By a one-vote margin, the Texas State Board of Education approved optional biblical teachings in the state’s elementary public school curriculum. The curriculum, Bluebonnet Learning, includes Christian teachings and biblical references, such as Jesus’ parable of “The Good Samaritan” and the “Golden Rule.” The Texas Tribune reported that school districts can choose whether to use the curriculum, but the state will offer districts $60 per student to implement the Christian-based lessons. All four Democrats on the board voted against approving the curriculum, along with three Republicans. The curriculum was also supported by Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who said the lessons would “allow our students to better understand the connection of history, art, community, literature and religion on pivotal events like the signing of the U.S. Constitution, the Civil Rights Movement and the American Revolution,” according to The New York Times. Staci Childs, a Democrat and attorney who voted against the curriculum’s approval, said it will likely be challenged in court. “So if those facts alone, if a parent or a teacher who didn’t feel comfortable teaching this were to bring this up to a court, I believe they would be successful,” she said, according to NBC News. “And in my good conscience, in protecting my bar license, I just do not feel that these materials are yet reflective of the experiences and the nuance of Texas students.” Other Democrats on the board who voted against the curriculum’s approval expressed concern that it would force Christianity on public school children, according to The Texas Tribune. Republican Will Hickman, on the other hand, argued that it’s important for students to “be exposed to” the Bible’s teachings. “In my view, these stories are on the education side and are establishing cultural literacy,” Hickman said. “And there’s religious concepts like the Good Samaritan and the Golden Rule and Moses that all students should be exposed to.” CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Earlier this week, parents spoke at the State Board of Education with some arguing against the curriculum and others defending it, arguing that Christianity and the Bible are inseparable from American history. The New York Times reported that one mother, who is also a substitute teacher, told the board that Jesus’ incarnation “is and always will be the hinge of all of history.” “How would the canceling of such fundamental facts serve the education of our children or contribute to shape them morally?” she asked.

Federal prosecutors announced on Friday that they arrested and charged a 33-year-old Albanian national for allegedly attempting to provide support to ISIS and distributing instructions on how to build bombs. Authorities said that Erald Alimehmeti, who has a U.S. citizenship and used to live in the Bronx, moved back to Albania in 2014 and did two stints in the prison there — from 2015-2019 and 2020-2022. “Erald Alimehmeti not only allegedly attempted to provide material support to ISIS by trying to recruit and train who he believed to be like minded individuals online, but also repeatedly shared multiple instructions on how to make explosives for use in a terrorist attack,” said FBI Assistant Director in Charge James E. Dennehy. In between his prison terms, Alimehmeti allegedly created multiple online accounts on social media and encrypted messaging apps that he used to communicate with others about his desire to carry out terrorist attacks for ISIS. He expressed interest in attacks similar to what the D.C. sniper committed in 2002. He regularly posted ISIS propaganda online that praised the terrorist group’s leaders. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE He also allegedly posted videos showing ISIS terrorists killing American soldiers stationed in Africa and wrote: “The Islamic State in Africa killing crusaders, American and French special forces. Look at how the US special forces scream before they die!!! Hahaha!” Alimehmeti allegedly worked to compile and distribute resources on how to produce explosives that would be used in terrorist attacks. He was charged with one count of attempting to provide material support to ISIS and one count of distributing information about bomb making in furtherance of committing a violent federal crime. If convicted, each count carries up to a 20-year prison sentence.

Usually when you don’t hear about a story, that’s because it’s not particularly relevant or important. But every now and then, there’s a story that’s such a dud — that no one remotely cares about — that it actually manages to circle back around and become relevant and important again. The very fact that no one cares about the story, in itself, is worth talking about. Here’s one recent example of what I mean. About a year ago, there was a massive strike in Canada’s federal public sector. It was one of the largest strikes in the country’s history. Roughly a third of Canada’s government bureaucracy — more than 150,000 employees — walked off the job, saying they deserved higher wages and the privilege of working from home. The public-sector union in Canada expected that Trudeau’s government would immediately agree to their demands and end the strike. But that didn’t happen. For once in his political career, Trudeau hesitated before throwing taxpayers’ money away. And therefore, for nearly two weeks, Canada had to make-do without a huge portion of its federal workforce. Keep in mind, Canada is our largest trading partner. Something like 40 million people live there. They allegedly have an army. And yet no one in Canada, much less the United States, felt any negative impacts whatsoever from this huge, unprecedented government strike. Everything functioned as smoothly as it did before. The economy was untouched. People went about their lives as they normally did. The strike of Canada’s government was neither relevant nor important to anyone. Naturally, that led Canadians to ask some uncomfortable questions. They wondered, for example, whether they really needed to pay millions of dollars to the federal government, so that bureaucrats could write useless reports about, say, the precise size of all the hydrothermal vents that have been discovered in Canadian waters, or the specific number of non-binary vagrants in Vancouver who also identify as indigenous furries. As one Canadian put it at the time, in a post that was widely shared on social media:  “Other than delayed passport applications, who has actually noticed the effects of 155,000 federal servants that haven’t been working for a week? If you haven’t, perhaps there’s no need for them.” Reports from CBC News, which is Canada’s state broadcaster, focused on alleged “hardships” that the federal workers were enduring on strike. They didn’t even mention “hardships” suffered by the public, because there weren’t any hardships that anyone suffered.  