Thursday, March 05, 2026

“You are the light of the world..."

“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven. -Matthew 5:14-16 Image

Remember, a small light will do a great deal when it is in a very dark place. You put one little tallow candle in the middle of a large hall, and it will give a good deal of light. -Dwight L. Moody

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In a powerful rebuke to growing concerns about the influence of Sharia-based ideology in the United States, Texas voters sent a clear and decisive message in the Republican primary by overwhelmingly supporting the mandate that “Texas should prohibit sharia [Islamic law].”

Democrats need to be reminded that the mullahs stand for pedophilia and rape  This is the Ayatollah Khomenei’s manual of Islamic law, the Tahrir al-Wasilah, explicitly permitting the sexual abuse of toddler and infant girls.

California Decides to Tax Trump Accounts—Here’s What Families Need to Know This means earnings from Trump Accounts will be taxed by California in the year they are realized, not deferred until distributed as intended. Savings accounts intended to help children save and invests for their future will now be taxed to fund California’s spending.

Why Gen Z “Nones” Are Reconsidering Religion  Gen Z is the least religious cohort in American history. 43% of this generation born roughly between 1996 and 2012 identify as religious “nones.” While there have been many reports since Charlie Kirk’s assassination indicating increased interest in religion and increased church attendance, according to statistician Ryan Burge, there is not yet statistical evidence of religious revival among young people.

The public are daily bombarded with images, soundbites, a plethora of conflicting news media, AI propaganda and AI-generated videos. Artificial Intelligence presents scenarios that are so convincing that many viewers cannot distinguish obvious nonsense from reality. This material is dangerous because it is very persuasive, especially to individuals who already have a problem separating truth from fiction.
   Many are now so reliant on technology they have become unwilling to apply basic scepticism. Rather than attempting to verify what they see they are sucked in by these images and narratives, and many choose to believe what they see verbatim, rather than challenge or research what is in front of them.

RFK Jr. Announces Plan to Teach Americans to Cook   Kennedy spoke about how Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was taking the dietary guidelines and putting them into “military meals.” Kennedy explained that Hegseth “hired a dietician,” celebrity chef Robert Irvine, who is “changing the meals on all the military bases” in the United States so that they are “real food, fresh food, locally sourced, whole food.”
   Roughly one-third of soldiers were eating at the cafeteria, Kennedy explained, adding that soldiers were instead spending their paychecks on fast food. Kennedy noted that after the change, “There’s lines around the block,” and soldiers have “stopped eating the local fast food.”

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Wednesday, March 04, 2026

"But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy..."

"But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect..." 
-1 Peter 3:15

The task of the people of God is to proclaim the kingdom of God, which is a universal kingdom extending to every aspect of human life. In a secular society, religion cannot remain a department of life. It must be the expression of a faith that extends over the whole of life, or it will be nothing.   -John Lawrence

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It's been almost fifty years of Iranian malevolence, open acts of aggression, financed proxy violence, intentional global economic instability, and the muttered threats of terrorism used as blackmail to manipulate weak and supine world leaders into acquiescence with demands. Some out of fear, some out of raging internal conflicts between woke Western white guilt complexes, feeling duty-bound to respect other cultures, no matter their guts' inclination telling them how sick the culture was. Or arrogant, progressive leaders, willing to bow to that same culture to make amends and prove that we felt they were our moral equals.

Thanks To Democrats, Potential Iranian Terrorists Are Already On American Soil  It’s no secret that Iranian terrorists are here in the U.S. and have been for nearly 50 years. For decades now, Iran worked to embed its Hezbollah operatives in America and nearby Latin American countries such as Nicaragua. These sleeper cells, often operated by a covert wing of Hezbollah dubbed “Unit 910,” are designed to coordinate and carry out “assassinations and attacks” when activated.

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NY attorney general Letitia James demands hospital resume gender-affirming treatment for trans youth   In a letter sent to NYU Langone, the attorney general’s office said the hospital’s decision to shutter its Transgender Youth Health Program violated the state’s anti-discrimination laws by “jeopardizing access to medically necessary healthcare for some of the most vulnerable New Yorkers.” Image

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Why are Democrats opposing voter ID?  For the same reason they oppose all manner of other things that benefit the American people The answer to that question is perfectly clear: for the same reason they threw open America’s borders, flooding our country with tens of millions of illegal aliens.  And for the same reason they oppose funding U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  The Democrats intend to steal the upcoming elections — and then to go on stealing elections in perpetuity. Image

Feminists for Killing Feminists...American feminist organizations rally to help Iran keep killing women   The ugly truth about American feminism is that its members ignored the massacres of Iranian women and girls, not because they were far away, but because they supported the regime

Texas Taxpayers Sued to Fund Muslim Brotherhood Operative's Islamic Schools While a new federal lawsuit demands Texas taxpayers fund the Houston Qur’an Academy Spring, the school’s leadership reveals a chilling connection to the Muslim Brotherhood’s ‘Civilization Jihad’ agenda. This is a calculated attempt to force the state to finance its own subversion.

