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Iran was nowhere close to a nuclear bomb, experts say– www.scientificamerican.com

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Confusion on whether Iran truly needed only “two weeks to four weeks” to make a nuclear weapon, as President Donald Trump suggested on Monday, hangs over the ongoing U.S. and Israeli war on the Persian Gulf nation. Nuclear experts call this claim unlikely—but the confusion may stem from some basics of atomic chemistry.

“There was no evidence that Iran was close to a nuclear weapon,” says Jeffrey Lewis of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. His comment echoed those of other experts after the war’s start, as well as statements from International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi at that time and in 2025 and last year’s “threat assessment” report by U.S. intelligence agencies.

According to an IAEA estimate, as of June 2025, Iran possessed 441 kilograms of 60 percent enriched uranium, where the percentage refers to the share of the isotope uranium 235 (U 235) found in the material. That would be enough for 10 nuclear weapons if the material could be enriched further to full 90 percent weapons-grade concentrations, according to the IAEA. That further enrichment would take a matter of weeks in a fully functioning Iranian nuclear complex, perhaps explaining the time line within Trump’s declaration.

At Annual Meeting, Largest Teachers Union Admits It’s An Activist Front– thefederalist.com

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Most Americans believe that conferences for public school educators feature practical, hands-on sessions designed to improve academic and behavioral outcomes and effectively manage the various roles and responsibilities assigned to teachers by elected officials and school administrators.

Unfortunately, modern education conferences often look more like political rallies than thoughtful explorations into the art and science of teaching. And no group offers a more politicized conference experience than the nation’s largest teacher union, the National Education Association (NEA).

AG Bondi Leaves D.C Home, Moves to Secure Military Base amid Surge in Death Threats– slaynews.com

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Attorney General Pam Bondi has reportedly relocated from her Washington, D.C., residence to secure housing on a military base after federal authorities warned of escalating threats against the nation’s top law enforcement official.

According to reports citing officials familiar with the situation, the move occurred within the past month.

It came after law enforcement flagged credible security risks tied to multiple high-profile developments.

An Assault Weapons Ban Is Heading to Spanberger’s Desk. Here’s What to Expect.– townhall.com

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An Assault Weapons Ban Is Heading to Spanberger’s Desk. Here’s What to Expect. – townhall.com

The Republican Party once held a supermajority in the House of Delegates and controlled the Senate. Those days are gone for good, likely never to return, as the state’s political landscape has shifted. The Democrats once again control everything in Richmond, and they’re now juiced up on leftist insanity. An assault weapons ban is one of many insane policy items on their agenda. Local reporter Neil Minock has reported on the slew of new taxes that could be coming, but this anti-gun bill isn’t a shock.

VMI under attack by Democrat-controlled legislature in Virginia, GOP lawmakers warn– www.thecollegefix.com

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VMI under attack by Democrat-controlled legislature in Virginia, GOP lawmakers warn – thecollegefix.com

Five Congressional Republicans from Virginia are sounding the alarm on a set of bills winding their way through the state legislature that seek to create controls over the Virginia Military Institute that critics say could destabilize the college and create a troubling state-overreach precedent.

The GOP lawmakers sent a letter March 5 to President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, asking the administration to step in and address the controversy, as the bills have made significant headway in recent months.

They argued that the Virginia state legislature does not necessarily have the authority for such oversight measures of VMI, one of six senior military colleges governed by Title 10, the federal law that regulates the armed forces.

9th Circuit upholds first grader’s free speech rights in ‘black lives matter’ case– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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A federal appeals court handed an elementary school student a significant win this week for her free speech rights in the classroom, vacating a lower court’s ruling that had placed her speech rights at the whim of teachers and administrators.

A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit found that the lower court did not properly apply the standard set in the 1969 Supreme Court ruling Tinker v. Des Moines, which found that a student does not lose his free speech rights at school and that schools may only restrict speech if it causes significant disruption to the learning environment. The ruling said the lower court was wrong in finding that the student’s drawing, at the center of the dispute, was not protected by the First Amendment.

“This case presents an important issue: to what extent is elementary students’ speech protected by the First Amendment? Applying the criteria set forth in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, we hold that elementary students’ speech is protected by the First Amendment, the
age of the students is a relevant factor under Tinker, and schools may restrict students’ speech only when the restriction is reasonably necessary to protect the safety and well-being of its students,” the ruling said.

Oil shortage chaos as emergency meeting called with petrol prices surging | World | News– www.express.co.uk

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An emergency meeting has been called amid fears over a severe global oil shortage, with petrol prices already surging in the UK. Over 30 members will “assess the current security of supply and market conditions to inform a subsequent decision on whether to make emergency stocks […] available to the market,” IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said in a statement.

Oil prices dropped by more than 11% as markets began anticipating a release of emergency oil reserves, a sharp reversal after prices had surged to nearly $120 per barrel on Monday following the supply disruption. Fatih Birol noted that energy ministers from the Group of Seven nations met earlier on Tuesday to discuss possible responses to the crisis.

