True Value Leaving Chicago After 78 Years,
Blaming Illinois
Posted By: 4250Luis, 7/20/2026 7:23:38 AM
True Value hardware stores are, and have been, an American institution. They are scattered across the land, often run as small mom and pop shops; our tiny hardware store just up the road here in the Susitna Valley is a True Value. They're everywhere. And, for almost 80 years, they have maintained a primary company headquarters in Chicago. No longer. Now they are fleeing for greener pastures, and those more verdant habitats are right next door, in Indiana, a much lower-tax and more business-friendly environment. Now, some (in Illinois) will point this out as simply combining headquarters after an acquisition, which isn't at all uncommon.
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True Value hardware stores are, and have been, an American institution. They are scattered across the land, often run as small mom and pop shops; our tiny hardware store just up the road here in the Susitna Valley is a True Value. They're everywhere. And, for almost 80 years, they have maintained a primary company headquarters in Chicago. No longer. Now they are fleeing for greener pastures, and those more verdant habitats are right next door, in Indiana, a much lower-tax and more business-friendly environment. Now, some (in Illinois) will point this out as simply combining headquarters after an acquisition, which isn't at all uncommon.
Authorities Identify Source of Nationwide
Cyclospora Outbreak: Salad Distributer
Used By Taco Bell 11 replies
Cyclospora Outbreak: Salad Distributer
Used By Taco Bell 11 replies
Lettuce grown in central Mexico that was used by multiple Taco Bell locations has been identified as the source of a Cyclospora outbreak that has sickened Americans across the country.
A recall of the lettuce was announced by Taylor Farms, which posted a notice on the website of the Food and Drug Administration.
“The company has stopped receiving product from the implicated lot, suspended distribution of the iceberg lettuce from Central Mexico, notified our customers, and we are continuing to work with the FDA, CDC, and state authorities,” Taylor Farms wrote in its notice.
Don't Sleep on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Mention the name Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) in conservative circles, and the immediate response is far more often than not barely suppressed laughter. A bulging-eyed birdbrain, a nit lacking the intelligence to be witted featherweight, useful for mocking alone. Did you hear what she just said about her fellow progressives’ current pet fantasy regarding eliminating the Senate? Did you catch her trying to assume a Southern accent? And on and on. How can anyone take her seriously? Surely no serious political mind does.
After President Donald Trump’s disruptive primetime speech to the nation on July 16, he revealed that his administration had evidence that federal intelligence officials withheld intelligence about China’s involvement in election tampering in the U.S. For a U.S. president to make such a claim, he’d better have the receipts, and the president promised that he did.Now, reports are that Nikki Floris, a former FBI analyst and senior leader who was charged with oversight of election security in 2020, once wrote that she was “basically running a shadow government across the FBI.”
Most of the "Top 'O the Briefing" for Friday morning had already been written last Thursday night by the time President Trump was finished with his speech, which is why I didn't comment on it. Regulars here in Briefingland know that I don't think that we can talk about election integrity too much, especially in this most critical election year.
While Senate Jellyfish Majority Leader John Thune keeps riding the Useless Wuss train rather than pass the SAVE America act, President Trump is making sure that discussions regarding shoring up our vulnerable election processes stay front and center.
The MAGA movement in the US has always been characterized by its pro-Israel nature. In fact, I have often described it as the most philosemitic political movement in US history, and I think that is a fair description. It is interesting and informing to recognize that the same people whose affinity towards the restoration of America to its former greatness is also highly supportive of the US-Israeli alliance. These two nations have had a profound influence on each other, from the very early hours of their respective declarations of statehood, even as Israel was not reconstituted as a state until some 173 years after America declared its independence.
The radical left is having an absolute, total meltdown, and corporate America is once again bowing at the altar of woke madness! Just days after Florida officially renamed Palm Beach International Airport in honor of President Donald J. Trump, United Airlines was caught instructing reservation agents to let passengers switch flights for free if they don’t want to land at the newly named President Donald J. Trump International Airport.According to an explosive internal memo obtained by Live And Let’s Fly per FOX Business, United Airlines executives actively instructed their reservation agents to give free pass upgrades to anti-Trump crybabies.
