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You have to hand it to the Huffington Post. Were it not for its slavish devotion to abortion, events most of us would never hear about get publicized. For example, “Gloria Steinem Speaks At Planned Parenthood Fundraiser, Tackles Gender, Sexuality,” written by Ashley Alman and posted Wednesday. Alman’s own piece is almost incoherent, but it led me to read the story in The City Sentinel, a weekly that serves Oklahoma City, which evidently served as the basis for Alman’s account, and which is hardly the model of accuracy. Here are a couple of observations. “The women’s advocate [Steinem] talked about...

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee responded: "This won’t get the international attention that attacks on Palestinians receive but it’s a daily occurrence that Israelis have to live with. for the 'Peace of Jerusalem.' Israel National News. Sep 7, 2026, 1:31 PM (GMT+3) Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee condemned the terrorist attack at Ma'oz Yehuda Farm in Samaria, noting that such attacks receive far less international attention than attacks against Palestinians. “This won’t get the international attention that attacks on Palestinians receive but it’s a daily occurrence that Israelis have to live with," Huckabee wrote. “🙏 for the ‘Peace of...

The election result is described as a “blue earthquake” in German right-wing media but it may not be enough for the AfD to secure an absolute majority. AfD top candidate Ulrich Siegmund and AfD co-leader Alice Weidel celebrate after exit polls following Saxony-Anhalt’s state elections at the fairgrounds in Magdeburg, Eastern Germany on September 6, 2026. TOBIAS SCHWARZ / AFPAccording to exit poll results, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party has scored an unprecedented victory in Saxony-Anhalt today. As of 9 p.m., the AfD was projected to have reached 44%, a staggering 23.2% increase compared to its result in the...

ast September 11, every Muslim in Congress and some of their radical allies teamed up on a congressional resolution demanding reparations to Muslims for their suffering after 9/11. House Resolution 741, introduced a week after the anniversary of September 11, claimed that “in the aftermath of September 11, 2001” Muslims “experienced hate and were targeted by the government” and called for “various forms of relief to support those affected.” The money would have potentially gone to Islamic groups listed as terror co-conspirators. ...

snip Yet there was one striking exception to the stultifying conformity of cultural critique, one lonely example of an A-list star confronting a specific 9/11 event head-on and offering his voice in full-throated support of authentic American heroism. Even more impressively, it came from a Canadian - and at a time when Jean Chrétien's ministry was mostly engaged in petty sniping about alleged offenses to its amour propre. When I was, oh, fourteen years old I saw Neil Young with Crosby, Stills, Nash &... plus his compatriot Joni Mitchell and The Band. And to be honest in the intervening decades...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem🇮🇱 (9/7/26)[Prayer]PersonalitiesPsalm 16 A miktam[a] of David. 1 Keep me safe, my God, for in you I take refuge. 2 I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing.” 3 I say of the holy people who are in the land, “They are the noble ones in whom is all my delight.” 4 Those who run after other gods will suffer more and more. I will not pour out libations of blood to such gods or take up their names on my lips. 5 Lord, you alone...

At least five people are dead after an Amazon cargo aircraft overran the runway during a landing at Miami International Airport on Sunday afternoon, striking multiple vehicles on a road surrounding the airport, officials said. There is no apparent threat to public safety at this time, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office said during a news conference Sunday evening. The scene is still active. “Units arrived to find an airplane that had caught on fire as a result of this crash, with heavy flames and smoke showing,” an X post from Miami-Dade Fire Rescue says. More than 60 fire units responded to...

After years of insisting that names are fluid, the left suddenly discovers tradition when Trump picks the name. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, a forlorn Juliet implores Romeo to give up his family name, that of a family rival to hers. She asks him, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. The same could be said about large bodies of water, still wet and deep regardless of what President Donald Trump names them by executive order. Most recently, Trump renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America, after renaming the Gulf...

Church bodies introduce written applications and affidavits for converts as attacks on prayer meetings and funerals raise fears of intimidation and calls for an anti-conversion law Christian organizations in west bengal are tightening safeguards, with a written application and affidavit set to become mandatory for those seeking to embrace Christianity. The measures are part of a slew of protective steps adopted by Christian bodies to counter what they call an "ill-motivated narrative" against the community that has allegedly fueled several attacks on prayer services and even the removal of a woman's body from a grave after it had been lowered....

(the splash screen is generally not all that pertinent) Elon Musk posted 26 times on X today (09/06/26) | 18:56 Jacob & Isaac | 45K subscribers | 42,810 views | September 6, 2026

KYIV, Ukraine—Every few weeks, Svitlana Dvornikova leaves her home near the front line in Ukraine and travels to a rented luxury villa on the Mediterranean coast of France or Spain. She dons makeup, a wig, high heels and a pseudonym. Dvornikova isn’t there to escape the war. She travels abroad to stream solo shows to her one million subscribers..... ...Zhelezniak is now leading a push to legalize porn in Ukraine, arguing that doing so wouldn’t only help against corruption, but would raise up to $25 million a year in tax revenues.

