The Morning Report — 3/4/26

Good morning kids. Obviously, the continued military strikes on Iran are in the lead, and yet while that's happening there is more action to report elsewhere in the world.

On Tuesday, U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) announced that U.S. and Ecuadorian military forces launched joint operations against “Designated Terrorist Organizations in Ecuador,” saying the narco-terrorist group had “long inflicted terror, violence, and corruption on citizens throughout the hemisphere.”

This announcement marks a significant shift from training missions to active engagement. SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan praised the “unwavering commitment” and “courage” of the Ecuadorian armed forces, characterizing the collaboration as a decisive strike against the “scourge of narco-terrorism” that has destabilized the hemisphere through violence and systemic corruption.

Regardless of our large-scale military operations over Iran, despite this operation being much smaller in scale and limited in scope, it is good to know that the US military can still engage in multiple operations simultaneously and on different fronts many thousands of miles apart. Of course the Ecuadoran mission is in keeping with and follows close on the heels of our removal of the Chavez/Maduro regime in Venezuela and the disruption/destruction of its narco-trafficiking operations, as well as a warning to the world to stay the hell away from the Western Hemisphere and perhaps as a warning shot to the still extant Cuban Communist junta that they might be the next domino to fall, so to speak.

At the risk of causing whiplash, we shift back to the Middle East/Near East/South Asian region where we have a definite pass-the-popcorn situation brewing there.

There have been other intra-Muslim fights: the war of West Pakistan on East Pakistan in 1971, with East Pakistan successfully resisting the West Pakistani troops who engaged in genocide as they murdered 3,000,000 Bengalis; the continuing war in Yemen between the Shia Houthis, backed by Iran, and the Sunnis of the National Government, backed by Saudi Arabia, that so far have resulted in 377,000 deaths; the current war in Libya between the rival forces based in Tripoli and Tobruk; the war, now subsided, between Morocco and Algeria over control of the Western Sahara; the genocidal war in Sudan between Muslim Arabs and black, mostly Muslim, Africans, leading to the breakup of Sudan into two states — Sudan and South Sudan; the war unleashed on Kuwait by Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, who briefly annexed it as the “19th province of Iraq”; the war of Arabs against Kurds in Operation Al-Anfal, in Iraq, and now, we can add another war, still small but likely to grow bigger, between Pakistan and Afghanistan. . . Tit-for-tat attacks — Pakistani planes striking the Taliban in Afghanistan, Afghani Taliban setting off bombs inside Pakistan — have been going on for months. Now they seem to becoming more frequent, and more deadly. Pakistan has just announced that in a cross-border strike it killed 80 people in an attack on Taliban outposts in Afghanistan. And the Taliban have announced that they will soon launch an “appropriate response.” Don’t be alarmed. Just pull up a chair, and root for both sides.

Yeah, pass the popcorn! Guess we can thank Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants and his wizards of smart when they auto-penned our ass out of Afghanistan in a lickety-split bug-out that no one either understood or gave a shit about the consequences other than a political gambit to bolster electoral advantage by taking credit for bringing the boys home.

Yes, leaving, and abandoning the insane delusion of nation-building is always desirable, but doing so in such a way that does not create an even worse situation had we not gone in in the first place. The issue of our being in Afghanistan in the first place is something else entirely. But be that as it may, let's head back to Iran where a potential power vacuum is a distinct possibility now that we have essentially wiped out any successors to Khameini, not that another Mullah or an IRGC commander would have been desirable or acceptable.

It will be and must be solely up to the Persian people to install leaders that will respect their rights and freedoms and also not pose a threat to the rest of the world. Can that happen and will that happen are still very big question marks. As the last vestiges of the regime lash out at their nighbors as well as Israel, they're not gaining friends or influencing people, other than negatively.

