Month: March 2026

Culture

Should We Build a National Women’s Museum?

A centralized museum in Washington is liable to be excessively ideological and historically garbled.

On February 10, the House Committee on Natural Resources held a legislative hearing on the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum. The Women’s Museum itself was authorized in 2020, but Congress still needs to authorize land to build it. Before Congress acts, lawmakers and the public should weigh in on whether such a museum is wise in principle and consider what it is likely to become in practice. 

The Women’s Museum currently exists as a website, with blogs, learning resources, and featured exhibits. Those exhibits appear in other Smithsonian museums. “Forces for Change: Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women’s Activism” is in the National Museum of African American History and Culture. “The First Ladies” is in the National Museum of American History. 

What we know about the Women’s Museum so far does not inspire confidence, and waiting for it to be built to have these discussions would be counterproductive. Specifically, the current bill to allocate land does not define “woman,” which raises the likelihood that the museum would include achievements of biological men. 

This concern is not speculative. A 2021 blog titled “LGBTQ+ Women Who Made History,” includes the tennis player Renée Richards, who underwent sex reassignment surgery and competed in the U.S. Open. Richards is lauded as “one of the first professional athletes to identify as transgender.”

Recent developments at the Smithsonian and in the museum world more broadly do not bode well. There have been a number of issues with ideological bias at the Smithsonian museums. Most infamously, the Museum of African American History portrayed traits such as “objective, rational linear thinking,” and hard work as features of “white culture.” Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch coauthored a report by the American Alliance of Museums that begins, “DEAI is integral to excellence in museum practice. FULL STOP.” The American Alliance of Museums is a notable organization, including 35,000 museums and museum professionals.

These trends are downstream of higher education. Curators have degrees in museum studies from majority-liberal institutions. Experts tapped for the Women’s Museum are likely to have credentials in gender studies taught through a Marxist lens. 

Bipartisan oversight committees often prove ineffective. Cultural issues receive less sustained attention from conservatives, and some shy away from difficult political battles. 

Conservatives also lack a deep, serious bench of scholars on women’s history. We face our own problems with radicals. There are some scholars who take women’s perspectives seriously. But many assume the Sexual Revolutionaries’ premise that there is a logical and straight line from first-wave feminism to today’s ideologies. 

As historian Christopher Lasch—whom legal scholar Mary Ann Glendon called “the Man Who Loved Women and Democracy”—wrote, “In the light of the subsequent radicalization of the women’s movement, The Feminine Mystique is usually read (when it is read at all) as the first halting step down the road since traveled by an army of more militant women.”

Lasch argued that the deeper issue was how to revive a sense of vocation in a society that had lost a shared sense of purpose.

Beyond these practical concerns lie deeper questions about the museum itself. Should we have a “women’s” museum? Is women’s history best told by the federal government?

Efforts to depict lesser-known stories are laudable, and those stories are often fascinating. Many women’s lives, more than men’s, were historically lived in private. 

The history of American women is rich and varied, with remarkable individuals and community efforts, private sacrifices and public accomplishments, injustices and triumphs. The same is true of the American story. 

Mercy Otis Warren wrote plays and poems supporting the patriot cause, authored the only Antifederalist history of the American Revolution, and published an influential pamphlet for a Bill of Rights. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, second only to the Bible in 19th-century sales, forced a nation to confront its conscience about slavery.

American women have played a substantial role in civil society and philanthropy and have at times rallied against injustices. The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, which saved and still oversees George Washington’s home, demonstrates the spirited character of American women. 

In the early 19th century, first-wave feminists—often allied with abolitionists and temperance advocates—highlighted the damage caused by alcohol consumption. In 1830, Americans drank three times as much as they do today, and some husbands were tippling away the family income.

But is this “women’s history,” or simply American history? Can the two be cleanly separated? Perhaps we can agree that the Suffrage Movement was women’s history, though men were part of it. 

But what about Roe v. Wade or Cosmopolitan magazines? Will women’s history be reduced to the story of the Sexual Revolution, with abortion and transhumanism treated as its central goals?

