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Sunday, November 12, 2023
It's not "bad luck"-----Chicago: A City in Freefall - American Thinker
Not just wealthy shoppers, but even browsing tourists, too, it seems, are staying away in droves...
But Chicago has been other things too, all along.
- A machine town run by one corrupt party, the Democrats.
- A world-famous home of organized crime, from the mafiosi of the Prohibition Era to the drug gangs of today.
- A tax and regulatory hell where the government’s share of your income, both above board and under the table, was always painful...
Feds bust 'high-end brothel' network frequented by politicians, military officers, gov't employees with security clearances | Blaze Media
And the world would punish America?-----Report: China emissions exceed all developed nations combined - BBC News
- The research by Rhodium Group says China emitted 27% of the world's greenhouse gases in 2019.
- The US was the second-largest emitter at 11% while India was third with 6.6% of emissions, the think tank said.
History for November 12
- 1921 - Representatives of nine nations gathered for the start of the Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments.
- 1927 - Joseph Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union. Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party leading to Stalin coming to power.
- 1942 - During World War II, naval battle of Guadalcanal began between Japanese and American forces. The Americans won a major victory.
- 1954 - Ellis Island, the immigration station in New York Harbor, closed after processing more than 20 million immigrants since 1892.
- 1997 - Four Americans and their Pakistani driver were shot to death in Karachi, Pakistan. The Americans were oil company employees.
- 1997 - Ramzi Yousef was found guilty of masterminding the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
- 2014 - NATO commander Gen Philip Breedlove reported that Russian military equipment and Russian combat troops had been seen entering Ukraine in columns over several days.
Saturday, November 11, 2023
This is the state of learning and ‘free speech’ at our top universities.
- This is the state of learning and ‘free speech’ at our top universities.
In Wyoming, cheap electricity is gone with the wind | Blaze Media
Can't make it up: Anne Frank kindergarten in Germany renaming itself to be "more diverse," "more inclusive" | Not the Bee
You thought I was joking, didn't you?
Anne Frank kindergarten will be renamed ‘to be more diverse’
German nursery said it wanted a name ‘without a political background’ but it comes amid growing concern at rise in anti-SemitismWWW.TELEGRAPH.CO.UKhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/11/06/anne-frank-kindergarten-renamed-anti-semitism-tangerhutte/
Nope, not joking.
A German kindergarten has said it will drop Anne Frank from its name in favour of a "more diverse" alternative, adding fuel to the national debate over anti-Semitism amid the Israel-Hamas war.
Anne Frank was 15 years old when she died in the Nazi's Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945...
MTG Files Impeachment Resolution Against Alejandro Mayorkas | The Daily Caller
Why Was the Small Modular Nuclear Power Plant Canceled?

AP Photo/John Bazemore, File
"...The first project of this kind in the United States has been moving along steadily, with plans to build a six-reactor plant in Utah at the Idaho National Laboratory.
Protesters take over, shut down Chicago City Council meeting regarding sanctuary city status | Blaze Media
American lawyer shoots dead two climate protesters blocking traffic in Panama after weeks of protests that have shuttered schools, businesses | Not the Bee
"The violence came during the third week of protests over a large mining contract that allows Canada-based First Quantum Minerals to operate the region's largest pit copper mine for at least 20 more years.
The roadblocks have caused up to $80 million in daily losses to businesses and have shuttered schools nationwide for more than a week...
Must read!-Freedom is never free. RIP.-----The Tribute to a Little-Known Soldier | The Free Press
- A small plaque to a young veteran in a New York park tells a very American story of sacrifice.
Barbosa’s small plaque, low to the ground and under a tree, is easy to miss.
Talk to your children!-----Veterans Day 2023: Founding, Fact & Meaning | HISTORY
...Armistice Day
The Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, marking the official end of World War I. Nonetheless, the armistice date of November 11, 1918, remained in the public imagination as the date that marked the end of the conflict.
- One year later, in November 1919, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day. The day’s observation included parades and public gatherings, as well as a brief pause in business and school activities at 11 a.m.
- On November 11, 1921, an unidentified American soldier killed in the war was buried at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C. On the same day the previous year, unidentified soldiers were laid to rest at Westminster Abbey in London and at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
Did you know? Red poppies, a symbol of World War I from their appearance in the beloved poem "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae, are sold in Canada and the United Kingdom on Remembrance Day to raise money for veterans or worn in the lapel as a tribute...