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Action News Jax Logo WATCH (Opens in new window) Action News Jax Now Live Local News Live Newscast covering important local topics and events Drag to Resize Video Trending Jimmy Carter: ‘Rock ’n’ Roll President’ was embraced by musicians Jimmy Carter considered Willie Nelson a friend, along with Bob Dylan. +Caption (Wally McNamee/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) By Bob D'Angelo, Cox Media Group National Content Desk December 30, 2024 at 11:19 am EST Jimmy Carter grew up listening to gospel music while growing up in Plains, Georgia, but the future 39th president’s connection with rock and country artists while running for...

Presidential historian Jon Meacham claimed Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that former President Jimmy Carter cared about politicians’ character while most voters do not. Meacham said, “The way I think about President Carter is he’s a complicated man, driven by, like all people in the public arena, driven by different elements of ambition and service. When you look at most American presidents, most of our key leaders in the arena, you have this tension.” He continued, “You have someone who believed in the capacity of human nature to make our lives, the lives of the less fortunate better, stronger, even...

As the year winds down, it’s that time again when the internet is flooded with articles declaring which Linux distribution was the best of the year—this time, for 2024.These pieces can be fun to read, but let’s be honest: almost no one fully agrees with the opinions they present. If I dare say, even the authors themselves might not be entirely convinced by the conclusions they’ve written.The reason is simple: there has never been—and never will be—a single “best Linux distribution.” It all comes down to one essential question: what is the specific use case for a given distribution?I’m trying...

“If that happens, this program could become one of the largest federal surveillance databases overnight without authorization from Congress,” said a bipartisan group of Senators in a letter to the DHS Inspector General. TSA Facial Recognition Scanning Spreading, Part of Planned ‘Across The Board’ Biometric Future “If that happens, this program could become one of the largest federal surveillance databases overnight without authorization from Congress,” said a bipartisan group of Senators in a letter to the DHS Inspector General. Posted by William A. Jacobson Sunday, December 29, 2024 at 08:30pm 12 Comments FacebookTwitterTelegramLinkedInWhatsAppRedditEmail I don’t fly that much, but I...

QUESTION: Regarding CBDC, will they convert all the savings/cash in your bank account, will they convert everything in your brokerage accounts (all stocks etc.) will they go after gold and silver you have in storage (Brinks, for example)? KS ANSWER: Everything will be converted to the new CBDC. The money in your bank account is already just an electronic book entry. This is why banks are closing branches everywhere in the USA as well as Europe. They are preparing for CBDCs, which means without physical paper money, bank branches are no longer needed. You can deposit a check on your...

President Joe Biden does not appear to blame Vice President Kamala Harris for the landslide election loss to President-elect Donald Trump, Biden’s aides told the Washington Post on Saturday. The president reportedly argues he could have still defeated Trump if he would have stayed in the race and ignored calls for him to step aside. Biden’s belief appears to be at odds with reality, based on his poor debate performance, a lack of fundraising, and dropping poll numbers. About two-thirds of Democrats wanted Biden to withdraw, an AP-NORC poll found in July before Biden stepped aside. Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA),...

Boeing shares fell 4.5% Monday morning after South Korean officials ordered an inspection of the plane model involved in the deadly Jeju Air crash over the weekend. Acting President Choi Sang-mok instructed the Transport Ministry to launch an emergency inspection of the country’s entire airline operations. Officials at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) said they would inspect all B737-800 planes, the model involved in the crash. On Sunday morning, the commercial plane skidded off the runway, crashed into a wall and burst into flames while landing at Muan International Airport – killing all but two of its...

The following was sent to more than 150 priests and religious in the diocese of Perugia, Italy. - - - - - - - Dear fellow Pastor of the precious souls of God, I want to wish you a Holy Christmas! As pastors, we have a great responsibility before God and before the immortal souls entrusted to us! The good pastor is ready to lay down his life for the sheep like Jesus (Jn 10:11). It seems to me that this “lay down his life” today means to OFFER THE TRUTH OF GOD, which truly makes us free (Jn 8:32)...

The Ohio State University (OSU) spends over $13 million on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) staff and hosts a multitude of “radical left-wing” courses and programs ... The school spent $13.3 million in 2023 on salaries for its 201 DEI employees, which is the equivalent of the cost of tuition for over 1,000 students at OSU, Open The Books found. OSU also highlights gender and sexuality topics in several courses, such as “Sexualities and Citizenship” and “Queer Ecologies.” OSU’s two highest-paid DEI officials both made nearly $300,000 in 2023, with 29 others making over 100,000, according to Open The Book’s...

Recently released video footage shares the moment Air Traffic Control desperately calls “Stop, stop, stop!” before the taxiing private jet could cross the Delta aircraft’s departing path. According to an L.A. Times report, the jet had just arrived from Spokane, Wash., and carried the Gonzaga men’s college basketball team. In a statement obtained by the L.A. Times, the Federal Aviation Administration said when the team’s chartered Embraer E135 jet, operated by Colorado-based Key Lime Air, “proceeded to cross the hold bars, air traffic controllers told the pilots to stop.” “The jet never crossed the runway edge line,” the FAA, which...

