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New laws amid public resistance could curb Virginia’s data center boom

More restrictive legislation could soon curb Virginia's data center boom, as residents push back on increased noise and utility bills.

Abdul El-Sayed scores narrow win in Senate primary; his left-wing agenda to get tested in November

Abdul El-Sayed defeated Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan's Democratic primary for U.S. Senate after a hard-fought contest that delivered the party's left flank a marquee win -- and immediately raised questions about whether the left-wing favorite can build a broad enough coalition to prevail in November.

With Abdul el Sayed win, Michigan Democrats fall to the Mamdani Left

As the dust settles on the Michigan Senate primaries, Republican candidate Mike Rogers must be popping open a bottle of champagne right now in celebration of the results. Not due to his own primary — he ran uncontested — but the Democratic primary, where radical leftist Abdul el Sayed has defeated moderate Rep. Haley Stevens […]

When a congressman is hitting on his staffers, it’s worse when he’s married

Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) is dropping his reelection bid amid a House Ethics Committee investigation into his behavior that includes hitting on his young female staffers, asking them out on dates, and excessively expressing his too-warm feelings for them. Read the NPR coverage of Edwards’s behavior, and you’ll get many of the cringey details, absent […]

America is having the wrong data center conversation — and its shooting us in the foot

America is having the wrong conversation about data centers, and if we don’t get the conversation right, we risk talking ourselves out of our own national competitiveness. Across the country, communities are debating new projects. Questions are being raised about grid impact, water usage, land development, tax structures, and local quality of life. Those concerns […]

AI models are escaping their cages. It’s time for a kill switch

Concerns are growing about the national security implications of artificial intelligence. As frontier AI models grow more capable, their ability to break free from their controls grows with them. Case in point: the recent OpenAI and Anthropic incidents. According to recent disclosures, OpenAI’s most powerful models not only went rogue and hacked the AI open-source […]

Data centers generate billions. So why is your tax bill going up?

Opposition to data centers has become a threat to the computing capacity America’s AI buildout requires. In a Gallup poll conducted in March, 71% of adults opposed a data center near them — far more than the 53% who opposed a nearby nuclear plant. Data Center Watch counted at least 75 projects worth roughly $130 […]

The conservative case for a market-based immigration system

Is population growth a bad thing? Much of the Left believes it is, and some of their unlikely allies on the Right have started to agree. The Left tends to see people as polluters, which makes every additional birth a burden on the planet. Some self-styled conservatives reach the same destination by a different road: […]

Wiping your own phone is now a federal crime — if you do it at the airport

Customs and Border Protection personnel searched more than 55,000 phones, laptops, and tablets at the border last year, a number that has climbed sixfold since 2015, even though it still touches only a small fraction of the more than 400 million travelers the agency processed. Most of those searches turn up nothing more interesting than […]

Obamacare approved 96% of fake applications. Why is Congress extending its subsidies?

I have spent more than a decade as a designated expert witness on fiduciary duty, testifying in federal and state courts about what happens when the people managing other people’s money stop checking who is actually entitled to it. Every case follows the same pattern. Someone stopped verifying. The losses piled up quietly until an […]

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