The Morning Report — 3/2/26

Good morning kids. Well March certainly does come in like a Lion, in this case it's the Lion of Judah! I am referring of course to President Trump's massive decapitation strike against the Iranian Muallahocracy. Supreme leader Khomeini is confirmed dead and crucially there are reports that at least 48 key Iranian officials have also been vaporized in the joint American and Israeli operations.

Thirty-six hours after the United States military launched strikes against the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran, President Donald Trump issued a video update Sunday on Operation Epic Fury from his Mar-a-Lago residence. . . The president characterized Operation Epic Fury as “one of the largest, most complex, most overwhelming military offensives the world has ever seen.” The allied militaries struck “hundreds of targets in Iran, including Revolutionary Guard facilities, Iranian air defense systems,” and “nine ships plus their naval base, all in a matter of literally minutes.”

. . . The president also defended the joint strikes, declaring the U.S. was “undertaking a massive operation, not merely to ensure security for our own time and place, but for our children and their children.” “This is the duty and burden of a free people,” he reflected. “These actions are right, and they are necessary to ensure Americans will never have to face a radical, bloodthirsty terrorist regime, armed with nuclear weapons.”

“For almost 50 years, these wicked extremists have been attacking the United States while chanting the slogan ‘Death to America’ or ‘Death to Israel’ or both. They are the world’s number one state sponsor of terror,” Trump added. “These intolerable threats will not continue any longer.” (RELATED: ‘I Have Agreed’: Trump Says Iran’s New Leaders Want To Talk') . . “Combat operations continue in full force and will continue until all of our objectives are achieved,” he stated.

Turning to the remaining authorities in Iran, Trump urged “the Revolutionary Guards, the Iranian military police, to lay down your arms and receive full immunity or face certain death. It will be certain death, it won’t be pretty.”

The president then made another appeal to the Iranian people, urging regime change.

Well, there's the rub my friends. Who will be the new leaders and what kind of government and society will emerge once the dust settles and the rubble of the old regime is cleared away? Over the last few weeks, I have had many links that show the Persian people are absolutely against any kind of return to an Islamic theocracy. Of course, it's the IRGC and security services that will call the shots, literally and figuratively unless they either surrender or are eradicated. I fear the President is correct in that "it won't be pretty."

So far we have at least three American servicemen dead and a number of others reported wounded along with a number of Israeli citizens killed in missile strikes. God bless all of them, and protect those on the front lines and the innocents who are behind the lines.

The political fallout here at home is predictable. The Fifth columnist Democrat Left and their media puppets are with the terrorists in Tehran. Lest we forget it was they who inflicted the Iranian regime on us 47 years ago when Jimmy Carter abandoned the Shah and the Iranian people to their fate and unleashed a half-century of global Islamic terrorism on the world with many Americans murdered and maimed as a result, as Iran sought to acquire nuclear weapons to bring about Armageddon as the precursor to the Shiite Islamic conquest of the world.

We also have the isolationist crowd bleating out that Trump betrayed MAGA by starting a new war. Well, that remains to be seen depending upon how long this goes on and if, God-forbid American boots arrive on the ground in Iran. Special forces/operations notwithstanding, I cannot imagine the 3rd ID, the Marines or the 82nd and/or 101st Airborne coming ashore as it did in the Gulf Wars. That would be madness. So can Air power alone achieve Trump's aims of regime change and Iranian liberation? Well, in his words, we'll just have to wait and see.

Meanwhile, with our attention overseas, this happened here at home:

