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A Bridge Too Far: TDS-Affected Singer Threatens to Leave the US

https://redstate.com/kyle-becker/2026/09/08/a-bridge-too-far-tds-affected-singer-threatens-to-leave-the-us-n2206658

The Trump administration has gotten its fair share of "threats" from TDS-afflicted "entertainers" who say they are going to leave the country because of who is president.

As the old saying goes, don't threaten us with a good time.

The latest is Art Garfunkel, who will always be remembered as 'the guy who used to sing sometimes with Paul Simon.'

“I don’t like America’s position at all,” the singer told the Guardian after being asked about issues “global heating” and “those in power.”

He said about the former topic, "It's real that the planet is getting warmer, that the water’s rising, that so many people are starving."
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Garfunkel then talked about why he wants to leave the country.

“I’m not aboard, and I’m thinking of leaving the country, frankly,” the “The Sound of Silence” singer said.

As Instapundit's Ed Driscoll said, the news here is that Art Garfunkel is still alive.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Art Garfunkel is the Sonny Bono of John Oates.

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Cardinal Cupich and Illinois Religious Communities Sue the State Over Aid to the Terminally Ill

https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/09/09/cardinal-cupich-and-illinois-religious-communities-sue-the-state-over-aid-to-the-terminally-ill-n4957044

Cardinal Blase Cupich of the Chicago Archdiocese, the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm, the Little Sisters of the Poor Chicago Province, and a downstate pharmacist are among plaintiffs in a sweeping lawsuit challenging the new Illinois End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act (EOLOA).

The suit names three state officials as defendants: Sameer Vohra, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health; Mario Treto Jr., secretary of the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation; and Terry Prince, director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs.

This law does not resemble Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) law, which has gone off the rails and now allows psychologically disturbed people to request death. But this law has a "slippery slope" written all over it.

"The Illinois law lets a terminally ill patient — someone given up to six months to live by a doctor — request and ingest life-ending prescription medication," reports the Chicago Tribune. "Its passage and the governor’s signature capped a yearslong debate at the state Capitol over whether Illinois would allow the practice."

“At the very least, Illinois ought to heed federal law, which bans the use of federal healthcare funds for assisted suicide, and forbids Illinois from discriminating against those who, like the Sisters, refuse to participate in assisted suicide,” the plaintiffs said in the suit. “Instead, Illinois has put the Sisters and other Catholics providing health care in the Archdiocese to a stark choice: either abandon their religious beliefs regarding the sanctity of life or face significant fines and penalties.”

As in a similar lawsuit in NY, the omission of any recognition of religious orgs' Free Exercise rights was intentional, intended to entangle such organizations into a choice between violating their religious convictions or civil/criminal fines.