[FoxNews] Over and over again, radical judges and government officials in liberal cities put law-abiding Americans at risk by allowing dangerous criminals to roam freely on our streets. Instead of holding criminals behind bars to protect our communities, these soft-on-crime judges release violent repeat offenders on bail, giving them the opportunity to commit more crimes.
You see it in the news nearly every week: A deranged criminal commits a violent crime against an innocent member of society, and before you know it, stories are coming out about how the offender had been arrested a dozen times previously and should never have been out on our streets in the first place.
Many remember the tragic death of Iryna Zarutska, the 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee who was fatally stabbed on the Charlotte, North Carolina, Blue Line train in August 2025. Decarlos Brown Jr. has been charged with her murder and also faces federal charges, but his competency to stand trial is in question. He is a man with a history of mental illness and who’d been arrested and released at least 14 times before allegedly killing Iryna, including on charges for armed robbery, felony larceny, breaking and entering and assault.
In May 2025, 22-year-old Logan Federico, a young woman studying education at South Piedmont Community College who hoped to become a teacher, was murdered during a home invasion while visiting friends in Columbia, S.C. The man who allegedly took her life, Alexander Dickey, had been previously arrested 39 times with 25 felonies.
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McDonalds got sued for hot coffee. These judges need to have skin in the game. I am surprised none have met vigilante justice from an aggrieved mourning parent.
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The Mormon Battalion was an infantry battalion of the United States Army. It was the only unit in American military history recruited solely from one religious group and having a religious title as the unit designation. The volunteers served from July 1846 to July 1847 during the Mexican–American War of 1846–1848. The battalion was a volunteer unit of between 543 and 559 enlisted soldiers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints led by Mormon junior officers and non-Mormon senior officers. During its service, the battalion made a march of nearly 1,950 miles from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to San Diego, California.
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Going back a few years; Mormon's were quietly recruited by various DoD agencies for their language capabilities obtained while serving abroad as missionary family members. The moniker "Mormon Mafia" is/was well known within the intelligence community.
The National Guard's 19th Special Forces Group located at Camp Williams Utah has long been recognized for it's foreign language capabilities.
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Still getting details, but this may just be click-baity. The military organizes religions in groups so chaplains can be easily organized for maximum religious support. Mormans were spun off from Christians and are still recognized but just as their own thing it seems.
Still getting details. But the article just seems to be spinning up a tempest in a teacup for clicks and anti-Trump spin.
[Jpost] Israel’s decision to strike military targets in western and central Iran in the early hours of Monday morning was different from the previous rounds in a familiar cycle of retaliation - albeit one that has been quiet for several weeks. It was a deliberate Israeli response to a dangerous test by Tehran, and one that Jerusalem could not afford to leave unanswered.
The immediate chain of events began in Lebanon. On Sunday afternoon, the Israel Air Force struck Hezbollah targets in Dahiyeh, the Beirut stronghold of the Iranian-backed terror group. The strike followed continued Hezbollah violations of the US-brokered ceasefire announced last week, and came after warnings from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz.
It was, in all truth, not a major strike on Hezbollah targets. Israel did not launch a full-scale operation in Beirut.
Iran, however, chose to respond directly toward Israel. Tehran had threatened retaliation for Israel’s attack and, by Sunday night, Iranian missiles were once again heading toward the Jewish State.
Sirens sounded across more than 100 communities in northern Israel as Iranian missiles were launched toward the country, and on Monday morning warnings were received after Yemen’s Houthis also rejoined the fray. Home Front Command restrictions are in place throughout Monday, including a ban on educational activities across the country. No injuries were reported throughout the night, but that is not the point. The importance is in the precedent Tehran attempted to set.
Had Israel allowed the attack without response, the message to Tehran would have been pretty clear. Hezbollah could continue ignoring any ceasefire, attacking Israel and its soldiers at will, and any Israeli response to Hezbollah could be framed by Tehran as a provocation, allowing Iran to fire directly at Israel while assuming that American diplomatic pressure would keep Jerusalem’s hands tied.
That is an impossible deterrence model.
NEGOTIATION OR RETALIATION?
US President Donald Trump’s position was very clear. He urged Netanyahu not to retaliate, telling Axios that the US was "very close to a final deal with Iran" and that he did not want the latest exchange to "blow up" the negotiations. He argued that Israel had struck, Iran had struck, and that the matter should end there.
From Washington’s perspective, that makes sense. Trump is trying to preserve negotiations with Iran and avoid a return to open regional war. He also noted that the Iranian attack "didn’t hurt anybody," presenting the exchange as a contained episode that could be folded back into negotiations. Negotiations that, so far, achieved what?
