An 18-day-old baby and his mother were rescued alive after spending 32 hours trapped beneath the rubble of a collapsed building during Venezuela’s devastating earthquakes. They were later reunited with the baby’s father.
Young man with Down syndrome was pulled over after cameras caught a coyote sitting in the back of his car.
On November 21st, a young man was driving when he noticed an animal lying in the middle of a busy road, barely moving and suffering in the heat.
Without hesitation, he stopped in traffic, pulled over, picked the animal up, and carried it into his car. He turned the AC on full blast because he thought he was saving a little dog from heat stroke.
Security cameras nearby captured the whole thing, and once people realized what he had put in his backseat, police were called to make sure he was okay.
When officers arrived, they found him sitting there smiling, proudly telling them he had helped a cute dog that nobody else wanted to save. That’s when the officer gently told him it wasn’t a dog.
It was a coyote.
He was shocked, but he still didn’t regret stopping. Officers helped safely handle the coyote and later released it away from the road.
When they asked him why he did it, his answer hit everyone:
“Everyone was just watching him die. I only wanted to help.”
America Beyond Politics: Pure kindness. Gary is 81. He was given $500 as a reward for his kindness. He took only the $20 he needed and returned the rest. The man who offered the money had to convince him to keep it, even though Gary was behind on his mortgage.
Many thanks to Robert Henline. He was a veteran of the Gulf War and was honorably discharged in 1992. Following 9/11, he elected to get back into the military, and serve again. He made three additional deployments. However, on his fourth tour, his convoy received a hit from explosives. Robert was the only survivor. That day, three more soldiers were killed. His stories serve as a reminder that many soldiers put their lives at risk, and some soldiers will never forget.
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Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815.
Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did.
Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”
Thomas Sowell: “People who pride themselves on their 'complexity' and deride others for being 'simplistic' should realize that the truth is often not very complicated.”