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Loki, Thor And Other Norse Gods Are Making A Comeback In Scandinavia  By far the most notable appearance of Norse Paganism has been in Iceland, where it has become the second most practiced religions. The Iceland Review states that, according to Statistics Iceland, there are 5,435 registered members of Asatruarfelagio (Association of the Faith of the Aesir), a name which is often shortened to Asatru.

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'Blood Rain' phenomenon may visit Europe this week 
When rain combines with dust, it can look red and leave an imprint behind, and this may happen in western Europe this week, AccuWeather meteorologists say.

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The only operational lithium mine in the U.S., Silver Peak in Nevada’s Esmeralda County, could double its production with a recently approved expansion, including into some public lands. Image

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Tuesday, March 03, 2026

The Spirit himself bears witness...

The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. -Romans 8:16-18

The Lord afflicts us at times; but it is always a thousand times less than we deserve, and much less than many of our fellow-creatures are suffering around us. Let us therefore pray for grace to be humble, thankful, and patient.  -John Newton

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Witkoff says Iranians shamelessly boasted in talks they had uranium for 11 nuclear bombs, had evaded protocols   US President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff, meanwhile, revealed that Iranian negotiators boasted “to us directly, with no shame,” in talks earlier this year, that they had evaded international safeguards to enrich enough uranium so as “to get to a place where they could deliver 11 nuclear bombs.”

"Khamenei was directly responsible for the recent brutal crackdown of the uprising in Iran," they said.
   "He was also directly responsible for the oppression of Christians, many of whom were forced to flee the country and several remain in prisons with long-term prison sentences."

Today, after the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, there is similarly no popular appetite for U.S. boots in foreign hot spots. So, Trump, too, is pioneering a new way to lead. From Caracas to Tehran, he is using sanctions, tariffs, diplomacy and other tools to impose America’s will on its adversaries. If those adversaries don’t yield, then he is employing military force to decapitate regimes that threaten the American people. And he is controlling events on the ground through his willingness to strike those regimes again and again until leaders emerge who will work with America.

Trump’s doctrine is simple: strike first at the guilty, strike hard from afar, skip the nation-building, and end wars on America’s terms.

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But, to members of the Resistance, Abrego Garcia is a sacred symbol of The Cause, just as George Floyd was (and is) regarded as a martyred saint. Lacking any other heroes, the deluded cultists of the Left display a fervid–quasi-religious–devotion to whomever The Cause  designates as an object of veneration. The exceptional zeal displayed by the anti-ICE crowd—the fanatics who regard Abrego Garcia’s mundane legal proceedings as “one of the most important cases in the country”–channels the righteousness of radical protesters of the Vietnam War. Opposition to evil, in their judgment, justifies any means necessary to accomplish the end, just as the Weathermen and other terrorist organizations took extreme measure such as planting bombs and killing law enforcement officers.

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When Artificial Intelligence Quietly Punishes Faith-Based Businesses Artificial intelligence is used to pressure Christian businesses to abandon their beliefs — quietly, efficiently, and without accountability. In recent disputes, faith-based organizations have already alleged that automated vetting and platform eligibility systems flagged their Biblical views as inconsistent with participation standards before meaningful human review, illustrating how algorithmic decision-making can exclude religious organizations from modern digital infrastructure.

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'Monumental' Supreme Court Ruling on California Schools' Secret Sex Changes for Kids   The U.S. Supreme Court threw out a 9th Circuit Court ruling that allowed government-run schools to keep secretly transitioning children while California parents pursued a lawsuit against the state. 
   The 6-3 ruling means that the parents will be able to continue exercising their fundamental civil rights "under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment" while the 9th Circuit goes back to the drawing board to rule on the merits of this case.

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Monday, March 02, 2026

O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you...

