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Most people will experience back pain. In fact, two-thirds of us will deal with it if we don’t already, said Karena Wu, doctor of physical therapy, Start TODAY trainer and orthopedic physical therapist. As we age, our back issues will only get more challenging because with getting older comes mobility changes. You might notice a shift in your ability to walk and move freely, and maintain balance and strength, she said during a TODAY segment. So, “restoring mobility and maintaining mobility is super important,” she added. And one move in particular can make all the difference.

Brivael Le Pogam@brivael·5hTranslated from FrenchIn 50 years, history books will say that Elon Musk won a war that no one even knew we were losing.A war that began 100 years ago, in an Italian prison cell.In 1926, Mussolini had a 35-year-old Sardinian intellectual arrested. At the trial, the prosecutor reportedly said: "We must stop this brain from working for twenty years."His name was Antonio Gramsci.His brain never stopped working. In prison, he filled thousands of pages that became one of the most influential political texts of the 20th century. I think we're living through the moment when his theory is...

It’s likely nothing unless you travel a lot. However, it would be prudent to maintain heightened situational awareness on Tuesday (6th) and Wednesday (7th). There is a better than average likelihood the RAF Fairford base attack was going to coincide on Oct 6 or 7 with what the French provocateurs are calling a “National Day of Action.” The U.K terrorist network was simply caught in the rehearsal phase. October 7th is the anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel. The “Red‑Green Alliance” refers to a tactical partnership between far‑left movements (“red”) and Islamist movements (“green”), rooted in shared opposition to...

There are 15-16 million illegal aliens in the US according to Grok.There are 270,000 temporary protected refugees down from a peek of 1.3 million under Biden according As for asylum seekers, there are between 3.5 million and 3.7 million pending claims according to Grok.This would make roughly 20 million more to deport and does not count birthright citizens born to illegals nor does it count legal residents like H1B visa holders and their dependents (about 1.3 million) nor OPT visa holders (400,000).20 million seems like a pretty low number to me given how common illegals are in schools, on construction...

The “Dumbocrats” NarrativeA long list of prominent conservatives have referred to leftists and Democrats as dumb, stupid, incompetent, crazy, and insane. In 2007, Ann Coulter wrote the book “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans.” Both Rush Limbaugh and President Trump regularly referred to Democrats as “Dumbocrats.” More recently, the leader of the House Freedom Caucus called Democrats “the crazy party,” and JD Vance framed the contrast between the parties as “common sense vs. crazy.” Matt Margolis titled a piece in PJ Media this year “Democrats Are Too Stupid to Heed This Warning,” and posited that somewhere between the...

Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said Monday night that President Donald Trump has approved the execution by Army firing squad of convicted terrorist and shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist, was convicted in 2013 of fatally shooting 13 people in 2009 and injuring 32 others at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas.The date and location of the shooting has not been selected.

This ought to cause the wild-eyed Democrats to start pulling out their hair... Hispanic voters support Republicans over Democrats by a 50%-42% margin in the latest Rasmussen poll taken from 9-24 to 9-30. Generic Ballot — Hispanic voters 🟥 Republicans 50% (+13) 🟦 Democrats 42% (-8) (+/- shuft vs 9/17) @Rasmussen_Poll | 9/24-30 | 1,794 LV https://t.co/nbRePzLGEF — InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) October 5, 2026 Real Clear Politics highlighted Rasmussen Reports for having the most accurate poll of popular vote results in the 2016 presidential election. Now, look at these other polls... The legacy media polls have Democrats up by 20-30%! Someone...

In an interview on "The Benny Show" with Benny Johnson, Mike Benz argues that USAID played a broad role in shaping Brazil’s political and institutional landscape. MIKE BENZ: What's happening in Brazil was a full-on Truman show. You had the media funded by USAID. You had the universities funded by USAID. You had the staffers of the Supreme Court and the TSE (Superior Electoral Court), the election court, USAID. You had all the constitutional law advocates funded by USAID. You had the LGBT activists funded by USAID. It's full spectrum. If you were to walk down a city block in...

...Afederally funded project recruiting landlords to house refugees kept operating after the Trump administration suspended its State Department award—with support from another federal agency. The project, Refugee Housing Solutions, is run by Church World Service. It recruits property owners and connects them with ReHome, an online platform matching refugees and other newcomers with rentals.... Its own suspension announcement⁠ explains how the operation continued: work funded by the State Department stopped, while services supported by the Department of Health and Human Services remained. One federal funding stream was suspended. Another kept the project running. The housing arrangements can include substantial financial...

J.R.R. Tolkien’s vision of a declining Gondor offers a warning for the troubled West—but also a message of hope that renewal remains possible. The Despair and Hope of J. R. R. TolkienThe novelist J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973) repeatedly insisted that his epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings, written from 1937 to 1949, was not allegorical. But some scholars have argued otherwise, detecting contemporary, 20th-century influences in his storytelling. Tolkien fought at the nightmarish Battle of the Somme in World War I. He witnessed the slaughter of the youth of Europe in the trenches that lived with him the...

