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“Hundreds of pieces of metal were scattered across the grass in front of the building. Clouds of debris, flames, and ash rose from a large blackened gash. People were scrambling away from the building, refugees from an inferno that was consuming their colleagues.”
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Legend.
Bill Giles brought Harry Kalas and the Phillies Phanatic to Philadelphia. "My only philosophy was to make people happy."
Giles died today. He was 92. mlb.com/phillies/news/bill-g…
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Senate Democrats have a rare opportunity to pass bipartisan permitting reform that would dramatically lower energy costs for the American people.
The time is now. Delaying would be futile to our efforts and good faith negotiations.
Permitting reform will lower costs for American families, starting with fuel and energy prices.
Would Democrats rather sink this historic bipartisan agreement than help them?
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Why do you want to free a convicted murderer from a US designated terrorist group?
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Overregulating American AI won’t make us more competitive. It could slow American innovation while creating a new dependency on China.
We’ve made this mistake with critical industries before. We shouldn’t repeat it with one of the most important technologies of the future.
My latest for The Daily Wire:
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RT @sarahraviani: Nothing says “we’re doing great” like bringing a photo of your dead general to the UN.
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I love this story. Way to go Brad Lidge.
From @TheAthletic: Brad Lidge was one of baseball’s top closers, winning the 2008 World Series with the Phillies. When he threw his last pitch in 2012, he decided to do something incredibly rare for a former major leaguer. He became an archaeologist. nyti.ms/4yVCN63
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Thank you Mr. President. You have a great team fighting hard to take the UN Back to Basics!
President Trump: Led by Ambassador Michael Waltz here at the United Nations, we have also worked with many countries in this room to implement the most sweeping UN reforms in history.
We cut the UN budget for the first time ever, slashing it by 15% in 2026, and eliminated more than 4,000 positions from the UN bureaucracy.
The United Nations has great, great potential. I've said that for many years, but it must stop imposing the far-left agenda of globalist bureaucrats who nobody ever elected.
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Don’t Be Fooled by China’s Recent Months of Low Military Activity:
“The upcoming summit may be shaping Beijing’s timing more than its intentions. If Chinese leaders believe restraint strengthens their diplomatic hand, PLAN and PLAAF activity may remain relatively subdued around Taiwan but increase elsewhere…”
dailysignal.com/2026/09/23/d…
And see all the data behind this reporting on an interactive web page here:
datavisualizations.heritage.…
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On this morning 250 years ago, the British hanged a 21-year-old American schoolteacher as a spy, and in trying to make him disappear quietly, they accidentally made him immortal. His name was Nathan Hale, and it is worth sitting with just the last few hours of his life.
He had been caught the night before, behind British lines on Long Island, carrying notes on enemy positions hidden in his shoes. There was no real trial. A man out of uniform with military intelligence on him was a spy by the rules of war, and the sentence for spying was death by hanging, no ceremony, no honor. General Howe ordered it done in the morning.
What we know of that morning comes mostly from the enemy, from British officers who were there, and it is the small human cruelties that stay with you. Hale asked for a clergyman to attend him in his final hours. The request was refused. He asked for a Bible. That too was denied. He was a devout young man about to die, and they would not give him even that comfort. A British officer named Montresor, watching, was troubled enough by the young man's composure to later make sure his story was told.
In his last moments Hale was allowed to write a couple of letters, one to his mother, one to a fellow officer. He wrote them, and then the British provost marshal, a notoriously brutal man named Cunningham, took those letters and destroyed them in front of him. The reason given was chilling in its pettiness: so that the rebels should not know they had a man in their ranks who could die with such firmness. They did not just want to kill him. They wanted to erase him.
Then they marched him to the gallows, and there, according to the accounts that survived, this young schoolteacher who had failed at the one dangerous mission he ever attempted, stood calmly and spoke about duty and country with a steadiness that unnerved the men sent to kill him. The famous words attributed to him, that he only regretted having but one life to lose for his country, may be polished or borrowed from a play he loved. But everyone who was there agreed on the essential truth beneath the wording: he met his death without flinching, and he made even his executioners remember him.
And that is the irony that redeems the whole sad morning. Cunningham burned the letters so no one would know how bravely Hale died. It did not work. The story got out anyway, carried by the very enemies who watched it, and a young man the British tried to erase became one of the most enduring symbols of the Revolution, honored two and a half centuries later, on this exact day, as the first American to die spying for his country. They denied him a Bible and a chaplain and burned his last words, and still they could not make him small.
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Texas has signed two rare-earth mineral leases covering more than 1,000 acres in Hudspeth County, expanding development around the Round Top project and advancing the state’s first dedicated rare-earth mining district.
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This isn’t my lane but I have to wonder—did you not read a book with your daughter from grades 1-4?
"Najya deserved better."
1619 Project founder Nikole Hannah-Jones says she regrets aspects of the decision to send her daughter to predominantly Black, high-poverty public schools in Brooklyn, acknowledging she put broader ideals about educational inequality ahead of her daughter's individual needs.
Her now-16-year-old daughter told her, "Sometimes I wish instead of always thinking about other kids, you would have thought about me. I never really got the education I wanted."
Hannah-Jones says she ultimately apologized, telling her daughter, "I feel like you got cheated."
Read more: foxnews.com/media/1619-proje…
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US directly rejects Iran's terms to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, per US officials to Yonhap.
Trump rejected it after Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner sat in one room and Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi in another, with Qatari mediators shuttling between them.
The rejected conditions were $300 billion in US compensation, all US sanctions lifted, $100 billion in frozen assets released, an end to the naval blockade, US troop withdrawal from the region, and a regional ceasefire including Lebanon and Gaza.
