Convention canines? Volunteer therapy dogs deployed to help ‘de-stress’ law enforcement during DNC duty – Chicago Sun-Times

Cindy Gross, center, and Officer Joshua Crespo pet therapy dog Teddy during a roll call at the Near North Police District in 2021.“Police officers and agents find it hard to talk about what they are going through, but you’d be amazed at how they lean down into a dog’s fur and talk to them,” said retired police Sgt. Cindy Gross, now with the Rainbow Animal Assisted Therapy group. “It’s stunning. For instance, the police are exhausted from 12-hour shifts, no days off and little family time to de-stress..."

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Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560: Why We Need to “Relentlessly” Make the Blue State-Red State Case

Glennon raised the stakes of the moment in broader civilizational terms: “This election in Illinois is not about the usual pedestrian issues… it’s about nothing less than whether Western civilization survives in our democratic republic of America because [the left], just on the open border alone, will destroy the country, and now they’re bringing in the jihadists, frankly, into the party.” Audio and summary linked here.Audio and summary linked here.

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