Mostly Democrat Congress Critters Want To Restrict Trump From Attacking Iran

By William Teach March 2, 2026 – 6:45 am

This is purely the result of Trump Derangement Syndrome. If there ever were an issue Democrats could rally around, this is it. It’s foreign policy, it’s attacking a nation that has chanted death to America for decades, been involved in killing Americans, and so much more. But, no, they are unhinged. Anything regarding Trump they have to do the opposite. First, though

And here we go

Lawmakers stress new urgency around war powers votes after Iran strikes

Efforts in Congress to block President Trump from using further military action against Iran without support from lawmakers have intensified after the U.S. and Israel launched a massive military operation on Saturday.

Lawmakers are expected to vote this week on resolutions to require President Trump to seek Congressional approval to use military force on Iran as top Democrats — and some Republicans — seek to reassert Congress’ power to declare war and prevent a prolonged conflict. And although the votes were expected ahead of the strikes, the administration’s actions over the weekend prompted new energy from lawmakers, and calls for Congress to return to Washington immediately to vote as the conflict unfolds.

“This is a disaster, it is illegal, and the president is obligated under the Constitution to come to Congress and ask for an authorization of military force,” Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut said Sunday on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”

It’s not illegal, it’s undocumented. All Trump really needs to do is officially notify Congress and then end it up in 60-90 unless Congress authorizes further action.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said the Senate should “quickly return to session and reassert its constitutional duty by passing our resolution to enforce the War Powers Act.” And House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said House Democrats “remain committed to compelling a vote” on a war powers resolution upon the chamber’s return this week.

“Iran is a bad actor and must be aggressively confronted for its human rights violations, nuclear ambitions, support of terrorism and the threat it poses to our allies like Israel and Jordan in the region,” Jeffries said in a statement. “However, absent exigent circumstances, the Trump administration must seek authorization for the preemptive use of military force that constitutes an act of war. And Orange Man Bad!”

Ok, I added that last sentence. But, that is what it boils to. Same with Thomas Massie, who’s gone pure TDS. Democrats are seriously on the wrong side of a 90/10 issue, and, to repeat, it’s all due to TDS.

The resolutions would direct the president to remove U.S. military forces from hostilities against Iran unless authorized by either a declaration of war or another specific authorization for the use of military force. Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, who’s leading the war powers push in the Senate said in a statement that the chamber should immediately return to session to “block the use of U.S. forces in hostilities against Iran.”

Good grief, these people. This is a generational chance to get rid of the leaders of the largest state sponsor in the world. China, Russia, and Cuba have been seemingly changing their tunes. And Democrats want to retreat.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 1, 2026 – 1:54 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bicycle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Right Scoop, with a post on Israel continuing to make things go boom in Iran.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach March 1, 2026 – 9:10 am

Happy Sunday! Another great day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the Devils actually won a game, and a bunch of people went to Hell. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Old Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Victory Girls Blog: The Pearl-Clutching Over The Iran Strikes Has Begun
  2. The View From Lady Lake: Ding dong, the wicked witch is dead…
  3. The Gateway Pundit: Pro-Palestinian Columbia University Student Group Posts “Marg Bar Amrika” (Death to America)
  4. The Dry Bones Blog: Happy Purim tonight! Raining Missiles
  5. Sultan Knish: Gov. Newsom Frees the Worst Child Rapists in America
  6. Pacific Pundit: Statue of Ayatollah Khamenei in Iran torn down
  7. neo-neocon: During the Biden administration, the FBI recorded a conversation Susie Wiles had with her lawyer
  8. Moonbattery: Virginia Democrats Push Dumbest Gun Law Yet
  9. Legal Insurrection: Democrats Erupt Over Trump’s Iran Strikes
  10. Jihad Watch: Does Iran’s Islamic Regime Even Have a Chance to Survive at This Point?
  11. IOTW Report: Anti-US protesters funded by pro-China tycoon mobilize as first bombs fall on Iran
  12. Common Cents Blog: Iranians worldwide celebrate Khamenei’s Death – Video(s)
  13. Climate Depot: Trump Is Right: Science Demands That We Overturn the ‘Endangerment Finding’
  14. Chicks On The Right: The United States of…Cuba? Trump Floats “Friendly Takeover”
  15. And last, but, not least, American Greatness has “Democrats Want To Derail Trump’s Housing Reform”

