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A male dressed in a costume resembling a character from the movie "Dumb and Dumber" allegedly tried to force his way into a Houston apartment early Thursday morning, police told KPRC-TV — and paid a painful price.

Investigators told the station a man in an apartment in the 2300 block of Bering Drive was awakened just before 2:30 a.m. by someone kicking his apartment door and trying to open the handle.

'Well, seems the costume was appropriate for his ignorance.'

Investigators added to KPRC that the man's girlfriend and their 1-year-old child also were inside the apartment.

The man asked his girlfriend if she recognized the person outside, but she said she did not know him, the station reported.

Police told KPRC the resident grabbed an AR-15 rifle and opened the door, which led to an argument with the suspect.

But when the suspect allegedly tried to push his way into the apartment, the resident shot the suspect, the station said.

KPRC said the suspect was taken to a hospital with a gunshot wound to his upper body and was listed in critical condition.

Investigators added to the station that the suspect was wearing a Halloween costume resembling a character from the movie "Dumb and Dumber" — including an orange suit and a top hat.

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KPRC said police believe the suspect may live in the same apartment complex and may have been intoxicated after returning from a party and mistakenly gone to the wrong apartment.

Both men are believed to be in their 30s, the station said.

Citing police, KIAH-TV said the resident, his girlfriend, and the child were unharmed.

To say the comments under KPRC's story about the incident are humorous is an understatement. Here's a primo example: "Well, seems the costume was appropriate for his ignorance," one commenter wrote. "Thank goodness the resident had the means to defend himself and his apartment."

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By G-d, Democrats are running on raging Jew hatred ahead on Tuesday's elections.

Americans are getting squeezed by higher premiums while the insurance giant rakes in billion.

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So-called climate change gets a bad rap.

Manufactured fears over the climate have not only been weaponized for decades against Western industry, affordable energy, and consumer choice, but have also contributed to mental instability and the demographic crisis underway.

'We have jolted the system.'

Now, it turns out the alarmists may have been way off about everything — including the severity, impact, and timeline of anthropogenic climate change and even about climate change being a problem in the first place.

A new study published on Thursday in the esteemed journal Science shows that humanity's global heat generation has spared North America from freezing over once again.

During the most recent cold glacial period, better known as the Ice Age, most of Canada and the northern U.S. was buried under the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Ice thickness in some areas is estimated to have reached upwards of 2.48 miles, and the LIS, at its largest, stretched from Chicago to above the Arctic Circle.

Thousands of years ago, this sheet melted away such that today, all that remains of it is the Barnes Ice Cap on Baffin Island, Canada.

Having studied the LIS and its remains, researchers determined that roughly 3,600 years ago, the ice sheet had gotten as small as it was going to get, then began re-expanding around the time of the Resurrection, "marking the onset of the next glaciation."

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According to the study, warming temperatures in the latter half of the 20th century staved off further glaciation.

"The new LIS reached maximum dimensions in ~1960 CE, after which anthropogenic summer warming resulted in a negative mass balance, ice margin recession, and the termination of the next glaciation," the researchers noted in the abstract for their paper.

According to the study, rising summer temperatures "is mirrored by the increase in net effective radiative forcing associated with the measured increase in well-mixed greenhouse gases (GHGs) since ~1750 CE." In other words, the industrial revolution and its fruits have saved America from a slow and icy invasion.

Geochemist Nicolas Young, an associate research professor at Columbia Climate School and co-author of the study, stated that another ice age "was just getting started, everything was normal, the next glaciation was about to happen — and yet it stopped."

"It's a very powerful example of how we have jolted the system," added Young.

This study also gives an out to the alarmists of yesteryear who clutched pearls about global cooling.

"It actually was happening," said Young. "They couldn't quite prove it, but now we sort of have the evidence."

Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory noted that while human emissions saved the continent from an icy fate, "technically we are still living in an ice age — the Late Cenozoic Ice Age — which started about 34 million years ago."

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A major Big Tech investor who leans libertarian is doing all he can to try to keep Democrats from power in red and purple states.

According to his LinkedIn profile, Scott Banister is first and foremost a "capitalist." He was an early investor in some of the biggest tech-driven enterprises, including PayPal, Uber, and SpaceX, and co-founded the anti-spam solution IronPort.

'It's clear that state legislatures are the next frontier in expanding political power.'

Now, he is using his wealth to try to invest in America's future — by stopping radical Democrats.

Banister has pledged $40 million to Make Liberty Win, a right-leaning PAC dedicated to sending mailers, knocking on doors, and making phone calls to share with voters the truth about the Democrat agenda.

State filings confirm that Banister, through Make Liberty Win and First Amendment LLC, has spent more than $6.7 million to oppose state House and Senate Democrats just in Michigan alone. All of the nearly two dozen Michigan filings from First Amendment LLC note that Banister made the donation on September 21 and list his occupation as "angel investor."

One of the Michigan Democrats targeted by Make Liberty Win is state Sen. Chedrick Greene. Back in May, Greene won a special election to represent Senate District 35, a blue-collar area in the web of the thumb of Michigan's Lower Peninsula.

The district is light blue, so Republicans have a shot at flipping it red on Tuesday. Make Liberty Win has allocated an eye-popping $625,000 toward that effort.

Some of the direct mail has already reached registered voters:

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"These paid, third-party advertising efforts are shining a spotlight on Michigan Democrats’ record of failure," Greg Manz, senior communications adviser for the Michigan GOP, told Blaze News.

"It’s crucial that Great Lakes State voters are provided proven facts, transparency, and a clear picture of what’s happening in Lansing in order to hold these Democrat senators accountable for their reckless policy positions."

Make Liberty Work did not respond to a request for comment, and efforts to reach Banister for comment were unsuccessful.

Michigan is not the only state infused with funding from Banister and Make Liberty Work. Funding has also been distributed to Arizona, Georgia, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, with plans to reach at least three more before Election day on Tuesday, Fox News reported.

A press release about Banister's largesse said, according to Fox News:

Self-described socialists are running for office and winning in the Democratic Party, like recently elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Make Liberty Win’s campaign will stem the tide of the far-left by mobilizing student and youth activists to knock on the doors of more than two million voters in key states.

The Republican State Leadership Committee, a national group dedicated to assisting the GOP at all levels of government, believes the resources could help close the funding gap between state-level Democrats and state-level Republicans.

"Democrats are making clear that no amount of money is too much when it comes to taking control of state legislatures. With more than $200 million already committed by the largest Democratic state legislative groups, and wealthy outside donors pouring even more money into the fight, it’s clear that state legislatures are the next frontier in expanding political power," RSLC President Edith Jorge Tuñon told Blaze News in a statement.

"Their growing investment in DSA-aligned candidates makes the stakes even higher. That’s exactly why Republicans in every state across the country need to get out and vote Tuesday. The fight for our state legislatures, congressional majorities, and the political map heading into 2028 depends on it."

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