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In 2024, the net loss was 81,000; last year, it was 97,000. And it is not just those who actually emigrate, but also those who have already mentally checked out of the country. “When it is precisely these people who are mentally quitting, that is not a character flaw on their part. It is the price a country pays for believing for too long that it can milk achievement, lecture people about freedom, and regard success with suspicion without ever having to pay the bill.”

Karen Bass has said she is not available to testify before a powerful House panel over alleged “waste, fraud and abuse” involving more than $1 billion in federal homelessness funding. The Post obtained a copy of the letter the mayor’s team sent to the DOGE subcommittee where she shot down their efforts to grill her on cash handed to Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA). Her legal counsel David Michaelson said “unfortunately the mayor is not available on that date,” in reference to her planned September 15 appearance. It is not clear what Bass has planned for that date and...

Sanctuary policies are leading to dangerous situations by making it harder for ICE to do its job, Republican critics argued after an illegal immigrant fled agents and crashed on a major New Jersey highway, injuring the wife of a Democratic mayor. The Wednesday crash is fueling a renewed fight over New Jersey's limits on cooperation between local police and federal immigration authorities. Republicans are arguing Sherrill's approval of the "Trust Directive" creates public-safety risks by limiting the ability of ICE to work with police officers. They also contend that Democrats are wrongheaded to respond to such incidents by calling for...

French police will not be able to prevent smugglers launching migrant dinghies along a 300-mile stretch of coastline, a former Border Force head has warned. Tony Smith said it was "inevitable" that trafficking gangs would spread out and launch dinghies on longer journeys. Smugglers have expanded their routes and launch points to dodge the belated crackdown in Calais and Dunkirk. And they are using more mega-dinghies, prompting fears of a dangerous new phase in the crisis. The alarming scenes of 140 migrants being brought into Portsmouth – not Dover – will intensify calls for Britain to leave the European Convention...

As he is wont to do, President Donald Trump has posted something to his Truth Social page that has got people talking and speculating this Labor Day holiday weekend. The POTUS has had space endeavors on his mind in recent weeks, which have included honoring the famed crew of Artemis II and announcing plans to sign "an executive order establishing a U.S. National Space Academy, apparently to feed into the Space Force and NASA," as my RedState colleague Nick Arama previously reported. "To continue to lead the world in space exploration and technology, while securing and defending our national interests...

The Trump administration is drafting a Health and Human Services policy that would, for the first time, let a married parent who stays home with the children collect federal child-care money that Washington has spent thirty years routing almost exclusively to day-care centers. The New York Times, citing people familiar with the talks and a draft document, reports the change is a priority for Vice President JD Vance and would tap the Child Care and Development Fund, the 1990s program built to help low-income parents pay for care so they could work or go to school. Typical aid runs about...

Too much to copy/paste - have to go to the link. The Chicago Bears fan-favorite passed away at the age of 68, per multiple media reports.

Republican Convention Programming. Overview. Over the course of two nights this Fall, Republicans from all over our great nation will convene in Dallas, Texas for a clear purpose: To support the outstanding slate of GOP candidates running in the midterm elections this Fall and articulate all we have done and will continue to do to strive for what our Founding Fathers fought for 250 years ago – a more perfect union. In 2026, the stakes could not be higher. All elections offer voters a path to the future. In November, we must decide whether to take the path of steady...

Last 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. While the resolution did not specify which “community-based organizations” that “center the experiences and demands of Arab, Muslim,...

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.