Another Canadian outlet, CTV, tried its best to find a downside to what was happening. They ended up saying it was a terrible thing that Canada’s immigration system wasn’t able to allow as many foreign nationals into the country as they usually did. Watch: It’s an amazing clip to watch, now that — just one year later — Canada’s government has implemented a moratorium on most new migration. They’re finally admitting that they shouldn’t have allowed hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals into their country every year. Housing has become more expensive, crime has gotten worse and people can’t find jobs. Now even Canada’s liberals acknowledge this. But really, if they had allowed the strike to continue, they wouldn’t have needed the migration moratorium. The strike was already accomplishing that, in a roundabout way. And as you heard, it was apparently accomplishing other things, too. People weren’t getting taxed, either. It was a win-win for everyone. But of course, eventually, Trudeau caved. He had to pay the federal workers because they’re his base. As a result, Canadians are still being forced to employ a vast bureaucracy that clearly and unquestionably makes their lives worse. WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show This is a burden that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are now promising to eliminate in this country. They’ve already published a roadmap explaining how exactly their Department of Government Efficiency plans to gut the United States federal bureaucracy. And it’s worth taking a look at it, in part because this roadmap helps explain exactly how our government got completely out of control in the first place. And also, the reactions from the Left are already hysterical. They are losing their mind at the thought of a smaller, more efficient government, and it’s amazing to watch. As Musk and Ramaswamy outlined in a Wall Street Journal op-ed this week, the Department of Government Efficiency (or DOGE) has a very real chance of succeeding where other efforts to curb government expansion have failed. That’s because of two Supreme Court rulings that the conservative justices helped secure during Joe Biden’s presidency. One of those rulings overturned the so-called “Chevron doctrine.” That’s the doctrine that allowed unelected bureaucrats in government agencies to essentially make laws in certain areas, as long as Congress has given the agency some general authority to oversee those areas. This is a principle that expanded the power of the federal government far beyond what anyone probably realizes. You might remember when the Biden administration came out and declared that 85 million private sector workers had to either get the COVID shot or wear a mask. There was no law authorizing that. There was no public referendum. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration — a federal agency staffed with unelected bureaucrats — just issued a rule one day. They said mask mandates and vaccine mandates fell under their mandate of a “workplace safety” agency, even though nothing like that had ever been tried before because it made no sense whatsoever. And incredibly, until the Supreme Court stepped in, some federal courts actually agreed with the Biden administration. The Chevron Doctrine made unconstitutional mandates like that possible, along with tens of thousands of other irrational and onerous rules and regulations. Now the Chevron Doctrine is gone — but virtually all of those illegal administrative rules and regulations remain on the books. They’re not going to be removed unless the federal government (or a federal court) takes the initiative and strikes them down. And DOGE plans to strike them down. Specifically, the DOGE plan involves placing “legal experts” inside government agencies, who are aided by “advanced technology” that will allow them to apply the Supreme Court’s rulings to federal regulations. DOGE will then turn over a list of regulations to Trump, who can cut them instantly with an executive order. There’s no need for Congress to get involved here. The administrative state has gained a lot of powers over the years. And now, DOGE is going to use those powers to destroy the administrative state. That’s the first kind of reform that DOGE plans to put in place. It’s called “regulatory rescissions.” The second and third kinds of reform — the more prominent ones — are called “administrative reductions and cost savings.” This involves shutting down government agencies and firing government employees. As Musk and Ramaswamy wrote in their plan: “The number of federal employees to cut should be at least proportionate to the number of federal regulations that are nullified: Not only are fewer employees required to enforce fewer regulations, but the agency would produce fewer regulations once its scope of authority is properly limited.” In interviews, Ramaswamy has made it clear that eliminating entire government departments is on the table. Watch:   Both Musk and Ramaswamy have previously signaled their explicit support for abolishing the Department of Education in particular, which I obviously support as well. This is a Department that has just failed its third audit in a row. (Which is almost as bad as the Pentagon, which just failed its seventh consecutive audit, for its budget of nearly a trillion dollars.) No one can point to anything the Department of Education has achieved. Americans have become dumber and less educated by every metric since the Department of Education was reintroduced in this country back in 1979. Even the defenders of the Department of Education inevitably end up making it look terrible. This is one of the better tweets you’ll see on the subject, from someone on the Left who’s opposed to gutting the education bureaucracy in this country. See if you can follow the logic here: “Oh btw middle schoolers can’t read, high schoolers can’t write a proper essay, college students can’t differentiate a scholarly based article vs propaganda, and adults can’t tell when a picture is AI…But sure, get rid of the Department of Education. LOL.” That person eventually deleted that tweet, after about ten million people pointed out that all of those failures have occurred under the watch of the Department of Education. This is an agency that is not fixing any problems. It’s taking in billions of dollars and wasting it on administrative costs. Now, obviously, we don’t know yet whether DOGE will actually be able to eliminate this agency, or any other agency. A change that significant would require an act of Congress. But it’s clear that DOGE will clearly push us in that direction. And they’ll go after other useless government departments, too. Recently Elon Musk reposted this video of the economist Milton Friedman from about 15 years ago, outlining all of the government departments he’d cut. It’s a pretty big clue into the agencies that can expect significant downsizing under DOGE. Watch: Milton Friedman