O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you;
    my soul thirsts for you;
my flesh faints for you,
    as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary,
    beholding your power and glory.
Because your steadfast love is better than life,
    my lips will praise you.
So I will bless you as long as I live;
    in your name I will lift up my hands.
   -Psalm 63:1-4

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Trump’s tactics typically have two characteristics: He goes after his opponents’ source of sustenance (usually that means money, but not always) and he accomplishes more than one thing at a time. In neutralizing Iran, Trump accomplishes a lot of things. First, of course, he neutralizes a major hostile regional threat.
   But second, he cuts the ground out from under what’s left of Hamas and Hezbollah. He also shuts off the pipeline of cash that was being used to bribe politicians and journalists in Europe (the Iranians have basically admitted that they do that) and support various NGOs and the like that serve anti-American and anti-Israeli ends. Iran has been a major sponsor of terrorism around the world; that will end.

Here's the Geopolitical Mistake Iran Made That Only Led to More Nations Lining Up Against Them  So far, this calculus seems to have backfired. Gulf states, rattled by volleys of Iranian drones and missiles targeting their hotels, ports and airports, are concluding the Iranian peril must be confronted. Rather than seeking an offramp, the prevailing mood in the Gulf—at least for now—is that the Iranian regime can’t be allowed to get away with this unprecedented onslaught on its neighbors.

New York Times Slammed for ‘Soft Touch‘ Obituary of Iranian Supreme Leader  Social media blasted the newspaper for failing to call the cleric a terrorist in the headline or first paragraph, where the paper wrote the cleric was known for “brutally crushing dissent at home, and maintaining unswerving hostility to the United States and Israel.”

What happened yesterday is not the end of the story.  The fury unleashed by Israel and America is just in its opening phase. It is unclear how many casualties lie ahead. But so far, Trump’s actions in this crisis confirm something I have been saying for some time: that Trump is a great man of history. I am pleased that the red-pilled activist Bill Ackman agrees.  “President Donald Trump,” he wrote on X, “will go down in history as one of the greatest and most consequential presidents we have ever had.” Does that sound odd? Donald Trump? The real-estate mogul and reality TV host?  It may sound odd.  It doubtless bothers the well-coiffed in Harvard Yard, CNN, and the Bulwark.  But it is the truth. The New York Times will not like it, but Trump will occupy a spot alongside George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, FDR, and Ronald Reagan as one of our greatest presidents.

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Austin Shooter Naturalized Under Obama in 2013, Wore “Property of Allah” Sweatshirt  An FBI official confirmed in a news conference that the shooter in Austin’s mass shooting had materials that “were indications of a potential nexus to terrorism.”

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Something could always happen to reverse the ongoing precipitous decline in fertility rates, although it is unclear what that might be. Certainly the decline appears to be resistant to government supplied financial incentives and child care assistance. However, a potential alternative does present itself in current real-world data. Certain religious groups are still having babies. Image

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Saturday, February 28, 2026

Christ Our Wisdom

 
Christ Our Wisdom 
Sovereign Grace Music

Christ our wisdom, we are humbled
When You hide Your ways from us
You have purposes unnumbered
Each one good and glorious 
Help us trust when we grow weary 
Free us from our anxious thoughts 
Give us grace to see more clearly  
You are God and we are not    

Christ our wisdom, be our gladness
When we fail to understand
You ordain all joy and sadness
To fulfill Your perfect plan
Help us know You rule with power
Over every raging flood
In our most uncertain hour 
You are God and we are loved
 
Christ our wisdom, we will follow
Though the way ahead is veiled
As we journey through the shadows 
Grant us faith where sight has failed 
Help us cling to Your commandments 
Strengthened by Your faithful Word 
We will never be abandoned 
You are God and we are Yours  

Christ our wisdom we adore You
For the beauty of the cross
Once in foolishness we scorned You
But Your blood has ransomed us
Help us sing the endless mercies
Of Your humble heart to save 
Christ our wisdom, Christ our glory
You are God forever praised

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Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

Why do the nations rage
    and the peoples plot in vain?
  The kings of the earth set themselves,
      and the rulers take counsel together,
      against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying,
  “Let us burst their bonds apart
     and cast away their cords from us.”

  He who sits in the heavens laughs;
      the Lord holds them in derision.
  Then he will speak to them in his wrath,
      and terrify them in his fury, saying,
  “As for me, I have set my King
      on Zion, my holy hill.”