Given the current environment, this outcome seems likely. Reasonable and legitimate attempts to consider demographics or how sex differences matter often devolve into oppressor–oppressed framings. These divisions overlook the shared work of men and women and obscure mutual sacrifice. Do such categories fairly describe an infantry nurse who endured the Depression and raised numerous children? Or her husband, who served in the Second World War and labored in dangerous factory work? Much of the shared, the noble, and the tragic of the human experience is lost with such reductive grids. But it seems likely that the Women’s Museum will be about how women have been wronged in or by America rather than the ways women have contributed to America. 

While laws like coverture and the denial of voting rights were serious injustices, the American story is a triumphant one of recognizing the equal dignity of the human person. Declaring “all men are created equal” provided the moral logic for the elimination of slavery and women’s enfranchisement. That trajectory, and the gratitude and patriotism it inspires, is often lost in the rigidity and resentment of postmodernism.

There are also other considerations about the construction of the Women’s Museum. History matters, but that doesn’t mean the federal government is the best institution to preserve it. National museums based in DC piece together history that occurred elsewhere. Rather than expanding the number of federal museums centralized in DC, what about encouraging Americans to go to institutions like Molly Brown’s House in Colorado, the places where history really happened? Is there something lost when the efforts to band together and raise the funds to preserve the home of a local hero are taken from communities and subsumed by the national government? 

It is quite American for civic associations to take responsibility for preserving the American story and American treasures. Americans used to do such things more, and we have ceded many of these habits of self-government. Beyond that intangible cost, centralization creates the incentive to remove artifacts from local communities and relocate them to Washington. While there is value in having a Museum of American History, such museums are particularly vulnerable to ideological issues. They lack natural limits, so their framing is more reliant on curators. (This is different from places like battlefields, which are historically significant for particular and inherent reasons. It would be quite odd, for example, to have an exhibit on Mark Twain at Mount Vernon.)  The Museum of American History is currently a bit of a hodge-podge, its mission unclear. The Women’s Museum would face the same issues.

Further, most Americans, particularly children, only have so much time and attention. Families often have to make a choice about which Smithsonian museums to visit when they come to DC, and hurry through the expansive collections. 

Would building a separate women’s history museum actually result in more citizens learning about the women of America? Or would exhibits on women’s history at the Museum of American History garner more attention? For comparison, the Museum of American History receives 2.1 million visitors per year, while the Museum of African American History and Culture receives 1.6 million. Since the Women’s Museum currently features exhibits at the Museum of American History, further integration seems feasible. 

America was built by remarkable men and women, and by citizens who have established lives of quiet and shared dignity. But the Women’s Museum is unlikely to paint that landscape with accuracy, nuance, and loveliness. Moreover, the stewardship of history may be better left to localities and states, our efforts more effectively focused on reviving and establishing the civic associations that have governed our heritage. Congress should consider the questions about the project before it’s too late.

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Foreign Affairs

The Government’s Dubious Case That Iran Tried to Kill Trump

The public deserves to see all the evidence for the consequential claim.

(Photo by Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)

Twenty-four years ago, on September 12, 2002, Benjamin Netanyahu came to Congress to pressure American politicians to authorize the use of military force against Israel’s enemies, namely Iraq and Iran, governments which had been marked for regime change since the neocons’ Clean Break Report authored in the 1990s. Though Israel quickly achieved its first goal of having the U.S military topple Saddam Hussein, it was not until last weekend that an American president made the military commitment toward fulfilling Israel’s long-held war aims against Iran, with President Donald Trump bombing Iran and announcing via a video posted on Truth Social his intent to topple its government. 

“The lives of American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties,” warned Trump as the Iranian military responded to joint U.S.–Israeli bombing with airstrikes of its own against multiple American bases in the region. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who has never seen a new war he did not instantly want to send other people’s children to go fight in (he does not have children of his own to send to war), echoed the president’s grim assessment, telling The Wall Street Journal, “If there are deaths or injuries in this operation, I can say without hesitation that they sacrificed for a noble cause…”

The administration has barely attempted to explain to the American people what that cause is, perhaps because they understand how transparent the true motivation for toppling the Iranian government is to most Americans, who can easily spot the Israeli fingerprints smeared all over this operation. Indeed, Secretary of State Marco Rubio effectively acknowledged as much on Monday when he said,

The president made the very wise decision—we knew that there was going to be an Israeli action, we knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn’t preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties.

