The 1962 UPA production of Mr. Magoo’s A Christmas Carol is an unfairly overlooked Christmas classic. This animated 52-minute TV is presented as a Broadway theater extravaganza with songs, dances, and curtain calls, and it really does delve into the true meaning of Christmas.

Magoo, voiced by Jim Backus and created by Millard Kaufmann and John Hubley, is an extremely near-sighted man who stubbornly refuses to accept this reality, causing numerous comical situations that affect everyone around him. In this production, he is Ebenezer Scrooge. Other cast members include Jack Cassidy as Bob Cratchit and Royal Dano as Marley, along with Morey Amsterdam, Joan Gardner, and veteran voice actor Paul Frees.

                    Image created using AI based on the original illustration to A Christmas Carol.

The show-within-a-show is a brilliant twist on the novel, but modern viewers won’t get it. That’s because many scenes have been cropped or deleted entirely. The deleted original begins with Magoo navigating through busy Manhattan traffic to the theatre, where he’s the star of the musical Christmas Carol. The deleted conclusion shows how Magoo, in trademark fashion, pulled a cord that collapsed all of the background sets. Typically, he emerges unscathed, leaving utter chaos in his wake. Continue reading →

Need a few gift ideas before Christmas rolls around? GrrrGraphics is happy to help with your Christmas shopping needs. For 2025, you can’t go wrong with these suggestions!

• It’s Trump Time: Everyone has seen the new Trump watch commercials recently. Well, now there is a special edition offered exclusively by GrrrGraphics, “It’s Deport Time!” Because no matter what time it is in America, it’s always ‘Deport Time.’

• For those who crave attention and want help, the “Jasmine Crockett Wig and Eyelash Set,” which will make you help you achieve that crazy ‘look at me’ style used by Texas wanna-be Senator Crockett. Continue reading →

“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”

These words, attributed to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, echo like a warning bell across generations. They are not merely poetic, they are prophetic. If we dare to measure our society by this standard, we must confront a painful truth: we are failing.

At the heart of this failure lies the collapse of the nuclear family. Once the cornerstone of civilization, the family, father, mother, and children bound by love and duty, has been systematically dismantled. In its place, we find broken homes, single-parent households, and blended families struggling to find emotional equilibrium. The consequences are not abstract, they are measurable, generational, and devastating. Continue reading →

FILE – Primatologist Jane Goodall kisses Pola, a 14-months-old chimpanzee baby from the Budapest Zoo, that she symbolically adopted in Budapest, Hungary, on Dec. 20, 2004. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky, File)

Outside the Field Museum in Chicago, a bronze sculpture by artist Marla Friedman captures a moment a friendship was made.

It’s called “The Red Palm Nut.” A young woman sits barefoot on the ground, reaching out her hand to a chimpanzee, who sits about a yard away. And he lightly, seemingly shyly, takes her human fingers into his own. A bright, red palm nut has dropped on the soil between them.

The woman in the sculpture is the great primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall, at the moment she first earned the trust of a wild chimp. “He reached out and he took and dropped that palm nut,” she later remembered.

“But then very gently squeezed my fingers and that’s how chimpanzees reassure each other. So in that moment we understood each other without the use of human words, the language of gestures.” Continue reading →

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Move would reverse 2020 decision to change name over concerns about offensive terminology

…and we ALL deserve a laugh now and then! – A T-Shirt that was sent to me by a listener some years ago. Editor

There was a rare bit of good news out of the nation’s capital this week with a report that the owners of Washington’s NFL team are seriously considering President Donald Trump’s demand to restore the name “Redskins.”

It was back in 2020, a year of abject and bizarre societal madness, that the Redskins became the Washington Football Team, and eventually the Commanders, out of concern that “Redskin” is an offensive term. Never mind that poll after poll shows actual American Indians do not object to it… Continue reading →

The logo of the World Health Organization is seen at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 11, 2019.

The U.S. this summer has formally rejected new amendments to the 2024 International Health Regulations (IHR) from the World Health Organization (WHO).

President Donald Trump announced in January that the United States would withdraw from the WHO by 2026. He tried to separate from the organization in 2020 during his first term, but his order was revoked the second Joe Biden stepped into office.

Following an official letter to the WHO, Trump has ordered that funding for the WHO to end as the break-up is under way. The U.S. has been the most important financial contributor to WHO, giving a total of $706 million – 9-10% of WHO’s overall budget – for the 2024-25 fiscal year. Continue reading →

Historic agreement promises hundreds of thousands of new American jobs and opens Japanese markets to US products

President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced a $550 billion trade deal with Japan that will create hundreds of thousands of jobs and open Japanese markets to US cars, trucks, and agricultural products. (REUTERS/Kent Nishimura / Reuters)

RELATED – July 25, 2025: Trump’s Big Trade Deal With Japan Is Already Falling Apart

A “massive” $550 billion trade deal has been reached with Japan, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, adding that it will create hundreds of thousands of jobs.

