News of the Week for December 30th<\/sup>, 2024<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Choice for Life \u2013 Where the church, abortion, pregnancy care and single-motherhood intersect<\/a> <\/p>\n The Second Amendment, Reawakened<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Climate Activists: The Big Bad Wolf<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Obamacare sign-ups lag in 2024 after Trump election, legal uncertainty over Dreamers<\/a> <\/p>\n End the Houthis’ Threat to Global Trade<\/a> British soldiers successfully test drone killer radiowave weapon for first time<\/a> Is Trump Getting Serious about Ukraine?<\/a> Philippines says it will acquire U.S. Typhon missile system, sparking warnings from China<\/a> Ukraine launches robot-only assault against Russian troops for first time<\/a> Holes in fuselage suggest Russians shot down Azerbaijan jet<\/a> Russia’s Excuses Are for the Birds<\/a> China Buying Land Near Sensitive Military Sites: US Ally<\/a> Russia rejects Trump’s Ukraine peace proposals<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Guatemalan migrant arrested for setting sleeping NYC subway rider on fire, watching her burn to death: cops<\/a> Trump’s mass deportation plans thrown into doubt by Republican rebels<\/a> Experimental evidence that a photon can spend a negative amount of time in an atom cloud<\/a> House Ethics draft report accuses Gaetz of statutory rape of 17-year-old, drug use and obstruction<\/a> The Case of the Disappearing Representative<\/a> Crime Crackdowns Start as California’s Tough-on-Crime Prop. 36 Goes Into Effect<\/a> Americans are exhausted by political news. TV ratings and a new AP-NORC poll show they’re tuning out<\/a> Trump, GOP zero in on Liz Cheney as potential target<\/a> Washington state: Twenty wild cats dead of bird flu at sanctuary near Shelton<\/a> Former Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox mulls gubernatorial run<\/a> Women Allegedly Raped in Prison by Trans-Identifying Inmate Will Have To Refer to Attacker as ‘She\/Her’<\/a> Blue state violent crime victims ordered to address ‘trans’ career criminal by preferred pronouns<\/a> There were 21 campus hate crime hoaxes uncovered in <\/a>2024 10 Years Ago, a U.S. Thaw Fueled Cuban Dreams. Now Hope Is Lost.<\/a> A MAGA Schism<\/a> Trump team says Canada, Greenland, Panama comments are part of a broader plan<\/a> Guardian Angels start patrolling NYC subway trains again after shocking murder of woman who was burned alive: ‘I’ve never seen it this bad’<\/a> Jimmy Carter, Former U.S. President and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Dies at 100<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A Washington Giveaway to Government Workers<\/a> Foreign Direct Investment: Impact of Tariffs and Subsidies<\/a> What Today’s Economics Students Aren’t Learning About Economics<\/a> The EU: At the Cutting Edge<\/a> US credit card defaults jump to highest level since 2010<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Social media firms to be forced to ‘drive out’ under-age users<\/a> The government describes it as “shameful” that Cuba has to import sugar<\/a> Amnesty International: ‘The repression in Nicaragua means that no one is safe’<\/a> Germany Set for February Election After Bundestag Dissolved<\/a> 179 killed, two survive in plane crash at South Korean airport<\/a> Moment boy rescued after being found floating in bubble in the middle of the sea<\/a> Ex-Man City star Mikheil Kavelashvili sworn in as PRESIDENT of Georgia after ‘Putin helped his party rig election’<\/a> “Thumbs-Up Emoji Formed Binding Sales Contract in Canada”<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n No, Kamala Harris Will Not Be the Democratic Nominee in 2028<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Abortion<\/h1>\n
Dobbs Decision<\/h2>\n
\nPreaching and teaching on the Sanctity of Human Life matters. Most churches support Sanctity of Life based on the Imago Dei, and presumably the Great Commandments and Great Commission. Even pro-abortion, progressive congregations embrace the Imago Dei for the recipients of their care & support (the unborn are just not their favorite).<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nAn appeals court says a nonviolent misdemeanor doesn’t end gun rights.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &<\/a>“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nOnce upon a time, there were three little pigs: Liberty, Prosperity, and Freedom of Speech. They lived peacefully in a vibrant village, working hard and building lives rooted in common sense. But then came the Big Bad Wolf, a self-proclaimed climate savior in a hemp hoodie, dragging a solar panel and a stack of IPCC reports behind him.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nNew enrollments under the Affordable Care Act are on pace to trail last year\u2019s record numbers by as many as a million as the outgoing Biden administration confronts upheavals in the program.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nThe Trump administration will be well-positioned to stop Irans proxy attacks on international shipping.<\/p>\n
