Two far-left men, one with a soul and one without. Contrast Chris Murphy with Van Jones in the clips below. Sen. Chris Murphy appeared on Face the Nation and lied in a most horrific way. He not only lied, but he did it while we were at war with a terrorist nation. Host: “About the […] The post Sen. Chris Murphy Tells Vicious Lies on a Major News Show appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

There is a lot of misinformation about mass shootings (which are defined as 4+ killed in a public place, not including the shooter, unconnected to family or crime-related violence). Although these types of targeted attacks are rare, the gender of mass shooters is a mainstream talking point, so Ammo.com compiled the cold, hard facts on […] The post Correcting the Misinformation: Mass Shooters by Gender appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

The US military has destroyed all Iranian ships in the Gulf of Oman. They had eleven in the Gulf, and now they have none. One of President Trump’s four objectives was to destroy Iran’s navy, and it looks like the US intends to do exactly that. The Iranian Navy had 90 ships, including submarines, destroyers, […] The post There Were 11 Iranian Ships in the Gulf, Now There Are None appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

While many in his party continue to criticize President Donald Trump’s administration over the execution of Operation Epic Fury — joint strikes with Israel against the Iranian regime — Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) has thrown his full support behind the president in this case, and is “baffled” by those who haven’t. Fetterman, who has carved out a very pro-Israel position since his election to the U.S. Senate, voiced his support for Trump’s actions — at least as far as Iran was concerned — in a series of posts on X. “Love it,” he said in response to a Monday New York Post interview in which Trump had claimed that the operation was already “right on schedule, way ahead of schedule in terms of leadership — 49 killed — and that was, you know, going to take, we figured, at least four weeks, and we did it in one day.” “Not sure why it’s controversial to anyone to appreciate and celebrate wiping out 49 leaders of one of the most evil regimes in recorded history,” Fetterman added. Just a few hours earlier, he’d called out others in the Senate — all of whom agreed that Iran could never have a nuclear weapon and some of whom had long called for someone to bring an end to the tyrannical and oppressive regime in Iran — and asked why some, primarily in his own party, still steadfastly refused to support an administration that was serious about doing just that. “Every member in the U.S. Senate agrees we cannot allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon. I’m baffled why so many are unwilling to support the only action to achieve that,” he said. “Empty sloganeering vs. commitment to global security — which is it?” Even as the joint operation began on Saturday, the Pennsylvania Senator was quick to voice his unequivocal support for the Trump administration’s actions. “Operation Epic Fury. President Trump has been willing to do what’s right and necessary to produce real peace in the region. God bless the United States, our great military, and Israel,” he posted. And when it was confirmed that Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei was among the 49 leaders killed during the initial strikes, Fetterman’s response was clear: “Let’s see who grieves for that garbage.” Let’s see who grieves for that garbage. https://t.co/uhHpyXL7bR — U.S. Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) February 28, 2026

Former Secretary of State and first lady Hillary Clinton threatened to walk away from her Jeffrey Epstein testimony and dared Congress to hold her in contempt if she did, newly released video of her deposition reveals. The videos of former President Bill Clinton and his wife’s Jeffrey Epstein depositions were released on Monday, allowing Americans to go behind the closed door hearings that took place last week. Both former President Clinton and Secretary Clinton’s videos are over four-and-a-half hours long as the Democrats were grilled about their connection to Epstein. During Hillary Clinton’s deposition, she threatened to leave the room after a photo of her testifying was shared on social media. As the deposition began, Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado shared a photo of Hillary Clinton with conservative commentator Benny Johnson, who then posted it on X. One of Hillary Clinton’s lawyers interrupted the hearing to ask if sharing the photo was consistent with House rules. “I’m done with this if you guys are doing that!” the former secretary of state fumed. “You can hold me in contempt from now until the cows come home. This is just typical behavior.” The deposition was briefly derailed as Hillary Clinton’s lawyers called for a break. “I’m done for now,” Hillary Clinton added as she stood up and left her seat. JUST IN: Hillary Clinton loses it in newly released footage, threatens to storm out of the room after a photo of her during the Epstein deposition was shared online. “I’m done with this. If you guys are doing that, I am done.” “You can hold me in contempt from now until the… pic.twitter.com/KHGCoWJINQ — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 2, 2026 Hillary Clinton has never been accused of any wrongdoing related to Epstein’s crimes. While she maintains she never met Epstein, Clinton has acknowledged that she spoke with Epstein’s associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, “on a few occasions.” Hillary Clinton’s testimony frustrated Republicans. The former senator and secretary of state often responded to questions by stating that she did “not recall” or by deferring to her husband. Watch the deposition of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: Republicans on the Oversight Committee were mostly happy with Bill Clinton’s answers, with some GOP lawmakers even saying that the former president often spoke more candidly “than his attorneys were comfortable with.” Bill Clinton was close to Epstein before the financier pled guilty to soliciting a minor for prostitution in 2008. In the early 2000s, Bill Clinton traveled with Epstein numerous times and photos released recently by the Justice Department show the former president schmoozing with Epstein and Maxwell, as well as multiple photos that show Bill Clinton in a swimming pool with Maxwell and enjoying a hot tub with a woman whose face was redacted. During the deposition, Bill Clinton testified that he does not know who the woman in the hot tub was. He said that there were also other people in the pool area when he was in the hot tub, including a Secret Service agent. When asked if he engaged in any sexual activity with the woman in the photo, Bill Clinton said, “No.” The former president has not been accused of any wrongdoing related to Epstein’s sex crimes. Watch the deposition of former President Bill Clinton:

