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Today is a serious and somber day , the 25th Anniversary of the most evil attack on America since Pearl Harbor. I debated with myself if I should post another silly thread today. I decided I'm not going to let America's worst enemy ruin a fine tradition. So today's silly theme is Alien Invasion.

Henry Hyde had the rare gift of making a grave argument without becoming a grave man. He could thunder on the House floor and charm a room with humor. When Congressman Hyde spoke about unborn children, he did it with a tenderness that never sounded rehearsed. He was brilliant, warm, funny, stubborn when he needed to be, and absolutely clear about why he had come to Washington. He came to defend life. As we prepare to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his Hyde Amendment, the proper tribute is not praise alone, but a clear account of the man who forced...

My latest song. IYKYK.

Alison Krauss & Union Station have announced today the cancellation of all remaining shows on their 2026 tour. In a statement earlier today through management, we learn… “It is with great regret that Alison Krauss & Union Station have announced the cancellation of our upcoming tour dates. After consulting with medical professionals, Alison has been advised to take a period of vocal rest to ensure a full and healthy recovery

Chicago’s low physical exposure to coastal climate disasters like hurricanes and adaptation to weather risks contributed to its high rank. This doesn’t mean things will be good here, one expert said — they’ll just be “less bad” than other places. CHICAGO — Chicago faces lower risks from climate change — and is better prepared to handle hostile impacts from changing weather patterns — than any other city, a report assessing the resiliency of the world’s major cities found. AlphaGeo, a Singapore-based artificial intelligence company that forecasts geographical risks, graded the adaptiveness of 72 of the largest cities around the...

Des Plaines police said the 21-year-old man fatally shot by police Wednesday afternoon was "armed with an electric hedge trimmer." Police said officers responded just after 2:30 p.m. Wednesday to the 2000-block of East Touhy Avenue for a report of a domestic disturbance. It was reported that a man, later identified as Ayham Babidi, was acting violently and breaking windows at a home. The first arriving officer stopped near the home and encountered Babidi in the front yard with the hedge trimmer. "The subject immediately began approaching the officer brandishing the electric hedge trimmer in a threatening manner," police said....

Overton@overton_news·1hThis might go down as the best speech of the entire convention.RFK Jr. brought the American Airlines Center to its feet with one of the most honest realizations about President Trump.The audience couldn’t stop cheering the moment they heard it.KENNEDY: “The day that President Trump was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania, within three hours of his shooting he called me and asked me for a meeting.”“And during the series of talks that followed, I realized that everything that I had heard about President Trump and everything I believed about him, from the mainstream media, was a lie!”“Everything!”[Whole place erupts]Bobby brought the...

John Solomon@jsolomonReportsJoe diGenova resigned today as lead prosecutor in the Fort Pierce case. But not for the reasons some in the legacy media are saying. Yes, disagreements over resources, strategy and access to evidence are common inside DOJ.Sep 11, 2026·John Solomon@jsolomonReports·1hBut the most telling sign is that in Joe’s last week on the job a grand jury in Fort Pierce, Fla., saw its heaviest stream of grand jury witnesses. And lots of big name defense lawyers tell me their famous clients have been peppered with subpoenas over the last 10 days. John Solomon@jsolomonReports·1hReporters suggesting Joe resigned because he was being...

The NFL’s opening week is starting off with a bang, as Netflix is streaming an NFC showdown between the Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers. In an effort to expand its international reach, the NFL sent the Rams and 49ers to Melbourne for the first regular season game in Australia. So far, the crowd at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground has been electric. Unfortunately, NFL fans are having a tough time streaming the game this Thursday night. With that being said, they’ve been voicing their displeasure on social media. “Yes Netflix, let’s make it as annoying as possible to...

2001 Live@25YearsAgoLiveAt 10 AM, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld held a press conference and announced that the Pentagon has “lost track of” $2.3 trillion, which is “unaccounted for.”He goes on to highlight a number of other glaring inefficiencies in the Department of Defense. September 10, 2026

ransomnote: The prior posts in the series are here: John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Introduction and Day 1 of the 12 day series]John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Day 2 and Day 3 of the 12 day series]John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Day 4 of the 12 day series]John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Day 5 of the 12 day series]John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Days 6, 7 and 8 of the 12 day series]John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Days 9 Parts 1 -...

