NOBLE COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) – Residents living in the Central Noble Community Schools (CNCS) district have voted down an operational referendum that would have increased property taxes by nearly $200 annually in a special election Tuesday.
More than 1,300 residents voted on the referendum, with 764 against the proposal and 569 in favor of it.
Results come after years of the school district losing a combined $2.4 million in state funding, which CNCS said is now going to voucher programs instead of public school students. District Business Manager Kim Baumgartner said the referendum is one solution the district sees to lessen future cuts to the school system.
The referendum would have raised property taxes by $0.19 per $100 of net assessed value. That means each household would have been paying $15.64 more in taxes per month, or about $187.72 more annually.
Tillis also expressed disagreement with Trump's pardon of J6'ers, and said that if Martin were being nominated as U.S. Attorney for any other district except the one where the January 6 protests happened he would "probably" support the nomination. That is a nonsensical distinction. Either the man is qualified to be a U.S. Attorney - regardless of jurisdiction - or he's not. Tillis is attempting to enforce a litmus test on this nominee related to past events and the ability to punish political enemies, and that says a whole lot more about Tillis than it does Martin.
Perhaps Tillis would rather have someone like Merrick Garland in the position since Tillis voted to confirm Garland as Attorney General. //
Debnco
4 hours ago
I don’t know if Tillis realizes it, but he is not there to vote for himself. He is there to vote for the people of North Carolina who elected him. //
GSD Owner
4 hours ago
Thune is turning out to be McConnell light. Allowing anyone with Liz Cheney’s Jan 6 viewpoint anywhere near the judiciary committee is political malpractice.
When you see the words "Loudoun County Public Schools" in the news, you know your blood pressure is about to skyrocket. Such is the case with a new report out of Loudoun County ("LoCo" to locals, for obvious reasons) about three high school boys who are facing a Title IX investigation for complaining after a girl who thinks she's a boy used the boys' locker room and allegedly took a video.
It's understandable if you had to re-read the previous sentence; as with most things related to Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS), the situation makes no sense at all to those with a shred of sanity. Yes, the boys who felt uncomfortable when a biological female used their locker room are the ones facing disciplinary action, not the girl who took a video while cosplaying as a boy. And now the boys are being accused of sexual harassment under Title IX. //
The father of one of the Stone Bridge High School boys currently being accused of sexual harassment under Title IX explained what happened from his son's point of view:
“He was questioning why there was a female in the males' locker room,” the father said.
“And other boys were uncomfortable [with a female in the boys’ locker room],” he added. “There were other boys asking the same question. They [LCPS] created a very uncomfortable situation. They're young, they're 15 years old. They're expressing their opinions, and now they're being targeted for expressing those opinions.”
Our southernmost continent is, we’ve been told, the suffocating canary in the global coal mine. The more ice loss in Antarctica, the greater trouble we’re in. So what do we make of a study which found that between 2021 and 2023, there was a record-breaking increase in the Antarctic Ice Sheet?
We mark it down as another in a long line of misses from the global warming zealots.
“Notably, four major glaciers in the Wilkes Land–Queen Mary Land region of East Antarctica reversed their previous pattern of accelerated mass loss from 2011 to 2020 and instead showed significant mass gain during the 2021 to 2023 period,” says an article in SciTechDaily summarizing the report from Tongji University researchers. //
Outerlimitsfan
an hour ago
Poor Antarctica. Once it separated from South America it was doomed. Before the separation, warm ocean current from near Equatorial regions were able to make it to the coast of Antarctica.
After separation, Antarctic Circumpolar Current formed and isolated the continent. Enabling a frozen wasteland instead of a rather pleasant climate and abundant flora/fauna.(except far interior regions)
Kind of wild how a narrow land bridge between two continents coming apart made such a massive difference. //
WhatNext
2 hours ago
". . .too many of the failed predictions on which the climate scolds base their arguments are not observable or measurable. Why? Because they rely too heavily on garbage-in, garbage-out computer models."
It's not "garbage-in" Ward. Computer modeling of "climate" is based on pre-programmed results set in the code. This is known in the computer industry as "hard-coding" aka "hide the decline". I know this because in 2009 the code for the climate models being used by The Royal Society (no less) was released into the wild and myself - along with thousands of other coders - read the actual code.
This is also the explanation for why the models never reflect the real world.
"Global warming or Climate-is-changing-we-are-all-going-to-die" is nothing but a scam. //
Cafeblue32
an hour ago edited
Antarctica Isn't Melting
It will, though. Eventually, if warming continues, which it should because of cycles in space, both poles will be ice free. It has happened a few times before. The Milankovitch Cycle is just one of many factors affecting climate. CO2 affects it barely at all compared to all the other controlling factors. The are several periods in the past where there was no correlation between C02 and warming or cooling at all.
