[NYPOST] Rep. Sean Casten’s 17-year-old daughter Gwen Casten died Monday morning, his office has announced.
The Illinois Democrat’s office released a short statement saying the teen passed away but did not provide any further details.
"This morning, Congressman Casten’s beloved daughter, Gwen (17), passed away," Casten’s office said. "The Casten family requests privacy, and we will be issuing no further comment during this heartbreaking time."
Gwen died inside the family’s Downers Grove home, the Chicago Tribune reported, citing local police.
Downers Grove police were called to respond to a report of an "unresponsive" 17-year-old girl at a home on the block where Casten lives just before 7 a.m. The girl was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the outlet.
Gwen was following in the footsteps of her father and fighting for social causes she cared about, her social media shows.
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Maybe 15 years ago, I had a friend at work whose 17-year old son was found 'unnresponsive'. He had been prescribed Oxycontin, which conflicted with another prescription.
Dad won the lawsuit, but it wasn't much comfort.
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After recently losing a recently booster jabbed friend.....who was also on hypertension meds, something tells me there is more to this mixing of meds than we may know.
[Townhall] At this point it is known if you speak out against the radical left’s narrative, they will come for you. An NFL coach is under hot water for giving his opinion, a First Amendment right, not the January 6 debacle.
The Washington Commanders fined its defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio $100,000 after downplaying the events that took place last year at the Capitol.
Del Rio compared the Jan. 6 protests at the Capitol with the "riots, looting and burning" that destroyed thousands of businesses and cities during the summer of 2020.
During a press conference earlier this week, Del Rio said "Why are we not looking into those things? If we're going to talk about it, why are we not looking into those things?...I see the images on TV. People's livelihoods are being destroyed. Businesses are being burned down — no problem. And then we have a dust-up at the Capitol, nothing burned down, and we're going to make that a major deal." Perhaps 'dust-up' infuriated the official narrative.
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I missed all the burning and outright rioting like the prior summer. Oh, mostly peaceful demonstrations. Right.
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I suppose the NFL has a right to fine the man for saying things they don't want to hear. But I have a right not to watch any more NFL games.
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I have not watched the No Firearms League in many years now.
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Del Rio is a straight-up guy, but discovered he should consider the context of being at a company presser in a company uniform, with a paranoid head coach and owner. Snyder is under serious pressure by the NFL to lose control of the "Redskins", (I'm a native Washingtonian and will never think of shaming the team with that doofus name, I had season tickets for a brief time at RFK Stadium and watched the Skins beat Miami in the Rose Bowl in person), so Jack got smacked hard to keep his boss out of more trouble. Pity
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If it was a football-related press conference, I can see team management being annoyed that he brought up politics. If he was answering a direct question on the subject, though, or responding to something another of the speakers said, that’s different.
[NYPOST] San Franciscans disgusted with rampant lawlessness showed pro-perp District Attorney Chesa Boudin the door last week in a landslide recall election. Yet New Yorkers fed up with soft-on-crime Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, will have to wait until 2026 to be rid of him — or replace Gov. Kathy Hochul with someone who’s got the guts to oust him sooner.
New York law doesn’t allow for recall votes; only the gov can oust DAs for failing to do their job.
Yet Bragg made clear from the start that he’d put the interests of criminals first: His "Day 1 Memo" outlined all the crimes he’d refuse to prosecute and sentences he’d refuse to seek, even for felons. That drew such outrage that he backtracked — but only slightly. Since then, he’s pursued his top goal, freeing perps, with gusto:
In January, he initially refused cops’ request for a no-knock warrant, preferring they risk their lives by knocking first to collar dangerous ex-con Jaime Brown for armed robbery. Only days earlier, two NYPD officers were fatally shot in the line of duty. Police eventually got the no-knock warrant, though the delay kept Brown free meanwhile. And when he was nabbed, they recovered a loaded 9mm handgun he could’ve used on them had they been forced to knock first.
