LOS ANGELES.--Hitting Iran back for its April 13 drone and missile strike, 74-year-old Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a measured strike on an Isfahan military base, letting the Ayatollah know that Israel responds to attacks on its territory. World leaders, attending G7 summit on Italy’s Island of Capri, were surprised by the Israeli strike but not 61-year-old Secretary of State Antony Blinken who go the heads up sometime before the actual strike. Israel’s War Cabinet struggled with how and when to...

LOS ANGELES.--House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said today he would advance separate foreign aid funding bills to the House floor where’s it’s certain to pass, handing 81-yar-old President Joe Biden the $95 billion he requested for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and other miscellaneous purposes. Johnson has been threatened by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Ga.) with a vote to vacate, much the same way as former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) when he was ousted Oct. 3, 2023 causing a free-for-all until the House settled...

LOS ANGELES.--Iran’s April 14 missile and drone attack on Israel could change Iran’s emphasis on nuclear deterrence, largely because the strike on Israel was intercepted almost 100%, leaving Iran without any effective deterrence. Iran’s 84-year-old Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei declared in a 2020 fatwa that Iran was against building an A-bomb something doubted by U.S. and Western officials, all think that Iran’s nuclear enrichment program was for the purpose of building nuclear weapons. Now that Iran knows that its...

LOS ANGELES.--Expecting the Federal Reserve Board to cut interest rates at least three times in 2024, a recent report on the Consumer Price Index [CPI] at 3.5% was greater than expected, prompting 71-year-old Fed Chairman Jerome Powell to put a damper on lower rates. “The recent data have clearly not give us a greater confidence and instead indicate that it’s likely to take longer than expected to achieve [2% inflation]” Powell said yesterday. Wall Street’s Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped 1500 points since the...

LOS ANGELES.--Going after 85-year-old libertarian Harvard emeritus and criminal defense Atty. Prof. Alan Dershowitz, the liberal press is outraged he said 77-year-old President Donald Trump has been the victim of criminal justice weaponization. Dershowitz said Trump is well within his legal rights criticizing 62-year-old Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan and 50-year-old lead prosecutor District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Bragg wants Trump fined for disparaging on his Truth Social platform Stormy Daniels and his former Atty. Michal...

LOS ANGELES.--Former President Donald Trump’s, 77, hush money trial started in Judge Juan M. Merchan’s Manhattan courtroom with voir dire, the legal process of picking jurors, that can either benefit the prosecution or defense, both have different grounds for selecting jurors. Prosecutors want to know whether a juror would be too timid by the former president to convict him of a crime, even if proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, the standard in criminal trials. Defense attorneys want to know if juror have anti-Trump...

LOS ANGELES.--Hearing arguments in Jan. 6, 2021 cases involving the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Supreme Court will rule on Fischer v. United States, whether or not the financial crimes bill that resulted from the Enron scandal can be used to convict-and-sentence Jan. 6 rioters. How ironic that Sarbanes-Oxley was used by the government to throw the book at Jan. 6 rioters, related to a specific provision of the act that deals with the destruction of records and documents or “otherwise obstructs, influences or impedes any...

LOS ANGELES.--Former President Donald Trump’s, 77, hush money trial began today in Judge Juan Merchan’s Manhattan courtroom with jury selection, with the New York Times and other liberal broadcast and print outlets rooting for the criminal justice system to convict Trump. How ironic that after seven years since Trump was elected president, 50-year-old Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg makes good on his promise to prosecute Trump, something his predecessor former DA Cyrus Vance Jr. decided against since he left office...

LOS ANGELES.--Former National Security Adviser John Bolton, 75, slammed 77-year-old former President Donald Trump for saying that if he were in office Iran would not have launched a missile-and-drone attack against Israel. Bolton called Trump “delusional” for thinking that under his leadership Iran would not have responded to the April 1 Israeli strike on its Damascus, Syria embassy, killing two Al Qud’s generals, including 10 others. One of the generals killed, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Reza Zahedi was identified by Israel’s...

LOS ANGELES.--Ukraine’s 46-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky could only dream of Israel’s defensive systems that let Iran hit Israel with a barrage of ballistic missiles and drones only to watch them bounce off all targets. Ukraine knows what it’s like to get with Iran’s Shahed 136 long-range drones destroying Ukraine civilian infrastructure, without any real defense. Now that Israel took Iran’s best shot, 74-year-old Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must decide whether or not to get the last word, punishing Iran...