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During this Thanksgiving week, some will say – that the year has been unkind, with losses too high, worries too many, friends too few, days too cold, not enough new, and growing old. Banish those thoughts, here and now. Think afresh about how – lucky we are. Charles Schultz used to pen his Peanuts cartoons, Snoopy always the happy one, never more than at Thanksgiving, that irrepressibly grateful, humble, quick-to-wag dog. Truth is, my own drawings are bad, so you will find no witty things under nicely sketched cartoon kids or dogs, but I have one – a happy dog....

The second-biggest loser of the 2024 election is Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who is being demoted from the powerful Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate to the largely powerless Minority Leader. Schumer’s demotion to the minority status — which is shared by the other 46 Democrats — was smoothed by his support for President Joe Biden’s maximum-migration policy.

Condo residents in Florida are in uproar after being served a huge $21 million special assessment bill for repairs - just 16 years after construction. Some residents of the two condo buildings in Brickell, Miami, face individual payments of more than $40,000, leaving them feeling blindsided and financially overwhelmed. Some are even considering selling up as a result. The condo board insists the repairs are urgent and required under law, and work is already underway on projects such as a roof replacement and a pool deck restoration. But residents are questioning why, after construction finished less than two decades ago,...

Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, during a recent conversation with journalist Bari Weiss, made some startling revelations. Noonan calls herself a conservative and was once a speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan. But like most mainstream conservative commentators of that era, Noonan abandoned both her conservative and journalistic principles to devolve into a rabid hater of President Trump. She believed the hoaxes against President Trump, particularly the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. When she was proven wrong, instead of accepting her mistake, she claimed she didn’t “know what to think of Trump/Russia” and wasn't "satisfied we’ll ever fully understand it.” In such...

Introduction Lex Fridman: So, what is the difference between a madman and a genius? Javier Milei: Success. The following is a conversation with Javier Milei, the president of Argentina. He is a libertarian, anarcho-capitalist, and economist who campaigned with a chainsaw symbolizing his promise to slash the corrupt bureaucracy of the state. Milei stepped into the presidency one year ago, with Argentina on the brink of hyperinflation, deep in debt, and suffering from mass unemployment and poverty. He took this crisis head-on, transforming one of Latin America’s largest economies through pure free-market principles. In just a few months, he achieved...

Dramatic footage from the overnight hours shows what appears to be an explosion rocking part of the Port of Miami, a major seaport located in Biscayne Bay at the mouth of the Miami River in Miami, Florida. "Numerous people have reported hearing and seeing a large explosion at the Port of Miami," X user RawAlerts said in the early morning hours. RawAlerts said, "Additional footage and According to one worker, a 20-foot container with a car inside reportedly blew up. Car brand unknown. Which reportedly caused the large explosion."

The small rural Canadian township of Emo (population 1,333) is being ordered by the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal to pay damages after failing to proclaim Pride Month as instructed back in 2020.

The MONTHLY Gardening Thread is a gathering of folks that love soil, seeds and plants of all kinds. From complete newbies that are looking to start that first potted plant, to gardeners with some acreage, to Master Gardener level and beyond, we would love to hear from you. If you have specific question about a plant/problem you are having, please remember to state the Growing Zone where you are located. This thread is a non-political respite. No matter what, you won’t be flamed, and the only dumb question is the one that isn’t asked. It is impossible to hijack the...

San Jose State University will face Colorado State Saturday at the Mountain West Conference tournament final in women’s volleyball after a months-long controversy and ongoing legal challenges claiming there is a transgender player on the team. Over the last several months, multiple teams in the Mountain West Conference, as well as one other team, refused to play against San Jose State. The dispute continued as several athletes from various schools in the conference filed a federal lawsuit earlier this month seeking to stop a San Jose State player from competing in championship games....... Neither the player in question nor San...

NASHVILLE, Tuesday, Nov. 29. Nothing has been heard from HOOD's army on our front since yesterday evening, the telegraph wires being down. HOOD made an assault on our works at Columbia, south of Duck River, on Saturday, and was badly repulsed. A small portion of the rebel cavalry have succeeded in crossing Duck River. HOOD has made other developments of his plans, but thus far he has accomplished nothing further than conscripting some of his "dear friends." There is no foundation for the rumor of the evacuation of Johnsonville, except a proper preparation for possible contingencies. The military situation is...

