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Is It Time to Impeach Trump?

Politics Is It Time to Impeach Trump? The president’s disregard for the law is reckless and dangerous. Rep. John Larson (D-CT) has introduced 13 articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, House Resolution 1155, to save the nation from a worse tyranny than provoked July 4, 1776. Trump has said and done appalling things no other president has dared—not even close. What other president has proclaimed in the manner of Napoleon’s self-coronation that the only limit on his infinite extraconstitutional powers is his “own morality,” and doubted his constitutional obligation to honor his oath of office “to preserve, protect, and defend” the Constitution of the United States? What other president has murdered nearly 200 alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific without even providing evidence of their crimes to the public? What other president has threatened the death of the 6,000 year-old Iranian civilization, which has encompassed Cyrus the Great’s emancipation of Jews from the Babylonian captivity and Omar Khayyam’s timeless Rubaiyat? What other president has initiated and collaborated in extraconstitutional, Hitlerlike criminal wars of aggression or genocide, for which Nazi leaders were sentenced to death by the Nuremberg tribunal? What other president has suppressed freedom of speech and association on an industrial scale to retaliate against universities, lawyers, journalists, and lawfully present aliens for refusing to join Trump’s claque? What other president has kidnapped a foreign head of state, killing scores in the process? What other president has militarized domestic law enforcement by concocting national emergencies divorced from reality in Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Minneapolis to deploy the National Guard? What other president has illegally deported immigrants without due process to torture chambers in a foreign country? What other president has commercialized his pardon power as if he were a Sotheby auctioneer selling a Hieronymus Bosch painting? What other president has usurped the congressional power of the purse, including serial violations of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 and illegal invocation of the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, to impose exorbitant tariffs ultimately paid by American consumers? What other president has by executive order attempted to jettison our cherished constitutional right to birthright citizenship? What other president has flouted the orders of federal courts? What other president has shrieked for the impeachment of judges who handcuff his lawlessness? What other president has demanded the execution of six Members of Congress—all honored veterans—for communicating the truth that the Uniform Code of Military Justice requires disobedience to clearly illegal orders? What other president has exploited the powers of office for billions of dollars in personal or family enrichment indistinguishable from bribery or extortion? What other president has refused to faithfully execute laws passed by Congress which he dislikes? This is only the tip of the iceberg. Trump’s impeachable offenses are a way of life at the White House. The Constitution deputizes Members of Congress as first responders when tyranny or dictatorship are afoot in Article I, section 2, clause 5 in the guise of “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” The owlish statesman Benjamin Franklin at the Constitutional Convention explained that impeachment was an enlightened substitute for assassination. “With impeachment,” he elaborated, “the national executive would get a trial. If he was guilty, the punishment would be removal from office, not death. If he was innocent, then he would be exonerated, and his administration would no longer be tainted by scandal.” Congress should not idle like Nero while the Constitution is in flames. Members should be inspired by the 56 signatories to the Declaration of Independence who signed their death warrants to secure unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness promoted by government by consent of the governed. Trump must be impeached and removed from office immediately before it is too late. He is a dictator, pure and simple, who may well seek to disrupt the 2026 congressional elections by illegally invoking the Insurrection Act to dispatch the military to seize voting machines and occupy voting places. The Trump-orchestrated January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol to prevent Vice President Mike Pence from counting state-certified electoral votes showed Trump will move heaven and earth to remain in power. Our constitutional dispensation glorifying the rule of law and liberty may be destined to pass away. But it is the duty of Congress to be the last, not the first to surrender. The post Is It Time to Impeach Trump? appeared first on The American Conservative.

Apr 17, 202620 votes

Is It Time to Impeach Trump?