\nBritish soldiers have successful trialled for the first time a game-changing weapon that can take down a swarm of drones using radio waves for less than the cost of a pack of mince pies.<\/p>\n
\nDonald Trump seems to have settled on a coherent and consistent message in relation to America\u2019s commitments to Ukraine\u2019s defense amid Russia’s war of territorial conquest \u2014 in private, at least.<\/p>\n
\nThe Philippines said Monday it planned to acquire the U.S. Typhon missile system as part of a push to secure its maritime interests, sparking warnings from China of a regional “arms race.”<\/p>\n
\nKyiv pushes back military forces with remote-controlled vehicles mounted with machine guns and kamikaze drones<\/p>\n
\nExperts say the aircraft, which crashed in Kazakhstan with 38 deaths, may have been caught in an air defence response to Ukrainian drone attacks on Grozny<\/p>\n
\nFor at least the third time in my lifetime, the Russian military has shot down a commercial passenger airliner and killed scores of people through incompetence, recklessness, and arrogance.<\/p>\n
\nChinese buyers accounted for the largest proportion of foreign land and property acquisitions near sites deemed sensitive to Japan’s national security during fiscal year 2023, according to a government survey released Monday.<\/p>\n
\nRussian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov rejected proposals Monday floated by President-elect Trump’s allies to end the war in Ukraine, dealing a major setback for the incoming president’s hopes to freeze the conflict.<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nA Guatemalan migrant has been arrested for allegedly lighting a sleeping subway rider on fire in Brooklyn on Sunday morning \u2014 then watching as his innocent victim burned to death in what the police commissioner called \u201cone of the most depraved crimes one person could possibly commit.”<\/p>\n
\nMajority of Republicans defy president-elect and vote against suspending debt limit, raising concerns over Trump’s ability to control party<\/p>\n
\nWhen a pulse of light traverses a material, it incurs a time delay referred to as the group delay. Should the group delay experienced by photons be attributed to the time they spend as atomic excitations? However reasonable this connection may seem, it appears problematic when the frequency of the light is close to the atomic resonance, as the group delay becomes negative in this regime. To address this question, we use the cross-Kerr effect to probe the degree of atomic excitation caused by a resonant transmitted photon, by measuring the phase shift on a separate beam that is weak and off-resonant. Our results, over a range of pulse durations and optical depths, are consistent with the recent theoretical prediction that the mean atomic excitation time caused by a transmitted photon (as measured via the time integral of the observed phase shift) equals the group delay experienced by the light. Specifically, we measure mean atomic excitation times ranging from (-0.82\u00b10.31)t0 for the most narrowband pulse to (0.54\u00b10.28)t0 for the most broadband pulse, where t0 is the non-post-selected excitation time, given by the scattering (absorption) probability multiplied by the atomic lifetime tsp. These results suggest that negative values taken by times such as the group delay have more physical significance than has generally been appreciated.<\/p>\n
\nGaetz is quoted extensively in the draft report denying each allegation and told Just the News that “these were some women who I dated over the course of a decade, and had relationships with at various times and that I admittedly were generous to.”<\/p>\n
\nOn the menu today: Our geriatric governing class strikes again, and the marriage of one of Vogue magazine\u2019s favorite celebrity couples is on the rocks. This is the last Morning Jolt until December 26. Have yourself a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and anything else you celebrate.<\/p>\n
\n“Our officers are feeling more empowered. We\u2019re not just racking up another citation. Our officers feel like what they’re doing matters and that they want to do the extra legwork to make sure that we get a good conviction.”<\/p>\n
\nAs a Democrat who immersed himself in political news during the presidential campaign, Ziad Aunallah has much in common with many Americans since the election. He’s tuned out.<\/p>\n