  I will tell of the decree:
    The Lord said to me, “You are my Son;
     today I have begotten you.
  Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,
       and the ends of the earth your possession.
  You shall break them with a rod of iron
      and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.”

  Now therefore, O kings, be wise;
       be warned, O rulers of the earth.
  Serve the Lord with fear,
       and rejoice with trembling.
  Kiss the Son,
       lest he be angry, and you perish in the way,
       for his wrath is quickly kindled.
Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
 -Psalm 2

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed during military strikes carried out Saturday by the United States and Israel, Reuters reported, citing Israeli officials.l Image

Here's the Reason Why President Trump Authorized Operation Epic Fury  A senior administration official said today that they believed Iran was preparing to potentially launch preemptive missile strikes, a factor that influenced President Donald Trump’s decision to initiate military action.
   “We had indicators that they intended to use it potentially, preemptively, but if not, if not simultaneous, against with any actions against them, immediately against us,” the senior administration official added. “And the president decided he was not going to sit back and allow America’s forces in the region to absorb attacks from conventional missiles.”

“Trump’s international strategy is becoming clearer”   Action by the US President is methodically stripping China and Russia of their partners.

FBI Raises Alert Nationwide After Strikes on Iran  The FBI’s counterterrorism and counterintelligence teams are on elevated alert nationwide, a bureau official told Fox News’ Peter Doocy Saturday.
   The bureau did not immediately elaborate on how long it will remain in effect.

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Thursday, February 26, 2026

Blessings in disguise...

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. -Hebrews 12:11

Good when He gives, supremely good;
Nor less when He denies:
Afflictions, from His sovereign hand,
Are blessings in disguise.
   -Brother Lawrence Image

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JD Vance Reveals What He Saw From Democrats During the State of the Union Speech That Most Viewers Didn't   While many viewers saw Democrats refusing to stand or applaud the president’s list of first-year accomplishments, Vance said something else was unfolding in the chamber: Democratic members were glancing at one another, seemingly looking for cues, or permission, before reacting to the presidents words.


SOTU Poll Stunner: A 27-Point Gain in Voters Who Think We’re Moving in the Right Direction  For voters, that’s the long-term takeaway: Republicans stood for American citizens, whereas Democrats stood for illegal immigrants — and absolutely nothing else. They didn’t stand for Olympic champions, war heroes, voter ID laws, lowering the crime rate, grieving mothers, or even vulnerable children. It was a helluva contrast.
   In the long-term takeaway battle, Trump won in a landslide.

How the Left Is Brainwashing America, Featuring Buck Sexton  Today’s instantaneous communications, he argues, make mass hysterias of history like the Salem witch trials seem trivial. “Those were mass hysterias, but they weren’t able to be broadcast over radio and shared with pamphlets to millions of people at once,” Sexton notes.
   The scares and forced masking during COVID inspired him to look into this phenomenon. “COVID was a mass rape of the American mind. We were lied to. We were forced to do absurd, insane things,” he tells Schweizer and Eggers. “And I wanted to get to how do they do this to you? The two core pillars of menticide are confusion and degradation.”

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Cowardice Masquerading as Virtue: Cleveland 1971 and Europe 2026 -Dreher Today in America, in the aftermath of the Great Awokening, we have a new problem. The Great Awokening, which began around 2010 and lasted until Donald Trump’s re-election in 2024, the media, universities, and all the institutions of American life taught young whites, especially white males, that they are uniquely evil. That they are what’s wrong with America. That their purpose in life is to be scapegoats for the failures of black America.

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Transitioning Away from Transgenderism...The transgender cultists are still with us, but there is mounting resistance  This perverse progressive craze has been with us for about 10 years and has caused irreparable harm to many young people. Lawmakers, primarily in blue states, have been prime enablers. For example, Washington passed SB 5599 in 2023, allowing the state to legally hide runaway children from their parents if the parents don’t consent to their child’s “gender transition.” The law also applies to children from other states who may come to the state for such procedures not available to them at home, cementing Washington as a “sanctuary state” for runaway teens.


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The Smear, The Silence, and The Sword...How the Church and the Media Declared War on Faithful Christians  And in this strange new age, the faithful Christian — the man or woman who simply believes what the Church has always believed — is treated not as a citizen, not even as a misguided relic, but as a threat.
   Let us dispense with the euphemisms.

This is not misunderstanding.
This is not nuance.
This is not complex social evolution.

