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WSJ: Trump to Announce Ship Escort Coalition in Hormuz

The Trump administration is preparing to announce that several countries have agreed to form a naval coalition to escort commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, a critical global shipping lane threatened by Iran's recent actions, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.

The announcement could come as soon as this week, though discussions are ongoing about whether escort operations would begin immediately or wait until hostilities in the region subside, the Journal reported.

Trump said Sunday he is pressing several countries to send warships to help keep the Strait of Hormuz open as oil prices surge amid the ongoing conflict with Iran.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One while returning to Washington from Florida, Trump said he has urged roughly seven nations to take part in protecting the critical shipping route but acknowledged no firm commitments have been announced so far.

The president did not identify the countries the administration is negotiating with, though he noted many of them rely heavily on Middle Eastern oil that flows through the narrow waterway.

“I’m demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory, because it is their own territory,” Trump said, arguing that the United States depends far less on oil moving through the strait.

Trump added that China receives about 90% of its oil through the passage, while the United States relies on it only minimally. He declined to say whether Beijing has agreed to participate in the proposed naval effort.

“It would be nice to have other countries police that with us, and we’ll help. We’ll work with them,” Trump said.

Publicly, some countries have been cautious about committing to such an escort mission while tensions remain high, citing the risks of operating in a potential combat zone.

The report follows comments Saturday from President Donald Trump, who said multiple countries are expected to join the United States in sending warships to ensure the vital shipping route remains open.

 "Many Countries, especially those who are affected by Iran's attempted closure of the Hormuz Strait, will be sending War Ships, in conjunction with the United States of America, to keep the Strait open and safe," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

"Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others, that are affected by this artificial constraint, will send Ships to the area so that the Hormuz Strait will no longer be a threat by a Nation that has been totally decapitated," Trump wrote.

The Strait of Hormuz, located between Iran and Oman, is one of the world's most important energy choke points. Roughly one-fifth of the global oil supply passes through the narrow waterway each day, making any disruption a major concern for international markets.

In recent days, Iranian forces and affiliated groups have taken steps to disrupt shipping in the area, including harassment of commercial vessels, deployment of naval patrol boats, and threats to lay sea mines or launch attacks on tankers.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has long used small fast-attack boats, drones, and anti-ship missiles positioned along Iran's coastline to threaten traffic moving through the strait.

U.S. officials have warned that such tactics could allow Iran to temporarily disrupt or slow the flow of oil and other cargo through the corridor.

The planned coalition would aim to deter those threats by placing naval escorts alongside commercial ships traveling through the waterway.

Trump said the United States is prepared to continue military operations to keep the shipping lane open if necessary.

"In the meantime, the United States will be bombing the hell out of the shoreline, and continually shooting Iranian Boats and Ships out of the water," Trump wrote. "One way or the other, we will soon get the Hormuz Strait OPEN, SAFE, and FREE!"

This story has been updated. 

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Up to 700 Iranian Military and Government Officials May Be Living Illegally in Canada and No One Cares

Canadian security services have identified at least 30 high-ranking members of Iran's government who are currently hiding in Canada.

 Canadian border authorities have identified nearly 30 suspected senior Iranian officials who they believe should be barred from remaining in the country under a federal ban, amid a widening conflict in the Middle East that could see more regime officials seek refuge.

The Canada Border Services Agency has been investigating 95 cases involving possible high-ranking members of the Iranian regime, up from 66 last June, according to figures provided by the agency.

Of those 95, the CBSA has identified 28 people it believes are inadmissible since senior Iranian officials were banned from the country in November, 2022. That number is up from 20 last year.

But the CBSA has so far removed only one official from Canada – a number that remains unchanged from last year.

This does not include run-of-the-mill illegals; the group is composed of former cabinet members, IRGC members, senior military and intelligence officers, former ambassadors, former judges, and top-ranking civil servants.

This has been a problem for years, but the rate of entry seems to have accelerated since shortly after Operation Midnight Hammer.

According to a statement by Canada's Conservative Party, Iranian officials fleeing to Canada to keep from getting killed, never mind the amount of blood on their hands, are eligible for asylum because they are in danger.

 Some political hay is being made, but Canada ceased to be a serious country some years ago.

PM Mark Carney denies claims of 700 Iranian regime agents in Canada, noting 239 visas have been revoked but only one removal has occurred.

The government reiterates that 28 cases are under review, with 170 investigations ongoing and 10,000 IRGC members already blocked. pic.twitter.com/bbzUMaj7yy

— Juno News (@junonewscom) March 11, 2026

Though, given what we went through with Joe Biden's "give us your scammers, your terrorists, your mental defectives" policy, I suppose I should be more generous.