Kosovo stepped up security measures around "critical" infrastructure Saturday after an explosion at a key canal feeding two of its main power plants, as neighboring Serbia rejected accusations it had staged the blast. The explosion occurred Friday near the town of Zubin Potok in a Serb-dominated area in Kosovo's troubled north, damaging the canal supplying water to cooling systems at two coal-fired power plants that generate most of Kosovo's electricity. Visiting the site on Saturday, Prime Minister Albin Kurti announced that police had arrested several people in connection with the attack. Law enforcement "carried out searches" and "collected testimony and...

One of the most intriguing developments following Donald Trump’s election victory has been the announcement of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. The initiative, which hopes to cut up to $2 trillion from the federal budget, has generated notable excitement, momentum, and memes. The world’s richest man and a successful biotech entrepreneur, Ramaswamy, have revitalized what seemed to be a mostly dormant libertarianism, drawing on the inspiration of Milton Friedman and promising to slash the bureaucracy to the bone. But what are its prospects for real-world success? Elon Musk is our era’s most gifted entrepreneur,...

“Do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is” (Ephesians 5:17). God’s will is revealed in His Word. How can a Christian walk wisely and know the will of God for his life? The will of God is explicitly revealed to us in the pages of Scripture. God’s will is that we be: Saved—“This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Tim. 2:3-4; compare 2 Peter 3:9). Spirit-filled—“Do not be foolish, but understand what the...

As we wade into the political abyss of a lame duck Congress, the Democratic Party is in complete disarray. Add in a President who is mentally impaired, and an incoming President who is prepared to make sweeping political change; the atmosphere is ripe for chaos. Four weeks out from the election, the Democrats still have no idea why they lost. The laying of blame, the ongoing finger pointing, the unwillingness to accept responsibility for their defeat, is daily news. The online temper tantrums of their proxies only serve to provide entertainment for conservatives. Hollywood personalities leaving the country does no...

Former GOP Congressman David Jolly said Friday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that the media should not give President-elect Donald Trump “equity” by going to Mar-a-Lago like “Morning Joe“ hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski did. Jolly said, “What is really unsettling about it is coming off of the election, those who have tried to act responsibly, feel the pain of the loss. We didn’t wake up after the election and think, I’m upset because I was wrong. We’re upset because we know we’re right, but we’re on the losing side of this battle. And so what does that mean for a...

Attacks on free speech at Stanford University in recent years are emblematic of the problems colleges across the country are facing ... Universities have suffered a cataclysmic decline in public approval and support. only 36% of Americans polled either expressed “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education — once the agreed-on touchstone to upward mobility. Gifting to most universities has been down for two consecutive years. There is zero intellectual diversity on most university campuses. Speakers with conservative viewpoints are often either disinvited or shouted down — and worse. The federally guaranteed student loan program...

Joe Biden's staffers have reportedly been 'triggered' by his inability to hold the tradition of the outgoing president taking 'departure photos' with White House employees. Biden was set to depart the White House in January no matter who won after he declined to seek a second term in July. Now, however, he'll be handing the presidency back to Trump after Kamala Harris was soundly beaten by Biden's predecessor. The staff, however, has apparently reached a new low in terms of morale, launching into unhappy groupchats about not getting their goodbye pictures. The photos are apparently a tradition when the president...

The Russians have the necessary aircraft to launch them in Syria and literally millions of these terrible precision weapons.

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem (11/30/24)[Prayer]Names and Titles of God the Holy Spirit (No Respecter of Persons) Acts 11:12-1712 And the Spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting. Moreover these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered into the man's house: 13 And he shewed us how he had seen an angel in his house, which stood and said unto him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, whose surname is Peter; 14 Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved. 15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost...

Donald Trump’s signature dance moves to the song Y.M.C.A has become a cultural phenomenon. Trump even did his signature dance while dressed as a sanitation worker after Biden called his supporters “garbage.”