NEW YORK – Today, ahead of the 25th Anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani will sign two Executive Orders to honor the victims, first responders, survivors, City workers and families whose lives were forever changed by the tragedy while strengthening City government’s ability to protect New Yorkers and maintain essential services during emergencies. “I am honored to establish the City’s first Day of Remembrance and Service on September 11th to remember those we lost on that horrific day and the first responders, families and City workers whose lives were irrevocably changed in the aftermath. Through...

Non-lawyer commenters at this site often express befuddlement at the doctrine in the federal courts known as “standing.” Where did that come from? In practical application, the “standing” doctrine seems like a tool of left-wing control. Left-wing litigants seeking an expansive role for the government seem to always succeed in establishing this “standing,” and thus they are always granted access to the federal courts to have their claims adjudicated; and if they can find their way to a friendly judge, they can get whatever policies they are challenging of the Trump administration (or other Republican administration) overturned. Meanwhile, right-wing litigants...

Gun owners do not carry firearms only because violent criminals exist. Bears, mountain lions, feral dogs, rabid animals and other four-legged threats do not care about gun-control politics—and they do not wait for police or animal-control officers to arrive.A newly published national firearms survey from Georgetown University professor William English estimates that Americans use firearms defensively against animal threats roughly 180,000 times every year.English’s new 2026 National Firearms Survey is a detailed, 75-page follow-up to his widely cited 2021 work. The survey began with 51,398 American adults and identified 16,688 respondents as gun owners through a two-stage validation process.The paper...

In the late 1960s, a boy left Havana in the middle of the night, and days later, he was standing on Merritt Island, Florida. I was that boy. I didn’t know anything about American exceptionalism, about the great argument over liberty and government. I knew I had come to America, and almost immediately America began showing me things I had never seen: a new bicycle, chewing gum, Superman comics newer than 1960, ordinary pleasures that felt like evidence of a larger freedom. And there were rockets. They rose almost every night. I didn’t understand the science. I only knew something...

A Westchester County police bigwig’s bust for allegedly driving her son to a botched gang drive by in the Bronx has Democrats running for cover — and Republicans saying I told you so. Ex-Mount Vernon Deputy Police Commissioner Jennifer Lackard is facing attempted murder charges in the shocking June 29 shooting, but prominent Democrats in the region are staying mum and refusing to condemn the disgraced cop because the suburban city is a coveted party stronghold. “Democrats are the first to preach ‘no one is above the law’ until it screws them politically,” Republican National Committee spokeswoman Natalie Baldassarre told...

A belligerent passenger who was duct-taped and zip-tied after hurling slurs on an American Airlines flight was fired from an Arizona realty company over his “concerning criminal charges.” Arthur Layne Lundeen, 67, was axed from his job as a real-estate agent at the Tucson-based company Long Realty after he was identified as the lunatic who hurled the N-word at a flight attendant and shouted anti-gay insults on American Airlines flight 618 Thursday night. “Long Realty is aware of reports concerning criminal charges filed against a former affiliated real estate agent arising from an incident that allegedly occurred during a commercial...

On the prior anniversary of the Islamic terrorist attacks of September 11, Rep. Lateefah Simon, the 4th Muslim in Congress, joined the prior 3 Muslims, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Rep. Andre Carson, in sponsoring a resolution calling for reparations to Muslims for 9/11. The resolution claimed that “in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, individuals experienced hate and were targeted by the government on account of their faith, race, national origin and immigration status” and called for “various forms of relief to support those affected.” The resolution demanded that America acknowledge the “climate of hate” suffered by...

[Updated frequently]The genocide lieThe "Genocide" lie isn't a debate over facts—it's a coldly orchestrated political weapon: funded, coordinated, and laser-focused on forcing one toxic smear-word into every mouth, every headline, every official statement, through endless online swarms and staged street theater.The cheapening of the wordThe Genocide Lie: Why the Accusation Against Israel Collapses Under Scrutiny. [Notes | Current "genesis" | Urban warfare: combating 'Palestinian' exploitation of civilians and Israel innovating tactics to protect lives | Trendy 'Pallyweid' (apartheid/genocide) - Shukeiri/Qaddoumi - on pro-nazi Arab Palestine WW2, neo-Nazi linked Issa Nakhleh, etc. (And how accusers discredit themselves) / Projection - sounds...

ANN ARBOR, MI — A highly controversial ending at Michigan Stadium has unfortunately put a slight black eye on the NCAA's otherwise sterling reputation. Though historically a bastion of high ethics and integrity, the NCAA has come under scrutiny after referees announced the existence of a secret game clock that never reaches zero while Michigan is losing. "It's an unfortunate blemish for an organization that has always been regarded as carrying itself with the utmost virtue," said media pundit Dan Bradshaw. "To have a call like this, it raises uncomfortable questions such as 'Why do the refs have a secret...