But from Israel’s perspective, that logic is incomplete.
Iran’s missile attack has tested the waters on whether Israel’s ability to defend itself has become subordinate to American-Iranian diplomacy, and that itself is an issue.
Nobody is suggesting Israel and the US are at odds with their different approaches to Iran, but after last week’s incident in which Trump allegedly called Netanyahu "f******* crazy", it does need to up the antagonistic feeling between the president and the prime minister.
It is very possible that Sunday night was a "tit-for-tat" blow-up that will then recede into quiet, but it is also possible that a small shift in the balance occurred, one due to the Iranians’ growing assumption that Trump is desperate enough for a deal to rein in any Israeli plans.
Iran did not attack Israel due to a strike on Tehran, Isfahan, or any nuclear facility. It was responding to an Israeli attack on Hezbollah - who have caused months of misery along the North - and if Tehran is allowed to fire missiles at Israel after every Israeli strike on Hezbollah, then Hezbollah effectively gains strategic immunity. That would turn every northern incident into an Iranian veto over Israeli self-defense, and not responding would set a dangerous precedent. Israel's actions ALWAYS benefit the US - especially when Washington and Jerusalem disagree on that the proper action is.
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Trump in his infinite genius: We Must Have Peace Even With Those Who Will Kill Us. For I must be loved by everyone even terrorists that violate negotiated red lines.
"The strike followed continued Hezbollah violations of the US-brokered ceasefire."
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this might have been choreographed with trump's 'you don't need to retaliate' designed to let Israel's action be a surprise
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Life imitates propaganda?
America, good cop: "World, please!"
With a devilish grin, bad cop: "Deez."
She's little, she's plucky,
She's cuter than Ducky!
"Sweet Jesus, she's breaking his knees."
[IsraelNationalNews] "The negotiations are going along well; actually, very well... I have a good relationship with Iran".
President Donald Trump, June 3, 2026, regarding talks with Iran, and hours after he admitted reprimanding Benjamin Netanyahu quite harshly for Israel’s refusal to accept an end to the war.
Someone is being fooled here. It must be the president of the United States. Because it certainly is not the Islamic Republic of Iran. And Israel will end up paying the price.
It was almost forty years ago - during a discussion about the American role in the Middle East - that an important question was posed. It was not rhetorical.
The question was rather simple - as was the answer that followed. But - because it was a confession that few wished to be associated with, it has remained unspoken for those same forty years.
The question. Why - in the conflict in the Middle East, between Israel and its neighbors - has American foreign policy, certainly as espoused by its US State Department, almost invariably adopted a position that is more critical of Israel than its Arab and Muslim neighbors, most who are outwardly belligerent towards the Jewish State?
Forty years ago, the answer was given by a rather insignificant State Department Arabist who, axiomatically and by definition, would be sitting on the Arab/Muslim side of the fence. The answer was short, and honest. But it upset his superiors in the State Department as well as some of the elite decision-makers who orchestrated American foreign policy. Enough - that a directive was issued that the answer which he proffered be "retired" as illegitimate and not to be mentioned again.
A quasi-official denial - behind diplomatic circles - seemed to offer the proof that it was indeed both honest and true. The answer then - and yet still true today - even among those who do not share the Arabist "zeitgeist" - was profound in its simplicity. In a nutshell - this was the honest confession of the State Department apparatchik who did not realize the controversy that would follow.
The US State Department, he explained, fully understood that the Middle East conflict (as they called it then, to avoid any subjective analysis of who was right and who was wrong) was a conflict between the civilized and the savage. The actual language that the State Department official used - then - was "between the civilized and the less civilized".
Given this reality - the American position was predicated on the belief that one could reason with the former, but not the latter - based on the simple human dynamics. That the former would be reasonable - and amenable to compromise - while the latter was not, with a temperament that was neither reasonable nor open to accommodation. The obvious conclusions became the foundation of US State Department protocol for over two generations. Israel could be expected to be agreeable to concessions while its neighbors, falling somewhere between obstinate and barbaric, could not.
I've often wondered: What would US imposed ceasefires between Israel and Arab would look like if the US official in charge had to bear personal accountability for their success?
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What if doctors were held accountable for their patient's deaths?
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The question, why... Because the US State Department is compromised by the military industrial complex and their Legions of Lobbyists and Foreign Influencer Dollars from Qatar and Saudi and UAE. And not too mention the model un theatre kids that staff State.
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