Buying clothes has always been challenging for Ann Lindsay. As a plus-sized 41-year-old, she finds many stores' plus-size offerings too matronly or too expensive. Lately, it's gotten worse: Last month, she noticed that her local Target in Chicago removed plus sizes entirely. There were significantly fewer options online, too. In the pre-Covid era, big box retailers pushed inclusive sizing with fanfare. ("Whatever the tag says, you're always a size YES to us," Old Navy proclaimed in a massive campaign in 2018.) But now plus-size shoppers say inclusive sizing is dwindling, as the rise of GLP-1s fuels worries about a return...

Kim Cooper and her husband have lived in the same River North apartment for 20 years. For most of them, she said, the balcony was the best place in the neighborhood to take in the view. Not anymore. "We've seen people having sex. We've seen people defecating," Cooper said. "It can literally be just a floor of garbage. That includes needles, dirty underwear and a lot of food products, which is attracting a lot of rats." The alley Cooper looks down on runs behind her building, and she and her neighbors say it is where nearly all of the problems...

Dr. Jay Smith, the world's leading expert on Islam, will talk on the subject of Islam and the hidden political agenda built in to their belief system. Video is 1 hour and 1 minute long.

They’re getting a helping hand. The Russian Orthodox Church sent fragments of a medieval prince’s hand to soldiers in the frontlines as a means to raise morale and provide “spiritual strength” to end the war. The church, which backs Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, said it dispatched a fragment of Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy’s sword hand to soldiers in the occupied region of Donetsk. The Moscow ⁠Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church said sending the prince’s remains served as a symbol to allow the so-called “holy commander” to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Moscow’s invading army. “A fragment of the...

All 12 members of the jury have finally spoken out about the Lindsay Clancy case and how they really felt about the other jurors.

A group of Cuban doctors claim they were effectively sold into slavery by their country’s regime and are asking for $129 million in damages in a lawsuit. The legal filing says 3,500 doctors were sent to Brazil between 2013 and 2018 and claims the Cuban regime earned more than $2.3 billion for their services but paid them “a small fraction” — less than 10 percent — of their earnings. The doctors, now living in the US, claim that when dispatched abroad they were never informed 90 percent of their wages would go to the Cuban government. They also say that...

Behind the scenes, officials attempt to bridge a widening funding gap Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says his government needs tens of billions of additional dollars to keep fighting and pay bills through the end of the year. The request couldn’t come at a worse time for European governments, the main donors to Kyiv’s defense against Russia. European officials privately warn they might not be able to foot the bill for everything Ukraine wants. Last weekend, the hard-right Alternative for Germany party, known as AfD, stormed to victory in the Saxony-Anhalt state elections on a platform of ending assistance for Ukraine...

Neo-Nazis believe a mysterious potato farmer known as “Scary Larry” is the infiltrator who prosecutors say shacked up with Southern Poverty Law Center boss Heidi Beirich. Former National Alliance member Lawrence W. Myers — an Arabic-speaking, guitar-strumming, “paranoid” man — was even kicked out of the racist group for being a spy, sources said. Multiple ex-members told The Post they believe Myers, 68, is the person labelled with the pseudonym “F-9” in a recent federal indictment, who feds claim was paid $1.2 million from SPLC donor funds. “Many people, especially [former National Alliance chairman] Erich Gliebe believe that Myers was...

Former NBA point guard Ty Lawson put himself in an uncomfortable spotlight this past July with his latest run-in with the law. The 38-year-old was arrested on July 16 in Castle Rock, Colorado, after a liquor store employee accused him of stealing a $34 bottle of vodka. According to police documents, Lawson allegedly carried the bottle to a nearby restaurant where officers later confronted him. Authorities also noted they believed the retired NBA player was intoxicated, documenting the smell of alcohol during their interaction. Things reportedly escalated after Lawson was taken into custody. Police alleged he repeatedly called an officer...