A horse that bolted from the trail in a remote countryside area of Alberta has been found after a “crazy journey” that saw professional trackers, planes, and emotional support from strangers as far away as Germany, all lend a hand in looking for him. Flex is a championship endurance horse, and an inseparable companion to […] The post Missing Horse Reunited With its Family After ‘Crazy Journey’ appeared first on Good News Network.

We are living in unprecedented times. That statement is always true, but as events around us continue to unfold, it’s difficult to awaken each morning without wondering what development of the day will become history in the making. Unanticipated incidents, be they acts of God or assassination attempts, define themselves. Others, from proposed legislation to controversial court cases, are subject to the manipulation of their acolytes. Claiming to be on “the right side of history” is a common tactic such people employ. The phrase, usually emanating from the Left, is used as a debate-stopper, an argument-ender, a moral cudgel, as if the one who invokes it has special insight into the ultimate judgment of things (which, ironically, implies an ultimate judge, an implication most of them are unwilling to accept). But the judgments of man are notoriously fickle. As the eminent 20th-century journalist John Chamberlain said: “There is no compulsion on the decent human being to be ‘with history’ when history is driving headlong toward an abyss.” There was a time when the Plessy v. Ferguson and Dred Scott decisions by the Supreme Court were thought to be on the right side of history, to say nothing of Roe v. Wade. Royalists thought they were on the right side of history during the American Revolution, as did Jacobins and Bolsheviks during the French and Russian revolutions. All were mistaken, and the world is better off for having recognized that forward doesn’t always equate to progress. British writer and lay theologian C.S. Lewis pointed out: Progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man. Progressives’ preoccupation with being on “the right side of history” is both ironic and cynical given their generalized disdain for that which has come before. Conservatives, by contrast, tend to be proven “right” on so many things—economics, education, good governance—because they are “on the side of history.” Wise policymakers don’t behave as if the world began with their coming of age. They believe in knowing and learning from those who have gone before. They respect generations of accumulated insight, “the democracy of the dead,” in the words of English author G.K. Chesterton, in contrast to “the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.” Claims to be on “the right side of history” fail to recognize that throughout time, immense progress has come as the result not of arrogantly pressing forward but humbly hearkening back. It’s no accident that two of the world’s most consequential advances, the Renaissance and the Reformation, both begin with the prefix “re,” a Latin root that means “again.” Describing the milieu of that time, British historian and author Alec Ryrie says: “The Renaissance gave western Christendom a slogan: ad fontes, ‘to the sources,’ an urge to return to the ancient, and therefore pure, founts of truth.” Among those truths was the concept of metanoia, a Greek word that biblical scholar William Tyndale translated into English as “repentance.” For his service to humanity, Tyndale was burned at the stake in 1536, demonstrating the arrogance of those who presume to know the future. There is, as it turns out, no predetermined “right side of history,” at least this side of eternity. Events may be as cyclical as they are linear; the world repeatedly has devolved into disarray only to be regathered by a return to first things, balance, and centeredness. The more we abandon the wisdom of the ages in favor of our own arrogant assumptions, the more we hasten the day when there is no more history, the world having descended into barbarism—or nuclear winter. The right side of history is not something that can be proclaimed, only revealed. And only over time and by One whose judgment is inscrutable. This calls for humility, something those who casually invoke the phrase tend to desperately lack. History will take its own course; the best way to ensure we’re on its good side is to learn from what has gone before, respect our role in its current unfolding, and revere its ultimate judge. The post The Right Is on the Side of History appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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A team of astrophysicists have mapped the “Lyman-Alpha Forest", and provided further supporting evidence that galaxy and galaxy cluster formations are better explained by dark matter than alternative theories.While observing the universe, astronomers found that galaxies and galaxy clusters don't behave in the way we would expect. In short, stars at the edge of galaxies move so fast (in most, but not all galaxies) that they should be yeeted off into intergalactic space given the amount of visible mass we can see in those galaxies.There are alternative explanations, such as Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) where it is proposed that gravity works differently at low accelerations. There are problems with MOND, and the currently favored hypothesis by most physicists is that space is filled with invisible "dark matter" which only interacts with other baryonic matter (the stuff which we can see) via gravity.     