was the best pic.twitter.com/CeLlQnNWHo — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 20, 2024 Whatever you think of Milton Friedman, it’s obviously true that if the U.S. government had listened to him a long time ago, we’d be better off than we are now. Friedman once stated that it’s impossible to have a welfare state and open borders at the same time. You can’t promise the entire world free stuff, and then allow them all to enter the country. But the government didn’t listen to him, and now we have states like California — which are completely out of money as they rush to pay the healthcare bills of millions of illegal aliens. Later on in the video, Friedman outlined his guiding overall principle in determining whether an agency should be dismantled or retained. He explained why he thinks we still need a Defense Department, a Treasury Department, and a State Department, for example. And Freidman was using similar principles, we can assume, that Musk is going to adopt with DOGE. Critics of DOGE point out that, even if you cut all of these departments, the government’s still going to be in the red. And that’s true. Two-thirds of our spending is on entitlements like Social Security, along with interest payments on the national debt. I’ve pointed out before that Social Security is a giant Ponzi scheme that steals money from Americans. It would be far better to allow Americans to keep their paychecks, and invest their money however they want. But DOGE can’t get rid of Social Security without an act of Congress. But even given that DOGE can’t get rid of all government spending, it can still reduce a huge amount. It can make people’s lives a lot less burdensome in the process. And on top of that, some of this spending is evil. So eliminating it is good for its own sake, even if the relative savings aren’t that big, in terms of the entire U.S. budget. For example, this is from the Wall Street Journal op-ed that Musk and Ramaswamy wrote: “DOGE will help end federal overspending by taking aim at the $500 billion plus in annual federal expenditures that are unauthorized by Congress or being used in ways that Congress never intended, from $535 million a year to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and $1.5 billion for grants to international organizations to nearly $300 million to progressive groups like Planned Parenthood.” So we’re spending billions of dollars to fund propaganda on stations like NPR. And we’re also paying Planned Parenthood to murder of children. This is spending that has persisted for a lot of administrations — both Democrat and Republican — even though the vast majority of Republican voters don’t support it. It’s well past time to end it. And if DOGE can do that, just by itself, that would be a major victory. You can tell the Left realizes that. They’re melting down over the new DOGE blueprint already. Here for example was the reaction from a guy named Brian Allen, who’s apparently been featured in MSN and Yahoo Finance: “I’m not exaggerating when I say this could collapse the government within a year. Musk and Ramaswamy just dropped their first DOGE roadmap, and it’s a disaster waiting to happen. Here’s how they plan to dismantle the federal government step by step: … Plant DOGE loyalists in every U.S. agency, then use ‘advanced technology’ (probably AI) to identify thousands of regulations to slash across the board. Hand Trump this hit list of regulations and let him rubber-stamp their elimination. Gut federal agencies by finding ‘the minimum number of employees’ needed to function after gutting regulations. Think Musk’s 80% staff cuts at X but scaled up to the entire government.” Yes, he’s presenting the Twitter layoffs as a negative. Apparently this is something of a common perspective on the Left, even though it boggles the mind that anyone would think this. Elon Musk fired 80% of Twitter employees, and everyone on the Left said Twitter would collapse as a result. A lot of software engineers said the same thing on MSNBC. And none of it was true. Twitter is now a lot better than it used to be. By getting rid of all the bureaucrats and the censorship commissars at Twitter, it’s about a million times more functional and useful. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ If a top Silicon Valley company has that much bloat, then you can imagine how much bloat the federal government has. It’s staggering. And it needs to be cut. Even a lot of critics of Donald Trump understand that. Here for example is John Bolton praising the idea of DOGE — although he then says that we should spend all of the savings on bombing foreign countries. Watch: John Bolton on @DOGE: "If we can save a couple hundred billion dollars, I'd be delighted. We can spend it on the defense budget, which desperately needs an increase." pic.twitter.com/C8rx3imWXH — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) November 21, 2024   So this is something we need to look out for, obviously. It’s not very productive if we save a ton of money, and then use that money to start World War III. The point is to cut the spending, and let Americans keep more of their own money. And along the way, we need to eliminate funding for merchants of death like Planned Parenthood. In Argentina, they’ve implemented similar wide-scale cuts in government. As a result, their GDP is expected to grow by nearly 10% next year, according to JP Morgan. That’s one of the highest rates of growth in the world. This is the kind of growth you get when you destroy needless regulations and government agencies. Like Argentina, we weren’t always this bloated and inefficient. As aerospace CEO Jared Isaacman put it recently: “Take the Gerald Ford-class aircraft carriers. The first carrier was awarded in 2008, construction began in 2009, it was commissioned in 2017 and it didn’t deploy until 2022—at a cost of $18 billion (including R&D). The next carrier in the class, the JFK, will take at least 10 years from construction to commissioning and cost $12.5 billion. These timelines are staggering. During World War II, the USA built over 155 carriers in a handful of years. Or, for another perspective, these projects run longer than the time from Alan Shepard’s first suborbital flight to Neil Armstrong’s walk on the moon.” Getting us back to mid-20th century levels of government efficiency is a goal that Republicans have had for decades. And now there’s a very realistic chance it will finally happen. It’s only been two weeks since the election, and Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have already gotten to work hiring employees for DOGE, and outlining their agenda in very clear and direct terms. If and when they succeed, it’ll be a lot like the situation in Canada last year. Tens of thousands of federal bureaucrats will stop going to work, because they won’t have jobs anymore. And — other than saving a lot of money and having more freedom — Americans won’t notice a thing.