The gunman behind Austin’s possible terror-related mass shooting entered the US  and cemented his legal immigration status under Democrat administrations — despite a growing criminal record. Senegalese national Ndiaga Diagne, 53, arrived in America on March 13, 2000, on a B-2 tourist visa during the Clinton administration, a source familiar with his immigration history told The Post on Sunday. Diagne — who killed two people and wounded 14 more during his rampage outside a Texas bar early Sunday — then became a lawful permanent resident on an IR-6 visa in June 2006 when he married a US citizen, the source said. He had already racked up at least one arrest before that, for illegal vending in June 2001 in New York City, law-enforcement sources said. He then went on to lodge a string of other arrests in the Big Apple between 2008 and 2016 — but that didn’t stop him becoming a naturalized US citizen on April 5, 2013 — around the start of former President Barack Obama’s second term, sources said. Those three arrests are sealed, sources said. Diagne also was arrested in Texas at some point on undisclosed charges, sources said. He was a known emotional disturbed person in both states, too, sources said. Diagne then applied for asylum in 2016, though the outcome or stated purpose of that application was not immediately clear. The serial offender opened fire outside Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden near the University of Texas-Austin Campus early Sunday, killing two bar patrons and wounding 14 others before he was shot and killed by police. He was wearing a “Property of Allah” hoodie at the time of the rampage and had a Quran in his car, sources familiar with the investigation told The Post. The FBI is investigating whether he was motivated by the US-Israel-led campaign against Iran — sources said he was wearing an undershirt emblazoned with the Iranian flag or other Iran-related imagery.

With all of that I say, GIVE 'EM HELL John Fetterman!!!

And a Happy Purim to my Jewish friends and all of you who cherish freedom!!!!

Have a great day!

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• As reported by Breitbart Texas, at least three people have been killed and 14 injured after shots rang out at a popular Sixth Street bar in the Texas capital city of Austin early Sunday morning. According to authorities, the shooter was killed by police officers who responded to the location of the shooting within a minute of the first emergency call.
  FBI on Austin Mass Shooting: Evidence Indicates ‘Potential Nexus to Terrorism’ — Koran Found in Shooters Car
  
• The was wearing a sweatshirt that reads “Property of Allah.” …federal law enforcement sources described him a a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Senegal.
  Austin Shooter Naturalized Under Obama in 2013, Wore “Property of Allah” Sweatshirt
  
• The gunman behind Austin’s possible terror-related mass shooting entered the US and cemented his legal immigration status under Democrat administrations — despite a growing criminal record.
  Austin mass shooter Ndiaga Diagne entered US during Clinton admin., became citizen under Obama — despite string of busts

AMERICA & ISRAEL STRIKE IRAN!
• “Last night, all over Iran, the voices of the Iranian people could be heard cheering and celebrating in the streets when his death was announced,” Trump said in the six-minute recorded address. “The entire military command is gone as well. And many of them want to surrender into saving their lives. They want immunity. They’re calling by the thousands.”
  ‘The Duty And Burden Of A Free People’: Trump Delivers First Update On Operation Epic Fury
  
• Iran’s regime used to brag America was helpless.
  “America Can’t Do a Damn Thing Against Us”
  
• A massive military action is decapitating the current Iranian regime, but Iran must still deal with what comes after.
  The outlook for Iran after the war: collapse or transition?
  
• What began as a theocracy could harden into an overt military dictatorship.
  Iran Stands At A Crossroads. What Comes Next Could Change Everything.
  
• “They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them,” Trump told The Atlantic in a phone call from Mar-a-Lago. “They should have done it sooner. They should have given what was very practical and easy to do sooner. They waited too long.”
  ‘I Have Agreed’: Trump Says Iran’s New Leaders ‘Want To Talk’
  
• Roger Kimball: Forty-seven years after the mullahs seized power, the countdown ended in fire, and Trump wagered that decisive force—not talk—would finally clear the path to Iran’s liberation.
  Operation Epic Fury and the Fall of the Mullahs
  
• With brilliant intelligence and close U.S. and Israeli cooperation and coordination, Operation Epic Fury is systematically dismantling the terrorist regime of Iran’s ayatollahs. 
  Iran: Scalpel and Hammer
  
• Robert Spencer: Will Iran’s Islamic regime survive?
  Khamenei is Dead
  
• The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said that it had killed at least 40 “key” Iranian military commanders, including the chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Abdolrahim Mousavi. According to the IDF, the former Major General was eliminated within a minute of the strike on Ayatollah Khamenei’s compound, the Times of Israel reported.
  Trump Confirms 48 Iranian Leaders Have Been Killed in U.S.-Israeli Strikes
  
