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Trump Has Delivered on the Economy, the Drive-By Media Simply Won't Report on It
CNN advised Americans watching gasoline prices slip below $4 in August 2022 to enjoy the relief. Two months earlier, regular gas had averaged $4.93 a gallon, and annual inflation had reached 9.1%. Now the network called a retreat from that misery an “unexpected form of economic stimulus,” worth thinking of as another $100 a month. At the peak of the worst inflation in four decades, the drive-by media offered a grateful shrug.
The Democrat Plan to Stop Data Center Development in Ten States
On October 27th, Democrat donors were invited to log on to a virtual fundraiser to elect “climate utility leaders,” with Kamala Harris billed as the special guest. The beneficiaries were not Senate candidates or governors. They were four people running for the Georgia Public Service Commission and the Arizona Corporation Commission, offices most voters couldn’t find on their own ballot with a flashlight.
Four Fake Polling Firms Rigged the 2026 Primaries. Here Is Who Did It and How to Prosecute Them
Two months before Wedgewood Polls entered her life, Mallory McMorrow was tied for first in Michigan’s Democrat Senate primary at 24%, according to a legitimate Emerson College poll. Then, on June 24, Wedgewood released its own survey. Abdul El-Sayed led with 46%, Haley Stevens had 39%, and McMorrow was down to 9%; for good measure, the release cast her as the only Democrat who couldn’t beat Mike Rogers in November. She left the race eleven days later. None of it was real.
Four Fake Polling Firms Rigged the 2026 Primaries. Here Is Who Did It and How to Prosecute Them
Two months before Wedgewood Polls entered her life, Mallory McMorrow was tied for first in Michigan’s Democrat Senate primary at 24%, according to a legitimate Emerson College poll. Then, on June 24, Wedgewood released its own survey. Abdul El-Sayed led with 46%, Haley Stevens had 39%, and McMorrow was down to 9%; for good measure, the release cast her as the only Democrat who couldn’t beat Mike Rogers in November. She left the race eleven days later. None of it was real.
No, Europe Did Not Just Tell Its Citizens to Prepare for World War III
By Monday, my inbox was full of screenshots from readers, all asking the same thing: What do Europe’s governments know that we don’t? The screenshots came from a Sunday post by an 𝕏 account called Open Minded Approach. It told its followers that Europe is preparing for the final war, and its evidence was a list. Britain wants households to keep 3 days of food and water. The European Union wants 72 hours, Germany wants 10 days, France has published a guide, and Sweden has mailed booklets.
How to Rig a Prediction Market
James Talarico (CIS) recently traded near 65¢ on Polymarket while Ken Paxton traded near 35¢, and a price like that invites a familiar complaint: some rich partisan has simply bought the number to manufacture a headline that tells the country the race is settled. The worry has a kernel of truth.
The Right Answer to AI-Enabled Hacking Is Defensive Overmatch, A Pause Empowers China
This month, Microsoft reported that a China-aligned crew it tracks as Storm-0940 pushed an agentic AI penetration-testing framework through a ConnectWise supply-chain compromise and turned it loose on hundreds of organizations, in some cases reaching privileged cloud access in under 3 hours. Set that beside Cathedral, a startup founded by former DOGE staffers and barely known outside the security trade, which sent its own team of AI agents after Anthropic and got inside.
Acton Put Vivek’s Mother in a Headline. Vivek Let Acton’s Mother Speak for Herself
On August 12th, Amy Acton's campaign for governor of Ohio put out a press release under the headline "Billionaire Scammer Ramaswamy Used Mother to Manipulate Clinical Trials in 'Pump and Dump' Scheme to Make Millions." The mother in that headline is Geetha Ramaswamy, a physician, whom the release accused of helping her son manipulate clinical trial data in an Alzheimer's drug study.
Acton Put Vivek’s Mother in a Headline. Vivek Let Acton’s Mother Speak for Herself
On August 12th, Amy Acton's campaign for governor of Ohio put out a press release under the headline "Billionaire Scammer Ramaswamy Used Mother to Manipulate Clinical Trials in 'Pump and Dump' Scheme to Make Millions." The mother in that headline is Geetha Ramaswamy, a physician, whom the release accused of helping her son manipulate clinical trial data in an Alzheimer's drug study.
