On Tuesday U.S. Central Command hit Iranian oil tankers near Kharg Island and near Jask, disabling the ships that carry Iranian crude, a day after Iran fired at least one ballistic missile at a U.S. Navy warship and missed. The man who runs Central Command, Admiral Brad Cooper, had already said what the answer would be: "If you shoot at two of our ships, we will impose an even higher economic cost, taking out three of yours." On Saturday American forces disabled three more tankers, the Downy, the Stark 1 and the Kylo, one of them destroyed, per CENTCOM. The same Tuesday, Yemen's Houthis hit Saudi Arabia: Abha International Airport, King Khalid Air Base and Aramco facilities at Abha and Jizan, with 73 wounded by the Saudi-led coalition's count, and Saudi strikes back the same day. Here is the part that reaches your driveway. Brent crude traded around $97 a barrel Tuesday, a seven-week high. AAA has regular gasoline at $4.15 and diesel at $5.90, which is not a seasonal record; it is the highest price diesel has ever been in this country. Diesel is what moves the food. Chuck reads the strikes, the admiral's words and the pump numbers, as reported by The Gateway Pundit, CBS News, Fox News and AAA.
Also in today's episode: Justice Brett Kavanaugh denies Missouri's emergency application without comment, and hours later a federal judge orders the state to use the new map anyway, so which map Missouri votes on in November is now before two courts; Nike comes off the S&P 100 on September 21 after almost 18 years, replaced by four technology companies, with the stock down about 78 percent from its 2021 peak; Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tells a Breitbart News event that "the Iranian snake, the leadership, they don't know they're dead yet, but they are," and names the banks his department has shut; Jaguar Land Rover cuts about 4,000 jobs over two years, roughly one in ten worldwide; a student senate at Whitman College voted 25 to 0 against recognizing the campus Republican club, a record FIRE made public this week; a co-host of The View asks when to start "in earnest" on the 25th Amendment and is shut down on her own couch; the Financial Times reports Sweden's shootings are down 80 percent since 2022, five days before the country votes; and a 28-year-old EMT carries whole blood a mile and a half and a thousand feet up Linville Gorge in 31 minutes to a fallen climber.
There is a famine of truth in our land. Nine stories. Seven o'clock. The truth starts now.
