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What kind of people would dance in the streets after the 9/11 terrorist attack that killed upwards of 3,000 people? The same ones who have now become elevated martyrs by large swaths of the Global Left: the Palestinians.Katie Couric, like most mainstream journalists back then, had no problem exposing such monstrous behavior by those fed a steady diet of dehumanization of the American people. Would she do it today? No. Would any of them do it today? No.Who would celebrate the live execution of a prominent activist on the Right, so much so that they'd lose their jobs for exposing what sociopaths they really are? Hundreds, if not thousands, on the Left did just that. Radicalized or mainstream, it didn't matter. They have become what the Palestinians were back then: so propagandized and radicalized, they've lost their humanity.You can see it now in those TikTok videos that have turned “When it Happens” into a viral trend. That's what ten years of dehumanizing can do to otherwise decent people. They say they're decent, but TikTok proves otherwise.They have cast themselves as morally superior to the other half of the country and would point to how some on the Right mocked George Floyd after his death in 2020. But the difference is that many prominent Republicans like Ted Cruz instantly condemned it. No Democrat has condemned the mockery and the celebration of Charlie's death. Oh sure, they all said what they had to say: the standard “violence has no place in our politics.” They said it, but did they mean it? How could they if they've never condemned the rising cult-like fantasies of Trump's death and the celebration of Charlie's execution?If anything, the Democrats were more worried Charlie's influence would grow, so they sent out their One True King, Barack Obama, to put Charlie's legacy in context.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did the same thing, acting as though what Charlie said - the cherry-picked, out-of-context quotes fed to them- was worse than their own side mocking and celebrating his murder. His words were worse than his death.But that is who they are now. Speech is violence. Speech is hate. Speech must be tightly monitored and controlled. Is assassinating Charlie Kirk or trying to assassinate Donald Trump any different from the Jihadists who mass-murdered journalists at Charlie Hebdo in Paris for blasphemy against Mohammad? Hasan Piker, aka the “Twitch streamer in California,” like Dean Withers, condemned those who made jokes of Charlie's death. At least at first. Once Piker sensed the vacuum left in Charlie's absence, he turned his death into a viral meme just a month or so later. Credit to Axios' Alex Thompson for pressing him to explain it.Piker's song became a TikTok dance meme and a permission structure for many to showcase themselves as dead-eyed zombies dancing to the sound of the bullet hitting his neck a year later for the “Kirkaversary.”Utopias only have two paths forward. They either collapse or they become more authoritarian. The Left still hasn't confronted the radical elements on their side, not just Hasan Piker, but the many shooters who have risen up to become martyrs and heroes.They mock, they meme, but underneath it all, as with Al-Qaeda or other radical Islamic groups, what motivates them is pure hatred. Words are violence. Words are hatred, and “some hate can't be negotiated out.” They can laugh it off all they want, but they've left a paper trail.Turning Point put up a Charlie Kirk statue, and it was immediately vandalized.If they can meme a live execution and feel nothing, then why wouldn't they see America as bad or worse than Al-Qaeda? The oppressor/oppressed indoctrination factory that is public schools and universities has raised them in the good/evil binary. Video games, IP, and superhero movies all adopted that binary, and after Columbine and 9/11, parents like me shut our kids indoors to keep them safe, and this good/evil binary would one day become white people evil, brown people good, and Al-Qaeda, like the Palestinians, can't be seen as the villains. Abdul El-Sayed and Zohran Mamdani have arisen as cult leaders almost because there is nothing the Left will hold them accountable for, lest they be called racists. No one will look at El-Sayed's erased history, the videos or the tweets. What did he think? What does he still think? No one will know because no one would dare ask.The Democrats have never been held accountable for the sharp rise of radicalized violence and death fantasies that have gone mainstream. They're rewarded for it with likes and reposts. They've never confronted it. They've never solved it, and the legacy media has supported them every step of the way, all the while demonizing MAGA as the more extreme side. Piker was their masculine, patriarchal, non-white Joe Rogan. No more Mr. Nice Guy! Let's get those Gen-Z and male voters. That was the plan anyway. Now, maybe it's becoming a mess, a liability. Then again, maybe not. Maybe this is just who they are now. How We Got HereI know how we got here because I grew up on the Left. I was one of these people. I know what it felt like that day the towers were hit. I know why we pivoted so quickly to focus on the greater evil that was George W. Bush and Dick Cheney and those two wars that did what the war on Gaza has now done: flip the script, so America is the bad guy.I know what happened in our schools. I know how women like me grew in power in America and changed our society amid the “Great Feminization.” I know what happened to my daughter's generation, why so many white kids felt such deep shame they were willing to do anything to escape their own skin, even destroying their own bodies at the hands of a fundamentalist cult.I know what it was like when Obama won and how we built our utopia - a better America shaped by more women and what it was like when our first female president was denied the win but just barely, putting in power a guy who would ultimately redeem Bush and Cheney and be sold as the World's Greatest Evil to whole generations for the past ten years.We were just kidding with Bush and Cheney. Trump is the really, really bad guy. And everyone went along with it. Maybe I didn't think it would go so far as young men picking up weapons to murder as part of the “resistance.” Maybe I didn't think, in the wake of Charlie's death, a guy like Hasan Piker would become such an influential voice and do exactly the opposite of what Charlie did by teaching young people to hate America.But that's what happens when a utopia becomes a totalitarian dystopia, closer to fascism than this country has ever gotten and not that far from where Al-Qaeda was on the eve of 9/11 - so full of hate and revenge fantasies that they would take advantage of the same people who welcomed them into their country and treated them with kindness. I certainly would not have thought any of them, let alone most of them, would see the war in Gaza as “genocide” and then apply that to all of America and its history, redeeming the monsters who attacked us on 9/11. We're the bad guys, they insist. We're the terrorists.But here we are, America. We are about to put these people who hate this country, its history, and many of its citizens, in power. We're about to sell out the American dream because of high gas prices.It's not lost on me that Democrats have been saying the same thing to their voters. I was one of them. I see the mirror image of this moment: when gas prices and inflation were too high under Biden, Democrats begged Americans to vote for Kamala to save the country. I know they see it that way too.But I've been on both sides. I know each side's strengths and weaknesses. And that's why I know the side that either celebrated the murder of Charlie Kirk or said nothing about those who did is the side that is dangerous not just for America but for humanity.President SelectMy daughter was just three when the towers were hit. It was three hours early in California. My French boyfriend at the time had a habit of waking up with CNN, and there it was. Smoke billowing out of one of the towers at the World Trade Center. “Turn on the news,” I told my friend that day. It took us all a while to figure out who did it and why, and the first thing that happened was everyone felt fear that Muslims would be attacked. Even George W. Bush felt it necessary to say Islam is peace. And it's true, not all Muslims- like it's true, not all people on the Left but you have to condemn the radicalized, or else they consume the whole.We were still haunted by the Japanese Internment camps after the Pearl Harbor attack, which took us to World War II. We didn't want to be that America, not us progressive liberals. We were the good guys. The 2000 election left us bitter and unable to accept that Bush was legitimately elected. And that mattered more to us than the tragedy on 9/11. It had to, because Bush was the president, so everything had to go not just wrong but catastrophically wrong - the wars, Wall Street, Katrina. We were making our own reality even back then because we could. In 2004, Michael Moore released Fahrenheit 911, which began with the premise that the 2000 election had been stolen. The villain of Fahrenheit 9/11 was the Commander in Chief, and much was made of this moment, when he heard of the attacks and people like me nodded furiously along. We knew who the bad guys were, and they weren't Al-Qaeda.And in 2003, just two years after 9/11, when Michael Moore accepted the Oscar for Bowling for Columbine, he was booed, with a part of the Left with their perspective still intact. Needless to say, that wouldn't happen now. We were beginning a new origin story, one where the worst people in the world were put in power by the Supreme Court and Big Oil. We weren't quite at the place where we would divide and measure goodness by skin color or gender, but we weren't far off. We just needed a leader to believe in.And as our hero rose in the form of a “skinny kid with a funny name,” we began to find marginalized groups as our protected, sacred symbols because of our love and devotion to Barack Obama.Just as our first black President became our savior, our villain was rising too. It was Sarah Palin and her demonization of Radical Islamic Terror. That, we knew, made her a “racist” and a villain.In 2012, she was depicted as a paranoid idiot whose bigotry clouded her judgment in Game Change.The Tea Party had already been cast as a “white power” movement to thwart its growth, even if by 2016 it would elect a president with the help of Charlie Kirk.By 2012, we were a bitterly divided country with the Left deciding its enemies were not the brown people in the Middle East but rather the homegrown racists in our own country. We began to slowly separate ourselves from them. Whatever unity we felt after 9/11 vanished. That same year, Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty was released about the killing of Bin Laden. But the movie had no heroes. The final scene is brutal and haunting, full of children screaming and women crying. The main character, whose life had been devoted to hunting Bin Laden, is left shaken and alone with the thought lingering in the air: what was it all for? Hardly the rousing moment of heroism we would expect when America won. Game Change and Zero Dark Thirty were pure propaganda for the Democrats and the beginning of how we stopped seeing America as the hero after 9/11.Not that America anymoreAfter 9/11, some questioned whether the Oscars would be held at all. Tom Cruise took to the stage and spoke to all of America, not just the blue half. He wanted to bring this country together, and that, he said, is what movies are for. Remember that Hollywood? Remember that America?After Charlie Kirk's live execution, the cowards in Hollywood didn't even have the courage to say his name at the Oscars or the Emmys, and still don't. That shows you how divided we are, how scared they are, how they see their enemies as half the country, and how their deaths do not matter. I think what hurts the most, watching so many of the 9/11 videos as I've been doing, is seeing and remembering when it was like back then, when we were one America, how everyone came through, how we held together, how so many ordinary people became heroes to help those who were trapped, many of them giving their lives for others.Mothers lost sons and daughters. Wives lost husbands. 40% of those who were killed are still unaccounted for. It doesn't seem like we've ever really come to terms with the tragedy of that day because, in its aftermath, the keepers of culture could not make America the hero. But America was, and remains, the hero fighting the good fight. It's the better fight, for a better world, even if I didn't realize it until 25 years later. Now I see it. Now I understand because now I can see what dehumanization and radicalization can do. Here is a clip from Triggernometry and guest Richard Miniter (watch the whole thing, it's great). I finally watched The Great Boatlift - the largest sea rescue in history - where so many New Yorkers volunteered their boats to rescue 500,000 people off the Island of Manhattan. In these videos, I see the America I remember, the one I fled 30 years ago to spend the rest of my life online. I miss that America, the one that believed in our collective goodness, not the one where one side took all of the power and abused that power by seeing the other half of the country as their enemy.And worse, became radicalized to the point of violence, to the point of mocking the assassinated and believing they have no other choice but to wish for the death of their president, in video after video after video. 9/10 and 9/11 will come back to us every year to remind us of what is great about this country and what is trying to destroy this country. Every year, we will be forced to stare evil in the face and fight for the forces of good standing in its way. Godspeed, America. Godspeed.. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.sashastone.com/subscribe

