The Super Bowl halftime show is one of the most powerful cultural platforms in the world, and Turning Point USA’s Jack Posobiec was well aware that challenging would not be easy — but the organization took it on anyway.“I’ve heard the NFL tried to get you guys not to do it,” Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck says to Posobiec.“So here’s what I can say. … Kid Rock himself came up — Bob came out and said, ‘It’s David and Goliath,’” Posobiec explains.“This is what he was referring to because I knew that by picking a fight with the biggest cabal in America … we’re talking Hollywood, we’re talking corporate America, the biggest sports event in the country — the most money that goes into this thing because it has the most cultural power — that we were going up against Goliath,” he says. “I don’t think we realized the ways that they can get you — the ways that they can gatekeep you and block you. Now, look, I’m not going to sit here and say that I, you know, I have an email from Roger Goodell that says, ‘You shall not do this,’ right?” he continues. “This is the way that these elite events work is that it’s a trickle-down system, but they’re all connected through the sponsorships, the advertisers, the venues, the musicians, the music rights, the labels,” he adds. Posobiec points out that there were times where artists would say, “Love to do it; can’t wait.” “But then something would always happen, Glenn, somewhere along the line in that conversation, with — I want to say at a very large percentage of people we talked to, suddenly it was, ‘Oh, you know, something came up and we just can’t do it,’” he tells Glenn. “And then they play games with the rights to the songs as well … because the publishers and the licensers have the song,” he explains, noting that the organization would have been sued to the tune of “tens of millions in liabilities” because “somewhere back in the office someone says ‘No Turning Point USA.’” “This happens all the time in our world,” Glenn responds, “but it only happens, Jack, when you’re making a difference.” “That shows how terrified they were of this,” he adds. Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Bright headlights have become a genuine safety issue for American drivers. Complaints about being blinded by oncoming vehicles are now commonplace, cutting across age groups, vehicle types, and driving environments.For most of automotive history, safety innovations followed a clear principle: improve visibility without creating new risks. Today’s headlight crisis shows how far that balance has drifted. What began as a push for better nighttime illumination has turned into a widespread hazard — one driven not by reckless drivers or faulty equipment, but by outdated regulations and incentives that reward brightness without restraint.A headlight that improves visibility for one vehicle can simultaneously degrade safety for everyone else.Modern LED headlights are far brighter than anything federal regulators envisioned when lighting standards were written decades ago. As frustration grows, an uncomfortable truth is becoming clear: This problem is not a technological failure. It is the predictable result of rules that no longer reflect how vehicles are designed, tested, or driven.Glaring dataData backs up what drivers have experienced firsthand. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety reports that average headlight brightness has roughly doubled over the past decade. Complaints submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration increasingly describe glare so intense that it causes eye strain, headaches, and momentary loss of visual clarity. These reports come from drivers of all ages, in both older vehicles and brand-new ones, on city streets and rural highways alike.The increase is not subtle. Traditional halogen headlights typically produced around 1,000 lumens. Many factory-installed LED systems now produce 3,000 to 4,000 lumens, while some aftermarket lights exceed 10,000 lumens — levels that would have been unthinkable when federal headlamp standards were last meaningfully updated.At the center of the issue is Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 108, which governs automotive lighting. Much of this regulation dates to the 1980s, when lighting technology was limited by the physical constraints of halogen bulbs. Brightness was naturally capped, so strict numerical limits were unnecessary. That assumption no longer holds.Outdated standardsLED technology fundamentally changed how light is generated and controlled. LEDs can produce intense illumination using little power, and their output can be shaped and focused with remarkable