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HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Saturday, March 28. The Richmond Dispatch, of the 27th inst., notes the execution by hanging of Capt. M. DE HART, of Arkansas, who was sent out by Gen. HERRON to clear the White River District of INGRAM'S guerrilla band. Capt. A. WEBSTER has been tried by Court-martial in Richmond, and sentenced to be hung on the 3d of April, for the murder in Fauquier County of Capt. SIMPSON, of the Confederate army. The railroad bridge over Holsten River, at Zollickoffer, Tenn., which was destroyed by the Union Army, has been repaired, and trains...

When Trump took office, his enemies were in place and they got him before he could get them. Two cases of corruption have recently come to the fore, both involving foreign countries. Significantly for U.S. citizens, both of these shed light on questionable activities of Hunter Biden regarding vital United States foreign interests. Whether they also provide inference to be drawn about President Biden’s document retention then becomes question for the jury of public opinion. One of these cases involves the recent raid by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the home of Ukraine's most corrupt oligarchic Igor Kolomoisky for allegedly...

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis's Office of Academic Affairs issued a document obtained by Fox News Digital that outlines "Inclusive Faculty Search Practices" to improve hiring, advising committees should "move away from abstract conceptions of ‘merit’ and 'fit." "Merit and fit are social constructions grounded in dominant understandings of ‘which professional qualifications are deemed worthy, and which personal attributes and styles are deemed suitable for a position,’" the guidance states. In one section, the guidance contrasts "traditional fit" values and "equity-minded fit" values, saying traditional prospective worker would approach learning "as an individual enterprise in which students are responsible for their...

Adidas says it is withdrawing a request to the US Trademark Office to reject a Black Lives Matter (BLM) application for a trademark featuring three parallel stripes. The sportwear giant did not give a reason for the reversal. On Monday, Adidas said the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation design would create confusion with its own famous three-stripe mark. It added that it has been using its logo for more than 70 years. "Adidas will withdraw its opposition to the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation's trademark application as soon as possible," a spokesperson for the German company said in...

For years, conservatives have complained of apparent censorship of their voices on the principal social media platforms, like Facebook, Google and Twitter. Posts or tweets get taken down, or de-boosted, or de-monetized, or degraded in search results, or “shadow-banned,” or slapped with content warnings, or otherwise suppressed. But the response from Big Tech has always been, hey, we’re private companies, and we’re not subject to the First Amendment. We can do as we please. Then Elon Musk took over Twitter, and followed by giving several journalists access to Twitter’s electronic archives to investigate any untoward government manipulation. The result has...

US lawmakers are expected this week to continue their push to ban the country’s fastest-growing social media platform, TikTok, after the company’s CEO fell short of assuaging concerns about the app’s supposed national security risks. Shou Zi Chew’s testimony in Washington last week may have failed to convince critics that Chinese ownership of TikTok was not cause for alarm. But instead of raising public awareness of alleged security risks, lawmakers turned the spotlight on their limited understanding of the subject while turning Chew into an overnight celebrity for his poise under pressure. Susan Shirk, chair of the University of California...

In the Fifth Circuit, the entire Court has ruled, en banc, that mere civil restraining orders may not infringe rights protected by the Second Amendment. The unconstitutional infringement was placed into law by the infamous Lautenberg Amendment in 1996. Hundreds of thousands of lives have been turned upside down and ruined by this infamous and unjust law. In the opinion published by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Circuit Judge James C. Ho writes a particularly well-argued and presented concurrence. The concurrence is worth reading. It is quoted below, without the footnotes:James C. Ho, Circuit Judge, concurring:The right to keep...

The European Court of Human Rights will hear cases against France and Switzerland over alleged failings to protect the environment Wednesday, the first time governments are in the court's dock for alleged climate change inaction. The case against Switzerland is based on a complaint by an association of elderly people -- who call themselves the "Club of Climate Seniors" -- concerned with the consequences of global warming on their living conditions and health, the ECHR said. They accuse the Swiss authorities of various climate change failings which they say amount to a violation of the government's obligation to protect life...

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As Fox News opinionators struggle with the WrestleManiacal battle between former President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, it’s interesting to see where prominent conservatives on the cable news network land. Evidenced by searing criticism from former GOP Congressman turned Fox News host, we can take Jason Chaffetz out of the Trump column. Trump returned to Fox News airwaves for a formal interview with host and political ally Sean Hannity for a Mar-a-Lago interview which aired Monday night. Some may have confused the Q&A with a Festivus celebration as there was no shortage of grievance airing, which has been...

