U.S. senator launches investigation into Flock cameras over surveillance * WorldNetDaily * by Nicole Silverio, Daily Caller News Foundation

U.S. senator launches investigation into Flock cameras over surveillance * WorldNetDaily * by Nicole Silverio, Daily Caller News Foundation: 

Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley opened an investigation Wednesday into Flock Safety cameras and its access to Americans' data. Hawley sent a letter to Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley requesting that he send all documents and information by Sept. 8 to investigate the company's "collection, retention, and dissemination" from its artificial intelligence (AI) powered surveillance cameras. The senator chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, which will lead the investigation.

PCR massively wrong - YouTube

(138) PCR massively wrong - YouTube

This pretty much sums it up.

But here is where the outrage from the Left starts to get a little hard to take seriously. - The Federalist Papers

For years, the political and cultural Left has enthusiastically participated in renaming, rebranding and reclassifying anything it decides no longer fits the approved narrative.

• Columbus Day becomes Indigenous Peoples’ Day. 
• Military bases get new names. 
• Sports teams are pressured to abandon names used for generations. 
• Corporate brands are scrubbed. 
• Words that were perfectly ordinary yesterday are suddenly declared unacceptable today...

Lunch video----- Minnesota's "Ghost Student" SCANDAL Is Worse Than We Thought - YouTube

(137) Minnesota's "Ghost Student" SCANDAL Is Worse Than We Thought - YouTube:

Noon-toon

 

'Sinister': Watch Tom Homan take senator's claim that ICE terrorizes kids head-on * WorldNetDaily * by Spencer Lombardo, Daily Caller News Foundation

'Sinister': Watch Tom Homan take senator's claim that ICE terrorizes kids head-on * WorldNetDaily * by Spencer Lombardo, Daily Caller News Foundation: 

"ICE isn't in the business of terrorizing children. That's just political fire," Homan responded. "ICE is out there enforcing [a] law that was enacted by Congress, then we arrest illegal aliens. Are some parents? I'm sure many are. But we're not out there to terrorize children. We're out there to look for illegal aliens with final orders of removal, those who overstayed, those that are criminals, and we're out there looking for them and arresting them. ICE has no intention of terrorizing children."

Well, we all wanted honesty!

 

College football roster spending rankings: Most expensive teams in 2026 - CBS Sports

A CBS Sports poll of industry insiders reveals multiple programs have crossed the $40 million roster threshold, led by Lane Kiffin's massive spending spree at LSU -- which may be closer to $50 million - Chris Hummer & John Talty

A year ago, Indiana coach Curt Cignetti told CBS Sports that the day of $40 million college football rosters had arrived...

• A lot can change in a year as Cignetti and his Indiana football program upended college football norms on the way to a historic 16-0 national championship season. 
• But one thing that hasn't: Cignetti was dead accurate about the arrival of $40 million rosters.

More than $40 million

LSU Tigers

Big price tag: Jordan Seaton, OT 

Multiple sources anointed LSU as college football's most expensive roster in 2026, with several sources projecting it could be over $50 million...

How they "think".

 

According to the statisticians, Chicago just had had its most violent weekend of the year thus far; fifteen shot and one killed at a single event.

Why do these people stay in neighborhoods where such things occur? - John F. Di Leo
It reminds me of a column I wrote about 13 years ago. 

• It's so old it's not even in the Illinois Review archive anymore, so I'll just paste the entire article here, if you're interested...

I think it's worth a couple of minutes, if you have them to spare. - JFD
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The Inherent Violence of the Welfare State - Illinois Review - January 28, 2013

Chicago, home of one of the nation's most stringent gun bans for fifty years, has also been the source of many frightening statistics. 

The city of Chicago - not the greater metropolitan area, just Chicago proper - surpassed 500 homicides in 2012 all by itself. 

If gun bans are the solution, the problem must be something other than a murder epidemic, because this gun ban sure isn't solving that one...

 

#1 This day 1969-----Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women (Hyde Park, 1969) - YouTube

(135) Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women (Hyde Park, 1969) - YouTube:

Will blue states continue to allow unions to be in total control?-----Trump Administration Renews Push to Return Education to the States

“The Department of Education was established in 1980 with the promise of improving education outcomes for America’s students. $3 trillion in taxpayer dollars later, national test scores in reading, writing, and math have plummeted” - Mike LaChance

• The Trump administration is renewing its push to move control of education away from Washington and back to the states. 
• As evidence of this need, they cite massive federal spending on education alongside poor results...

Never let THEM forget!

 

The government would like to discuss your allowance | Blaze Media

The government would like to discuss your allowance | Blaze Media: 

Democratic socialism turns an old American presumption upside down: Your property is yours unless Washington decides you have more than you need.

Abdul El-Sayed did Americans a favor when he sat down with Jesse Watters on Fox News this week. The Michigan U.S. Senate candidate gave us a remarkably clear lesson in the philosophy behind America’s growing democratic socialist movement. The real question is simple: Who owns your property — you or the government?