With open admissions from senior government officials that the United States is fighting—and Americans are dying and unprotected in the Gulf States—on behalf of Israel, and with the absence of a rational and clear casus belli to affirm to their audiences and voters, a chorus of Trump loyalists have emerged from Congress and corporate media to spread a series of highly propagandistic lies meant to boost morale and provide retroactive justification for an unpopular war that Congress never authorized.

One of the most influential of those lies is that the government of Iran attempted to assassinate Trump, an allegation that seems to be taken seriously and considered legitimate by senior administration officials including the president himself. On Monday, Trump told ABC “I got [Khameinei] before he got me. They tried twice … I got him first.” Two days later, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth affirmed that narrative, telling reporters at a press conference that “Iran tried to kill President Trump and President Trump got the last laugh.”

Yet reporting by journalist Ken Silva suggests there is scant credible evidence tying Tehran to an actual assassination plot. The case centers on Asif Merchant, a Pakistani national who was arrested in July 2024 and whom prosecutors accuse of attempting to hire hitmen on Iran’s behalf. But as Silva has documented, the operation was a tightly controlled FBI sting, executed in a manner that is highly dubious.

Department of Justice prosecutors allege that Merchant conceived of the plot himself and was acting at the direction of, or in coordination with, Iranian contacts. In the government’s account, Merchant initiated the plan, disclosed it to a friend, and then attempted to hire what he believed were real hitmen, who were in fact undercover FBI agents.

But pretrial proceedings revealed that Merchant had been under FBI surveillance before he even entered the United States, and that the “friend” he allegedly confided in was already a government informant. That would make the federal government not only the architect of the sting operation, but the sole witness to Merchant’s purported expression of criminal intent.

Merchant also allegedly struggled to assemble even a $5,000 down payment for the supposed hit, obtaining funds from an associate via the FBI informant and transferring the money to other undercover agents. The Deputy Attorney General reported that Merchant had no known associates in the United States, including no known Iranian co-conspirators domestically. Disturbingly, prosecutors have signaled their intent to invoke the state secrets privilege to block the public and defense teams from having access to evidence that is potentially exculpatory.

In other words, there is no evidence publicly available that Merchant formed any plot on his own or that the Iranian government ever sponsored it. 

Among the few questioning the narrative that Iran tried to kill Trump is the MAGA luminary Tucker Carlson, who said that the intelligence that supposedly proves the Iranian plot existed “came from Israel.” To his point, it was revealed in a letter from a U.S. attorney assigned to the case that the FBI used Israeli spyware Cellebrite to access the alleged assassin’s phone. Certainly Netanyahu has boosted the narrative of an Iranian plot to kill the U.S. president. And as Carlson helpfully reminded his audience, “this country has certainly been manipulated a lot by Israeli intelligence.” 

If the attempted assassination allegation truly is a predicate for war, it is one of the thinnest ones in U.S. history, built on a sting operation the government manufactured and on evidence prosecutors are actively shielding from scrutiny.

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Foreign Affairs

The Next Iran Is Out of Our Hands

The U.S. and Israel have limited control over the political settlement of the war.

It no longer matters what might have happened if the U.S. stuck by the Obama nuclear accords, or any other of the what-ifs, all the way back to the CIA overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected government in 1953. All that matters is what happens next, now. Here are three scenarios, from just OK to really bad.

One of the few certainties is that the Middle East clumsily wrought by the U.S. War on Terror is gone. That Middle East eliminated Iraq as a regional power and replaced it with an emboldened Iran. U.S. wars eliminated Iran’s two border enemies, Iraq and Afghanistan, and pulled most of the Gulf States into the U.S. military orbit. At the same time, American reliance on Gulf oil and the Straits of Hormuz faded from the Policy Imperative Number One position it had held since the 1970s.

The Middle East formed into two regional power blocs, Iran (backed by a threshold nuclear program) and its proxies in Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, Gaza, and elsewhere, and the U.S./Israeli/Gulf bloc, backed by the Israeli nuclear program. The Russians and Chinese were not serious players anymore—Russia cut out of Syria and China dependent but powerless with its need for oil. It looked like that was going to be how things played out for some years to come (see the Biden administration). The nuclear question kept things from escalating too far too fast, and Iran’s influence over the terror forces of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis balanced in part the American armada.

