American president humiliated, indeed, our nation, humiliated by a mob of 7th-century barbarians. It was a disaster. It made us look weak. It made us look indecisive, and frankly, we had it coming, with an indecisive president who couldn't quite seem to get a grip on the problem.

Of course, many years later, we were treated to a new depth of indecisiveness with the presidency of Joe Biden, but that's another story.

Many years later, I befriended a guy who was in Tehran when the balloon went up. I cannot tell you who he was, or what he was doing there, but he was an American who spoke Farsi like a native, and could pass as a local. He was in the city when he heard the uproar start, thought, "I'd better get back to the embassy," but it was too late. He later told me, "They had the hostages all blindfolded, guys were shaking AK-47s in the air, and I was in the middle of a crowd shaking their fists and yelling 'Death to America.'" I asked him what he did next; he said, "What the hell do you think I did? I started shaking my fist and yelling 'Death to America!'" He got out of the country safely, but he never forgot that moment, or the later humiliation called Operation Eagle Claw, which failed at a place called Desert One.

The Carter administration, in April of 1980, decided to mount a rescue operation to extract the American hostages from Iran. 53 hostages were being held in Iran. The operation failed, utterly. Eight helicopters were sent to a place called Desert One, but only five arrived in working order. President Carter's staff advised him to abort the mission; he did, but during the equipment extraction, a helicopter collided with a transport aircraft carrying some of the servicemen assigned to the mission, as well as some of the choppers' jet fuel. Both aircraft were destroyed in the fire that ensued. Eight of our service members, including three Marines and five Air Force members, died. Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini claimed that Allah had personally intervened in the operation, and honestly, plenty of the Iranian people at that time probably believed him. Worst of all, the bodies of the eight servicemen who were killed were taken by the responding Iranians, who did at least return the remains to the United States in May of 1980.

The failure of Operation Eagle Claw was almost certainly one of the key reasons Jimmy Carter lost the 1980 election. The hostages were released on the same day that President Ronald Reagan was inaugurated; the Iranians obviously realized that there was a new sheriff in town, and that Reagan wasn't going to play patty-cake. The hostages had been held by the vicious savages in Iran for 444 days. When Ronald Reagan took office, American families all over the nation were able, finally, to take down all those yellow ribbons.

But the humiliation of Desert One remained.

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Then came President Donald Trump, the re-named and revitalized War Department, and the new Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, a soldier himself, still with dust on his boots and blood in his eyes. Then came Operation Epic Fury.

Along with our ally Israel, the United States Air Force and Navy aviators own the sky over Iran. Our initial attack was made by USAF B-2 bombers, and as happened earlier, in Operation Midnight Hammer, when the United States and Israel took out most of Iran's nuclear development program, the Iranian regime had no idea the Spirits were overhead until weapons struck. Then, the United States and Israel started to systematically disassemble Iran's capacity to make war. The Supreme Leader, the successor to the original Ayatollah Khomeini, was reduced to room temperature in the first phase, along with a laundry list of regime and military leaders. The Iranian Navy was sent to commune with Davy Jones in his famous locker. The Iranian Air Force pilots were looking at their airplanes and seeing coffins.

Best of all, the Iranian people are rising. They, even more than we, are sick and tired of the theocratic rule of the mullahs. The Crown Prince, Reza Pahlavi, son of the deposed Shah, is calling on the Iranian people to rise against the regime, and there may be no better time than now. It's not over yet. The regime is still lashing out. They are still dangerous. They have killed, according to some reports, as many as 10,000 of their own people who took to the streets to protest.

