The anti-Trump media elites are relentlessly omnidirectional in attacking their target. One day, they’ll complain the president’s too intolerably present in the limelight. But the next day, he’s scandalously inaccessible. When the Trump administration launched its offensive on Iran, they made noise about it being too quiet.

CNN correspondent Alayna Treene tweeted: “No senior Trump officials appeared on the Sunday shows today—not only rare but especially notable given many administration officials recognize the steep task they have in explaining the reasoning behind, and the overall objective, of the Iranian attacks to the American public.”

That’s interesting, since CNN demonstrates hourly that it’s devoted to the “steep task” of helping the Democrats defeat Trump. CNN repeatedly put on Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., ripping the president as a “five-time draft dodger,” without any pushback like this: Since former President Joe Biden received five draft deferments during the Vietnam war, is he a “draft dodger”?

Team Trump made a strategic decision to forgo the Sunday shows, perhaps in anticipation of how aggressively the so-called moderators would seek to present the Iran effort as a dramatic failure before the weekend was even finished.

Nevertheless, Trump granted a series of brief one-on-one interviews with ABC, NBC, CNN, MS NOW, Fox News, Politico, The Atlantic, Axios, the New York Post, The Washington Free Beacon, the Washington Reporter, London’s Daily Mail, and Israel’s Channel 14 News.

When that blitz was over, did Trump get credit for being accessible? Of course not. Democracy was still dying in darkness, as The Washington Post assigned media reporters Scott Nover and Liam Scott to explain how this was somehow sneakily anti-press behavior.

They turned to former CNN reporter (and now journalism professor) Mark Feldstein to lament that this was an opportunity to “relay his talking points without being subjected to a cross-examination.” Access to Trump isn’t enough. He must be antagonized until he says something that can be used against him in the court of public opinion.

“It’s impossible for news outlets to resist playing up the immediacy of an exclusive interview with a president in the midst of battle, no matter how pedestrian his comments may be,” Feldstein lectured. “This tactic allows Trump to be everywhere all at once, without the formality of an Oval Office address or the pushback of obstreperous questions at a news conference.”

Feldstein and his Washington Post promoters want those “obstreperous questions” on national television. This allows reporters to pose as anti-Trump protesters with notepads, where they are the heroic center of the story.

Now contrast this to the way the elitist media pampered Biden and tolerated his perpetual hiding from press conferences and interviews. Democracy wasn’t dying in darkness as Biden’s handlers spent four years keeping him from being “subject to cross-examination” with “obstreperous questions at a news conference.”

When there was a presser, many journalists cooperated in suggesting their questions in advance, so Biden could be handed note cards with the picture of the reporter and their name. That wasn’t obstreperous or noteworthy at all.

The public should expect journalists to ask firm but fair questions of all presidents. That’s not what happens. Questions are pitched to undergird narratives, and for Trump, that narrative is typically hyper-negative, to imply Trump’s only engaged in “demolition,” as one Politico editor put it. In their world, Trump’s every policy move is damaging, and his every utterance makes him look incompetent.

This is why the Pew Research Center recently found 57% of respondents expressed little or zero confidence in journalists to act in the best interests of the public. They act in their own narrow interests.

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President Donald Trump is weighing options that could include deploying special operations forces into Iran to secure or destroy highly enriched uranium stockpiles as part of his pledge that Tehran “will not have a nuclear bomb,” according to multiple reports Saturday.

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Has anyone noticed that climate change alarmist Democrats no longer refer to those who don’t buy into their baseless warnings of impending eco-apocalypse as “science deniers”?

That isn’t only because their six decades of predictions of environmental doom consistently have failed to come to pass. It’s also because they themselves have become the actual science deniers.

That epithet can now be turned against Democrats because of their adamant denial of the biological science of chromosomes—XX (female) and XY (male)—in the battle over so-called transgender rights. Dismissing chromosome science as “sex assigned at birth” doesn’t change that.