Then came Trump 2.0.

Trump 2.0 unabashedly made it possible for Israel to get as close to destroying Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon as they will ever get. The U.S. and friends neutralized the Houthis. These were all severe brushback pitches against Iranian regional power. Then came the first U.S. and Israeli bombing of some/all/most of the Iranian nuclear program. Now the U.S. has ceased to hold back Israel from overt, direct, undeniable attacks inside the Iranian homeland for fear of starting a major conflict. (Remember “SCUD hunting” and how throughout the Gulf Wars keeping Israel out of the fight was a major U.S. objective?) However much of the Iranian nuclear program may have been destroyed last year, the U.S. and Israel are going after the rest of it now, along with the Iranian navy and probably soon ground elements.

Unless Iran has a hidden doomsday nuke, the country as we knew it for the past few decades is no longer a regional power. If it takes more bombs to keep it that way, so be it, they say; the gloves have truly been taken off. Trump talks now of a four- to five-week bombing campaign. At the rate of hundreds of sorties or more a day, what will be left to blow up? Call all that a Mission Accomplished moment.

The remaining question is what happens in Iran the day after the dust settles. External bombing does not determine internal political outcomes in complex societies.

The best scenario is what we’ll call Islamic Republic 2.0. Iran’s powerful built an internal security apparatus and theocratic structure designed to keep themselves in power. It has a vicious internal spy network, a well-armed Revolutionary Guard, a propaganda operation that preys upon very deep and sincere Islamic feelings among the people, especially the middle and technocratic classes, and will use all those formidable tools to cling to power. The system was designed to support a way of ruling, as in China, not a man, as in Iraq or Syria.

It may take a Tiananmen Square incident or three to achieve, which the U.S. will sit back and allow to happen as it did in Beijing (and in Tehran earlier this year). Iran does not live in fear of an Islamic revolution as the Saudis do; they already had theirs in 1979 and thrive on it. Don’t be swayed by CNN clips of random women burning their hijabs; my own visits in Iran with many ranks of people suggested a dissatisfaction with plenty the clerical government does that helps maintain U.S. economic sanctions, but not necessarily a dissatisfaction with the form of government (which includes local and regional elements of democratic elections) itself.

Stripped of its nukes and aware of the people’s dissatisfaction, Islamic Republic 2.0 will be forced to negotiate with the U.S. to lessen sanctions. What matters most to Iran is national survival, and some form of diplomacy, albeit at gunpoint, is the only path. A modus vivendi with Israel and America. The decades-long strategy to match Israel as a regional nuclear power has failed. The U.S. will go along to secure the “win” for Trump, and Israel will be satisfied in having ensured its survival. Weird, but everyone sort of wins something for the trouble.

If somehow the clerics fail to retain power and before chaos ensues, there exists the possibility of an internally negotiated secular government in Tehran, not quite Islamic Republic 2.0 but not quite a Jeffersonian democracy. The U.S. failed to see it, but this was always the sort-of best resolution for Iraq by say 2005 or so. The clerics retain majority control internally, the civilians assume responsibility for foreign affairs and most of the non-nuclear military, and the U.S. backs off enough of the sanctions to help keep the new system alive and in place for a while to see what happens. It is, however, very unclear Iran has the internal webs of cooperation to pull this off, or whether the Israelis will tolerate such a crapshoot for the country they just defeated.

It is mostly a Western fantasy that the Iranian people will rise up and take over the government. There is no nationally organized movement to rush to the barricades like revolutionary Islam in 1979. (MEK and Reza Pahlavi have no real following inside the country.) There is no clear leader to get behind, as with Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979. Ali Khamenei was disliked by many but not hated by most, as with the shah. The only way mobs succeed against armed police and troops is if many of the crowd are willing to die. Thousands in Tehran earlier—and who-knows-how-many in Tiananmen and Johannesburg and the Hungarian Revolution longer ago—were never enough. If the clerics close the universities, that eliminates most of any organizational base that may precariously exist. In sum, why would the Revolutionary Guard allow all this power-sharing, why would Israel trust it, and what institutional mechanism would formalize this division?