Friend and friend of the blog Robert Zimmerman's latest essay focuses mostly on the insane reaction by the Democrat/Left to President Trump's decapitation strike on the Iranian Mullahocracy, mostly in their support for the mullahs (especially their hatred of us and Israel/Jews), but as he gazes into the crystal ball, he seems to have a very rosy outlook:

I would not be surprised if Saudi Arabia soon signs the Abraham Accords. Nor would I be surprised if most of the last remaining Arab nations that have not yet done so join Saudi Arabia. We could very well be seeing a major realignment of alliances in the Middle East that could really really harbinger the beginnings of real peace in that region. Imagine: Israel at peace with all its neighbors, because the Arabs have finally recognized that it is to their own best interest to do so as well.

Even with a defanged Iran that morphs into a nation with a government that perhaps resembles something akin to the Emirates, I will have to disagree with my friend insofar as the one thing that overshadows all of this is ISLAM. My personal view is that unless and until the Islamic world, from governments down to individual Muslims renounce the teachings in the Koran that call for the death of Jews, Christians and infidels or their subjugation into the global Islamic Ummah/caliphate, then all of these accords are just not worth the paper they're written on. All of it to me is merely part and parcel of the concept of Taqqiya so that Shiites and Sunnis can gain an advantage over each other for control of Islam and then ultimately gain control of the infidels on the way to global conquest for all time.

Sign all the treaties you want, but the notion that the Arab Muslim world will live in peace with Israel let alone recognize its right to even exist is a pipe dream. That said, even a cold peace as exists with Egypt and Jordan is the best that can be hoped for, and even then, those two nations with their borders on two massive "palestinian" abcesses (Gaza and the West Bank) have done less than zero to legitimately normalize their relations with Israel in all these years of so-called "peace." And have actively worked against the accords they signed.

All that aside, prior to Jimmy Carter stabbing the Shah and Iranian people in the back by paving the way for the Mullahs, Iran and Israel did have close strategic and diplomatic ties. Can that be resuscitated come the final downfall of the Mullahs and please God the installation of a sane government, we'll have to wait and see. Considering Israel vaporized a meeting with many of the leading candidates to be he next leader, The IRGC awaits Al Franken's '77 Buick Le Sabre to deliver a load of ballots!

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AMERICA & ISRAEL STRIKE IRAN!




• The Israel Defense Forces confirmed Tuesday that the Israeli Air Force struck the Assembly’s compound in Qom, a major center of Shiite religious authority located south of Tehran, with Iranian state media acknowledging the attack and airing footage showing extensive structural damage.
  Ballots Buried: Israel ‘Flattens’ Building Where Iranian Clerics Meet to Elect New Supreme Leader (Do they have Al Franken's Buick with a big trunk?! - jjs)
  
• Video footage of Iranians busting out the president’s signature “Trump dance” has been going viral on social media following Saturday’s fatal airstrikes against high-ranking officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
  Watch: Iranians Do the ‘Trump Dance’ to Thank President for Taking out Ayatollah Khamenei
  
• ...But dozens of senior Iranian leaders, both civilian and military.
  Not Just Khamenei is Dead...
  
• Turning neighbors into foes.
  Iran Takes Potshots at Sunni Gulf States

• “Spain has been terrible,” Trump said … And so I told [Bessent], Spain has absolutely nothing that we need, other than great people. They have great people, but they don’t have great leadership. And as you know, they were in the only country that in NATO would not agree to go up to 5% … So we’re gonna cut off all trade with Spain. We don’t want anything to do with Spain.”
  Trump Cuts Off Trade To Spain After Nation Bucked US On Iran War
  
• Explosions in Tehran and Beirut, Lebanon, have disrupted global energy markets, with China calling for dialogue and negotiation to address the crisis.
  China Demands U.S. and Israel Halt Strikes on Iran.
  
• Several claims of his survival emerged on Monday and Tuesday, though no conclusive evidence that Ahmadinejad is alive has been presented.
  Ex-Iran Prez Ahmadinejad May Have Survived U.S.-Israeli Decapitation Strikes.
  
•  Iran and its proxy Shia militias in Iraq have intensified attacks on Iraqi Kurdistan—suggesting the regime recognizes the possible threat from armed Kurds.
  This Middle East Faction Could Be Key to Toppling Iran’s Islamist Regime.
  