We are on day three of President Trump’s military operation in Iran. It’s the most courageous military decision of my lifetime, and we are kicking a**. The United States military and the Israeli military, working in tandem, are kicking the hell out of the Iranian government. How is Iran planning to fight back? They have friends. They’re counting on pathetic, mewling Europeans and the ridiculous, sad sack Democrats who just hate Trump and don’t care about America winning. But most of all, they’re counting on vicious, parasitical horseshoe right-wing isolationists to somehow convince the president to leave the battlefield. (If you wish to follow a movement led by closeted and not-so-closeted homosexuals, then I guess you could do that. Or perhaps these people are worth ignoring, because President Trump’s strength here has truly exposed the peddlers of horsesh*t on all sides). Typically, there are a few reasons why you pursue military actions directed at the top of a regime. One is that there’s a direct attack from that regime upon you. Did Iran attack us? The answer is that since 1979, the number of American deaths that have been caused by Iran and by its proxy terrorist groups amounts to at least 1,000 dead, plus a couple of attempted assassinations on the president of the United States. We are talking about military personnel. We are talking about diplomats. If you include Afghanistan, where Iran was shipping IEDs into Afghanistan to help the Taliban, you’re talking about at least 1,500 deaths. But if you go all the way back to 1979, when the ayatollahs took over during the Iranian Revolution, the first thing that students did was to take American hostages at the embassy and hold them for over 400 days. Then, in 1983, the Iranian-backed Lebanese terror group Hezbollah attacked the U.S. embassy and the Marine barracks in Lebanon. The total dead in those two attacks alone: 258. Moving forward to 1988, the harassment of American shipping in the waterways around Iran led the United States to sink the entire Iranian navy in Operation Praying Mantis. Then, throughout the 1990s, Iran pursued a nuclear weapon. They began spreading their terror tentacles all over the Middle East by building up their terror proxy groups. The United States at that point had a dual containment policy toward Iran and Iraq, because Iraq was run by the tyrant Saddam Hussein, and Iran was being run by the ayatollahs. They hated one another. They engaged in a decade-long war in the 1980s in which hundreds of thousands of people were killed. The United States’ policy was to keep both of those contained. It was only semi-successful. In 1996, the bombing of the Khobar Towers by the Iranian-supported Hezbollah in Saudi Arabia killed 19 Americans. In 2000, the bombing of the USS Cole off of Yemen by Al-Qaeda, supported largely by Iran, killed 17, and then, of course, from 2003 to 2011, after the breakdown of the Iraqi government after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, Iranian-backed militias took over large swaths of Iraq, or at least resisted American rule of Iraq, and killed somewhere between 600 and 1100 American soldiers. Meanwhile, Iran was seeking nuclear weapons, spreading its terror tentacles to Lebanon, to Syria, to Gaza, which culminated on October 7, 2023, when Hamas, an Iranian-sponsored terror group, killed 1,200 Israeli citizens, took 250 hostage, and prompted a seven-front war on Israel, which ended with Israel basically destroying many of the proxy arms of the Iranian government. All of that finally culminated with President Trump in 2025. You’ll recall the 12-day war when there was a direct attack by the Israelis on the Iranians following multiple rounds of missiles shot by Iran directly at Israel. Israel went in to try to take out their nuclear facilities as well as their ballistic missile facilities. In 12 days, Israel established air dominance and virtually destroyed the entire air defense system of Iran. At the end, President Trump authorized Operation Midnight Hammer to strike the Fordow nuclear facility and take out their nuclear weapons. Since 1979, Iran has been unendingly, unceasingly antagonistic toward the United States and its allies, including Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain. Iran is a threat to civilization. This is a point that President Trump made, declaring, “They have waged war against civilization itself.” One of the beautiful things about being an isolationist is that you always get the counterfactual on your side. You always get to say a military intervention “went wrong.” But there are many counterfactuals in which actual preemptive war-making might have stopped true genocidal intent. There are so many instances of this throughout history that it boggles the mind. Whether you’re talking about the rise of the Russian revolutionaries in the aftermath of the fall of the czar in 1917, what would have happened if the West had had the courage to stop the rise of the Bolsheviks in Russia? A totally different map for an entire century; World War II doesn’t happen. What would have happened if the West had had the strength to stop the rearmament of Hitler? What would have happened if the West had taken out Osama bin Laden in the aftermath of the USS Cole instead of ignoring the threat? A targeted action can provide a serious upside and limited downside. That is the counterfactual that we should be looking at right now. The only counterfactual is not Iraq or Vietnam. Sometimes there are other counterfactuals to examine as well. That is what President Trump was saying yesterday. He said that the goal here is to ensure security for generations. Trump is stepping into the breach. He is smartly recognizing opportunity when it arises, and he is taking strong steps to protect America’s future and not only the future of our allies, but the future of the globe. That’s because if the United States does nothing after the president draws a red line, if Iran continues to rebuild its facilities, if Iran continues to act as the linkage, both in terms of oil and weaponry between China and Russia, the chances that America’s enemies go on the offensive are so much higher than if they look at America and realize you don’t screw around with the president of the United States. Step one in this process was to prevent the external threats from the regime, and decapitating the regime is a great way to do that. The second step is the replacement of the regime. It is not the job of the United States to pick the next Iranian government. It’s up to the Iranian people to pick their leader. But when we talk about the spread of Islamic radicalism and terrorism, it turns out that Iran exporting its ideology all over the world is a threat that our president understands. And unlike his predecessors, he acted on it.

