Some headlines, issues and news that caught our eye.

Iran In Denial As Talks With U.S. Loom?

Oil blockade would strip cash-strapped Iran of significant revenue stream amid economic crisis — Just The News

How Trump Took Iran’s Trump Card—the Strait of Hormuz—and Made It His Own — Batya Ungar-Sargon, Substack

Iran Denies Charging Indian Ships a ‘Toll’ to Transit the Strait of Hormuz — Breitbart

Iran demands compensation from Gulf states after accusing them of role in US-Israeli strikes — The National

Executions in Iran doubled in 2025 — marking a 36-year high: report — New York Post

How Israel Derangement Syndrome blinds media to basic Mideast facts — New York Post

Trump says Iran talks may resume this week, but opposes enrichment compromise — Washington Post

Netanyahu Warns Iran War Could Restart ‘Very Quickly‘ — The National Pulse

Iran: A Longer View — Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness

Dems’ Hoax To Impeach Trump Revealed By Document Dump

Gabbard Exposes Congressional Plot to Impeach Trump — The Daily Signal

Newly Declassified Docs Reveal Bias of Impeachment ‘Whistleblower’ — Paul Sperry, Real Clear Investigations

DNI Tulsi Gabbard Releases a Statement with Document Release from Two Silos — The Conservative Treehouse

They Knew Trump Ukraine Impeachment Was A Hoax, Impeached Him Anyway — Sean Davis, The Federalist, via X

Alan Dershowitz: Trump could move to expunge 2019 impeachment after release of bombshell evidence — Just The News

Tax Time: Are You Ready? No?

Tax Invasion — Larry Sand, American Greatness

How Trump Hopes To Make The Economy Work For Families And Not Vice-Versa — The Federalist

Taxing, Borrowing, and Printing: Three Ways America Pays for Government — The Daily Economy

ICYMI: Most Americans Say They Face ‘Higher Taxes’ This Year, Call Tax Code ‘Unfair’: I&I/TIPP Poll — Issues & Insights

Trump Plays For Big Stakes In Global Chess Game

Greek Official Reveals How Trump, Guilfoyle Severed China’s ‘Dragon’s Head’ Port Advantage in ‘Gateway to Europe’ — Breitbart

In slap to China, Indonesia, US sign ‘major’ defence cooperation agreement — Aljazeera

The Bad, Bad Biden COVID Years

The Biden Admin Knew of COVID Vaccine Stroke Risk and Covered It Up — PJ Media

New data reveal a staggering rise in stillbirths and miscarriages after the Covid shot — American Thinker

Biden DOJ ‘weaponized’ federal law to prosecute pro-lifers — and give them longer prison sentences — New York Post

Has Pope Become Politicized, Too?

Pope Leo XIV, the lamentably political pontiff — American Thinker

Trump blasts Pope Leo as ‘weak on crime,’ says he prefers his ‘MAGA’ brother after pontiff’s veiled jabs over Iran war, immigration — New York Post

California, The Fraud State

California Introduces Law Banning Investigations of Somali Fraud — Front Page Magazine

On Background: Dismantling California’s Empire of Fraud — Real Clear Politics

More Signs Of California Election Fraud — Doreen Linder, via X

California Democrats Find a Way to Shut Up Investigative Journalists and Cover for Illegal Aliens — Victoria Taft, PJ Media

Another Red State, Fully Californicated — Stephen Green, PJ Media

60 Minutes Tackles California’s $125 Billion High-Speed Train to Nowhere: ‘A Complete Bait and Switch’ — AllSides

Some Miscellaneous Other Stuff Of Interest . . .

Trump Critic Wins Majority Government in Canada — Andrew Malcolm, Red State

Plus: Canada, Circling the Drain — Powerline

Biden ‘had to choose’ Harris for VP but ‘wanted it to be’ Gretchen Whitmer: report — Fox News

The economic value of eliminating cancer — NBER, via Marginal Revolution

High Profile Democrats Demand Meaningful Education Reform — Larry Sand, Front Page Magazine

Democrats Go Full Anti-Semite — Civus Americanus, American Thinker

Blue States Bleed Families While Red States Gain Ground — Legal Insurrection

The lesson behind Argentina’s miracle recovery — after rolling back socialism — New York Post