It’s not always easy for parents to attend every single one of their children’s events. But videos like the one from McKenna Fusselman remind us of why showing up for your kids whenever possible is oh-so-important. When McKenna’s little girl was set to have a school recital, she was determined to be there to cheer her on. This is something the little girl likely knew. Still, when the big moment arrived, she nervously scanned the crowd to find Mom. No matter how much she looked, she simply could not find her. The longer this went on, the more visibly distressed the girl became. Then, finally, the two of them locked eyes… and this sweet little girl’s entire demeanor changed! See what happened next in the viral video below. View this post on Instagram A post shared by McKenna Fusselman (@discussallthefuss) “Being a parent is the absolute best. Like how lucky are we to be able to soothe someone’s soul so easily,” a fellow mom shares in reply to this sweet video. Others add, “That exhale emotion was her sense of safety and love activating!!” and “My son just had his first preschool recital and absolutely lit up when he saw us.” This Little Girl’s Reaction to Spotting Mom in the Crowd Proves the Importance of Showing Up for Your Kids Instagram This precious girl’s whole face lights up the second she spots Mom — but her heartwarming reaction doesn’t end there. She’s so emotional at this point, she can’t help but tear up. Luckily, one of her kind friends noticed and was quick to provide support. It’s no wonder McKenna can’t get over this precious moment being caught on camera. “I wasn’t expecting this little moment to resonate with so many people… over 20 million hearts connected with it,” McKenna writes in the caption of her post. “… Thank you for seeing the magic in this moment too.” You can find the source of this story’s featured image here! The post Little Girl’s Precious Reaction To Spotting Mom At School Recital Proves That “Showing Up Matters” appeared first on InspireMore.

Brittany Gomez-Olson and her husband, Ryan, currently live in South Dakota with their son Everett. While driving through Utah, they stopped to ask for directions from an unusual source. A black cow was standing on the side of the road. Ryan asked, “Hey, do you know how to get to Kanab?” Without missing a beat, the cow made eye contact, then slung its head over its shoulder to point down the road. @bgo94 Cows give the best directions! @Ryan Olson #fyp #kanab #utah #cows #directions ♬ original sound – Bgomezolson Although they did not expect any answer, the cow was very obliging in confirming that they were headed in the correct direction. If Brittany and Ryan seem familiar, you might recognize them from South Dakota State. She is an assistant coach with their softball program. Ryan is the offensive line coach for the football program. We’ve discussed how many cows have unique personalities. Marc Stewart spends a lot of time conversing with his Scottish highland cows, Hamish and Kyloe. Another man got into an argument with a cow, and we’re almost certain the cow won. Cows are pretty smart, but we never seem to give these animals much credit. Cows can also be funny, as we saw with the head nod directions from the back cow. This next cow is trying to get the entire herd to play some hoofball. As the cow deftly dribbles the ball through the herd, they show indifference and step aside. When everyone turns her down, she heads off on her own. She is content to keep all the fun to herself. @pokemyheart Even cows love to play sports! #cow#farm#funny ♬ original sound – Poke My Heart Another cow, on a Texas longhorn ranch, decided to have a little fun and perform a taste test. @thatlonghornlife Silly cow #cow #cowvideos #cowtok #cowsontiktok #cowsoftiktok #cattle #texas #ranch #ranchlife #farm #farmlife #funny #fyp #funnycow #funnyvideos #humor #humortiktok #herd #texasgirl #texasmom #southern #south ♬ Country Gold – Anne Wilson & Jordan Davis The caption says there is always one silly cow in the herd, and that is probably true. Please share. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Man Asks Cow For Directions & Gets Perfectly Timed Response appeared first on InspireMore.

Ted and Penny, some of the cutest pups you will ever meet, recently got themselves into a dangerous situation. It all started when the two of them escaped their backyard, seemingly wanting to go on an adventure. In doing so, they ended up in an area that is full of mine shafts. Sadly, Ted fell down one of them, leaving him stuck. Thankfully, brave heroes were determined to rescue this sweet dog from the mine shaft. But before they could rescue Ted from the mine shaft, they had to figure out where he and Penny even were. Over the course of four days, authorities and volunteers scoured the area. In the end, Penny herself helped save the day. As she stood guard over the mine shaft Ted had fallen into, she barked loudly enough for neighbors to hear. Locating the dogs was only half of the challenge. The other half lay in trying to safely reach Ted. According to First Lieutenant Karl Shay, the mine shaft was particularly small. In fact, there was a log laying over the top, making the opening about “800 by 800 millimetres.” Once rescuers did reach Ted, however, this sweet dog could not have been more excited. Watch this precious moment in the video below! Happy Dog Simply Can’t Stop Wagging His Tail as a Brave Rescue Team Saves Him From a Mine Shaft @abcnews Country Fire Authority in Australia rescued a dog that had fallen down an eight-meter-deep mine shaft. The dog had wandered off from its owners' property and was missing for four days before neighbors stumbled upon the stranded pup. Country Fire Authority officials hoisted the relieved dog to safety. #dog #australia #abcnews ♬ original sound – ABC News Thankfully, Ted managed to make it out of this life-threatening ordeal fairly unscathed. According to the dogs’ owner, Chantal Henderson, they are “a little lighter than usual, but otherwise excellent.” “Thank you to Ruth and her daughter [who found the dogs] for their perseverance searching the bush after hearing their barking,” Chantal says. “Without you they would never have been found.” You can find the source of this story’s featured image here! The post Australian Firefighters Safely Retrieve Missing Dog Who Fell Down Mine Shaft appeared first on InspireMore.

When six high school students from a tobacco-growing, whiskey-distilling Kentucky town decided to chase their rock and roll dreams in 1963, nobody could have predicted they would become one of the most genre-defying success stories in American music history. From the small clubs of Richmond, Kentucky, to international chart domination spanning both pop and country formats, Exile accomplished something virtually unheard of in the music industry: reinventing themselves completely and achieving massive success in two entirely different genres across three different decades. Exile, formerly the Exiles, is an American band founded in Richmond, Kentucky, in 1963, and their journey reads The post Complete List Of Exile Band Members appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

The Iran crisis of the past two weeks isn’t just about nuclear weapons—it’s also an urgent reminder that border security is national security. Tehran’s terrorist agents are a weapon with a much longer reach than any of the mullahs’ missiles. They’ve been a threat to Salman Rushdie’s life in the United States and Europe for more than 35 years, and in 2022 an attacker sympathetic to the Iranian government cost the author of “The Satanic Verses” one of his eyes and very nearly his life. President Donald Trump has been the target of other Iranian plots. According to court documents, Asif Merchant, a Pakistani man arrested in Texas last year, “indicated an affinity for Iran” when he attempted to hire hitmen to help murder a “political person” believed to be Trump—a scheme thwarted because the associates he sought to recruit were in fact FBI agents. A second plot involved Farhad Shakeri, an Afghan national now on the lam in Iran. In November, federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged Shakeri with providing material support for a foreign terrorist organization and planning to kill Trump on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Shakeri and two associates also stand accused of concocting a plan to murder “a U.S. citizen of Iranian origin who has publicly opposed the Iranian government,” according to Politico. Incidents like these don’t receive much media attention not only because they’re unsuccessful but also because they’re not very unusual—it’s not news that Iran is a sponsor of terrorist mayhem and murder. After American forces bombed three Iranian nuclear-program sites on Saturday, NBC News reported Iran had earlier warned Trump it could activate “sleeper cells” within the United States to retaliate against an attack on its facilities. Rodney Scott, commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, alerted CBP agents to the danger the country now faces because of the porous border policies of the Joe Biden administration: “Over the past four years, thousands of Iranian (nationals) have been documented entering the United States illegally and countless more were likely in the known and unknown got-a-ways,” he wrote in an agency memo. Fox News Channel reports more than 1,500 Iranians were apprehended illegally entering via the southern border during the Biden years—and more than 700 of them were released into our country after their arrest. America has bitter experience of terrorism made possible by weak immigration enforcement. Five of the 19 hijackers who pulled off the worst terrorist attack in our history on 9/11, 2001, were in the country on expired visas. But the legal immigration status of the other 14 is at least as much of a scandal—was there really nothing that could be done to screen out these terrorists? Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration and tightening of border controls and admissions guidelines for foreign students and other legal visitors have outraged liberals, but detecting signs of radicalism before an IRGC or al-Qaeda sympathizer has the opportunity to strike is what’s necessary to prevent another 9/11. Iran has for decades used Hezbollah and other terrorist proxies to menace Israel and other nearby neighbors, as well as to kill Americans in Lebanon, Iraq, and elsewhere. Liberals in our country think of “globalization” as a benign economic process involving the free movement of capital, people, and ideas across borders. But what happens when the people are terrorists, the capital finances their attacks, and the ideas are antisemitic and anti-American? Globalization extends the battlefields of regional wars to our own land and airspace. The voters who returned Trump to the White House think globalization has been a raw deal for their livelihoods and a solvent to their communities. But globalization has also changed the nature of war, heightening the need for vigilance at our borders. Iran doesn’t have missiles that can reach our shores, but it has other weapons that can. Firmer control over who comes into our country is what’s required to take that weapon away from Iran—and every other dangerous regime. Israel was able to launch its preventive war against Iran’s nuclear program because it had successfully degraded and largely defanged Hezbollah. There would be no two-front war for Israel—one over Iran, the other at home. America is blessed to have two oceans separating us from the conflicts of the Old World and no neighbors who hate us for our religion or way of life. The security we enjoy on our continent, and throughout the Americas, has been the envy of other great powers for two and a half centuries. But the tranquillity our geography and history afford us has to be defended against the dark side of globalization, including the transcontinental terrorism it makes possible. Winning the wars of the future calls for stopping them from ever getting started within our borders. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Secure Borders Win Wars Like This One appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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It only took 25 years for New York City to go from the resilient, flag-waving pride following the 9/11 attacks to a political fever dream. To quote Michael Malice, “I'm old enough to remember when New Yorkers endured 9/11 instead of voting for it.”Malice is talking about Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist assemblyman from Queens now eyeing the mayor’s office. Mamdani, a 33-year-old state representative emerging from relative political obscurity, is now receiving substantial funding for his mayoral campaign from the Council on American-Islamic Relations.CAIR has a long and concerning history, including being born out of the Muslim Brotherhood and named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror funding case. Why would the group have dropped $100,000 into a PAC backing Mamdani’s campaign?Mamdani blends political Islam with Marxist economics — two ideologies that have left tens of millions dead in the 20th century alone.Perhaps CAIR has a vested interest in Mamdani’s call to “globalize the intifada.” That’s not a call for peaceful protest. Intifada refers to historic uprisings of Muslims against what they call the “Israeli occupation of Palestine.” Suicide bombings and street violence are part of the playbook. So when Mamdani says he wants to “globalize” that, who exactly is the enemy in this global scenario? Because it sure sounds like he's saying America is the new Israel, and anyone who supports Western democracy is the new Zionist.Mamdani tried to clean up his language by citing the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, which once used “intifada” in an Arabic-language article to describe the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. So now he’s comparing Palestinians to Jewish victims of the Nazis? If that doesn’t twist your stomach into knots, you’re not paying attention.If you’re “globalizing” an intifada, and positioning Israel — and now America — as the Nazis, that’s not a cry for human rights. That’s a call for chaos and violence.Rising IslamismBut hey, this is New York. Faculty members at Columbia University — where Mamdani’s own father once worked — signed a letter defending students who supported Hamas after October 7. They also contributed to Mamdani’s mayoral campaign. And his father? He blamed Ronald Reagan and the religious right for inspiring Islamic terrorism, as if the roots of 9/11 grew in Washington, not the caves of Tora Bora.RELATED: Socialist Zohran Mamdani upsets Andrew Cuomo in Democratic primary election for NYC mayor race Photo by Madison Swart via Getty ImagesThis isn’t about Islam as a faith. We should distinguish between Islam and Islamism. Islam is a religion followed peacefully by millions. Islamism is something entirely different — an ideology that seeks to merge mosque and state, impose Sharia law, and destroy secular liberal democracies from within. Islamism isn’t about prayer and fasting. It’s about power.Criticizing Islamism is not Islamophobia. It is not an attack on peaceful Muslims. In fact, Muslims are often its first victims.Islamism is misogynistic, theocratic, violent, and supremacist. It’s hostile to free speech, religious pluralism, gay rights, secularism — even to moderate Muslims. Yet somehow, the progressive left — the same left that claims to fight for feminism, LGBTQ rights, and free expression — finds itself defending candidates like Mamdani. You can’t make this stuff up.Blending the worst ideologiesAnd if that weren’t enough, Mamdani also identifies as a Democratic Socialist. He blends political Islam with Marxist economics — two ideologies that have left tens of millions dead in the 20th century alone. But don’t worry, New York. I’m sure this time socialism will totally work. Just like it always didn’t.If you’re a business owner, a parent, a person who’s saved anything, or just someone who values sanity: Get out. I’m serious. If Mamdani becomes mayor, as seems likely, then New York City will become a case study in what happens when you marry ideological extremism with political power. And it won’t be pretty.This is about more than one mayoral race. It’s about the future of Western liberalism. It’s about drawing a bright line between faith and fanaticism, between healthy pluralism and authoritarian dogma.Call out radicalismWe must call out political Islam the same way we call out white nationalism or any other supremacist ideology. When someone chants “globalize the intifada,” that should send a chill down your spine — whether you’re Jewish, Christian, Muslim, atheist, or anything in between.The left may try to shame you into silence with words like “Islamophobia,” but the record is worn out. The grooves are shallow. The American people see what’s happening. And we’re not buying it.Want more from Glenn Beck? Get Glenn's FREE email newsletter with his latest insights, top stories, show prep, and more delivered to your inbox.