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None of us liking paying extra to get our bags on an airplane... and at Philadelphia International Airport last week, those extra fees instigated a nasty brawl between passengers and Spirit Airlines gate agents. A 39-year-old mother and her 17-year-old daughter were about to board their flight when they were informed that their carry on bags were too big and they would have to pay to check them. An argument about the fees quickly escalated and became physical as the woman and her daughter started grabbing and clawing at the gate agents. The cell phone video footage shows the teenage...

It sure seems as if there’s a consensus on one aspect of the trans community – they’re all ragey – gggrrrr. Mad and pissed off because things aren’t going their way. They just stay mad and act out. Lately, it’s been kind of violently. And when they do something violent, the focus is not on them as perpetrators of violence – as evil-doers – it’s on either the reaction to their crime or instant excuse-making for their crime. Of course, all this before their crime vanishes from the public air space in short order. Case in point, take the transgender...

ABC’s Terry Moran noted the passage of Tennessee’s legislation during his live report, as a possible and thus far speculative motive. New York Times and NBC News contributor Benjamin Ryan, in a since deleted tweet, noted that Nashville “is home to the Daily Wire, a hub of anti-trans activity by @MattWalshBlog, @BenShapiro and @MichaelJKnowles.” Several other outlets, including NPR, the New York Times and USA Today took time to correct Nashville law enforcement for previously misgendering the mass shooter and not using “his” desired pronouns. Prior to the confirmation of the shooter’s identity, the Washington Post, also in a since...

It appears that Taylor Mathis has a new supporter: the man who dimed her out, leading to her getting fired from her job at SuperBook. “I absolutely think in any situation, education is better than retribution. There was an opportunity for everybody to grow here. I never asked for her to be fired, I asked for it to be stopped and addressed,” Harry Levant, a former gambling addict turned gambling reformer, told Sports Handle. “I don’t think her motives were bad, and of all the people in the world, I’m all about second and third chances. So not only do...

Burger King lovers in Michigan are going to need to find a new spot to get a whopper after a franchisee announced the closure of 26 fast food locations. The fast-food restaurant closings will force 434 employees to lose their jobs, according to a letter filed with Michigan's Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity. The franchisee called its ceasing of operations an "unforeseen business circumstance" in a March 22, Warning Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notice with Michigan's Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity. The closures will affect stores in Detroit, Dearborn Heights, Ecorse, Ferndale, Flint, Highland Park, Livonia, Royal...

@paulsperry_ DEVELOPING: The Bushes are running against Trump through "proxy" candidate DeSantis, according to GOP insiders in Texas and Florida. The entire "Bush machine" is behind his campaign, even helping run it

A transgender activist group is scheduled to hold a "Trans Day of Vengeance" outside of the Supreme Court on Saturday, just days after a transgender individual opened fire on a Christian school, leaving three kids and three adults dead. "The Time is Now. The Trans/Non-Binary/Gender Non-Conforming/Intersex communities are facing astronomical amounts of hate from the world," the Trans Radical Activist Network states on its website promoting "#TransDay of Vengeance." TRAN describes itself as"a network of unapologetic activists fighting for Queer Liberation," and promoted the protest earlier this year on social media, according to Twitter screenshots. The Twitter account for the...

Evelyn Dieckhaus, 9, was remembered as a "very creative" child. She and her older sister Eleanor would stage plays in their backyard for friends and family. Mike Hill, 61, worked as a custodian at the Covenant School. Hill worked at the school for 13 years before his death and was known to be an encouraging and positive force by those who knew him. Katherine Koonce, 60, worked as the headmistress at the private Christian academy. A parent described Koonce as a "saint" and said that she dedicated her life to educating children. On the school's website, a letter from Koonce...

NBC tries to walk carefully through the minefield of cultural marxism with the revelation from the Nashville Chief of Police that shooter Audrey Hale (28) was motivated by a sense of resentment. The targeting of a Christian School specifically due to an internal sense of ‘resentment’, highlights the radicalization of gender by the far-left.Stoke the fires of rage and resentment long enough, while justifying violence as an excusable outcome caused by wounded sensibilities and uncomfortable words, and the Nashville result is what happens. Hale was an unstable biological woman who identified herself as a man. She left behind a manifesto,...

A Twitter profile by the name of Trans Resistance Network wrote on Monday that “anti-trans hate” has “consequences” in relation to the killing of six people at a Christian school in Nashville, TN, by a man described as a “transgender woman” by left-wing news media outlets. The man who killed six people — including three children — in Nashville “felt he had no other effective way to be seen than to lash out by taking the life of others,” according to the Trans Resistance Network’s statement. The statement alleged that right-wing figures promote “anti-trans hate” by “calling for nothing less...