Detached from reality:’ School choice
advocate blasts NEA president's annual
assembly speech 2 replies
advocate blasts NEA president's annual
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For Becky Pringle, outgoing president of the nation’s largest teachers union, education appears to be synonymous with political organizing, at least to one critic, Corey DeAngelis, the founder of the Educational Freedom Institute, and a fellow at the Americans for Fair Treatment and the Heritage Foundation.
At the National Education Association’s 2026 Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly in Denver, Pringle’s nearly 40-minute speech was largely dedicated to highlighting the union’s political and social accomplishments – priorities that critics say diverge from the unions’ original purpose of ensuring fair pay and working conditions and instead diving into the deep-end of the radical left.
Iranian Regime's Insatiable Drive to Wipe
Out Jews, Christians, Minorities: World
Turns a Blind Eye 7 replies
Out Jews, Christians, Minorities: World
Turns a Blind Eye 7 replies
The Islamic Republic of Iran, since its 1979 Islamic Revolution, has operated as a terrorist state, using the IRGC and proxies such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis to advance its aims.
No diplomatic deal or agreement has ever permanently halted these activities: the regime views such pacts as temporary opportunities for enrichment and rearmament.
One rarely sees robust UN condemnations or widespread mainstream media outrage when Iranian attacks and plots against synagogues are carried out or disrupted.
The United States military began conducting its seventh consecutive night of missile strikes Friday on Iran now that a ceasefire between the two countries has officially ended.
Fighting in the region resumed this week after negotiations failed to end the conflict, which was in a state of nominal ceasefire for months. In June, the countries signed a memorandum of understanding extending the ceasefire by 60 days.
"CENTCOM launched a round of strikes against Iran at 3 p.m. ET today for the seventh consecutive night," United States Central Command said on X. "The strikes are designed to continue degrading Iranian military capabilities at the Commander in Chief's direction."
GOP pressure mounts to prosecute, fire
intel officials who hid election issues
from Trump 13 replies
intel officials who hid election issues
from Trump 13 replies
President Donald Trump on Thursday released a trove of declassified intelligence documents that his administration says expose long-suspected vulnerabilities in U.S. election infrastructure, in addition to alarming intelligence pointing to prior administrations' and officials' knowledge of such issues that were kept from the president, Congress and the American people.
"The intelligence community withheld information from his president's daily brief. That's a big deal. That's where the intelligence community gives him the absolute most classified data, what he needs to know for that day, and frankly, during his first term, they withheld it. That is a black mark on the intelligence community," Rep. Keith Self, R-Tex., told Just The News.
As the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act remains stalled in Congress, a new report from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security shows an astounding number of deceased and illegal aliens are registered to vote in Texas.
The document, released by DHS, shows that more than 113,000 individuals who are either deceased or illegal aliens are registered to vote in the state.
DHS notes that 10 states have cooperated with the federal government’s request for their complete voter rolls: Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas.
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Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, will offer students the opportunity to study the “white gaze” next spring in order to undermine “white supremacy and racial capitalism.” (snip)
Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot, an assistant professor of anthropology, is teaching “Unsettling the White Gaze.”
Eisenberg-Guyot’s profile describes the scholar as a “white, disabled, trans anthropologist whose work focuses on how criminalized people who use drugs envision and experiment with abolitionist horizons of transformation, healing, self-determination, and solidarity beyond incarceration and forced-cure.”
Hello and welcome to Sunday, July 19, 2026. Among other things, today is Ice Cream Day, Daiquiri Day, Raspberry Cake Day, New Friends Day, Stick Out Your Tongue Day, Sundae Sunday, Football Day, Flight Attendant Safety Professionals' Day, International Retainer Day, Lake Superior Day, and Flitch Day. I don't know what to make of that. Anything that floats in your root beer, I suppose.So let's look at what's actually going on between Trump and Rubio. A few things stand out:
Rubio's portfolio keeps growing. As secretary of State, he's literally everywhere on foreign policy, and Trump keeps handing him the delicate diplomatic assignments nobody else gets.
Paul Pelosi’s shockingly bad driving record appears to have finally caught up with him and could result in a substantial jail sentence if he is convicted.
The 86-year-old husband of former House speaker Nancy Pelosi was charged in a hit-and-run crash over the Fourth of July weekend in northern California wine country.
Napa County District Attorney Allison Haley filed charges against Pelosi Friday, violations that included one count of misdemeanor hit-and-run driving and one infraction for turning unlawfully, multiple news outlets reported.