Apr 17, 20268 votes

Ceasefire Day 9: Hegseth: ‘Locked and Loaded on Your Dual-Use Infrastructure’

On Thursday, the ninth day of the two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said that the U.S. is ready to restart combat operations against the Islamic Republic if a deal is not reached, reiterating threats to destroy Iranian civilian infrastructure. “We are reloading with more power than ⁠ever before, ⁠and better intelligence,” Hegseth said at a Pentagon briefing. “We are locked and loaded on your critical dual-use infrastructure, on your remaining power generation, and on your energy industry. We’d rather not have to do it.” The Washington Post, citing unnamed officials, reported Wednesday that the Pentagon will deploy to the Middle East another 6,000 troops aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush and several warships escorting it, in addition to 4,200 other servicemembers who are expected to arrive in the region near the end of April. The U.S. Senate on Wednesday afternoon rejected a war powers resolution on the Iran War, 47–52. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) joined Democrats to support the resolution, while Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) voted against it. The vote marks the fourth time this year that the Senate has voted to cede its war powers to the executive branch. Pakistan’s army chief arrived in Tehran on Thursday to meet with Iranian officials, in a bid to extend the ceasefire. Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Thursday that no date has been set yet for a new round of direct U.S.–Iran talks. Iran’s Tasnim News Agency reported Thursday that Iran has serious doubts about U.S. good faith ahead of the potential talks, saying Washington must first honor existing commitments and drop what Tehran describes as excessive demands before negotiations can be productive. Tasnim says that, despite reports of a possible meeting this weekend, Iran has told Pakistani intermediaries that, absent a more agreeable framework, further talks would be “unproductive.” The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday that the U.S. is widening its naval blockade of Iranian ports beyond the Middle East to also include the Indo-Pacific region. Gen. Dan Caine said U.S. forces “will actively pursue any Iranian-flagged vessel or any vessel attempting to provide material support to Iran.” The Pentagon released its first map of the blockade line, drawn where the Gulf of Oman meets the Arabian Sea. Tanker Trackers reported on Thursday morning that Iran has so far shipped out at least nine million barrels of oil from floating storage in the Gulf of Oman since the U.S. blockade took effect on Monday. Tasnim News Agency reported that Iran’s Speaker of Parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf told Nabih Berri, the Lebanese speaker of parliament and leader of the Amal Movement, Thursday that Tehran views a ceasefire in Lebanon as equally important as one in Iran itself. Ghalibaf reportedly said Iran has been pressing for a permanent ceasefire across all conflict zones, including during recent Pakistani-mediated talks with the U.S. in Islamabad. U.S. President Donald Trump and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun held a phone call Thursday to discuss a ceasefire to the Israeli incursion into Lebanon. Aoun reportedly rejected Trump’s push to hold direct talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In a Truth Social Post after the call, Trump announced a 10-day ceasefire to begin at 5 PM Eastern Time on Tuesday. “I have directed Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Rubio, together with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Razin’ Caine, to work with Israel and Lebanon to achieve a Lasting PEACE,” Trump wrote. Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported on Thursday that Israeli strikes destroyed the Qasmiyeh Bridge, the last bridge remaining linking southern Lebanon to the rest of the country. Haaretz reported Wednesday that Israeli strikes in Lebanon have killed 172 children, targeting entire families in their homes. The Israeli military expanded its evacuation orders on Thursday, ordering all residents south of the Zahrani River to flee their homes immediately. Gas prices remained elevated on Thursday, with AAA reporting the national average price of gas at $4.09 per gallon. The post Ceasefire Day 9: Hegseth: ‘Locked and Loaded on Your Dual-Use Infrastructure’ appeared first on The American Conservative.

