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- Last week House Intelligence Chairman Michael Turner (R-OH) and Ranking Member Jim Himes (D-CT) said that the Committee had received “information concerning a serious national security threat.” The details are classified, but the threat reportedly involves a new Russian weapon that can take down satellites, including America's Global Positioning System satellites.
- America’s GPS, a free invisible service paid for by the Federal government, depends on a constellation of 31 satellites. Americans use about 900 million GPS receivers in car navigation systems, cell phones, Garmin and Apple watches, and fleets of trucks, ambulances, buses. Ships, planes, and drones also use GPS for navigation. Industries from agriculture and construction to finance and energy production also utilize GPS.
- If Russia successfully shoots down our GPS satellites, it could lead to chaos and cause billions of dollars of damage a day. That’s why it’s exceptionally timely that a private company, Tern AI, based in Austin, Texas, has come up with a means of navigating without using satellites.
- Tern AI combines proprietary Artificial Intelligence technology with detailed maps—the kind of maps people use for driving or hiking when no signal-based navigation systems are available—into software that can run on cell phones or car infotainment systems.
- With Russia ramping up its threats to communications satellites, Americans need to be protected. Thankfully, American innovation has brought new, inexpensive, positioning technology to the rescue.
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- In a landmark decision, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled in favor of protecting embryonic human life from wrongful death.
- The harsh reality is that IVF routinely creates several embryos to test and select the “best” embryo, destroying the unwanted children.
- This ruling does not threaten access to IVF, but it does rightly place the well-being of children front and center in how clinics practice in vitro fertilization and embryo cryopreservation.
- This ruling is a win for everyone who believes that the child, not a financially driven fertility industry, should be the top concern in IVF treatments.
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- For all the White House’s bragging about the strength of the economy, most Americans still do not approve of President Biden’s performance regarding this issue.
- If one looks only at the headline numbers in each monthly report, the economy appears to be off to the races, but the economy is not adding high-paying, full-time jobs that come with benefits.
- The number of full-time jobs was roughly flat over the last 12 months, so essentially all the job growth was part-time employment.
- As the layoffs mount, Americans are replacing their previous job with more than one part-time job.
- In fact, December and January marked the biggest two-month decline in full-time employment since the government-imposed lockdowns of March and April 2020.
- Yet the best explanation for Mr. Biden’s poor polling on the economy has to do with who is getting these millions of new jobs. It turns out they are not native-born Americans.
- Native-born employment was not only a whopping 5.5 million below its pre-pandemic trend but was even 121,000 below its pre-pandemic level, or 0.1%.
- With millions of such illegal aliens pouring across the southern border due to Biden administration policies, it makes sense that this would augment the workforce of foreign-born people here legally and boost employment numbers.
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