The Milankovitch Cyle is, in a nutshell, this:
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Orbital eccentricity-Earth revolves around the sun in a roughly circular orbit. But roughly every 100,000 years, its orbit becomes more eccentric and elliptical.
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Obliquity variation-Earth Tilt- The next piece of the puzzle is obliquity. Right now, Earth’s obliquity is 23.5°. But during the Milankovitch Cycle, it varies from 22.1° to 24.5° and takes 40,000 years to complete a full cycle.
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Axial precession- Axial precession is the movement of the rotational axis of Earth. According to the Milankovitch Cycle, precession has a cycle of roughly 23,000 years. Precession occurs because the Earth is not a perfect sphere. It flattens out at the poles and widens at the equator. In addition, the gravitational pull from the sun and moon causes precession.
To recap: The Milankovitch cycles are a set of predictable, periodic changes in Earth’s orbit and axial tilt that influence the planet’s climate over long periods of time. These cycles are thought to be responsible for variations in Earth’s climate, including ice ages and interglacial periods, as they affect the distribution of solar radiation received by the Earth’s surface.
Add in the magnetic fields and gravities of Mecury and Jupiter when in certain orbital alignments and a few dozen other factors and you have never ending climate change.
There is no shortage of generals in our military:
There are about 800 general officers in the military, but only 44 of those are four-star general or flag officers. Hegseth has already directed the firings of more than a half-dozen three- and four-star generals since taking office, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. CQ Brown Jr., saying those eliminations were “a reflection of the president wanting the right people around him to execute the national security approach we want to take.” //
SLOTown Hoosier
17 minutes ago
We have more 4-Stars today in the Army than the Army and Air Force combined in WW II.
In March, FBI Director Kash Patel made a major move regarding the 2017 congressional baseball practice shooting and provided the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence all the documents they had requested regarding the incident. In a joint statement, the Judiciary, Intelligence, and Oversight committees issued a scathing joint report Tuesday alleging that the FBI bungled their investigation and tried to cover up the political motivations of the shooter:
The House Judiciary Committee, Intelligence Committee and Intelligence Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigation released the scathing, unclassified report on its findings Tuesday after combing through roughly 3,000 case file documents it was given last month on the attack that wounded six, including current House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), and led to the death of gunman James T. Hodgkinson.
“This is the same FBI that can’t tell us who planted the pipe bomb [on Jan. 6, 2021], who can’t tell us who leaked the Dobbs opinion and who can tell us who put cocaine at the White House,” House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) chided Tuesday morning. //
That suppressed evidence includes key details about a handwritten note found on [shooter] Hodgkinson that listed several Republicans as targets.
At the time, the FBI said it found a sheet of paper that had names of six members of Congress, but did not elaborate.
Royal McBee's desk-sized deskside early computer was the stuff of legend
China's economy has been a house of cards for some time now, but President Trump's tariffs may be knocking that house of cards down. Case in point: Chinese factories are closing down, and Chinese workers are furious. Laid-off Chinese workers are taking to the streets to demand re-employment and back pay. //
BHedrick
27 minutes ago
Hmmm. The capitalist nation takes care of its workers better than the socialist utopia. Whodathunkit? //
sukietawdry wildmlm
11 minutes ago
When I was in China, our tour guide told us that the people hate the government and don't trust (corrupt) law enforcement but revere their military. In Beijing, small groups of soldiers out and about on the streets attracted groups of boys and young men who would fall in lockstep behind them. If Xi loses the military, he's cooked. Tiananmen Square has always been guarded by soldiers, but following the uprising security became very tight and you have to pass through checkpoints and metal detectors to get on the premises. There won't be another "Tiananmen Square" unless the army wants one. //
KJSpeed
36 minutes ago
Confucius say; House of Cards no match for Strong Wind from West!
Hold the line America! This may accomplish far more than equal trade. The cracks are showing in China's top-down politburo. //
NavyVet
43 minutes ago
Why is the dollar so weak right now?
Because China is dumping all its treasuries, to the tune of $1 trillion, in an attempt to undercut Trump.
Of course, it's not working: it just makes American exports cheaper, more attractive.
But the real question is, what is Xi doing with all that money? Spending it on his military?
"construction workers threatened to throw themselves off the buildings"
If they are willing to die, maybe they should consider doing it in an effort to throw off the bonds of communism.
You know, the totalitarianism the democrats want to impose on us, but can't because we're still armed.
McAfee warns “these messages may seem harmless, but they’re often the first step in long-game scams designed to steal personal data — or even life savings. McAfee research shows 1 in 4 Americans have received one. Best advice? Don’t engage.”
But then I found Pangolin, and everything clicked. Here was a self-hosted reverse proxy management server that deploys easily, has Traefik and WireGuard tunnel clients, and also has access control. It's essentially a Cloudflare Tunnel, but you're self-hosting it, so everything is under your control, and it's rapidly becoming my favorite reverse proxy and VPN solution.
