California is currently baking under a heat wave, with triple-digit temperatures and excessive heat warnings from Northern California all the way south to San Diego. The state is expected to stay overheated past Labor Day.

As a result, the California Independent System Operator (CISO), which oversees the state’s electrical grid, announced a heat warning “Flex Alert” asking users to limit energy consumption each evening, “when the grid is most stressed from higher demand and less solar energy.”

The alert suggests consumers “conserve power by setting thermostats to 78 degrees or higher, if health permits, avoiding use of major applicances [sic] and turning off unnecessary lights.”
It also asks consumers to not charge their electric cars in the evening.

As critics of the state’s automobile and energy policies pointed out, the timing of the CISO alert was especially ironic, as it came less than a week after the state doubled down on eliminating gas-powered cars.

A federal judge has ruled that a California law requiring all doctors, even those with conscience or ethical objections, to participate in the assisted suicides of their terminally ill patients violates the free speech provisions of the First Amendment.

California’s assisted suicide law, passed in 2016, originally allowed doctors to refuse to participate in any manner with patients’ requests for help in ending their lives. However, in 2021, the California legislature amended the law so that even if a doctor refused a patient’s request to assist with their suicide, the doctor’s “refusal” itself became an official part of the required “two-doctor” consultation paper trail allowing the patient to ultimately die by another doctor’s hands.

Christian doctors argued in a First Amendment lawsuit that being forced to participate in the process, even via the medical paper trail that ends in an assisted suicide, violates the religious conscience and/or ethical concerns of many California medical practitioners.

That, according to U.S. District Judge Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha, likely violates the First Amendment rights of objecting doctors, justifying a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the law’s provisions against the group that brought the lawsuit, the Christian Medical and Dental Association (CMDA), and its members.

With 27 games remaining in the regular season, including a doubleheader scheduled for Wednesday, the Yankees’ slugger Aaron Judge is on pace to hit 65 home runs – an American League record and tops in Major League history if you discount the steroid-era feats of Barry Bonds (73), Mark McGuire (70), and Sammy Sosa (63).

Measuring 6’7” and weighing in at 282 pounds, Judge is colossal in physical size and stature – but stands even taller in reputation as one of baseball’s good guys – a man who prioritizes his Christian faith and credits the love and care of his family for his baseball success.

Drafted by the Yankees in 2013, Aaron Judge is now in his seventh Major League Season. Not since the days of Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris in the 1960s have the Bronx Bombers had someone with such consistent, explosive power.

Beyond the standout’s sheer muscle and mass, what’s behind his prowess and accomplishments?

“My parents are amazing, they’ve taught me so many lessons,’’ Judge has said. “I honestly can’t thank them enough for what they’ve done for me.’’

Born and raised in the small town of Linden, Calif., Aaron’s parents, Wayne and Patty, adopted him at birth. His older biological brother, John, was adopted at the same time.