Bigfoot is real and has been procreating, according to Brittany Barbieri. These forest-dwelling creatures have been allegedly spotted mating in woodlands and reportedly living in large packs deep within the woods.Explorers studied the Sasquatch, seeking evidence of its existence in the dense forests of British Columbia, Canada. Leading cryptozoologist Brittany Barbieri, host of the Discovery documentary series Lost Monster Files, believes she was observed by Yeti families during her research in the wilderness."Those in the area live with the idea that they are there. The forest is expansive, with much of it impassable to humans. These clever tribes - and we believe they are a tribe - of creatures, could be undiscovered forever if they wanted to. These stories wouldn't persist if people weren't continually seeing it."The team conducted tests using barbed wire which caught hairs believed to belong to younger members of the Bigfoot family."The younger they are, the more curious they are, and eventually the older creatures teach the young to stay hidden over time. They are very agile in their foot placement for a reason and you will not see them unless they want you to. You will hear deer but not a Sasquatch."She continued: "We believe they were watching us the entire time and we could not have known. The human scent is much stronger, they knew we were coming, and there were many times we would know we were near as it would go silent. There was something bigger in the woods and the wildlife like birds knew it."NOTE: The article where this was reported identified Barbieri as a 'scientist.' If you read her bio, Barbieri is not an educated or accredited scientist, though she is supposedly a friend of Professor Jeff Meldrum. Cryptozoology doesn't use the scientific method. Instead, cryptozoologists rely on historical documents, eyewitness accounts, and their own observations. However, some argue that cryptozoology should be considered a legitimate science. They point out that many creatures we know today as species were once considered cryptids. LonSource: Irish Star**********DISTURBING 'MIMICS!' - NATURAL, CRYPTIDS, or SOMETHING ELSE? | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (WITNESS REPORTS!)PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHAREPHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on SpotifyPHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LISTCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistHave you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonOUR SOCIAL MEDIA LINKSBigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTubeLYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDSCRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)WEREWOLVES: DO THEY EXIST?'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINESHey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! LonCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistChicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive MapHey, folks. Please feel free to share your thoughts & comments on the recently uploaded video of the CHICAGO MOTHMAN. I'm interested in what you have to say. Thanks. LonEXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED----------Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio Insider - just $2.99 monthly, and receive these perks. Thanks for your support!-Members-only live chats-Exclusive members-only videos-Priority reply to members' commentsHave perks suggestions? LMK-----YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS-----Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. Lon Noted UFOlogist Dr. Raymond Keller believes the idea of extraterrestrials and even ultra-dimensional beings from many different planets and alternate realms living and working among us clandestinely is more than just another conspiracy theory.Available on Amazon.comSan Francisco Book Festival Honorable MentionNew York Book Festival Honorable MentionAlso available with audiobooknarration by Terry Springs,CBS-TV Las Vegas affiliate.OUR PRIVACY POLICYThis blog and newsletter are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Work 3.0 United States License.Registered trademark PHANTOMS AND MONSTERS ® / PHANTOMS & MONSTERS ® - USPTO #90902480 - Lon D. Strickler© 2005-2024 Phantoms & Monsters - All Rights Reserved

According to Soviet major-general Mikhail Stephanovitch Topilski, in 1925 his forces chased an opposing guerilla force into a cave where most of the enemy met their deaths. However, one of the surviving enemy soldiers said that while in the cave they had been attacked by several apelike creatures. One of their bodies was brought out, about which Maj. Gen. Topilski related the following, which is here translated into English:"Continuing our chase, we caught up with what was left of the exhausted gang, who had stopped for a rest at a place where the glacier was split apart by a stone cliff. The upper tongue of the glacier hung from the cliff in which there was a crevice or cave. We surrounded the gang and took up a position above where they were resting. A machine gun was placed in position. When we threw the first grenade, a man (a Russian officer) ran out onto the glacier and started shouting that the shooter would make the ice cave in and that everyone would be buried. When we demanded that they surrender he asked for time to talk it over with the other bandits and went back into the cave. Soon after we heard an ominous hissing as the ice began to move. At almost the same moment we heard shots, and not knowing what they meant decided that it was the beginning of an assault.Pieces of snow and ice started falling down from the cliff, gradually burying the entrance to the cave. When it was nearly buried three men managed to escape, and the rest were buried under the debris. Our shots killed two of the bandits and seriously wounded the third. When we reached him, he showed us the spot where the body of a Russian officer was buried and we dug it out. The wounded man turned out to be an Uzbek tea-house owner from Samarkand.We questioned him and he gave us the following information. While the bandits were discussing our order to surrender, some hairy man-like creatures, howling inarticulately, appeared in the cave through the crevice (which possibly led upwards from the cave). There were several of them and they had sticks in their hands. The bandits tried to shoot their way through. One of the bandits was killed by the creatures with the sticks. Our narrator received a blow from a stick on his shoulder and rushed to the cave entrance with one of the monsters hard on his heels. It ran out of the cave after him, but he shot it and it was buried under the snow.To check up on this strange story we made him show us the exact spot and cleared the show away. We recovered the body all right. It had three bullet wounds. Not far off we found a stick made of very hard wood, though it cannot be stated for certain that it belonged to the creature. At first glance, I thought the body was that of an ape. It was covered with hair all over. But I knew there were no apes in the Pamirs. Also, the body itself looked very much like that of a man. We tried pulling the hair, to see if it was just a hide used for disguise, but found that it was the creature’s own natural hair. We turned the body over several times on its back and its front and measured it. Our doctor made a long and thorough inspection of the body, and it was clear that it was not a human being.The body had three bullet wounds. Not far off we found a stick made of very hard wood, though