precision. Yet instead of setting modern limits on overall brightness, federal standards still rely on beam-pattern measurements designed for older technology. As long as light output stays below certain thresholds in specific test zones, overall brightness can rise dramatically elsewhere.Automakers have learned to design within these boundaries. By carefully shaping beams and managing shaded areas during compliance testing, manufacturers can produce headlights that are technically legal while delivering far more light on the road. This is not a violation of the law — it is the predictable exploitation of a regulatory framework that no longer matches reality.Safety worstSafety ratings have unintentionally made the problem worse. Headlight performance plays a significant role in evaluations by organizations such as the IIHS. Brighter headlights often score higher in controlled tests that measure forward visibility distance, giving automakers strong incentives to push brightness ever higher for better ratings and stronger marketing claims.What these tests often fail to capture is glare’s impact on other drivers. A headlight that improves visibility for one vehicle can simultaneously degrade safety for everyone else. Current regulations and rating systems rarely account for this trade-off, allowing brightness gains to be celebrated without serious scrutiny of their broader consequences.Vehicle design trends amplify the issue further. Modern trucks and SUVs sit higher than previous generations, placing headlights closer to eye level for drivers in sedans and smaller cars. Even properly aimed headlights can become overwhelming when mounted higher off the ground, particularly on uneven pavement or during braking and acceleration. Federal standards offer limited guidance on how brightness and mounting height interact in real-world conditions.RELATED: Quick Fix: What's the safest used car for my teenager? CBS/Getty ImagesSpotlight on adaptive techAdaptive driving beam technology is often cited as the solution — and it does hold promise. These systems can dynamically adjust light patterns to reduce glare for oncoming traffic while preserving illumination elsewhere. But adaptive headlights were only approved in the United States in 2022, long after they became common in Europe and Asia. Adoption remains limited, mostly confined to higher-end vehicles, and performance varies widely depending on sensors, software, and calibration.Even with adaptive systems, the absence of a clear federal cap on brightness remains a fundamental flaw. Technology can mitigate glare, but it cannot replace modern standards that reflect real-world driving conditions.The safety implications are serious. Night driving already carries higher risk due to reduced visibility and fatigue. Excessive glare increases reaction times, reduces contrast sensitivity, and impairs depth perception. For older drivers and those with vision conditions such as astigmatism, the effects are magnified. These are not minor inconveniences — they are factors that directly influence crash risk.Minimal responseDespite growing evidence and public concern, regulatory response has been minimal. The last major federal investigation into headlamp glare occurred in 2003, before LEDs became dominant. Since then, vehicle lighting has changed dramatically, but the rules governing it have not.This is not an argument against innovation. LEDs offer real benefits, including efficiency, durability, and the potential for smarter lighting systems. The problem is not brightness itself, but the lack of modern oversight to ensure that brightness improves safety without creating new hazards.Updating standards would not require rolling back technology or limiting consumer choice. It would mean establishing meaningful brightness limits, accounting for vehicle height and beam placement, and ensuring that adaptive systems meet consistent performance benchmarks. Most importantly, it would recognize that safety on public roads is shared — not something that can be optimized for one driver at the expense of others.Until that happens, drivers will keep adapting on their own. Some will avoid driving at night. Others will install even brighter aftermarket lights, escalating a cycle that benefits no one. Many will simply accept discomfort as the cost of modern driving, unaware that it is neither inevitable nor necessary.The technology to fix this problem already exists. What’s missing is regulatory urgency. As headlights continue to grow brighter, the gap between legal compliance and real-world safety widens. Closing that gap is essential if we want innovation to serve safety — rather than undermine it.