Today, of course, I want to examine the military operation in Iran. It will not surprise any of my followers to learn that I am skeptical of this operation, as I am usually skeptical of military interventions in far-off countries on the other side of the globe. That’s my position, and I’m not going to abandon it now, even as certain segments of the base become inflamed with war fever and demand that the rest of us fall in line. But I am also an American patriot. I love my country, and I want it to succeed. Which means that I am not rooting for this war to be a failure, obviously, nor am I weeping over the poor Iranian regime and its leaders who are now scattered, in many pieces, across the desert sand. Good riddance to them, as far as I’m concerned. You wouldn’t know it based on what you see on social media, especially X over the weekend, but there is actually a lane for people in this camp, my camp. There is a lane for people who are skeptical of military intervention and regime change wars, but also aren’t siding with the Iranian regime and actively rooting for America to fail. Not only does the lane exist in real life, but it’s where, I would estimate, a great majority of normal Americans live. With that in mind, I want to examine this issue as fairly and objectively as I can. One thing we know for sure is that it is never more difficult to recognize the limits of what you know — and to ask honest and good-faith questions about what you don’t know — than it is during a once-in-a-generation war in which millions of lives, including American lives, will potentially be changed. It’s not natural for a political commentator or a politician to admit this, but it’s true. For decades, Democrats have pursued a policy of appeasing Iran, on the theory that money and diplomatic concessions would forestall the development of a nuclear bomb. On the other hand, Republicans have been split between two factions: The neocon “axis of Evil” hardliners who chant “bomb Iran” on the one hand, and the “America First” proponents on the other — many of whom voted for Donald Trump because he promised to keep the United States out of needless regime change wars. America and Israel are currently bombing internal suppression targets all across Iran. The goal is to have the right conditions in place for the Iranian people to overthrow this regime forever. Stand with Iran.pic.twitter.com/nITqsKuSFZ —

Dr. Hormoz Shariat believes Iran is standing at a turning point that could reshape the Middle East and the global church.

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