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Chief Justice John Roberts attends the State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Feb. 7, 2023. (Jacquelyn Martin/Pool/Getty Images)

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts warned that heated rhetoric against judges could spiral into violence, urging Americans to pursue legal and legislative remedies instead of threats when they disagree with court rulings.

Appearing at a judicial conference for the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Charlotte, North Carolina, Roberts made his remarks the day after the Supreme Court issued its final decisions of the term, which included several closely watched rulings, including on birthright citizenship, parental rights, and online protections for minors.

Roberts, without naming specific figures, alluded to having previously rebuked prominent politicians from both parties for inflammatory statements about judges.

“It becomes wrapped up in the political dispute that a judge who’s doing his or her job is part of the problem,” Roberts said. “And the danger, of course, is somebody might pick up on that. And we have had, of course, serious threats of violence and murder of judges just simply for doing their work. So I think the political people on both sides of the aisle need to keep that in mind.”

The chief justice stressed that criticism of judicial decisions should focus on legal reasoning, not personal attacks on judges.

“It would be good if people appreciated it’s not the judge’s fault that a correct interpretation of the law meant that, no, you don’t get to do this,” he said. “And it may be an incorrect interpretation. But if that’s their criticism, then, of course, they can explain that, and maybe the court of appeals will take a different view. But if it’s just venting because you lost, then that’s not terribly helpful.” (More)

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Maggie Billiman devoted her career to nursing and serving others, offering compassionate care to terminally ill patients during their final days.

It was a journey filled with empathy and understanding. At the end of each patient’s life, Billiman held their hand and said a prayer to ease their suffering.

There would come a time when she, too, would face the daunting prospect of a serious illness—one that she had spent so many years helping others confront.

Recent medical imaging has indicated the presence of abnormal cysts on her liver, pancreas, and thyroid, and it appears that they may be growing.

“After retiring, this is what happened to me,” said Billiman, 62, a member of the Navajo Nation in Arizona.

“My latest [issue] is my kidney. They did a scan and thought it was a kidney stone—it’s not,” Billiman said.

At a daylight vigil on June 10 in Window Rock, Arizona—the political heart of the Navajo Nation—Billiman wore a yellow T-shirt adorned with images of her beloved parents.

Both had lost their battles with cancer.

She worries that her past exposure to radiation from uranium mining and atomic bomb tests near Navajo lands during her childhood could lead to a cancer diagnosis.

The shadow of cancer has cast a long pall over her family for years. Her heart aches as she reflects on her father, Howard Billiman, Jr., a former U.S. Marine and Navajo Code Talker during World War II. (More)

China’s stranglehold on the battery market could be loosened with emerging technology that substitutes hard-to-source minerals with alternatives widely available in the West, such as sulphur.

Over the past three decades, China has steadily maintained a grip on the production and manufacturing of every component of the lithium-ion batteries that are integral to modern societies.

Traditional lithium-ion batteries are made of three key components. A graphite anode, a lithium-based cathode, and an electrolyte made from lithium salts.

Lithium can be sourced from Australia, Chile, or Argentina. But the rest is mined, processed, and sourced from China.

Batteries also include cobalt and nickel, which are heavily sourced from Congo-Kinshasa and Indonesia, with Chinese companies dominating processing, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Alternatives, such as lithium-sulfur batteries, replace cobalt and nickel with sulfur and use U.S.-sourced lithium-metal instead of imported materials.

Keith Norman, Chief Sustainability Officer at the Silicon Valley startup Lyten, told The Epoch Times that China has “definitely executed monopolies.”

But Western start-ups like his said that while they cannot compete with China in terms of lithium batteries, they could create their own game by making entirely new kinds of technology. (More)

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Narration—retelling what they’ve read—is an important component of Charlotte Mason’s philosophy; the books must offer children an intellectual “feast.” (Biba Kayewich)

“Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, and a life.” Charlotte Mason wrote that sentence to encapsulate the philosophy of her educational program. It was also the motto of the Parents’ National Educational Union, an organization that Mason founded in 1887 to test and implement her educational concepts.

The idea that education involves discipline isn’t surprising to most readers. But considering education an “atmosphere” or “a life” might strike contemporary parents and educators as more unexpected or even mysterious. Yet it speaks to the characteristic expansiveness of Mason’s approach. 

For her, a true education stretched to encompass the entirety of a child’s encounter with the world, like a tree spreading its branches. To achieve this, Mason believed that children’s souls needed to be awakened through an encounter with knowledge.

While notions of education today are likely to evoke images of classrooms, workbooks, textbooks, and GPAs—all of which are confined to one important but limited type of learning—Mason’s ideas of education aren’t restricted to industrial education. 

In the Mason model, education is more about human development—the full flourishing of the human person—than about test scores and career training.

As Cindy Rushton wrote in “A Charlotte Mason Primer”: “True education takes place in real life. When we begin to see all of life as a classroom, we will truly equip our children to become self-educated, life-long learners, who delight in learning.”

This article briefly introduces Mason’s educational thought, a paradigm that harkens back to older forms of learning. These older methods look beyond vocational training (without neglecting it) to the broader horizons of what it means to be a well-rounded human being. (More)

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