Some of these "refugees" have already engaged in acts of violence and intimidation against legitimate Iranian refugees, indicating their role as more of regime enforcers among the Iranian diaspora than actual fellow refugees.

For decades, former presidents have been all talk and no action. Now, Donald Trump is eliminating the threat from Iran once and for all.

Ric Grenell Serves Up a Savage Schooling to Sheldon Whitehouse About Trump Kennedy Center

President Donald Trump anounced that Ric Grenell was moving on from heading up the Kennedy Center. 

Trump praised the work he had done to improve the Center.

“Ric Grenell has done an excellent job in helping to coordinate various elements of the Center during the transition period, and I want to thank him for the outstanding work he has done,” Trump wrote. The Kennedy Center did not provide additional comment about Grenell’s departure.

Grenell explained that things were a mess when he came in. 

“The books were a mess when I walked in. We were paying staff with debt reserves, we didn’t have money in the bank,” Grenell said during an interview on Fox News in November. 

Trump and his new Kennedy Center team have also claimed that the center was in grave disrepair — reporting broken elevators, rat infestations and crumbling concrete in the parking garage.

That's one of the reasons it's now been closed for renovations. 

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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) tried to attack Grenell.

Like a mob bust-out gone wrong, Trumpsters’ looting of the Kennedy Center has put it out of business, and now it needs to be “closed for renovations” as cover-up. No surprise he’s being replaced.

But the response from Grenell was savage. I think Sheldon is not used to being so completely upended. He's likely to remember this one. 

Your buffoonery knows no limits.  

You sat silent while the place went into total disrepair.  

You sat silent while the staff was paid with monies designed to pay off the future $30 million loan coming due in 2030 because there was no money in the bank to pay salaries.  

You sat silent while corporations left because of the hard left woke programming.  

We fixed it. And we are doing the right thing to close the entire place in a few weeks to renovate it - because of your years of neglect. 

This Washington game of kicking the can down the road and never solving problems has ended with President Trump.  

It doesn’t matter what you or the New York Times or CNN says. We are fixing the place that YOU ruined. It becomes a construction site for two years because you failed to keep up with the maintenance. 

And we have a world-class construction leader to do it the right way.  You are welcome.

Now that's a satisfying drubbing of the execrable Whitehouse, who certainly deserved it. 

But the bottom line, as Grenell laid out, the Democrats, when they were in control, let the Center go to disrepair, and didn't give a darn. They only care now because they want to attack Trump - it's always their motivation for everything they do, even something that should be non-political, like the Center.  If Joe Biden were in charge, they'd go back to being asleep and ignoring it. 

 

This NPR Story on the Michigan Synagogue Terror Attack Will Leave You Speechless

We don’t criticize the media enough. There’s no shock value anymore, but it’s important to note: the liberal media has an obsession with Muslim terrorists, and it’s seriously unhealthy. Last week, Ayman Mohamad Ghazali attacked Temple Israel,

 

 a synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan. Luckily, no innocent bystanders were hurt, as Ghazali rammed through the front entrance before he was killed by armed security. He died like a terrorist, but National Public Radio chose to portray him as the victim and focus on how he’s being mourned and all that. It’s all nonsense:

 What. The. Fresh. Hell. Is. This. @NPR @hadeelalsh pic.twitter.com/J4pdRgTUbH

— Ariel Sterman (@ArielSterman) March 15, 2026

Ghazali had lived in the United States for more than a decade but kept strong ties with relatives back home. Four members of his family were killed in an Israeli airstrike just as the war involving Iran began. 

Ghazali was born and raised in Lebanon, along with his two brothers. He also had a niece and a nephew. All were killed in the airstrike. On March 5, as the sun set, they were gathered at the home of Ibrahim Ghazali — the attacker's younger brother — breaking fast for Ramadan. 

The house is now a pile of rubble. The roof is caved in. Water leaks from a severed pipe. Clothes are strewn on top. Children's toys are covered in dust. 

Fouad Qasem, Ghazali's maternal uncle, lives down the street. He says he helped pull the bodies of his nephews and the children from the rubble that night. 

"I held my own flesh and blood in my hands," Qasem says tearfully. 

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The Israeli military did not respond to NPR's questions about why the family's house was hit. Israel says it is targeting Hezbollah after the militant group launched rockets into Israel at the beginning of the war involving Iran. On Sunday, Israel's military said Ghazali's brother Ibrahim was a Hezbollah commander, "responsible for managing weapons operations within a specialized branch of the Badr Unit. The unit is responsible for launching hundreds of rockets toward Israeli civilians throughout the war." 

Qasem remembers Ayman Mohamad Ghazali as a kind, well-mannered and gentle person and says his nephew avenged the children's deaths because they were so dear to him. 

U.S. officials say they are investigating why Ghazali attacked the synagogue in Michigan. But many in this town say they believe it was revenge. Several said anyone would want to avenge the killing of their entire family. 