Another warrant case ended worse: Detectives union boss Paul DiGiacomo said Bragg rebuffed requests for a warrant for the gun used by Tyrell Rodgers (23 priors) in an armed robbery. In March, Rodgers allegedly used that very gun to fatally kill another man.
In January, cops charged Christian Hall with third-degree robbery for allegedly shoplifting and threatening workers with a scissors at a TJ Maxx store. Bragg’s underlings rolled that back to petty larceny; a month later, Hall allegedly sucker-punched a sanitation worker.
Everyone deserves a second chance, but Bragg offered one defendant her 60th: In February, Nicole Green, who had 59 busts under her belt, was nabbed in a mugging case but set free after Bragg’s office asked for supervised release.
Bragg prosecutors helped spring Darius Mungin, a suspect in an Upper West Side murder (yes, murder), by agreeing to cut his bond. They cited concerns for Mungin’s safety following gang attacks, but why not try to get jail officials to keep him safe instead?
That’s just a sample of Bragg’s dereliction. And with crime still surging, it’s clear the bad guys have gotten his message: In New York, Bragg will let you slide.
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On the other hand, Hochul is running for a full term in 2022. Maybe New Yorkers will remember to oust Bragg via Hochul.
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Hopefully, Hochul will soon be branded with the "rising democrat star" label, which guarantees she'll self-destruct in 18 months.
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[NYPOST] The Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... is set to decide if it will consider two important terror-financing cases centering on the ability of Americans who have been harmed in terrorist attacks to seek redress against financial institutions that knowingly funnel money to fronts for terrorist organizations such as Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,.
But the Biden administration (aka the Wilmington comorra) ...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation... has urged the justices to let lower court rulings stand in Weiss v. National Westminster Bank and Strauss v. Credit Lyonnais — and so undercut 25 years of bipartisan consensus that Americans must be able to seek redress against those who knowingly facilitate terrorism.
Terrorism, its reach and its sources of funding constitute a central security issue of our times. Hamas, Hezbollah and other terror groups seek to alter the geopolitical calculus of target nations through intimidation, extortion and carnage to rain destruction on the innocent.
They also use purported charities to finance their networks and to recruit personnel to carry out terror operations. Why is the Biden administration intent on accommodating this deceit?
Knowingly giving support to a foreign terrorist organization has been a federal crime since 1996. More, Congress has recognized that terror groups often hide their intent, using charitable fundraising to help finance slaughter, so such "charities" are inexorably entwined with their terrorist elements. Four successive administrations have worked to expose these schemes.
Yet the US solicitor general’s brief calls this principle into question by suggesting that some support to terrorist groups might back "legitimate activities." This would set an appalling precedent that will help Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and other hostile entities that use front charities, and so endanger the safety of Americans abroad.
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Hamas, Hezbollah and other terror groups seek to alter the geopolitical calculus of target nations through intimidation, extortion and carnage to rain destruction on the innocent.
And then his lips fell off.
Does he or does he not know that he is describing the modus operandi of the US foreign policy apparatus? We just invaded Yemen, for fuck's sake.
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I love when all credibility is lost on one comment. Over? Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
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A Quick check shows NatWest Group owns National Westminster Bank and is a UK bank Group.
NatWest Holdings is a holding company for the NatWest Group 's retail banking interests in the United Kingdom.
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If was a Supreme Court justice I would rule against the Biden administration every single time until they enforced the law against protesting in front of a justice's house. But then, I would probably rule against Biden every single time anyway.
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SCROTUS has bought into the myth that the other two branches can crush them. Given their craven approach to what they do, maybe they have brought that upon themselves.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYPOST] San Franciscans disgusted with rampant lawlessness showed pro-perp District Attorney Chesa Boudin the door last week in a landslide recall election. Yet New Yorkers fed up with soft-on-crime Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, will have to wait until 2026 to be rid of him — or replace Gov. Kathy Hochul with someone who’s got the guts to oust him sooner.
...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...