The worst-case scenario is very bad: chaos. Think Libya 2011, or Iraq during the darkest days, but this time with ballistic missiles and maybe even some fissionable material loose among the competing factions. What if the Revolutionary Guard breaks away from the clerics and clings to the missiles, going all out inside the country and/or against Israel? What if the religious cities of Qom and Mashhad try to break off from a civilian government growing in Tehran? What if the small but always angry Kurdish minority in Western Iran, denied a homeland by the U.S. in Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, decides to rise up? What if just all hell breaks loose as the U.S. and Israel destroy the things that keep order, as in Baghdad in 2003 when the entire civil infrastructure was wiped out by the Americans? The cops stop coming to work, the army stays in barracks, and suddenly you have a free-for-all inside a nation of 92 million people that requires—external peace-keeping forces? How it could end up is God’s will, mashallah.

Only the most deluded in Washington and Jerusalem think they know which scenario will be the next step in a new Iran. Only the most deluded in Washington and Jerusalem think they will have decisive influence themselves in what happens next.

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Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina said Friday that she plans to investigate outgoing Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem regarding a potential misuse of taxpayer funds.

“I trust President Trump and his judgment here,” Mace said of Trump’s decision to fire Noem during an interview with Newsmax.

“One of my questions is Corey Lewandowski. Is he going with her? Where is he going in all of this?” Mace asked.

Lewandowski served as President Donald Trump’s first campaign manager during his 2016 White House run and has remained close to the commander in chief.

He was also considered a “special government employee” who was serving as an adviser to Noem, Mediate reported.

Fox News’s Jacqui Heinrich reported on Thursday that, “Noem had sought to appoint Lewandowski as her chief of staff, but the president blocked that decision amid these rumors of an [extra-marital] affair.”

In the Newsmax interview, Mace also praised Louisiana Republican Sen. John Kennedy, whose tough questioning of Noem during a Senate hearing on Tuesday is widely seen to have been key to Trump’s ousting her.

“The second thing is, I want to thank, I’m very grateful to Republican Senator Kennedy,” Mace added. “I had no idea how much money — hundreds of millions of dollars — that Kristi Noem had wasted on her personal PR for all those TV ads that are running across the country that have nothing to do with deporting illegal aliens.”

Newsmax host Emma Rechenberg asked if Mace planned to investigate Noem, saying, “We’re talking about over $200 million … Do you think there should be an investigation launched into Kristi Noem?

“I do,” Mace replied. “And now that I have more of this information, I think that we need to go back to a potential subpoena for her through the Oversight Committee.”

She added, “I don’t think [Noem] walks away from this and she shouldn’t, because as Republicans, we need to hold our own accountable. Because President Trump is trying to re-instill trust in our institutions, in Congress, in the White House. He’s doing a very good job of that.”

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Jennifer Welch, the left’s new favorite podcaster, received an award at the GLAAD Awards this week. She used the opportunity to hurl insults at Trump and ICE, naturally.

If you ever needed evidence that lizard people might exist, you could start with this woman.

Whether she realizes it or not, Welch is swiftly becoming the toxic female face of the Democrat party. She knows all of the talking points and pushes them at every opportunity. This was no different.

FOX News reports:

Far-left podcaster goes on profane anti-ICE, anti-Trump rant after winning GLAAD award

“I’ve had It” podcast host Jennifer Welch went on a profanity-laced tirade while speaking onstage at the GLAAD Media Awards on Thursday.

“I want to say something with my full chest — never obey in advance. F— ICE! F— Donald Trump! Free Palestine! And save trans kids!” Welch exclaimed while accepting her award.

GLAAD is a nonprofit organization that advocates for the LGBTQ community and hosts an annual awards show honoring media and entertainment figures who support that mission.

Welch won this year’s Outstanding Podcast Episode category and has gone viral over the last year for some of her more controversial takes.

In December, the far-left podcast host claimed that Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk “justified” his own killing, reacting to a clip of his widow, Erika Kirk, condemning people for mocking or rationalizing his assassination.

“The person that I heard that justified his death was him,” Welch said. “He’s the one that said on tape that if school kids die, but it means he gets to have a Second Amendment, then that’s what it’s going to be. He’s the one that justified it.”