Anyone can search the currently available Epstein files and see what turns up. As a professor at Arizona State University, I searched for my own school. I did not expect to find so much ASU-related material.One reason: ASU employed Lawrence Krauss, paying him a substantial salary to write books arguing that the universe created itself from nothing.Epstein’s philosophy collapses under its own weight because it begins with a lie about God.That claim is its own story. You will object, rightly: “But we can’t get something from nothing.” Krauss replies, “By ‘nothing’ I mean quantum foam.” And you respond, “Then the title misleads. You don’t mean nothing. You mean quantum foam.”Krauss also became close with Jeffrey Epstein. In one exchange, Krauss wrote: “I really do love you deeply as a friend Jeffrey. I don’t think I know anyone else who so honestly cares about me, and I don’t think I can ever truly express how wonderful that feels. Thank you. The cruise was a great reset.” In other messages, they discuss science and religion.That is what caught my attention. As I read Epstein’s comments about religion — and listened to his interview with Steve Bannon on similar themes — a picture began to form of how Epstein made sense of the world and, more chillingly, of himself.How a monster sleepsA question hangs over every moral horror: How does a moral monster live with himself? Even if we limit ourselves to the explicit immorality in the files — without speculating about coded language or hidden networks — how did he sleep at night? What silenced his conscience?Several pieces fit together.In the ASU-related material and in interviews, Epstein does what I have often seen among intellectuals: He retreats into abstraction. He speaks about the history of ideas, mathematics, and cutting-edge research in a way that floats above concrete people and particular moral obligations.That retreat protects a self-image. He can pose as the enlightened patron of science, funding humanity’s progress. That image sits in grotesque contrast with the cruelty he inflicted on actual human beings.Abstraction as a moral anestheticThis pattern tracks with Paul Johnson’s thesis in “Intellectuals”: Intellectuals who talk about serving “humanity” often treat individuals in their orbit badly. Grand claims become a shield. The rhetoric of progress becomes moral insulation.Think of the professor who preaches liberation while using DEI programs to impose racial essentialism and ideological coercion. He can tell himself he is helping “the marginalized” even as he harms colleagues and students in the real world.Or consider the pop star who repeats slogans like “no one is illegal on stolen land.” The moral performance happens at the level of abstraction. The carelessness happens at the level of reality.RELATED: Why Christians should care about politics Marco Bello/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesEpstein’s ‘unknowable’ GodEpstein goes further by trying to dissolve moral accountability at the metaphysical level.He argues that physicists once believed reality could be fully captured by mathematics. Now, he claims, we understand reality is irrational. Mathematics can only approximate what he calls “the limit,” but the limit itself remains unknowable. Some call that limit “God.”But if God is unknowable, then God becomes irrelevant to our calculations about life and moral choice.At one point, Epstein frames this as a male-female divide. The male mind, he says, runs on logic and mathematics. Reality, however, does not fit that paradigm. Reality is fundamentally irrational and accessed through feminine intuition. Ultimate reality, in his telling, is best understood as the divine female.Humans, in Epstein’s view, are beasts with frontal lobes sophisticated enough to rationalize their impulses.He may have believed he was elevating the feminine. The framework reads more like a metaphysical excuse: reason fails, therefore the standard fails.The tension between reason and intuition is ancient. Epstein narrows “reason” to a single project: reducing the world to material causes through mathematics. When that project does not deliver what he wants, he does not abandon reductionism. He abandons reason.Francis Schaeffer described this move in godless intellectual life: When autonomous reason cannot sustain itself, the thinker does not repent. He escapes into irrationality. Intuition becomes the alibi. Mystery becomes permission.Religion as therapy, not truthIn conversation with Krauss, Epstein defends a kind of religion, but not biblical religion.Krauss, echoing the New Atheists, treats religion as an evolutionary leftover — maybe useful in an earlier age, unnecessary for modern man. After all, modern man allegedly knows universes can create themselves out of nonexistence.Epstein pushes back, but only to reduce religion to psychological management. Religion concerns the “inner world,” he suggests, while science and mathematics concern the outer world. We cannot ignore the inner world. Its purpose is peace. Anxiety and depression signal inner disorder; religion restores equilibrium. That, for Epstein, becomes religion’s function.Not worship. Not truth. Not repentance. Peace.That is New Age self-help with a faux religious vocabulary.A Nietzschean patternPut the pieces together and a Nietzschean outline emerges.Nietzsche described the dialectic between the Apollonian and the Dionysian. The Apollonian seeks order, reason, structure. Yet it can become sterile and suffocating. The Dionysian seeks raw experience — ecstasy, pleasure, intoxication, release. Dionysian revelry becomes not only indulgence but purgation: a controlled environment where darker impulses can be acted out so a man can return to ordinary life and call himself functional again.God’s moral law is written on the heart. We are not left with "unknowable limits" as our excuse. We are without excuse.Humans, on this view, are beasts with frontal lobes sophisticated enough to rationalize their impulses.That is the worldview of the modern pagan: order and chaos, calculation and intoxication, “science” by day and ritualized transgression by night. Add Epstein’s skepticism about knowable truth and his reduction of religion to inner peace, and the method of self-justification comes into focus.His reported fascination with longevity technologies and strange diets fits too. Death becomes the great enemy. It must be cheated — through science, mythic elixirs, or Silicon Valley innovation.RELATED: America’s old cultic trick: Sex, salvation, and the return of polygamy cglade via iStock/Getty ImagesTemptation is not his aloneThe unsettling part: These temptations are not unique to Epstein.Many people oscillate between cold rationalism and irrational indulgence. Many treat morality as a social construct and religion as therapy. Many use abstractions to excuse what they would never defend in plain language.That should drive self-examination, not mere disgust. Are we living inside the Apollonian-Dionysian loop, shifting between self-justifying “reason” and self-excusing “release”?The lie at the centerEpstein’s philosophy collapses under its own weight because it begins with a lie about God.God has not hidden Himself. Scripture teaches that His eternal power and divine nature are clearly revealed through creation. His moral law is written on the heart. We are not left with “unknowable limits” as our excuse. We are without excuse.The claim that reality is fundamentally irrational is not a profound insight. It is an evasion. It is a way to suppress what is plain.That is why Lawrence Krauss’ self-creating universe and Epstein’s divine female belong in the same category: idols. They exchange the truth for something else — something that grants permission.Romans 1 describes the pattern of Epstein’s life: the darkened mind, the suppression of truth, the exchange of glory for self-justification, and the descent into sexual corruption. The cure is not oscillation between sterile rationalism and ecstatic purgation. The cure is redemption. The cure is communion with God restored.We need Christ, who alone frees us from the pagan dialectic — ancient and modern — and grants eternal life, “that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent” (John 17:3).

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FlickrA depiction of the alleged ancient Greek torture device known as the brazen bull in the Torture Museum in Bruges, Belgium. The Brazen Bull, also known as the Bronze Bull, was a brutal torture and execution device allegedly used in ancient Greece. Created in the 6th century B.C.E., it was designed to be a particularly gruesome method of capital punishment. The device was a hollow brass statue, crafted to resemble a real bull, in which victims were placed before a fire was lit beneath it. The metal would, naturally, become extremely hot, causing the person inside to suffer a painful death. To add insult to injury, the Brazen Bull was specifically designed to amplify the screams of its victim as they burned alive. Due to the acoustic apparatus, those screams sounded, to a listener, like the deep bellowing of a bull. Calling it a spectacle would be an understatement. How The Brazen Bull Was Allegedly Invented By Phalaris And Perilaus Like many ancient torture devices, it’s difficult to actually verify whether the Brazen Bull had ever actually been put to practice. That said, there are still ancient records that speak to the Brazen Bull’s existence and the legend of its creation. Wikimedia CommonsWhen victims were placed inside the brazen bull, their screams were allegedly transformed by the torture device into the sound of a bull. As the story goes, around 560 B.C.E. in the seaside colony of Akragas (now modern-day Sicily), there was a tyrannical ruler by