Other universities also operate at or anticipate large deficits. Brown University is facing a $46 million deficit that could grow to $90 million.. The deficit could “deepen significantly” according to an announcement from the Providence, Rhode Island university. While the university has an endowment, it is already tapping it as much as reasonable. The school announced the reasons for the deficit problems: These include nearly flat net revenue from undergraduate tuition growth due to a steady size of the undergraduate student body, downward pressure on tuition increases, and increased financial aid; the macroeconomic factors of unexpected high inflation, growth in...

Daily Readings from the USCCBThere was a prophetess, Anna…She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day with fasting and prayer. And coming forward at that very time, she gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were awaiting the redemption of Jerusalem. Luke 2:36–38We all have a unique and sacred calling given to us from God. Each one of us is called to fulfill that calling with generosity and wholehearted commitment. As the famous prayer of Saint John Henry Newman puts it: God has created me to do Him some definite service. He has...

An Auburn University study says every single regulator destroys fully 138 private sector jobs every year you keep him on the job. With nearly 300,000 federal regulators, the shock is that we still have any jobs at all. The Two Scariest Words in the English LanguageA lot of the excitement around the Department of Government Efficiency — DOGE — focuses on the dollars saved. But more important is all the things the federal government destroys with those dollars. Specifically, the millions of jobs destroyed by the two scariest words in the English language: federal regulators. A few weeks ago I...

Spanish archaeologists have successfully removed a 2,600-year-old shipwreck from waters off the country's southeastern coast...It was discovered in 1994 off the coast of Murcia in southeastern Spain, near the town of Mazarrón, according to Spain's Ministry of Culture.Now called the Mazarrón II, this shipwreck was one of two located in that same general area. The first, called Mazarrón I, was initially located in 1993, lifted from the water in June 1995, and put on display at Spain's National Museum of Underwater Archaeology in 2005 after undergoing years of conservation treatments, the museum said.Mazarrón II is of particular interest to archaeologists...

A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a $5-million verdict that E. Jean Carroll won against Donald Trump when a jury found the U.S. president-elect liable for sexually abusing and later defaming the former magazine columnist. . . . . The May 2023 verdict stemmed from an incident around 1996 in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan, where Carroll said Trump raped her, and an October 2022 Truth Social post where Trump denied Carroll’s claim as a hoax. Though jurors in federal court in Manhattan did not find that Trump committed rape, they awarded the former Elle...

American credit card defaults have risen to the highest levels since the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis as consumers grapple with years of high inflation. Credit card lenders wrote off $46 billion in delinquent loan balances in the first three quarters of 2024, a 50 percent increase from the same period last year. These forms of write-offs are are viewed as a highly monitored measure of loan distress. This is the highest level since 2010, according to industry data gathered by BankRegData. Mark Zandi, the head of Moody’s Analytics, said, “High-income households are fine, but the bottom third of...

In a recent economic event, the Chicago Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) reported a score of 36.9, suggesting a contraction in the manufacturing sector of the Chicago region. The PMI score of 36.9 is significantly lower than the forecasted 42.7, indicating a more severe contraction in the manufacturing sector than initially anticipated. This lower than expected reading is generally interpreted as negative, or bearish, for the USD.

CIA Whistleblower Comes Forward.. Former Intelligence Officer Claims Career Ending Injuries Caused By Foreign Directed Energy Weapon Leaked Defense Department Letter Acknowledges Injuries and Experiences “Are Real” “It’s a Cover Up...It Should Be Terrifying for All Americans.” Government Gaslighting 1:25 Foreign Adversary Likely Behind National Security Officials’ Havana Syndrome Injuries 2:40 High Powered Microwave System Weapon 3:37 Under Attack In Africa 4:01 Multiple Weapons Suspected 4:54 Crippling Cognitive + Neurological Symptoms Reported 5:43 CIA Director Privately Blames Russia 6:20 2023 Intelligence Report Betrayal 7:07 Government Gaslighting 8:11 $100K Medical Debt: Labor Dept. Labels Traumatic Brain Injury “Work Injury” 8:50 Cancer,...

The latest shocking “medical assistance in dying” (MAiD) report from Canada reveals that 622 of the MAiD deaths that occurred in 2023 never should have been approved at all, as they did not meet the standard requirements by law. In an analysis, CTV News correspondent Kamil Karamali noted that the 622 deaths fell into a category known as “Track 2,” in which the patient still had the possibility of living a long life, but chose MAiD for other reasons. However, he said, while a “terminal” illness is no longer necessary by law, the patient must still have a “serious or...

I've noticed, as of late, the quality of the arguments on Free Republic have declined. This is especially true as regards the H1B argument. I have no intention of rehashing this argument, nor the points therein. I am speaking only to the tone and tenor of our forum participants. Musk did us no favors by being so confrontational about this issue, and may have inadvertently sparked the furor. I fault him for that. I see he's trying to cool this down now, and that is to his credit. However, it is my belief that the Deep State saw an opening...