This Chemist May Have Cracked America’s Rare Earth Problem Authored by Eva Fu & Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), One flash is all it takes. That’s how James Tour said the United States can tackle China’s rare earth dominance. James Tour, chemist and nanotechnologist at Houston’s Rice University, in Scottsdale, Ariz All he needs is discarded electronics—of which the United States has mountains. And from […]

Herzog Admits A Netanyahu Pardon Would Spark Outrage, Destabilize Israeli Society Israeli President Isaac Herzog acknowledged this week that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request for a pardon in his corruption trial is generating significant debate and division within Israeli society. Herzog said that Netanyahu’s formal petition for the charges and case to be dismissed “will be addressed with full care and precision,” and […]

Republican Matt Van Epps Wins Tennessee Special Election Republicans will hold onto Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District despite a push by Democrats to flip the deep-red seat, the Associated Press projected Tuesday, as Republican candidate Matt Van Epps was set to defeat Democrat Aftyn Behn. The former state commissioner and Army helicopter pilot defeated the Democratic nominee, Aftyn Behn, with 53.9 percent of the vote in the […]

Energy Secretary: Backup Generators At Commercial Sites Could Unlock 35 Nuclear Plants Energy Secretary Chris Wright has floated an unusual but very creative plan to quickly expand U.S. grid capacity: tapping the industrial diesel generators already sitting at data centers, big-box retailers, and other commercial sites. The proposal comes as multiple regional grids strain under the explosive power demand driven by the data-center […]

Pentagon Seeks To Explain A Little-Known, Forgotten ‘Forever War’ Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The US Department of War insisted on Tuesday that it’s not waging a “forever war” in Somalia despite the fact that the Trump administration has shattered the record for annual airstrikes in the country. Liam Cosgrove, a reporter for ZeroHedge, noted during a Pentagon press briefing on Tuesday that the US has launched 101 […]

“Power Up America” Needs 500,000 Highly Skilled Workers We’ve already pointed out that money isn’t the problem in America’s unprecedented data center construction buildout. Big Tech’s AI capex splurge is effectively endless thanks to “circle-jerk” vendor-financing schemes, and land is plentiful. The real bottleneck? First, it was power – or rather, the lack of it – as the grid struggles to hook up hyperscalers sprinting toward […]

Why Healthcare Is In A Death Spiral: Follow The Money Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, If each of these is not a part of any ‘reform,’ than all that is being done is pouring money into a monopolizing cartel, just in a slightly different way. Unbeknownst to those of us with little inside knowledge of the complex financial plumbing of the US healthcare system, healthcare is in a death spiral that will surprise […]

U.S. Navy’s “Doomsday” Aircraft Vanishes Over Atlantic On Mysterious Mission A Boeing E-6B Mercury operated by the U.S. Navy, one of the service’s airborne nuclear command posts commonly known as the “Doomsday plane,” disappeared from civilian flight-tracking platforms Friday morning while operating over the Atlantic Ocean, according to tracking data, the Daily Mail reports. One of just 16 specialized ‘Doomsday planes,’ […]

National Teachers Union Training Members To Promote LGBT Ideology, Parents Group Says Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The nation’s largest teachers union is planning a workshop on “Advancing LGBTQ+ Justice,” prompting criticism from a conservative national parent group that obtained the training handouts and released them to the public ahead of the session. Third grade literacy instructor […]

Alabama Zoning Commission Rejects Proposal For Muslim School After Town Erupts In Fury A Hoover, Alabama zoning commission unanimously rejected a rezoning request Monday that would have allowed a Muslim K-12 academy to relocate to an office building in the Birmingham suburb, capping a contentious public hearing that packed roughly 170 residents into the room and erupted with heated testimony over concerns of growing Islamification […]

She Saved Her Life. 7-Eleven Fired Her Authored by John R. Lott Jr. via RealClearPolitics, Stephanie Dilyard is lucky to be alive. Yet last week, 7-Eleven fired the 25-year-old after she used her gun to save her own life. Private companies have every right to set rules for employee behavior, but many corporate policies that require workers to remain passive and comply with criminals’ demands rest on a deeply mistaken view of […]

Chinese Magnet-Makers Find Loopholes To Dodge Beijing’s Rare-Earth Export Controls Chinese rare-earth magnet makers are quietly developing legal workarounds to Beijing’s tightened export rules, aiming to keep sales to Western customers moving even as China’s new licensing regime slows or blocks shipments of restricted materials, according to the Wall Street Journal. After Beijing imposed export controls this spring—part of […]