Ketanji Brown Jackson and the High Price of Choosing Justice by Race
When Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement, President Biden repeated his campaign promise to appoint the first black woman to the Supreme Court and narrowed the pool to three black women in advance: Ketanji Brown Jackson, J. Michelle Childs, and Leondra Kruger. Justice Jackson is the product of that process, and her performance on the Court since then confirms that identity-based selection yields mediocrity.
Fauci Recklessly Shut Down Main Street in 2020. PPP Was the Bill for Keeping It Alive.
Steve Randall Howe of Denver fraudulently obtained more than a million dollars in Paycheck Protection Program loans for companies with no employees and no business operations. He spent it on a house, luxury goods, travel, club memberships, and wire transfers to China, and a federal judge sentenced him to 30 months in federal prison earlier this month.
James Talarico Has a Long Habit of Not Showing Up for Texas
For the better part of two weeks this fall, the most expensive Senate race in America had only one visible candidate. Ken Paxton led a San Antonio crowd in the chant “Where is James Talarico?” The Democrat nominee’s last in-person Texas event was a September 26 press conference, and his last in-person event anywhere was a September 28 New York fundraiser with Robert De Niro. On September 30th, he joined a U.S. Hispanic Business Council event by video, saying he had the flu.
The Slippery Slope From Secular State to Islamic Rule: Mosque to City Hall
In February 2023, a copy of the Quran that a 14-year-old autistic boy had brought to his school in Wakefield, England, was dropped and lightly scuffed. No law in England makes that a crime. Within days, however, the boy had received death threats, and his mother stood before a crowd in a local mosque, with a police officer in the room, apologizing for what her son had done. A secular country watched a family submit to a blasphemy rule that Parliament had abolished in 2008.
Secrecy Is the Wrong Answer to Spectacle: The Fort Hood Execution Should Be Livestreamed
On December 3 at 1 PM Central, if the courts allow it, an Army firing squad at Fort Hood will execute Nidal Hasan, and anyone with an internet connection will be able to watch. The Pentagon confirmed the livestream on October 8, six days after President Trump approved the death sentence and two days after Acting Army Secretary Adam Telle signed the execution order. Hasan murdered 13 people and wounded 32 on that same post on November 5, 2009. A military jury convicted him in August 2013.
The Iran Victory Hiding in Plain Sight: Four Executive Orders Trump Can Sign Before The Midterms
Picture a man on a Tehran rooftop on the night of January 8. He has a Starlink dish wrapped in a blanket, one of somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 terminals that activists believe were smuggled into Iran, and he knows that a law passed late last year can send him to prison for 10 years for owning it, or to the gallows if a judge decides to call it espionage. Below him, the streets are full.
Trump Shut Down USAID's Political Machine. Then Freedom & Justice Returned to Latin America
On Sunday, Flávio Bolsonaro beat Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election, 47.03% to 45.16%, by more than 2.2 million votes. Lula is the sitting president, a three-time winner of the office, and the most celebrated figure on the Latin American Left. He now heads into the October 25 runoff in second place.
Civil War Without the War: Newsom Just Made Immigration Enforcement Illegal
“If you want to regulate federal agents, you have to win a federal election.” Bill Essayli, the First Assistant US Attorney for the Central District of California, said that on September 29, 2026, the day Gavin Newsom signed 21 immigration bills into law. Essayli then advised the Department of Homeland Security to disregard the new state ban on shock gloves. I think his one sentence captures the entire dispute. California Democrats are attempting nullification through operational control.
Sanctuary States Should NOT Be Rewarded: The Case for Trump's House Apportionment Plan
An Army sergeant from Dayton has been stationed in Germany for two years. She has not slept in Ohio during that time. On Census Day, the Census Bureau still credits her to Ohio, and in Franklin v. Massachusetts (1992), the Supreme Court said that was fine. Overseas federal employees are assigned to the state that was their usual home, not to the base where they happen to be sleeping. A German tourist standing outside the Ohio Statehouse that same morning is physically in Columbus.
Trump Turned Iran's Favorite Weapon Into Tehran's Biggest Problem, Gulf Oil Is Back to 94%
Picture a Saudi tanker running empty, riding high in the water, as it turns out of the Gulf of Oman and back through the Strait of Hormuz, toward the stretch of water Iran has spent this year calling closed. Nothing about the scene looks like a victory. Yet that empty ship tells you more about who controls the strait than any loaded tanker racing out. A loaded tanker leaving might be a one-time escape, oil that was trapped and finally got away.
DHH Just Retired From Hand-Coding. The Man Who Opened the Web to Me Is Right Again.