For the United States, though, the best part is this: The humiliation we suffered at Desert One has been redeemed. The honor of our armed forces was restored. And finally, after all these years, the families of the eight Americans who fell at Desert One can know that the sacrifice of those men was not for nothing, after all.

https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/03/05/we-have-now-redeemed-ourselves-as-a-nation-from-desert-one-n2199874?utm_source=rsafternoonbriefingvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Democrats and the Stench of Desperation

Democrats and the Stench of Desperation

Derek Hunter

Democrats and the Stench of Desperation — *AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File*

It’s not a pretty smell. I’m not talking about the natural reek of a liberal – that blending of body odor, disappointment and Axe body spray trying to cover it all – this is desperation, a different level of pathetic. While not unique to the left, the depth to which the smell has permeated their core is quite something. The emergence of Donald Trump on the national stage set a record for the number of people it broke at once, and his reemergence appears to have finished them off, both their decency and humanity. All that is left is a group of broken people.

Money is the lifeblood of politics, sadly, and Democrats exist in two different worlds – one where they are the plaything of the ultra-rich leftist activists who view the rest of the world as their toys or subjects, and the other where they pretend to care about the middle class.

While the money flows from the super-rich, it is used more to finance the wealthy lifestyles of pundits, incumbents and the “intellectuals” of the think tank and non-profit worlds. Yes, they’re that parasitic.

The people who run campaigns rake in some of that billionaire cash, but the lower-level donations are their juice, and they will do anything to get it, no matter how sleazy or unethical.

With sleazy and unethical comes, well, anything. And anything, especially for a dollar, is what Democrats do best. Add to that a few dashes of desperation and you have a party that is even willing to use the name of Joe Biden for cash.

In an email from “Joe Biden Announcment,” the Democrats wrote, “WOW, this is incredible! After President Biden called on us to come together and stand up to the MAGA Billionaires trying to buy our democracy, Democrats nationwide organized to fight back! Now political experts shifted a STUNNING 18 races in Democrats' favor!! This is our chance to flip control of the House and put power back in the hands of working people and families — but ONLY if we act quickly to capitalize on this momentum. So please: Will you rush $3 to the DCCC to answer President Biden's call and help flip the House blue?”

What was the “announcement”? A picture of Biden with the words, “An oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that really threatens our entire democracy.”

The quote is from January of 2025, just four days before Joe left office, when he was in the midst of a panicked temper tantrum on his way out the door. Not the most inspirational time for a senile old fart.

At the same time, the DNC was also begging for money by claiming they needed a big number in March to show strength in November. How that circle gets squared is a mystery.

They write, “Our first end-of-quarter fundraising deadline this year is coming up at the end of the month — our most important deadline since the 2024 election. Once it passes, we’ll be required to report what we’ve raised over the last few months. Here’s the truth: Everyone will be looking at that number to gauge whether Democrats are on track to win or lose in November. If we submit a report with lots of donations, we’ll be sending a clear message to Trump and his allies across the country that the American people are against their disastrous agenda, and they’re prepared to take back the House and the Senate in November. That’s why this deadline matters so much.”

The more people they sucker out of a few bucks, the more Republicans will be scared! Are you scared yet? Does it not scare you that a bunch of people who don’t know any better than to think Democrats are looking out for them are happy to have them add a little more debt to their high-interest credit cards? What’s a little more debt in a world of living paycheck to paycheck?

Yes, Democrats are that desperate and that evil. And worst of all, this desperate manipulation actually works on some people.

https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2026/03/09/democrats-and-the-stench-of-desperation-n2672485?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&utm_content=ncl-ChqBwjAapX&utm_term=&_nlid=ChqBwjAapX&_nhids=nc53Xu7KuGN1ls

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Unconditional Surrender: When Wars Are Fought to Win

Unconditional Surrender: When Wars Are Fought to Win

Donald Trump is betting that decisive force—not endless stalemate—can topple regimes, realign alliances, and compress decades of history into weeks.

By Roger Kimball

March 8, 2026

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“There are decades where nothing happens,” Vladimir Lenin is supposed to have said (but didn’t), “and there are weeks where decades happen.” Welcome to the beginning of March, Anno Domini 2026.