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014, so, most are hosted internally). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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Washington Post Seems To Have A Sad That Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Is Dead

By William Teach March 1, 2026 – 7:00 am

Remember when they referred to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as an “austere religious scholar”? Glowing obituary. Well, you ain’t seen nothing yet. First, though, this is what you are seeing from Iranians

And now

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, is dead at 86

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Shiite Muslim cleric who played a behind-the-scenes role in Iran’s Islamic revolution, served two terms as president in the 1980s and dominated the country for more than three decades as supreme leader, was killed Saturday as Israel and the United States launched a joint attack on Iran. He was 86.

President Donald Trump announced the death in a Truth Social post, calling the ayatollah “one of the most evil people in History.” He did not share additional details, but four Israeli security officials said Ayatollah Khamenei was killed in an Israeli airstrike at his compound in Tehran.

Trump didn’t share more details on the boom boom killing, or, on how evil he is? Never really sure with the far-left Washington Post.

An early follower of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the austere cleric who inspired the revolution against Iran’s U.S.-backed monarchy, Ayatollah Khamenei staunchly opposed the United States and Israel, rejected Western “liberalism,” and adhered strictly to fundamentalist social policies.

As supreme leader of Iran since 1989 — when he succeeded Khomeini — Ayatollah Khamenei wielded ultimate political and religious authority in the Islamic republic, outranking the elected president and overseeing the country’s armed forces, internal security apparatus, judiciary, state media and foreign policy.

Nothing so far about him lording over a brutal, murderous regime, one which supported terrorism throughout the Middle East, trying to destroy Israel and kill all the Jews via proxies, killing Americans in Iraq, killing other Muslims/Arabs in the ME, having women stoned, gays hung, and so much more.

He had the final say on a landmark July 2015 nuclear accord with six world powers, including the United States, that restricted Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for the easing of crippling economic sanctions. Although deeply distrustful of U.S. motives, and despite the misgivings of fellow hard-liners, he ultimately endorsed the deal, and it was formally implemented in January 2016.

Hilarious. Makes the US out to be the bad guy, even though it was the Obama admin in charge. And then goes on to bad mouth Trump for pulling the US out of the agreement.

When Iran was convulsed by widespread protests after the September 2022 death in custody of a young woman who was arrested by Islamic “morality police” for a dress-code violation, the supreme leader publicly blamed the United States and Israel and backed a deadly crackdown. How, he wondered, could some people “not see the foreign hand” behind the “rioting.”

Fucking seriously? This is what the WP writes? Nothing about this being due to Khamenei’s hardcore Islamist polices?

With his bushy white beard and easy smile, Ayatollah Khamenei cut a more avuncular (WT: they mean like a nice uncle) figure in public than his perpetually scowling but much more revered mentor, and he was known to be fond of Persian poetry and classic Western novels, especially Victor Hugo’s “Les Misérables.” But like the uncompromising Khomeini, he opposed moderates’ efforts to promote political and social reforms domestically and to secure rapprochement with the United States.

This is purely unhinged.

In the third decade of his rule, Iran became increasingly repressive, especially after security forces crushed demonstrations against the disputed 2009 reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Beyond this bit of crushing, it takes a long time to the obituary gets into him being a big meany towards Israel and the US, but, not in depth. They seriously whitewash his life. This is an insane piece.

But, then, most Democrats who read it are going to take the side of Khamenei and the Iranian regime over the US and the Iranian people yearning to be free, because that’s how Trump Deranged they are.

