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Mask mandates on planes are a joke. pic.twitter.com/gVnaRSwG1W— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) March 16, 2022

HENDRICKS COUNTY — Crews are battling a massive fire at a Walmart distribution center Wednesday afternoon in Hendricks County.The Plainfield Fire Territory confirms the fire at the distribution center on AllPoints Parkway. The Brownsburg Fire Department said this is now a 5-alarm fire. Walmart had 1,000 employees inside at the time the fire broke out, Plainfield Police Department Deputy Chief Joe Aldridge said.

One of the most controversial bills to go through the legislature this session is HB 1557, described by progressive groups such as the HRC, the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. The upset is over the idea that this bill is anti LGBTQ+ and that it aims to prevent children from hearing about diverse families and any person who isn’t from a standard nuclear family. The question is, is any of the rhetoric true? Here are some questions and answers from the House staff that explain the truth about the bill. Question: Does the bill say not to use the word gay?

Former Vice President Mike Pence insisted the United States should do more for Ukraine as it is in the throes of an invasion from Russia Wednesday during an interview with FNC’s “America’s Newsroom.” Pence argued for a “21st century Berlin airlift” as a response to the humanitarian crisis spurred by the Russian invasion.

There is relative global unanimity that Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has not gone according to plan... According to U.S. and foreign sources, the purge of those responsible for the disaster — other than Putin himself — has already begun. Some generals reportedly are being relieved of command and top intelligence officers placed under house arrest. This is just the start; more purges are almost certain to come, and those at risk know it. It therefore makes sense to expect that those waiting for the axe to fall might try to justify themselves — to document that they are not...

Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz ripped the National Basketball Association (NBA) Tuesday after fining the Brooklyn Nets $50,000 for allowing an unvaccinated Kyrie Irving to step inside the locker room. “One final example for just how asinine this is: the NBA just fined Kyrie Irving $50,000 because [of] their rules, the rules of New York City,” Cruz said. “Here’s how idiotic it is: Kyrie Irving could go to a game, could sit in the stands not being vaccinated, which he did. That was perfectly okay. But if he actually plays, that’s not permissible.” “Because apparently in addition to Diet Coke...

ussia's economy is "incredibly unimportant in the global economy except for oil and gas," Jason Furman, a Harvard economist and former advisor to President Barack Obama, told The New York Times. "It's basically a big gas station," he said. His comments come as the West prepares heavy sanctions on Russia if it invades Ukraine. While they have the potential to throw the Russian economy into chaos, these measures could also reverberate to further damage the US, Europe, and the rest of the world as they battle inflation and rising energy prices — a ripple effect that the West hopes to...

Car accident straight out of Dukes of Hazzard

The city of Marina plans to tear down dozens of old military barracks and buildings that are no longer in use in Fort Ord and turn them into spaces that people and families will use. "We have a lot of work to do," said Marina Mayor, Bruce Delgado. Advertisement Marina City Council is looking to remove 32 run-down military housing units near the Marina High School, on Third Avenue and Rendova Avenue. It is located in a former Fort Ord neighborhood, known as Cypress Knolls. The city will use $1.6 million from the Fort Ord Reuse Authority to complete the...

The Biden Administration’s Office of Management and Budget is strongly endorsing a bill to protect Americans from discrimination when it comes to natural hair. House Resolution 2116 is known as the “Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act of 2022″ or the “CROWN Act.” It would prohibit discrimination based on hair texture or style associated with a particular race or ethnicity. Those styles include locs, cornrows, braids, twists, bantu knots and afros.

FRESNO, CA—A local family ended up spending over a hundred dollars on their fast-food meal Monday when they got stuck idling in the drive-thru for ten minutes. Due to high gas prices, what used to be a convenience has turned into a crippling expense for millions of American families. "Oh no!" exclaimed Suzy Williams as she steered into the drive-thru lane. There were five cars ahead of her. "This is going to take forever! It's going to cost me a fortune!!!" She quickly put the car in reverse and was ready to put the pedal to the metal, but another...

Second Week of Lent Matthew 20:17-28 Friends, today in our Gospel, the mother of James and John asks Jesus on their behalf for high places of authority in his kingdom. Ah, there is the voice of ambition. Some people don’t care at all about money or power or pleasure—but they care passionately about honor. A lot of people can identify with James and John. They want to go places, they want to be movers and shakers in society. Perhaps a number of people reading this reflection are filled with these emotions. But Jesus turns the tables on them: “You do...

So, The Federal Reserve raised their target rate by … as expected … 25 basis points to 50 basis points. The Taylor Rule suggests that the target rate should be 11.96%. So, Powell and The Gang are getting closer! /sarc The short-term reaction to the measly rate increase? The Dow declined (but still in positive territory for the day) and the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield spiked to 2.23%. Here is what The Fed had to say.

Paris (AFP) – Prima ballerina Olga Smirnova has quit the Bolshoi in Moscow to join the Dutch National Ballet, it was announced Wednesday, making her the first Russian to quit the fabled company over the war in Ukraine. “Smirnova was outspoken in her recent denouncement of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which is making it untenable for her to work in her native country," the Dutch company said in a statement. Smirnova is one of the biggest stars of the Bolshoi and had already expressed her opposition to the war on messaging app Telegram earlier this month. "I am against...

Sky News host Chris Smith says US President Joe Biden is clearly “not up to the demands” of such a crucial period in history. “Can the world have any faith in Biden making a difference, certainly in diplomatic terms,” Mr Smith said. “Putin views him as a joke, and European leaders seem intent on engaging in peace talks without the President. “And who could blame them.”

Mark Levine, the Manhattan borough president, and Dr. Jay Varma, a top health adviser to former Mayor Bill de Blasio, called on the city on Wednesday for a plan to encourage New Yorkers to get their booster shots and protect residents from any future waves of the coronavirus. The suggested plan is driven by the potential threat of a new variant, which could cause a fresh rise in cases and hospitalizations and the need for more “forceful” action, Dr. Varma said. The plan also comes as Mayor Eric Adams has been aggressively promoting efforts to recover the city’s economy in...

President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is giving temporary quasi-amnesty status to nearly 75,000 Afghans in the United States, including those fast-tracked into the U.S. over the last seven months despite vetting failures. To date, Biden has resettled more than 85,000 Afghans in American communities across 46 states since mid-August 2021. That resettlement failed to properly vet Afghans against counter-terrorism databases, the Department of Defense’s Inspector General revealed last month.

Russian troops have launched an attack on a theatre in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol where as many as 1,200 civilians including women, children and the elderly, were taking refuge.

Cleaning up our father's estate we found a wax paper umbrella he brought back from his time in China and Japan in the months following the surrender. There is some writing on it which I assume is Chinese but am not certain. He spent some shore time in Shanghai and in Sasebo Japan in Oct-Nov, 1945.Can anyone here translate what this writing means?Larger image at the article link.

Some have speculated that as the Covid Narrative collapsed, the Lying Press would distance themselves from government Covid policy in order to ingratiate themselves with an irate public and avoid the pointy end of their pitchforks. New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet appears to have heeded the forecasts and pushed the media under the bus first....