@HormuzLetter
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NEW: The White House has assured the wife of Min Zin, an American scholar being held hostage in China, that her husband’s release is a “top priority” for Thursday’s Trump-Xi Summit, Sylvia Zin told @DailySignal.
“President Trump has brought home over 100 Americans in his office,” Sylvia said, “and I am hoping that my husband is the next one.”
dailysignal.com/2026/09/23/a…
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How long until they have to sell that like the real estate in London?
Sanctions are really biting. #Iran's regime's president is reportedly now staying at the ambassador's residence on 5th Ave. rather than a hotel that he usually stays at to save money.
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Sanctions are really biting. #Iran's regime's president is reportedly now staying at the ambassador's residence on 5th Ave. rather than a hotel that he usually stays at to save money.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian who's in New York for the UNGA, has accommodated in the residence of Iran's representative to the UN, Fars news agency says, instead of the hotel, to cut the costs.
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Magnificent statesmanship with Greenland. The terms of the agreement are clear. Win-win.
Ok, we now have the actual text of the Greenland deal (whitehouse.gov/briefings-sta…), so we can say how it compares to the existing 1951 arrangement and who, between Trump and Denmark, lied the most in their framing of it.
Long story short - which may surprise some - the Danes lied the most: Trump is pretty much correct in saying that this new deal grants the US control of Greenland.
Let's look into what changed compared to the 1951 deal.
1) This is now a permanent arrangement: whereas the existing 1951 deal only lasted as long as NATO existed, this one "does not have an end date and may only be amended by mutual consent."
It even survives a hypothetical future independence of Greenland: in that event, Denmark and Greenland must ensure that the independent Greenlandic state "affirmatively assume[s] all of the rights and obligations of the Kingdom of Denmark specified in this Agreement."
2) In the 1951 agreement, the US could set up bases only where both governments agreed, and only on the basis of NATO planning. The new deal locks in three bases: the US can "modernize and expand its activities" at Pituffik, its only base in Greenland until now, and "shall be allowed to establish an additional Defense Area at Narsarsuaq and Mestersvig." Further bases beyond these 3 can be justified by the defense of "the American continent," a US interest rather than a NATO one.
Also, quite subtle but this is interesting: Article IV(iii) says that "the United States may establish additional defense areas in Greenland" and that consultations are then held "to decide implementation details based on mutual agreement." What this means is that the principle of a new base is automatically granted and only the implementation details require agreement.
Article VII also gives the US "the right to raise concerns regarding construction, or change of use" of any building near a US base, after which the parties decide together what to do. Which means that the US has a say over civilian planning around its bases.
3) On US military movement across Greenland, the wording change between the 1951 agreement and this new one is quite funny.
The 1951 text said (Art. V(3)): the US "may enjoy... the right of free access to and movement between the defense areas through Greenland, including territorial waters, by land, air and sea," but only "in accordance with general rules mutually agreed upon and issued by the appropriate Danish authority in Greenland."
The new one says: "the United States of America shall enjoy... the right of free access to and movement between the Defense Areas through Greenland, including the Territorial Waters, by land, air and sea."
That's it: "May" becomes "shall," and the US military movement no longer has to follow rules "issued by the appropriate Danish authority in Greenland." The US also gets something new on top: "undersea access to and movement within the Territorial Waters," i.e. submarines.
4) Non-NATO exclusion: non-NATO states are barred from military installations or a persistent presence in Greenland unless all three parties approve, giving the US an effective permanent veto. The 1951 deal had no equivalent clause.
5) Investment screening: this is entirely new. "States or investors from a state that is not a member of NATO, a NATO partner, or an EU member state" (i.e. Russia, China, India, the Gulf States, etc.), "shall not be allowed to have (i) control, (ii) significant influence, or (iii) access to non-public information...within Particularly Sensitive Sectors or Activities in the territory of Greenland (including the Territorial Waters), unless agreed between the Parties."
Again, it basically means that the US has a permanent veto over who can invest in strategic sectors in Greenland, as far as non-NATO or EU states are concerned.
6) Lastly, in stark contrast with the 1951 deal, the framing of the deal changes significantly: this new deal is largely framed around the US.
The 1951 agreement existed only "for the benefit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization." The new one lists the defense of "the American continent" as an objective, celebrates "the irreplaceable role" of the United States military as well as "the United States' indispensable historical and ongoing contributions to the security and defense of Greenland," and names the establishment of Trump's "Golden Dome" missile defense system as a key goal.
So, to sum up:
- The US secured a permanent military foothold that even an independent Greenland would inherit whether it likes it or not
- The US now has veto power over any non-NATO military presence in Greenland, and over who can invest in its strategic infrastructure and resources (beyond NATO and the EU)
- Denmark signed away its say over the principle of new US bases, with only the right to discuss the "implementation details"
- Danish authorities no longer set the rules for US military movement across the island
- And all of it is now justified by the defense of "the American continent"
I don't know in which universe this even remotely "recognizes the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Kingdom and the Greenlandic people's right to self-determination," as Danish PM Mette Frederiksen put it (stm.dk/en/press/press-releas…).
Yes, the preamble of the text cynically "reaffirms" Danish sovereignty but, in my book, when you let a foreign country put bases on your soil, move its troops without following your rules and veto who else can come in, in perpetuity, after it spent two years threatening to take you by force, the word for that is anything but "recognized sovereignty" 🤷
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Yesterday, we issued a statement opposing new proposals to ban or restrict U.S. diesel exports.
“Proposals to ban or restrict U.S. diesel exports are counterproductive. Export bans would not lower energy costs, especially beyond the immediate term, and would instead raise prices, weaken energy security, discourage investment, and undermine America’s reliability as an energy supplier..."
Read the full press release here: heritage.org/press/heritage-…
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