ICE Houston Confirms Arrest of Over 400 Illegal Alien Child Predators– slaynews.com

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested over 400 illegal alien child predators in the Houston area during the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, according to a new agency report.

All 414 illegals were charged or convicted of child sex offenses.

The total is nearly double the 211 arrests recorded during the final year of former President Joe Biden’s administration, ICE said in a press release.

Gavin Newsom’s Wife Caught Pocketing Millions For Her Woke Pet Project– trendingpoliticsnews.com

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Jennifer Siebel Newsom drew headlines last month when she scolded reporters at her husband’s Planned Parenthood press conference, insisting they weren’t asking enough about what she called a “war on women.”

Now the California first partner is facing uncomfortable questions of her own.

IRS filings reviewed by the Daily Mail show Siebel Newsom has paid herself and her company, Girls Club LLC, a sizable cut of the annual revenue from her nonprofit, The Representation Project, in some years close to a third of what the charity brought in. Over roughly the past decade, the payments total more than $3.7 million, the report said.

Pennsylvania woman lives in massive $40K church– nypost.com

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She’s living holy.

Today’s house prices are so high that one Pennsylvania woman purchased a massive church for cheap and is encouraging others to do the same.

Priscilla Houliston has established herself on social media with informative videos about life in a historic church in the Keystone State.

It might sound unconventional, but given the current economic environment, Houliston might be onto something.

BREAKING: Idaho House rejects homosexual ‘marriage,’ calls on Supreme Court to reverse Obergefell– www.lifesitenews.com

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Idaho Republican lawmakers took a strong stand against homosexual “marriage,” voting to reject the Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges ruling as “an illegitimate overreach” and urge the court to overturn it.

The Idaho House of Representatives passed a resolution on Tuesday condemning the 2015 decision for “arbitrarily and unjustly” subverting the true definition of marriage, which “has been recognized as the union of one man and one woman for more than 2,000 years.”

The resolution – House Joint Memorial 17 – declares that “the Idaho Legislature rejects the Obergefell decision” and “calls upon the Supreme Court of the United States to reverse Obergefell and restore the natural definition of marriage.”

Leftist Still Doesn’t Learn His Lesson After His Pro-Diversity Speech Is Interrupted by ISIS Terrorist’s Bomb– www.westernjournal.com

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Mental illness often prevents the afflicted from recognizing reality and adjusting their behavior accordingly.

With that in mind, the wokeness that infects so many leftists’ brains surely qualifies as a disease. After all, not even when they morph into literal satire do they stop and reflect on their absurd views.

For instance, in a remarkable pair of posts on the social media platform X, leftist actor and comedian Walter Masterson doubled down on his pro-open borders rhetoric even after a literal Islamic terrorist tossed a bomb over Masterson’s shoulder and into a crowd at an anti-Islam protest Saturday.

A 1,300-Pound NASA Satellite Is Falling Back to Earth. What Could Go Wrong? – PJ Media– pjmedia.com

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A NASA research satellite weighing roughly 1,300 pounds is falling back to Earth after more than a decade in orbit. The spacecraft is known as Van Allen Probe A, one of two satellites launched by NASA in 2012 to study Earth’s radiation belts. Engineers expected the spacecraft to remain in orbit for years, gathering data about charged particles trapped in Earth’s magnetic field. Now the mission has ended, and gravity started doing its thing.

64 cents higher than a month ago, and no state averages under $3 per gallon– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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The national average price for regular gas continues to soar, reaching $3.578 per gallon on Wednesday morning. The price point marks a 64-cent-per-gallon increase compared to a month ago, according to AAA.

The rise in gas prices over the last month is the largest single monthly increase since 2022, when fuel costs increased by 71 cents per gallon between February and March, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Between the week of February 9, 2026, and March 9, 2026, the average price for regular grade gasoline rose from $2.902 per gallon to $3.502 per gallon, according to the EIA. Moreover, gas prices today are nearly 50 cents per gallon more expensive than a year ago, according to AAA.

John Thune REFUSES to Nuke the Filibuster to Pass SAVE Act: “That’s Not Going to Happen”– wltreport.com

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s true colors are showing again…

Despite President Trump making it very clear that the SAVE America Act needs to get passed as soon as possible and urging Senate leadership to nuke the filibuster, Sen. Thune is completely refusing to take action.

Sen. Thune told NBC News that a talking filibuster is “more complicated and risky” than people realize and that he doesn’t believe it would work.

Academia didn’t learn from Oct. 7. It doubled down– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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One might have thought the campus chaos that followed Oct. 7, 2023, would force a moment of academic sobriety.

After the massacre in Israel, the country watched elite universities descend into moral confusion — students chanting slogans they barely understood, administrators hiding behind procedural evasions, and faculty members serving not as guides but as accelerants. The congressional hearings that followed did not merely embarrass higher education. They revealed something deeper: The line between scholarship and activism had been blurred beyond recognition.