Savage challenges President George W. Bush's claim that Islam is a religion of peace, arguing that militancy is embedded in Islamism. Iran is a rogue nation that would threaten or blackmail the civilized world if it obtained nuclear weapons. He says truth has become subjective and blames media figures, online influencers, and universities for spreading propaganda.Talking heads tout flat-earth and anti-science ideas, while ignoring Iran's alleged torture and killing of 50,000 citizens. Savage focuses on a "Red-Green alliance" of neo-Marxist progressives and radical Islamists, criticizing Bernie Sanders, "The Squad," CAIR, and George Soros. He links legalization of marijuana to political gullibility and calls for a new HUAC, deportations, defunding universities, restricting Sharia advocates.

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Deep in the heart of Auckland's North Shore, the seemingly uninterrupted suburbia is punctuated by an oasis of native bush. It's no accident - a group of local volunteers has been hard at work for 50 years allowing Centennial Park in Campbells Bay to flourish. Centennial Park Bush Society chair Richard Hursthouse has been part of planting 24,000 trees over his two decades with the organisations which is focused on ripping out weeds, knocking back rats and planting a greener future. He joins Saturday Morning to talk about urban ngahere and restoring native flora and fauna to our cityscape.

Subscribe for ad-free listening, early access, and all of our bonus content!The Constitution created what were supposed to be three coequal branches, and only Congress was given the authority to declare war. Yet we are living in the age of the imperial presidency — of endless war, executive orders, government secrecy, and a lack of accountability. These are all fit for a monarchy instead of a republic.How did we get here? What structures led to the rise of the imperial presidency? What decisions led to this unintended consequence undermining the American democratic experiment?Our guest is Jeremi Suri, who teaches history at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He's the author of The Impossible Presidency and co-host of This is Democracy podcast.Suri also writes the Democracy of Hope newsletter. Subscribe today to support our important work! Subscriptions begin at only $5 per month. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Episode 5670: The Return Of The Bush Huntah

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Hold onto your hats folks! We're getting weird today! Yes, the title is correct, Betty White! Could this so called "golden girl" possibly be one of the most unknown high priestesses of Hollywood! With links to the Bush family, the Clintons and.....Aleister Crowley?! You're in for a treat today!Hate the Ads? Join Patreon! PATREON (ROOM 237)!⁠https://www.patreon.com/Cosmicpeachpodcast⁠Want to reach out? Ghost.peach@outlook.com

“You're worth more dead than alive!”We've talked a lot about Steptoe & Son – and its principle artistes – recently on Goon Pod and the sister show so it feels appropriate this week to air this interesting chat.It is July 1973 and the second feature film based on the hit BBCTV sitcom about a pair of rag-and-bone-men has just come out. Unfortunately its release coincides with a much more popular film in the shape of Roger Moore's maiden Bond outing Live And Let Die and most people go to see that instead. Although Steptoe & Son Ride Again worked better than the first film, as it anchored the characters in familiar territory, it did badly where the first had done well. Co-writer Alan Simpson said “I suspect the majority of people hadn't liked the first one so didn't go back for the second, which is a shame.” When their aging horse Hercules has to be put out to pasture,father-and-son totters Albert and Harold Steptoe face galloping financial calamity. Falling in with Frankie Barrow, the ‘Godfather of Shepherd's Bush', Harold foolishly buys a greyhound, hoping ‘Hercules II' will be the answer totheir pecuniary woes… only to discover the dog is extremely short-sighted and useless for racing. With money owing to Barrow Harold hits on a scheme which if pulled off would get Frankie off his back but would require him and his father to start a new life where nobody knows them (“I could be Harry Faversham”): they will fake Albert's death and claim his life-insurance money. From this fairly simple premise comes great comedy and some marvellous character work, not least from the two leads, Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett. They are ably supported by a cast which includes Milo O'Shea as a brandy-ridden sawbones, Henry Woolf as Frankie, Yootha Joyce as Harold's Auntie Freda, Frank Thornton, Bill Maynard, Neil McCarthy, Richard Davies and, memorably, Diana Dors as a recently-widowed housewife wanting a bit of the other from a frankly terrified Harold.Joining Tyler are Michael Livesley & Paul Carmichael, and while discussing the film the three regularly meander down conversational alleyways, chatting about the lost art of home taping, antiquated or regional profanities, the history of Live TV, the great British tradition of innuendo, and boomer nostalgia, while referencing the likes of One Foot In The Grave, The Goodies, Married With Children and even Bottle Boys! Plus they talk about their great love for the Steptoe TV series, the actors involved and even envisage Wilfrid Brambell squaring up to Frank Zappa!This was recorded in October 2025 and originally put out as part of Goon Pod Film Club: Patreon.com/GoonPod

Australia's immigration policy involves a complex system of visas designed to fill labour shortages, reunite families, sustain our higher education sector and provide refuge. Australia Wide takes a look at how the debate plays out in regional and rural Australia.  