it cannot be stated for certain that it belonged to the creature. At first glance, I thought the body was that of an ape. It was covered with hair all over. But I knew there were no apes in the Pamirs. Also, the body itself looked very much like that of a man. We tried pulling the hair, to see if it was just a hide used for disguise, but found that it was the creature's own natural hair. We turned the body over several times on its back and its front and measured it. Our doctor (who was killed later the same year) made a long and thorough inspection of the body, and it was clear that it was not a human.The body belonged to a male creature 170 cm tall, elderly or even old judging by the greyish color of the hair in places. The chest was covered by brownish hair and the belly with greyish hair. The hair was longer but sparser on the chest but short and thick on the belly. In general, the hair was very thick, without any underfur. There was last hair on the buttocks, from which fat our doctor deduced that the creature sat like a human being. There was most hair on the hips. The knees were completely bare of hair and had callous growths on them. The whole foot including the sole was quite hairless and was covered by hard brown skin. The hair got thinner near the hand and the palms had none at all, but only callous skin.The color of the face was dark, and the creature had neither beard nor mustache. The temples were bald and the back of the head was covered by thick, matted hair. The dead creature lay with its eyes open and its teeth bared. The eyes were dark and the teeth were large and even and shaped like human teeth. The forehead was slanting and the eyebrows were very powerful. The protruding jawbones made the face resemble the Mongol type of face. The nose was flat with a deeply sunk bridge. The ears were hairless and looked a little more pointed than a human being's with a longer lope. The lower jaw was very massive.The creature had a very powerful chest and well-developed muscles. We didn't find any important anatomical difference between it and man. The genitalia were like a man's. The arms were of normal length, the hands were slightly wider and the feet much wider and shorter than a man's.We did not know exactly where we were, because no accurate maps of the Pamirs were then in existence. But we must have been somewhere between the Yazgulem and the Rushan Ranges. As we had completed our task we had to return. The nature of the dead creature presented us with a problem. But it was impossible to take the body with us on the difficult trek that lay ahead. Also, it could have caused complications with the local population. We could say, of course, that we were carrying the body of an animal, but the creature looked too much like a human being. We thought about skinning it, but it was too much like skinning a man. In the end, we decided to bury the creature where we had found it. We did not try to enter the cave because we were afraid of another cave-in."NOTE: Here is a previous post about 'SNOWMEN' OF THE Pamir Mountains. Lon**********DISTURBING 'MIMICS!' - NATURAL, CRYPTIDS, or SOMETHING ELSE? | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (WITNESS REPORTS!)PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? 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As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! LonCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistChicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive MapHey, folks. Please feel free to share your thoughts & comments on the recently uploaded video of the CHICAGO MOTHMAN. I'm interested in what you have to say. Thanks. LonEXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED----------Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio Insider - just $2.99 monthly, and receive these perks. Thanks for your support!-Members-only live chats-Exclusive members-only videos-Priority reply to members' commentsHave perks suggestions? LMK-----YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS-----Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. Lon Noted UFOlogist Dr. Raymond Keller believes the idea of extraterrestrials and even ultra-dimensional beings from many different planets and alternate realms living and working among us clandestinely is more than just another conspiracy theory.Available on Amazon.comSan Francisco Book Festival Honorable MentionNew York Book Festival Honorable MentionAlso available with audiobooknarration by Terry Springs,CBS-TV Las Vegas affiliate.OUR PRIVACY POLICYThis blog and newsletter are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Work 3.0 United States License.Registered trademark PHANTOMS AND MONSTERS ® / PHANTOMS & MONSTERS ® - USPTO #90902480 - Lon D. Strickler© 2005-2024 Phantoms & Monsters - All Rights Reserved

A southwest Kansas resident observes a Pterosaur-like winged creature hopping/jumping along the highway during the sunrise hours in July 2022.I received the following account:"Hello, Lon. A friend, who is interested in cryptids and the unknown, referred you to me. I had a sighting in July 2022 of a winged creature that I just can't explain.It occurred in the morning, at sunrise, I was driving on the highway talking to my mom. I’m located in southwest Kansas and was driving to Wichita. I was on the stretch between Minneola, KS, and Bucklin, KS. I saw a creature that jumped onto the right shoulder of the highway. It continued to jump in the middle dotted lines then jumped even higher into the ditch to the left of me. It was grey and it stood on its hind legs. Its arms were short and close to its chest. When it jumped toward the ditch I saw its long stiff tale.I have never seen anything like that before. It looked like a prehistoric flying creature from the Jurassic Park films. My heart dropped.When I got back home I told my children and, of course, they laughed at me. I know what I saw and it makes me feel uneasy. I have been trying to find anyone out there that have sighted the same. I couldn’t be the only witness!" C**********DISTURBING 'MIMICS!' - NATURAL, CRYPTIDS, or SOMETHING ELSE? | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (WITNESS REPORTS!)PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHAREPHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on SpotifyPHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LISTCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistHave you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonOUR SOCIAL MEDIA LINKSBigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTubeLYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDSCRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)WEREWOLVES: DO THEY EXIST?'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINESHey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! LonCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistChicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive MapHey, folks. Please feel free to share your thoughts & comments on the recently uploaded video of the CHICAGO MOTHMAN. I'm interested in what you have to say. Thanks. LonEXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED----------Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio Insider - just $2.99 monthly, and receive these perks. Thanks for your support!-Members-only live chats-Exclusive members-only videos-Priority reply to members' commentsHave perks suggestions? LMK-----YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS-----Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. Lon Noted UFOlogist Dr. Raymond Keller believes the idea of extraterrestrials and even ultra-dimensional beings from many different planets and alternate realms living and working among us clandestinely is more than just another conspiracy theory.Available on Amazon.comSan Francisco Book Festival Honorable MentionNew York Book Festival Honorable MentionAlso available with audiobooknarration by Terry Springs,CBS-TV Las Vegas affiliate.OUR PRIVACY POLICYThis blog and newsletter are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Work 3.0 United States License.Registered trademark PHANTOMS AND MONSTERS ® / PHANTOMS & MONSTERS ® - USPTO #90902480 - Lon D. Strickler© 2005-2024 Phantoms & Monsters - All Rights Reserved