• The monstrous mullahs' final hour?
  An Islamic Tyranny Hanging by a Thread
  
• President Donald Trump announced the United States military launched Operation Epic Fury in a video posted on Truth Social early Saturday morning. United States Central Command (CENTCOM) reported the casualty figures as of 9:30 a.m. EST Sunday.
  US CENTCOM Announces Three Service Members Killed In Action, Several Others Injured As Operation Epic Fury Continues
  
• President Trump concluded with another appeal to the Iranian people to rise up against the Islamic regime: “I once again urge the Revolutionary Guard, the Iranian military, and the Police to lay down your arms and receive full immunity or face certain death. It will be certain death. won’t be pretty. I call upon all Iranian patriots who yearn for freedom to seize this moment, to be brave, be bold, be heroic, and take back your country. America is with you. I made a promise to you, and I fulfilled that promise. The rest will be up to you, but we will be there to help.”
  Trump Says ‘There Will Likely Be More’ U.S. Casualties – ‘That’s The Way It Is.’
  
• “Iran will not be damaged with foreign bombs,” Ahmadinejad in 2012. 
  Iran’s Ex-President Ahmadinejad, Who Wanted to ‘Wipe Israel Off the Map,’ Killed in IDF Strike
  
• “Most of those killed in Beit Shemesh attack were in public bomb shelter.”
  Iranian Ballistic Missile Attacks Kill 3 U.S. Servicemen and 9 Israeli Civilians
  
• Democrat talking point, not reality
  ‘Unnecessary War of Choice’? Absolutely Not
  
• Here is where isolationism collapses.
  US Interests and a Far-Off Use of Force
  
• The BadeSaba Calendar app, utilizing its extensive reach inside Iran, helps users track daily prayer times and religious observances, the Wall Street Journal reported. It has logged more than 5 million downloads on the Google Play Store alone, giving operators access to a vast domestic audience.
  Israel Reportedly Co-opted Major Iranian Prayer App To Encourage Millions Of Defections, Resistance
  
• This evening, Jews around the world will celebrate Purim, one of the narrowest escapes and greatest triumphs in biblical history. Around 2,500 years ago, Esther and her uncle Mordecai thwarted Haman’s scheme to convince King Ahasuerus to slaughter all the captive Jews in Persia. The skill with which these heroes staved off destruction has heartened Jews and haunted their enemies ever since. One person who will not join the Purim festivities is the modern Haman, Ali Khamenei. Along with several of his top subordinates, the supreme leader of Iran died Saturday morning in the first minutes of a ferocious Israeli-American onslaught. Like Haman, Khamenei made fundamental strategic mistakes that cost him dearly. Iran’s fate will depend on if his successors learn from his errors.
  Khamenei, Haman, and a Purim for the Ages
  * * * * *

• “These Democrats, with rare exception…feel their job in life is to resist and oppose Donald Trump in every way, almost no matter what he does.”
  Likely Democrat 2028 Candidates Unified in Opposition to Trump Iran Strikes
  
• “Imagine if people just listened to the conventional wisdom, that they could have possibly have acquired a bomb if we weren’t bombed back in June. So, yes, there is a threat. It’s not imminent that it could happen right now. But it’s one that I think is entirely appropriate to deal with it,” Fetterman told CNN host Dana Bash. “And that’s why I support it. So, again, people keep— describe that it was a legal war. Now read the War Powers Act. And, now, that has not been violated at this point what happened yesterday.”
  Sen Fetterman Says Trump’s Iran Strike Was ‘Entirely Appropriate’ Response To Longstanding Threat
  
• She added that the Iranian regime’s fall will reverberate around the world, not only altering the Middle East, but also impacting Ukraine and China.
  ‘Wake Up’: Iranian Democrat Blasts Her Own Party’s Iran Strike Backlash
  
• Hours later, former Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene — previously a staunch Trump ally and MAGA standard-bearer — posted a nearly-700-word reaction to X in which she said the president’s Operation Epic Fury “feels like the worst betrayal.” (says the poster child of betrayal - jjs)
  ‘Not What We Thought MAGA Was Supposed To Be’: America First Skeptics Blast Iran Strikes

  CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• No matter the situation, the left has an uncanny affinity for those who hate America, the Constitution, liberty, and the rule of law.
  The left’s compass always points to the perpetrator
  
• “To say that it’s racist to own property is an insult to every single immigrant who ever came here.”
  NYC Landlords Blast Mamdani Official Who Calls Property Ownership ‘Weapon Of White Supremacy’
  
• Several suspects, including Don Lemon, have been charged with federal offenses related to civil rights violations.
  30 Now Charged by DOJ in Don Lemon Church Storming Case.
  
