Under his authority as commander in chief, the president can blow up pretty much anybody on Earth whom he deems a national security threat. He does not need permission from Congress, the media, or a panel of self-appointed commentators. The missile strikes on drug-running vessels operated by a designated terrorist group are lawful, routine, and […]

HEGSETH UNDER FIRE: An unclassified report from the Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General to be released today concluded that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth put U.S. military personnel at risk by sharing sensitive details of their mission against Houthi rebels in Yemen on the unclassified messaging app Signal last March. “The report reinforced what was […]

It’s easy to look at a collapsing civil society in a foreign country and comfort ourselves that, despite all our problems, we’re not as bad off as those people. Americans are especially apt to do this with our cousins in Great Britain, whose country is now in a state of precipitous and probably irreversible decline, […]

In Memphis, Tennessee, where Elon Musk’s xAI initiative spun up a “compute factory” of some 32,000 GPUs, the local grid could not sustain the demand. The solution was characteristic of the era: 14 mobile gas turbine generators, parked in a row, burning fossil fuel to feed the machine. It was a scene of brute industrial […]

The Trump administration announced Tuesday it would halt immigration applications from 19 countries — but there are three countries that should be added to the list. Following the deadly suspected terrorist attack in Washington D.C., allegedly by an Afghan national let in through President Joe Biden’s reckless Operation Allies Welcome refugee resettlement program, U.S. Citizenship […]