"The worst thing George W. Bush did while president wasn't the war with Iraq. It was signing the 'Energy Independence and Security Act,' which, among other ill effects, produced today's ban on incandescent light bulbs. Our most fervent hope is that Republicans will correct this mistake while they still have the chance.

Those inexpensive incandescent bulbs, invented right here in the good ol' U.S. of A. by Thomas Edison, were deemed by our Washington masters to be too inefficient. And, because the public was told we needed to 'save energy,' the law mandated efficiency standards that traditional bulbs could never meet.

And so, despite the fact that millions of consumers prefer traditional lightbulbs for regular home use, they aren't made anymore. Now, buying replacement bulbs has transmogrified from a simple process of deciding what wattage you needed to an overly complicated exercise in deciding which of an array of different types of lighting devices -- all wildly more expensive than the old Edison bulbs -- will suit your lighting needs."

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"There was a time when diesel fuel was usually cheaper than gasoline in the United States. That relationship began to change about 20 years ago, and since then diesel has generally traded at a premium. Today, that premium is not just persistent but unusually large, which raises an obvious question: how did we get from gasoline typically costing more than diesel to diesel costing substantially more than gasoline?

"The answer has two parts. The first is structural and goes back to the mid-2000s, when changes in fuel specifications, taxes, refining economics, and global demand fundamentally altered the relationship between gasoline and diesel prices.

"The second is more immediate. In 2026, refinery disruptions, geopolitical conflicts, low inventories, and reduced exports from major suppliers have pushed the global diesel market into an unusually tight position. Understanding the difference between those long-term and short-term forces explains both why diesel usually costs more and why the gap is so large right now."

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"The Justice Department on Monday announced the arrest of 16 individuals across nine states for alleged election crimes, including voting by illegal immigrants and fraudulent voter registration.

"Pennsylvania had the most arrests in this nationwide sweep, with four people arrested: Hacina Saadi, a 48-year-old illegal immigrant from France; Jamil Ahmad, a 50-year-old lawful permanent resident from Pakistan; Nighat Jamil, a 47-year-old lawful permanent resident from Pakistan; and Paulo Silva, a 54-year-old lawful permanent resident from Portugal. All were charged with illegally voting in the 2024 general election.

"Despite being referred to as lawful permanent residents, those with such a status cannot vote in federal, state or most local elections, according to the U.S. government.

"'Every illegal vote cancels out the vote of a lawful American citizen,' a DOJ spokesperson told Just the News. 'In 2020, Iowa's 2nd Congressional District race was decided by six votes. The department is now bringing more than double that amount of election fraud cases every week. Every federal race also shares the ballot with state and local contests, which are often decided by even narrower margins."

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"Houthi rebels responsible for deadly missile strikes in Saudi Arabia have been using Anthropic's artificial intelligence to make warheads, the US firm has admitted.

"The makers of Claude revealed in a report last month that the Yemen-based fighters launched three weapons programmes using their AI products.

"Over the weekend, the Houthis launched their most devastating attacks on Saudi Arabia to date.

"In two attacks on the King Khalid International Airport, 14 were killed and hundreds injured, forcing the closure of the airport."

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"With the race between Democrats and Republicans to control the House and Senate now in the homestretch, many candidates are eagerly seeking opportunities to one-up their opponents and secure a last-minute edge -- or knockout.

"Most of those opportunities have or are still coming in the form of the classic, one-on-one debates with Election Day on Nov. 3.

"But the question remains, do these actually impact the key contests?"

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"Over the summer, the Miami Herald told the story of a young man named Camron Drummond. In June, he found himself standing in line at a South Florida job fair in Amerant Bank Arena, holding a red folder filled with resumes. Employers at the fair included the Army, the Navy and several police departments. He was looking for IT work -- 'literally anything,' he told the newspaper.

"Since graduating, he estimated he had applied to hundreds of jobs. By the time the piece went to press, six employers had gotten back to him -- three just to say no. The furthest he got was the final stage of a customer service interview with a budget airline. Then the company stopped responding.

"In the meantime, Drummond was working for DoorDash about seven hours a day, bringing home roughly $300 a week. He was crashing at his brother's place, facing the prospect of having to start repaying $20,000 in student loans.

"The New York Fed reported that unemployment for Americans ages 22 to 27 with bachelor's degrees was 5.6 percent in the second quarter of this year. Unemployment for 20-to 24-year-old college grads hit 9.7 percent in July -- a post-pandemic high -- before falling back to a still-high 7.8 percent last month."

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"Worries around artificial intelligence cross party lines, with the vast majority of Americans saying the U.S. government should prioritize keeping AI under human control and protecting workers.

"A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that most Americans, 64%, think AI is developing 'too fast,' while 27% say its development has been 'about right' and only 8% say it's moving 'too slow.'

"The risk that powerful AI models could evade human control and hurt humanity, once the stuff of science fiction, has been emerging as a more pressing concern. Even leaders of the companies that are developing frontier AI models are calling for a slowdown so that government regulation can catch up. President Donald Trump has pushed back against slowing down AI development because of concerns that China will gain an advantage with the technology. Data centers powering AI projects have also taken a prominent role in major political races as the midterm elections approach."

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"A House Judiciary Committee investigation into the Environmental Policy Institute's Climate Judiciary Project confirms critics' claims that the group's judicial training provides activist-driven materials aimed at biasing judges overseeing climate litigation cases.

"The Environmental Policy Institute established the Climate Judiciary Project (CJP) in 2018 to provide 'judges with authoritative, objective, and trusted education on climate science, the impacts of climate change, and the ways climate science is arising in the law.'

"Critics have long contended that the CJP's curriculum provides a one-sided view of climate science that's favorable to plaintiffs in the dozens of climate lawsuits filed across the country, and it's functioning as an activist-driven effort to bias judges overseeing those cases."

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"You can't open a newspaper or watch cable news these days without seeing a story about the pain and suffering Americans are feeling at the pump, with scary headlines such as 'no relief in sight' and 'the worst is yet to come.'

Actually, when it comes to gas prices, the worst has come and gone -- three times -- all while Democrats were in the White House. Not that you'd ever know that from the mainstream media.

Shortly after those headlines ran, gas prices started to moderate. AAA says they are down by about 10 cents a gallon from a week ago. That's not much, but it's far from 'soaring.'"

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"The death of a worker at an anti-plague laboratory in Russia has prompted officials to put at least one hospital facility under quarantine and nearly 200 people reportedly under medical observation as of Monday.

"The female staffer at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia and the Far East died from a “pneumonia of undetermined” origin last week, according to the regional governor, Igor Kobsev.

"He said no 'microorganisms linked to the employee's professional activities were detected' in her body, and that there had been 'no new cases' of illness among other employees of the lab.

"'The sanitary-epidemiological situation' in the area 'is currently stable,' Kobsev said."

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