See the video below:

Jennifer Welch after winning a GLAAD Award last night: “I want to say something with my full chest — never obey in advance. Fuck ICE! Fuck Donald Trump! Free Palestine! And save trans kids!” pic.twitter.com/DKd6oxm82I

— Marco Foster (@MarcoFoster_) March 6, 2026

This woman and people like her are steering the Democrats right now.

People were wondering why the Democratic Party cannot move off of the transing the kids issue. It’s because of this. Their entertainment, influencer, and donor apparatus will not let them.

It’s why the 2024 autopsy went straight into the trash. https://t.co/QbIwMrcebY

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) March 6, 2026

This decrepit hag is the face of the Democratic Party in 2026. https://t.co/a3BSzLwD23

— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) March 6, 2026

Do Democrats realize they still need to win back some men? This is not the way to do it.

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A tornado, or possibly more than one, ripped through southwestern Michigan this week causing massive amounts of damage.

Unfortunately, there were multiple injuries and even a few deaths.

The amount of force that comes with tornadoes is other-worldly. They can uproot trees and destroy solid buildings in just moments.

The Detroit News reports:

4 dead, 12 hurt in suspected tornadoes in southwest Michigan

Four people were killed and 12 others injured when tornadoes ripped through southwest Michigan Friday afternoon, WOOD-TV reported.

Three people were killed when a tornado hit the Union City area, the Branch County Sheriff’s Office told WOOD-TV. Twelve people were injured in the same area

Of the 12 injured, three required hospitalization. The names of the dead were not released.

One person was confirmed dead after a tornado in the Edwardsburg area, the TV station reported.

“Our thoughts are with those who have lost family, friends, and property during this incident,” the sheriff’s office told the TV station.

Tornadoes ripped through parts of southwest Michigan Friday afternoon, destroying buildings, leveling trees, and knocking out power.

Social media users have shared a video of a twister causing damage in the Three Rivers area, including ripping the roof off a Menards store, pulling apart a storage unit and lifting cars in the parking lot of a strip mall along US-131.

Watch below:

MICHIGAN MAYHEM: Stunning video shows a tornado tearing through a parking lot and hurling debris into the air in Three Rivers, Michigan. | @foxweather pic.twitter.com/sEzHY09tWo

— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 7, 2026

Here’s a view from a distance:

WATCH: Massive Tornado in Union City, Michigan.

: @WSLPIG

pic.twitter.com/ovBGgpYgmU

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 6, 2026

More:

‘WE NEED TO GO’: Dramatic video shows the moment a tornado rips the roof off a business in Three Rivers, Michigan. | @foxweather pic.twitter.com/khHDdolACi

— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 6, 2026

This is the best perspective I’ve seen of the Union City, Michigan tornado. Good lord, it just tore up everything in its path, wouldn’t be surprised if this was intense (EF3+).

Video taken by Lisa Nicola on Facebook: https://t.co/hFKLky9Cmq pic.twitter.com/zPTvFNP0h8

— Nick Krasznavolgyi (@NickKrasz_Wx) March 6, 2026

Pray for Union City, Michigan tonight!

That was a massive tornado that hit them today! pic.twitter.com/8EAQGiAvJX

— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) March 7, 2026

Prayers to the victims and their families. Also to anyone who lost their home or suffered other damage.

Nature can be scary.

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Conservative scholar and historian Victor Davis Hanson is recovering from a serious illness and is back to comment on world events just in time.

During a recent conversation, Hanson talked about what is happening with Iran and explained why you can’t negotiate with them. Mainly because they live in a fantasy where they believe God is on their side.

He also explained why Trump’s strategy is working and Iran is losing badly.

From the Daily Signal:

Victor Davis Hanson: No, you can’t negotiate with them because their whole currency is lying, and they’re fanatic ideologues. And they have a supernatural view of what’s going to happen, and they’re on the right side of Cosmic Divinity and all of these ideas. I think [former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi] Rafsanjani in a disputed statement, but I think it was accurate, said that Israel was a one bomb state, and that was the advantage that you got half the Jews in the world in one place, where all you needed was one bomb. So you can’t negotiate.