Apr 16, 202610 votes

One Day in the Life of Ann

Takimag One Day in the Life of Ann There’s something strange afoot in the world of murder mysteries. TakiMag I’ve been trying to distract myself from the end of the world, as Trump blows up not only Iran but the Republican Party with a pointless war that has spiked oil prices, depleted our munitions, closed the Strait of Hormuz, jettisoned America’s moral standing, distracted the president from immigration, and, so far, cost us $30 billion in direct military spending, with $200 billion more requested. So I’ve been spending my time on murder mysteries. Reading David Baldacci’s action-thriller To Die For, I was willing to suspend disbelief and accept his portrayal of the CIA and FBI as all-powerful, super-stealth agencies, full of swashbuckling killers (men and women!) as opposed to what they actually are, which is incompetent paper-pushers with cushy bureaucratic jobs who didn’t see 9/11 coming. (Refusing to engage in “racial profiling,” FBI officials blew off Phoenix agent Kenneth Williams’ July 10, 2001, memo warning about the “inordinate number” of Muslim men linked to Osama bin Laden enrolled in U.S. flight schools.) But then I got to the part where the real enemy is revealed—the hidden malevolent force that is about to take down THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Guess what that terrifying organization is. A reconstituted KKK! Actual quote from the book: “[They want] a population that looks the same, prays the same, speaks the same, and where white men dominate everything. Just like the KKK.” This book came out in 2024. Yes, apparently, Baldacci was in a semi-vegetative state during the previous four years of convulsive violence from antifa and their leftist comrades—cities aflame, businesses destroyed, police stations razed to the ground, neighborhoods commandeered by fascist thugs, an explosion in the murder rate beyond anything ever seen in U.S. history. And all this violence was committed with the warm cooperation of a half-dozen local governments. So this was just the time to release a panicky tome about the (nonexistent) KKK and their scary memes. (A hundred electroshock-therapy sessions couldn’t cure hack writers of their irrational fear of white domestic terrorists.) Next on the escapist trail, I watched an episode of Law & Order. Sticking to formula, the writers took a hideous, real-life crime committed by a non-white person and made the perp a super-WASPy white man. The “ripped from the headlines” show I saw was strikingly similar to a Muslim mass shooter’s attack in Canada 10 years earlier. In 1989, Gamil Gharbi, son of a French Canadian mother and an Algerian immigrant father, who hated women (no, really?), methodically murdered 14 female engineering students at École Polytechnique, a top technical school in Montreal. Gharbi barged into an engineering classroom and ordered all the men out, then shot the women, explaining he was “fighting feminism.” The misogynist Muslim continued on his way, entering another classroom, again threw the men out, and shot or knifed the women to death. During his 20-minute rampage, Gharbi killed 14 women and injured 10. (It appears that not one of the ejected men, listening as the ladies were shot, attempted to intervene, not exactly smashing the stereotype of French Canadians as useless sissies.) In the Law & Order version of this real-life Muslim murder spree, a group of 17 female pre-med students in Central Park are gunned down by a creepy guy, aiming only for women, while muttering, “Damn bitches.” Description of the suspect from one of the TV witnesses: “He was white.” And just so no one missed the point, he was played by a blond, blue-eyed, all-American actor. Hoping for a less annoying distraction, I tried one of my favorite shows, Murder, She Wrote—or as a cruel ex-boyfriend called it, “Underpants She Soiled.” (The lead character is a cheerful dowager who solves an apparently unending series of homicides in her small New England town.) But even this aggressively apolitical program worked in a gratuitous shot at Republicans. It wouldn’t be worth mentioning, except for the near-perfect Opposites Day nature of the remark. In the show, the owner of a Fifth Avenue salon says of her star hairstylist, “One of our nine Republican candidates for president pays him $600 plus airfare to fly to Washington every two weeks.” Because, you know, Republicans are such rich, elitist snobs. That episode aired in 1995, which happens to be just two years after President Bill Clinton made international news for stopping traffic at Los Angeles International Airport so that he could treat himself to a $300 haircut ($670 today) from “Cristophe of Beverly Hills” aboard Air Force One. The story became, as one Washington Post columnist put it, “The Most Famous Haircut Since Samson’s.” The Post alone ran more than 50 stories mentioning it. No one at Murder, She Wrote—not the writers, editors, standards and practices executives, cameramen, not even the actors—could have missed the story about Clinton’s tarmac trim. But the dialogue sounded good to them. It didn’t stop with Clinton. In 2007, Sen. John Edwards’ (D-NC) Federal Election Commission filings revealed that he’d billed his presidential campaign for two $400 haircuts from a Beverly Hills stylist, $250 for hair styling and makeup from a swank salon in Dubuque, Iowa, and $225 in services from the Pink Sapphire in Manchester, New Hampshire, which, NBC News reported, “is described on its website as ‘a unique boutique for the mind, body and face’ that caters mostly to women.” Famously, Hillary Clinton got a $600 haircut in 2015 from the posh John Barrett Salon, requiring half of Bergdorf Goodman to be put on lockdown. Indeed, just about every haircut scandal has involved a Democrat. These include Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) $300 haircut in 2019 and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s spending more than $30,000 from his 2024 campaign coffers for hair and makeup. Back to the dissolution of the world, Google also reveals that in 2016 Benjamin Netanyahu got a haircut in New York City for a whopping $1,600. Perhaps patriotic hairstylists could put an end to the slaughter by threatening to withhold services from the well-coifed prime minister. If our storytellers ever try their hand at reimagining the Iran War, at least they’re unlikely to confuse which party bears responsibility for this catastrophe. COPYRIGHT 2026 ANN COULTER DISTRIBUTED BY IMPOLITE DEBATES The post One Day in the Life of Ann appeared first on The American Conservative.