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Climate (cult) Scientists Want A Worldwide Assessment Of Climate Doom Or Something

By William Teach February 28, 2026 – 3:23 pm

I mean, don’t they get these prognostications every couple of weeks?

‘The world remains unprepared’: Why scientists are calling for a global assessment of climate change

climate doom yearly

Wait, I don’t have global heating on here?

The world remains “unprepared” for the risks of climate change, despite overwhelming evidence that the planet is heading towards irreversible damage.

A group of experts has published a paper in the science journal Nature, warning that the world lacks an “authoritative and up to date assessment” of climate change risks that would help governments and citizens understand the urgency of cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

Despite the “huge consequences” of a warming world, there has never been an internationally coordinated and mandated global risk analysis. It means policy makers could be inadvertently undermining the full scale of the threat, ineffectively prioritising resources, and deploying the wrong kind of mitigation responses.

I mean, they seriously just keep trying to keep the doom going. They cannot let go. It’s in their DNA at this point, and they require that everyone be forced to join. To drink the kool aid.

Professor Rowan Sutton, one of two senior commentary authors and Director of the UK’s Met Office Hadley Centre, says humanity still has the opportunity to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and shape a “more prosperous, liveable future”.

“A global assessment of avoidable climate change risks would enable political leaders and citizens to fully understand what is at stake and motivate us all to seize that opportunity – while we still have it,” he adds.

Would this be the same Met Office that has continuously failed, as well as show itself to be captured by the doomsday cult? Anyhow, it would be about giving political leaders the ability to see where they can control citizens

A thorough global risk assessment would provide leaders with an “authoritative overview” of the most significant climate risks, their impacts, and the likelihood of disastrous outcomes.

Did they say authoritative or authoritarian?

Instead of being a “counsel of despair” it would provide the world with a clear picture of the outcomes that societies can still choose to avoid. It would support the development of timely measures for mitigation and highlight the extent of human agency.

We get some new or repeated point of doom outcomes daily. You know how many articles I skip daily because they are just the same old same old? Tell you what: if you Believe than make your own life carbon neutral. Live it.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 28, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a rough see from carbon pollution driven bad weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Geller Report, with a post on NYC Muslims calling for a stronger October 7th.

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Happening: Trump Decided He’s Had Enough Of Iran’s BS

By William Teach February 28, 2026 – 10:30 am

It was probably a big mistake for Iran’s leaders to threaten to go after Americans, American service members, and Trump

Iran’s supreme leader, president targeted in attack: senior Israeli official

A senior Israeli official confirmed to Fox News Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and President Masoud Pezeshkian were targeted in Saturday’s joint U.S.-Israel attack on Iran.

The official noted military forces also focused on taking out “those responsible for commanding the mass murder of Iranian protesters.”

“Battle damage assessments will come out later,” the official said.

Who’d they get?

Senior IRGC, regime officials killed in Israel-US strikes on Iran, source says

Israeli and US strikes on Iran killed several senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commanders and Islamic Regime political officials, an Iranian source close to the establishment told Reuters on Saturday.

Iran’s Security Council instructed residents of Tehran, as well as other major cities, to stay in safe, protected locations until further notice, Walla reported.

Security forces blocked roads in the Tehran area that is home to the offices of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, President Masoud Pezeshkian, and parliament, witnesses said.

This follows on from Israel and the United States launching an attack on Iran, with Iranian state media reporting explosions heard in Tehran, Qom, Isfahan, Kermanshah, and Karaj.

Khamenei is not in Tehran and has been transferred to a “secure location,” an Iranian official confirmed to Reuters earlier on Saturday.

Oh, good, he moved from the densely packed Tehran to somewhere more remote, so, less chance of collateral damage? It looks like Israel and the US were serious, since they bombed Khamenei’s compound. And Trump did call for the overthrow of Iran’s government.