Time travel is supposedly the stuff of science fiction and fantasy, but if the account of two women in the first years of the 20th century is to be believed, then time travel is not only possible, but it can happen spontaneously and without warning.The year was 1901, and a pair of friends, 55-year-old Anne Moberly and 38-year-old Eleanor Jourdain, were on holiday in France. They were both teachers at St. Hugh's College in Oxford. Moberly was in fact the principal there, and Jourdain would become her successor fourteen years later. The two set out to see the vast Palace of Versailles, the center of political power in France until the French Revolution in 1789. They turned to visit the Petit Trianon, a small chateau on the grounds given by Louis XVI to his 19-year-old wife, Marie Antoinette, as a private retreat for her personal use.Moberly and Jourdain got a bit lost searching for the chateau, and it was during this interlude that they made history, even if only in some small way. They encountered several people in 1789 period attire, carrying out period activities, and passed a handful of structures that had not existed since 1789. Their unexpected visit to 112 years in the past culminated with an encounter with Marie Antoinette herself, sketching on the grounds of her chateau.Mrs. Jourdain wrote: "Everything suddenly looked unnatural, therefore unpleasant; even the trees seemed to become flat and lifeless like wood worked in tapestry. There were no effects of light and shade, and no wind stirred the trees."They reached the edge of a wood, close to the Temple de l'Amour, and came across a man seated beside a garden kiosk, wearing a cloak and a large shady hat. According to Moberly, his appearance was "most repulsive... its expression odious. His complexion was dark and rough."Jourdain noted "The man slowly turned his face, which was marked by smallpox; his complexion was very dark. The expression was evil and yet unseeing, and though I did not feel that he was looking particularly at us, I felt a repugnance to going past him.A man later described as "tall... with large dark eyes, and crisp curling black hair under a large sombrero hat" came up to them, and showed them the way to the Petit Trianon.After crossing a bridge, they reached the gardens in front of the palace, and Moberly noticed a lady sketching on the grass who looked at them. She later described what she saw in great detail: "The lady was wearing a light summer dress, on her head was a shady white hat, and she had lots of fair hair." Moberly thought she was a tourist at first, but the dress appeared to be old-fashioned. Moberly came to believe that the lady was Marie Antoinette. Jourdain however did not see the lady.After this, they were directed round to the entrance and joined a party of other visitors. The strange feelings and visions of the past had vanished.It was many months before the women told of their strange encounters. Visiting Versailles sometime later, the women were not able to find the landmarks that they had noticed during the incident. During their research, they thought they recognized the man by the kiosk as the Comte de Vaudreuil, a friend of Marie Antoinette, who herself had been thought to have been seen by Moberly.Within months they'd published their account in a book called 'An Adventure' later published as The Ghosts Of Trianon and as they were both respected academics who did not desire bizarre publicity, they published it under pseudonyms. Their experience became variously known as the Versailles Time Slip, the Ghosts of Trianon, or the Moberly-Jourdain Incident; and it has intrigued researchers, historians, and enthusiasts of the paranormal ever since.Both women are reported to have had many paranormal experiences before and after their adventure. In one of them, Moberly claimed to have seen in the Louvre in 1914 an apparition of the Roman emperor Constantine, a man of unusual height wearing a gold crown and a toga; he was not observed by anybody else. During the First World War Jourdain, the dominant personality of the pair and who had succeeded as Principal of St. Hugh's, became convinced that a German spy was hiding in the college. After developing increasingly autocratic behaviour, she died suddenly in 1924 in the middle of an academic scandal over her leadership of the college, her conduct having provoked mass resignations of academic staff. Moberly died in 1937.Did Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain actually walk through a hole in time and experience 16th-century France? Skeptics have brought up the possibility that the two women might have experienced a shared delusion or perhaps even wandered into a costume party or the rehearsal for an outdoor play. In so many cases of strange and inexplicable phenomena being reported, we hear that the witness or witnesses were people of great character or scientific credibility, and so it's often considered implausible that they could be mistaken or make the story up. The Versailles Time Slip is clearly one such case.Writer Nell Rose observed in Time Travel - Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain - The Ghost of Versailles:"They were not liars, and both ladies had nothing to gain by making up this story. In fact, it could go a long way to ruining their reputation.Frequently I'll hear something along the lines of "My Uncle Bob was a very trustworthy and honest man who would never make something up, therefore you should accept his ghost experience as a fact." Moberly and Jourdain's position as college teachers also gilds them with a cloak of authority, similar to that given to pilots or astronauts who see UFOs. Certainly, a pilot's perception of a UFO cannot be mistaken, and certainly, college teachers' perception of going back in time must have therefore happened as they thought. Well, not so much. It's not necessary to suggest that Reliable Uncle Bob must have been a liar for either his own perception to have been mistaken or for the version of the story that finally made it down to you to have been altered. Neither is it necessary to cast doubt on Moberly and Jourdain's academic status to suggest that the story we have in the annals of urban legend does not reflect a literal time-travel event that must have happened exactly as reported. Human brains are fallible — including Uncle Bob, pilots, and including academics.Two basic explanations have been put forth by previous researchers, which by now have been watered down and popularized into the following: First, that they accidentally wandered into a historical reenactment; and second, that they had a sort of shared delusion. But to put these two explanations into proper perspective, we need to go back to see who originally proposed them and why, and what hidden details of the story prompted them. And this is the point at which the Versailles Time Slip goes from an