Apr 16, 202619 votes

Media Coverage of the War Has One Target: Trump

Foreign Affairs Media Coverage of the War Has One Target: Trump The fourth estate is rooting against the president. Why does the U.S. mainstream media continue to mock America’s war efforts? Why does coverage of the Iran war appear to favor Iranian narratives? Michelle Goldberg at the New York Times pulled no punches on where it thinks things stood just before the ceasefire: A slurring Trump rehashed a bunch of his Truth Social posts, alternately boasting about America’s military progress while threatening war crimes… He showed us that he has no plan to get out of the mess he created. One way to judge how the war is going is to look at which side is trying to wrap it up. U.S. intelligence agencies have assessed that “the Iranian government believes it is in a strong position in the war and does not have to accede to America’s diplomatic demands.” Even after the ceasefire and plans to reopen the strait were announced, the Times could only sum up Trump’s power diplomacy as “the mark of an impulsive leader who is used to getting his way through coercion and unpredictability” and that he had “backed off.” The Times goes on to review “American war crimes” and claims bombing only strengthened Iranian resolve. It concludes that “all we know is that he [Trump] has managed to give Iran the upper hand in this conflict while tanking the global economy and shredding America’s most important alliances.” Another headline claims the takeaway from the earlier rescue of the downed American airman was all of “Trump is Emboldened,” followed by “Trump Revels in Threats to Commit War Crimes in Iran” now that the missing airman is safe. Another piece claims, “Iran has now demonstrated de facto control over much of the global economy. Its Parliament is considering whether to formalize the charging of fees for passage, and an Iranian official warned earlier on social media that the United States would not regain access to the strait.” The article goes on to place suffering on a scale of justice, expressing regret over the civilian deaths in Iran without mentioning those in Israel. It cryptically refers to “displaced millions” across the Gulf without indicating who they might be. It blames all these problems and more on Trump personally. An op-ed headlined “Remember the Oil Shocks of the ’70s? This Is Going to Be Worse. Much Worse” depicts the global economy spiraling out of control by citing the cost of a gallon of gas. It fails to note the price for gas peaked at around $5 per gallon in June 2022 under the worst of the Biden inflation. Crude oil, varying between $88 a barrel and over $100, hit $116 in 2022 without the media writing in apocalyptic terms, never mind blaming one man. It has already dropped to $93 following the ceasefire. The prize for most egregious telling of the Iran War story pre-ceasefire, however, goes to flagship Democratic journal Foreign Affairs, which features an article written by none other than Javad Zarif, the Islamic Republic’s former vice president, foreign minister, and UN representative. Zarif writes, More than a month in, the Islamic Republic is clearly winning [the war]. American and Israeli forces have spent weeks incessantly bombing Iranian territory, killing thousands of people and damaging hundreds of buildings, all in hopes of toppling the country’s government. Yet Iran has held the line and successfully defended its interests. It has maintained continuity of leadership even as its top officials have been assassinated, and it has repeatedly hit back at its aggressors even as they strike at its military, civilian, and industrial facilities. The Americans and the Israelis who started the conflict with delusions of forcing capitulation thus find themselves in a quagmire without an exit strategy. The Iranians, by contrast, have pulled off a historic feat of resistance. He concludes the U.S. must now effectively sue for peace with Tehran and remove the sanctions that have been in place for the 47 years, since Iran took over the American Embassy in Tehran and began an asymmetric war across the Gulf. If not, Zarif warns, there is “reason to continue fighting until the aggressors are adequately punished rather than to search for a negotiated ending.” A companion article by a former State Department official claims that “Tehran will now set the terms for peace.” The dominant tone in high-visibility outlets frames Donald Trump’s decisions not just as controversial or risky, but as inherently unserious, worthy of ridicule, even dangerous. Late-night, top-tier op-eds, and even purported straight news analysis emphasize impulsiveness, strategic incoherence, or near-comedic personal motivations (the entire war is nothing but cover for the Epstein files!) behind decision-making. Thus every action is wrong, and every loss of American life, however tragic, is actually an exaggerated negative turning point. When a deadline is extended, it is seen as an example of weakness rather than a diplomatic tool. The troops, from the generals on down, once labeled by the media as the baby-killers of Vietnam, have morphed into a sort of victim themselves, forced to commit war crimes in a meaningless struggle. Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) accused the media of engaging in selective coverage that benefited Iran during the first 30 days of the war. “I read the entire political spectrum on Epic Fury. Iran now loves and learns from the media,” Fetterman said. “The media’s selective coverage rewards and reinforces Iran’s strategy. Media amplifies the one percent chaos Iran creates, while ignoring the 99 percent of Iran’s beatdown.” From an ironic point of view, based on American media coverage, one can’t help but be impressed by what the Iranians apparently have accomplished. Despite weeks of bombing, the destruction of over 12,000 targets, the loss of layers of tested leadership, the effective end of its navy and air force, the loss of oil revenue through the Strait, and the end of relationships with all the other Gulf states, it seems the Iranians have brought America down to its knees, stuck in a quagmire watching the world collapse around it. Iranian actions are admired as tactically clever, disciplined, and strategically effective as they take American military and Israeli civilian lives. There is almost respect for the plucky Iranian ability to harm our own people. All after only some six weeks. Criticism often focuses on this being a war without end. In comparison, what did the media say about the Vietnam War (1,018 weeks), or Iraq II (about 416 weeks depending on who is counting)? America’s longest war, in Afghanistan, went on for some 1,040 weeks. The 1991 air campaign in Iraq, part of universally praised (at the time) Operation Desert Storm, lasted for approximately six weeks, about the same as today’s Iran war and needed to be followed by a massive ground invasion. The media initially celebrated each of those wars, and in the case of Iraq II and Afghanistan, tolerated true quagmires for decades across multiple presidencies, going as far as agreeing to label flat-out escalations as the nicer-sounding “surges.” For years they allowed completely false claims about weapons of mass destruction to stand solidly as justification for war in Iraq, even as they have turned Trump’s own war objectives into an SNL skit. During the Cold War, mainstream media often assessed the Soviet military and later the North Vietnamese with a degree of awe. The issue today is when only derision toward American leadership and blind praise for Iranian effectiveness are published. When a headline mocks a U.S. operation as chaotic while another describes Iran’s response as “measured” or “savvy,” the cumulative effect can feel less like reporting and more like creating an expectation. The United States, once the most powerful nation in the world with overwhelming technological capability, is recast as bumbling, while its adversary is granted the aura of competence and control. Some tension among patriotism, objectivity, and partisanship is actually a good thing for the media to wrestle with. Intelligent skepticism is good. During the later stages of the Vietnam war, criticism centered on whether journalists had legitimately lost faith in U.S. policy. The debate was mostly whether the media turned against the war too soon, or if it was simply reflecting the emerging reality. A mostly shared narrative organically evolved over time. In contrast, the criticism today is that the media purposely practices distortion with selective coverage that purposely highlights or invents failures while ignoring progress. It is too early to know how this war ends, or even whether the ceasefire will hold in the short term. But that is not the real issue here revealed by the media. The coverage of the current war comes down to the desire to humiliate Trump. The mess, from the gas pump to the Middle East writ large, is entirely Trump’s fault. He is bleeding out American pocketbooks and American soldiers’ lives for some unclear personal gain (if not just being duped by Israel). His purported eventual failure with Iran, amplified in lockstep by the media, is what will finally bring down the “King” when lawsuits, impeachments, Russiagate, pussy hats, and the Epstein files failed. When audiences watch American actions mocked while Iranian actions are admired even as troops suffer, the media’s side can become difficult to figure out. Helluva way to run a war, never mind a nation. The post Media Coverage of the War Has One Target: Trump appeared first on The American Conservative.

Apr 15, 202620 votes

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Is It Time to Impeach Trump?

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Ceasefire Day 9: Hegseth: ‘Locked and Loaded on Your Dual-Use Infrastructure’

Ceasefire Day 9: Hegseth: ‘Locked and Loaded on Your Dual-Use Infrastructure’

Ceasefire Day 9: Hegseth: ‘Locked and Loaded on Your Dual-Use Infrastructure’

Ceasefire Day 9: Hegseth: ‘Locked and Loaded on Your Dual-Use Infrastructure’

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