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Latest Commentary: Ayatollah Khamenei Replaces Ayatollah Khamenei in Iran -- The Supreme Leader of Iran, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, died in the first hours of the US-Israeli attack on Iran. Iran took only a few days to select a successor, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei. The matching surname is not a coincidence. The new boss is the son of the old boss. The American president has dismissed him as a "lightweight," but his rise to power suggests he is much more temporal than spiritual when it comes to hardball politics. He has never really held office, but his fingerprints are all over the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, and other parts of the Iranian system are not alien to him. He represents continuity, and that includes the Supreme Leader being targeted for death by the US and Israel. [10 March] US Loses 92,000 Jobs in February, Oil Tops $100 -- The Trump administration is engaged in bad policy poorly executed. This is the worst of all possible worlds. Thanks to his tariffs, the president has stopped job growth and slowed economic activity. If that were the only issue, the Federal Reserve could help immensely by lowering interest rates. However, Mr. Trump has also started a war with Iran that has closed the Straits of Hormuz, shutting off 20-25% of the global oil trade. West Texas Intermediate crude traded earlier today at $119.48 per barrel, up almost 75% since the war started. That will drive prices higher, accelerating inflation. Mr. Trump has taken stagflation and made it worse. [9 March] Heimatschutzminister Noem Fired -- Kristi Noem is out as Secretary of Homeland Security [Heimatschutzminister in the original]. Her incompetence and corruption reached levels so bad that the Trump White House sacked her. In her place will be Senator Markwayne (all one word) Mullins (R-OK). This represents a move from a malignant leader of the department to a leader who has no track record in the relevant areas of expertise. Ms. Noem will now be the Special Envoy to the Shield of the Americas, or some such non-job that Mr. Trump is creating. She will work for Secretary of Defense Pete Kegsbreath and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. It is a demotion and a firing at the same time.. [6 March] Senate Fails to Pass War Powers Resolution -- Yesterday, the United States Senate debated a resolution invoking the War Powers Act to curb the ill-considered war againsdt Iran. The House will vote today, but since the Senate failed to pass its version, the House vote is just a formality. It will go forward to allow members to go on the record about this war. Based on how the Senate voted, the attack on Iran and all that follows is the responsibility of the Republican Party. At the moment, they seem to be OK with that, but as the body bags come home, that will change. [5 March] Texas Primaries Give Dems Shot as US Senate Seat -- The states of Arkansas, North Carolina and Texas held primaries yesterday, and the first two went more or less as planned with the favorites winning easily. In Texas, however, voters decided to change things up, and with the help of some electoral shenanigans from the Republican Party, the stage is set for a Republican run-off for the Senate nomination and a general election that could go either way. Texas is just a little less GOP territory today than it was yesterday. That does not mean that the Democrats are going to win the seat necessarily. It does mean they have an excellent chance of picking up the seat. [4 March] © Copyright 2026 by The Kensington Review, Jeff Myhre, PhD, Editor. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written consent. Produced using Ubuntu Linux.
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