2008 EU (then including the UK) nominal GDP was larger than the US, not “similar sized.” Common figures from IMF/World Bank-sourced compilations: EU ≈ $19.3 trillion vs. US ≈ $14.8 trillion (EU roughly 130% of US). Other series show EU around $16.3–16.4 trillion vs. US ~$14.8 trillion. In either case the EU was clearly bigger, boosted by a strong euro (near all-time highs vs. the dollar) and enlargement.​ Visualcapitalist “Similar sized” is therefore inaccurate for nominal GDP in USD. (Euro-area-only comparisons were closer in some contemporaneous accounts, but the statement refers to the EU.) 2025–2026 US nominal GDP is in...

My September 29 post asked whether we could deem as “definitively falsified” the hypothesis that human-caused global warming was leading to “more and more severe” hurricanes. The cited basis for the question was that, despite the endlessly repeated prediction of “more and more severe” hurricanes, as of that date not a single hurricane had yet formed this season in the North Atlantic basin. This represented a record-low rate of hurricane formation in this region since the satellite era, and comprehensive hurricane data, began in 1966. (Since that post, five more days have passed, and there is still no hurricane in...

An Afghan refugee who killed a dog walker and attacked two other people in a "frenzy of violence" has been given an indefinite hospital order and recommended for deportation. Dawood Safi, 28, stabbed Wayne Broadhurst, 49, in the street during a series of knife attacks which began at Safi's home in Uxbridge, west London, on 27 October 2025, Southwark Crown Court heard. Safi, who was having paranoid delusions and hearing voices, attacked his landlord Shahzad Farrukh minutes before killing Broadhurst, and also stabbed a 14-year-old boy. The 28-year-old admitted manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility. Mrs Justice Cutts, who told...

The Biden administration did attempt to prosecute parents federally for the crime of disagreeing with school boards in 2020 and 2021, says a new report from the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DoJ) Weaponization Working Group. As America begins to vote early before the November 3 midterm election, this is worth recalling -- and, indeed, getting more details on, as it shows how far some are willing to go to criminalize and thereby control free citizens. The Weaponization Working Group came about after President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 14147 to bring accountability and to hopefully prevent this from happening again....

The Pentagon announced Monday that Nidal Hasan, who was sentenced to death for the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, will be executed by firing squad, marking the first U.S. military execution in more than 60 years. The shooting left 13 people dead and wounded 32 others. Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recommended the execution, and it was approved by President Donald Trump. The time and place of the execution have not yet been announced, but Army policy outlines that executions must happen within 150 days of the president approving it,...

So, admit it, you'd get a kick out of listening to "Little Duece Coup". Here it is.1978, Wheatland CA, rice-fields country--driving on Hwy 99, you have to close your windows because of pesticides in the rice paddies-- north of Sacramento, south of Marysville-Yuba City; Hancock Gas Station. (Hwy 99, Tule fog, "Death Alley", UC Davis Med Center Sacramento had the #1 trauma E.R. in the world in the late 1970s, until it was defunded, E.R. Surgeons as skilled as "battlefield" trauma surgeons in Beirut, Lebanon or Northern Ireland.)I can't find a photo, but the station had a standard, baked-enamel gas...

A society that forfeits reality forfeits its future. DEI and woke masquerade as promoting opportunity for those less advantaged, but the idea is flawed. It begins by sorting people into an artificially constructed class of the oppressed and the enlightened, a hierarchy of “less-thans” and “better-thans.” Once someone assigns a group to “less than,” they have already placed themselves into “better than.” The messaging insists it is about social awareness, but it’s really about superiority. Beneath that posture sits a psychological device that shields adherents from examining their own internal conflicts and dictates exactly what one is permitted and forbidden...

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Jeffrey Archer, a best-selling British author, politician, philanthropist, athlete and one-time jailbird whose résumé seesawed between achievement and disgrace, and who inspired abiding public fascination with headline-grabbing accounts, both fictional and personal, of ambition, self-promotion, misbehavior and scandal, died on Monday at his home in London. He was 86 ...In his days as a politician — both as a member of Parliament in the elected House of Commons and as deputy head of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative Party — he displayed a barely veiled hunger for the top job. His friendships and alliances eventually won him a place in the unelected...

Apple News allegedly failed to promote a single story about the Democratic National Committee’s financial woes among its top 20 stories over nearly nine months, according to a new analysis by the Media Research Center. The watchdog group found that none of the 78 stories it identified about the DNC’s mounting debt were promoted by Apple News from Jan. 1 through Sept. 28 — just weeks before the 2026 midterm elections. “Apple isn’t curating the news,” David Bozell, president of the MRC, said. “It’s running a high-tech protection racket for the political left.” The findings come as Democrats grapple with...