Scott Bessent Responds to Canada's Retaliatory Tariffs With a Brutal Reality Check

In a CNBC interview Monday, Bessent laughed off the idea that Ottawa could meaningfully pressure the United States as the two countries escalate their trade war.  - Dmitri BoltFollow @_bolt_dmitri
The exchange came just a week after Washington and Ottawa imposed 50 percent tariffs on one another following failed negotiations to come to a trade agreement the Trump administration found satisfactory.

• Bessent argued that Canada cannot realistically go “tit for tat” with an economy roughly 13 times larger, dismissing the idea that Ottawa could pose any serious threat to the United States...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for September 1

History for September 1 - On-This-Day.com 

Lily Tomlin 1939 - Actress, comedian

• 1878 - Emma M. Nutt became the first female telephone operator in the U.S. The company was the Telephone Dispatch Company of Boston.
• 1887 - Emile Berliner filed for a patent for his invention of the lateral-cut, flat-disk gramophone. It is a device that is better known as a record player. Thomas Edison made the idea work.
• 1905 - Saskatchewan and Alberta became the ninth and tenth provinces of Canada.
• 1939 - World War II began when Germany invaded Poland.
• 1945 - The U.S. received official word of Japan's formal surrender that ended World War II. In Japan, it was actually September 2nd.
• 1998 - The movie "Titanic" went on sale across North America.

Mayor Karen Bass: Hands Off Thousands of Migrant Food Vendors Operating Illegally in L.A.

Mayor Karen Bass: Hands Off Thousands of Migrant Food Vendors Operating Illegally in L.A.: 

Bass’s office told the California Post Thursday that the mayor “stands firmly with street vendors” and has directed the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) to stop issuing criminal citations to unpermitted vendors.

“Street vending is a quintessential part of LA’s world-class food scene and a livelihood for thousands of hardworking Angelenos. Supporting LA’s street vendors is more important than ever given ongoing attacks by ICE,” her office told the outlet.

The message is clear, say critics. If you’re in the United States illegally and operating a business illegally, you get a free pass. If you are a citizen, you must follow all the rules or face fines and even closure.

As Breitbart News reported in July, an estimated 50,000 vendors operate throughout Los Angeles but fewer than 700 have active permits, with only 53 of those for food vendors.

The way we were----- The Original Mouseketeers (1955) Cast: Then & Now | What Really Happened To Them? - YouTube

(130) The Original Mouseketeers (1955) Cast: Then & Now | What Really Happened To Them? - YouTube:

Why Africa is so Poor (Hint: It isn’t Colonialism)

Why Africa is so Poor (Hint: It isn’t Colonialism):

WHO’S IN WORSE SHAPE, EUROPE OR THE U.S.?

It’s not what you think - Ann Coulter

...In addition to being screwed by the sizable group of Americans always clamoring for cheap labor, the U.S. is uniquely screwed by its geography, as pointed out by Harvard professor Samuel Huntington twenty years ago. 

• We are the only developed country that shares a border with a third world country—and that border is 2,000 miles long, protected by a picket fence. 
• Moreover, the income gap between Mexico and America is greater than any other two contiguous countries in the world...

For openers, Latin American culture is wildly different from ours, in terms of corruption, submission to authority, and its Catholicism, which reveres the poor and abhors “income inequality.” 

• Notably, the only two prosperous and stable democracies in all of Latin America are Uruguay and Costa Rica, each less than 50% Catholic and both overwhelmingly white European (83% to 88%)...

💥NEW: John Fetterman and Greta Van Susteren share personal stories showing Trump's character🇺🇸

Fetterman: "He even checked in on my dad! My dad's having a real difficult situation health about his heart — and he absolutely checked in on that." - Jason Cohen @JasonJournoDC

Van Susteren: 

"A lot of people don't see that side of Trump." "Years ago — before he even ran for president — I was covering a story of this down-and-out soldier who had PTSD. And I got a call from Trump asking me what his address was." "I said, 'I don't know his address. Why?' He said, 'Because I want to help the guy.' And I said, 'Well, I don't know.'" "He said, 'I’ll tell you what, I'll send you a check — and you find him.'" "So he hangs up the phone — and the next day I get a FedEx from Donald Trump with a personal check to the guy for $25,000!" 

This is the side of Trump the media doesn't want you to hear about.

 They want you to think he is a monster. 

But these stories reveal how caring and generous he is. 

• The real test of someone's character is what he does when nobody is watching.

Report Exposes the Smithsonian Zoo's Leftist Activism: DEI, Feminism, and Queer Activism

Report Exposes the Smithsonian Zoo's Leftist Activism: DEI, Feminism, and Queer Activism: 

The Domestic Policy Council’s report, “Saving America’s Story,” discovered that the museum said it considered itself a site for social action, and held youth conferences exploring “gender equality,” and the “teen resistance to systemic racism.” At the time, a Smithsonian spokesperson commented to ABC News, “For more than 180 years, the Smithsonian has served the American public with nonpartisan and independent scholarship, and we remain committed to doing so.” The spokesperson added the museum “remains committed to impartial learning.”

Iceland Voters Reject Restarting EU Membership Talks - YouTube

(135) Iceland Voters Reject Restarting EU Membership Talks - YouTube: