Friday, September 11, 2026

Texas Senate race heats up as James Talarico’s pastor caught saying some churchgoers 'wish' Trump assassin was 'more successful'

 Texas Senate race heats up as James Talarico’s pastor caught saying some churchgoers 'wish' Trump assassin was 'more successful'

The Texas Senate race between Republican Ken Paxton and Democrat James Talarico has faced intense national and local attention regarding the role of religion in politics, including major controversies surrounding a pastor's remarks linked to Talarico's church.

Reports and social media posts circulated regarding a minister at Talarico's Austin-area church who allegedly made highly controversial statements suggesting some members wished the Butler, Penn., assassination attempt on Donald Trump "had been more successful.”

Reverend Babs Miller, the "minister to the parish" at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Austin, made the viral remark that leaked on video.

“We still have people in this church who wish that that young man had not just nicked his ear, but had been more successful,” Miller said.

Critics and political opponents immediately condemned the remarks, arguing they provided a dangerous theological justification for political violence. Texas leaders called the comments a "betrayal of the Gospel" of peace and warned against using the pulpit to spiritualize or condone violence against political figures." . . . More...

Boom: RFK Jr. Torches the Democrat Party in Epic Convention Speech

 RedState  

"In a single year, my party obliterated 250 years of constitutional guarantees," he asserted. "The only right they left unscathed was the Second Amendment," he stated. "And probably because there is a Second Amendment." 

Bo Snerdley

"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may have delivered one of the best speeches of the Republican convention. 

"He started off noting how he was 72, and that for 70 years of his life, he would have bet he would not be addressing a Republican convention. Given his family, he had of course been to many Democrat conventions. He spoke of the party of his father, Robert Kennedy and his uncle, President John Kennedy. RFK Jr. explained how his uncle ran on a platform in 1960 of "tax cuts, strong defense, and fighting Communism." 

"'Does that sound familiar?" Bobby asked. 

"He said at that time the Democrats were the party of labor, they championed the Bill of Rights and were for "unbridled free speech." His uncle and father stood firmly against crony capitalism and against socialism. They were all for competition, meritocracy, and for excellence, he explained. They understood the difference between "forever wars that they oppose and wars to protect our national security which we should never hesitate to defend." They promoted physical fitness and they protected women's sports. He recalled how the party used to be against illegal immigration. 

"But oh, how they've changed over time. 

"When it came to COVID, RFK Jr. said he saw the Democrats turn against "every one of its essential values, its principles, and all of the policies that define my party." Democrats who he thought were once the champions of the Constitution "systematically obliterated the Bill of Rights.'" . . .  More.

All We Needed After 9/11 Was A Closed Border. Instead We Got Spied On And Force-Fed Halal Food

Since 9/11, America has imported 1.8 million Muslims into the country from 2001 to 2024.

The Federalist  

"But globalist neocons, who both believe in mass migration as a policy matter and were also afraid of being called racist, used the tragedy to completely undermine American culture and society." 


"In order to prevent another 9/11, the only policy the American government needed to pursue was closing down the borders and never allowing Third-Worlders into the country again. Politicians not only refused to do that, but actually did the opposite.

"Instead, Americans got stuck with a mass surveillance state, two forever wars, the importation of countless Third-Worlders, and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which to date has never stopped a terror attack, but has made Americans’ travel experience miserable. Americans, in other words, got a major reshuffling of their constitutional rights in favor of government power, and a homeland that quickly became unrecognizable.

"Just six days after the most deadly terror attack on American soil in history, President George W. Bush made a hajj to the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C, where he proclaimed that the very people who just murdered 2,977 innocents in New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia are peaceful.

"“These acts of violence against innocents violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith. And it’s important for my fellow Americans to understand that,” Bush said in a speech titled “Islam is Peace” on Sept. 17, 2001. “The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That’s not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don’t represent peace.”

"Bush went on a campaign to make sure no American blamed Islam for the attack. He repeated the message in the Oval Office on Sept. 19 and to a Joint Session of Congress on Sept. 20. That same day he claimed that Muslim terrorists were trying to “hijack Islam itself,” an assertion he repeated on Oct. 11, 2002, and numerous other times in various forms.

"His Nov. 15, 2001, Ramadan message attempted to advance the “the terrorists hate you for your freedom” message, stating, “This new enemy seeks to destroy our freedom and impose its views. We value life; the terrorists ruthlessly destroy it. We value education; the terrorists do not believe women should be educated or should have health care, or should leave their homes. We value the right to speak our minds; for the terrorists, free expression can be grounds for execution. We respect people of all faiths and welcome the free practice of religion; our enemy wants to dictate how to think and how to worship even to their fellow Muslims.”

"He carried this message all the way through the end of 2002 and beyond.

"And he meant it. In an effort to make sure he could not be subjected to claims of “Islamophobia,” he started importing Muslims by the millions into American communities." . . .More.  

 Breccan F. Thies is the White House correspondent for The Federalist. He is a co-recipient of the 2025 Dao Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism. As an investigative journalist, he previously covered education and culture issues for the Washington Examiner and Breitbart News. He holds a degree from the University of Virginia and is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow.

What We Must ‘Never Forget’ 25 Years After 9/11

"Remembering the victims is sacred. Remembering the evil that killed them is essential."

The American Spectator | USA News and Politics   

"The final answer to September 11, then, cannot be a memorial alone. It must be a country that still believes those principles are worth defending. It must be a people confident enough in their civilization to still distinguish good from evil."



"Never forget.”

"In the 25 years since 9/11, Americans have spoken those words over and over each anniversary — a solemn promise to one another and to those lost. But a quarter century on, it’s worth pausing to question what exactly it is that we commit to remembering.

"Is it just the 2,977 victims and the selfless acts of heroism from firefighters, police, and ordinary Americans who rushed toward the chaos? Is it the deep, simmering anger that welled up in our hearts watching smoke rise above Manhattan and the Pentagon? Is it the 20 years of conflict that followed, with trillions of dollars and thousands more lives sacrificed in service of sometimes noble, sometimes foolhardy goals?

"Or is it something much deeper — something more fundamental about the fragility of life, the preciousness of freedom, and the nature of evil itself?

"In September of 2001, I was a 20-year-old freshman at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Just a month before, I’d finished basic training, and the thrill of seeing majestic mountain peaks soar above the campus each day still had not worn off.

"I was in chemistry class when someone came in to say that a plane had flown into the World Trade Center. Like most Americans, my first thought was, “What a terrible accident.”

"We went through multiple uniform changes that day, and the pre-smartphone world meant I didn’t have access to any information until later that afternoon. I was on my way to basketball practice when I learned another plane had hit the second tower, and both had fallen. It was the first time I saw the footage on TV — images forever seared into the American consciousness.

"That was the first moment that I truly realized that evil existed in the world. Until then, I couldn’t imagine that there were people motivated enough to kill themselves by flying planes into buildings to kill people they never met. (RELATED: 9/11: Remembering the CIA’s Failure to Protect America)

"I also knew that, more than anything, I wanted to understand that evil so I could destroy it. Yes, I wanted revenge against the monsters who planned and executed this attack on our country. But I also wanted to eradicate the very ideology that lived in the hearts of these Islamic terrorists.". . . More.

Clayton Fuller is the congressman for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. And may I say before searching his name that he is probably not a Democrat? TD

George W Bush Claims Islam Is 'Religion of Peace' for 9/11 Anniversary   "So Much for 'Never Forget'"

Mamdani and AOC seen smiling and laughing as names of 9/11 victims are read  Video   "New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were caught laughing together at the 9/11 25th anniversary memorial service on Friday while the names of victims were being read out by their relatives. 

"The Democrats were seen bursting into laughter at the solemn Ground Zero event in lower Manhattan, at the same moment that mourners stood silently around them. 

"A relative of a victim was seen weeping on the memorial seconds before the camera cut to Mamdani and Ocasio-Cortez, while victims' loved ones stood on stage reading the names of the deceased." . . .  


Hamas and their allies love these videos.

(Video) Joy in the Muslim world over 9-11 

For those in the doomed planes, their last words heard were "Allahu Akbar!"

And, as we have since learned, on Western college campuses. 



Hamas' barbaric attack on Israel evokes memories of Nazi atrocities   "Ezra Levant looks at terrifying footage from Israel following Hamas' barbaric terrorist attack against the Jewish state. The atrocities evoke memories of Nazi Germany's treatment of Jews, except in some ways, as Ezra explains, this attack was even worse."


Mamdani Thought He Can Get Away With Attending 9/11 Memorial... Until Now! "He stands in front of the camera saying “September 11th was a horrific act of terror” with a straight face, then gets caught laughing while the names of the victims are being read at Ground Zero. That is not a mistake. That is not “human.” That is pure disrespect.
You cannot claim to honor the nearly 3,000 people who were murdered by Islamist terrorists on 9/11 while smiling and laughing during the most sacred moment of the memorial. That is not leadership. That is not empathy. That is performance. This is what happens when a city elects someone who has spent years surrounding himself with people who minimize 9/11, refuse to clearly condemn those who say America “deserved” it, and treat the worst terrorist attack on American soil as just another political talking point. The families who lost fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, firefighters, and police officers that day do not get a second chance. They do not get to laugh it off. They carry that pain for the rest of their lives. And the mayor of New York City thought it was acceptable to sit there and laugh while their names were spoken. Fake emotion." Comment to the video.

Adam Carolla Told Sean Hannity the Word Every Los Angeles Resident Says Before They Leave

"Newsom has a constituency that are nutjobs" I would have said Wack jobs, but that's me.

Deplorable Daily

Karen Bass promised she would end street homelessness in Los Angeles by 2026.She didn't – and now even the comedians who grew up there are done waiting. Adam Carolla just said out loud what 54,000 Los Angeles residents decided with their moving trucks last year.

"ADAM CAROLLA: "You [Democrats] act like we’re arguing with your ideas. YOU CAN'T PULL YOUR IDEAS OFF.”

"You don't lift people out of poverty. You don't solve the homeless problem. You don't fix the environmental problem. You don't have clean, sustainable forms of energy. YOU DON'T DO ANY OF THAT STUFF. YOU TALK ABOUT IT."

"ADDED CONTEXT: California spent $24,000,000,000 (that’s billion) on homelessness in five years. Despite the excessive spending, the state's own audit found Homelessness climbed 53% over the past decade to roughly 187,000 people.

"High-speed rail was sold to voters in 2008 as a $33,000,000,000 bullet train from San Francisco to LA. Eighteen years later, completion sits at a whopping ZERO percent. Not a single mile of track is in service, and the state admits even the 171-mile Merced-to-Bakersfield starter segment can't be finished by the end of 2032 without more funding.

"That's the Democratic Party in a nutshell. Say you want good schools, lift people out of poverty, make life better for the little guy. Then spend a whole bunch of money and get nothing done.

"They say they want to end suffering for low-income communities but somehow end up solving nothing and instead extend the suffering to everyone else.</p>&mdash; The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) <a href="https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/2097025833835639251?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 7, 2026</a></blockquote>

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"To call these people “jumpers” fails to capture the anguish they experienced, their lack of choice."

Deplorable Daily  

"A 24-year-old kid went back into a burning skyscraper to save strangers and never came home.  "Twenty-five years later, Trump just made it official. Donald Trump just awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Welles Crowther – and what his mother said next stopped the crowd cold."

Photo added by TD


The Man Nobody Knew for Eight Months

"Here is what happened on the 78th floor of the South Tower on the morning of September 11, 2001.

"People were trapped with broken bones, charred skin, lungs full of black smoke.

"They believed they were going to die.

"Then a young man appeared from the smoke wearing a red bandana over his face.

"He found the only surviving stairwell.

"He led survivors down it, carried a badly injured woman 17 floors on his back, handed her off – and went back up.

"He did it again." . . .

Barack Obama spoke at the National September 11 Memorial Museum dedication in 2014 and mentioned Welles Crowther by name. He called him a hero.

Then he went back to the White House and gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Meryl Streep and Bruce Springsteen.

8 Harrowing Facts About The 9/11 Jumpers - Listverse  #4; They Had a Long, Horrifying Way Down


"Jumpers"? Really? 

I’m an NYC death investigator — still fighting the sickening lie of 9/11’s jumpers   . . . "To call these people “jumpers” fails to capture the anguish they experienced, their lack of choice.

"It doesn’t honor them; it blames the victims rather than the terrorists.

"Call them “those who fell from the windows” — or who were “pushed out by forces beyond their control.”

"Whatever we choose, let’s use the right words."

Sister of 9/11 'Falling Man' reveals truth behind infamous photo 25 years after attack & their tragic last trip together

Thursday, September 10, 2026

Talarico Walks Back ‘Six Sexes’ Claim, Calls Himself a ‘Border Security Democrat’

Oh, well...we're all OK then. Plausible deniably for his campaign.

Legal Insurrection  

Uh huh. Trans ok unless “unsafe” or “unfair”? Sounds suspiciously like the lies democrats use when they push unlimited abortion. Men playing in women’s sports is inherently unsafe, unfair and violative of women’s rights and privacy. 


"Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico backtracked on his previous transgender comments during a six-minute interview with Fox News.

"During a 2021 Texas State House Public Education Committee hearing, Talarico claimed there are six sexes. This is what went down during that hearing:

“The bill seems to think there are two,” Talarico said to Republican Rep. Cole Hefner, the bill’s sponsor.

“The one thing I want us to all be aware of is that modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes.”

He added: “In fact, there are six, which honestly, Rep. Hefner, surprised me, too.”

Talarico explained that there are “six really common biological sexes” based on X and Y chromosomes — not just XX (female) and XY (male), but also single X, XXY, XYY and XXXY.

“The point is that biologically speaking, scientifically speaking, sex is a spectrum, and oftentimes can be very ambiguous,” he said, according to the news outlet.

"Fox News correspondent Brooke Taylor asked Talarico if he still believed that:

No, I’ve missed the mark on some of my past statements. I will be the first to admit it. What I meant is that there are two sexes, and then there’s a small percentage of people with genetic abnormalities. Obviously, I didn’t say it correctly. There are not six sexes, there are two. And I think the reason that politicians in that convention center across the street want to talk about six sexes is because they don’t want to talk about $6 diesel. Everywhere I go across the State of Texas people are struggling to survive in this economy. They are struggling to afford the basics, groceries, gas, utilities, health care. And that’s what I’m going to be focused on from now until Election Day. . . .




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How an amateur photographer captured firefighters’ sacrifice on 9/11

 The Independent  

"Sorrentino, who was off-duty on September 11 but raced to the scene to help out, said he remains haunted by the sound of alarms worn by the hundreds of firefighters who were buried under the rubble."

. . . "“I knew that this was gonna be something really big,” McLamb, now 45, told The Independent. He immediately got his 35 mm Canon Rebel 2000 camera and climbed to the top floor of the 10-story building, snapping photos until he ran out of film.

"One of his pictures — of a lone fire truck racing across the Brooklyn Bridge toward the burning twin towers — is among the most remembered from that terrible day, symbolizing the bravery and sacrifice of the city’s first responders.

"All six crew members on the Ladder 118 fire truck were killed when the south tower collapsed at 9:59 a.m. while they evacuated people from the adjacent Marriott Hotel." . . .



"Amateur photographer Aaron McLamb took a photo of Ladder 118 fire truck crossing the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan during the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on the World Trade Center’s twin towers. The image has come to symbolize the bravery and sacrifice of that terrible day (Aaron McClamb)"

Below: The Ladder 118 fire truck, left, sits demolished following the collapse 

. . . "Less than a month later, McLamb’s photo appeared on the front page of New York's Daily News under the headline, “The last run of Ladder 118.”

"After 25 years, McLamb said he’s grateful he could document the doomed crew’s heroism." . . .More.

VIDEO: Pink Ladies For Homicidal Maniacs and Why I’m for Flock Cameras

 Ann Coulter   


"I got off a plane from Europe completely jet-lagged, wrote two columns, and the New York Times spent the week generating the rest of the show for me.:

- My last dinner in London.

- At least on one matter Americans crush the British.

- Why we should never consider having a woman president.

- Elite women claim the world is stacked against them.

- Another thing Trump did right.

VIDEO: Pink Ladies For Homicidal Maniacs and Why I’m for Flock Cameras by Ann Coulter   Read on Substack      More...

Adam Carolla goes off on Gavin Newsom & California during GOP midterm convention

"As a life long Californian…I approve this message"

"The Golden Gate bridge would never get done in CA today. The bridge engineers innovated to make the bridge possible. Ever wonder how they got those huge [cables] up on the towers? They invented, built and implemented machines that spun the cables in place. Ever wonder why there's a brick structure under the S end of the bridge? Joseph Strauss, chief engineer, recognized it as a significant pre-civil war fort. He ordered a redesign of the bridge to save this historic structure. These issues alone would have frozen the bridge, just like similar issues delayed the E span of the Bay Bridge 10 years and added 9 BILLION $ to the cost. Just like the 'train to nowhere' has taken 20 years and spent $15 BILLION to not lay any track."

The rhetoric of September 10 and September 11

 "The collegiate interpretation of both of these dates, September 10 and September 11, is hopelessly absurd."  Dr. Ben Voth


Ben Voth   "On September 10, colleges and universities will observe the one-year anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Kirk was assassinated on a Utah college campus while debating members of the campus community. Kirk was embroiled in an escalating ideological debate about how higher education changes the American mindset and presses political arguments that are at least debatable. His assassination was a high mark of incivility." . . .
. . . We can barely recount the agency and purpose of the act 25 years later because the government of Iran, in the form of radical Shia supremacism, chants every day in their state-run mosques at Tehran, “Death to America!” That rhetorical world has not fallen away, and our own political sphere entertains the absurd notion that America deserved those 3,000 deaths and more. September 11 produced a war on terror rhetorically constructed to deflect the underlying religious motives of the 9/11 attacks and yielded massive military occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. To avoid a 20th anniversary in Afghanistan, our troops were abruptly withdrawn in August of 2021, and now women live in unspeakable subjugation to an archaic, outrageous sectarian branch of Islam practiced by the Taliban." . . .  More...

Dr. Ben Voth is professor of rhetoric and director of debate at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He is the author of several academic books regarding political communication, presidential rhetoric, and genocide.