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In December, Cruz fired off a strongly-worded letter to CEO Satya Nadella demanding answers about Microsoft’s promotion and apparent funding of the online “media literacy” tool and their efforts to silence conservative voices. The self-appointed fact-checkers of Newsguard prevent reputable publishers from getting advertisements. Newsguard mostly attacks publications on the Right, exaggerates, lies, claims opinions […] The post Microsoft Disavows a Newsguard Scam But Supports Its Tool appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

When we think of hens and roosters, we classify them as barnyard animals. Therefore, many will find it interesting that chickens can be very cuddly and make decent indoor pets. The birds are relatively intelligent and they can recognize differences in humans. They can and will develop a fondness for particular people. That’s what happened when the rooster Koji developed his affinity for getting cuddly with his rescuer’s daughter. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Big Sky Mama (@kitchenrooster) When Koji’s family first rescued him, he was sickly. He was shy, quiet, and afraid. As they nursed him back to health, the rescuer’s daughter took the reigns with him. The rooster got used to being in the house and loves being cuddly. A longer YouTube video explains Koji’s early days with the family and how he chases the daughter. Image from YouTube. The rooster will run from room to room, chasing the girl until she gives him cuddles. He lives in a dog crate at night, and when he isn’t roaming the house, following his favorite human. The pair do almost everything together. Koji helps her with homework, and they watch anime together. He does have his toys and will play with them alone and with his humans. He gets upset when his girl isn’t around and will stomp around the house. Music calms the raging beast, so Mom puts the music on. Koji is totally a house rooster. He comes running when he hears the microwave beep or the refrigerator open. He even has cute little outfits to wear on special occasions. Image from YouTube. Koji has definitely settled into his role as house rooster and master of cuddles. You can follow his exploits on Instagram. Please share if you enjoyed reading about this cuddly rooster. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here and here. The post Cuddly Rooster Loves Being Cradled By His Favorite Human appeared first on InspireMore.

Got any plans for December 22nd, 2032? You may consider canceling them, as there’s a non-zero percent chance that an asteroid will strike the Earth with an explosive force equivalent to thousands of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima. But don’t worry! Despite being the only identified near-Earth object out of 37,000 with a greater-than-zero […] The post Good News About Potential Upcoming Asteroid Colliding with Earth: We’ve Deflected Them Before and Can Do So Again appeared first on Good News Network.

Ever since enterprising toymakers hit on the gimmick of combining electricity and sports, many a fan has whiled his rainy-day hours away over miniaturized electric versions of his favorite outdoor games. Few U.S. sports are CONTINUE READING... The post Toy Stories: Electric Football appeared first on The Retro Network.

The Department of Government Efficiency has started making moves. The D.C. media are furious about his attempts to cut government agencies. But I take Elon Musk’s side. More efficient government has been promised often. It’s never happened. Instead, government just grew. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., showcases stupid government “investments” like the $118,000 study of finger snapping, which the National Science Foundation said was “inspired by the infamous finger snap of the (comic book) villain ‘Thanos.’” The government concluded that “varying degrees of friction between the fingers alters … performance of a snap.” Gee, thanks. They even spent thousands of dollars to study whether Neil Armstrong, landing on the moon, said: “One small step for man,” or “One small step for a man.”     NASA says no “a” is audible in the recordings, and I never heard an “a,” but we all paid for an expensive study in which the Science Foundation concluded, “Ambiguity exists.” Gee, thanks. They also spent $1.5 million to study ways to improve the taste of tomatoes. Researchers found that sugar helps. America is going broke. Silly rich people should fund such frivolous research. Taxpayers shouldn’t. But each special interest will fight for its life, and even if Musk cuts all such funding, it would barely affect our ever-increasing deficit. Let’s look at bigger cuts: In my new video, Chris Edwards, editor of the Cato Institute’s “Downsizing Government” website, says, “The first thing I would cut is over a trillion dollars in subsidies to states and local governments—K-12 school funding, school lunch funding, food stamp funding.” Giving people food stamps sounds kind, but Edwards notes that, “Taxpayers fund candy and cake,” and when “state governments ask to eliminate junk food … they aren’t allowed to.” Really. States aren’t allowed to limit welfare payments for junk food.   Edwards also proposes cuts to corporate welfare: “Federal government spends $180 billion a year subsidizing corporations … but that doesn’t help the average person.” More could be saved by selling the government’s stockpile of “an unbelievable 300,000 buildings.” Many sit empty. The ones in my video look first-class, but government still won’t sell them. Nor do bureaucrats sell land they don’t use. The federal government owns a lot, including most of the land in America’s west.   “We don’t know the market value,” says Edwards. “It is in the trillions.” Instead of selling, politicians print more money and use it to buy even more land, like Biden’s recent purchase of 640 acres in Wyoming.   President Donald Trump says he will make cuts. Will he? Last time he didn’t.   This time he seems more serious about it. He recently moved to end DEI programs, telling federal DEI workers, “Don’t come in.” But he’s still paying them! “It’s very difficult to fire federal workers,” Edwards points out. Also, even if Trump managed to fire every federal employee, it still wouldn’t eliminate the deficit. It’s almost impossible to do that, without cutting the biggest spending—Defense, Medicare, Social Security. So far, Trump says he won’t touch those. “Trump does not have to solve the entire deficit problem in his four years in office,” says Edwards, “but he’s got to get the ball rolling.” Government doesn’t need to balance the budget. If it just slowed spending growth, the private economy might grow enough to reduce our debt. But how can the private sector grow when there are so many regulations? “SpaceX had to do a study to see if Starship would hit a shark,” Musk complains. He says he told the regulators, “It’s a big ocean, you know? There’s a lot of sharks. It’s not impossible … ” When regulators finally dropped their shark objections, Musk thought the Space X launch was approved.  “We said, ‘OK, now we’re done.’ And they said, ‘What about whales? … If the rocket goes underwater, then explodes, and the whales have hearing damage?’ This is real! It goes on and on.” Maybe Musk will change that. Hope so. To overcome our ruinous deficits, we need growth. To get that, we need less government spending and fewer rules.   COPYRIGHT 2025 BY JFS PRODUCTIONS INC. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post DOGE to the Rescue? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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