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Episode Overview:  In this episode of The Penis Project Podcast, Melissa talks with Mark, a 56-year-old rural firefighter from the South West of Western Australia, about a prostate cancer journey that has had just about everything in it: an aggressive cancer, surgery, a rising PSA, salvage radiation, penile rehabilitation, one very memorable trip to the emergency department, and a bloke who simply refused to sit down and feel sorry for himself.  Mark had never been crook in his life. He only asked for a PSA test because a mate who had been through prostate cancer kept nagging him about it. During a routine work medical, his mate's voice popped into his head, and he asked the doctor for the test. The GP asked why. Mark asked for it anyway. The result came back with an elevated PSA, and as Mark puts it, he nearly fell off the chair.  What followed was a biopsy in Bunbury, a two-hour trip from home, a Gleason 8 diagnosis, and a radical prostatectomy in Perth, four hours away. Mark and Melissa talk about the tyranny of distance in Australia: every appointment being a whole day, the cost of staying away from home, and the men Mark met who were driving four hours a day for radiation because they had nowhere to stay.  Mark also talks about the parts nobody warned him about. The catheter that started leaking around the sides and scared the daylights out of him. The pads. The pelvic floor exercises he started before surgery because his mate Grant told him to, and which he credits with getting him dry within a few weeks. And then, months later, a phone call from his surgeon to say the PSA was creeping back up. Which resulted in radiation treatment. He declined the testosterone-lowering therapy that was offered alongside the radiation, because he did not want the fatigue and flatness during fire season. He worked right through his treatment, and three days after his last “nuking session”, as he calls it, he pulled up at work to get the job done.  And yes, we talk about erections. Mark did the work: the daily tablets, the vacuum pump, and eventually injections. The first injection dose was too generous and Mark ended up in a country emergency department with an erection that would not go down and, by his count, six or seven people in the room having a look at his old fella. It is a very funny story and also a serious one. It changed how Melissa practises: every country patient now goes home with an emergency reversal injection so nobody else has to make that drive.  This is a warm, funny, plain-speaking conversation about what it takes to get through prostate cancer treatment especially when you live a long way from anywhere, and about why looking after your penis is not optional extra credit. It is part of your body, and it deserves the same care as everything else.    In This Episode, We Cover  Why rural and remote men face extra barriers to prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment, from long travel distances to limited local specialist access    What to expect physically after a radical prostatectomy — catheter care, continence pads, and the importance of starting pelvic floor exercises before surgery   Penile injections as a treatment for erectile dysfunction after surgery, including how dosing is calibrated and what to do if an erection won't go down (priapism)   Why starting penile rehabilitation early — even before erectile function is a priority — supports better long-term outcomes   The decision-making process behind choosing radiation with or without hormone (testosterone-lowering) therapy after a rising PSA   Bowel and bladder side effects of radiotherapy, and that ongoing symptoms don't have to just be tolerated   Why masculinity isn't defined by erectile function — and how partners consistently describe what makes a man "masculine" to them   The value of connecting newly diagnosed men with those who've been through treatment already, so they know what to expect    Key Message from Mark  Mark's strongest advice is to find someone who has been through it and will give you the whole picture, not the polite version. He says it is a bit like going to war: if you have not been there, you do not know. Having a mate who told him warts and all meant he walked into every appointment knowing roughly what was coming and what to ask.  And when things go wrong, his answer is simple. You can sit there and cry, or you can punch on. Mark is a realist. He knows the PSA may go up again. If it does, he will deal with it then. In the meantime, he is back on the dozer, still getting tested, and getting on with life.  Resources & Links  Book a telehealth appointment with our sexual health nurse practitioners at https://rshealth.com.au/book-appointment or email admin@rshealth.com.au  We also have a free Resource Library, sign up for access here: https://rshealth.com.au/resource-library  For more information check out our websites www.rshealth.com.au , www.makehardeasy.com.au and www.melissahadleybarrett.com.au   Click here to shop for medical devices and other products mentioned on the show https://restorative-health-clinic.myshopify.com/   Click here to watch Melissa's YouTube videos: Melissa Hadley Barrett  Need Support?  At Restorative Health Clinic, we support men and their partners with:  Penile rehabilitation after prostate cancer treatment  Erectile dysfunction  Vacuum pump and constriction ring education and prescription  Penile injection therapy  Intimacy and sexual recovery  Partner-inclusive support where appropriate  Practical, evidence-based strategies for rebuilding confidence and function    We offer telehealth consultations Australia-wide and internationally, making it easier for men to access experienced, compassionate support no matter where they live. 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Send us Fan MailWhat does it look like to follow God when His calling takes you far outside your comfort zone?Pete Alwinson sits down with Wade, a missionary who has spent 16 years serving in rural Zambia through evangelism, discipleship, church ministry, literacy, and training men in practical skills. Wade shares what life is really like in the African bush, from living off grid and hauling water to building a home on a mountain and raising a family in the middle of the mission field.The conversation also turns to manhood. Wade explains how the challenges facing men in Zambia can look very different from those facing men in America, and why masculine strength should not be suppressed but directed toward godly leadership, faithfulness, service, and obedience.At the heart of this episode is a powerful challenge about comfort. Wade shares how hardship, uncertainty, sickness, and risk have repeatedly driven him closer to God. His message to men is simple: do not allow your desire for comfort to keep you from obeying what God is calling you to do.You do not have to move to Africa to enter the mission field. Your opportunity to serve God begins wherever He has placed you right now.Join Pete and Wade for a conversation about missions, biblical manhood, courage, obedience, and the adventure of following God wherever He leads.

What if the biggest problem with American elections isn't that election manipulation is something new—but that we've forgotten just how long it has been part of our history? From the disputed presidential election of 1876 to contested elections involving Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter, from voter suppression and gerrymandering to Bush v. Gore and the modern battles over election legitimacy, American history contains a long record of political actors fighting over who gets to vote, how votes are counted, and who ultimately gets to decide who won. My guest today has spent more than five decades on the front lines of those battles. David F. Walbert is a constitutional and voting-rights attorney who has litigated election cases at every level, including before the United States Supreme Court. His new book, Stealing Elections, American Style, examines the history of election manipulation and voting restrictions in America—and the recurring patterns that connect those historical episodes to the debates we're having today. The book isn't simply a history of famous disputed elections. It examines the machinery behind them: voter suppression, gerrymandering, voter purges, election administration, court decisions, and the ways political actors can attempt to shape an election before a single ballot is cast. As the country heads into the 2026 midterm elections, we're going to look backward in order to understand what election disputes have looked like throughout American history—and what voters, journalists, lawyers, and citizens should understand about the system today.

In our 47th episode of This F*cking Guy, What A Day's Jane Coaston joins Erin to relive the destruction caused by the witless war criminal, George W. Bush. From his early years of drunken antics, relying on his dad's help to trip upwards, to leaving MANY children behind as Governor of Texas, to squandering his 9/11 approval ratings by invading Iraq and permitting war crimes, to gaslighting the media about his preparedness for Hurricane Katrina, this may be our most moronic man-child guy, yet.You can request a transcript by emailing transcripts@crooked.com. Include the podcast name, episode title, and air date. Please allow 48 hours for delivery.Bush reacts to latest Middle East violence (AP Archive)George W. Bush after rehearsing a speech, 2001 (Reddit)George W. Bush's Paintings Cannot Redeem Him (Hyperallergic)Shoe-Throwing Reporter Tells Tale Of Torture (NPR)Bush acknowledges 1976 DUI charge (CNN)Sharon Bush denies Kitty Kelley account (NBC)Kitty Kelley defends sources of new Bush book (Today)Kitty Kelley's bad magic (Chron)Man Says He OK'd Bush for Guard (Washington Post)Go East, Young Man (Texas Monthly)The Guard Years (The New Yorker)Bush fell short on duty at Guard (Boston.com)Author Examines the Legendary 1968 Harvard-Yale Game (Valley News)Bush Spent Undergrad Years Away From Politics (The Harvard Crimson)Bush's Life-Changing Year (Washington Post)George W. Bush DUI Arrest Record (The Smoking Gun)George W. Bush on his DUI arrest (Salon)Bush's Disdainful Presidency (Consortium News)Was Dubya Drunk? (Slate)How team Bush took an airbrush to the Chosen One's misdeeds (The Times)Little Did We Know (Texas Monthly)What Price Baseball? (Austin Chronicle)Governor Deadbeat  (Austin Chronicle)Bush and the Texas Environment (Texas Observer) Capitol Offenses (Texas Obserber)The Myth of the Texas Miracle in Education (DOAJ)Death in Texas (The New York Review)Read My Chips (Austin Chronicle)Years ago, Texas hustled to get kids on state health care. Now it's kicking them off. (Texas Tribune)CHIP Enrollment (texas.gov)Texas Governor George W. Bush's Record on Taxes (Citizens For Tax Justice)State's budget crunch haunting Bush (Chron)Gov. Rick Perry says in 2003, Texas cut $10 billion from the budget yet increased spending for public education and health and human services (Politifact)Devil May Care (Talk Magazine)Bush's revealing interview (The Baltimore Sun)Mistakes Loom Large as Handover Nears (University of Delaware)Hoyer, Waxman Ask Rumsfeld For Investigation into CPA Hiring (Steny Hoyer)Getting the Facts Straight (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)How Projected Surpluses Became Deficits (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)The Changing Budget Picture (The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)From Riches to Rags: Causes of Fiscal Deterioration Since 2001 (Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget)Fiscal Fact Checker: What Caused the Swing From Surplus to Deficit? (Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget)Phase II Report (govinfo.gov)Senate Intelligence Committee Unveils Final Phase II Reports on Prewar Iraq Intelligence (U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence)Committee Study ofthe CentralIntelligenceAgmcy 's Detention and Interrogation Program (U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence)Report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program, Together with Foreword by Chairman Feinstein and Additional and Minority Views (congress.gov)Senate Session 10/25/01 (C-Span)Statement of Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice before the House Judiciary Committee concerning “The FBI's Use of National Security Letters and Section 215 Requests for Business Records” (U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General)Statement of Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice, before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary concerning reauthorizing the USA Patriot Act (senate.gov)The Contentious ‘No Child' Law II: Money Has Not Been Left Behind (EducationWeek)No Child Left Behind: An Overview (EducationWeek)Reauthorize the No Child Left Behind Act with More Funding, Better Enforcement, and Additional Supports for Struggling Schools (The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights)Department of Education--Contract to Obtain Services of Armstrong Williams (Government Accountability Office)GAO: Armstrong Williams PR Contract Violated Law  (EducationWeek)Why Armstrong Williams Wants Us To Forgive and Forget (Center for Media and Democracy)Reading First: Scandalous and ineffective (The Center for Public Integrity)Ultimate Sacrifice: Bush Quit Golf For The Troops (Crooks and Liars)George W. Bush Announces Mission Accomplished (C-span)W.'s Greatest Hits (Slate)George W. Bush ‘Didn't Care' When People Made Fun of Him as President, Jenna Bush Hager Says: ‘He Loved It' (People)Top 10 failures of the Bush administration (The Center for Public Integrity)Bush 'Not Insulted' by Thrown Shoes (ABC)Bush administration scandals (EBSCO)Enron's Close Ties to Bush (ABC)9 US presidents who faced sex scandals before, during, or after their time in office (Business Insider)A Woman Accuses Bush of Rape, Later Dies of Aparent Suicide (Daily Kos)For Bush, Thrill Was in Father's Chase (NY Times)Bush Election Stirs Political and Legal Controversy (EBSCO)Search the 935 Iraq War false statements (The Center for Public Integrity)The Other “Big Lie” and Our Democratic Fragility (The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation)The Iraq Invasion 20 Years Later: It Was Indeed a Big Lie That Launched the Catastrophic War (Mother Jones)Human Rights Watch World Report 2003: United States (HRW)The Supreme Court is Giving George W. Bush the Last Laugh on Guantanamo (Politico)No Child Left Behind: The oral history (Politico)No Child Left Behind: What Worked, What Didn't (NPR)The paintings of George W. Bush (ArtForum)George W. Bush in the eye of a hurricane (Washington Post)