And yet much of the academy appears to have learned nothing.

GOP Sen. Bernie Moreno Outlines Why John Thune Struggles To Move SAVE America Act Forward– dailycaller.com

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Republican Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno on Tuesday listed reasons why Senate Majority Leader John Thune faces difficulty moving the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act through the chamber.

The Republican-controlled House passed the SAVE America Act in February 2026 by a 218–213 vote, requiring documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register for federal elections. Thune said the bill faces an uncertain path in the Senate because Republicans currently lack the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster. Moreno said on “The Ingraham Angle” that Thune has limited leverage over several Republican members who are pushing their own priorities instead of coordinating with party leadership.

Senate Examines China’s Exploits of US Birthright Citizenship– www.dailysignal.com

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The Chinese Communist Party oddly found a reason to promote the U.S. Constitution, or at least an interpretation of it, journalist and author Peter Schweizer noted before a Senate panel Tuesday.

At a hearing on birthright citizenship, Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., asked Schweizer if the Chinese government promotes exploiting the concept.

“They have run articles in the People’s Daily, which is the main news organ of the Communist Party, explaining that you have a constitutional right in the United States,” said Schweizer, president of the watchdog Government Accountability Institute and author of the recent book, “The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon.”

Paranoid Judges Weaponized ADA To Mask Kids During Covid– thefederalist.com

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As we approach the sixth anniversary of the first mandatory stay-at-home orders in reaction to Covid, it seems most Americans just want to forget the whole era. After all, for many people, it is easier to forget rather than confront their participation in the mass hysteria that included seniors forced to die alone, crushed livelihoods, and stunting the education of an entire generation.

But this willful blindness leaves us vulnerable to a repeat performance. In particular, unelected federal judges have not performed any meaningful self-reflection regarding their behavior during Covid, and so we are a bad flu season away from them reprising their role as public health overlords.

Woke Professor Says It Is Time To Ban The Words “Gay” And “Lesbian” Because They Offend Trans People– www.louderwithcrowder.com

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The left’s ideology is not rooted in universal truth. This is especially true when it comes to transgenderism. In fact, the entire foundation of that ideology is rooted in the lie that gender is somehow malleable.

This also contradicts the gay agenda. This is because, at one point in time, the left pretended people were “born this way.” The problem now, however, is that the premise for transgenderism is that some are born in the wrong body. Subsequently, if you can allegedly change your sex, then being gay and/or lesbian becomes meaningless. Thus, two things cannot be true at the same time. Either it is true that gay people are born gay or that trans people are born trans. These things cannot coexist — and yes, both can be false. Draw your own conclusions.

Trump Will Try to ‘Seize Ballot Boxes’ to ‘Subvert the Vote’ in Midterms– www.breitbart.com

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Tuesday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said President Donald Trump would try to “seize ballot boxes’ to “subvert the vote” in the midterm elections.

Host Jen Psaki said, “The administration subpoenaed records from 2020 from Arizona. We know that’s not about changing the outcome of the 2020 election. We know that they’ve already gone through that. It’s obviously about 2026. What do you make of that and what’s your level of concern about it?”

Schiff said, “I think the subpoenas in Arizona, America, Maricopa County, the FBI raid in Georgia, this is all trying to establish some kind of phony predicate for them to say that the election system is so flawed, the machines don’t work. There’s too much fraud and absentee ballots that come November, they can nationalize the elections, they can somehow outlaw absentee ballots, or they can seize ballot boxes and they will have some pretext to do it. So this is, I think, part of laying the foundation to interfere with, suppress the vote or ultimately subvert the vote. They understand, as we do in the Democratic Party, that they are likely to get clobbered in the midterms and, you know, they’re willing to resort to anything.”

Oil falls after Energy secretary wrongly claims tanker escort– www.cnbc.com

pgnewser March 11, 2026 0

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Oil prices retreated Tuesday, even after Secretary of Energy Chris Wright wrongly claimed in a social media post that the U.S. Navy had escorted a tanker through the Strait of Hormuz.

“The U.S. Navy has not escorted a tanker or a vessel at this time,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Tuesday.

U.S. crude oil fell 11.94% to close at $83.45 per barrel. Brent crude, the global benchmark, lost 11.28% to settle at $87.80. Prices fell more than 17% immediately after Wright’s post.

Canada convenes special committee to consider expanding euthanasia to include mental illness– www.lifesitenews.com

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The Canadian government has created a committee filled with euthanasia advocates to determine whether or not Canada should expand assisted suicide to those with mental illness, but a few Members of Parliament on the committee promise to advocate for life.

The Special Joint Parliamentary Committee is made up of 10 MPs and five senators who will look at Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program to determine whether it should be expanded yet again. 

One of the committee members is pro-life Conservative MP Andrew Lawton, who announced on X that “I’m honoured to be named to the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying, which will review the incoming expansion of MAID to people with solely a mental illness and no physical ailments.”

“This expansion comes into force next year unless new legislation is passed.”