I read with interest and trepidation the Martin Center’s March 16 article “Davidson College Affirms Free Speech,” which noted that Davidson had adopted a version of the Chicago Principles as its new speech policy. My interest came from the recognition that the college had made an abstract commitment to preserving freedom of speech on campus. My trepidation came from the tone of celebration the article embodied—the implication that adopting the new policy would actually protect unpopular speech. There is an old saying that it is good to learn from experience but better to learn from someone else’s experience. In the...

A ChatGPT vulnerability may have exposed payment-related information of some customers of the AI tool, as well as allowing titles from some active user’s chat history to be viewed, OpenAI has revealed. In a blog post published on March 24, 2023, the company provided details of a data breach caused by a bug in an open source library, which forced it to take ChatGPT temporarily offline on Monday March 20. After patching the vulnerability, OpenAI was able to restore both the Chat GPT service and, later, its chat history feature, with the exception of a few hours of history. The...

MERICAN NEWS Mar 22, 2023 Radical trans activists to join forces with Antifa for Trans Day of Vengeance event in DC Radical trans activists and a DC Antifa group are organising a Trans Day of Vengeance protest on April 1st at the Supreme Court of the United States. ADVERTISEMENT Radical trans activists to join forces with Antifa for Trans Day of Vengeance event in DC Image Mia Ashton Montreal QC Mar 22, 2023 2 Minute Read ADVERTISEMENT Radical trans activists and a DC Antifa group are organizing a Trans Day of Vengeance protest on April 1st at the Supreme Court...

Doctors who perform gender reassignment surgery on children under the age of 18 will face felony charges if the bill becomes law. TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA — “This bill seeks to ban surgery and drugs for those under the age of 18 and gives doctors who participate in such treatments a third degree felony,” the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Randy Fine (R-Brevard), began. “Additionally, it clears up custody situations in relation to these procedures; it blocks public funds for these treatments for adults; and it prohibits Florida residents from changing their gender on their birth certificate from what it is at birth,” he...

[*All currently known Piezoelectric materials are solids. When the solid is compressed or twisted, it releases an electric charge. If the solid is zapped with electricity, the solid changes shape*] - When the liquids were put in a cylinder and compressed with a piston, both generated electricity proportional to the force applied. Blanchard and Hossain placed their liquids in a lens-shaped container. By zapping it with electricity, Blanchard said they were able to change the focal length of the lens.

rtificial intelligence (AI) could replace the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs, a report by investment bank Goldman Sachs says. It could replace a quarter of work tasks in the US and Europe but may also mean new jobs and a productivity boom. And it could eventually increase the total annual value of goods and services produced globally by 7%. Generative AI, able to create content indistinguishable from human work, is "a major advancement", the report says.

"Do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil" (Matt. 6:13). Have a healthy sense of self-distrust. At the moment of your salvation, judicial forgiveness covered all of your sins—past, present, and future. Parental forgiveness restores the joy and sweet fellowship broken by any subsequent sins. But concurrent with the joy of being forgiven is the desire to be protected from any future sins. That's the desire expressed in Matthew 6:13: "Do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil." That petition seems simple enough at first glance, but it raises some important questions. According to...

Female mass shooters are extremely rare.Audrey Hale's massacre of children and teachers at the Covenant church school in Nashville, Tennessee, makes her one of only three female mass rampage killers in America.But Audrey had wanted to be a man. Audrey Elizabeth Hale changed her name to Aiden, cut her hair short, covered it with a red cap, put on camo pants and began killing children."Unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood," a maddened Lady Macbeth rants. Audrey had unsexed herself to carry out the kind of rampage...

Marxism, Progressivism, Leftism, Socialism, and Transhumanism are utopian ideological elements of Satan’s world system. Among utopianism’s most enduring modern myths are man as ape, the product of void, matter, and evolution; chosen apes will evolve into gods; and the self-refuting notion that apes of evolution are born good despite being instinct-driven apes of the void (nothingness) and its evolutionary energy supposedly working on matter.

resident Biden was called out on Tuesday for making another eyebrow-raising remark about the Nashville school shooting when he joked about the motive of the 28-year-old shooter who murdered three adults and three children in a Christian grade school Monday. Asked whether he agrees with the theory that Christians were specifically targeted in Monday's shooting rampage, Biden told reporters from the White House South Lawn, "I have no idea." When one reporter told the president that Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., believes that the shooting was in fact a hate crime against Christians, a smiling Biden retorted, "Well, I probably don't...