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Jose Guzman became the first hunter to legally harvest a deer within Chicago in more than 150 years. According to Joel Greenberg in “A Natural History of the Chicago Region,” (p. 452), the last deer killed within Chicago city limits [before reintroduction began] was in 1865 by first ward alderman William Cox, according to his son. It was “where `a forest of cottonwoods and oaks contested with a reluctant prairie,’ land that was to become the great stockyards.” The Illinois Department of Natural Resources opened the first deer hunting season at William Powers this year. Eight of 37 applicants were...

House Republicans are calling on the Biden administration to investigate the Chinese government’s economic espionage efforts at U.S. research labs following a damning report about Beijing’s apparent extensive efforts at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The Republicans wrote to “express our serious concerns” about a new report seeming to show decadeslong Chinese government-linked infiltration into New Mexico’s Los Alamos National Laboratory, a U.S. weapons and nuclear research site, “and to learn what steps your offices are taking to protect our critical research from malign talent recruitment programs.” The Tuesday letter, led by Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) and 10 other House...

Click the link to hear Rushs music intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thu8DWsirJo

I recently had the bizarre experience of going to Manhattan after a wave of “boosters” had been rolled out. I remember standing on a crowded rooftop bar on top of a boutique hotel; attractive couples flirted at tabletops; singles crowded the cocktail area; the sun shone, and everything looked normal. But I kept having the disconcerting sense that I was standing inside a hologram. I could not figure out what was wrong, until I realized — it looked like a crowd, but it did not feel like a crowd. I could see the people, of course, all around me, but...

With news that Israeli intelligence has detected an “irregular presence” of nuclear-capable Russian bombers near Finland and retired general David Petraeus casually saying NATO would likely sink Vladimir Putin’s Black Sea fleet if Russia used a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine, it’s perhaps time for a few questions: First, can we discuss a situation that could very well result in thermonuclear war — and the end of life as we know it — intelligently and rationally? Or must all questions about our Dr. Strangelove policy be met with childish name-calling (e.g., “stooge of Putin!”) designed to silence debate?

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) on Thursday said it was a “terrible idea” for fellow GOP governors Ron DeSantis (Fla.) and Greg Abbott (Texas) to bus and fly migrants to progressive cities in a move to pressure President Biden to address a surge of migrants at the border. “I thought it was a mistake to basically do publicity stunts of busing people from the border into other states,” Hogan said during an appearance Thursday in New Hampshire. “Gov. DeSantis, who had nothing to do with the issue … grabbed fifty people and sent them to Martha’s Vineyard as a publicity...

Since Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a national mobilization last month, more than 355,000 people have left the country, according to Russian independent media. Roughly 200,000 people escaped to Kazakhstan, 80,000 left for Georgia and 65,000 departed for Finland. Some 6,000 people also fled to Mongolia and there are reports of people fleeing to Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tadjikistan. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday that more than 200,000 people have been mobilized since Sept. 21.

In 2020, Democrats blocked Trump's proposal to buy American oil at $24 a barrel. Yesterday, a Biden official disclosed a secret offer to buy OPEC+ oil at $80 a barrel. In early September, United States Secretary of Energy, Jennifer Granholm, told Reuters that President Joe Biden was considering extending the release of oil from America’s emergency stockpiles, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), through October, and thus beyond the date when the program had been set to end. But then, a few hours later, an official with the Department of Energy called Reuters and contradicted Granholm, saying that the White House...

When millions of office employees started working from home in 2020, the plan for most was eventually to return to work, not stay remote forever. But two and a half years later, many workers really don’t want to go back to the office, and companies are struggling to figure out how to convince them to return, offering enticements like free food, prizes, and even alcoholic beverages to draw workers back. Some companies are getting more creative than that, as this person who wrote to me recounts: "I have seen a lot of lures, and none of them are working. Free...

TUCSON, Ariz. – U.S. Border Patrol agents rescued nine migrants and arrested four smugglers during a traffic stop near Nogales, Arizona, early Saturday. Tucson Sector agents conducted a vehicle stop on a Freightliner semitruck pulling a cattle trailer around 1 a.m. After receiving permission to inspect the trailer, agents discovered nine migrants in an enclosed space hidden beneath a false floor. The migrants had no means of escape.