Energy Affordability Has Become The Kitchen-Table Issue Of The 2020s Authored by William Murray via RealClearEnergy, A not-so-glowing attribute of American democracy is the ability of voters to act shocked and blame whoever is in charge when things don’t go well. So, it makes twisted sense that, as 2026 approaches, the Trump administration should pay the political price for bad energy policies inherited from the Biden […]

Democrat Mayor Asks For Federal Help After Mass Shooting At Child’s Birthday Party In a surprising act of political awareness, Democrat Mayor of Stockton, CA, Christina Fugazi, announced her intention this week to ask the federal government for manpower to stop rising crime after a horrific mass shooting at a child’s birthday party resulted in the deaths of 4 people and 11 wounded.  Though the investigation is ongoing, officials […]

The AI Challenge: Palantir, The Pope, And Paul Kingsnorth Authored by Peter Berkowitz via RealClearPolitics, As artificial intelligence extends to every corner of contemporary life, it brings remarkable capabilities and opportunities – along with dangers that strike at the foundations of individual freedom, human dignity, and the common good. Many incline to either extol AI’s blessings or condemn it as a curse. The savvy who […]

The New York Times Busts WaPo Over Bogus Hit Piece On Hegseth The Washington Post dropped a bombshell last week, claiming Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered a second missile strike on a drug boat in September to make sure survivors were killed. “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. ‘The order was to kill everybody,’ one of them said,” […]

‘Got Gold’ For The Coming Reckoning? Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “China has been understating its gold reserves by possibly a factor of 10. I believe this is the biggest story in world finance. The West is either asleep at the wheel or ignoring it.” – Dominic Frisby The Financial Times reported that China is under-reporting their gold reserves, subversively hiding the fact they have accumulated […]

Gas Prices Hit Four-Year Low, Forcing Even CNN To Admit Affordability Squeeze Easing President Trump’s Operation Affordability has focused on lower energy costs for consumers this year. The administration’s aggressive “drill baby, drill” posture has translated into rising domestic supply, sending the national average for gasoline to the brink of the psychologically important $3 level. The latest data from the American Automobile […]

America’s Feast-Or-Famine Reality… When $100,000 Feels Like Poverty Authored by Matt Smith via InternationalMan.com, As an entrepreneur, my income has always been feast or famine. For years at the start of a new company, I would earn literally nothing. Now sure, employees had to be paid, and all the business had to move forward, but I took no compensation. I survived on savings. Luckily I had some. Made from the years of […]

Top 5 Supreme Court Cases To Watch In December Authored by Sam Dorman and Stacy Robinson via The Epoch Times, The month of December is set to be a big one for the Supreme Court, which has scheduled oral arguments in hot-button issues such as President Donald Trump’s ability to fire people, campaign spending, and the death penalty. Its eventual decisions are expected to better define Congress’s power, while creating […]

Duffy Purges 3,000 Trucking Schools In Sweeping Crackdown On Migrant CDL Crisis The U.S. Transportation Department is now moving aggressively to correct the non-domiciled commercial driver’s license (CDL) crisis created under the Biden-Harris regime years, a period when these CDLs were effectively handed out like candy to unqualified migrant drivers, fueling a wave of carnage on America’s highways. The latest enforcement action […]

No More Data Centers In Largest US Power Grid Unless They Can Be Reliably Served: Market Monitor By Ethan Howland of UtilityDive The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should tell the PJM Interconnection that it can only add large data centers to its system when they can be reliably served, according to a complaint filed Tuesday at the agency by the grid operator’s market monitor. PJM is considering proposing to allow […]

Nor’easter Dumps Snow Across Interior Northeast – Another Winter Threat Looms A powerful nor’easter traversed the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Tuesday, mostly bringing rain to the I-95 corridor from Washington, D.C., to New York City. Farther inland, however, from Scranton to Albany and up into Maine, colder air collided with moisture, blanketing these areas with accumulating snow. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy issued a state of […]

Pfizer mRNA Influenza Vaccine ‘Failed’ In Clinical Trial Among Seniors: FDA Commissioner Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Pfizer’s experimental influenza vaccine will not receive approval absent new data proving that it protects seniors against the flu, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration suggested in a new interview. A woman wears a facemask as she walks by the Pfizer world […]

Former EU Foreign Policy Chief Arrested In Fraud Investigation, Homes & Offices Raided Former European Commission vice-president and ex-head of the EU’s foreign service, Federica Mogherini, has been detained as Belgian authorities investigate alleged misuse of European Union funds, Belgian and French media reports have revealed Tuesday. Homes and offices are reportedly being raided in connection, though no formal charges were […]