In 1936, J. R. R. Tolkien published a Christmas poem titled “Noel” in the annual magazine of Our Lady's Abingdon, in Oxfordshire. The poem was lost to history for nearly 80 years until scholars Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull rediscovered it in the archives. It reads: Grim was the world and grey last night: The moon and stars were fled, The hall was dark without song or light, The fires were fallen dead. The wind in the trees was like to the sea, And over the mountains' teeth It whistled bitter-cold and free, As a sword leapt from its sheath. The lord of snows upreared his head; His mantle long and pale Upon the bitter blast was spread And hung o'er hill and dale. The world was blind, the boughs were bent, All ways and paths were wild: Then the veil of cloud apart was rent, And here was born a Child. The ancient dome of heaven sheer Was pricked with distant light; A star came shining white and clear Alone above the night. In the dale of dark in that hour of birth One voice on a sudden sang: Then all the bells in Heaven and Earth Together at midnight rang. Mary sang in this world below: They heard her song arise O'er mist and over mountain snow To the walls of Paradise, And the tongue of many bells was stirred in Heaven's towers to ring When the voice of mortal maid was heard, That was mother of Heaven's King. Glad is the world and fair this night With stars about its head, And the hall is filled with laughter and light, And fires are burning red. The bells of Paradise now ring With bells of Christendom, And Gloria, Gloria we will sing That God on earth is come.

Hopefully you fix the sourcing first… Grok’s sourcing is garbage right now.

Studies of specific whale deaths & underwater sound measures show illegal levels of noise & boat traffic in previously untrafficked areas drive the deaths of whales. The North Atlantic right whale will go extinct should wind energy continue. The proof is in this amazing doc:

EXCLUSIVE: @SpeakerJohnson tells @BariWeiss that President Biden hasn’t been in charge for a while. In January 2024, when Johnson and Biden were alone in the Oval Office, the president couldn’t recall an important executive order he had signed just three weeks earlier. Johnson recalled telling Biden: “Sir, why did you pause LNG exports to Europe? Liquefied natural gas is in great demand by our allies. Why would you do that?” Biden, according to Johnson, was stunned. “I didn’t do that.” “He genuinely didn’t know what he had signed,” Johnson said. “And I walked out of that meeting with fear and loathing because I thought, ‘We are in serious trouble—who is running the country?’ Like, I don’t know who put the paper in front of him, but he didn’t know.” “The Free Press in D.C.” episodes of Honestly are presented by Uber and X. Tune into this episode at 10:00 a.m. Monday on X. thefp.pub/3PGPygb

Imagine if all bills were required to be footnoted with references to which Congressman added a provision to a bill. We could then see from whence the pork comes. The way it has historically been done, there is no cost to being behind a particularly egregious piece of pork. With this change, there would be a cost to even proposing government waste.

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Judge Mark Scarsi in California just delivered a haymaker: "The Constitution provides the President with broad authority to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, but nowhere does the Constitution give the President the authority to rewrite history."

Eisenhower's "Military-Industrial Complex" Speech Origins and Significance youtu.be/Gg-jvHynP9Y?si=UMb9…… via @YouTube

So true, and so sad.

With this pardon, Joe Biden shredded any residue of veracity and credibility as president. For years, he was repeatedly asked if he met any of his son's clients. He lied and denied it. He was repeatedly asked if he was aware of Hunter's foreign dealings. He repeatedly lied and denied it. He was asked if he would pardon his son. He repeatedly lied and denied it...

Marie Clay used learning research to develop Reading Recovery. She recognized the strength of combining movement with oral language to strengthen neural connections. This research again emphasizes how #readingrecoveryworks. Legislators need to #bringRRback. @BillyMolasso

A must read article for all educators and school administrators. Ohio's state legislature once supported this instruction and prof development because it worked! Good news! It still does! readingrecovery.org/getting-…

Years ago, @GovMikeDeWine, you knew of this high quality intervention and supported it. Xenia teachers shared its success with you. You may want to take another look! Please, contact @jamie_lipp for more information! Go Buckeyes! readingrecovery.org/more-res…

Issue 1 is simple: if you vote "Yes" you'll never be able to elect again (or vote out) the people who draw your election maps; the "Yes" vote is funded by ~$40M from progressive dark-money groups; the same scheme produced racially gerrymandered maps in Michigan - violating Black voters' civil rights; the proposed amendment is a tool used by progressive Democrats to gerrymander maps to rig the number of Democrats in the Statehouse and Washington, D.C. I speak for myself: I'm an ABSOLUTELY NO vote on Ohio Issue 1.

JUST IN: Nicole Shanahan drops INSANE TRUMP UNITY video, 2 day out of the 2024 election.. SHARE THIS WITH ANYONE ON THE FENCE..

“Those who find an idea, epithet, literary work or other form of expression offensive can oppose, counteract and perhaps refute it with further speech — not by banning the speech deemed to be offensive.  As Justice Louis Brandeis said in a famous quote, ‘If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.’” firstamendmentcenter.org/Spe….

Pay attention to the ballot issues on your state's ballot - these are the ones about voting / elections. So important to pass the good ones and defeat the ones that will upend our election laws in state after state. Bankrolled by leftwing billionaires and foreign money VoteFair2024.com votefair2024.com/

The media say Trump lied when he told Joe Rogan that industrial wind turbines are killing whales, but he didn't. In fact, it's worse than Trump said. If the wind industry continues with its boats, noise, and vibrations, it will make the North Atlantic right whale extinct.

If the government punishes people for being productive by hitting them with big tax increases, and rewards people for being unproductive by giving them entitlements to the taxpayers’ money, how is that likely to lead to a more productive economy?

Here’s what we need: single day voting on Election Day, as a national holiday, with paper ballots & government-issued ID. But we have to WIN to get there. Don’t be shy about voting early this time. Gotta win by the rules we have now, to ever change them to what they should be.