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In central Pennsylvania, a couple are the happy new owners of a dog that was seriously in need of a loving, calm, disciplined home after spending a year at a shelter. This pit bull/rottweiler mix named Jax is a cheery enough fellow, but such a long time in a shelter, coupled with poor training during […] The post Couple Take Chance on ‘Mouthy’ Dog Overlooked in Shelter—Have Zero Regrets appeared first on Good News Network.

During the silent film era between the mid-1890s and the late 1920s, movies were almost always accompanied by live music. What made them truly "silent" was that there was no audible dialogue, with the plot usually being conveyed using title cards, and relying on the skill of the actors to portray emotion. It was during this time the first movie stars began to shape the film industry into what we... Source

It may be impossible to overstate the damage done to morality by the Democrats and other leftists calling Donald Trump a fascist and a Nazi and declaring him “Hitler.” Asked by Anderson Cooper on CNN if she believes Trump is a “fascist,” Kamala Harris said, “Yes, I do.” With regard to calling Trump “Hitler,” Newsweek’s fact-checker concluded: “Harris didn’t directly call Trump ‘Hitler.’ However, many will think she came very close to it: She confirmed that she believes Trump is a fascist, quoted [retired four-star General, and one of Donald Trump’s White House chiefs of staff, John] Kelly’s unfavorable comments (Kelly said Trump ‘wanted generals like Adolf Hitler had’) and suggested Trump would ‘invoke’ Hitler.” Harris’ running mate, Tim Walz, compared the Trump rally at Madison Square Garden to the 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden. Many Hitler historians have done similarly. In a 2017 essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Ron Rosenbaum, author of a New York Times bestselling biography of Adolf Hitler, “Explaining Hitler,” compared Trump to Hitler: [The views of] Trump and his minions … come out of a playbook written in German. … The playbook is “Mein Kampf.” What I want to suggest is an actual comparison with Hitler that deserves thought. It’s what you might call the secret technique, a kind of rhetorical control that both Hitler and Trump used on their opponents, especially the media. Alan Bullock [the first major Hitler biographer] … had initially argued [that] it was likely [Hitler] had believed in nothing and just used the Jew-hatred to advance his cause with the nitwit thug segment of the German people. Just as Trump appealed to his nitwit thug racist, antisemite followers. … This is the comparison I’d been seeking. In April, the Los Angeles Times published an opinion piece, “Trump Turns His Trials Into a Soapbox. Does He Know He’s Channeling Hitler?” It was written by another Hitler scholar, Timothy W. Ryback, a former lecturer at Harvard (surprise!) whose most recent book is “Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power.” His conclusion: “The alarm-clanging couplet of Hitler’s and Trump’s courtroom appearances, two demagogues—separated by a century—exploiting their constitutionally guaranteed rights to free speech and due process in an effort to undermine democratic processes and structures, should serve as a sobering warning as we approach an election to determine who will be running the next government of the United States.” The abuse of language is a fundamental characteristic of the Left. Leftists have done this not only to “Hitler,” “Nazi,” and “fascist” but to “genocide,” “apartheid,” “racist,” and virtually every other term connoting evil. It started with Stalin calling Trotsky a fascist and it continues to this day. The harm, as I wrote above, cannot be overstated. Calling Trump “Hitler” and “Nazi” utterly trivializes Hitler and Nazism. Young people, the recipients of a largely worthless education in American schools—especially regarding history—know little, if anything, about Hitler and Nazism. For most of them, therefore, if Trump is Hitler, then Hitler was Trump. Hitler was nothing worse than a German version of Trump—not the instigator of World War II and the creator of the Holocaust; just a German Donald Trump. It is beyond belief that American Jewish organizations and American veterans groups have not greeted the labeling of Trump “Hitler” with howls of protest. It is difficult to know if Hitler, Nazism, and the Holocaust will ever again evoke the horror that these words have heretofore evoked. That Jewish groups have not vigorously protested labeling Trump “Hitler” and “Nazi” only shows how deep the left-wing influence has been on most American Jewish organizations, especially the Anti-Defamation League, the organization founded to protect American Jews and combat antisemitism. Likewise, it beggars belief that veterans organizations haven’t vociferously condemned the trivialization of Hitler and Nazism. Did hundreds of thousands of Americans die fighting a German Trump? Was the D-Day invasion of Normandy about fighting Trump supporters? If Trump represents the same embodiment of evil as Hitler and the Nazis, the word no longer has meaning. COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Calling Trump ‘Hitler’ Trivializes Horrors of Nazism, Undermines Historical Understanding appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Mount Everest is an incredible force of nature that always seems to wow. The Sanskrit name for the mountain literally means "Peak of Heaven." Some facts about Everest are pretty well documented, and some are less well known, but they are all super interesting. You've probably seen films and documentaries on Mount Everest, but how much do you know about this iconic mountain? Take a look at these... Source

