Can Trump Reverse Dems’ Five Decades
Of Iran-Policy Disaster?
Posted By: RockyTCB, 1/16/2026 7:58:33 AM
Will the U.S. soon launch a devastating strike to take out Iran's shaken fundamentalist Muslim regime? Or just wait for enraged Iranians to topple the teetering mullahs? Either way, Iran's regime looks finished. So what should we do? As a start, roll back President Jimmy Carter's tragic Iran mistakes of nearly 50 years ago that still win Democratic support today. The radical regime in Tehran must go. Iranians have tired of inflation, corruption, and oppression by their own government. The mullahs recognize no rights, and routinely imprison, torture, and kill their own citizens, as extensively documented.
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Will the U.S. soon launch a devastating strike to take out Iran's shaken fundamentalist Muslim regime? Or just wait for enraged Iranians to topple the teetering mullahs? Either way, Iran's regime looks finished. So what should we do? As a start, roll back President Jimmy Carter's tragic Iran mistakes of nearly 50 years ago that still win Democratic support today.
The radical regime in Tehran must go. Iranians have tired of inflation, corruption, and oppression by their own government. The mullahs recognize no rights, and routinely imprison, torture, and kill their own citizens, as extensively documented.
Sometimes, we wish the never-Trumpers of the world could settle on the reason they think Donald Trump is an existential threat to the nation.
Up until a few weeks ago, the threat he posed, we were told, was that he was an isolationist.
As pathological Trump-hater Max Boot repeatedly said, the world needs U.S. leadership, and Trump’s isolationalism was threatening peace and stability around the globe.
Boot was hardly the only one.
The Center for American Progress – as recently as April – warned that Trump’s “self-imposed isolation only makes it harder
With America Divided, Will Improving Economy
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Boost Trump’s Approval Ratings? I&I/TIPP Poll 11 replies
President Donald Trump has, by many accounts, had one of the most successful first years of any presidential term. And yet, his favorability ratings among voters has barely budged. Why? Support from independents and Democrats has weakened, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll shows.
This month marks the first year of Trump’s return to the White House. How is he doing?
Each month, I&I/TIPP ask a random sample of Americans the following question about presidential leadership: “Overall, is your opinion of Donald Trump generally favorable, generally unfavorable, or are you not familiar enough to say one way or the other?”
President Donald Trump said last week that he was “immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more single-family homes” and “will be calling on Congress to codify” the proposal. His advisers need to show him why that’s a bad idea.
Trump promised to “discuss this topic, including further housing and affordability proposals, and more, at my speech in Davos in two weeks.” So there is time to present clear arguments that should convince him to quietly drop the plan.
If we had an audience with the president, we’d first remind him that the government in a free country has no authority to determine who
Recall Mamdani
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Zohran Mamdani has been New York City’s mayor for hardly a week, and his term is already a stew of antisemitism, pro-terrorism, Marxism and discrimination. Voters made a horrifying mistake they can’t correct themselves. But they can band together in a fully justified effort to drive him from office in line with state law.
Before Mamdani was elected in November, it was obvious that he was the last person who should hold the job. It was widely know that he wanted to seize the means of production, that his clearly implied wish as an Islamist is to globalize the intifada
The government’s official report on economic growth in the fourth quarter of 2025 won’t come out for another six weeks. But a preview should be a cause for celebration for everyone who isn’t a Democratic politician.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta keeps a running tab on the economy, using economic data as it comes in to produce an ongoing forecast for GDP growth as the quarter unfolds – which it calls GDPNow.
The number usually bounces around a little as that data come in, and the final number is usually very close to the official government report that comes out several weeks after the quarter ends.
But yesterday saw something unusual.
When Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz decided not to run for reelection amid the massive Minnesota fraud scandal, Fox News said that his political demise “puts the Harris campaign judgment under scrutiny.”
But that misses the bigger and more troubling issue. Namely, the media’s culpability in letting Walz get so close to being a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Instead of due diligence, the press went into spasms of joy about Walz’s supposed appeal to Middle America. He was an “authentic guy,” “folksy,” with a “great record.” He had “psyched up the Democratic base,” and has “been inundated with supporters professing their love for him.”
The Great Divorce Continues
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When U-Haul released its latest “Growth Index” this week, it made us wonder if blue states will ever get a clue.
Once again, the index found a strong migration out of blue states and into red states.
“Florida, North Carolina, and Tennessee follow Texas as prime destinations. It’s the same top five from 2024 and 2023, although in a different order,” the company said.
The biggest losers: California, Illinois, New Jersey, and New York.
Of the top 10 growth states, nine voted for President Donald Trump in 2024 and seven currently have Republican governors.
Lack Of Trust In Media Continues As Perceived
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Bias, Ideology Divide Readers: I&I/TIPP Poll 5 replies
Last year may have been good for most Americans, but not so much for big media groups. Confidence in the media hit a recent low in November, and bounced back only slightly in December, as the final I&I/TIPP Poll of 2025 indicates. Can the media ever regain their lost luster?
I&I/TIPP asks Americans each month two questions about the media. The first: “Generally speaking, how much trust do you have in the traditional or established news media (Example: Washington Post, New York Times, NPR, CBS News, etc.) to report the news accurately and fairly?”
Yes, Cry for Venezuela
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It’s an excruciating economic lesson for the ages.
How can one of the most resource-rich countries on the planet, with trillions of dollars of energy and mineral reserves, beautiful beaches, and beautiful people, become impoverished in just 25 years?
It should have per capita wealth equal to Saudi Arabia and tourism like Bermuda. Yet half of its citizens now live in “extreme poverty.”