Strange Things Are Happening
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On one hand, we are winning the war with Iran. This week, bombings greatly accelerated and are not likely to end without real capitulation and surrender. On the other hand, the Vice President seems to be at odds with the administration, unhappy that we are in a (winning) war and casting blame for the failure of his peace effort, which is really only Iran’s fault.
On one hand, the President has declassified documents credibly showing foreign influence and interference with our elections. On the other hand, major news outlets seem determined to keep their viewers from knowing this
Well, right on cue, there’s a disturbing new trend exploding online, and once again, innocent people are being turned into props for someone else’s internet stardom and clicks.In this clip, you’ll see a black teen on a bicycle charging directly at innocent pedestrians while popping wheelies. He came straight at the person, and at the very last second, he swerved away. The goal for this kid is to scare the living daylights out of unsuspecting people in order to get a dramatic reaction on camera.
On Sunday, a new report came out that, among Saturday night's targets in Iran hit by American attacks, there was a strike against a nuclear facility under construction, that being what is called the Darkhovin facility. The Iranian government is said to be "furious." Good. This is a military target, no matter what Iran has to say about it. This is precisely the kind of target American forces should be razing to the ground. Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, in its outrage, is again dissembling; nothing this regime does is peaceful or has an entirely peaceful purpose. If this facility had been allowed to move to completion,
It's not often that we're able to write words of praise for ABC News' Jon Karl on the pages of RedState, but fair play to the co-host of the Sunday show This Week for actually holding a Democrat accountable for their lies.
Karl's guest on this week's show was Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and one of the topics discussed was voter ID and the SAVE America Act. Warner was there, of course, to rebut President Trump's assertions during his Thursday night speech from the White House that American elections have been compromised – and will continue to be compromised
Do you remember Linda Sarsour? She was very active in left wing politics during Trump’s first term. She became a leader of the ‘Women’s March’ movement but was ejected after they realized that she is a raging Jew-hater. It’s part of what led to the group’s downfall.
With the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), she has returned. Her views make her a perfect fit for this radical mob.
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Half a Nation of Traitors
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Democrats hate this country. They hate you if you don’t also hate this country. And they will do anything to avoid you continuing to live free in this country, up to and including murdering you, because that’s who they are. If Russia or China offered to help them seize power, they’d take the deal no matter what they asked for in return. After 250 years, one of our political parties has become infested with traitors the way an old dead tree becomes infested with termites. There is only one Democrat in the country speaking with any sense of sanity; one person who does not openly appeal to racism, anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism,
UN Ambassador Bursts Mamdani's Bubble
Over His Wish to Arrest Israeli PM Netanyahu
in NYC 14 replies
Over His Wish to Arrest Israeli PM Netanyahu
in NYC 14 replies
When will the members of the far-Left cabal learn?
New York City, as the home of the United Nations headquarters, is hosting the U.N. General Assembly in the fall. And Democratic Socialist NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani expressed during a recent interview with a New York Times interviewer that he's holding onto a deeply-held wish and campaign promise: to have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested when the world leader arrives in his city to attend it. Mamdani wasn't finished, though, admitting that he's not 100 percent sure "whether he has the legal authority" to do it, and to that end, he's still consulting with his administration's Law Department.
Netanyahu, meanwhile,
A man whom authorities describe as an anti-government extremist set fire Monday morning to the front of New York’s 26 Federal Plaza, which houses several federal agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the FBI.
The suspect, 43-year-old Army veteran Andrew Arrabaca, poured gasoline on the stairs leading to the building’s employee entrance before setting fire to it.//snip//In his post-arrest interview, Arrabaca admitted to targeting the building and said he was willing to hurt — even kill — federal employees and citizens who were by the building at the time of his attack.
The Mamdani administration has quietly made permanent a controversial pilot program that pays junkies cash for turning in used needles — a move critics contend will only encourage illegal drug use.
The city’s massive $126 billion budget for the new fiscal year that began July 1 includes $3 million to retain the Health Department’s Community Syringe Redemption Program, which pays the public 20 cents per syringe. [snip]
Addiction Response Resources, a nonprofit that launched a similar program in Boston in 2020, will continue to operate the Big Apple’s program through an $11.1 million contract that runs through the end of next year.