interesting anecdote to an all-out strange-fest.St. Hugh's College was founded in 1886 by Elizabeth Wordsworth as an all-woman college at Oxford, and the consensus among researchers suggests that Moberly and Jourdain's relationship was romantic as well as professional. They were at least roommates. One of the earliest and most popular critiques of An Adventure came in 1957 from their former student Lucille Iremonger in her prodigiously-entitled book Ghosts of Versailles Iremonger insinuated that both women even had frequent affairs with students of the college. She spent much time delving into the nature of their relationship and basically concluded that their adventure was a folie a deux, a madness of two. They had, she suggested, been so distracted by their relationship that they had merely misinterpreted ordinary people and objects for things from 1789, and became so obsessed with proving their story that they'd even convinced themselves of the reality of what had happened. Iremonger's charge gradually became softened over the years into a "shared delusion".A fourth edition of An Adventure was printed in 1955, this time with a preface written by art historian Joan Evans, who was Jourdain's literary executor, and like Iremonger, a former student. But unlike the hostile Iremonger, Evans tended to defend Moberly and Jourdain's account of what happened as a literal event. She felt compelled to deflect popular conjecture that they'd had some sort of strange lesbian romance-induced delusion. So Evans, in a 1976 article for Encounter magazine, put forth the suggestion that the two women had simply walked unknowingly into a historical recreation, in which actors were lounging about in period attire. Evans went so far as to research such recreations but did not find such an event that would have coincided with the 1901 visit.Evans turned to the 1965 biography of the French artist Robert de Montesquiou. Biographer Philippe Jullian noted that de Montesquiou had lived in a house at Versailles and was noted for his Tableaux Vivant performances, in which gay Parisian men performed the roles of both men and women; thus, the Marie Antoinette seen by Moberly and Jourdain was a transvestite. Though no evidence survives that indicates de Montesquiou may have actually thrown such an event in 1901, Jullian's suggestion was good enough for Evans; and ever since her article, the transvestite historical recreation has been reported and re-reported as one of the most likely explanations for the Versailles Time Slip. They say truth is stranger than fiction, but the rationales for fringe claims can often be even stranger.As usual, the best way to get a handle on what probably actually happened is to brush aside all ex post facto conjecture and go back to the original sources. One thing I like to do since I've never visited Versailles, is to pull it up on Google Earth and look at all the pictures of it I can find. The first thing one finds is that the grounds of Versailles are immense, about 3.5 kilometers from end to end. To get to the Petit Trianon, you have to cross whole square kilometers of gardens, lakes, little hamlets, and chateaus. Part of Moberly and Jourdain's proof is that upon returning a few years later, they couldn't find some of the objects they'd witnessed, most notably a kiosk and a footbridge. When they sent their story to England's Society for Psychical Research, a sometimes-skeptical, sometimes-credulous association of enthusiasts of the paranormal, the Society was unimpressed. Part of what the Society noted was that Moberly and Jourdain had themselves stated that they'd been lost; and as footbridges and kiosks of various descriptions abound on the vast grounds of Versailles, there was almost nothing to go on and nothing surprising about their report.In their published 1950 report of what they'd determined many years before, the Society noted a few other points that authors like Iremonger tore into like fresh meat. One was that when they reviewed the several editions of An Adventure, they found it had expanded notably each time. Moreover, it was three months after the incident before the women had even sat down to compare notes on what they'd witnessed; whereas at the time of their visit, neither woman had suspected anything unusual even took place! In the second edition of An Adventure, the women explained that a full three months after they visited Versailles, Moberly happened to mention the sketching woman they saw. Jourdain didn't remember any such thing. As they talked, it turned out that Moberly didn't remember hardly anything that Jourdain did either. These were all minor details like a woman shaking out a cloth out a window, two green-jacketed gardeners at work, and a sinister-looking man sitting under a garden kiosk. It was only after much discussion, note-sharing, and historical research that Moberly and Jourdain came up with the period as 1789 and assigned identities to a few of the characters they saw, including Marie Antoinette herself as the lady sketching on the lawn.Upon reviewing the case as told in the women's own words, the Society for Psychical Research concluded that the evidence of anything unusual having actually happened was insufficient to justify further study. Their report's author, W.H. Salter, pointed out that the embellished versions of the tale published in later editions were written much later than the women had initially claimed, perhaps as long as five years later; and only after the women had made several returns trips to Versailles to study the landmarks further.The principal authors who have written about this story seem to agree that there was probably no conscious effort at deception by Moberly and Jourdain, only a firm belief in the reality of their perception and a desire to present their story in as convincing a way as possible. They even went so far as to include a chapter they called "A Rêverie", an imaginary account of Marie Antoinette's own meditations, in which she observed two strangers walk past while she was sitting there sketching, amidst all the other people and things they reported. This chapter jumps out as particularly bizarre and moves An Adventure from the realm of reporting into that of fantasy fiction."Sources:Coleman, Michael H (1988), The Ghosts of the Trianon, The Complete An Adventureskeptoid.comslightlywarped.comhubpages.comparanormality.comVersailles: A Biography of a PalaceMarie Antoinette: The JourneyMysteries and Secrets of Time**********DISTURBING 'MIMICS!' - NATURAL, CRYPTIDS, or SOMETHING ELSE? | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (WITNESS REPORTS!)PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHAREPHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on SpotifyPHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LISTCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistHave you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonOUR SOCIAL MEDIA LINKSBigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTubeLYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDSCRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)WEREWOLVES: DO THEY EXIST?'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINESHey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! LonCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistChicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive MapHey, folks. Please feel free to share your thoughts & comments on the recently uploaded video of the CHICAGO MOTHMAN. I'm interested in what you have to say. Thanks. LonEXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED----------Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio Insider - just $2.99 monthly, and receive these perks. Thanks for your support!-Members-only live chats-Exclusive members-only videos-Priority reply to members' commentsHave perks suggestions? LMK-----YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS-----Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. Lon Noted UFOlogist Dr. Raymond Keller believes the idea of extraterrestrials and even ultra-dimensional beings from many different planets and alternate realms living and working among us clandestinely is more than just another conspiracy theory.Available on Amazon.comSan Francisco Book Festival Honorable MentionNew York Book Festival Honorable MentionAlso available with audiobooknarration by Terry Springs,CBS-TV Las Vegas affiliate.OUR PRIVACY POLICYThis blog and newsletter are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Work 3.0 United States License.Registered trademark PHANTOMS AND MONSTERS ® / PHANTOMS & MONSTERS ® - USPTO #90902480 - Lon D. Strickler© 2005-2024 Phantoms & Monsters - All Rights Reserved