Every generation of builders gets one moment when the old way of working becomes a museum piece. David Heinemeier Hansson, the Danish programmer the rest of us simply call DHH, just announced that his moment has arrived. Writing code by hand, he said, is no longer an economically productive enterprise for the vast majority of programmers at the vast majority of companies. By the end of the year, he predicts, that will be true of virtually all domains, all programmers, and all companies.
The Enemies Within: Why Congress Must Vet Members Before They Touch Classified Intelligence
A 26-year-old staffer joins the House Intelligence Committee and fills out Standard Form 86. It runs well past 100 pages. She lists every foreign contact, every address for the past decade, every debt, every relative born abroad. Investigators call her college roommate and her former landlord. Months pass before she may enter the committee’s secure room. The congressman she works for walks into that same room in his first week. He signs a short oath under House Rule XXIII, clause 13, and he is in.
@amuse on X: "CLANCY JURY: While the left threatens the life of the lone holdout juror and his family, the jurors who wanted to let Clancy off for killing her children have admitted they followed the case on social media throughout the trial."
They should be brought up on contempt of court charges. Ofc these NPCs could never express an independent thought, they have issues framed and then they're told what to think by the media & social media never stopping to think, hey I never thought this way several years ago or Show more
Trump Should Tighten the Screws on Iran Before November, Not After...
Tehran has decided that my birthday (11/3/26) is the date that matters. The more honest clock is the one already running at Hormuz. Fresh Iranian crude moving through the strait has been interrupted since the blockade was reinstated on July 14, and the regime’s hope is that American voters will supply the relief the dwindling supply of Iranian missiles could not. President Trump should refuse the trade.
Governor Newsom Must Veto Democrat’s Career Penalty for Enforcing Immigration Law
Consider a woman who spent six years as a deportation officer in Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Los Angeles field office. She followed her training, obeyed lawful orders, and never drew a complaint. In 2028, she applies for a clerical job at a county library. AB 1896, the measure the Legislature titled the GTFO Act, treats that prior service as a presumptive bar.
Anthropic's 154-Page Warning Is the Best Argument Yet for Beating China at AI Original
Somewhere in China, a researcher opened a chat window and went to work. Over several weeks, he assembled roughly 16 software modules for electronic warfare and suppression of enemy air defenses, taking the suite through 12 versions with an American AI model serving as an assistant. The code ranked targets and scored jamming options. Midway through the project, the default scenario flipped.
Texas U.S. Senate Candidate James Talarico Refuses to Stop Abusing a 14-Year-Old Waco Boy
I am angry, and I am not going to dress that up. This September, James Talarico is still running television ads that treat a Waco child’s sexual abuse case as inventory for a US Senate race. The boy lives in that market, but even worse, the ads have found their way onto social media sites like TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and 𝕏. His family has already said they're tired of being used. Talarico has ignored their pleas to leave their child alone. On Friday, his campaign aired a new spot.
Ken Paxton's Enemies Built the Strongest Argument to Elect Him to the U.S. Senate
Ask a voter in a Waco diner what he thinks of politicians, and you will hear the same sentence you hear in Midland and McAllen. They are all crooks. He does not offer it as a theory. He offers it as weather. Most officeholders live inside that weather their whole careers, suspected in general, pinned to nothing in particular, and never forced to stand still long enough for the suspicion to be tested. Ken Paxton is the exception, and not because he asked to be.
Less Than 2 Years Of Trump Tariffs And Tax Cuts Generated $11.2 Trillion In US Investment
This month, in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, Hyundai and POSCO broke ground on a $5.8 billion electric arc mill built to pour 2.7 million tons of automotive sheet metal a year. It is the first purpose-built automotive mill of its kind in the country, and it anchors Hyundai’s $26 billion American program. Officials put the local effect at 1,300 direct jobs and roughly 4,000 indirect ones, with the first coil targeted for 2029.
Less Than Two Years of Trump Tariffs and Tax Cuts Generated $11.2 Trillion in US Investment
This month, in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, Hyundai and POSCO broke ground on a $5.8 billion electric-arc mill built to pour 2.7 million tons of automotive sheet metal a year. It is the first purpose-built automotive mill of its kind in the country, and it anchors Hyundai’s $26 billion American program. Officials put the local effect at 1,300 direct jobs and roughly 4,000 indirect ones, with the first coil targeted for 2029.