Bush says America didn't overreact after 9/11. We don't let that pass. Kyle Anzalone sits down with Scott Horton to walk through what Washington knew before the attacks, what it chose to ignore, and how a moment that demanded focused justice became an open-ended Global War on Terror. If you've ever wondered whether there was a serious middle ground between “do nothing” and “invade half the world,” this talk lays it out in plain terms. We dig into the intelligence warnings that piled up, the political incentives to widen the fight, and al-Qaeda's strategy of baiting the United States into a costly overreaction. Then we get specific about Afghanistan: Taliban frustrations with bin Laden, reported offers to try or transfer him if the US provided evidence, and why negotiation was dismissed even when it could have put the actual perpetrators in custody. We also revisit Tora Bora and the argument that bin Laden's escape wasn't inevitable, raising hard questions about priorities in late 2001. From there, we trace the aftershocks: the Iraq War's weak connection to 9/11, the 2001 AUMF as a permanent blank check, drone-war blowback, and the “redirection” era that helped empower extremist factions in conflicts from Syria and Libya to Yemen. We end by talking about realistic security: stopping support for violent proxies, avoiding new wars, and focusing on keeping attackers off US soil. Subscribe, share the episode with a friend, and leave a review with the biggest claim you agreed or disagreed with.

695. On this episode, we sit down with Lafayette resident Dr. Christi Green — a scholar of law and ethics and leader with the League of Women Voters of Louisiana — to break down everything you need to know ahead of the Fall 2026 elections in Louisiana. Drawing on her deep background in voting rights advocacy, fair mapping, and civil ethics, Christy shares her perspective on the key ballot initiatives, high-stakes races, and shifting election laws impacting Acadiana and the state. Tune in to get informed, get engaged, and make your voice count! Now available: Liberty in Louisiana: A Comedy. The oldest play about Louisiana, author James Workman wrote it as a celebration of the Louisiana Purchase. Now it is back in print for the first time in 222 years. Order your copy today! This week in the Louisiana Anthology. jewel bush "House Made of History."    Rideau Settlement is where I evacuated in 2005 along with about 20 other relatives when Hurricane Katrina's wrath pushed us and so many others out of New Orleans. I spent two weeks in this un-GPSable St. Landry Parish village, where my cell phone didn't work, where there were no streetlights, where everyone woke at sunrise, where everyone identified you by who your parents or grandparents were.    It had been nearly eight years since I had last visited my familial land; then due to tragedy — and now due to tragedy.    After the funeral services at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, founded in 1897 by the Josephite Fathers and widely referred to as LeBeau church, the kinfolk made a pilgrimage to Uncle Will's house to pay respects beyond the gravesite.    In the diminutive country cemetery where so many of my ancestors rest — Bush, Romar, Rideau — I snapped pictures of headstones: my maternal grandfather's grandfather, Oscar Bertrand, to whom everyone says my mother bears a remarkable resemblance; my paternal grandfather, Bean, who was a World War II Veteran and school bus driver; and my uncle, June, his son, who served in the Vietnam War. In my family, nicknames are better known and used than given names. This week in Louisiana history. September 11, 1722. First recorded Hurricane in La. destroyed New Orleans "During a hurricane...a large number of unidentified ships were sunk at and near New Orleans."  This week in New Orleans history. September 11, 1965: Hurricane Betsy made landfall, causing catastrophic flooding and leading to the creation of the modern New Orleans levee system. This week in Louisiana. Natchitoches Meat Pie Festival September 19'20 Downtown Riverbank, 100 Rue Beauport Natchitoches, LA 71457 Website: meatpiefestival.com Phone: (800) 259‑1714 The Natchitoches Meat Pie Festival celebrates the city's signature dish with two days of food, music, and family‑friendly events along the Cane River Lake riverbank: Meat Pies & Local Food: Dozens of vendors serving classic Natchitoches meat pies and regional specialties. Live Music & Entertainment: Cajun, Zydeco, country, and rock performances throughout the weekend. Contests & Activities: A meat pie eating contest, car show, kids' zone, hot‑air balloons, and fireworks. Postcards from Louisiana. The Rock Block Band at Felix's Restaurant and Oyster Bar. Listen on Apple Podcasts. Listen on audible. Listen on Spotify. Listen on TuneIn. Listen on iHeartRadio. The Louisiana Anthology Home Page. Like us on Facebook. 

September 11th presented a new kind of national security threat, so a new national security architecture was built to confront it. Has it worked? Are we safer? This special episode from Sources & Methods, the national security podcast from NPR, host Mary Louise Kelly and former top intelligence officials discuss what happened behind closed doors on 9/11, and how the events of that day are still shaping global events. Those officials were Stephen Hadley, Jane Harman, John Mclaughlin and Michael Morell. At the time of the attacks, Hadley was serving as deputy national security adviser in the Bush White House. Harman was a Democratic member of Congress representing California. McLaughlin was deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Morell was also at the CIA and was President Bush's CIA briefer that very day.This episode was recorded in front of a studio audience at NPR headquarters in Washington D.C. on September 9. Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show's perks include bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org.See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Privacy Policy