• The picture that emerges is of an Iran hell-bent on becoming a nuclear-armed power and determined to continue exporting its bloody Islamist revolution throughout the region and around the world. That was the leaders’ fatal mistake, for unlike his two immediate predecessors, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, Trump had no interest in bribing the mullahs with pallets of cash and sweet talking them into joining the civilized world.
  Michael Goodwin: The war on Iran was never a choice — Trump was left with no option but to defend America and all Western civilization
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• The Act is an unconstitutional check on the President’s constitutional powers, and runs counter to the Founders’ understanding of Congress’s war powers.
  The 1973 War Powers Resolution Cannot Block Trump’s Actions In Iran
  
• Betsy McCaughey: Old-timer Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who was on the scene for the Clinton and Obama military forays, knows that Trump is on firm ground.  Yet she lashed out on social media after the Iran strike, claiming Trump “ignored the Constitution.”    The hypocrisy and malice are stunning. But it’s no surprise — the Israel-loathing left is taking over the Democrat Party.
  Rabid Democrats toss truth aside to rescue Iran’s regime
  
• Because Fetterman's policy beliefs keep him planted firmly on the left, Fetterman won't switch parties. But when national security comes into focus, he regularly breaks from progressive orthodoxy and takes a position rooted in deterrence and strength. In a chamber full of Congresscritters using scripted responses, his statements read as uncommon steadiness.
  Fetterman Chooses Country Over Party After Iran Operation

• City residents struck a very different tone from their mayor.
  In New York, Iranian Americans Celebrate the Ayatollah’s Demise
  
• After then-President Barack Obama launched a strike on Libya in 2011 and took serious heat for it, Pelosi defended his actions and said he did not, in fact, need authorization from Congress before launching the attack. As Michael Scott so brilliantly stated, my how the turn tables.
  WATCH: Malig-Nancy Pelosi’s Old Libya Clip Explodes in Democrats’ Faces as They Slam Iran Strikes
  
• American feminist organizations rally to help Iran keep killing women.
  Feminists for Killing Feminists

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

• The African Descent-Citizens Reparations Commission (ADCRC) released a report that looks at “racial injustice” throughout the state’s history, a Fox News article published Tuesday stated. (Schvartzyorim gonna Schvartz- jjs)
  Illinois Reparations Commission Report Delves into State’s History of ‘Racial Harms’

• Police reports revealed conflicting statements; no arrests were made, but McLemore later obtained an emergency stalking no-contact order against Hill.
  WATCH: BLM Founder Filmed Fighting Woman at Resource Center.

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

• It’s no secret that Iranian terrorists are here in the U.S. Democrats’ open border policies made their infiltration much easier.
  Thanks To Democrats, Potential Iranian Terrorists Are Already On American Soil

• Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem testified that the Biden junta funneled cash to sponsors who trafficked and abused unaccompanied migrant children. 
  If This Is True, the DNC Has a Moral Earthquake Coming
  
  
• “The one thing that has been challenging is that under the Biden administration, the government paid sponsors in [the Department of Health and Human Services] in order to host these children and those sponsors, many times, we found instances where they trafficked these children themselves,” . . .
  DHS Chief Kristi Noem Accuses Biden Junta of Paying Traffickers to Take Custody of Migrant Children

• Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials have called on Spanberger to ensure that Jalloh will not be released from Fairfax County custody at any time by honoring an immigration detainer that the agency has lodged against the illegal alien.
  Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger Suggests She Will Not Honor ICE Detainer for Illegal Alien Accused of Murdering Stephanie Minter (Arrest SpamBurger for Obstruction of Justice - jjs)

• Tillis, who has long supported campaigns to help companies hire migrant workers, complained that White House counselor Stephen Miller wants many more deportations instead of a smaller, select number. Tillis said: 1,000 a day, 6,000 a day, 9,000 a day, because numbers matter, right? No, they don’t matter. Quality Matters, not quantity. Quality! And what we’ve seen is a disaster under your leadership, a disaster.
  WATCH: Retiring RINO Scumbag Thom Tillis Complains About Too Many Deportations, Calls Kristi Noem’s Leadership ‘a Disaster’
  