the name of Phalaris. Phalaris’ realm was wealthy and lovely, but the cruel ruler commanded it with an iron fist. Perilaus, the court sculptor, approached Phalaris one day with the concept for the Brazen Bull, proposing it as a means to execute condemned prisoners — and provide a deterrent spectacle for the populace. It was effectively a melodic torture device. Perilaus’ statue was a brass cast of a bull, hollow inside, with a door on one side through which a victim could be placed in the statue. Once the door was sealed, a fire would be lit underneath the bronze bull. The metal would then heat up, causing a slow and truly agonizing death for the person inside. Additionally, the device was engineered to convert the screams of the suffering victim into sounds that were eerily similar to the bellowing of a bull, thanks to a complex system of tubes and stops. Wikimedia CommonsPhalaris allegedly had Perilaus design the brazen bull torture device, but its existence remains uncertain to this day. Perilaus intended for this form of execution to not only serve as a punishment but also as a warning to others, as the physical torment was compounded by the psychological terror of the execution. Perilaus believed this method — transforming the victim’s screams into a bullish yell — would please the ruthless and cruel ruler. However, the story goes that Phalaris, upon hearing the proposal and seeing the bull, was horrified not by its cruelty but by Perilaus’ inventiveness in devising such a torment. To test the device, Phalaris ordered Perilaus to enter the bull and demonstrate the sound mechanism. Once Perilaus was inside, Phalaris ordered a fire lit beneath the bull, subjecting Perilaus to the very torture he had devised. According to some accounts, before Perilaus could die from the heat, Phalaris had him removed and then thrown off a hill, executing him in a less inventive manner. But again, like many stories from antiquity, the truth about the Brazen Bull is hard to verify. Was The Bronze Bull Of Phalaris A Real Torture Device Or Just A Myth? A depiction of how the Brazen Bull worked. Famed poet and philosopher Cicero recalled the Brazen Bull as fact, and as proof of a cruel ruler’s viciousness in his series of speeches In Verrum: “… which was that noble bull, which that most cruel of all tyrants, Phalaris, is said to have had, into which he was accustomed to put men for punishment, and to put fire under.” Cicero later used the symbol of the Brazen Bull to represent Phalaris’ cruelty, and wondered if his people may have fared better under foreign dominion rather than be subject to their own ruler’s brutality. “…[To] consider whether it was more advantageous to the Sicilians to be subject to their own princes, or to be under the dominion of the Roman people when they had the same thing as a monument of the cruelty of their domestic masters, and of our liberality.” Wikimedia CommonsFamed Roman statesman Cicero spoke of the Brazen Bull as a real torture device in ancient Greece, but historians remain not fully convinced. Of course, Cicero was a political operator and often used his speech to paint Phalaris as a villain. Fellow historian Diodorus Siculus wrote that Perilaus remarked: “If you ever wish to punish some man, O Phalaris, shut him up within the bull and lay a fire beneath it; by his groanings the bull will be thought to bellow and his cries of pain will give you pleasure as they come through the pipes in the nostrils.” Diodorus’ Phalaris asked Perilaus to demonstrate his meaning, and when he climbed in the Brazen Bull, Phalaris had the artist shut in and burned to death for his loathsome invention. Mentions of the Brazen Bull appeared in the works of other ancient writers including Pindar and Lucretius, which could lend some level of historical credence to its existence. Their accounts, among others, describe the Brazen Bull being used in public executions, but modern historians have cast doubt on the story. PicrylKnown as the Brazen Bull of Phalaris, this rumored torture device could be made of iron, bronze, or brass. In particular, the legend of the Brazen Bull’s creation contains numerous elements of classical myths and legends, especially poetic justice, lessons about hubris, and irony. Perilaus being the Brazen Bull’s first victim, for example, is a classic example of irony, and many consider the story to be an allegory or embellishment of Phalaris’ cruelty. Moreover, there has never been any archaeological evidence that the Brazen Bull existed in ancient Greece, nor was it depicted in ancient art. That said, a lack of physical evidence does not necessarily serve as proof that the Brazen Bull existed — it simply means that no physical evidence can confirm that it did. Whether evil tyrant or vigilante leader, one thing is clear: Phalaris and his Brazen Bull make a story for the ages. 