The Morning Report — 4/9 /26

Good morning kids. The situation with Iran and the ceasefire remains at the forefront of the news. And as the ceasefire beins, friend and friend of the blog, Middle East and Islam expert par excellence Robert Spencer declares, with tongue planted firmly in cheek:

Oh, Great, Peace in the Middle East Again — Hey, I’m as happy as everyone else, but I can’t help but notice those missiles raining down on Israel. . .

. . . A big day for World Peace! Iran wants it to happen, they’ve had enough! Likewise, so has everyone else! The United States of America will be helping with the traffic buildup in the Strait of Hormuz. There will be lots of positive action! Big money will be made. Iran can start the reconstruction process. We’ll be loading up with supplies of all kinds, and just “hangin’ around” in order to make sure that everything goes well. I feel confident that it will. Just like we are experiencing in the U.S., this could be the Golden Age of the Middle East!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP The Islamic Republic of Iran was likewise in a celebratory mood, and in its joyful exuberance, fired off a round or two of celebratory missiles and drones into Israel and the Sunni states that it has targeted since the beginning of this conflict. Fox News’ Trey Yingst reported that on “Ceasefire day 1,” Israel “took multiple waves of Iranian missile fire after the ceasefire was announced.

WELL, not to doubt our friend but Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has declared:

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth claimed Wednesday that Iran is under a new regime with a “new calculus” about negotiating with the United States, just a day after President Donald Trump threatened total destruction over the nation’s intractability.

That seals the deal for me, and yet we have all these doubting thomases.

When President Trump first struck Iran over a month ago, I took a “wait and see” approach. I wasn’t supportive of the foreign intervention, as it seemed unwise and reckless. But there was a possibility the blowback could be minimal. Trump had previously killed Qasem Soleimani and bombed Iran with hardly any consequences. History could repeat itself once again with the Khamenei assassination.
It’s clear now that this war was a grievous mistake. We did not achieve regime change, nor did we even get a more amenable leader to deal with Iran. The Islamic Republic isn’t going to give up its missiles or nuclear program. While Iran has lost many of its leaders and military installations, it’s still able to shut down the Strait of Hormuz and strike critical infrastructure throughout the Middle East. With these advantages, the Islamic Republic has upended the global economy and world oil supply. It’s more likely America and its allies will make serious concessions to open the strait than it is for Iran to meet Trump’s initial demands.

In all seriousness for the past 47 years, the regime in Iran has spilled oceans of innocent blood in its eternal jihad and quest to conquer the world in the cause of Islam. The fecklessness, acquiescence and surrender of prior American and western nations to Iran in not defending Western Civilization from this threat to the advancement of humanity and civilization is why we are facing an existential threat. In that regard, the attempt to take Iran down had to be done sooner or later. Trump bucked the tide of prior administrations that were at best indifferent/ineffective (Reagan, Busshes)at worst collaborationist and) (Carter, Clinton, Obama/Biden).

At this point it certainly looks as if President Trump has painted himself into a corner.

The world breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday night on news of a cease-fire in the Iran war, but this is certainly no time for President Donald Trump to go wobbly.

If he can’t work out a comprehensive deal to end the Iran threat for good, he needs to get the jets back in the air over Iran pronto — and let the bombs drop.

If not, he does risk that TACO label. Trump saw enough hope for a peace deal — and an “immediate” opening of the Strait of Hormuz — to hold off, for now, on the enormous additional devastation he threatened to inflict on the Iranian regime.

Fine.But it’s far from clear what, exactly, the Iranian leaders he’s dealing with (whoever they are) will ultimately agree to. And stick to.

That’s why any deal to be worked out over the next weeks must be absolutely air-tight.

It must cover all the bases, paving the way for a future Iran that can’t continue to threaten the world and wreak havoc, whether through actual violence or economic terrorism. . .Nor can Iran’s negotiators be allowed to drag out the talks indefinitely, spared of fresh airstrikes from the United States or Israel.

Trump must be prepared to resume bombing, including of infrastructure used by Iran’s military, if — as he would put it — he smells BS.