Hamas Counts Its Dead Children as Wins, and American Students Are Celebrating Their Victories
In 2023, with roughly 1.4 million Gazans displaced and some 641,000 of them crowded into 150 UN shelters running at nearly 3 times their intended capacity, Ismail Haniyeh appeared on Al-Mayadeen television and said it plainly. Speaking of the women, children, and elderly of Gaza, the chairman of Hamas’s political bureau declared, “We are the ones who need this blood.” That blood, he said, awakens the revolutionary spirit. It is worth noting that Haniyeh’s net worth was between $3 and $4 billion.
China Mandated Ai in Its Schools. Union-Owned Democrats Are Banning Ai in U.S. Classrooms.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Chancellor Kamar Samuels announced that New York City public school students may not use student-facing generative AI for the 2026-2027 year. The rule reaches from 2-K through 8th grade and covers nearly 600,000 children, about two-thirds of the system. High schools receive a tightly rationed pilot, capped at 50,000 students citywide and no more than five classes per building. In a system of roughly 280,000 high schoolers, most of them get nothing.
Virginia Is the Canary in the Coal Mine When It Comes to Data Centers: The Canary Is Singing
Opponents of the data center boom have taken to calling Virginia the canary in the coal mine, and the geography is fair. If these buildings drain local water, drive household power bills through the roof, and leave counties poorer than they found them, the damage should already be visible in the state that has hosted the densest cluster on earth since the mid 1990s.
Stars And Stripes Was Never Independent. The Pentagon Just Stopped Pretending.
Last Friday the Pentagon sent separation notices to Stars and Stripes publisher Max Lederer, editor-in-chief Erik Slavin, and reporter Lara Korte. The charge was insubordination. By nightfall the firings were being billed as a raid on a free press. That billing only works if you forget who signs the paychecks. If the editor of a company magazine went on television and announced that she did not work for the company, no one would treat her dismissal as a constitutional event.
The First Amendment Protects Your Speech, Not an Islamic Activist's F-1 Student Visa
Last week, Judge Noël Wise of the Northern District of California entered judgment in Stanford Daily Publishing Corp. v. Rubio. The plaintiffs were the university’s student newspaper and a Jane Doe holding an F-1 visa. The opinion runs some 90 pages and collapses two legal statuses that the Constitution and the Immigration and Nationality Act keep apart.
If the Paxtons Are Corrupt, They Are Remarkably Bad at It...
James Talarico has a theory that fits on a bumper sticker. Ken Paxton got richer in office; therefore, Ken Paxton is corrupt. The charge is easy to chant and hard to defend. It fails as math, and it does not land on Ken Paxton alone. Angela Paxton’s name sits on the same estate. She taught school, counseled students, and served in the Texas Senate. Before Texans send anyone to Washington, they ought to ask whether a candidate who cannot read a balance sheet is qualified to write a budget.
The Data Center Panic Is Built on Myths and Americans Are Falling for Them Hook, Line, and Sinker
A man at a county microphone holds up his phone and plays a clip of rooftop fans filmed from a highway shoulder, captioned with the claim that a proposed data center will run diesel engines around the clock, drain the aquifer, and raise every neighbor’s power bill by 40%. About 90 people sit through that Tuesday night; the coffee is terrible, and nobody in the room has measured a thing or opened a specification sheet.
Another Tragedy Exposes America’s Deadly School Security Hypocrisy
In a quiet classroom at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, the unspeakable happened once again: two dead, six wounded and an entire community shattered. The shooter, a 15-year-old, turned a study hall into a scene of terror before taking her own life. Predictably, political rhetoric came swiftly, as did the tired solutions that follow every school shooting. President Biden spoke of “prayers” and “unacceptable” violence, sentiments as sterile as they are predictable.
Abbott Had A Chance To Close Texas Primaries. He Blinked.
Ken Paxton’s rout of John Cornyn in the May runoff should have settled a long argument inside the Republican Party of Texas. Grassroots conservatives, the same voters who delivered 72.74% support for a closed-primary ballot proposition in March 2024 and 92.38% support at the state convention that summer, had just demonstrated that they, and not the donor class, decide who carries the Republican banner in this state. Governor Abbott read the returns.
ICYMI: The $10 Billion Security Theater Americans Endure Every Time They Fly
DOGE may officially be gone, but the political appetite for its mission remains — cutting waste, dismantling entrenched bureaucracy, and imposing greater accountability on the federal government. In Dante’s “Inferno,” fraud ranks deeper than violence in the circles of hell. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is the living embodiment of bureaucratic fraud: a colossal, costly illusion of safety, wrapped in blue uniforms and plastic trays.
