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Brave 8-Year-Old Cheerleader Competes Solo When Her Team Doesn’t Show Up, Wins First Place

An 8-year-old cheerleader made a brave decision when her team didn’t show up for a competition, surprising herself and her coaches by performing alone and earning first place. Peyton Thorsby of Pasco County, Florida, was the only member of her cheerleading team, the Ktech Krakens, to show up for their 6 a.m. call at the…


Fun Photos: The Most Adorable Sea Slug That Looks Like a Sheep and Powers Itself Like a Plant

Most people aren’t fans of slugs until they encounter a “leaf sheep.” And this cartoonish sea slug is too cute to be real! These amazingly tiny creatures—just 0.2 to 0.4 inches long—found along the coasts of Japan, Indonesia, and the Philippines, have faces that look remarkably like cartoon sheep. They’ve also earned the nickname “leaf…


America’s Banking Regulators Have Failed

Commentary March 28 hearings on bank regulation exposed the shortfall of federal regulation. The hearings came in the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failure and the stresses on other banks, like Signature and Republic.  To put it frankly, the hearings exposed our regulators appear to be virtually useless. Among things we learned last week:…


To Speak, or Not to Speak: A Gentleman’s Rules for Holding the Tongue From an 1890s Manual on Manners

The Crimes of the Tongue THE second most deadly instrument of destruction is the dynamite gun,—the first is the human tongue. The gun merely kills bodies; the tongue kills reputations and, ofttimes, ruins characters. Each gun works alone; each loaded tongue has a hundred accomplices. The havoc of the gun is visible at once. The…


Photographer Risks Camera to Capture Herd of Elephants Up Close—And They Lumber So Close It’s Scary

A photographer risked the life of his camera for closeup photos of a wild herd of elephants, but the gamble paid off; not only did his camera survive the colossal mammals, but the photographic results were beyond belief. Israel-based wildlife photographer Yarin Klein, 30, was on a trip to Amboseli National Park in Kenya in December…


Mama Dog Runs Up to a Woman in Parking Lot and Leads Her to a Fallen Log With 16 Puppies Behind

A smart mother dog’s instinct paid off when she approached a stranger on the road, behind an Oklahoma City animal shelter. The woman was an animal rescuer and followed the friendly dog, unprepared for the sight she was about to see. Mitzi Brogdon, director of Street Dog Rescue & Recovery in Moore, Oklahoma, had just retrieved two…


Paleontologists ‘Discover’ Fossil of Giant Extinct Eagle That Dwarfed Modern Raptors, Could Kill Kangaroo

Fossil hunters Down Under have pieced together the story of a colossal prehistoric raptor—a bird so huge its talons could have killed a kangaroo. The bones of a giant avian were collected from South Australia’s Mairs Cave by cavers back in 1956 and 1969. After long delays, new research conducted by scientists from Flinders University…


Bodycam Footage Shows Mini Pony ‘Suspect’ Fleeing Police Before Getting Own Adorable Mugshot

A miniature equine “suspect” led police on a stray pony chase through a neighborhood in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, last month. The runaway horse’s owner was later found by police and the pony was identified as 4-year-old Knight, Tuscaloosa Police Department (TPD) stated on Facebook on March 28. A therapy horse farm has agreed to foster the animal…


Some Democrats Say Trump Indictment Was a Strategic Mistake

A prominent progressive organization describes the indictment of former President Trump by a Manhattan grand jury as “embarrassing.” After the March 30 announcement that Trump had been indicted in his home state of New York, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee issued a statement highlighting many more reasons why the former president should have faced legal…


Trust, COVID, and the General Who Cried ‘Wolf’

Commentary Once upon a time, there was an Air Force general in the Pentagon who was in charge of all the F-16s in the Air Force, and he found out about a very dangerous problem that the aircraft had developed. He brought in experts from Lockheed Martin and the Depot and they met to determine…