Indeed, he should warn publicly (and not just threaten but mean it) that he’s ready to restart the attacks, and even ratchet them up, if Iran refuses to meet his conditions.

Let’s face it: This is the world’s one chance to end the 47-year Iran nightmare once and for all — or at least to set conditions that can lead to its end.

It’s Trump’s chance to make good on his promise that Iran will never have nuclear weapons. Not in a year. Not in 10 years.

Remember, it took 47 years for any US president to confront the ayatollahs the way Trump has. No other leader will have the guts to do it again. Look at North Korea’s nukes if you doubt it.

Yet Trump himself may be less willing to prolong the war now: Oil prices fell the minute he announced the cease-fire. The markets shot up. .

Back here at home there are other things happening. On a related note we have a point counterpoint to contemplate:
POINT:

The Fall of Islam It will start here in Texas, and inspire others in America to stand.

To Colonel Allen West I would say "Unless and until Islam falls in Mecca and way too much of the rest of the western world and in the hearts nd minds of all its billion and a half adherents, we're merely trying to hold back the tide."

Counterpoint: with backstabbing blithering fools like this, we're going under.

Texas AG Candidate Tried To Force Towns To Greenlight Development Of Muslim ‘Sharia Cities’

Elsewhere we have madness from the courtrooms to contend with:

In an apparent effort to delay and thus perhaps permanently undermine justice for Iryna Zarutska's killer, prosecutors have accepted the assessment from Central Regional Hospital, leaving a judge to decide whether to reject the assessment and proceed with the April 30 hearing to delay 180 days as the hospital and prosecutors recommend. The new claim that Decarlos Brown is "incapable to proceed" on state murder charges became public in a motion filed April 7, according to the New York Post. Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr. already had 14 arrests on his record when he boarded a Charlottesubway train in August 2025 with violence on his mind. Brown did not know Iryna, who was also riding the subway and quietly minding her own business. But Brown suddenly and randomly approached Iryna and stabbed the young woman to death while most of the other passengers looked another way, refusing to intervene. Just before he got off the train, video of Brown shows him gloating to himself, "Got that white girl." 

Thankfully Gavin Newsom's concubine has words of wisdom to calm us down.

In a video clip resurfacing on social media, Gavin Newsom’s activist wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom is heard describing how she told a group of convicts in San Quentin about the childhood incident in which she killed her own sister with a golf cart — something she was never punished for because it was accidental. “Yours were probably accidents too…” she told the prisoners.

What an utterly evil filthy diseased pudenda! Makes Michelle Obama look like Dolly Madison by comparison. Or not.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s critics cry “war crimes” while ignoring decades of U.S. precedent—revealing less a legal argument than a reflexive, and deeply selective, political outrage.
  By All Means, Let the War Crimes Trials Begin!
  
• Critics argue the bill weakens freedom of expression and religion by removing the ‘good faith’ defense for religious texts.
  Canada Pushes Law That Would Classify Bible Quotes as Hate Speech.

AMERICA & ISRAEL STRIKE IRAN!
• A ceasefire hailed as victory masks deep uncertainty—fragmented leadership, conflicting terms, and Iran’s track record all suggest the pause may only delay the next escalation.
  Four Major Reasons to Doubt the U.S.–Iran Ceasefire
  
• Robert Spencer:Hey, I’m as happy as everyone else, but I can’t help but notice those missiles raining down on Israel.
  Oh, Great, Peace in the Middle East Again
• Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz, said on Wednesday morning that Lebanon was never part of the ceasefire arrangement. President Donald Trump also said on Wednesday that Lebanon was “not included in the deal” because of the “separate skirmish” between Israel and Hezbollah.
  Reports: Iran Blocks Traffic in Strait of Hormuz over Israeli Strikes in Lebanon
  
• And I totally understand his disappointment about that. But it is, therefore, a nuanced picture. It is not just saying it is black or white.”
  NATO Sec’y General: ‘Some’ in NATO Failed During Iran War, ‘Large Majority’ of Europe Didn’t
  
• Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran on Tuesday evening, just before the deadline for Iran to agree to terms was set to expire. In a subsequent Truth Social post, Trump stated that Iran has “gone through what will be a very productive Regime Change,” and will now be working closely with the United States. At a Wednesday press briefing, Hegseth was asked about the comments and whether the current Iranian leadership is actually a “new” and different regime than what was in place before Operation Epic Fury. (RELATED: Trump Showed Iran ‘Mercy’ In ‘Devastating Military Defeat,’ Hegseth Says)
  Hegseth Claims Iran’s ‘Regime Has Been Changed’ Amid Shaky Ceasefire
  
• The world breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday night on news of a cease-fire in the Iran war, but this is certainly no time for President Donald Trump to go wobbly. If he can’t work out a comprehensive deal to end the Iran threat for good, he needs to get the jets back in the air over Iran pronto — and let the bombs drop.
  Trump's legacy is on the line with new Iran cease-fire — what the deal must guarantee now and forever
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• No matter how the conflict ends, it will not have served America well.
  The Iran War Was a Mistake
  
• President Donald Trump did something Tuesday that he has done repeatedly over the course of his political career: He issued a dramatic warning ahead of negotiations. “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” Trump said Tuesday morning on Truth Social regarding Iran.
  Note Who Predicted Nuclear Genocide In Iran Last Night And Stop Taking Them Seriously
  
• If this isn’t evil, what is?
  The Underreporting of the Iranian Regime’s Crimes

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

• Millions aren't just moving out of blue states, but are moving out of blue counties within states.
  EXCLUSIVE: 5.4 Million People Have Migrated To Pro-Trump Counties Since 2020 As The Great Divorce Continues
  
• Anonymously sourced hit pieces have hammered Tulsi Gabbard the past few months in The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New Republic, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, you name it. They are part of a relentless campaign to undermine President Trump’s director of national intelligence because she is almost single-handedly revealing the dirty secrets of the Deep State.
  Miranda Devine: Tulsi Gabbard keeps her focus on revealing Deep State’s dirty secrets — even as they try to take her down
  
• Philly is geared up to fight ICE - and celebrate the nation’s 250th.
  A Woke City Pretends to be Patriotic
  
• “That fatalism has become a hallmark of our politics...The public is overcome with a sense of alienation and powerlessness.”
  How Political Violence Failed in the 1990s

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

• “Fundamental to this case—and indeed to our constitutional system—is the principle that the will of the President does not supersede that of Congress,” U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy said. “Presidential whims do not and cannot supplant agencies’ statutory obligations.”
  Judge Blocks Trump Administration from Ending ‘Temporary’ Amnesty for Ethiopian Nationals

• America is either a nation with defined borders and laws, or it’s not. There is no in-between.
  Worst Thing GOP Could Do For Midterms Is Embrace Amnesty, So Of Course They’re Doing That
  
• “Not only did the Biden junta release him into the country, but they then gave him temporary protected status.”
  Suspect Who Allegedly Killed Florida Woman With a Hammer is Illegal Alien Released Under Biden
  
• In total, the Justice Department said that Osei scammed hundreds of people out of $8 million.
  No Love Lost: ICE Nabs Illegal Who Scammed Grandmas In Online Dating Scheme
  
• Amnesty isn’t compassion. It’s a political weapon.
  Mass amnesty is treason, which is why mass deportations are needed
  
• A new report identifies special graduations with restricted access to protect and reward illegal aliens who have taken Americans’ spots and scholarships.
  ‘UndocuGrad’: California Universities to Hold Special Graduations for Illegal Aliens
  
• The extreme manipulation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause must end now if the republic is to survive.
  Mid-Air Birth Flies Home How Stupid Birthright Citizenship Is

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• California’s In-Home Supportive Services Program is ripe for scams, experts say.
  Gavin Newsom’s $30 Billion Fraud Magnet
  
• Residents of the Marylander Condominiums could be evicted any day after a federal judge rebuffed a last-ditch effort to halt the proceedings, putting the future of the condo in jeopardy as a nearby homeless encampment is allowed to stand.
  Federal Judge Authorizes Evictions at Condominium Besieged by Sprawling Homeless Encampment