“We just completed a massive Deal with Japan, perhaps the largest Deal ever made,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Japan will invest, at my direction, $550 Billion Dollars into the United States, which will receive 90% of the Profits. This Deal will create Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs — There has never been anything like it.” Continue reading →

Natives from the Kotzebue-based NANA corporation welcomed control of the land

Alaska Gov. Dunleavy slams Biden’s ‘cancel culture’ energy policy: ‘It’s been a lack of opportunity’

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy joined ‘The Brian Kilmeade Show’ to discuss how the Biden administration’s energy policy has inhibited Alaska from producing oil and reducing prices at the pump.

Alaska Natives and state leaders lauded a landmark move by the Trump administration to transfer 28,000 acres of land in the Arctic to a consortium of Natives after the Biden administration balked at state officials’ wishes to develop the so-called Ambler Mining Road and claimed they instead were protecting the locals. Continue reading →

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the move.

 Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies on Capitol Hill on May 14, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

The Trump administration said on July 18 that the United States is rejecting a World Health Organization (WHO) agreement that it says gives the global health body too much power.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the formal rejection of the 2024 amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR). Continue reading →

The H-2A visa program is an example of how legal immigration can supply labor in America, but farmers say reform is needed.

Joe Mencer, owner of Mencer Farms in Lake Village, Ark., on April 29, 2025. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

LAKE VILLAGE, Ark. – On a breezy day, sun and shadow dance across Mencer farms, turning it into a patchwork of green in the fertile Arkansas Delta.

It is humid here in the deep South, where the clock seems to run slower and the temperature hotter than in other places.

Lake Village is a small town sitting along Lake Chicot, an abandoned channel of the Mississippi River. Over thousands of years, flooding deposited rich alluvial soil, making it ideal for crops such as rice, cotton, soybeans, and corn.

As a child, William Mencer’s grandfather handed him a cowboy hat and a garden hoe to dig up the pigweeds growing between the crop rows.

The 31-year-old farmer remembers spending long, sweltering days alongside the farmworkers, his hands growing rough and calloused with the effort.

“So I learned, you know, what it was like for these workers.”

He vowed to escape the sweat and toil of the fields by going to law school and working in an office. But the family farm drew him back like a love song.

Now he is partnering with his father, Joe Mencer, to keep the farm afloat with temporary agriculture workers through the H-2A visa program. Continue reading →

Christ looks the most religious men of His day in the eye and calls them morons. He does this not to demean but to awaken; not to shame but to judge rightly – and to invite us to do the same.

Have you ever had one of those jarring moments when the lyrics of a song you once jammed to as a kid suddenly hit you with grown-up clarity? Maybe it was hearing Free Bird and suddenly realizing the masses in your high school were swaying to a breakup anthem. Or perhaps at your kids’ Catholic athletic event it struck you that “if you’re into evil you’re a friend of mine” (AC/DC’s Hells Bells) might not be the best fire-up song (pun intended). One of my personal favorites was discovering the biting genius behind Bugs Bunny’s old jab, “What a maroon!” – a mispronounced moron, cloaked in Looney Tunes levity but hitting with uncanny precision.

In this age of moral preening – where every tribe, every talking head, invokes Jesus Christ as the mascot of their cause – here’s the mic drop no one saw coming: Jesus called people morons. Continue reading →

President Trump touted a new executive order that would more closely align drug prices in the US with those sold in Europe and the UK, opening the door for drugs used by millions of Americans to become cheaper.

The EO does not specify which drugs will be targeted but a similar policy proposed by Trump in 2020 included drugs administered in hospitals or clinics under Medicare Part B, which covers inpatient drugs for seniors. However, that policy was blocked by a federal judge who ruled the government had overstepped its bounds by sidestepping Congress. Continue reading →

For generations, trade has shaped our country into the envy of the world. America was built on it. Without robust partnerships and markets around the globe, our nation’s economy would grind to a halt. As I see it, though, our country’s conventional approach to tariffs , no matter how well-intentioned, has failed to address the modern complexities of the global trade market and the experience of America’s agricultural producers and manufacturers.

I’m a Nebraska farmer — not a columnist, talking head, or a politician. The only way I know how to do a job like this is to tell the truth and make difficult decisions simple: The hardcore reality is that many countries have beaten us on trade, installing hurdles and manipulating prices to hurt U.S. agriculture and industry for years and years.

It must stop. It’s time leaders in Washington step up to help, and I’m glad President Donald Trump is leading. Continue reading →

SMILE – Mr. President!

The Trump White House on Tuesday drafted an executive order to abolish the Department of Education, NBC News reported.

Trump vowed to wage war with Education Department and give power back to the states. Continue reading →

Flower Girl Makes Herself At Home