• And it’s what we need most—not an open border.
  Under Trump, Skilled Immigration Is Still Working Fine

• Refugee resettlement brings Taliban-Pakistan war to small city in NY.
  Afghans and Pakistanis Now Fighting Each Other in New York

  
  THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE

  
  

• As the House Oversight Committee readies to grill Walz and Ellison red states rescued $28 billion, "war on fraud" begins under Vance.
  New Report Contrasts Minnesota Fraud With Big Wins For Red State Taxpayers
  
• What else will we find out!?
  Report: Minnesota Child Care Agency Never Verified Attendance, Addressed Fraud Tips
  
• The Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Abdinajib Hassan Yussuf, 27, in December 2025 with making fraudulent Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) claims to the Minnesota government. Yussuf and his team raked in more than $6 million through the fraudulent claims, according to a DOJ press release at the time. (RELATED: Banker Admits To Major Medicare Fraud Scheme Tied To International Criminal Syndicate)
  Somali ‘Autism’ Center Chief Pleads Guilty To $6 Million Fraud Scheme

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Mosques in Manassas, Va., and Dearborn, Mich., held memorials honoring the “martyr” — i.e., eliminated terrorist leader of Iran Ayatollah Khamenei — and one of the mosques reportedly has multiple ties to prominent Democrat politicians.
  U.S. Mosques Mourn ‘Our Leader’ Khamenei, Michigan Imam Might Have Dem Party Ties
  
• We must reverse this catastrophic and deliberate effort to fundamentally alter the demographics of this country.
  The Biggest Threat To Our Country Is Inside Our Borders

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

• ‘If u ever make an excuse or express sympathy for isr[ael], I rlly don’t care what happens to u,’ Zainab Khan, who helped CUAD with security, wrote
  Columbia Anti-Israel Organizer, Now a New York City Social Worker, Calls For Zionists To ‘Burn In Hell’

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

• We’re finally getting hard proof, instead of reasonable supposition, about the scope of the Deep State’s acts of selling out America and attacking Donald Trump.
  A Day of Reckoning For Hillary Clinton And The Rest Of The Cabal?

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• Trump floats elimination of the malignant method Washington uses to collect revenues — We hope it doesn't think.
  Can We See The End Of The Income Tax From Here?

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• A far-left group is behind the decision to put all officers who use force in front of a grand jury.
  Officers Who Stopped Austin Shooter Must Face Grand Jury

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

• One of the conference’s marquee speaker is John F. Clauser, Ph.D, recipient of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking work on quantum entanglement. Clauser has become one of the most prominent scientists in the world to publicly challenge climate alarmism.
  Nobel Prize Winner and Climate Realist Headlines 16th International Conference on Climate Change
  
• A small cadre of activist judges and environmentalist litigators wields outsized power, crippling industries, mismanaging forests, and undermining America’s interests.
  The Asymmetric Advantages of Environmentalist Zealotry

  
  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• The course, Workshop for Art Research and Practice (WARP), is mandatory for all graphic design majors at the University of Florida. The language appeared on the spring 2026 syllabus and violates a regulation passed by Florida's Board of Governors in November 2023.
  University of Florida Pulls Illegal Course Syllabus Offering Special Accommodations to 'Queer and Trans,' 'BIPOC' Students
  
• As students vanish from classrooms and parents flee failing schools, America’s education establishment keeps protecting the system instead of fixing it.
  Degraded Schools

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

• The decision preserves the only GOP district in New York City.
  Supreme Court Pauses Order to Redraw New York Map, Saving GOP District
  
• He had 41 ballots, registered 23 people at his home and his email and phone number were used to register 47 others.
  Pakistani Immigrant Councilman Sentenced for California Voter Fraud
  
• If GOP senators pushed the SAVE America Act with the same urgency and full-throated support with which they’ve backed the decision to strike Iran, it would already be law.
  I Wish GOP Senators Got As Excited About The SAVE Act As They Do About War

  L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN

• Follow-up question: "Are interns young?"
  WATCH: Clinton Denies He ‘Likes Them Young’ — Then Comes The Lewinsky Question