  
  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Col. Allen West: It will start here in Texas, and inspire others in America to stand.
  The Fall of Islam( Unless nd until Islam falls in Mecca and too much of the rest of the western world and in the hearts nd minds of all its billion and a half adherents, we';re merely trying to hold back the tide.- jja)

• They won't pay - but it's still a moral victory.(Honestly, I'm sick to death of "moral" victories considering the blood of innocents hasn't stopped flowing for decades and the lack of morality of the perpetrators and their cheerleaders in the res of the so-called civilized world- jja)
  'Palestinian' Authority and PLO Ordered to Pay $655 Million to Terror Victims

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

• The left-wing Senate candidate held events on Michigan and Michigan State's campuses with Piker and members of the 'Squad'
  Michigan's El-Sayed, Campaigning Alongside Anti-American Streamer Hasan Piker, Suggests US Lawmakers Only Support 'Genocidal' Iran War Because of AIPAC

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

• ...an ongoing campaign to convince voters that Trump and his supporters are a threat to the normal rule of law — when it was Democrats and the dying media who cheered on the prosecution of the former president and his supporters for political disagreement... That the people who perpetuated that obscenity — Letitia James, Merrick Garland, Jack Smith, Alvin Bragg, Fani Willis, and on and on — might face their own form of legal harassment isn’t a matter of “weaponizing” the Justice Department. It’s a matter of ensuring it stops being weaponized.
  Here’s How The Media Are Lying Right Now: Painting DOJ Abusers As Trump’s ‘Political Foes’
  
• A critique from a partisan hack.
  Jim Acosta Whines Trump is ‘Winning’ His War on the Press
  
• Photos document how Iranians in affluent enclaves of northern Tehran are seeking 'respite from the daily terror wrought by airstrikes'
  As Regime Executions Mount, NYT Laments Trump’s War Is Preventing Iranians From Cherishing Nature
  
• Your average left-of-center boomer probably reads The New York Times (NYT), CNN, NPR. Your average social-media savvy left-of-left-of-center boomer is probably on Bluesky, essentially a leftist alternative to X. 
  A Strait Jacket And Soundproof Room: Left-Wing Loony Bin Shows No Outside Noise Can Get In

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• America’s economic strength depends on regulators who understand that markets, not bureaucratic delay, are the primary drivers of growth.
  Momentum is key for the Union Pacific - Norfolk Southern Merger

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• He had been asked to leave the church two months prior to the incident, after handing out “concerning” flyers. On March 15 he came back to the church wearing a backpack and was seen allegedly going into a bathroom, walking out, then going back in several times.
  Armed Man with 100 Rounds of Ammo Tackled in Texas Church
  
• A US Marine was fatally stabbed during a massive North Carolina brawl — and disturbing video that captured him bleeding out on the side of the road has placed responding officers under heavy scrutiny. Daniel Montano, 21, died after he was one of two people who were stabbed as a large fight broke out in downtown Wilmington just after 2 a.m. on Saturday, according to the Wilmington Police Department.
  US Marine killed in stabbing during North Carolina street brawl as disturbing video sparks outrage over police response
  
• In an apparent effort to delay and thus perhaps permanently undermine justice for Iryna Zarutska's killer, prosecutors have accepted the assessment from Central Regional Hospital, leaving a judge to decide whether to reject the assessment and proceed with the April 30 hearing to delay 180 days as the hospital and prosecutors recommend. The new claim that Decarlos Brown is "incapable to proceed" on state murder charges became public in a motion filed April 7, according to the New York Post.
  Disheartening: Iryna Zarutska’s Killer Found Incompetent to Stand Trial

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• “The First Amendment does not guarantee students the right to access books of their choosing at taxpayer expense,” an Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled on Monday.
  Eighth Circuit: Schools Don’t Owe Kids Access to Sexually Explicit Books

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

  
  

• Democrats and left-wing activists have tried numerous legal routes to defeat the map, which was passed by the GOP-dominated state legislature and signed into law by Gov. Mike Kehoe (R-MO) last September before going into effect in December. The bill, called HB1, codified new district lines that could net House Republicans an additional seat in what is expected to be a tight election season.
  Radical Left Repeatedly Fails to Overturn GOP-Drawn Congressional Redistricting Map in Missouri