Arachnophobia, the fear of spiders, is one of the most common phobias worldwide. Whether you're one of those fearful people or whether you're a fan of arachnids, there's no denying that eight-legged creatures are seriously fascinating. For example, did you know that some spiders mimic other animals or that some males force-feed themselves to their mates? From the creepy to the incredible... Source

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The eager-beaver publicists for "legacy media" in the Hollywood trade magazines can be expected to write some puketastic PR in the leadup to Election Night coverage. But this headline for Brian Sternberg's valentine in Variety should come with a complimentary air sickness bag:  MSNBC's Primetime ‘Avengers': Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace and Joy Reid Assemble to Battle Cable News' Old Rules That's not the only metaphor, there's this gem: Maddow is "the captain of our ship. She is Captain Kirk," says Reid, referring to the commanding "Star Trek" character. For regular NewsBusters readers, it might recall then-PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor shortly after the 2020 election comparing Biden's cabinet picks to the Avengers. When news breaks, Rachel and Nicolle and Joy break out!  When "The Avengers" are needed, no one can ignore the alert. Reid, Wallace and Maddow look nothing like Iron Man, Captain America, Thor or any of the other super-powered characters who populate the well-watched Marvel films from Disney. And yet, on MSNBC, where each anchors her own program, they are part of an assemblage that is being convened with greater frequency. "When there's a moment," says Rashida Jones, MSNBC's president, the network likes to "bring the team together and elevate the seriousness of the news." NEWS? Is that what they're doing in primetime? The executives like that it offers viewers the whole menu of hot-take options:  Internally, executives call the concept "The Avengers" and have employed it more than 20 times this year. On a recent September evening, the "Avengers" were spotted clambering one by one into a studio. Their mission: to analyze the presidential debate between U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, all from NBCUniversal's New York headquarters. First came Chris Hayes –"I'm the only one who's on time!" he joked - followed soon by Jen Psaki, armed with hot coffee; Maddow, entering quietly; a gregarious Stephanie Ruhle; and then Reid. Melber, Wallace and O'Donnell would join later, while Wagner held forth from Philadelphia, the site of the actual parley. There's no world-beating villain to vanquish when the MSNBC personalities team up, but they are in fact doing battle with pernicious forces. Sternberg means market forces, but we all know the supervillain is Trump. Every MSNBC watchers knows how they plot this.  MSNBC has grouped anchors together at many times in its history, but the "Avengers" concept really started to gain traction in 2022. That's when one executive in a brainstorming session raised the idea of trying to harness the conversation that takes place between the network's hosts for an on-air concept, says Jones, as "if you listen to them talking in the hallway." Viewers would see "collegiality" and "authenticity," she adds, and someone asked, "'How do we make that the show?' And that's how it was born." At the same time, Maddow, Wallace and Reid noticed an intensifying of the conversations they would have every day, often via text. They might discuss what their sources are telling them or their takes on different issues. Getting that on camera made sense, says Reid. "What the audience is getting out of that is our collective journalistic enterprise - but in triplicate," she says. "It's so much more powerful when we are all doing the work at the same time." We also learn that Maddow brings snacks. She "often carries a large bag filled with various kinds of jerky that she always offers to her colleagues. The overture is not often welcome."

It is election day, and Google is still unrepentantly pushing leftist and legacy media on voters searching for the presidential race.  Throughout October, every time MRC researchers searched the terms “donald trump presidential race 2024” and “kamala harris presidential race 2024,” Google rigged the results to bury right-leaning media outlet articles. Election Day is no different.  Utilizing the media list provided by AllSides, which classifies publications based on their “right” to “left” bias, MRC Free Speech America found that while search giant Google did finally show one right-leaning media article on the first page of results in its “Top stories” section, it continues to bury right-leaning media outlets in its actual search results. In a study conducted Nov. 5, MRC researchers discovered Google burying the first U.S.-based right-leaning news search result for the Trump prompt on the twelfth page as the seventh result. Meanwhile, Google buried the first right-leaning news search result for the Harris prompt as the 10th result on the ninth page. “Google has shown itself to be radically anti-American,” said MRC Free Speech America Director Michael Morris. “To say that the results of this mini study are just par for the course for Google would be an understatement. The search giant has made its preference known as MRC research continues to make clear. It has chosen to side against America’s first principles and in favor of elevating the left’s ideology above all else.” The vastness of Google’s influence underscores the danger of its manipulation of search results. Google is uniquely positioned to have a significant impact on the most users. Despite the existence of competitors such as Luxxle, DuckDuckGo and Microsoft’s Bing, Alphabet subsidiaries Google and YouTube account for 90 percent of daily internet searches. Offering voters an overwhelming number of left-of-center media to choose from, while burying right-of-center media outlets has serious consequences. A November 2023 Pew Research survey showed that more and more Americans prefer using search engines to get their news, with 15 percent of adults preferring them—up from 13 percent in 2022 and 11 percent in 2011.  How is Google using this tremendous power? Google chose to prominently display leftist and legacy media sources such as CBS News, USA Today, NPR, CNN and Politico in its search results. The search giant even prominently and repeatedly featured an outlet whose editorial board endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, The New York Times.  In fact, only two U.S.-based right-of-center results appeared in the first fifteen pages for the Trump prompt, two out of nearly 150 results. For the Harris prompt, there were five such results in the first fifteen pages. This is far from the first time Google has placed its finger on the scale to manipulate search results on the presidential race. Successive studies on Oct. 30, Oct. 22, Oct. 15, Oct. 9 and Oct. 1 all showed that Google was burying right-of-center media outlets in its search results. For example, on Oct. 9 Google buried the first U.S.-based right-of-center result for the Trump prompt (a Fox News video) on page 23. Google did not show a single U.S.-based right-of-center news article anywhere on Oct. 9 as the results ran out at 26 pages.  Google’s election interference was also exposed by a September study showing that the search giant buried former president Donald Trump’s campaign website beneath a deluge of leftist news articles.  MRC Free Speech America has kept track of how censorship like this by Google has negatively impacted publications such as the New York Post, Fox News and others, alongside 238 other examples of Google censorship in our exclusive CensorTrack.org database.  Methodology  For this report, MRC Free Speech America analyzed the Nov. 5 Google search results of the innocuous words “donald trump presidential race 2024” and “kamala harris presidential race 2024.” MRC Free Speech America created an algorithm to automate this process in a clean environment. A “clean environment” allows for organic search to populate results without the influence of prior search history and tracking cookies. MRC Free Speech America also utilized the AllSides media bias chart as a gauge to determine which outlets are “right” and “lean right.” AllSides notes it has a “patent on rating bias and use[s] multiple methodologies,” not a homogenous group or an algorithm. “Our methods are: Blind Bias Surveys of Americans, Editorial Reviews by a multipartisan team of panelists who look for common types of media bias, independent reviews, and third-party data.” Readers should be aware that this report only uses the AllSides list to analyze ratings of outlets considered by AllSides to be “right” and “lean right” and does not necessarily reflect MRC’s characterizations of these outlets. Conservatives are under attack! Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.