The latest example of Democrats’ science denial appeared Feb. 18, when the Kansas House of Representatives voted 87-37 in favor of SB 244, which defines “gender” as biological sex, bans men and boys from using women’s and girls’ restrooms and locker rooms, and mandates accurate sex-based identification on licenses and birth certificates in the state.

Science—and common sense—notwithstanding, every Democrat in the Kansas House voted against SB 244, and the Feb. 13 veto by Gov. Laura Kelly, a liberal Democrat, was easily and rightly overridden. (Nearly three years earlier, in April 2023, state lawmakers overrode Ms. Kelly’s veto of a state law banning faux females from competing in girls’ and women’s athletics.)

“This poorly drafted bill will have numerous and significant consequences far beyond the intent to limit the right for trans people to use the appropriate bathroom,” the governor said in her latest laughable veto message. (To the contrary, the new state law will compel gender-confused people to use the appropriate bathroom—the one based on biology.)

According to Kelly, those other supposedly “significant consequences” of SB 244 include:

“If your grandfather is in a nursing home in a shared room, as a granddaughter, you would not be able to visit him.

“If your wife is in a shared hospital room, as a husband, you would not be able to visit her.

“If your sister is living in a dorm at [Kansas State University], as a brother, you would not be able to visit her in her room.”

Nursing home and hospital rooms have one-at-a-time restrooms, and college dormitories have visitor bathrooms, so those are all risible red herrings.

“I believe the Legislature should stay out of the business of telling Kansans how to go to the bathroom,” Kelly concluded, “and instead stay focused on how to make life more affordable for Kansans.”

In the governor’s telling, Kansas lawmakers can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. The two issues are neither mutually exclusive nor a zero-sum game, so that too is patent nonsense.

“This bill protects girls and women, the ones feminists used to claim to stand for,” said state Rep. Carolyn Caiharr, a Republican.

“Used to” is the operative term there, insofar as most Democrats—including, inexplicably, Democratic women—now prioritize the “rights” of the estimated 0.003% (three one-thousandths of 1%) of the population who “identify” as transgender ahead of those of the 51% of the population who identify as (real) girls and women.

“Maybe this is a culture war bill,” state Sen. Cindy Holscher, a Democrat, complained. There’s no “maybe” about it, and Holscher and her fellow Democrats are all on the wrong side in that war, as is made clear by numerous polls, which consistently find this to be an 80% to 20% issue, and in some polls even more lopsided than that.

Aware of the fact that they are on the losing side of those polling numbers, Democrats and their allies on the LGBTQ+ left are now conferring on how best to parry anticipated Republican attacks on the transgender issue as the November congressional midterms approach.

That belies Kelly’s spurious assertion that it’s “a manufactured problem.”

In an article headlined “On trans rights, Dems prepare for 2026,” The Washington Post reported Feb. 19 that the pro-LGBTQ+ Human Rights Campaign confessed to having been caught flat-footed by Donald Trump’s 2024 anti-transgender “they/them” pronouns presidential campaign attack ads against Kamala Harris.

“We’ve got to be prepared for it, address it head-on, then be prepared to pivot,” HRC President Kelley Robinson said of the expectation that Republicans will reprise the attacks this fall.

“Address it head-on”? Democrats have their work cut out for them on that front. How do you make a persuasive case for allowing gender-confused males to invade females’ private spaces?

How do you defend allowing males to compete in girls’ and women’s sports when, according to SheWon.org’s meticulously documented tally, faux females have cheated 3,257 girls and women out of 4,627 records, medals, trophies, and scholarships across 53 sports worldwide since 2001?

As for “pivot”? Translation: Change the subject ASAP.

“The Democrat Party is addicted to taking the wrong side of overwhelmingly popular issues just to satisfy their radical base, and it proves just how out of touch they are with the general electorate,” National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Mike Marinella told The Post. “Republicans will continue to draw that stark contrast and remind voters exactly who’s on their side and who isn’t.”

They are already doing that in hotly contested Senate races in North Carolina and Georgia, even as Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Washington Democrat, and Sen. Edward J. Markey, Massachusetts Democrat, introduced a federal “Transgender Bill of Rights” on Feb. 11.