Welcome to the "Midterm Report," the Daily Signal's new election podcast. Every Saturday between now and Election Day, Rob Bluey breaks down the biggest stories in politics with the interviews, insights, and analysis you won't get from legacy media. On our first episode, pollster Brent Buchanan joins the show to discuss the first-ever RNC Midterm Convention in Dallas, explaining the split inside the GOP base between Trump Republicans and traditional Republicans, and a 26-point enthusiasm gap between them. He walks through why affordability is dominating voter behavior, why only 88% of Trump 2024 voters are committing to a Republican for Congress, why the "socialist" label alone won't win races, and the one number you should actually watch in every poll from now to November. Then, historian Victor Davis Hanson joins us on his brand-new book, "The Counterrevolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement." Hanson explains what "counterrevolution" really means, how Trump's second term targets causes instead of symptoms, and how a man written off after Jan. 6 mounted what he calls the greatest political comeback in modern American history. He also compares Trump to Reagan, walks through the lawfare and debanking years, explains how Trump won on class instead of race, and gives his odds for the House and Senate this November. About The Daily Signal The Daily Signal is a conservative news and commentary outlet founded in 2014 by The Heritage Foundation and now an independent media organization with its own board and leadership as of June 2024. Based in Washington, D.C., the Daily Signal covers politics, policy, and culture with reporting, interviews, investigations, and documentaries, including the stories the national press leaves alone. About Victor Davis Hanson Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and military historian, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and a senior contributor to the Daily Signal. He is the author of more than two dozen books, including "The Case for Trump," "The Dying Citizen," and "The End of Everything." He hosts "Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words." CHAPTERS: 00:00 "It's 70-30 they lose the House" 00:29 Welcome to the Midterm Report 01:39 The GOP is actually two coalitions 02:54 The 26-point enthusiasm gap 03:54 Affordability: insurance, gas, property taxes 05:03 Why 12% of Trump 2024 voters are defecting 05:53 The $5,000 Trump dividend problem 07:13 Socialism polling, the label isn't enough 08:22 Communism, China, and voters under 45 09:09 Re-flipping the diploma divide 10:22 The one poll number to actually watch 11:30 Preventable: the Gorman family documentary 12:39 Victor Davis Hanson joins The Daily Signal 13:33 What "counterrevolution" actually means 16:32 The wilderness years and the 360-degree agenda 19:00 Reagan vs. Trump 22:02 Bush, McCain, Romney and the retreat from Reagan 24:18 Rock bottom: how far Trump fell 26:17 The three days that started the lawfare 27:50 Mar-a-Lago, E. Jean Carroll, and $500 million 31:21 Biden, the 2020 deal, and "a gift that kept on giving" 33:56 Deplatformed and debanked 35:56 The DeSantis lose-lose 37:11 McDonald's, Madison Square Garden, and the middle class 39:42 Class over race: the Hispanic and Black male vote 43:15 How Trump remade the Democratic Party 46:58 Why Republicans still trail in the polls 49:13 Iran, DOGE, and the message they never sent 51:52 The winning message no one is delivering 53:16 70-30 on the House, 50-50 on the Senate 54:51 The Iran wildcard that could flip everything 56:10 Legacy, the third term, and 2028 58:28 Why the next nominee will be MAGA 1:00:08 Apostates, antisemitism, and the J.D. Vance test 1:02:34 Victor Davis Hanson on The Counterrevolution Order “The Counterrevolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement” NOW: https://amzn.to/4oZIFay NEW FILM from The Heritage Foundation: “Preventable: The System That Failed My Daughter.” Available now: https://youtu.be/HxiwOSSRT6s We cannot continue to make videos like this one without the support of our viewers. Please consider donating to The Daily Signal today! https://secured.dailysignal.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We can't afford to let lies go down the memory hole, like we have the other wars we were lied into. Sadly, it's clear now that neither Bush nor Cheney will be held accountable for their lies or for the American, Afghan, and Iraqi blood and treasure they cost. If the media refuses to mention the Bush/Cheney lies on this anniversary of 9/11, it's all the more important that the rest of us use this opportunity to do so. Pass it on.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

25 years after 9/11, former Senior Advisor Karl Rove takes us behind the scenes with President George W. Bush on one of the most critical days in American history. Rove details to the FOX News Rundown's Dave Anthony the moment he informed the President of the first plane hitting the Twin Towers, their high-stakes journey back to Washington aboard Air Force One, and the iconic story behind President Bush's bullhorn speech at Ground Zero. Hear the full, unedited conversation on this FOX News Rundown Extra. Photo Credit: AP Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, we hosted a live recording of the podcast, What the Hell Is Going On?, featuring former National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and former Deputy National Security Adviser J. D. Crouch II. Both Mr. Hadley and Dr. Crouch were serving in the Bush administration on that terrible […]

Send us Fan MailJoel van der Loon sits down with Ryan Levinson for a wide-ranging conversation about diagnosis, risk, purpose, masculinity, and what it means to keep moving when your body changes. Ryan shares the arc from his mid twenties diagnosis with FSH muscular dystrophy to the decade he spent sailing in French Polynesia, and how those experiences reshaped his sense of self. This episode matters because it goes beyond a success story and gets into the harder question of how to stay oriented when the old sources of identity no longer fit. In this episode, Ryan Levinson shares how his diagnosis in his mid twenties with FSH muscular dystrophy changed the trajectory of his life.Joel and Ryan trace Ryan's early identity through surfing, skateboarding, and a rebellious streak that pushed against school, family expectations, and conventional career paths.Ryan explains the suicidal moment in college through a mistaken philosophy about living close to death, and how a friend interrupting that night changed everything.The two discuss how surfing, the ocean, and later sailing became spiritual anchors through movement, challenge, and clarity of purpose.Ryan describes how the diagnosis unexpectedly opened doors, shifting how others saw him from lazy or unrealistic to inspirational and capable.They talk through the decision to buy a sailboat and live aboard in French Polynesia for a decade, including the fear, surrender, and transformation that came with leaving the dock.Ryan shares how disease progression has changed his body, his daily capabilities, and his relationship to purpose, protection, and being a partner to Nicole.Joel introduces a spiritual lens around knowing oneself, shadow work, and authenticity as the path to meaning.Ryan reflects on how much of his life has been driven by perseverance, and how he now has to reassess his limits much more frequently. The conversation closes with mutual gratitude, vulnerability, and Ryan sharing where people can find him online. Timestamps00:00 - Brotherly reunion and the energy of deep trust 03:24 - Surfing, rebellion, and the identity Ryan built before diagnosis 06:14 - The college suicide call and the friend who broke through the moment 09:44 - Why it was not about depression, but about anticipation and future fear 11:45 - Feeling trapped by a future with no obvious vocation 13:05 - Surfing as meditation and a spiritual connection to something larger 15:10 - The diagnosis and the first move toward a new path 16:24 - Pressure from family versus a dream of ecotourism and ocean work 17:23 - A doctor's blunt advice to choose something practical 20:18 - How the diagnosis changed public perception and opened doors 21:17 - Leveraging disability, media, and adaptive sports opportunities 23:54 - Why Ryan and Nicole bought a sailboat and crossed to French Polynesia 25:52 - Surrender, trust, and leaving the dock without knowing the outcome 28:29 - What long passage sailing changes in a person 31:44 - Simplicity, clarity of purpose, and why risk feels meaningful 35:53 - Ryan's current conflict around purpose as physical ability declines 38:25 - Losing the ability to protect in the way he once could 40:34 - Why Nicole's capability changes the burden conversation 44:19 - The emotional and psychological work of surrendering masculinity 48:24 - Joel's view of spiritual awakening as remembering the soul 52:08 - Why the compass shifted before leaving the boat life 55:36 - The physical toll of years at sea and disease progression 60:23 - Metrics, recovery, and adapting daily to what the body can do 63:01 - Constant reassessment before surfing, diving, or physically demanding work 65:32 - What Ryan is most proud of now: perseverance 68:02 - Joel's challenge that logic can become a trap 69:35 - Why the relationship with Nicole is central to Ryan's fear 71:14 - Joel's teaching on knowing God through knowing self and others 75:21 - Untangling the story of self and doing shadow work 77:20 - Hadza, wilderness time, and the progression of spiritual learning 81:10 - Joel's divorce, grief, and the liberation of brutal self-honesty 84:19 - Ryan on people inventing new stories instead of accepting change 85:46 - Life as floating with the current instead of fighting it 87:21 - Accepting that decline, loss, and change are guaranteed 90:09 - Final gratitude and where to find Ryan onlineSupport the showHuge thank you to everyone who supports In the Bush podcast — if you've been enjoying the show, please consider making a donation to help us keep producing the content you love. Every bit of support helps us keep the mics on and the episodes coming. Thanks for listening, and we'll catch you next time! www.primalskillsacademy.com