A Rubicon has been crossed in Australia. For the first time, someone has lost their job not because of something they said or did, but because of the church they belong to. Essendon AFL is an Australian rules football team. Based in Melbourne, it has a membership of over 80,000 and is a major player in what is a large and lucrative sport in Australia. This week it appointed a local businessman, Andrew Thorburn, as its chief executive. He lasted one day in the job and the story is best summed up by the Herald Sun headline, "Essendon's chief executive...

VIDEOOn Morning Joe they were talking about OPEC drastically cutting oil production. However, what was obviously on their minds was the same thing that HAUNTS the dreams of all liberals and TERRIFIES them constantly during almost all their waking moments. It is the ONE who is their personal Randall Flagg. And as things get worse and worse for the Democrats such as rising inflation and gas prices they keep inevitably slipping and slipping towards their NIGHTMARE future.

Russian conscripts are in revolt after being treated like 'cattle' and given 'no training' as they head to the war in Ukraine. A video shows the men publicly complaining about their treatment in 'brutal, absolutely appalling conditions' after they were mobilised by Vladimir Putin. The shocking footage is just the latest evidence of the total chaos over the Russian call-up of reservists that has left even Kremlin cheerleaders in despair. The desperate recruits risk punishment by venting their fury over their plight after arriving by train in Belgorod region which borders Ukraine. One of the soldiers, acting as a spokesman...

Attackers gunned down a mayor, his father and 16 other people in the southern Mexico state of Guerrero on Wednesday, authorities said. State Attorney General Sandra Luz Valdovinos told Milenio television late Wednesday that 18 people were killed and two were wounded in the town of San Miguel Totolapan. Among the dead were Mayor Conrado Mendoza and his father, a former mayor of the town, she said. Two additional people were wounded. Images from the scene showed a bullet-riddled city hall. Mexico’s Congress this week is debating the president’s proposal to extend the military’s policing duties to 2028. Last month,...

Arresred: Arab "Palestinian" who sexually assaulted a girl in Jerusalem and uploaded a video to TikTok. [While his friends laugh (Clip).

Google wants users to know how much it supports Warner Bros. taking the classic Scooby-Doo TV series and turning one of its core characters into a rainbow mafia symbol of the woke left. The New York Times slobbered in an Oct. 5 story that the script of a new Scooby Doo flick confirms “that Velma Dinkley, the cerebral mystery solver with the ever-present orange turtleneck, is canonically a lesbian.” Velma’s appearance in “Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo,” according to The Times drivel, “was the first time the long-running franchise openly acknowledged her sexuality, thrilling some fans who were disappointed that it...

Ear Hearing Concept In future studies, the proteins discovered in this work could be used as drug targets to prevent aminoglycoside-induced hearing loss. ======================================================================= Researchers identify possible treatment targets to prevent antibiotic-induced hearing loss. Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine are exploring new methods to investigate why an antibiotic causes hair cell death and permanent hearing loss in humans. In a study that was published in the journal Developmental Cell, the researchers described how they identified the autophagy pathway in hair cells that is connected to the permanent hearing loss caused by the antibiotic class aminoglycosides. The researchers also...

The full picture of Facebook-turned-Meta's rumored layoffs is coming further into focus — and, well, things aren't looking too good for the metamates. Insider reports that the company is planning a mass round of "quiet layoffs," which could impact up to 15 percent of the entire company. For the folks at home, that number would equal roughly 12,000 employees. And the reason why they're being called — whisper voice — quiet layoffs? According to Insider's sources, Facebook has already started the process, which it plans to execute via shifting performance expectations rather than outright firing hordes of staffers all at...

Ilithiophobia means: A strong and persistent intolerance of stupidity. Ilithiophobia is a neologism (recently constructed word) from the greek ilithios (stupidity) and the greek phobos (fear). Maybe it should be the name of a new political party.

I had some standard blood tests done a week or so ago, annual physical type tests for a 67 year old man. I got the results sent to me by the commercial Lab via email in a couple of days, so I knew what the results were, nothing special. Then, three days ago, I get a message on my home phone answering machine from my doctor's office, a nurse or PA was READING THE RESULTS ALOUD onto the answering machine, and making commentary at the same time, like "That's a little high." or "This one is troubling." etc. My question...