It is a coordinated cultural assault — carried out through language, through shame, through institutional intimidation — against those who refuse to bow to the gods of the age. Image

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Tuesday, February 24, 2026

He made you for an end...

"There is not a spider hanging on the king's wall but hath its errand; there is not a nettle that groweth in the corner of the churchyard but hath its purpose; there is not a single insect fluttering in the breeze but accomplisheth some Divine decree; and I will never have it that God created any man, especially any Christian man, to be a blank, and to be a nothing. He made you for an end. Find out what that end is; find out your niche and fill it. If it be ever so little, if it is only to be a hewer of wood and a drawer of water, do something in the great battle for God and truth." -C.H. Spurgeon

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Pride and Petulance: Trump Touts American Triumph as Democrats Seethe  Trump was relatively disciplined throughout. He mostly stuck to the script rather than engage the hecklers, depriving them of the attention they craved. He took a long pause and milked the moment after inviting lawmakers to stand if they agreed that "the first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens." Democrats stayed in their seats, obviously. "You should be ashamed of yourself," he scolded.

This Moment of the State of the Union Just Lost the Democrats the Midterms  Republicans have been accusing Democrats of prioritizing illegals over American citizens for years, and Trump handed them an opportunity to prove them wrong, and they didn’t take it.
   They couldn't do it, so they handed Republicans a huge gift for the upcoming midterm elections. Trump baited them, and they took the bait. He knew they wouldn’t stand, and now the whole country knows that the only people Democrats stand for are illegal immigrants.

Omar and Tlaib: The un-American representatives for Somalia and the Palestinians Both have repeatedly proven, but never so vividly as last night, that they were practicing a bit of taqiyya (Islamic deception) when they took this oath. Their loyalty is not to the Constitution and the laws of the United States. By extension, this means that they have no loyalty to America or Americans. They are the face of jihad, sitting in the U.S. Congress.

There is something terribly, horribly wrong with the current crop of Democrats  Who are these people, heckling Trump, and refusing to stand for America's heroes


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Top AI Firm Says Chinese Labs Stole U.S. Tech Using 24,000 Fake Accounts   The incident highlights vulnerabilities in U.S. AI export controls and raises concerns over China leveraging stolen AI capabilities for military and surveillance purposes.

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Trans kindergarten teacher identifying as ‘wolf’ fired after parents raise complaints...Secretary of War Pete Hegseth confirms dismissal of substitute teacher who allegedly wore collar and animal tail at Fort Bragg elementary school Parents first raised concerns about the teacher's inappropriate attire to administrators in early 2025, according to Liberty Counsel. Mothers of pre-K and kindergarten students reported that the teacher was allowed to identify as a female, ask students to address the teacher by female pronouns in the classroom and dress in "tight shirts and tank tops, above-the-knee skirts and combat boots while wearing a BDSM dog collar with dog tags representing sexual fetishes."

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Canada is facing a tough week. Their men’s and women’s hockey teams both lost to the USA in overtime and didn't secure gold medals. Additionally, many Canadians are now stranded in Mexico following a violent attack by drug cartels. Their situation is worsened by media campaigns discouraging Canadians from visiting Florida, citing issues with ‘Trump, bad.’

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Chromebooks are expensive and destructive: Get them out of schools  Author and former teacher Auron MacIntyre said the Chromebooks facilitate cheating, copy pasting, watching pornography on school time, playing video games, and watching movies when they should be working. Cyber bullying was also a bigger issue once Chromebooks came into it, meaning that kids could be getting bullied while an entire class sat silently and teachers wouldn't even know it

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'Snow Hurricane' Energy Reality Check: You Can’t Heat Homes With NetZero Promises  So as the “snow hurricane” buries airports, freezes lakes, and turns highways into luge tracks, all the evidence suggests that when temperatures crash, people do not crave “NetZero utopia,” they crave heat.

After the Endangerment Finding, States Must Prove CO2 Harms. Wisconsin Can’t  While CO2 has not endangered residents of Wisconsin, the climate-based policies have. Residential electricity prices continue climbing even as household consumption falls. In fact, Xcel Energy and Alliant Energy have requested cumulative rate hikes approaching 19% over the next two years. Some in Waukesha County are already facing “dramatically higher” energy bills, double from just months earlier. Under Wisconsin’s current policies, this is sure to continue. In fact, Wisconsin is hurtling toward an energy crisis. The latest long term reliability assessment projects the state will enter “high-risk” territory for blackouts by 2028.

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What is a starling murmuration and why do they form? 

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