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

• The Virginia Democrat’s announcement came the same day her dismal approval rating was revealed
  Abigail Spanberger Takes Credit For $7.1 Billion in Business Investments Secured By GOP Predecessor Glenn Youngkin
  
• Toxic empathy in action.
  Newsom’s Wife: San Quentin Convicts’ Crimes Were ‘Probably Accidents’

  POLITICS

• Chris Taylor beat conservative candidate Maria Lazar in Tuesday’s Supreme Court election, but a former activist judge loses her appeal.
  Another Leftist Wins, But The Rule Of Law Prevails In Wisconsin
  
• What’s a lot of sleaze and blood when power is on the line?
  White House Dem Hopefuls Bow to Sharpton
  li>A very instructive cautionary tale for young men. Never marry a feminist.
  How Gavin Newsom’s Entire Political Career Is About To Be Destroyed — By His Wife
• They fight and fight, but their real problem is named Jim Desmond.
  Bad news for Campa-Najjar: Democrats fight like dogs for the congressional seat he's angling for, and a strong Republican emerges

  MADURO TAKEN DOWN

• According to recent reports, Venezuela’s monthly crude oil exports have once again surpassed one million barrels per day. Andy Walz – president of downstream, midstream, and chemicals at Chevron – confirmed to the BBC that the company is importing the equivalent a quarter of a million barrels of Venezuelan oil per day. The BBC detailed that the crude oil tanker Minerva Gloria recently docked at a wharf in the Mississippi sound, carrying 400,000 barrels of crude oil — an amount that, six months ago, would have been “impossible” to bring to the United States.
  Report: Chevron Importing 250,000 Barrels of Venezuelan Oil to U.S. per Day

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• In December 2024, Brazilian officials halted the construction of a BYD factory in the city of Camacari after an investigation found that 163 Chinese nationals imported to work on the project were forced to live and work in “precarious” and “degrading” conditions, including unsafe working environments and unsanitary living quarters.
  Brazil Blacklists Chinese EV Giant BYD for Slave Labor Conditions at Factory

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

  
  

• The Selective Service System (SSS), the government agency that maintains the database of draft-eligible Americans, submitted the “automatic registration” rule change to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs on March 30. 
  Eligible young men will automatically be registered for US military draft later this year

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• Kennedy revealed details of the Cuban regime’s fraud operations in the U.S. during an interview with the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show, during which he discussed the progress of his Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda and his office’s efforts to reform food and drug guidelines, restore trust in public health agencies post-COVID, and combat deep corruption — particularly after the Biden administration had dramatically reduced HHS’s capacity to catch fraudsters.
  RFK Jr.: Cuba’s Communists Running Massive Healthcare Fraud Scheme in Florida

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Distance Records, Mineral Moonscapes, and a San Diego Finale.
  Artemis II Mission Begins Return Trip to Earth
  
• By approaching them in orbit, ISSA-J1 will observe their current condition more than 20 years after launch, including their attitude, rotation behavior and signs of degradation.
  Astroscale to fly mission to rendezvous and inspect two different satellites
  
• All the improvements appear designed to allow for quicker reuse of the pad, including protecting it better when both Starship and Superheavy return to be captured by the chopstick towers.
  Update on SpaceX’s Starship/Superheavy launchpad improvements at Boca Chica

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

• “I think the most important thing is that we are adamant in keeping our Catholic identity. Without that, there’s no purpose for us to do what we’re doing.”
  Nuns Caring for Terminally Ill Sue New York Over Transgender Mandate
  
• The philanthropy giant is pouring millions into “black trans pleasure” and “trans liberation in an age of fascism.”
  How the Mellon Foundation Funds Trans Ideology

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Christian Toto: Far-Left filmmaker ignores slaughtered innocents to attack Trump, America
  SICK: Michael Moore (Tubby Riefenstahl) Praises Iran, Trashes U.S.
  
• The campaign was announced in a memo to employees by Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Ravi Ahuja.
  Hollywood Decline: Sony Pictures Set to Lay Off Hundreds

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