Obviously the Democrats, and some squishes (like Thomas Massie. What happened to him?), are losing their minds, going full Barking Moonbat, starting with the NY Times editorial board, which also went full TDS

Why Have You Started This War, Mr. President?

In his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised voters that he would end wars, not start them. Over the past year, he has instead ordered military strikes in seven nations. His appetite for military intervention grows with the eating.

Now he has ordered a new attack against the Islamic Republic of Iran, in cooperation with Israel, and U.S. officials say they expect this attack to be much more extensive than the targeted bombing of nuclear facilities in June. Yet he has offered no credible explanation for why he is risking the lives of our service members and inviting a major reprisal from Iran. Nor has he involved Congress, which the Constitution grants the sole power to declare war. He has issued a series of shifting partial justifications, including his sporadic support for the heroic Iranian people protesting their tyrannical government and his demand that Iran forswear its pursuit of a nuclear weapon.

Now, the NY Times cheered when Biden and Obama were getting involved in all sorts of wars. When Biden was pushing the world, along with EU leaders, towards WWIII against Russia. I don’t expect a quagmire or anything long term. I don’t expect an Iraq or Afghanistan. I expect lots of booms, but, no boots on the ground. I guess we’ll see.

The Iranian regime, to be clear, deserves no sympathy. It has wrought misery since its revolution 47 years ago: on its own people, on its neighbors and around the world. It massacred thousands of protesters this year. It imprisons and executes political dissidents. It oppresses women, L.G.B.T.Q. people and religious minorities. Its leaders have impoverished their own citizens while corruptly enriching themselves. They have proclaimed “Death to America” since coming to power and killed hundreds of U.S. service members in the region, as well as bankrolled terrorism that has killed civilians in the Middle East and as far away as Argentina.

But, since Orange Man Bad and those hated Jews in Israel are prosecuting the attack the Times, and by extension most Dems, are against it.

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Wacko LA Mayoral Candidate’s Housing Plan Is About Global Boiling

By William Teach February 28, 2026 – 7:15 am

Or is that her global boiling plan is about housing?

This LA mayoral candidate’s climate plan starts with housing

Los Angeles City Councilmember and mayoral hopeful Nithya Raman isn’t sugarcoating the state of the city’s climate policy.

The progressive stalwart, who launched a late challenge to unseat incumbent Karen Bass, has watched her 2020 campaign promises to build an all-electric fleet of city vehicles fall short and council efforts to ban gas appliances in new construction be struck down by litigation. Her term on the powerful South Coast Air Quality Management District ended on Jan. 15, just months after the agency rejected a proposal to phase out gas water and space heaters in Southern California.

Raman is attempting to link her climate vision to Los Angeles’ housing shortage, which she blames on opponents of high-density development. She’s supporting a Sacramento-led effort to require more multi-unit housing around public transit, which Bass and eight other council members oppose. She’s also leading an effort to reform Measure ULA, the city’s tax on the transfer of properties worth over $5.3 million, which developers say is stifling apartment construction.

Raman spoke with POLITICO about her vision for changing LA’s housing market, federal attacks on climate policy and the tension between electrification and affordability.

Her entire schtick is about forcing Everyone Else to listen to the Elites, mostly through forcing through legislation and rules from unelected bureaucrats. This is the climate cult in a nutshell. Tiny homes jammed all together, and everyone forced on public transportation. Want gas appliances? F*** you, peasant. EVs for government, public transportation for peasants? Check.

Opposition to new housing has defined the shape and character of Los Angeles today and shaped its politics in many ways in the past. I’ve represented a district that’s primarily single-family homes for the past five-plus years that I’ve been on the council. I do think there are ways of preserving what I love about LA’s neighborhoods, what residents love about LA neighborhoods, while still accommodating significantly more density on our major boulevards and thoroughfares and along our major transit corridors. I feel like if we grapple with the question of our housing needs more responsibly, we would have less intervention from Sacramento, which feels like it’s imposing an outside will on Los Angeles.

