Two opposing factions in the artificial intelligence industry square off in a Democratic primary for a U.S. House seat. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani tests his political clout by backing fellow democratic socialists. And President Trump, after two of his chosen candidates for governor lost Republican primaries this month, ensured it won't happen again -- by endorsing both candidates in a South Carolina runoff.
Under pressure from U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government, the director of the United Kingdom’s GCHQ signals intelligence service (responsible for hacking phones, computers, satellites, and electronic communications) has given China a pass on its hyper-aggressive espionage. In a major speech on Wednesday, Anne Keast-Butler was rightly robust in her criticism of Russian offenses against […]
During a 1998 trip to Uganda, President Bill Clinton provided what many historians considered to be the first apology by the United States for its role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Speaking before a school in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, Clinton apologized for “European Americans” benefiting from the “fruits of the slave trade.” “And […]
THE CIA’S INSANE GOLD BARS SCANDAL. Here is the basic story, as alleged in an affidavit filed in federal court: In 2009, a man named David Rush, a Navy veteran, took a job at the CIA. As part of the application process, he told the CIA that he had a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from […]
The Permian Basin is one of the largest oil and gas regions in the world, and that productivity has become its own problem. Natural gas is arriving at the Waha Hub in West Texas faster than existing infrastructure can move it, creating periodic pricing collapses and exposing the simple truth that supply without predictable demand […]
Having secured seven Republican signatures on their discharge petition, Democratic lawmakers just secured an imminent vote on the Faster Labor Contracts Act — a union leaders’ pipedream that was considered too radical to pass Congress even under the Obama-era Democratic supermajority. This legislation would allow unelected, uninformed federal bureaucrats to set the terms of union […]
The United States is more energy-dominant than ever before. We lead the world in oil and gas production, producing more than at any other time in history. Yet the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz proves that energy dominance doesn’t protect us entirely from global shocks. The ultimate energy dominance is energy sovereignty, which requires […]
Three seemingly unrelated headlines dominated the news in recent weeks: NBA star Brandon Clarke passed away, the family of a teenager who died from a drug overdose after prompting by ChatGPT sued OpenAI, and the resignation of FDA Commissioner Marty Makary. But, there’s a disturbing thread that ties these disconnected stories together: Kratom — a […]
The food stamp program was born during the Great Depression as an emergency mechanism to get basic staple foods to families facing widespread hardship. The mission was simple: put real food on the table for people who couldn’t afford it. Ninety years later, the program looks almost nothing like that. Today, food stamps can be […]
The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George Washington, the Continental Congress, and the men and women whose bravery and sacrifice led up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. May 28, 1776 Gen. George Washington is in Philadelphia. He […]
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has restricted the flow of energy to global markets, severely impacting oil prices. As a direct result of rising oil prices, gas prices have also risen worldwide, including in the United States. Although the average prices of gas and diesel have risen in the U.S. to $4.51 per […]
The prevailing climate change narrative took a big hit in recent days, as scientists who comprise the United Nations’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are backing away from more outlandish climate predictions for the 21st century. Extreme forecasts of rising temperatures of 4 to 5 degrees, the scientists wrote in the journal Geoscientific Model Development, […]
As the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee prepares to advance a new surface transportation reauthorization bill, Congress faces a consequential question: Are we prepared to invest in infrastructure not only as an economic necessity, but as a pillar of U.S. national security? For those of us representing America’s territories, particularly in the Indo-Pacific, the answer […]
Seattle has built an ecosystem where militant progressive activists can repeatedly manufacture “emergencies,” then claim to be able to solve them with public money.
