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Pentagon Denies Widespread Reports Of Iran's 'Dark' Tankers Breaching US Blockade Update(1510ET): The Pentagon has not been happy with today's media headlines that proclaimed Iranian 'dark' tankers (with their transponders switched off) have been able to penetrate and get past the US Navy's blockade. CENTCOM issued a late afternoon public message, stating: "Over past 24 hours, media reports have alleged that several commercial ships evaded the blockade, citing M/V Hero II, M/V Hedy, and M/V Dorena as examples. These reports are inaccurate. Hero II and Hedy did not sail past...

Could The War In Ukraine Go Nuclear? Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, Too many influential voices are contemplating how to ‘win’ a nuclear war... With all eyes on the U.S. military buildup around Iran right now, the Russia-Ukraine War has been temporarily upstaged.  It will not play second fiddle for long.  The recent trilateral talks in Geneva involving the Russian Federation, Ukraine, and the United States have been unable to resolve a principal issue of disagreement: Ukraine’s martial-law-president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s refusal to cede any land and Russia’s insistence that the Donbas region — specifically the four eastern territories that have...

All too often, judges allow sentiment to override the Constitution. While they might refer to a “living Constitution,” what they really mean is that they don’t permit the law to get in the way of their worldviews.