June 21, 2025

TRUMP REMINDS IRAN THAT THERE ARE “MANY TARGETS LEFT.” Accompanied by VP Vance Secretary Hegseth, and Marco Rubio, he says we took out the nuclear capability as we had warned, notes that Iran has been killing Americans for many years, and says that’s coming to an end.

Short, sweet, and to the point speech. Less than 5 minutes.

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Posted at 10:07 pm by Glenn Reynolds

SO IF IRAN RETALIATES, will it look like the distributed terror campaign outlined in Kurt Schlichter’s The Attack?

We have an awful lot of illegal aliens in the country, plenty of whom could be Iranian sleeper agents and some of whom certainly are. Are there enough to do anything significant? Who knows? Is there anyone left in the Iranian leadership capable of ordering something like that? Possibly not.

Will the Chinese, as in Kurt’s novel, cooperate with the Iranians? Doubtful. We have a stranglehold on Iranian oil now, and Iran is their biggest oil supplier.

But if you sometimes carry a gun, the next couple of weeks should be among those times.

Posted at 9:56 pm by Glenn Reynolds

OPEN THREAD: Party on.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

NOW WE MAY KNOW HOW MANY SLEEPER CELLS BIDEN ENABLED: Now that President Donald Trump has obliterated Iran’s nuclear bomb-making facilities, we may well find out in coming days just how many terrorist sleeper cells were able to enter this country during the Biden era. It’s my hurriedly posted PJMedia column.

Posted at 9:15 pm by Mark Tapscott

PROMISE MADE, PROMISE KEPT: I was there when Trump said this last September: “I wanted one thing from Iran, no nuclear weapons. I didn’t want much, no nuclear weapons. And now, they’re very close to getting it, and you can’t let that happen.”

Iran should have taken him seriously and literally.

Posted at 9:03 pm by David Bernstein

SORRY AOC, HE’S MARRIED:

Posted at 9:00 pm by David Bernstein

FROM THE EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM DEPARTMENT:

Personally, I am a man of peace, and a terrorist nation without an air force, army, navy, military leadership, or nuclear weapons is starting to look pretty peaceful.

So is a Mideast without Hamas, Hezbollah, or a terror-sponsoring Iran.

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The “no leaks” part is probably the most impressive.

Plus, bipartisan support!

And, legal analysis:

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Plus, irony:

And the bottom line:

Posted at 8:25 pm by Glenn Reynolds

STOCHASTIC TERROR:

Feras Hamdan, a 36-year-old Ohio doctor, turned himself in with counsel on Friday and was arrested and charged after allegedly forcing Republican Representative Max Miller off the road in a road rage incident.

According to Rocky River, Ohio, police, the incident occurred on June 15 when Hamdan allegedly tailgated Miller’s vehicle, swerved erratically, and ultimately veered into his lane, causing the congressman to drive off the road to avoid a collision.

Police said Miller’s wife and 2-year-old son were also in the car at the time of the incident in the suburb of Cleveland. . . .

While authorities have not disclosed Hamdan’s alleged motive in detail, law enforcement indicated that his actions appeared intentional and targeted, prompting further legal scrutiny and public concern.

Indeed.

Posted at 7:53 pm by Glenn Reynolds

DISPATCHES FROM ABC NEWS: Wealthy Whoopi Goldberg fails to see the irony of her ‘oppression’ narrative – or that the US is NOTHING like Iran.

One of the many problems with weaving a victim narrative is that it transports you into an ideological oblivion, making you nearly ­incapable of recognizing how self-unaware you sound to normal people.

Watching millionaires on “The View” trash a nation that has given them lives of abundance is absolutely nauseating to ­witness — and, to the average American, comes across as ­incredibly ungrateful.

Like Goldberg, many wealthy black people, lacking any ongoing sense of personal struggle, feel guilty for their success.

Yet they believe being black in America is synonymous with strife — and through race association, they can live the poor black experience vicariously, safe inside their gated communities and ­penthouses.

Goldberg is one I would classify as a “verbal victim,” because she has in fact overcome a multitude of personal and social obstacles to achieve worldwide fame and ­fortune.

Yet she pathetically holds on to her oppression narratives because they carry no negative ramifications in her luxurious world, only applause from victim-enabling white leftists like Joy Behar.

Goldberg could instead hold up her life as an example of an American success story — but then she’d have no struggle to complain about.

After being fired by ABC News earlier this month, Terry Moran claimed:

“I guess I’m a Hubert Humphrey Democrat,” he said, “I’m old enough to remember him. And you know, get practical things done that people need in a decent way, and stand up for what’s right.” Humphrey was a liberal Democrat pushing LBJ’s massive “Great Society,” not a centrist. It’s like saying I’m a centrist who’s a Ted Kennedy Democrat or a Jimmy Carter Democrat. But he suggested that because [Trump aide Stephen] Miller “degrades” the civil discourse, he’s “dangerous.”

[Tim Miller of the never-Trump Bullwark] pointed out that Republicans might say, aha, he’s outed himself as a Democrat. The mask is off. Then Moran did the screw-objectivity thing.