One week ago, on February 28, the United States and Israel commenced an attack on Iran. At first, it seemed to be merely a ramped-up continuation of Operation Midnight Hammer, the raid conducted last June when the United States, following up on Israel’s preliminary attacks, destroyed (“completely and totally obliterated”) three key nuclear sites at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. It was an extraordinary operation, in which four B-2 bombers, having flown for 30 hours from the United States, mounted an astonishing precision strike with fourteen 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs, together with submarine-fired Tomahawk cruise missiles.

But Midnight Hammer was merely a preliminary salvo compared to Epic Fury, the pulverizing assault that the United States and Israel (under the name “Roaring Lion”) launched last Saturday. The world has not seen anything like this since 1945, when the United States and its allies crushed Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Having learned from the aftermath of the Great War that armistice is often but another name for false victory, President Trump adopted as his motto the phrase that definitively ended World War II: “unconditional surrender.”

Trump understands, as so many “experts” have failed to understand, that the object of armed conflict is to win. So often in recent decades, the United States has embarked on war, or warlike activity, with no plan for victory. Early on in the War on Terror, for example, the U.S. located Mullah Omar, the Taliban head honcho who coddled al-Qaeda, in Afghanistan. The American forces were not, however, allowed simply to take him out. Restrictive rules of engagement required them to wire back to Washington to ask permission. By the time the proper authorities could answer, it was too late. Omar had vanished back into some unknown cave.

There is nothing like that happening now. Within just four or five days, virtually all of Iran’s senior leadership has been eliminated. Then its replacements were eliminated. “Their army is gone,” President Trump said a few days ago. “Their navy is gone. Their communications are gone. Their leaders are gone. . . . Their Air Force is wiped out. . . . They have 32 ships. All 32 are at the bottom of the ocean. Other than that,” he quipped, “they’re doing very well!”

The assault is not just continuing; it is ramping up. Just a few days ago, Israel destroyed a massive underground complex in the center of Tehran from which the (late) Supreme Leader Khamenei had planned to conduct the war. As retired Lt. General Keith Kellogg told Fox News, President Trump is “going after everything. . . . There’s a huge target list out there, and there’s no restrictions.” Kellogg, noting that he had never seen an operation like this, said that it’s not “whack a mole” but “whack a mullah. . . . This is a massive win for the United States.”

It’s also a massive win for the Iranian people. Just a week ago, the populace was cowed by the mullahs, their immoral “morality” police, and the murderous Basij thugs who terrorized the population. Remember, in January, they maimed and murdered tens of thousands of protesters. Tens of thousands. Now, a popular game in Iran is sneaking up behind Islamic regime clerics and knocking off their turbans. I like to see it. Around the world, exiled Iranians—often alongside Israelis and other Jews—are demonstrating in favor of President Trump. In London, a group of Iranians held a vigil, replete with candles and singing of the American national anthem, to honor the six American troops killed in Kuwait by an Iranian drone strike.

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In calling for unconditional surrender, Trump is seeking not just regime change. He seeks the destruction of the Islamic regime that has held Iran in its fearsome grip since 1979, when the Ayatollah Khomeini flew in from Paris to commence his theocratic reign of terror. Richard Falk, writing in The New York Times, cheered the event, predicting that Khomeini would show the world what “a genuine Islamic government can do.” I agree that Khomeini did just that. But I reckon that all the bodies he had hung from cranes did not exactly fulfill Falk’s expectations.

Just a few days after 9/11, when Muslim fanatics slaughtered nearly 3,000 Americans, George Bush told the world that the word “Islam” meant peace. In fact, it means “submission,” a bitter truth that the Iranian people have had to learn these past 47 years. Thanks to Donald Trump, that horrible misogynistic death cult is finally coming to an end. Iran will soon be free from those turban-headed murderous perverts. Lebanon may soon be free as well. A story on X reports that Lebanon’s government has just banned all Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps activities inside Lebanon. This means that Hezbollah, one of Iran’s chief terrorist proxies, is on its way out. Ditto for Hamas and the Houthis.