Ibrahim Zeih, a soccer coach of one of the killed brothers, says he understands the anger but that it's not an excuse to kill other innocent people so far away. 

"We're not against Jews as Jews," Zeih says. "We are against the Israelis who are killing us daily." 

What the hell is this? I’m sorry—who cares? I couldn’t care less that his terrorist family got turned into an ashtray. I don’t. They deserved to die, as did he. One less terrorist in the world, and I’m damn rejoicing.  

Thank you, NPR, for reminding us why you got defunded. 

And burn in hell, Ghazali, and the rest of your terrorist POS family. 

 

Minnesota Elections Official Finally Admits What We All Knew About Illegals Voting

We have been told for years that there is no need for stricter identification requirements in American elections. The Left has claimed that our elections are secured, and that the Right has simply lied about the issue, or they want to put up restrictions on women or minorities voting by instituting measures to prove citizens and identity before casting a ballot. When put on the record, it seems that those on the Left are finally telling the truth about the matter: illegals are easily able to vote in American elections.

“They get their driver’s license, because again we give them to anybody here, they register to vote, it doesn’t match with the Social Security number so they’re flagged, but they come in and as long as they have an ID, which is the driver’s license, and they sign that they’re—ya know—eligible to vote, they can vote and they’re no longer flagged, is that correct?” a Rep. Patti Anderson, a member of the Minnesota legislature asked during a hearing.

 Minnesota Director of Elections Paul Linnell then delivered a word salad answer, but admitted to the key facts that a driver’s license is simply “an affirmation of identity” rather than eligibility to vote and indicated that reports of possible fraudulent votes are only created and referred to the county attorney if they have been challenged.

“So the answer to my question is yes,” Anderson clarified after Linnell seemingly attempted to avoid a direct answer to the question.

Despite these admissions from blue state election officials, a few GOP holdouts continue to prevent the Senate from sending the SAVE America Act to President Trump’s desk.

Editor's Note: The Democrats are doing everything in their power to undermine the integrity of our elections.

 

Foreigners are snapping up US homes and stealing the American dream out from under families

President Donald Trump is pushing hard for Congress to ban Wall Street firms from buying single-family homes. He’s rightly worried that financial tycoons are crowding out younger and middle-class homebuyers, especially in fast-growing Southern cities. But there’s another kind of homebuyer the president and Congress should cut off at the pass: foreigners who are blocking our own citizens from the American Dream.

In a new paper, I show that foreign homebuyers are far more common than most people realize. Between April 2024 and March 2025 alone, foreigners purchased more than 78,000 American homes.  And foreign homebuying is becoming more common with every passing year. Between 2024 and 2025 alone, foreign buyers spent 33% more on U.S. homes than they did in the previous year.

 Each home bought by someone from outside the U.S. leaves one fewer home for Americans to buy. That fact alone raises prices for first-time homebuyers — it’s Economics 101. But the situation is even worse when you account for the fact that nearly half of foreigners paid all cash. Younger Americans and middle-class families simply can’t compete with all-cash offers — certainly not if they’re buying their first home. The playing field is tilted against them, and it’s tilted in favor of people who may have never set foot in America at all.

But who, exactly, are these foreign homebuyers?

Houses on the shore of a lake in Wasilla, Alaska, with orange trees and high mountains in autumn. (iStock)

Shockingly, a huge number of them are from economic and strategic rival nations. The most foreign homebuyers come from communist China. They purchase about one out of every six foreign-bought homes, and in 2025 alone, they dropped $13.7 billion on American homes.

Tellingly, nearly half of these Chinese buyers intend to use their new home as a way to gain permanent residence in the United States, giving them preferential access to things like a college education for their children. In other words, not only are Chinese citizens crowding Americans out of homes — they’re pushing Americans out of other U.S. institutions, as well.

Whether they’re from China or anywhere else, it’s important to note that these foreigners aren’t simply buying condos or townhomes. They’re overwhelmingly buying the single-family detached homes that Americans want most. Nearly two out of every three foreign home purchases are in that category. So foreign homebuyers are dimming the heart of the American Dream itself.

No matter where they’re from or what kind of home they get, foreign homebuyers are standing in the way of American citizens. But other countries don’t make this mistake. They’ve enacted heavy restrictions on foreign homebuyers precisely because they want to put their own people first.

Canada is a case in point. While Canadian citizens are some of the most common buyers of American property, their own country bans most foreign purchases of homes. Many foreign purchases that are still allowed are hit with heavy taxes in order to deter them.

Each home bought by someone from outside the U.S. leaves one fewer home for Americans to buy.