“My own feeling is that you don’t sacrifice your citizenship as a journalist. And your job is not to be objective. There is no Mount Olympus of objectivity where a Mandarin class of wise people have no feelings about their society. We’re all in this together. What you have to be is fair and accurate.”

Oh. Well if that’s the case: ABC News Needs to Apply the Terry Moran Standard to The View. 

Incidentally, if Moran can claim in 2025 that he “guesses” that he’s “a Hubert Humphrey Democrat,” how would Whoopi’s ideology be defined? Eve Barlow attempted just such a thing three years ago when the ABC News employee claimed on air that “the Holocaust isn’t about race:”  Whoopi Goldberg’s Ignorance About The Holocaust Is What Happens When Intersectionality Rots People’s Brains.

UPDATE: Bill Maher says Democrats need to ‘do something’ about The View after Whoopi Goldberg’s Iran comments.

Posted at 5:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

ACE OF SPADES: The New York Times is Boohoo Whinin’ and Cryin’ That Unrealistic Extremists in the ACLU Brought the Tennessee Trans Case to the Supreme Court and Lost Bigly.

The article is trying to be nice to their trans allies, but the general thrust is that these people are so isolated in their progressive trans bubbles that they have no idea of what the rest of the country thinks about their extremist crusade to sexually mutilate children.

It’s a long, long, super-long article. I’ll just quote the parts where the NY Times hints that maybe the trans movement is too strident and delusionary for its own good.

Note the article talks a lot about the transgender lawyer who argued the case for the ACLU. “Chase Strangio” — super-realistic name there, “Chase,” totally sounds like your parents gave you that name and totally not like you just went through YA Novels looking for “kewl” teenager names — is actually a woman, though she dresses like a man and really thinks she’s passing.

I’ll try to change the incorrect pronouns he/him/his to she/her/hers, but if I miss any, well, I tried.

If this is too long for you: The main point that true-blue Super Liberal Propagandist Nicholas Confessore is making is that the trans movement is extremist and refuses to see any nuance on any issue and is determined to just ride roughshod over all those who question the Strange New World they’re trying to will into being.

They went too far in going after the kids like they’re shrimp cocktail at a wedding reception, and by doing so, they have put their own movement and the entire Democrat-Media Party in a precarious place they may not be able to get out of.

Including this moment in the Times’ article:

In fending off attacks on gender-affirming care, however, WPATH had itself allowed politics to dictate some of its recommendations. [Rachel] Levine, the Biden Health and Human Services Department official, had been instrumental in WPATH’s mysterious last-minute deletion of the age minimums in SOC-8, documents uncovered by Alabama showed.

After seeing an early copy of SOC-8, Levine and her staff began pressuring WPATH to drop the new age minimums, arguing that “specific listings of ages, under 18, will result in devastating legislation for trans care,” as the group’s president relayed to colleagues in July 2022. That September, the American Academy of Pediatrics — which had also been provided a preview — followed suit, threatening to publicly oppose SOC-8 if the age minimums were not deleted.

The demands set off a furious debate within WPATH. Conservative politicians might attack WPATH for recommending medical intervention at younger ages than before. But Bowers, the group’s president-elect, pointed out that without specific age requirements, “insurers may not grant authorization” for pediatric care. Others worried about capitulating to political pressures in what WPATH intended to present as an “evidence-based” document.

Just as WPATH’s internal emails began trickling into public view, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear Skrmetti. Not long after, Levine’s requests to WPATH were reported by The Times. White House officials were blindsided, several told me. Though Levine would later tell Biden aides that she had been trying to protect the president, the West Wing saw it differently: Her request could suggest that the administration thought there should be no minimum ages at all. “Everyone was like, holy cow — did Rachel Levine really go out and lobby for 9-year-olds to get surgery?” one former Biden aide told me. (Levine’s spokesman says she based “all policy recommendations on the best available science.”)

Hey remember when Biden was sold to the American public as the safe, boring, middle-of-the-road moderate alternative to the out of control Bad Orange Man during the 2020 election? Good times, good times.

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UPDATE: Rachel Levine Let Notorious Gender Clinic Meet With Child In Gov’t Office.

Posted at 4:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH VAN JONES IS A VOICE OF SANITY:

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

THE TIPPING POINT:

Guam, you say?

And since we didn’t mention it yesterday, in the interest of being a full-service news aggregation Weblog, we must now warn more sensitive readers in advance that what is heard cannot be unheard. Watch: Hank ‘Guam Might Capsize’ Johnson Releases Anti-Trump Song and Good Lord, Make It Stop.

Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA) – he of ‘Oh noes, Guam might capsize’ fame – put out an anti-Trump song on social media for reasons known only to him.

It’s genuinely an injustice that his staff didn’t stop him from releasing it. I mean, tackle the guy out of his chair before he hits the ‘post’ button if you have to. Just make sure this never sees the light of day.

Johnson uploaded the video to his X account, where he is celebrating June as Black Music Month.

“This year, I decided to come back with another jam session for you all,” he wrote. “Here is my rendition of ‘Hey Joe’ by the Godfather of Rock, Jimi Hendrix.”

Iowahawk is succinct in response:

Barring that, could someone at least give Johnson a decent guitar tuner before he inflicts another video upon us?

Posted at 2:45 pm by Ed Driscoll