The Peter Boyles Show - September 12, 2026 HR 2: Peter Boyles talks with MC-1 Foundation president Mark Miller about the 13th annual MC-1 Honor Run, the event’s history following the line-of-duty death of motorcycle officer Dave Baldwin, and this year’s effort to support Aurora canine officer Mark Moore, who was seriously injured in the line of duty. Miller explains the Honor Run ceremony at Columbine High School, the motorcycle ride to Thornton, and how listeners can support the event. The hour then returns to the 25th anniversary of 9/11, with Peter discussing newly released intelligence, the warnings surrounding the attacks, the Saudi connections to the hijackers, Osama bin Laden’s stated motives, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and what Peter sees as the Bush administration’s misleading claims about Iraq and weapons of mass destruction. Callers challenge and debate his focus on Saudi Arabia and government accountability, leading to a heated discussion about who supported the hijackers, what America learned from 9/11, and why the unity Americans felt after the attacks disappeared.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Peter Boyles Show - September 12, 2026 HR 1: On the (day after) 25th anniversary of 9/11, Peter Boyles begins the hour with Jonathan and Deborah Flora, creators of 9/11 Remembered: 25 Years Later, discussing why they made the film, the firsthand stories of firefighters, first responders and Flight 93 passengers, and the importance of remembering the unity Americans experienced in the days after the attacks. The conversation then turns to what happened to that “9/12 spirit,” with Peter questioning the Bush administration’s explanation of the attacks, the Iraq War and the weapons-of-mass-destruction claims, while examining Osama bin Laden’s stated motives and the role of Saudi Arabia. Peter also discusses the 9/11 families’ continuing efforts to uncover information about possible Saudi connections to the hijackers, the classified 28 pages, newly discussed evidence and ongoing lawsuits. Callers weigh in on the wars that followed 9/11, bin Laden, the government’s response and the continuing debate over why the attacks happened and what America should remember 25 years later.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" gives a first look at the stories you need to know to start your day, including a new Ipsos poll finding that 47 percent of Americans name the September 11 attacks among the most important historical events of their lifetimes; former President George W. Bush saying Americans risk overlooking the lessons of 9/11 while revisiting his post-attack message that Islam is a religion of peace, prompting criticism from conservative commentators; and Savannah Guthrie referring to her missing mother, Nancy, in the past tense during a "Today" segment—wording that a source stressed was not confirmation of her death as the investigation continues; and much more. #rubinreport #september11 #usa #georgewbush #nancyguthriecase #savannahguthrie #daverubin

Steve Hayes is joined by Jonah Goldberg, Mike Nelson, and David French to discuss former President George W. Bush's response to the 9/11 attacks, how the tragedy shaped domestic policy today, and whether or not we won the war on terror.  The Agenda: —Remembering the events over the course of the day—How lives were changed after 9/11 —Journalism's evolution after the attacks—Did we win the war on terror?—The enemy gets a vote Show notes: —President Bush's address to Congress following the attacks —David French's Atlantic article on why he served Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1849 CLAUDE MONETCONTENTS FOR THE JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW, 9-10-2026Russian Election Strategy And European SecurityAnatol Lieven notes the Kremlin closely monitors legislative elections, banning opposition parties to preempt anti-war sentiment while relying on well-paid volunteers rather than unpopular mass conscription. Meanwhile, CIA Director John Ratcliffe visited Moscow, signaling possible shifts in diplomatic representation to explore war termination talks with Russian leadership. Discussions encompass discreet Russian assistance to Iran, hybrid warfare tactics in Europe, and mutual restraint among major global powers to avoid escalating into nuclear conflict. Concurrently, Great Britain faces severe military budget constraints, leaving its reserve forces underfunded and reducing its active fleet to just five operational warships. Political opposition across Europe further threatens long-term financial backing for Ukraine. (1)SpaceX Environmental Waivers For Louisiana PortDoug Messier reports SpaceX has proposed constructing Starbase Louisiana, a massive spaceport covering 125,000 acres along a vulnerable Gulf Coast ecosystem. The proposed facility plans to feature ten launchpads arranged in five clusters, natural gas extraction operations, employee housing, and a deepwater port facility to support thousands of annual Starship Super Heavy launches. To expedite development, the Department of Transportation proposed waiving twelve federal environmental protection laws, including the Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act. While government officials argue these exemptions remove bureaucratic obstacles to supercharge commercial space exploration, conservation advocates warn that waiving regulatory oversight threatens fragile coastal habitats and likely violates statutory protections. (2)Analyzing Family Subsidies And National DebtVeronique de Rugy analyzes Vice President JD Vance's policy proposal to extend federal Child Care and Development Fund subsidies to stay-at-home parents. De Rugy contends that low-income single mothers cannot afford to leave the workforce, meaning the subsidies would primarily benefit higher-income households or families who had already chosen stay-at-home care. International examples in France, Norway, and Finland demonstrate that similar stay-at-home subsidies failed to reverse declining national fertility rates, benefiting higher-educated mothers instead. Furthermore, de Rugy criticizes proposals offering direct 5,000-dollar payments to citizens, warning that funding such initiatives through tariffs is financially unviable and would expand the national debt by over 1.35 trillion dollars. (3)Political Assets Intelligence Networks Financial TiesCraig Unger, author of American Kompromat, House of Trump, House of Putin, House of Bush, House of Saud, and Den of Spies, discusses intelligence allegations surrounding Donald Trump, evaluating claims by former Kazakh security official Alnur Mussayev that Trump served as a Russian intelligence asset. Unger distinguishes between formal intelligence agents and political assets, who may act as useful contacts or unknowing participants, while pointing out procedural irregularities regarding specific KGB directorates. He questions sending real estate representatives or political appointees rather than seasoned diplomats to negotiate complex conflicts in Moscow and Gaza. Unger also details historical Saudi political connections, noting how members of the Bin Laden family were flown out of American airspace immediately following the 9/11 attacks through private financial partnerships involving the Bush family and the Carlyle Group. (4)rones Target Russian Space Program InfrastructureAnatoly Zak and David Livingston: Zak reports on recent Ukrainian drone strikes against vital Russian space infrastructure, including the Progress aircraft company in Samara and the Plesetsk launch site. These targeted attacks aim to impede the manufacture of Soyuz rockets and delay the deployment of Russia's Rassvet satellite constellation, intended as a military equivalent to Starlink. While Soyuz and Angara rocket systems carry essential surveillance payloads for the Russian military, early Rassvet satellites have encountered operational difficulties, failing to reach intended orbits and risking atmospheric re-entry. Additionally, economic strain from wartime spending and budget deficits threatens Roscosmos, impacting future space station development following the retirement of the International Space Station. (5)Literary Evolution Of Novelist George SandFiona Sampson, author of Becoming George, explores the life and literary legacy of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, who became the pioneering nineteenth-century French author George Sand. Sampson traces Sand's upbringing at Nohant, marked by childhood grief, an aristocratic paternal lineage blended with working-class maternal roots, and a formative convent education in Paris. After escaping a brief, unhappy marriage to Casimir Dudevant, Sand established independence in Paris, initially collaborating with Jules Sandeau before achieving immediate solo acclaim with her debut novels Indiana and Lélia. Her writings broke ground by depicting female interiority, challenging traditional marriage institutions, and infusing progressive political idealism into intimate social narratives amidst turbulent French political eras. (6)SecurityDynamics Across Latin American NationsEvan Ellis details US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's diplomatic tour across Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru to strengthen regional security partnerships. In Colombia, President de la Espriella has renewed security alignment with Washington, exited China's Belt and Road Initiative, and sought aid against Venezuelan transnational crime networks. Ecuador's President Noboa secured US anti-gang assistance and maritime vessels to counter expanding narco-trafficking violence. Meanwhile, Peru balances US counter-narcotics cooperation against deep-seated Chinese investments in mining, telecommunications, and the Chancay port. Ellis further examines judicial corruption in Brazil ahead of presidential elections, severe power grid collapses in Cuba and Venezuela, and potential tech investments in Argentinaunder President Milei. (7)R

1894 KREMLINPolitical Assets Intelligence Networks Financial TiesCraig Unger, author of American Kompromat, House of Trump, House of Putin, House of Bush, House of Saud, and Den of Spies, discusses intelligence allegations surrounding Donald Trump, evaluating claims by former Kazakh security official Alnur Mussayev that Trump served as a Russian intelligence asset. Unger distinguishes between formal intelligence agents and political assets, who may act as useful contacts or unknowing participants, while pointing out procedural irregularities regarding specific KGB directorates. He questions sending real estate representatives or political appointees rather than seasoned diplomats to negotiate complex conflicts in Moscow and Gaza. Unger also details historical Saudi political connections, noting how members of the Bin Laden family were flown out of American airspace immediately following the 9/11 attacks through private financial partnerships involving the Bush family and the Carlyle Group. (4)

Join Jim and Greg for this special 3 Martini Lunch as they remember 25 years since the terrorist attacks in New York City, Washington, and in the skies over Pennsylvania, that changed our nation forever. First, they briefly share their own experiences from being in Washington on September 11, 2001. Then they consider the significant ways our nation and our world have changed since that horrible day.Next, they discuss the devastating realization five years ago that the Taliban would be back in power nearly 20 years after our military response to the 9/11 attacks began.Then, they consider how to approach the subject with children, young adults, or anyone too young to remember what 9/11 was like. Greg shares his family's powerful visit to the Flight 93 Memorial in Pennsylvania and Jim remembers how a trip to the Newseum in D.C. made an impact on his kids.Finally, they remember the inspirational moments that emerged from 9/11 and the days that followed.Please visit our great sponsors:ZocDocYour health matters and taking care of yourself shouldn't be complicated. Find and book the right doctor with Zocdoc. Head to http://ZocDoc.com/3ML   #sponsoredLarinecoRight now, Larineco is offering our listeners up to 50% off at https://BuyLarine.com/3MLNew episodes every weekday. 