To explain the dynamics of galaxies and galaxy clusters, dark matter is expected to have about 10 times as much mass as ordinary baryonic matter, but so far we haven't found any direct evidence of what it is. Candidates still range from weakly interactive massive particles (WIMPS) and axions to primordial black holes, though this latter candidate is also beginning to look unlikely. It has been suggested too that it could be caused by supermassive black holes behaving in ways we haven't got our comparatively very puny heads around yet.In the new study, astrophysicists from the University of California, Riverside, used the “Lyman-Alpha Forest" to attempt to indirectly map dark matter. Essentially, they looked at light from distant sources and mapped drops in light along the hydrogen wavelength. These drops in light correspond to matter the light has encountered along the way.“It’s somewhat like shadow puppetry, where we guess the character placed between the light and the screen based on its silhouette,” Simeon Bird, associate professor of physics and astronomy and lead author of the study, said in a statement. “Since each type of atom has a specific way of absorbing light, leaving a sort of signature in the spectrogram, it is possible to trace their presence, especially that of hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe," Bird explained.                     The result of mapping this light is the "forest", resembling many small trees. The team says that using hydrogen spectrograms can be used to trace dark matter indirectly, like pouring dye into a stream of water.“The dye will follow where the water goes,” Bird said. “Dark matter gravitates so it has a gravitational potential. The hydrogen gas falls into it, and you use it as a tracer of the dark matter. Where it is denser there’s more dark matter. You can think of the hydrogen as the dye and the dark matter as the water.”                     The team suggests that the structures seen in the resulting map are indicative of an unknown influence, or that dark matter is a particle. This is, of course, not "mystery solved" as we have never detected such a particle.“It’s not completely convincing yet,” Bird added. “But if this holds up in later data sets, then it is much more likely to be a new particle or some new type of physics, rather than the black holes messing up our calculations.”The study is published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics.

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Just 10 days ago, Vice President Kamala Harris was pulled out of the basementof the Naval Observatory, given a glow-up, and debuted like a fresh new candidate for a tired Democratic Party. A corporate media that had closed ranks to march the old man off the ticket was now lockstep in support ofthe “cool” new “pick." In tandem with TV hosts and pundits, the media launched a concerted campaign to label the other guys “weird.” It was a bold tactic from the party of hair-sniffing, dress thieves, naked gender-benders on the South Lawn, and West Hollywood SoulCycle, but the internet activists loved it. Take a peek behind all that girlboss energy, however, and you’ll notice a general election campaign unlike any we’ve seen in 50 years. It seems the Democrats have confused voter energy with Zoom activist energy. And that energy is real. It’s not normal people energy, though. There’s the surface-level stuff, like launching the get-out-the-vote effort on “Ru Paul’s Drag Race.” There are more serious tells, like hosting a series of internet rallies segregated by race, gender, and sexuality. And then there’s Joe Biden’s plan to break and remake the one branch of government that sometimes resists Democrats’ every whim, which Harris quickly endorsed. From the glitter to the gears, the sum of the first week and a half of the campaign is a vision for a radical, norm-smashing, institution-breaking agenda. And this is in July. That’s not your usual presidential campaign. It's much more the sort of thing Democrats (and in the reverse, Republicans) do during the primaries, which these days generally wrap up in early spring. Harris didn’t get that chance because there was no actual primary. She didn’t have the opportunity to get the activists in line and excited to text all their friends to vote for the new girl. So now, fewer than 100 days from the general election, she’s going full weird. “We’ve got to keep the energy going,” former Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak (Nev.) told the New York Times. “You got it started — now you’ve got to keep it going. It’s going to be a challenge for everybody.” But is this the kind of energy Democrats really need right now? In 2020, when beating President Donald Trump was the be-all and end-all, the party pooh-bahs were desperate to shut down this kind of radical politicking, pressuring other candidates to step aside to clear the path for Biden and then desperately (and successfully) selling him as a soothing, healing moderate. In their exuberance at having canceled