The simplest explanation? Venezuelan communist leaders Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro abandoned free markets and “rugged individualism” in favor of the “warm embrace of collectivism.”
Some are estimating that more than half of federal income tax revenues are devoured by fraud. This should not come as a shock. A massive government that funds everything from small businesses to health care to child care to housing is a rich target for thieves. Sharply reducing its size would limit the opportunities to steal from taxpayers.
Bandits have been defrauding of the U.S. government on such a colossal scale that even the legacy media has had to cover it, at least somewhat. The Minnesota Somalis looting the public fisc blew the lid so high that now smart folks are finding institutionalized fraud far, wide, high and low.
You have to marvel at the sequence of events we just experienced. On Jan. 1, a socialist was sworn in as mayor of New York, promising the “warm embrace of collectivism.” On Jan. 3, President Donald Trump announced that he’d forcibly removed Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela, ending the country’s 23-year embrace of socialism.
We will leave it to the pundits, the lawyers, politicians, and various other “experts” to debate the merits of Trump’s action.
But what we can’t let happen is for the left and the mainstream media to ignore or downplay just how tragic Venezuela’s embrace of collectivism has been.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal officers in the Minneapolis-area participating in its largest recent U.S. immigration enforcement operation can’t detain or tear gas peaceful protesters who aren’t obstructing authorities, including when these people are observing the agents, a judge in Minnesota ruled Friday.
U.S. District Judge Kate Menendez’s ruling addresses a case filed in December on behalf of six Minnesota activists. The six are among the thousands who have been observing the activities of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol officers enforcing the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area since last month.
Federal agents and demonstrators have repeatedly clashed since the crackdown began.
Oh Boy—Dylan Mulvaney Set to Make Broadway
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Dylan Mulvaney, a "transgender influencer" most famous for sparking the massive 2023 Bud Light boycott that tanked sales and alienated millions of customers, is now set to make his Broadway debut as Anne Boleyn in the hit feminist musical "SIX."
This is a good reminder that this kind of woke mind virus, widely rejected in the previous national election cycle, is still making the rounds in various corners of the entertainment world.
I mean, seriously. Not only will Mulvaney be taking a significant role in a musical about women in history, but he will be taking that role away from an actual woman. This is progress for women ... or something.
An obnoxious Rep. Ilhan Omar laughed off accusations she was connected to the fraud scandal rocking Minnesota’s Somali community, and belittled a reporter for asking about it, according to a videos she posted to Instagram.
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“Do you just ask stupid questions?” she barked.
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Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib went on an emotional rant about the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recruitment posts on social media during a Friday shadow hearing in Minnesota.
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Canada’s globalist Prime Minister Mark Carney’s long-anticipated trip to Beijing appears to be marked by a striking pivot away from Canada’s traditional alliances and toward deeper engagement with Communist China.
Claimed by Carney as a necessary adjustment to a “new world order,” the visit instead underscored Ottawa’s growing willingness to accommodate Beijing—and push away the United States—at a moment of geopolitical upheaval.
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Just the Facts, Ma'am
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The Justice Department is investigating Minnesota officials, including Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, over an alleged conspiracy to impede federal immigration agents, an extraordinary escalation in the Trump administration's clash with Democratic leaders there, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
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As chaos unfolds due to leftist agitators and rioters harassing Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers trying to apprehend illegal aliens, city officials are offering employees healing circles and baby “therapy goats.”
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NUUK, Greenland — Native Greenlander Amarok Petersen was 27 years old when she learned the gut-wrenching truth about why she couldn’t have children — and that Denmark was to blame.
Suffering from severe uterine problems, a medical doctor discovered an IUD birth control device in her body that she didn’t know she had.
Danish doctors had implanted it when she was just 13 as part of a population control program for thousands of native Greenlandic girls and women.
“I will never have children,” Petersen told The Post, with tears of anger and sorrow welling in her eyes. “That choice was taken from me.”
Billionaire tycoon forced to rename yacht
after realizing it was vile phrase when
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after realizing it was vile phrase when
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A billionaire's yacht was renamed after the media mogul didn't realize that the ship's title, spelled backwards, was a vulgar antisemitic phrase.
Larry Ellison, once the world's richest person and the co-founder of the media and entertainment conglomerate, Oracle, renamed his German-built yacht the Izanami, which, spelt backwards, reads: 'I'm a nazi'.
The 81-year-old chose to name the enormous, 191-foot vessel after a Shinto deity in Japanese mythology, the goddess of creation and death, seemingly without realizing the phrase it spelled in reverse.
Ellison, whose family has strong ties to Israel, became aware of the vile phrase and renamed the yacht, according to Futurism.
The yacht owner has repeatedly shown his support for Israel,
Minnesota residents of Somali descent and Hispanic heritage are suing President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to effectively shut down federal immigration enforcement across the state.
On Thursday, the left-wing American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), representing Somali immigrant Mubashir Khalif Hussen, Mahamed Eydarus, who is American and of Somali descent, and Javier Doe, a Hispanic American, filed suit against DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and ICE Director Todd Lyons, among other agency officials.
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The President Receives a Historic Gift
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On Thursday afternoon, I wrote about how María Corina Machado visited the White House and had lunch with Donald Trump. While I was writing that article, some rumors were circulating about a big gesture she made, but I couldn't confirm them at the time. Now I can. The Venezuelan opposition leader, on behalf of her people, gave the president her Nobel Peace Prize. Not a replica. The real thing. Since the meeting was purposely kept private, I wasn't sure that a photo would surface, but one got out, and as of late Thursday night, both the White House and Machado have shared it on social media.