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25 years after September 11th 2001, what did we do in response to the attacks? And did our country fail to learn the most important lesson of all? There are big things happening at Blaze, and we'd love for you to join us. You can join now at https://Get.BlazeTV.com/Nick and use promo code “NICK” to get $20 off! SPONSOR: Cove Pure Water Over 176 million Americans are drinking tap water with PFAS, man-made forever chemicals linked to hormone disruption, immune damage, and increased cancer risk. CovePure's ClearWave reverse osmosis technology is certified to remove up to 99.9% of contaminants and sits right on your countertop with no installation required. Use code NICK for $250 off at https://www.CovePure.com/NICK ----- SPONSOR: Live Action Live Action puts powerful pro-life content in front of people at the exact moment it matters, including reaching women online who are actively considering abortion. About 1 in 5 women who see their content change their minds, and it costs roughly $50 to reach one woman and help save a child's life. Text NICK to 70723, or support their work at https://www.LiveAction.org/Donate/Nick ----- SPONSOR: Alliance Defending Freedom Alliance Defending Freedom is pushing back against a rising wave of attacks on our most basic freedoms — defending free speech, religious liberty, the sanctity of life, and parental rights in courtrooms across America, and winning key cases even at the U.S. Supreme Court. They count on friends like you to keep up the fight, and right now your gift is matched by a special grant while matching funds last. Stand for freedom and give today to have your gift matched dollar for dollar — or text NICK to 83848 — at https://www.JoinADF.com/Nick ----- There are big things happening at Blaze, and we'd love for you to join us. You can join now at https://Get.BlazeTV.com/Nick and use promo code “NICK” to get $20 off! ----- GET YOUR MERCH HERE: https://shop.nickjfreitas.com/ BECOME A MEMBER OF THE IC: https://NickJFreitas.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nickjfreitas/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NickFreitasVA Twitter: https://twitter.com/NickJFreitas YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Nickjfreitas TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nickjfreitas3.0 This is Episode 577 of Making the Argument, published September 11, 2026 00:00 – What that day set in motion, and what it did to the rest of us 07:23 – The only thing that stopped him was the fear of profiling 09:30 – Bush said Islam is peace 13:00 – September 12th, and the footage NBC ran out of Gaza 15:54 – Go country by country and count the peaceful conversions 19:48 – Bernie, AOC, and Mamdani all found time for this guy 24:45 – We were attacked, and then we doubled the immigration 28:32 – We imported more Muslims to prove we weren't bigots 33:38 – The students who led that revolution were executed by it 36:30 – The sitrep that got me a phone call from Task Force North 42:12 – Nobody is mass migrating in the other direction 45:13 – The Barbary pirates, and how we actually got them to stop 50:25 – You cannot go to war with a tactic 55:15 – They judge groups as groups, right up until it's their group 1:00:01 – Ignorant, arrogant, or cowards Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We hear from a former Bush administration official and a young man whose father died during the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. Iranian proxies are potentially expanding Tehran's influence over another key global shipping route. Elevated inflation keeps pressure on the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates. The Justice Department secures a first-of-its-kind deportation case brought through a secretive court. Plus, an update on the outbreak tied to iceberg lettuce. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, we hosted a live recording of the podcast, What the Hell Is Going On?, featuring former National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and former Deputy National Security Adviser J. D. Crouch II. Both Mr. Hadley and Dr. Crouch were serving in the Bush administration on that terrible day. Together, we discuss the attacks, the global war on terror, the state of America's fight against Islamist extremism, and the United States' safety and security one quarter century on.Stephen Hadley is a principal of Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC, an international strategic consulting firm founded with Condoleezza Rice, Robert Gates, and Anja Manuel. He is an executive vice chair of the board of directors of the Atlantic Council and is also the former board chair of the United States Institute of Peace, where he continues to serve on the Board of Directors.J. D. Crouch II is managing director for global strategy at Gallagher Insurance. A longtime national security and foreign policy leader, Dr. Crouch has served as deputy national security adviser to President George W. Bush, assistant secretary of defense for international security policy, and US ambassador to Romania. He later served as president and CEO of the United Service Organizations. At Gallagher, he focuses on the geopolitical forces shaping global business, risk, and strategic decision-making.Read the transcript here.Subscribe to our Substack here.

On today's episode, I talk to cartoonist and humorist David Rees. Originally from Chapel Hill, NC, David first gained acclaim during the Bush years with his comic strip Get Your War On, which perfectly captured the insanity of the times. In 2010, David started the satirical Artisanal Pencil Sharpening service and followed that up with the book How to Sharpen Pencils. As a TV creator, he hosted Going Deep with David Rees and co-created the FXX animated show Dicktown with John Hodgman, and as a podcaster, David co-hosts the wonderful show Election Profit Makers, which you can get wherever you get your podcasts! This is the website for Beginnings, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, follow me on Twitter. Check out my free philosophy Substack where I write essays every couple months here and my old casiopop band's lost album here! And the comedy podcast I do with my wife Naomi Couples Therapy can be found here! Theme song by the fantastic Savoir Adore! Second theme by the brilliant Mike Pace! Closing theme by the delightful Gregory Brothers! Podcast art by the inimitable Beano Gee!  

Today on the show: remembering 9/11, 25 years later. Clark Howard joins us live from New York. Scott Slade live in studio. We'll talk to a former Secret Service Agent that was with President Bush on the day. 9am-noon on 95.5 WSB. #NeverForget

Today on the show: remembering 9/11, 25 years later. Clark Howard joins us live from New York. Scott Slade live in studio. We'll talk to a former Secret Service Agent that was with President Bush on the day. 9am-noon on 95.5 WSB. #NeverForget

Today on the show: remembering 9/11, 25 years later. Clark Howard joins us live from New York. Scott Slade live in studio. We'll talk to a former Secret Service Agent that was with President Bush on the day. 9am-noon on 95.5 WSB. #NeverForget

On Sept. 11, 2001, president George W. Bush's chief of staff Andrew Card leaned over to whisper in Bush's ear that America was under attack. In the quarter century since that moment, he has reflected on Sept. 11 and what came after. Card, whose career included a stint in the House of Representatives and service as the secretary of transportation, sat down recently to visit with The Dallas Morning News Editorial Board. We share his reflections below, edited for length and clarity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Paul and Burning Bright take on this 1998 thriller about a terror wave hitting New York and the martial law that follows, and the "predictive programming" alarm bells start ringing almost immediately. Expect a deep dive into how this movie preemptively defended Islam and demonized the military years before 9/11 gave that framing real cultural weight, plus a genuinely sharp breakdown of what one host calls the Patriot Pendulum, the idea that controlled opposition gets fed right back into the next paradigm. There's a wide ranging conversation about cultural programming, the Bush to Obama pipeline, and a funny closing bit about a recent Atlantic headline that accidentally proves their point. Stick around for chat shoutouts, sub gifts, and next week's pick, a Terry Gilliam classic with a scene this community has plenty of theories about.

**Clay Edwards Show – Episode 1293**   9/11, twenty-five years later. First responders still dying. A hanging in Jackson that the usual suspects tried to turn into a lynching. And a Massachusetts jury that couldn't bring itself to call a child killer a child killer. Clay, Creston Berch (30-year Clinton PD, retired), and Shaun Yurtkuran sit with the anniversary that never really ended. Creston was standing in a car dealership lobby when the second plane hit live on TV. Shaun had just gotten out of the Marines and spent the day in a Jefferson Street apartment watching Fox News with eight friends until midnight. Clay woke up to the second impact, then watched 99 Jams keep spinning hip-hop while every other station in the market flipped to the news. That moment, he says, is when the culture war started for him. They talk about the 9–10,000 additional deaths from the pile, Flight 93 and the two unarmed fighter pilots who were prepared to ram it, Bush on the rubble, and what the day would have looked like if everyone in those towers had a smartphone and a live stream. They also cover the first big public gathering after the attacks: WWE SmackDown in Houston, paid for by Mattress Mack so the city wouldn't eat the overtime. Then they pivot to two local/national cases that keep revealing the same double standard. Tazia Fortune was found hanging behind an abandoned house on Road of Remembrance. The lynching narrative got national oxygen. Clay broke that the state crime lab and DPS have now turned the completed autopsy over to JPD and the Hinds County coroner. Cause of death is not expected to match the story that's been sold. JPD and some local media spent weeks blaming the state for the delay. The state's response: we finished it; y'all asked for every extra test. Lindsey Clancy: the holdout juror who refused not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity was a Black man. The women on the jury are publicly furious he wouldn't go along. Gayle King had to sit down when she heard it. An Oprah panel then cheered a doctor arguing that Black women who kill their children deserve the same “energy” Clancy got. Clay, Shaun, and Creston don't buy the postpartum-plus-meds-plus-doctor excuse as a get-out-of-prison-free card. No station IDs. No sponsor reads. Just the conversation.