• The President must deploy regular troops or a federalized national guard to suppress anarchy in the streets when state officials refuse to do so. 
  After Minneapolis: The Constitutional Reckoning

  
  "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• More than 30 arrests for charges of rape, malicious wounding, assault, firing a weapon
  Muslim Illegal Alien w/30 Arrests Stabs Woman to Death in Virginia
  
• Why it must end.
  The Catholic Catechism and Muslim Immigration to the United States

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• Trump’s housing plan rewards builders and protects buyers; Democrats’ proposal punishes investment, raising costs and blocking Americans from the dream of homeownership.
  Democrats Want To Derail Trump’s Housing Reform

• Congressional Democrats smack their lips at the possibility of hitting billionaires with punitive taxes.
  Think Dems’ ‘Tax The Rich’ Policies Will Make America Better Off? Just Take A Look At California
  
• California’s wealthy boomers are staying put as young families head for the exits, fleeing the anti-growth politics that make the state increasingly unaffordable.
  The Golden State Is Turning Grey

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Will retailers stop selling clothes with the message, "Property of Allah"? 
  Muslim Migrant in “Property of Allah” Shirt Kills 3 in Texas Bar

  
  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• Normalize Jew-hate - and decay follows.
  How Anti-Israel Democrats are Radicalizing the Party

  SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• ‘I hope they put Jack Smith behind bars for this!’ said Mark Davis, one of many conservative victims of the special counsel and ‘Arctic Frost’
  Dems Silent After New Revelations About Jack Smith’s Spying Ops On Political Enemies

  
  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• On tape, he acknowledged that his producer had texted him not to focus on that aspect of the scene. “They don’t want us to focus on this.”
  Two Rare Moments of Honesty in Media Coverage of Iran

• “The DHS agents who callously abandoned Nurul Amin Shah Alam must be investigated for criminally negligent homicide, at minimum.”
  Another Media Hoax: Border Patrol Blamed for Unrelated Death
  * * * * *

• According to President Trump, federal agencies will have a six-month phase-out period to cease the use of Anthropic’s AI tools.
  Trump Orders Federal Govt to Ditch Anthropic’s AI Tools.

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• This means around €100 billion more must be funneled into public coffers via the bond market.  But how long can such a process sustain itself like a perpetuum mobile? 
  Will the Bond Market Wreck Europe?
  
• Loeffler said, “Working family tax cuts…it’s an estimated 4 to 6 trillion dollars in tax savings for workers and for our industry.”
  Exclusive — SBA Admin Kelly Loeffler: Trump Saving Workers 4 to 6 Trillion in Taxes, Leading to Small Biz Manufacturing Boom

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• According to research by Vanderbilt University economist Panka Bencsik and Wellesley College Professor Tyler Giles, counties that narrowly elect Republican prosecutors experience a significantly lower death rate among young men. In fact, when a Republican prosecutor narrowly beats a Democrat, the all-cause mortality among men aged 20 to 29 falls by 6.6 percent. . .
  Study: Voting Republican Saves Lives

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,

• Fortunately, Dr. Willie Soon has recently released a captivating 12-minute video with Gorilla Science that gives viewers a basic understanding of the Sun’s influence on the climate. Dr. Soon is an Independent Scientist at the Center for Environmental Research and Earth Sciences, who specializes in studying solar and stellar activity as it relates to the Earth’s climate.
  Dr. Willie Soon Reveals the Real Driver of Climate Change in New Video
  
• How America outsourced the materials of modern power—and what it will take to get them back
  The Rare-Earth Reckoning

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Time to ban American higher education from accepting Qatari funding.
  Qatari Textbooks Praise Jihad, Whitewash Hitler
  
• Cartoon depicts Jew-hating abusers as victims and abused students as a greedy oppressors
  Staff and Faculty Group at Columbia University Publish Cartoon Directing Intersectional Hate Toward Their Own Students
  