Our list of the 10 Most Rocking Jackson Browne Songs showcases the rock and roll side of one of the most beloved singer-songwriters of all time. With a career that began in the early ’70s, Jackson Browne is best known for his reflective songwriting and signature soft rock sound of that era. While his music has always been rooted in the singer-songwriter genre, he has explored a variety of musical styles across his many albums. Though much of his work consists of slower-paced or mid-tempo tunes, Browne has also released a compelling selection of rockers, which we proudly present here. The post 10 Most Rocking Jackson Browne Songs appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

We are witnessing a historic counterrevolution after President Donald Trump’s victory, far different from his first election in 2016. The orthodox and the supposed scripted future are now suspect. And they are likely to be dethroned— from the trivial to the existential. Critics claim Trump has no mandate to stage such a counterrevolution. They argue that he did not win 51% of the popular vote or achieve a Reaganesque landslide in the Electoral College. Yet all the initiatives he advanced and won on polled landslide public approval. Despite being the target of Democrat lawfare for years, a defiant Trump promised to end an open border, massive illegal immigration, rising crime, and soaring prices. He pledged to slash government and its administrative state, terminate racial and gender identity politics, and restore deterrence abroad. The people overwhelmingly wanted those messages but were waiting for an unorthodox messenger who would actually deliver them. The Trump messenger reassured weary citizens that they were not crazy. Instead, they had good cause to be sick of being talked down to by a media, academic, bureaucratic, and political elite that never earned nor deserved such self-appointed status. The FBI, the CIA, and the DOJ, not the massive crowds at rallies, were the ones truly out of control. President Joe Biden was really suffering from dementia, not those who said he was. Criminals with weapons are as deleterious to society as law-abiding citizens deprived of them. It is not a thought crime to believe there are two sexes—not three or four or more. No one should be forced to buy an electric vehicle, disconnect their natural gas stove, or submit to racial or gender indoctrination sessions. Americans should speak their minds and write what they wish without worry of being censored, blacklisted, ostracized, doxxed, or shadow-banned—or jailed. Campuses are not oases of tolerance, disinterested inquiry, and free expression. They instead increasingly became overpriced indoctrination centers that shred the Constitution and graduate indebted students who know less—but are far more biased—than when they enrolled. Trump and his MAGA appointees promise to slash over a trillion dollars from the annual federal budget, disbanding entire agencies. Is the objection that an ever-expanding government—$37 trillion in debt, running nearly $2 trillion in annual deficits—should keep growing? Trump pledges to reform the Pentagon—ending DEI Pentagon commissars and revolving-door corporate generalship. He vows to hold the 4-star class responsible for the catastrophe in Afghanistan and to reenlist soldiers who were driven out due to draconian vaccination mandates or woke intolerance. Trump envisions changing the entire system of military procurement. Does the status quo object on the grounds that our military leadership has been winning our wars abroad? Is the Pentagon currently awash in eager recruits? Has it stockpiled a huge surplus of shells, bombs, and rockets? Trump promises historic deportations of the 12 million who destroyed the southern border and surged in without health or criminal audits. Trump vows to rescue swamped social services and stop crimes by illegal alien felons. Is that really worse than the Biden administration’s original massive importation of millions of illegal aliens, empowered by drug-importing and sex-trafficking cartels? Who are the culpable? Those flagrantly mocking and breaking the law, or those vowing to enforce it? Trump says he will deter enemies without bogging America down in “endless wars”—and did just that in his first four years as president. Is the current alternative preferable to convincing enemies that there are few consequences to their aggression, sandbagging allies like Israel, or feeding the war in Ukraine without any plan of either winning or ending it? The Trump revolution is also cultural and social. Shared class interests have replaced race, ethnicity, and gender chauvinism. Athletes of all races are no longer taking a knee in protest of America’s supposed systemic racism during the national anthem. Sometimes they celebrate their scoring by doing honorific Trump YMCA/golf-swing dances on national television. Enlistments to help craft the Trump counterrevolution are not always predicated on degrees, conventional resumes, or past lengthy government service. Race and gender do not determine qualifications alone. Nor does class. Common sense, successful lives outside of government, and a desire to end the current nonsense count instead as better prerequisites. For Trump, party identification, titles, and traditional prestige matter less as he is surrounded by an ideologically diverse cadre including Elon Musk, Robert Kennedy, Jr., Dana White, Tulsi Gabbard, and Joe Rogan. The country no longer must apologize incessantly for its past or present but can move on—content that it need not be perfect to be better than all the alternatives. The age of flashing pronouns, renaming iconic landmarks, statue toppling, trashing the dead, vandalizing with impunity the campus library, or spouting antisemitic venom is passing. So, another name for the Trump counterrevolution is a simple return to sanity. (C)2024 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post The Trump Counterrevolution is a Return to Sanity appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Start Quiz Jorge Gardner/Unsplash Jorge Gardner/Unsplash There are 195 countries in the entire world, with dozens of cities filling up each one. These diverse countries offer tons of culture, beautiful landscapes, and more. While some are more populous than others, these countries are all part of the same planet. Since most people have not visited every country, they’re going to have to bank on... Source