\nPresident-elect Trump’s fixation on former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) is escalating as he suggests she should be prosecuted for her work on the now-disbanded House Jan. 6 committee.<\/p>\n
\nThe Wild Felid Advocacy Center near Shelton is suffering the devastating loss of 20 wild cats after bird flu swept through the big cat sanctuary.<\/p>\n
\nFormer Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox, a Republican, is considering a run for governor.<\/p>\n
\nThe recent ruling means that on the stand those women may be subject to speech policing from their alleged rapist\u2014who has opted for self-representation.<\/p>\n
\nTremaine ‘Treymane’ Deon Carroll transferred out of a California women’s prison after being indicted on 2 rape counts<\/p>\n
\nThe demand for racism continues to exceed the supply<\/p>\n
\nIt wasn’t long ago that Havana’s Plaza of the Revolution was packed with American tourists knocking into each other with selfie sticks while taking photos of the iconic image of the revolutionary Che Guevara and trying to catch a ride in a candy-apple red 1952 Chevrolet Bel-Air.<\/p>\n
\nIn Round 1, it’s immigration hawks versus tech bros.<\/p>\n
\nIn the past several weeks \u2014 and before he has been sworn in for his second term \u2014 President-elect Donald Trump has threatened trade wars with both of the United States\u2019 closest neighbors, mused about taking over Greenland, blustered about bringing the Panama Canal back under American control and suggested making Canada the 51st state.<\/p>\n
\nThe Guardian Angels will start patrolling New York City subway cars once again in response to the horrifying murder of a sleeping passenger who was burned to death on the F train last week, the group announced.<\/p>\n
\nSingle White House term was marked by Iran hostage crisis and economic problems; later humanitarian work was recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize<\/p>\n<\/a>Economy & Taxes<\/h1>\n
\nAs Congress was rending itself over the government funding deadline, and the entire political press was focused on the spectacle of it, lawmakers passed a different bill that communicates the fundamental unseriousness with which our elected leaders approach government spending.<\/p>\n
\nDemocrats and Republicans alike hope to “revive” manufacturing employment, yet they have different approaches to the task at hand.<\/p>\n
\nMuch of the discipline’s accumulated wisdom isn\u2019t present in today’s undergraduate courses.<\/p>\n
\nThe regulatory superpower has struck again.<\/p>\n
\nConsumers are ‘tapped out’ after years of high inflation and as pandemic-era savings have evaporated<\/p>\n<\/a>International<\/h1>\n
\nWatchdog will make apps use facial recognition and other age checks to identify children<\/p>\n
\nProduction has fallen, impacting the domestic market and exports. A pound of sugar costs 600 pesos.<\/p>\n
\nAmnesty International is sounding the alarm about Nicaragua. Will that alarm have any effect? Not really. No doubt about it. Nicaragua is now a clone of Castrogonia, the only difference between the two being that dictators Ortega and Murillo haven’t had as much time in power as Castro, Inc. and the Central American nation doesn’t yet look like a labyrinth of ruins sparsely dotted with apartheid tourist enclaves.<\/p>\n
\nGerman President Frank-Walter Steinmeier dissolved parliament and set the country’s snap election for Feb. 23, formally endorsing a timetable proposed by Chancellor Olaf Scholz.<\/p>\n
\nThe plane skidded off a runway at Muan International Airport and caught fire after crashing, a fire official said.<\/p>\n
\nRafael Gra\u00e7a do Prado, 32, who runs a tourism boating business, has told how he spotted the large plastic ball while in the sea off Lazaro Beach near Sao Paulo, Brazil<\/p>\n
\nThe former footballer is known for his far-right ideologies and is accused of wanting to bring Georgia back into Putin’s influence<\/p>\n
\n“[H]uman communication is often subtle. Words, phrases, gestures and symbols may carry more than one meaning. All of this gives rise to the potential for ambiguity and uncertainty and, indeed, litigation. The law has long accommodated for this, and courts are often called upon to determine the legal import of a multitude of communication types between individuals. The fact that, in this case, one part of the communication comprised an emoji simply provides a modern twist to this otherwise rather unremarkable observation.”<\/p>\n<\/a>Opinion<\/h1>\n
\nI chuckled a little when I saw the new poll by American Pulse that purports to show Kamala Harris with a one-point lead over JD Vance in a hypothetical 2028 General Election matchup.<\/p>\n