This episode unpacks how the September 11 attacks reshaped the U.S. approach to global threats and internal security.   Host: James M. Lindsay, Mary and David Boies Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy, CFR   Guest: Walter Russell Mead, Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship, Hudson Institute   We Discuss: Why the September 11 attacks were such a pivotal moment in the history of U.S. foreign policy, and how they are understood by those who lived through them in comparison to younger Americans.  How the attacks shattered a post-Cold War sense in the United States that “history had ended,” with the world moving inevitably toward greater freedom and prosperity. Whether the "Global War on Terrorism" reflected the idiosyncrasies of the Bush administration, or something more fundamental about how the United States responds to attacks. How the Bush response to 9/11 compares to Franklin D. Roosevelt's response to Pearl Harbor. Why the United States found it so hard to leave Afghanistan and Iraq, and how mission creep turned those military campaigns into open-ended nation-building projects. How "liberal fundamentalism" shaped an overconfident belief that American values could be easily applied to other, complicated societies. Why Americans tend to treat foreign policy as a solvable problem rather than a set of chronic issues to be managed. The fate of the Jeffersonian impulse in American foreign policy, and what lessons Mead hopes 2028 presidential candidates will take from the legacy of September 11.   Mentioned on the Episode:   Walter Russell Mead, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World, Knopf   Walter Russell Mead, Power, Terror, Peace, and War: America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk, Knopf   Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, Harper & Row   Walter Russell Mead, “The Return of Geopolitics: The Revenge of the Revisionist Powers,” Foreign Affairs   George F. Kennan (“X”), “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,” Foreign Affairs   “The National Security Strategy of the United States of America (September 2002),” The White House   For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The President's Inbox at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/presidents-inbox/what-the-us-got-wrong-in-the-war-on-terror   Opinions expressed on The President's Inbox are solely those of the host or guests, not of CFR, which takes no institutional positions on matters of policy.

Spider bites, violent pensioners, a Bill about dying that refuses to die, some appalling headline writing, and bonnes nouvelles de France – Mick and Hannah have braved this week's news (and the garden), so you don't have to.  Here's Mick's chat with Alessia Camoirano about Britain's Forgotten Girls Here's Hannah's chat with Professor Clare McGlynn about extreme pornography Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/11 conspiracy theories, the Saudi 9/11 files, and the al Qaeda attack still being planned. Twenty-five years after September 11, former CIA targeting officer Sarah Adams takes every theory head on with Jillian Michaels. Building 7, the Pentagon, the dancing Israelis, the Saudi money. Sarah goes through all of it on the record. Then the one that was never a theory: the August 6, 2001 brief titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." Condoleezza Rice called it a historical document. Thirty-six days later he did it. Fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were Saudi. Bush classified the file. Obama kept it classified and vetoed the bill that would have let the families sue the Kingdom. Two presidents, two parties, one buried record. Sarah's answer cuts against both sides. And al Qaeda isn't finished. Their own plotting describes something three times the size of 9/11. The Capitol is still on the target list. Sarah says American counterterrorism collection is running at a fraction of what it was fifteen years ago, and almost nobody is saying it out loud. IN THIS EPISODE: - The Building 7 Conspiracy - What the August 6 brief really said, and the word buried on page one - The dancing Israelis, Michael Chertoff, and 71 days in custody - Saudi donor money versus Saudi government Involvment- Why Iran left the hijackers' passports unstamped, and why nobody made them pay - Al Qaeda's next plot, the aviation piece, and the target they never got - The Muslim Brotherhood hearing Democrats refused to show up to - Benghazi: who actually wrote the story America was told - Tulsi Gabbard's 120 bio labs, and the handful that matter - Plus Abdul El-Sayed's 9/11 comments

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What happened inside Air Force One as America came under attack—and inside the Situation Room a decade later as the U.S. closed in on Osama bin Laden? As we mark the 25th anniversary of 9/11, former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell gives us hisfirsthand account of both defining moments and everything in between. Morell was President George W. Bush's intelligence briefer on September 11th and later helped President Obama assess whether bin Laden was really hiding in Pakistan before the raid that killed him. Morell recounts what Bush was asking as Air Force One moved between secure locations, how he identified al-Qaeda as the likely perpetrator and why bin Laden was able to escape from Afghanistan. He also takes us inside the deliberations over the Abbottabad raid—including the warning he gave Obama about how uncertain the intelligence remained. The conversation examines the failures that preceded 9/11 and what the Clinton and Bush administrations could have done differently. Morell also addresses conspiracy theories about that day, why bin Laden would view himself as partly successful given the state of the world 25 years later, how 9/11 should be taught to a new generation, and the biggest threat facing the country today. Mosheh Oinounou (@mosheh) is an Emmy and Murrow award-winning journalist. He has 20 years of experience at networks including Fox News, Bloomberg Television and CBS News, where he was the executive producer of the CBS Evening News and launched the network's 24 hour news channel. He founded the @mosheh Instagram news account in 2020 and the Mo News podcast and newsletter in 2022.

This week, in Parsons, Tennessee, a man walks into a house to discover his baby niece, crying in a crib, and his brother, butchered in bed. His brother's wife is missing, sending police on a mission to find her, not knowing if she's in danger, or if she's the killer. It turns out to be something much crazier, resembling a Coen brothers film, in its pure strangeness. A wild, cold blooded scheme, fueled by "a straw full of crank", and played out for a very odd reason!!   Along the way, we find out that you can only bake so many things with lemons, that a "straw full of crank" is probably too much crank & may make you commit horrible crimes, and that if your brother wants to duct tape you, and stuff you into your own car trunk... RUN!!!   New episodes, every Wednesday & Friday nights!! Check us out on VIDEO Wednesday and Friday evenings on Netflix! www.netflix.com/smalltownmurder Donate at patreon.com/crimeinsports or at paypal.com and use our email: crimeinsports@gmail.com Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things Small Town Murder, Crime In Sports & Your Stupid Opinions!   Follow us on... instagram.com/smalltownmurder facebook.com/smalltownpod   Also, check out James & Jimmie's other shows, Crime In Sports & Your Stupid Opinions on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts!!

We're coming up on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and it had us thinking about an episode we produced in 2014. It's the story of one sentence, written in the hours after September 11th, 2001, that has led to the longest war in U.S. history. We examine how just 60 words of legal language have blurred the line between war and peace. In the hours after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, a lawyer sat down in front of a computer and started writing a legal justification for taking action against those responsible. The language that he drafted and that President George W. Bush signed into law—called the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF)—has at its heart one single sentence, 60 words long. Over the last decade, those 60 words have become the legal foundation for the "war on terror." In this collaboration with BuzzFeed, reporter Gregory Johnsen tells us the story of how this has come to be one of the most important, confusing, troubling sentences of the last two decades. We go into the meetings that took place in the chaotic days just after 9/11, speak with Congresswoman Barbara Lee and former Congressman Ron Dellums about the vote on the AUMF. We hear from former White House and State Department lawyers John Bellinger & Harold Koh. We learn how this legal language unleashed Guantanamo, Navy Seal raids and drone strikes. And we speak with journalist Daniel Klaidman, legal expert Benjamin Wittes and Virginia Senator Tim Kaine about how these words came to be interpreted, and what they mean for the future of war and peace. LATERAL CUTS -Really anything from our sister show, More PerfectEPISODE CREDITS: Reported by - Kelsey Padgettwith help from - Matt KieltyProduced by - Matt Kieltywith help from - Kelsey PadgettSign up for our newsletter!! It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Signup (https://radiolab.org/newsletter)!Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab (https://members.radiolab.org/) today.Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing radiolab@wnyc.org.Leadership support for Radiolab's science programming is provided by the Simons Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.