I think their strategy, to tell you, was kind of a Muhammad Ali “Rope-a-Dope” where they were going to ride it out. And then [President Donald] Trump would be gone in three years, and people would be angry, and you’d get a Joe Biden, or better yet a type of puppet of the Left. But better yet, you would get an [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] or a “squad” member, or a [Gavin] Newsom or [Kamala] Harris, and then you’re home free to get the bomb.

See the video below:

Victor Davis Hanson: Iran Tried to Run Out the Clock—Trump Shut It Down

Iran’s strategy against Trump was probably trying to “ride it out” and bet on a new presidency such as “AOC,” “Newsom or Harris.”

President Trump, on the other hand, had a different strategy: By any means… pic.twitter.com/YkKexyQ5M9

— A Man Of Memes (@RickyDoggin) March 7, 2026

In this video, Hanson breaks down the strategy that is being used against Iran and why this is not like Iraq or Afghanistan.

Victor Davis Hanson pinpoints one of the most important differences between the Iran conflict and wars the United States has lost in the past.

No one is coming to Iran’s defense and they are rapidly depleting their arms with no way to resupply them.

HANSON: “They have a… pic.twitter.com/CZMrd2Aq2c

— Overton (@overton_news) March 4, 2026

If this operation is successful, and so far it looks like it will be, Trump will have changed the world for the better.

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An illegal alien from Mauritania was arrested and charged for voting in five US presidential elections.

“United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that Mahady Sacko, 50, of Philadelphia was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with fraudulent voting in the 2024 federal election by an illegal alien,” the DOJ said.

“Sacko is an illegal alien who was ordered deported in 2000. Despite being an illegal alien, Sacko allegedly unlawfully voted in person in the 2024 general election for federal office,” the Justice Department said.

“Sacko falsely represented that he was a U.S. citizen in order to vote and register to vote,” the DOJ said.

Sacko is facing five years in prison.

Fox News reported:

An illegal immigrant from Mauritania was charged with fraudulent voting after allegedly casting ballots in Pennsylvania in the last five presidential elections, prosecutors said.

Mahady Sacko, a 50-year-old Philadelphia resident who was ordered to be deported from the U.S. in 2000, “allegedly unlawfully voted in person in the 2024 general election for federal office,” and, “falsely represented that he was a U.S. citizen in order to vote and register to vote,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

An FBI special agent investigating the case said Pennsylvania state voting records showed Sacko also “voted in the following federal elections: the 2008 general election, the 2012 general election, the 2016 primary election, the 2016 general election, the 2020 primary election [and] the 2020 general election.”

“Sacko voted in person for each of these elections, except for the 2020 primary election, in which he voted by mail. On each occasion, Sacko falsely represented that he was a U.S. citizen,” the agent wrote in a criminal complaint.

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Survival of humanity may one day depend on that capability to change asteroids’ courses.

Out of the many apocalyptic scenarios for the world and its inhabitants, probably no one is so frightening – and in a way, inevitable – than the possibility of a collision of a wandering space rock with our planet.

It’s been the object of both science and fiction to imagine space missions to divert these civilization-killers from their collision courses.

And, as it turns out, a first experimental mission has been successful in doing so.

Four years ago, NASA purposely smashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid to see if they could deflect it — a test to prove humanity could protect Earth from threatening space rocks. New research out Friday says the experiment pushed the moonlet asteroid slightly off course… pic.twitter.com/5kraEEvhY8

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) March 6, 2026

Associated Press reported:

“It’s the first time that a celestial body’s orbit around the sun was deliberately changed. The asteroid that NASA’s Dart spacecraft slammed into was never a threat to Earth.

‘This study marks a notable step forward in our ability to prevent future asteroid impacts on Earth’, the international research team wrote in Science Advances.

The changes were slight — reductions of just one-tenth of a second and one-half of a mile (720 meters) to a solar lap spanning two years and hundreds of millions of miles (kilometers), according to the scientists.”

This isn’t science fiction. A NASA mission successfully changed the orbit of an asteroid system. https://t.co/MJzqi7qRlK

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) March 6, 2026

“’Even though this seems small, a tiny deflection … can add up over decades and make the difference between a potentially hazardous asteroid hitting or missing the Earth in the future’, lead author Rahil Makadia, of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, said in an email.”

Having an impact on the effort to protect Earth: In 2022, NASA’s DART mission tested a technique for deflecting a hazardous asteroid by impacting tiny Dimorphos. Now, new research reveals that DART also changed the orbit of its larger companion, Didymos. https://t.co/ykuNEtL98V pic.twitter.com/4VVcOU5jdf

— NASA Solar System (@NASASolarSystem) March 6, 2026

Ars Technica reported:

“The pure kinetic energy of a 500-kilogram spacecraft hitting at hypersonic speeds is impressive, but on its own, it would not slow a huge asteroid that much. When DART struck Dimorphos, it blasted pulverized rock and dust out into the void. ‘The material kicked up off an asteroid’s surface acts like an extra rocket plume’, Makadia said.

Scientists call this effect the momentum enhancement factor, denoted by the Greek letter beta. If the spacecraft impact transferred exactly its own momentum and no debris was kicked up, beta would be exactly one.

Because Dimorphos orbits Didymos, some of the ejecta remained trapped in the system, where it altered the mutual orbit between the two rocks. But a crucial fraction of the ejecta achieved escape velocity from the entire binary system. The momentum carried away by the system-escaping debris is what ultimately contributed to shoving the center of mass of the whole Didymos-Dimorphos pair. ‘In our case, we found that the beta parameter due to DART impact was around two’, Makadia explained.”

Read more:

Scientists With the International Asteroid Warning Network Start To Track Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas as It Approaches Planet Earth

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent revealed that the United States is preparing to launch what President Donald Trump has described as the largest bombing campaign yet against Iran, as American forces intensify their military operation targeting the Iranian regime’s missile infrastructure.

Speaking about the ongoing conflict, Bessent said the Iranian regime is currently losing on the battlefield and is being overwhelmed by the coordinated military pressure from U.S. forces and their allies.

According to Bessent, tonight’s operation is expected to deliver the most significant blow so far to Iran’s military capabilities.

“A losing military battle where they’re being overwhelmed,” Bessent said.

“As Secretary Hegseth, General Caine, and the President have all said, tonight will be our biggest bombing campaign, and we’ll do the most damage to the Iranian missile launchers and the factories that build the missiles.”

Bessent emphasized that the United States has already inflicted severe damage on Iran’s military infrastructure and that the campaign is steadily degrading the regime’s ability to threaten American forces and regional allies.

“We are substantially degrading them,” Bessent said. “Our campaign has been overwhelming.”

The remarks come as the Trump administration ramps up pressure on Tehran following a series of escalating confrontations in the Middle East. U.S. officials say Iranian missile sites, weapons factories, and other strategic military assets are being systematically targeted in order to cripple the regime’s offensive capabilities.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has confirmed strikes on two of Iran’s most significant “motherships” or drone carriers.

A U.S. fast-attack submarine (reportedly the USS Charlotte) fired a Mark 48 torpedo to sink the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena in the Indian Ocean.

Bessent noted that, unable to gain ground militarily, Iranian leaders are now attempting to destabilize the global economy as a form of retaliation.

“Having not been able to succeed there, they’re trying to create economic chaos,” Bessent explained. “And I don’t think they’re going to be able to do it.”

The Treasury Secretary also pushed back against media narratives questioning the effectiveness of the operation, suggesting that critics in the press are ignoring the strategic planning behind the campaign.

“There are a lot of headline writers and a lot of other networks that want to speak to the contrary,” Bessent said. “But we’ve considered all this. This is in the President’s calculus, and things are proceeding as planned.”

Military officials have already indicated that U.S. forces are targeting not only Iran’s current stockpile of weapons but also the industrial infrastructure responsible for building future missiles, a strategy designed to permanently degrade the regime’s military capacity.

WATCH:

HOLY CRAP. Sec. Scott Bessent just said that tonight will be the US military’s LARGEST strikes yet against Iran

“Tonight will be our BIGGEST BOMBING campaign, we’ll do the MOST damage to the Iranian missile launchers, the factories that build the missiles.”

“We are… pic.twitter.com/HtNw3uGjDr

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 6, 2026

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