Al-Qaeda Hijacked Our Airlines. Now It Runs One Of Its Own.
Few ironies stand as stark as the U.S. involvement in Syria — a misadventure that began under the auspices of the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF). Initially designed as a broad mandate to pursue al-Qaeda and its affiliates following the 9/11 attacks, the AUMF became the legal linchpin for countless military engagements, including the Syrian Civil War.
Abbott Had A Chance To Close Texas Primaries. He Blinked.
Ken Paxton’s rout of John Cornyn in the May runoff should have settled a long argument inside the Republican Party of Texas. Grassroots conservatives, the same voters who delivered 72.74% support for a closed-primary ballot proposition in March 2024 and 92.38% support at the state convention that summer, had just demonstrated that they, and not the donor class, decide who carries the Republican banner in this state. Governor Abbott read the returns.
30 Years Ago I Built Data Centers In Your Backyard. Only Now China Demands You Fear Them.
I spent the late 1990s and early 2000s building data centers in the middle of America’s largest cities. We built them in Dallas, Miami, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and St. Louis. Thousands of people walked past our buildings every day. They did not protest them. Most did not even know what was inside. That silence was not a cover for some environmental menace. Our data centers were good neighbors.
I Was Wrong About Scott Jennings; He Shouldn’t Be Anywhere Near The White House Briefing Room
When Karoline Leavitt announced she would step down as White House press secretary to raise her newborn son, my first reaction was admiration. It takes a certain clarity of soul to trade the most visible podium in the world for the least visible work in it, and she deserves every good thing said about her. She has been a fighter for this president, and she has done the job with a steel the press corps still has not forgiven.
I Defended Trump's Argentina Beef Deal. Here Is Why Friday's Bigger Beef Move Is Right Too.
On Friday, August 21, President Trump announced his largest beef intervention yet, a temporary window allowing up to 300,000 metric tons of additional beef destined for the grinder to enter at the lower tariff rate for 90 days, to be formalized by executive order within two weeks, with a commitment that the product will be sold 25% below current market prices.
The DSA Wants To Transform America The Way The ANC Transformed South Africa
On July 16, 2026, the World Bank approved a $1.5 billion loan to modernize South Africa’s electricity, freight rail, water, and sanitation systems. It is the fourth rescue of this kind since 2022, which means the first three left the wreck standing. The conditions attached to the money are a list of the ordinary rules Pretoria spent a generation discarding.
Manipulated Polls Always Tried To Move Elections. Fake Ones Just Showed Up In 3 Midterm Races
A $20 bill that a bank teller miscounts is still a $20 bill. A $20 bill printed in a basement is something else. Median Strategies appears to have done the second thing to two elections in one week, inventing the voters, the interviews, the methodology, and the results, then posting the product under a corporate-sounding name the day before Wisconsin Democrats chose a nominee for governor.
Manipulated Polls Always Tried to Move Elections. Fake Ones Just Showed Up in Three Midterm Races
A $20 bill that a bank teller miscounts is still a $20 bill. A $20 bill printed in a basement is something else. Median Strategies appears to have done the second thing to two elections in one week, inventing the voters, the interviews, the methodology, and the results, then posting the product under a corporate-sounding name the day before Wisconsin Democrats chose a nominee for governor.
The Uncomfortable Truth Behind Some Of The FBI’s Biggest Terror Busts
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on Nov. 21, 2024. While the FBI continues to employ aggressive undercover sting operations, federal law strictly prohibits agents from committing legal entrapment. Under Department of Justice guidelines, law enforcement cannot manufacture a crime by inducing an otherwise innocent person to commit an offense.
The Dating App Revolution Came With A Cost Nobody Planned For
For most of human history, courtship was bounded. A young man in 1955 did not survey every available woman within 500 miles before asking someone to dinner. He met her through friends, through church, through the slow friction of shared community life. That friction was not an obstacle to good matches. It was the mechanism through which realistic, durable partnerships were formed. It forced self-assessment. It embedded romantic decisions inside networks of social accountability.
Rob Schneider’s Strange War On The Texas GOP Raise Big Questions
Consider a homeowner who hires an exterminator to deal with a wasp nest in the eaves. The exterminator removes the nest, seals the gap, treats the perimeter, and absorbs a lawsuit from neighbors who felt the wasps were being persecuted. Then one morning the homeowner walks onto his lawn and announces to the street that nothing has been done. He has not said the work was slow or partial.
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