- Tailscale: Free for up to 100 devices connected to the Tailnet
- Pangolin: Free and open-source, but you'll need your own VPS and a domain name to host the control server
- ZeroTier: Free for up to 25 devices
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Sdelete is short for Secure Delete and it permanently wipes files by overwriting them–sometimes multiple times, which makes recovery virtually impossible. This tool is part of the Sysinternals suite from Mark Russinovich, which now belongs to Microsoft. It works according to the Clearing and Sanitizing standard DOD 5220.22-M of the US Department of Defense.
To get to the emergency restart option, you need to press the familiar Ctrl+Alt+Del keyboard shortcut, known by pretty much everyone who's ever had to fix a Windows PC at some point. This shortcut is designed to work even if your computer is otherwise unresponsive, and gives you access to options for locking your PC, signing out of your account, and bringing up the Task Manager.
Down in the lower right corner, there's also a power button: Click this and you get the standard Sleep, Shut down, and Restart options. However, if you hold down Ctrl and then click the power button, that takes you to the emergency restart page, together with the warning about losing any unsaved data. Click OK, and your computer will reboot itself almost instantly.
If you can get to the screen after Ctrl+Alt+Del, then you'll want to try the normal restart option first—you'll only need to go down the holding Ctrl route if that doesn't work. Presumably, that will be because there's a program or a part of the Windows code that isn't shutting down properly to clear the way for a restart.
America is the only nation in history to be founded on the premise that all men are created equal
Helps you remove stubborn weeds from vegetable plots and lawns in seconds without bending over!
Pointed Four-claw Design: The four-claw design of the gardening weeding tool can easily penetrate the hard soil, and the anti-slip barb design prevents the grass root from slipping after being caught, ensuring that it will not grow again after one weeding.
This is Ivanpah, a solar power facility in the Mojave Desert. Fifteen years ago they got a $1.6 billion loan from the Department of Energy. Now 11 years later, the facility is closing.
Revisiting the Scope of Constitutional Birthright Citizenship
NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper Forthcoming
29 Pages
Posted: 21 Apr 2025
Last revised: 28 Apr 2025
Samuel Estreicher
New York University School of Law
Rudra Reddy
New York University School of Law
Date Written: April 20, 2025
Abstract:
On the day he took office for his second term, President Trump signed an executive order purporting to end citizenship by birth for the children of illegal aliens and temporary visitors. Since then, several federal judges have entered preliminary injunctions or temporary restraining orders enjoining the executive order's enforcement indefinitely. A torrent of criticism has come from law school professors, with several competing to condemn the order in the harshest terms. These criticisms reinforce the conventional academic view that the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment provides citizenship by birth to the children of parents who have entered this country unlawfully or as temporary visitors (what we call the "expansive view"). As we see it, the case for the expansive view, at least with regard to the issue of parents not lawfully in this country, has not been made out.
This is Why The Democrats/Left/Swamp Hates Trump!
Former mob boss tried to corrupt Trump, couldn't get him to bite
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BREAKING NEWS: Spain and Portugal Celebrate Historic Achievement: First Renewable Blackout Festival™ a Roaring Success
In a stunning victory for progress, major cities across Spain and Portugal plunged into darkness today… a bold, equity-driven milestone being hailed by experts as “a necessary recalibration of oppressive light privilege.”
Government officials, cloaked in the safety of candlelit diversity councils, were quick to assure citizens that the blackouts had absolutely nothing to do with their relentless obsession with renewables, socialism, or Marxist energy redistribution initiatives.
Instead, they blamed “unexpected atmospheric challenges”… otherwise known as night time.
“This is what success looks like,” declared Iberian Minister for Sustainable Equality™, Juanita de Powerless. “Zero emissions. Zero industry. Zero functioning infrastructure. Welcome to Net Zero: where zero means zero.”
Sources confirm that during the outage, critical DEI teams remained operational… bravely identifying which marginalized communities were being most equitably electrocuted when traffic lights failed.
“True social justice,” noted one Gender Energy Equity™ analyst, “is making sure everyone gets hit by a bus equally.”
Meanwhile, local media proudly reported that while trains, phones, and emergency services collapsed, Spain’s Ministry of Feelings achieved its monthly KPI by holding an inclusive brainstorming session on how to decolonize electricity.
Critics foolishly tried to link the blackouts to decades of grid neglect, mass immigration-fueled demand surges, solar panels that don’t work in the dark, and a population conditioned to think work ethic is colonial violence™… but were quickly fact-checked by experts who graduated with double majors in Critical Energy Studies and Queer Wind Turbine Maintenance.
As night fell over the silent streets of Madrid, citizens were reminded that “decarbonisation” is not just an economic transition… it’s a spiritual journey… into medieval living.
Welcome to the future. Hope you brought a torch… and a towel.