Collaborative Combat Aircraft will be able to carry out missions without direction from crewed aircraft and may not always fly as their “wingmen,” in order to maximize employment flexibility, Air Force leaders developing and testing the new platforms said March 27. In a panel discussion presented by Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, the four generals charged with bringing the CCA concept to fruition said the service has embarked on on a modeling and simulation campaign to figure out how to make CCAs as useful and cost-imposing on an enemy as possible, while making progress on developmental, operational and testing fronts...

Explanation: Yes, but can your green flash do this? A green flash at sunset is a rare event that many Sun watchers pride themselves on having seen. Once thought to be a myth, a green flash is now understood to occur when the Earth's atmosphere acts like both a prism and a lens. Different atmospheric layers create altitude-variable refraction that takes light from the top of the Sun and disperses its colors, creates two images, and magnifies it in just the right way to make a thin sliver appear green just before it disappears. Pictured, though, is an even more...

Two trans activists are demanding the end of the conservative 'love affair' with 'radical religious schools' in a response to the Nashville mass shooting, in which they appear to shift the blame away from twisted killer, Audrey Hale, 28. Eli Erlick, who recently boasted about providing cross-sex hormones to children, posted a tweet with screen grabs to a story about false accusations of abuse at the Covenant Presbyterian Church of Nashville in 2013. The Covenant School in Nashville is connected to the church. Erlick described the school, at which three nine-year-olds and three adults were gunned down by Hale, as...

FIFTH WEEK OF LENTJohn 8:21-30 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus predicts his death on the cross.We are meant to see on that cross not simply a violent display but rather our own ugliness. denial, unspeakable cruelty, scapegoating, fear, etc.In other words, all of our dysfunction is revealed on that cross.So far so awful. But we can’t stop telling the story at this point. Dante and every other spiritual master know that the only way up is down. When we live in convenient darkness, unaware of our sins, we will never make spiritual progress. So we need the light, however painful...

Audrey Hale's religious parents rejected that she was gay and transgender Hale attended The Covenant School in Nashville as a child herself READ MORE: Hero schoolgirl, 9, who died trying to pull fire alarm Twisted school shooter Audrey Hale was at odds with her devout Christian parents because they 'couldn't accept' she was gay and transgender, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal. Church coordinator Norma, 61, and her husband Ronald, 64, refused to let Hale - who had recently adopted the name Aiden and used he/him pronouns - dress as a man in their home. The 28-year-old loner would instead wait until...

For the first time, researchers have developed a form of the omega-3 fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) that is capable of crossing into the eye's retina to ward off visual declines related to Alzheimer's disease, diabetes and other disorders. The DHA found in fish oil capsules is called triacylglycerol (TAG) DHA. Although TAG-DHA has benefits in other parts of the body, it does not reach the eyes. For the study, researchers created a new lysophospholipid form of DHA, or LPC-DHA. In studies using mice, LPC-DHA successfully increased DHA in the retina and reduced eye problems associated with Alzheimer's-like processes. In...

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ATLANTA – Local elections offices in Georgia would not be allowed to accept donations from private sources to help run their operations under a Republican-backed bill that has passed the state House of Representatives. Senate Bill 222 cleared the lower chamber along party lines 100-69 late Monday night, the last bill lawmakers took up in a marathon next-to-last day of this year’s legislative session. The legislation stems from complaints from Republicans in Georgia and other states about private donations flowing into elections offices in Democratic counties, notably a $350 million contribution by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to the nonprofit Center...

In the near future, Putin plans to visit Turkey. Active preparations for the visit are underway. A meeting with Erdogan for Putin should solve several issues at once. The main topic should be Erdogan's persuasion to influence Zelensky to move to negotiations "on adequate terms" and the prologue to the negotiations should be the freezing of the conflict. The Russian president will be quite satisfied with any "Minsk-3" or "Istanbul-1", if only a truce was recorded and Russian troops were given the opportunity to "recover" and fill the gaps in forces and means for further hostilities. There are still a...

Meat consumption is coming under fire from a number of different parts of society, but now a savvy firm that blends the worlds of science and food might have a solution that can keep everyone happyA meatball has been made using the DNA of a woolly mammoth, and apparently, it wasn’t very difficult. The miraculous feat of making a meatball out of something that hasn't existed for more than 4,000 years was achieved by an Australian outfit called Vow. The resurrection approach is a fresh take on meeting the growing demand from consumers who don’t want to kill anything to...