Biden’s re-election, have those party pooh-bahs all forgotten what they had to do to win the last round? With virtually all of elite society arrayed against Trump, rampant news censorship, unpoliced absentee ballots, COVID-backed election control, and a big bag of other tricks, they managed a win in 2020 as soothing, healing moderates. They’d do well to stick to that playbook. Instead, it seems they’ve confused voter energy with Zoom activist energy. And that energy is real. The “white dudes” and “white women” calls raised millions for the campaign. It’s not normal people energy, though, and running farther and farther left to generate more and more internet applause is the political equivalent of throwing a little fentanyl into the cocktail for a good high. You won’t hear any calls for moderation on the “White Dudes for Harris” Zoom call, however. You’d have to log off and head to Pennsylvania or Arizona or Georgia for that. New York Times: Harris looks to maintain momentum as ‘honeymoon phase’ winds down Terry Schilling: Far from a reset, Harris is a leader in the war on families Blaze News: Corporate media tries to spin Biden-Harris admin as tough on the border crisis — that Democrats created Blaze News investigates: Biden-Harris closure of largest ICE detention center affirms admin’s commitment to open border chaos Sign up for Bedford’s newsletter Sign up to get Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford's newsletter. IN OTHER NEWS Virginia AG launches Democrat donor fraud investigation Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares announced Monday that his office is investigating seriously suspicious giving through ActBlue following a year of reports exposing seemingly laundered donations. ActBlue, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit, sits at the center of Democrats’ and liberals’ massive fundraising apparatus. It saves and collates donors’ information, allowing people who have given to any one of ActBlue’s causes or politicians to give one-click donations to any other ActBlue cause or politician. The problem is how many people seem to be donating thousands more than they’ve actually given. In March 2023, investigative journalist James O’Keefe reported on Maryland residents who had no idea how much money ActBlue was collecting in their names. One woman, a Biden donor and ActBlue user, was shocked to learn that $18,850 had been given across a thousand donations under her name. A follow-up investigation in North Carolina discovered other Democrats who were similarly surprised to hear that tens of thousands of dollars had been given across thousands of donations made in their names. Miyares’ commitment to investigating claims of fraud in Virginia came after Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk highlighted allegations that the same thing is happening in the Old Dominion. James O’Keefe confronts ActBlue on alleged fraud Real Clear Politics: These high-volume Dem donors don't know their names were used for donations Carolina Journal: Investigation indicates ActBlue potentially ‘laundered’ fraudulent political donations Fox News 2023: Rubio demands probe into ActBlue after reports of ‘fraudulent’ fundraising off seniors The fire rises: Compact: Will Kamala be Hillary 2.0? Trump’s 2016 campaign message changed things. It was the first time a serious candidate for president had pushed an anti-globalist trade message since Ross Perot and the first time a free-trade skeptic had entered the White House in even longer. Biden’s administration largely continued these policies. Some of the biggest donors in both parties, however, want to turn back to a time before “America First” economics. Matt Stoller reports: Last week, a little-noticed fight broke out among Democrats that could upend the 2024 election. Speaking on CNN, billionaire LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman said he supports Kamala Harris but wants major policy shifts if she becomes president: changes that would see the party ditch central elements of the Biden agenda on trade and corporate power. If Harris doesn’t resist such pressure forcefully, she could attract huge business support and bask in media favor — but also lose important battlegrounds and end up as Hillary Clinton 2.0 ...... As one senior labor leader told me, how Harris responds will determine whether she leads a broad coalition for economic reform — or a Hillary rerun ...

A combination between old-school dungeon crawler, Escape From Tarkov-esque extraction shooter, and fantasy RPG, Dungeonborne is one of the most compelling new co-op games on Steam right now. Grounded and tough like Dark and Darker, it’s also a little lighter, a little friendlier, and a little closer to Skyrim as compared to Ironmace’s flagship. Well worth a try, Mithril, the creator of Dungeonborne nevertheless warns of latency issues and connection problems as the game faces DDoS attacks “every day.” The announcement comes alongside a new Dungeonborne update which balances classes and introduces a fresh in-game event. Continue reading Hardcore Steam RPG Dungeonborne is getting DDoS attacks “every day” MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best RPGs, Best survival games, Best multiplayer games

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