Meanwhile, halfway around the world in the Western Hemisphere, the Communist dictatorship in Cuba is entering its final days. The daring extraction of Nicolás Maduro from Caracas at the beginning of January cut off Cuba’s supply of oil. Most of the island has been without power for days. Riots have erupted in Havana. “Down with Communism” is the refrain. On Thursday, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said that he is open to talks with the United States on “any issue” in order to build “a civilized relationship between neighbors” that is “mutually beneficial.” In Costa Rica, President-elect Laura Fernández says that she wants to work with the Trump administration to confront organized crime in order to avoid becoming ridden with drug cartels in the way Mexico has been. “Mexico, for me, is a reference point for where we don’t want to end up.” As I write, Trump is meeting in Miami with El Salvador president Nayib Bukele, Argentina president Javier Milei, and other Latin American leaders at the Shield of the Americas ceremony. The goal? First, to crush the drug cartels that have been poisoning Americans for years. Second, to stop the flow of illegal immigration to the United States. Third, to work together to forge mutually beneficial commercial and security relationships.

It is difficult to keep up with Donald Trump’s dizzying pace. Since January 20, 2025, and with ever-increasing velocity, he has been stuffing decades into weeks. I don’t think there has ever been anything like it in American history.

https://amgreatness.com/2026/03/08/unconditional-surrender-when-wars-are-fought-to-win/

MA's Dem Governor Demands That DHS Turn Over Info on ICE Arrests, Their Response Points Out the Irony

MA's Dem Governor Demands That DHS Turn Over Info on ICE Arrests, Their Response Points Out the Irony

By Becca Lower

On Friday, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey sent a sternly-worded letter to the Department of Homeland Security, demanding that they turn over months worth of information on the illegal immigrants that ICE has arrested in its operations in the state.

Healey's office said Friday that the governor has sent a letter to outgoing U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons demanding that the federal agency provide, in one week, complete and accurate information on every person arrested in Massachusetts since January 2025, including the identity of each individual, the legal basis for each arrest, case status, detention location, court jurisdiction, and upcoming hearing dates.
“Many of those taken into custody are long-standing members of our communities—parents, caregivers, and workers whose sudden detention leaves their families in crisis,” Healey wrote. “This has had far-reaching consequences for their children, families, our communities, and the state of Massachusetts.”
Healey claims ICE’s own data shows the majority of those who were arrested in Massachusetts have no criminal record.

Now officials from the department and the U.S. Attorney's office have responded in a joint statement, pointing out how ironic it is that Gov. Healey has a gripe about information not being shared:

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Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons and U.S. Attorney Leah Foley stated:

“Isn’t it rich that the very governor who refuses to share information with federal law enforcement is now demanding information on ICE arrests? She forgets that being in the country illegally is, in fact, illegal.
The truth is every single alien arrested during Operations Patriot and Patriot 2.0 was in violation of U.S. immigration law. The majority of those had committed serious crimes in the United States or in their native countries. Most were released due to local and state jurisdictions refusing to cooperate with ICE.
Why does Governor Healey wish to impede ICE from removing criminal ilegal aliens from the Bay State?

The statement continued by noting that the operations in MA have (so far) netted "more than 2,860 arrests of criminal illegal aliens, many of whom were let in under President Biden," then closed by asking for the most basic common sense from Healey:

"Governor Healey should stop using her pulpit to smear ICE and bully private companies. Instead, she should start working with the Trump Administration to put American citizens first and keep our New England communities safe from criminal alien offenders," the officials said.

This is what we keep seeing across the country from blue-state Dems, trying to obstruct law enforcement from providing safety for the American people. Kudos to the Trump administration for continuing to call it out for what it is, as we approach the midterm elections.

https://redstate.com/beccalower/2026/03/07/mas-dem-governor-ice-dhs-n2199969?utm_source=rsmorningbriefingvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl