Soon after they brought a pregnant cat into their home, she had kittens in a room, ready for a new beginning. BrielleBestFriendsFelinesAbout four weeks ago, a pregnant cat arrived at Best Friends Felines in need of a fresh start. She quickly warmed up to everyone, showing how grateful she was for the care she received."We have named her Brielle. She is the sweetest little lady with gorgeous blue eyes, stunning cream coloring, and a lovely loud purr," Best Friends Felines shared.Overjoyed to be in a foster home, Brielle snuggled up to her people, soaking up all the love. "She loves pats and cuddles, rolling on her back for tummy rubs." BestFriendsFelinesFeeling secure in her new space, Brielle started preparing for what was to come. "She decided enough was enough and very quietly went into labor in the corner of her room. A couple of hours later, five beautiful kittens were being washed and cared for by their doting mom, who took it all in stride."This is likely Brielle's first litter, and it'll be her last. Soon, she'll enjoy being a cat again, doing what she loves after raising her kittens. She gave birth to a litter of fiveBestFriendsFelines"We have two creams like mom, a little gray baby, and two stripey tabbies." In two weeks, they nearly tripled in weight."(They're) all jostling for the best position at mommy's milk bar and then falling into a milk coma until the next feed. They are starting to wiggle around out of their area, keeping Brielle very busy trying to round them all up again." BestFriendsFelinesWith their eyes opened, the kittens became more curious and active, though still finding their footing. Brielle cherished her kittens but also craved human affection. "She is very proud to show off her babies to any visitors we have to her room."She started taking more breaks from her kittens, cuddling beside her foster mom but always staying within arm's reach in case her babies needed her. BestFriendsFelinesAt three weeks old, the kittens were growing by leaps and bounds, gaining confidence to venture outside their nest. They discovered their voices and weren't shy about using them.Whenever they were taken from their mom for a weigh-in, even for a few seconds, they'd cry out until they were quickly back by her side. BestFriendsFelinesThey playfully wrestled each other, rolling around and waving their tiny limbs in the air. As they learned to groom themselves and their siblings, their individual personalities began to shine."Tank (bigger tabby) is the loudest and pushiest. Wombat and Stormy (the two white babies) are the gentlest, and Lizzie (gray) and Zoe (smaller tabby) are just happy to eat, sleep, and cuddle in my lap when Brielle lets them." BestFriendsFelines"Brielle continues to be the most amazing mom, gulping copious amounts of food before rushing back to feed, groom, and fuss over her brood.""When she does allow herself some time away from her kids, she is starting to show her playful side and loves chasing the wand toy and curly springs around the room. It is lovely to see as she is only so young herself." BestFriendsFelinesThe kittens are thriving, with Tank leading the charge in all their adventures. "He has started playing in the kitty litter boxes. Brielle has had to come give him a nudge on occasion (to help him climb out).""Brielle is getting more time to herself, continuing to develop her playful side, and will now happily sit with me and cuddle and play while her babies explore their new world." BestFriendsFelines"She is the most beautiful cat—in looks and nature—and when the time comes for her to be ready for adoption, she will make the most amazing fur baby for some lucky family." BestFriendsFelinesShare this story with your friends. More on Brielle's family and Best Friends Felines on Instagram and Facebook.Related story: Kitten Dropped off for Help at Days Old Now Has a Smokey Coat, the Most Smiley Cat There is

The 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, has shuffled off this mortal coil at the age of 100. Those who remain and are tasked with covering his passing have chosen to do so while putting a rosy glaze over his presidency. In doing so, they neglected history. Carter’s passing forced the evening newscasts to reconfigure their rundowns on an otherwise slow news night. The media’s collective A-blocks were focused on Carter, with the aforementioned rosy glaze. Here’s how ABC’s Mary Bruce kicked off World News Tonight: The most Dem-friendly network gave the most dem-friendly coverage to the passing of Jimmy Carter. Here's Mary Bruce, doing Mary Brucey things: pic.twitter.com/YB2EJt2kps — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) December 30, 2024 MARY BRUCE: We begin tonight with breaking news, the death of the 39th President of the United States. Jimmy Carter. At 100 years old, Carter living longer than any other U.S. President. He served just four years in The White House and went on to transform the role of former