Mimosa, Bloody Mary, nice flute of champagne — or maybe a favorite tipple in your coffee. Make yourself one and join me at our own Algonquin Round Table, the spirit of Dorothy Parker abides.

Happy Sunday, dear friends! A couple milestones to remember today. We started our little Sunday brunch together in September of 2022. Can you believe it? Four years and all the cases of champagne that have been quaffed! Not to mention the pastries and bacon. Second, and a little more somber, is that it has been 25 years since 9/11/2001. Victory Girls has done a week of posts (I do hope you read the Roundtable series – here, here, here, here) and I’m not quite ready to let go of it. So among the usual fare of Leftoids Behaving Badly — goodness, what an endless supply! — there are a few stories of ordinary Americans who did extraordinary things that day. Please grab your flutes and let’s raise them to those heroes. May their memories be blessings.

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Questions asked …

Why does US Secretary of War Hegseth keep making fun of the Canadian Forces?

Total mystery.

In other news, here is the cover of an official Canadian Forces publication from 2024. pic.twitter.com/TxD1HozkBM

— Tom Quiggin (@TomTSEC) September 5, 2026

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Remember those who ran towards danger

The haunting sound of hundreds of PASS (Personal Alert Safety System) devices chirping in the rubble after the towers fell. Each one represents a fallen hero. I can't get that sound out of my head. pic.twitter.com/oiYpHi5SGE

— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) September 10, 2026

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Washington Democrats refuse to read the fine print

Not only did Washington State Democrats defy the state constitution to enact an income tax (on “millionaire” households) but they snuck in a provision that stripped the state’s public employee pensions’ exemption from taxes.

The time bombs mentioned above are individual clauses in the tax bill that apply the Income Tax to the Retirement Plans of all Public employees. There is a separate clause, mentioning every single public employee retirement fund (each group has their own account) as being subject to income taxation. I’m betting that those public unions didn’t see themselves as having to pay that tax, only the amorphous “millionaires” in Washington.

I’m sure the unions are keeping their fingers crossed that the income level for the tax stays at “millionaire household” level, even though the legislature built-in a “can raise at any time” provision.

Oops.

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Remember her name. Madeline Amy Sweeney.

She knew she wasn’t coming home. And she chose to be a witness anyway.
​On the morning of September 11, 2001, 35-year-old Madeline "Amy" Sweeney was working aboard American Airlines Flight 11. Minutes after takeoff, terror took the cabin. The cockpit went dark. Crew members were… pic.twitter.com/D0ItVncwTT

— Afshine Emrani MD FACC (@afshineemrani) September 3, 2026

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Truth is not a Leftwing value

On CNN NewsNight, The Atlantic’s Jemele Hill argues that capitalism is oppressive and bound up in white supremacy.

Kmele Foster: “It's one thing to not think capitalism isn't working ideally. It's another thing entirely to insist that it is oppressive, that it is bound up with… pic.twitter.com/PLWRCuxt7v

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) September 2, 2026

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Remember his name, Peter Ganci

The last known footage of Peter Ganci alive is four seconds long. He is being told the towers are about to come down.

He was the top uniformed officer in the FDNY, with 11,000 firefighters under him. He called them his children. He ran the rescue of both towers from a command… pic.twitter.com/QTm3u7zThV

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 10, 2026

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California falls for the Nigerian Prince scam

EXCLUSIVE: A Nigerian chieftain billed Medicaid more than $36 million, then snapped up luxury properties in California and built a magnificent palace in Abatete, Nigeria—including a golden statue of himself.

The experts told us it has all the red flags for fraud. pic.twitter.com/P7qyuH3tbs

— Christopher Rufo (@christopherrufo) September 9, 2026

Though, considering how rampant this kind of fraud is in California — and that the Democrats are so scared of exposure they passed the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” — how much of that $36million made it back into Democrat campaign funds? Hmmmmm… inquiring minds …

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Not all heroes walk on two legs

They didn't know what a terrorist attack was. They just knew people needed finding, so they went in.

Nearly 300 search and rescue dogs worked Ground Zero, the Pentagon, and Shanksville in the days after September 11. Labradors, German Shepherds, Golden Retrievers, dogs with… pic.twitter.com/KfkOyyPNDe

— Michael Mattox – The Mad Ox (@TheRealMadOx) September 11, 2026

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Sunday palate cleanser

Drones re-create Twin Towers over NYC skyline to honor 9/11 victims https://t.co/jFKqcSnoi4 pic.twitter.com/52hY9BB776

— New York Post (@nypost) September 10, 2026

Never forget.

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Your Sunday smile

Worth repeating … and I cry every time.

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I’m sorry to say, dears, that our time together this Sunday has come to a close. Please grab snacks on your way out and enjoy the rest of the day and I’ll see you next week. Cheers!

featured image original graphic by Darleen Click