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On August 4, 1987, Joy White and Carl Tyson rushed their newborn daughter, Carlina White, to the hospital due to a fever. Little did these new parents know, however, that this night would be the last time they would see their child for the next 23 years. A woman dressed as a nurse kidnapped Carlina White from the hospital and raised the child as her own. It was a full two decades later, when Carlina White was due to become a mother herself, that she discovered the truth. Carlina White/FacebookCarlina White solved her own kidnapping case in 2005. Suspicious that her “mother” wasn’t who she said she was, White began doing research on the website for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), and she soon saw herself in their database. She then reached out to the organization, which put her in touch with her birth parents. Finally, more than 23 years after her kidnapping, White was reunited with her parents in 2011. And though this reunion brought cathartic closure, White soon struggled to navigate her new life after unwittingly trapped in a lie for so many years. The Kidnapping Of Carlina White Carlina Renae White was born in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City on July 15, 1987. Her parents were thrilled about the new addition to their family, but when White was just 19 days old, she developed a high fever. They rushed her to the hospital, where doctors discovered White had an infection from swallowing fluid during her birth. She was placed on intravenous antibiotics to fight the infection, and Joy White and Carl Tyson waited anxiously for news of their daughter’s condition. Shockingly, between 2:30 a.m. and 3:55 a.m., someone removed the IV from baby Carlina and abducted her from the hospital. Though the hospital had a surveillance system, it was not working at the time of the abduction, and there were few potential witnesses. Later, Carl Tyson recalled that a woman wearing a nurse’s uniform directed them upon their arrival, and he saw her again while looking for a phone to update White’s grandparents on her condition. Tyson and Joy White decided that she would stay at the hospital with the baby, but she needed to get some things from home first. As reported by New York magazine, Tyson dropped his girlfriend at her house and returned home to try to get some sleep. He had just managed to doze off when the phone rang. It was the police calling from Joy White’s apartment. They told him his daughter was missing while his girlfriend screamed in the background. It was the first time an infant had been abducted from a New York hospital, and no one knew how it had happened. Nurses said they had checked on baby White every five minutes and had discovered she was missing at 3:40 a.m. Soon, details began to emerge that for several months, a strange woman had been seen at the hospital. She passed herself off as a nurse, and even the other nurses believed her. It was the same woman who had given Tyson directions earlier. A security guard had seen someone matching the woman’s description leave the hospital around 3:30 a.m. She didn’t have a baby with her, but he believed it was possible that the missing infant had been hidden in her smock. The last thing Joy White could recall about the “nurse” was a bizarre comment she made as her newborn daughter was admitted: “The baby don’t cry for you, you cry for the baby.” She now believes it was the woman’s attempt to get rid of her. Police began a thorough investigation, and for a while they thought they had a suspect. But they soon came to a dead end, and the case of Carlina White’s kidnapping went cold. Carlina White Discovers The Truth About Her Past The mysterious “nurse” from the hospital was Annugetta “Ann” Pettway of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Pettway had been in trouble with the law several times as a teenager on charges of larceny, theft, and forgery, but police who knew her said she “wasn’t a hell-raiser.” As an adult, she struggled with a drug addiction. In 1987, Pettway told her friends she was pregnant, and a friend later said Pettway left town for a while before returning with a child. Friends and family assumed she had gone elsewhere to give birth to the baby, presumed to be the daughter of her on-again, off-again boyfriend Robert Nance. Carlina White grew up believing her name was Nejdra Nance. She spent her childhood in Bridgeport, Connecticut, before she and Pettway moved to Atlanta, Georgia. Growing up, White sometimes wondered if Pettway was her real mother. Her skin was much lighter than Pettway’s, and though relatives often called her “little Ann,” she didn’t see a physical resemblance at all. “Nejdra Nance was very suspicious of who she was and what family raised her,” Lieutenant Christopher Zimmerman of the New York Police Department later told ABC News. “There was no paperwork to follow her such as a birth certificate