She wants to jam huge multifamily buildings into nice single home neighborhoods. I bet not in her own, though.

Let’s really talk about what it would take to generate the number of units that we need, and let’s put that in place locally. And that would include not just putting the new zoning in place, but making sure that we’re reforming our appeals process, making sure that we’re reforming our permitting process, making sure that we are reforming Measure ULA.

Who’s paying for it?

So does that mean building multi-family dwellings in single-family neighborhoods, and not just in areas like downtown?

We cannot rely exclusively on downtown LA to generate all our density. And frankly, the economics of building right now are such that high-rise buildings in downtown are not even getting financed. There are no cranes in the air in downtown LA, right? So, how are we going to build this housing?

Told ya! Anyhow, the cult keeps going on.

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Wacko Judge Won’t Let “Refugees” Be Terrorized With Arrest Or Something

By William Teach February 28, 2026 – 7:00 am

Another grandstanding wachjob liberal illegal alien lover who will soon be overturned on appeal. He should be used to it. For instance, when he threw out the jury ruling finding a man guilty of seriously abusing his 10 month old son

Trump administration cannot ‘terrorize’ Minnesota’s refugees with arrests, US judge rules

A federal judge on Friday said he would not allow President Donald Trump’s administration to “terrorize” Minnesota’s 5,600 refugees by arresting and detaining them under a new policy that “turns the refugees’ American Dream into a dystopian nightmare.”

U.S. District Judge John Tunheim in Minneapolis made that statement as he issued a preliminary injunction that extended an earlier, temporary order that blocked the administration from arresting or detaining refugees on the basis that they had yet to obtain lawful permanent resident status, or green cards.

The administration had sought to do so under a policy adopted as part of “Operation PARRIS,” a program announced in January that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security billed as “a sweeping initiative” to reexamine thousands of refugee cases.

DHS at the time said the initial focus of the initiative would be the roughly 5,600 refugees who had yet to be given green cards in Minnesota, the site of a recent immigration enforcement surge operation and benefits fraud scandal. (snip)

Tunheim, who was appointed by Democratic President Bill Clinton, agreed, saying the administration’s policy lacked authorization from Congress, raised constitutional concerns and upended the promise of the Refugee Act of 1980 that refugees could “be given a chance at a new beginning in safety.”

Does the law state that the refugees cannot be re-examined? That what they claim cannot be looked at? That the government, which is tasked with safeguarding America and Americans first and only cannot ascertain that the refugees aren’t a danger. Why are Democrats so hell bent on protecting people who seemingly do not like America or Americans, that just want to take advantage of the nation? Trump should drop some off in Tunheim’s neighborhood.

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Climate Doom Hurricane Scaremongering Starting Early This Year

By William Teach February 27, 2026 – 3:00 pm

What really caught my attention was the 2nd bullet point in this piece entitled

Will climate change bring more major hurricane landfalls to the U.S.?

Well, obviously the cultists will say yes. Let’s look at the “in brief”

  • The strongest hurricanes are likely to grow stronger as a result of climate change.
  • So far, there has been no significant increase or decrease in the number of major hurricanes making landfall in the United States.
  • However, it’s likely that there has been an increase in the number of major hurricanes in the Atlantic as a whole since 1946.
  • Also, the intensity of landfalling continental U.S. hurricanes has increased, so even if the total number of landfalls has not increased, their potential to do damage has.
  • When major hurricanes do hit, they will do more damage than they did in the past: They will be stronger, wetter, and bring higher storm tides because of sea level rise.
  • Expect to see more periods of major U.S. landfall activity in the future, but also gaps when no major landfalls occur.

So, no change in major landfalling (there has been no real change in minor or tropical storms, as well), but, hey, intensity has changed! Because we say so! And they’re going to get worse! We promise! And there will be more in future! Except when there aren’t!

And, remember, this is all your fault.

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