presidents, traveling the globe as a fierce defender of human rights. Carter also enjoying an incredible love story with his wife, Rosalynn, the couple partners in every sense of the word. Married for 77 years. The tributes pouring in tonight. The flag at The White House now at half staff, and New York's Empire State Building lit up in red, white, and blue. And the mourners paying their respects, already lining up at The Carter Center. Mary Bruce’s introduction is emblematic of the coverage accorded to Carter’s passing at ABC: big emphasis on Carter’s personal life, less so on his presidency- which many Americans who were around at the time considered to be the worst in the modern era. CBS’s Norah O’Donnell sought to portray a more unvarnished version of Mr. Carter’s record, but misrepresented history in the process:

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When the Electoral College met on Dec. 17 and confirmed Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris, most commentators concluded that congressional certification of the results would be a mere formality. As Politico put it, “Trump’s victory has made Jan. 6 boring again.” It should be remembered, however, that the Democrats have tried to block certification of every Republican presidential victory this century — including the 2004 reelection of George W. Bush, who won the popular vote and the Electoral College. Consequently, it’s hardly a surprise that we are still hearing claims from TDS victims that Trump can be barred from holding office pursuant to Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. [T]here are still a lot of TDS victims out there whose capacity for critical reasoning evaporates when they think about Donald Trump. Evan Davis, a New York lawyer, and David Schulte, a Chicago investment banker, published an opinion piece in The Hill on Dec. 26 declaring Trump “an oath-breaking insurrectionist” who is ineligible to hold office. They claim the evidence supporting this charge is “overwhelming,” even as they studiously ignore the inconvenient fact that insurrection is a federal crime (18 U.S. Code § 2383) with which Trump has never even been charged. They also neglect to mention, in the 91-word paragraph they devote to Section 3, that it was included in the 14th Amendment specifically as a means of preventing former Confederate officials (who had clearly participated in a real insurrection) from holding public office in the U.S. So, if Trump hasn’t been charged with insurrection and isn’t a former Confederate, where’s the evidence that he’s an insurrectionist? The authors write, “The matter has been decided in three separate forums.” These forums turn out to be Trump’s second impeachment trial (which acquitted him of inciting insurrection), the ruling by Colorado’s Supreme Court that he was guilty of “engaging in insurrection” (unanimously rejected by SCOTUS), and the House Committee to Investigate the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol (an improperly constituted show trial). With such “evidence,” it would be easy to ignore Evans and Schulte but for incendiary rhetoric by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) concerning Section 3: The Court is not going to save us … And the greatest example going on right now before our very eyes is section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which they’re just disappearing with a magic wand as if it doesn’t exist, even though it could not be clearer what it’s stating. And so you know they want to kick it to Congress so it’s going to be up to us on January 6, 2025, to tell the rampaging Trump mobs that he’s disqualified. And then we need bodyguards for everybody in Civil War conditions. Raskin, you will recall, was one of several Democrats who disputed the certification of Trump’s 2016 victory — and proudly posted an article about it on his congressional web site. Consequently, it is by no means unthinkable that he and other far left Democrats will attempt to disrupt congressional certification of Trump’s 2024 victory. Fortunately, the Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022 (ECRA) renders it more difficult for them to disrupt certification as they did after the 2000, 2004, and 2016 elections. Most importantly, it raised the threshold for challenging electors. Under previous law, a challenge required only one House member and one Senator. The ECRA increased this threshold to “one-fifth” of each chamber. This would require the Democrats to find 87 members of the House and 20 members of the Senate who are willing to sign a document asserting that “the electors of the State were not lawfully certified” or that “the vote of one or more electors has not been regularly given.” This is where Evans and Schulte sink deep into the quicksand of circular reasoning. First, they insist that the three forums discussed above have already proven Trump guilty of insurrection when they clearly haven’t. Then they use that already untenable conclusion to prove that Trump’s electors cannot possibly have been “regularly given.” Finally, they put the tinfoil hat on all this nonsense by claiming that Section 3 is somehow self-executing: The act specifies two grounds for objection to an electoral vote: If the electors from a state were not lawfully certified or if the vote of one or more electors was not “regularly given.” A vote for a candidate disqualified by the Constitution is plainly in accordance with the normal use of words “not regularly given.” Disqualification for engaging in insurrection is no different from disqualification based on other constitutional requirements such as age. The Certification Process According to various news reports, Evans and Schulte are longtime Democrat donors who gave money to Vice President Kamala Harris. This brings us to another important feature of the ECRA. Harris will preside over the joint session of Congress during which certification takes place. ECRA explicitly states, “The President of the Senate shall have no power to solely determine, accept, reject, or otherwise adjudicate or resolve disputes over the proper certificate of ascertainment of appointment of electors, the validity of electors, or the votes of electors.” Under the old Electoral Count Act that was still in force on Jan. 6 2021, the Vice President’s powers pursuant to disputed electors were far more ambiguous. What isn’t ambiguous, however, is that there are still a lot of TDS victims out there whose capacity for critical reasoning evaporates when they think about Donald Trump. It’s obvious that Evan Davis and David Schulte are bedeviled by this affliction. Most of their claims concerning certification of Trump’s decisive victory in the Electoral College are ridiculous. For the sake of the nation, let’s hope the Democrats ignore their absurd advice. READ MORE from David Catron: ‘Shadow President Musk’ and Other Media Myths J6 Pardons: Trump Must Not Go Wobbly The post Will Dems Disrupt Certification of Trump’s Triumph? appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Well, I have finally come across a movie that I like. For years I have been saying how much I hate Hollywood’s products. Oh, there is an occasional movie I like. Patton was one. There have been others. Most recently, Reagan, starring Dennis Quaid, comes to mind. The reason that I turned my back on Hollywood is that it is dominated by fantasists. Hollywoodians could not be trusted with the Bible, unless they were allowed to put pictures in it. It is rumored that today Bob Dylan is a Reaganite. But the other day I tripped across a movie that seemed to be true. It is A Complete Unknown and I knew at least one of the people in the movie. A Complete Unknown is a movie about Bob Dylan and how he came from being a complete unknown to being one of the most famous men in the entertainment field, whether he liked it or not. I spent a night in Greenwich village with one of his acquaintances, a girl named “C.B.” something or other. Dylan had a lot of C.B.’s in his life. Of course, I was quite young then and I guzzled an enormous quantity of Ballantine ale with C.B. that night. Seven quarts if memory serves. Then I climbed into my Plymouth Barracuda that evening and a friend drove us back home to Chicago. Doubtless C.B. made an anonymous appearance in the movie. And so back to the movie. It takes young Dylan from 1960 to 1965, which is to say from the time he began his climb to the top of stardom, again whether he liked or not; and there is plenty of evidence in the movie that he was an uncomfortable star. The movie is very honest, it seems to me. It is a dark movie in places. If this movie was done by Hollywood fantasists, that darkness would have disappeared on the cutting room floor. But the movie maintained the darkness when it was necessary and some lightness too. I counted several jokes, usually Dylan’s. The actor who portrayed Bob Dylan, Timothée Chalamet, was superb and, for that matter, the casting of this movie was superb. Joan Baez was there. Pete Seeger was there. Even Woody Guthrie was there. The Newport Folk scene was there. There was tension as Bob Dylan was challenging the old Order by coming up with songs of enormous vitality. The vitality seems to have disappeared nowadays from rock and roll, or folk rock as aficionados of Dylan would like to say. I never thought I would say it, but Bob Dylan comes out beginning to be a hero in this film. The final scene intimates Dylan’s forthcoming motorcycle accident, which doubtless will begin the next round of Dylan’s biopic, if there ever is one. And there I will be, sitting in the front row, cheering him on. It is rumored that today Bob Dylan is a Reaganite. READ MORE from R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.: Theodore Olson, RIP Trump’s Morning in America The post Bob Dylan Is My Hero appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.