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

• Fatima Iqbal-Zubair is a candidate for the state’s 65th Assembly District and her husband, Fazlul Zubair, is an engineer manager for Raytheon, the New York Post reported Monday.
  Report: California Democrat Whose Husband Works for Weapons Builder Wants to ‘Defund the Pentagon’

  POLITICS

• “Congressional District 2 voters want a representative in D.C. who will stand firm in his convictions, fight for his constituents, and follow through on his promises,” Toth said. “I won’t let them down.”
  Steve Toth Defeats Rep. Dan Crenshaw in Texas House District 2 Primary
  
• The Lone Star State’s 21st District is located in the Texas Hill Country north of San Antonio and west of Austin. The district is rated solid Republican by the Cook Political Report, meaning Teixeira is likely to have the edge in the November general election.
  ON THE MARK - Former Yankees World Series great Mark Teixeira wins GOP House primary race in Texas
  
• Texas State Rep. James Talarico won the Texas Senate Democratic primary, booting left-wing firebrand Trump foe Rep. Jasmine Crockett from Washington D.C. at the end of her term.
  Jasmine Crockett Set To Be Unemployed Again As Her Bid For Promotion Goes Down In Flames

• With Democrats eyeing 2028, Gavin Newsom finds himself squeezed between a base that distrusts him and a record that may prove impossible to outrun.
  Democrats Already Dumping On Newsom
  
• Stupid is what stupid does.
  Mr. Schopenhauer Goes to Washington 

  
  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• The joint operation is culmination of a strategic U.S. partnership with Ecuador's president Daniel Noboa, a Trump ally.
  WATCH: U.S. Military Strikes ‘Designated Terrorist’ Target In Ecuador
  
• A splendid little war.
  Pakistan Vs. Afghanistan
  
• “Elites justify their privileges on the basis of the long hours they (supposedly) work.”
  Neoliberalism in One Country?

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• April 20, the deadline for Congress to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), is fast approaching. The White House is already on board with a “clean extension” of the law, which allows intel agencies to surveil foreigners and potential terrorists without a warrant. However, data belonging to law-abiding American citizens often gets caught in the wide dragnet, leading to misuse and all sorts of privacy and Constitutional concerns.
  Brutal Political Battle Awaits The GOP In Not-So-Distant Future

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• During MS N-SDAP’s election coverage on Tuesday, Democrat U.S. Senate nominee former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper argued that there need to be ACA subsidies “because we’ve lost so many people on the Affordable Care Act who can no longer afford it, and people who are there are having to pay more for policies with higher deductibles.”
  Roy Cooper: ‘So Many People on the Affordable Care Act’ ‘Can No Longer Afford It’

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• One of the most remarkable discoveries made during New Horizons’ fly-by was how completely different Pluto and Charon appeared, despite their likely formation together at the same time and in the same location of the early solar system.
  Charon’s surface, completely unlike Pluto
  
• In many ways Euclid is Hubble’s replacement, produced by the European Space Agency, as NASA and the American astronomy community has not been able to get together to build their own new optical orbiting telescope.
  Old and new optical space telescopes team up to view the Cat’s Eye

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• The decision blocks a California law banning automatic parental notification and reinstates a lower court order, pending further legal proceedings.
  SCOTUS Suspends CA Law Hiding Student Gender Transitions From Parents.
  
• ‘My husband and I are living, breathing, walking testimonies that what the world gives is so much less compared to the fullness of what you can have in Christ.’
  Former Gay And Transgender Couple Welcome Birth Of Third Child After Escaping LGBT Deception 

• New York Attorney General Letitia James ordered NYU Langone, one of the Big Apple’s largest hospitals, to reinstate gender-affirming care for minors — before ominously warning it would face “further action” if it did not comply.
  AG Letitia James demands NYU Langone resume transgender treatment for kids after hospital axes program

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Christian Toto: Why Susan Sarandon’s Cancellation Is So Revealing
  Why Susan Sarandon’s Cancellation Is So Revealing

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