or social security card. In her late teens she became suspicious of who she was.” Carlina White/FacebookCarlina White was reunited with her birth parents in 2011. In 2005, White became pregnant. To secure medical assistance from the state, she had to provide her original birth certificate. White asked Pettway for the document, but she couldn’t provide it. After White pressed her about it for several days, Pettway finally gave her the birth certificate — but when White tried to submit it, officials said it was a forgery. Pettway finally had to confess to White that she wasn’t her biological mother. She claimed that White was abandoned by her mother at birth. Pettway kept repeating, “She left you and never came back.” For the next year, White kept pressing Pettway for more details about her birth mother, but Pettway claimed she couldn’t remember anything. At that point, 23-year-old White started scouring the internet for clues as to her true identity. At first, White only searched for kidnappings that had occured near Bridgeport, Connecticut. It wasn’t until 2010 that she visited the NCMEC website and expanded her search outside of her home state. There, she found a photo of a baby who had been kidnapped in 1987 and looked just like her own daughter, Samani. The infant even had the same birthmark as White. The Connecticut Post reports that Pettway’s sister Cassandra Johnson helped White reach out to NCMEC in December 2010. The center quickly contacted Joy White and Carl Tyson to inform them their long-lost daughter was found. An Emotional Reunion After 23 Years NCMEC reached out to Joy White and Carl Tyson through email just before Christmas 2011. DNA testing was performed to confirm that Carlina White was indeed their child. “I just always believed that she would find me. That was something that I always believed in myself, you know, that she would come and find me and that’s the same way that I thought it would happen,” Joy White said of receiving the miraculous email. For the next few weeks, White was in constant contact with her birth parents, but she sometimes struggled to form a relationship with them. She recalled, “The mom had that mother instinct. The dad is like I was talking to a stranger.” Nevertheless, the family continued to try to build a relationship, and White flew to New York to meet them for the first time. Her mother picked her up at the airport, and she was welcomed by her extended family with open arms. “It was wonderful, she didn’t even seem like a stranger, she just fit right in,” White’s biological grandmother Elizabeth White said. “We all went up there, we had dinner together, her aunts were there. She brought her beautiful daughter. It was magic.” After a quick visit, White returned to the airport to catch her flight back to Atlanta. Before she boarded her plane, she was stopped by a police detective who told her that her DNA results had come back and that Joy White and Carl Tyson were indeed her biological parents. When national news broke of the reunion, White flew back to New York to do a series of interviews which she felt forced parts of the new relationship that hadn’t developed yet. She began to think about Pettway, who was on the run from the FBI. Carlina White pulled away from her birth parents and returned home to Atlanta. The Saga Of Carlina White’s Kidnapping Comes To An End Public DomainAnn Pettway surrendered on Jan. 23, 2011. On Jan. 23, 2011, Annugetta Pettway turned herself in to the FBI after a warrant was issued for her arrest. According to The New York Times, Pettway explained that she kidnapped White after suffering several miscarriages in an attempt to fill the emptiness they left behind. White recognizes that she caused her biological family pain when she pulled away after meeting them, but she was overwhelmed by the media attention and felt guilt about abandoning the family who raised her. Now, the former Nejdra Nance has legally changed her name to Carlina White, but she informally goes by Netty — a name she chose for herself. She has reconnected with her biological parents but admits that she still has love for the woman she called “Mom” for the first 23 years of her life. White explained, “There was a part of me that wasn’t even there, and now I feel whole. Even in the beginning of the year, with all the drama and stuff, I was kind of cloudy. But now I know who I am. That’s the main thing — just to find out where you come from and who you are.” After reading about the kidnapping of Carlina White, read about the Ariel Castro kidnappings and how his victims escaped 10 years of abuse. Then, learn more about the Jim Twins, who were separated at birth only to discover they lived the same life. The post Carlina White Was Abducted As A Baby — Then Solved Her Own Kidnapping 23 Years Later appeared first on All That's Interesting.

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