So, like chromosome science, something else is undeniable: Democrats continue to push the transgender agenda at their own political peril.

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Iran struck Gulf infrastructure on Sunday, hitting fuel tanks at Kuwait's international airport and damaging a desalination plant in Bahrain as Tehran pressed its missile and drone campaign against its neighbours into a second week.

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Norwegian police are investigating an explosion outside the U.S. Embassy in Oslo early Sunday, officials said.

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Last year, California wildfires destroyed 13,000 homes.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced: “We are 100% committed to getting this neighborhood rebuilt again!”

Gov. Gavin Newsom echoed that, saying his officials were “responding to it at scale, with efficiency … addressing building codes, permitting issues, and moving forward to rebuilding.”

Great! It sounded like bureaucrats would get out of the way and let fire victims rebuild quickly.

But no. Not when government bureaucrats are in control.

More than a year later, fewer than 30 of the 13,000 destroyed homes have been rebuilt. My new video explains why.

Jim Cragg, who saved his house by putting sprinklers on his roof, blames California’s red tape.

Now he runs a volunteer group helping people navigate life after the fire. He’s frustrated that it still takes months just to get permission to rebuild.

Also, those who do get permits and start rebuilding sometimes get stopped.

“You start building on that house and, oops! There’s a permit issue,” Cragg says. “Do you shut down for five days? All those trucks are waiting, all that lumber is waiting. There’s 6,000 houses waiting behind you.”

Bass claims her office simplified things for homeowners: “We have waived, put aside, suspended, so we can get through the permitting process in record speed!”

“Record speed” must not mean much to politicians.

Fire victims must complete a mountain of paperwork before they can get permission to rebuild.

The “Green Building Code” alone has countless rules. The flush volume of water closets must not exceed 1.28 gallons, builders must submit a construction waste management plan, garages must be wired for electric cars, finished buildings must include educational material on the positive impacts of humidity and information about California solar energy programs …

It’s a good thing there’s a digital version of these requirements. Printing it would probably violate California’s environmental rules.

“Thousands of people are traumatized,” points out Cragg, “and they’re being handed [those forms] and told, ‘Learn this, figure it out, master this. By the way, if you mess up on this, you may end up losing … $100,000.’ It’s scary.”

The paperwork is so overwhelming that most homeowners haven’t even applied for permits.

“Financially, it doesn’t make sense to try,” says Cragg. “This is something that could ruin your family even worse than what just happened in the fire.”

Yet his mayor still insists, “This is actually pretty quick.”

“It doesn’t feel pretty quick for that family that’s living in a hotel,” says Cragg.

As usual, government causes more problems than it solves.

The fire itself was probably exacerbated by California’s strict environmental rules.

Residents say Los Angeles County wouldn’t let firefighters use heavy machinery in areas with “protected plants.”

Also, before the fire, officials drained a 117-million-gallon reservoir to repair its cover.

As a result, says Cragg, “Fire hydrants … some worked, most didn’t … The reservoir was empty.”

One reason it stayed empty was because California officials took months just to schedule its repair.

Everything government does costs more and takes longer.

If all the bureaucracy isn’t bad enough, the owners of empty lots are told they still must pay property tax.

But the politicians say they’re giving them a break. You only need to pay taxes on the lot, which comes out to two-thirds of what they used to pay.

“It’s a slap in the face!” complains Cragg.

Last year, Bass admitted: “There is dysfunctional levels of government everywhere. It isn’t anything particular to Los Angeles.”

She’s right about that.

But I think Los Angeles is probably worse than most places.

“The Pacific Palisades is a war zone,” says Cragg. “We need a war fighter mentality there. We don’t need committees. We need a decision now. We need leadership and rebuilding now.”

In California? Don’t count on it.

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When someone coined the phrase “forever wars,” they certainly hit a nerve with the American people. Engaging in conflicts that drag on with no end in sight is anathema to the citizens of this country, and for good reason. Just one word is all it takes to give us the shakes: Words like Vietnam and […]