• Lipscomb Academy officials vehemently deny claims that the private school’s leadership has injected DEI into the Church of Christ school.
  Parents, Staff Claim Expensive Nashville Christian Prep School Has Gone ‘Woke’
  
• College education worked, for a while. But now it seems that only a few jobs need a college education.
  Stop Government from Making Bets on the Future

  THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH

• Amid sharp criticism from outside lawmakers, Senate GOP leadership are hardly phased, and taking the bill at their own pace.
  Trump, Fellow Republicans Take Shots At Mitch McConnell Over SAVE Act Stall

  
  L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN

• The committee continues to seek clarity on the Clintons’ connections to Jeffrey Epstein, with questions about transparency and accountability remaining central to the investigation.
  Bill Clinton Insists He ‘Did Nothing Wrong’ With Epstein, Admits Trump Not Involved in Scandal.

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY

• As the republic hangs in the balance, all the GOP-led Senate seems to be able to accomplish is dressing up dogs in funny costumes.
  This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: The Senate Goes To The Dogs
  
• Suddenly Democrats are turning to Jesus — but not to follow Him.
  The Gospel According to Hillary

  POLITICS

  
  

• Even if her candidacy failed, supporters of Ocasio-Cortez said that she would likely highlight issues they care most about, like universal health care, adding that she could even use it to potentially run for U.S. Senator in New York after Democrat Minority Leader Chuck Schumer retires or even challenge him in a primary.
  Report: Hard-Left Democrats Push for Titty-Caca Ocasio-Cortez to Run for President in 2028
  
• California governor sharpens claws in early primary states while plugging book about his favorite subject
  Greasing Palmetto: Newsom Slut-Shames Harris, Previews Inevitable WH Run in South Carolina

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• “All I can say is President Trump finished the job that President Reagan failed to do,” he said. “I’m a big admirer of Ronald Reagan, but I’m here to tell you that Donald Trump, in my opinion, is the gold standard for Republicans, maybe any president, when it comes to foreign policy. Maduro, everybody talked about him. Well, Donald Trump has got him in jail. Cuba is next. They are going to fall. This communist dictatorship in Cuba, their days are numbered.”
  Graham: ‘Cuba Is Next’
  
• Increasingly, countries that were once U.S. allies are aligning themselves with America’s enemies.
  Is It ‘America Alone’ In The Fight To Save The West From China And Islam?
  
• America alone carries the torch of Western civilization, tasked with defending the principles that Europe has long abandoned.
  Marco Rubio and America Alone

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• “We cannot and will not send our most capable officers, senior officers, into graduate programs that undermine the very values they have sworn to uphold.”
  Pete Hegseth Announces War Department Cutting Academic Ties With More Elite Universities
  
• In 2026, American strength is measured not only in factories reopened, but in firewalls hardened—because economic security and cybersecurity are now one and the same.
  The Digital State of the Union: America’s Networks Are National Infrastructure

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• Makary said, “Now, there’s over a thousand chemicals that appear in our food supply that are banned in other countries because we’ve had a regulation…which allows companies to self-declare chemicals as safe without really showing anything.”

  Exclusive — FDA Commissioner Marty Makary: ‘1000’ Unnatural Chemicals in Foods Likely Behind Uptick in G.I. Cancers

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Thad McCotter: As an AI “actress” makes her debut, Hollywood’s stars warn that the battle between profit and human connection may decide the future of film.
  AI Killed the Hollywood Star (Part Two): ‘Tilly-ing’ the Soil or Salting Actors’ Fields?
  
• “Unlike with other possible filters, on this question we have hard data. . . Star Trek’s creators took a shortcut to bring about this Fermi Paradox-breaking event.. . .Religious humans appear to be the only future available.”
  Only Religion Can Deliver a ‘Star Trek’ Future
  
• Christian Toto: Alonzo Bodden Brings TDS to Swanky Pittsburgh Club
  Alonzo Bodden Brings TDS to Swanky Pittsburgh Club
  
• A Better Life dramatizes the consequences of “suicidal empathy.”
  Lionel Shriver’s Splendidly Paced Immigration Satire

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