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The Biden Administration is going to pass mandates for dim bulbs in all American households (aka LED lights). The Administration has currently filled all it's cabinet secretary and director positions with dim bulbs which are not technically LED bulbs but are of similar low output. Failed former Mich Governor Jennifer Granholm thought up this nonsense all on her own. Receiving no press or adulations from the American people Jenny came up with this plan to ruin the eyesight of the American people with this LED mandate. Jenny has mandated that by July 2023, light manufacturers will have to quit manufacturing...

At least 25 cars derailed from a train in Montana on Sunday, spilling their contents onto the ground and into a nearby body of water. First responders say there is no threat to the public, but there has yet to be confirmation about what the affected containers were carrying. Montana Rail Link, which owns the railroad, is aware of the situation, but the company that owns the train has yet to be identified, according to NBC Montana. The Sanders County Sheriff’s Office did not respond to multiple requests for comment from Fox News Digital. There have not been any reported...

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JALALABAD, Afghanistan — A women-run radio station in Afghanistan’s northeast has been shut down for playing music during the holy month of Ramadan, a Taliban official said Saturday. Sadai Banowan, which means women’s voice in Dari, is Afghanistan’s only women-run station and started 10 years ago. It has eight staff, six of them female. Moezuddin Ahmadi, the director for Information and Culture in Badakhshan province, said the station violated the “laws and regulations of the Islamic Emirate” several times by broadcasting songs and music during Ramadan and was shuttered because of the breach. ... Station head Najia Sorosh denied there...

It was just the latest in a series of harrowing attacks that have become all too sickeningly familiar to millions of Americans: a young outcast wandering school corridors armed with assault-style rifles, innocent children and teachers shot dead in their classrooms, bodycams of brave police taking down the deranged threat in a hail of gunfire. In Nashville last week, surveillance video of 28-year-old Audrey Hale showed her blasting her way through the school's glass doors. In under 10 minutes, she had killed the school principal, custodian, a beloved substitute teacher, and three 9-year-old children. Evelyn Dieckhaus, a blond-haired third grader,...

Local toddler Oliver McMahon has set a new world record in the 100-meter dash after parents asked what he had put in his mouth. "It was like I shot a starter's gun," said mother Amy McMahon. "Usain Bolt would have been eating Oliver's dust." Mrs. McMahon had just put chicken in the oven when she turned around to see Oliver's mouth bulging with some unidentified object. "Next thing I knew, the race was on," said Mrs. McMahon. "We never had a prayer of catching him. My husband went down with a hammy trying to round the bend into the living...

A fight broke out in front of the Supreme Court Saturday between pro-transgender activists and masked neo-Nazis despite the cancelation of the 'Trans Day of Vengeance' in the wake of the Nashville mass murder. Only a few people on either side of the transgender culture war attended after the event was called off due to warnings of a 'credible threat to life and safety' by pro-trans activists. The video, captured by a reporter for The Post Millennial, shows a man in a red shirt confronting two masked men with a sign that said 'Revolt Against F***otry 1488,' a combination of...

Rarely did Olivia give her parents cause for concern. An above-average pupil and fond of the outdoors, she was, says her mother, 'a carefree and fairly typical little girl'. But it all changed when she started secondary school. Suddenly life was complicated. She joined as many school clubs and societies as possible, including, at the instigation of a friend, an LGBT discussion group. In the space of months, Olivia, not her real name, solemnly announced to her parents in a series of updates that she was, first, a lesbian, then non-binary, then finally a boy. Her last incarnation followed influence...

A Chicago auto parts store manager shot and killed a would-be robber Saturday after the suspect flashed a gun, according to police. A man between 30 and 40 years old reportedly entered an O'Reilly Auto Parts store in Calumet Heights, took out a firearm and demanded money from the register, police said. The store manager, whose name has not yet been disclosed, pulled out his own firearm and fired shots at the robber. Police said the manager is a valid FOID cardholder. The would-be robber was transported to the University of Chicago Hospital in critical condition and later died from...

A Manhattan parking garage attendant who was shot twice while confronting an alleged thief at his business was charged with murder after wrestling away the weapon and using it to fire at the suspect. The nightside worker, Moussa Diarra, 57, was slapped with assault and criminal possession of a weapons charges in the Saturday incident, which occurred at around 5.30am. The attendant saw a man peering into the car windows on the second floor of the West 31st Street garage, reported the New York Post. Thinking that the man was stealing, the attendant brought the suspect outside and asked what...

"Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, "Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. "For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away." Luke, Chapter 13 1 There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose...

IDF helicopters and fighter jets were scrambled Sunday night, after an unidentified aircraft crossed into Israeli airspace from Syria. The aircraft was monitored by the IAF throughout the incident, an IDF spokesperson said. The aircraft was show down in an open area, the spokesperson added, saying that the aircraft in question did not pose a threat at any stage. According to protocol, an alarm was not activated. The incident is under review. IDF forces are currently searching the area for remains...

Former national security adviser John Bolton argued that the indictment of Donald Trump may ultimately help the former president politically, saying it could be "rocket fuel" that helps him secure the Republican nomination. "I'm not worried about Alvin Bragg hurting Donald Trump. I'm worried about Alvin Bragg benefiting Donald Trump," Bolton said during a Sunday "Face the Nation" appearance on CBS. "If Trump is acquitted or he gets the case dismissed because it's not legally sufficient… that will be rocket fuel because he can say, ‘I told you this was a political prosecution.’" Bolton, who served in the Trump administration...

Despite the fact the Western Alliance have created the policy that will deliver pain to their citizens, not a single government leader will look at this move as a bad thing.The pain will not be felt by the elites, it will only hit the citizenry. Lowered oil production outputs that drive up gasoline prices and fuel inflationary drivers, expedite the Build Back Better narrative and objective.However, that said, in context to this announcement, a pain that will hit the Western economies of the alliance represented in yellow, the last 18 months of moves by Mexico makes President Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador...

Asking the question: Is twelve tone technique even music? 12-tone was originally "invented" by Arthur Schoenberg at the beginning of the 20th century and was later applied by multiple 20th century composers from Berg to Charlie Parker. It became especially popular with Jazz musicians in the 40s, 50s and 60s, often integral to Be Bop. It has no Key, no Harmony, no Melody. And no discernible time signature or rhythm.

-Trump could be gagged by a Manhattan court on Monday ahead of hearing. -His legal team is considering hiring a First Amendment lawyer, a source said. -It comes as Trump prepares to fly to New York to be formally arraigned Donald Trump's legal team is preparing for a New York judge to slap a gag order on the former president on Monday, DailyMail.com can reveal, a day before he is due to be arrested in Manhattan. On Sunday morning, Trump's campaign announced that the former president would make a speech at his Mar-a-Lago home on Tuesday evening after returning from...

The CDC found itself hoist with its own petard by making 25 basic statistical and numerical errors related to COVID-19, particularly with regard to children, while purporting to expose COVID vaccine misinformation, according to an analysis led by University of California San Francisco epidemiologists. The preprint, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, documented 20 errors that "exaggerated the severity of the COVID-19 situation" and three that "simultaneously exaggerated and downplayed" severity, while one each was neutral or exaggerated vaccine risks. More than half were from 2022, but nearly as many were made in the first two months of 2023 as...

Untangling DeSantis-Disney legal dispute could take yearsOrlando SentinelSkyler Swisher3/30/2023If they go to court, Disney and Gov. Ron DeSantis’ hand-picked oversight board might be in for a multimillion-dollar legal slugfest that could last years.On one side, the Reedy Creek Improvement District is hiring four law firms, including a politically connected conservative Washington, D.C., firm that counts U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton as alumni.On the other, Disney is a nearly $180 billion corporation with a top lawyer who earned about $15.2 million in compensation in 2022, according to a recent financial filing.Legal bills would pile up in a protracted court...

The Russian authorities may have shut down his newspaper, but journalist Dmitry Muratov refuses to be silenced. When we meet in Moscow, the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta and Russia's Nobel Peace Prize laureate is worried how far the Kremlin will go in its confrontation with the West. "Two generations have lived without the threat of nuclear war," Mr Muratov tells me. "But this period is over. Will Putin press the nuclear button, or won't he? Who knows? No one knows this. There isn't a single person who can say for sure." Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in...

Republicans and Democrats clashed on the Senate floor over Sen. Tommy Tuberville's (R-AL) move to block Pentagon promotions. The Alabama senator is protesting the abortion access policy of the Department of Defense, which he says turns the military into an “abortion travel agency.” While Sens. Jack Reed (D-RI), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), and Michael Bennet (D-CO) joined the chorus of Democrats opposing the bill, Tuberville was joined in support by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT). Tuberville argued that his move was not unprecedented as Schumer and the Democrats had claimed, and he pointed to several previous examples of his tactic being used...