But there are other reasons to root for Israel. Some people just love Israel for her enemies. If you don’t particularly like Muslim fanaticism or antisemitism, that may be enough. Also, a lot of anti-Israel passion is a subset of anti-American politics. This argument can be scaled up to a civilizational one: Israel is an […]

from the I’m-sorry-I-can’t-do-that,-Dave dept One recurring theme of our head-first rushed adoption of “AI” is that half-cooked automation routinely reflects the often shitty natures of the companies or individuals installing it. Health insurance companies with a history of being crooks implement Medicare rejection AI with a 90% error rate. Incompetent media company executives implement half-cooked […]

Submitted by Peter Schweizer & Seamus Bruner, The weekend protests called “No Kings” produced crowds of a few thousand in some reliably “blue” cities like Portland, Boston, Seattle, and others, but not much else. Tragically, though, a killer who was once a political appointee of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz shot and killed the former state […]

On June 17, 2025 the Institute for Energy Research, in partnership with C3 Solutions, hosted a webinar for policymakers and stakeholders on Climate Change Superfund legislation that was passed in New York and Vermont last year.     Background In December 2024, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Climate Change Superfund Act into law, […]

Two crude oil tankers collided and caught fire near the Strait of Hormuz energy chokepoint, triggering immediate concern across global energy and shipping markets. Iranian naval assets were observed approaching the incident area shortly after the collision, raising the risk of interference. The incident now risks quickly evolving into an ecological disaster.  Bloomberg cites the Pakistan […]