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Conservationists in Germany are incensed as 120,000 trees in an ancient forest have started to be felled in order to make way for a wind farm. The forest in Sababurg, Reinhardswald, which is in the central German state of Hesse, is said to be an inspiration for the Brothers Grimm mythical tales, but now it’s being destroyed to facilitate the country’s latest green energy project. The site of the tree-toppling is next to the famous Sleeping Beauty Castle, which takes its name due to its fairytale architecture and its proximity to the mystical forest. However, now the castle will be...

Former President Donald Trump, as well as South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, former Vice President Mike Pence, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are leading President Joe Biden in a head-to-head matchup, the latest CNN poll found. The survey asked respondents who they would choose in a series of hypothetical head-to-head matchups, all including Biden and various GOP candidates. Trump, the clear leader in the Republican primary race, leads Biden in a head-to-head matchup by one percent, or 47 percent to 46 percent. Notably, Trump’s lead is within the ± 3.6 percent margin...

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity... W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming (1919) At the end of World War I, William Butler Yeats wrote his epochal poem The Second Coming, presumably reflecting upon both the apocalyptic and cataclysmic nature of recent events. Now, Mr. Yeats was no Christian by any stretch, but even he...

MSNBC’s Joy Reid said Wednesday on her show “The ReidOut” that she believed Republicans want to portray Thanksgiving as a “simplistic fairytale” to cover up for America being founded on “violence” and “genocide.” Reid said, “We begin tonight with Thanksgiving, the day we gather with friends and family to enjoy turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie. We throw on the game and catch up on our lives and discuss or quite possibly argue about religion and politics. For millions of Americans, it’s a day of cherished tradition. As Americans, we value those traditions.”

Three little pigs is a classic fairy tale, but when told in the language of William Shakespeare it becomes something completely different. Whether you have an extensive vocabulary or one with less words in your vernacular, you're sure to enjoy this amazing story telling experience from John Branyan.

BREAKING NEWS - Truckers in Ottawa are WINNING..... 50% of police in Ottawa just resigned!! The other 50% are not enforcing orders from Government. yea FREEDOM. Next is for the prime minister soy boy to be ousted.

While campaigning in Iowa, Joe Biden was asked if he would consider nominating Barack Obama to the Supreme Court. I guess it was a serious question, and Joe Biden actually responded: "if he'd take it." Wall Street Journal reporter Ken Thomas was the first to report this exchange on Twitter. Ken Thomas Biden asked here in Washington, Iowa, if he would ever nominate former President Obama to serve on the Supreme Court. “If he’d take it, yes,” Biden says. 110 1:14 PM - Dec 28, 2019 Biden has never missed an opportunity to namedrop Barack Obama and remind voters he...

Although Kristen Bell absolutely loves reading to her kids before bed, she admits she's sometimes skeptical about the "lessons" her girls — 3-year-old Delta and 5-year-old Lincoln — are learning from Disney princesses. "[Story time is] truly my favorite part of the day," Kristen told Parents. "I glance away from the book and see their brains working while we're all cuddled up like meerkats." The 38-year-old actress says that despite playing Anna in Frozen, she has reservations about some of the messages in the older princess stories. This is a modal window.The media could not be loaded, either because the...

When Corporal Ryan Stickney and 200 of his fellow Marines prepared to return to their families after Operation Desert Storm in 1991, a logistics error forced them to turn to a surprising source for a ride home: Donald J. Trump. Today, Stickney would like to say "thank you." Stickney (left), was a squad leader in a TOW company of a Marine reserve unit based in Miami, FL and spent approximately six months in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War between 1990 and 1991. Upon his unit’s return to the United States, the former Marine says the group spent several weeks...

Liberal Media will never show the true Donald Trump, they are too busy attacking him. According to Political Insider: Back in 1995, a married couple noticed a limo on the side of the road that had a flat tire. The husband pulled the car over and fixed the tire. The limo belonged to Trump, who thanked the man and asked him how he could repay him for his kind gift. The man suggested sending his wife a bouquet of flowers. Trump agreed... and when the flowers arrived several weeks later, there was a note included that said, "We've paid off...

Charles Perrault, author of Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella was born 388 years ago, and has been commemorated with a Google Doodle. Perrault was born in Paris in 1628, and was a lawyer before turning his hand to the written word. While the Brothers Grimm are widely credited with creating the fairy tale as we know it, Perrault actually wrote stories called Le Petit Chaperon Rouge, La Belle au bois dormant and Cendrillon a full 200 years before. In 1695, aged 67, he wrote Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals, a series of moral tales...

Watching Jolie pose and smolder and glower is the chief attraction of “Maleficent,” which posits that the reason for Maleficent’s rage wasn’t being left out of a christening party for Aurora, but instead started years earlier, when she fell in love with the princess’s father, Philip. Propelled by passion, power and betrayal, this iteration of the fable — written by Linda Woolverton and based on stories by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm — isn’t a lot of fun. (“I wish she had smiled more,” one tween viewer was overheard saying after a recent screening.) It’s dark and brooding and...

The ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> OLD VERSION The ant works Hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper Thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm And well fed. The grasshopper has No food or shelter, so he Dies out in the cold. MORAL OF THE OLD STORY: Be responsible for yourself! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> MODERN VERSION The ant works hard In the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house And laying...

Earlier this week, former President Bill Clinton advised President Obama to "honor the commitment" he made and to allow Americans to keep their health care plans, if they like them. That was a central promise Obama made when he sold Obamacare, but one that turned out not to be true when Obamacare began to be implemented last month. "So I personally believe, even if it takes a change to the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got," Clinton in an interview released Tuesday. Now President Obama...

My iPhone buzzes on a regular basis with "news alerts" from Politico, The Hill and other sources. Politico provides breathless, this-cannot-wait-till-you-get-to-your desk "breaking news" sirens on every hiccup emanating from the White House. On April 22, for example, the news flash permitted me to learn without delay that "President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will on Thursday attend a memorial service for the victims of last week's explosion in West, Texas." When three career employees of the State Department announced their intention to testify before Congress -- contradicting the Obama administration's carefully constructed storyline about events in Benghazi,...

He's one of the most high profile supporters of controversial religion Scientology, but A-lister Tom Cruise could be leaving the church in a bid to win back his ex-wife.

First Lady Michelle Obama’s pitch to voters last night relied on the premise that she and her husband understand what it is to struggle to make ends meet. She spoke movingly about their early years--about how a young Barack Obama drove a car that was “rusted out" and found his furniture “in a dumpster,” how they both came from families that had to “scrape by.” Her fairy tale--however well-delivered--was one great, big, colorful lie.

Glenn explains exactly why we are not the close-minded people Barack Obama think we are. (A MUST SEE VIDEO)video Media won't report the facts -We must! -NOT WHITE HOUSE APPROVED!

Today, I’m going to use economics to dissect “The Fairy’s Mistake” by Gail Carson Levine: 87 short pages that can be read in an hour. Levine writes charming fairy tales. “Ella Enchanted”, probably her most famous, is about how the use of power leads to unintended consequences, and why liberty is to be desired above all else but requires hard work and bravery to attain. “The Fairy’s Mistake” is also about unintended consequences.

Episode Original Air Date: 5/10/2012 Do not miss “The Glenn Beck Program” every night on GBTV for more episodes like the free one above. From now until November, GBTV will be the one place exposing the truth behind this administration. Last week on GBTV, Glenn ran one of his most popular and important shows – an episode dedicated to peeling back the mask of Barack Obama. On what will be only the first in a series of specials that will focus on the President, Glenn focused on the lies that Obama and his inner circle have told in order to create...