Similarly, China severely limits foreign homebuying, even as many of its citizens buy homes in America. The double standard is clear — and so is the harm to America’s people and interests. Our citizens are waiting in line behind homebuyers from our country’s top strategic and economic rival. In what world does that make sense?

The problem is obvious — but so is the solution. Congress should restrict foreigners from buying American homes, either with an outright ban or heavy taxes that discourage purchases. The Republican Study Committee has already laid out a plan to significantly raise taxes on homebuyers from overseas. Such innovative ideas deserve attention and action in the coming months.

This isn’t a matter of sticking it to foreigners. It’s about standing up for our own citizens. The American Dream is for the American people, and young professionals and middle-class families urgently need it brought within their reach.

Paige Terryberry is senior research fellow at the Foundation for Government Accountability.

 

California’s $24 Billion Blunder: Guess Where It Went

Sheriff Biano strolled through the streets of Los Angeles, a city that seems to have traded its sunny skies for a sky-high status of homelessness. As the leading candidate in California’s gubernatorial race, Biano aimed to spotlight a problem usually brushed under the city’s expensive carpet. Amidst the picturesque chaos, he stopped to talk to locals, greeting them with a firm handshake and a promise of hope, instead of the usual parade of empty words.

The sheriff chatted with a man who has made a downtown street his home for two decades. Yes, you read that right—two whole decades! This guy saw 20 years pass on a sidewalk, while the state pumped out millions in homelessness relief. That’s millions, with an “m,” translating to about $17,000 per homeless person. Yet, somehow, folks like Greg, another person Biano met, aren’t seeing a dime of it. They must be wondering if they stumbled into the world’s least exciting scavenger hunt.

 In this concrete jungle, it’s business as unusual. Forget the famed Hollywood glitz; here, homes and businesses share curb space with tents and tarps. The sheriff argues this blatant mismanagement gets swept under the rug, somewhere between celebrity scandals and avocado toast recipes. While millions are spent invisibly, real solutions seem scarce. So, he threw down the gauntlet, challenging the golden state to show results that don’t involve a disappearing act.

During his promenade, Biano asked if Greg would take up an offer for help—real help—to get back on his feet. A resounding “yes” echoed against the grumble of the city traffic. This quick exchange highlighted how out-of-touch certain politicians remain, zooming in for glossy photos while distancing from the gritty reality. Biano’s casual chats did more in minutes than some officials manage through long-winded speeches and power lunches.

By the end of his walk, the sheriff made a solid case for a dose of reality in political circles. You can’t just wave a wand and expect folks to fly away on fairy dust to affordable housing land. Biano wants to shake things up, and perhaps, just perhaps, California’s streets might see a brighter day through some actual elbow grease and a sheriff who believes the people living it are more than just passing stories.

 

Democrats Push to Flood Job Market with H-1B Visa Expansion

Democrats in Congress are rushing to revive a sweeping H-1B expansion that would blunt the Trump administration’s recent efforts to prioritize American workers and tighten high-skill immigration rules. The bill on the table, already introduced in the current session, would fundamentally change the balance between protecting U.S. jobs and satisfying an industry eager for cheaper foreign labor.

Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi formally reintroduced the High‑Skilled Immigration Reform for Employment (HIRE) Act, a grab-bag of reforms that would double the annual H-1B cap and pour taxpayer resources into STEM pipelines instead of enforcing existing immigration safeguards. This is not a modest fix; it’s a full-throated push to restore the old status quo that too often allowed companies to outsource American jobs.

Those Democrat pushers are positioning themselves against concrete actions the Trump administration took to protect American wages and screen entrants more carefully — including a presidential proclamation that conditions many new H-1B entries on a steep $100,000 surcharge and agency rule changes that replace the old lottery with a weighted selection favoring higher-skilled, higher-paid petitions. These are real policy shifts aimed at putting Americans first, and Democrats want to sweep them aside.

 Worse, high-profile House Democrats signed onto the measure, signaling this isn’t a fringe idea but a coordinated party line to roll back enforcement and flood the labor market with cheaper foreign talent. When Congresswomen and Senators who should be answering to struggling factory towns and laid-off tech workers instead prioritize bigger visa quotas, they expose their true loyalties.

Patriots ought to remember why these restrictions were put in place: to defend American paychecks, ensure national security, and prevent corporate outsourcing from becoming official government policy. The $100,000 surcharge and tighter selection rules have already sparked legal challenges from state attorneys general and others who see the move as necessary to protect local schools, hospitals, and businesses — yet Democrats respond with bigger visa caps, not solutions for Americans left behind.

Hardworking Americans should demand their representatives stop playing political games with immigration and start protecting jobs and communities first. Congress can either stand with working families who pay taxes and raise kids here, or it can choose to be the lobbyists’ rubber stamp; voters will remember which side their lawmakers took when the next election comes.

 

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