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As I get closer to senility in my 60's, I've found myself thinking about something that never really interested me back in high school civics class...Politics. More specifically...Why do Democrats and Republicans seem to dislike each other so much? Growing up, there were always disagreements between the parties. Republicans blamed Democrats. Democrats blamed Republicans. Elections came and went.…
Serious reporting with a smirk — because when a Bill being put in front of the Florida Legislature proposes putting together a task force to analyze Florida citizens “ patterns of life ,” the punchline may be a bit overdue. Florida lawmakers have proposed creating a permanent, statewide counterintelligence machine inside Florida Department of Law Enforcement — pushed in the House by Danny Alvarez…
By a Trump Supporter Who Believes Loyalty and Honesty Are Not Opposites... Let me tell you who I am before I tell you what I think — because in today’s political climate, context is everything. I voted for Donald Trump . Twice. And I would do it again. I watched crime rates fall in my community after his immigration policies took hold. I watched my retirement account grow under his economic…
In what reads like an uncomfortable merger of national security drama and bureaucratic brinkmanship, a Fox News scoop — traced to correspondent Jennifer Griffin of Fox News — says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic’s co-founder Dario Amodei an ultimatum at a high-stakes Pentagon meeting: remove company guardrails on autonomous lethal functions and mass domestic surveillance , or face…
Imagine a town fair where three vendors control every stall, share the same cash register, and politely agree not to undercut one another while telling you it’s “market efficiency.” Now imagine the town newspaper is owned by the same folks who run the stalls. That’s not a dystopian parable — it’s the modern anatomy of consolidation in business and media, with real consequences for prices,…
It's like the economy and the law are line dancing on a dance floor and the DJ keeps changing the music... Last week, the nation’s top bench pulled the rug out from under a major chunk of U.S. tariff policy — and the economy is politely, then not-so-politely, adjusting its dance moves. The ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States invalidated wide-ranging tariffs imposed under emergency…
(Very disturbing when the Department of Homeland Security issues a memorandum like this) The Department of Homeland Security quietly handed law enforcement a memo that sounds like it was written by a paranoid sitcom writer with a chemistry degree: domestic partners are — allegedly — increasingly turning to chemical and biological toxins as their weapon of choice. In plain English: beware the…
When protests boil over, the world watches the moment the first push becomes a shove — and sometimes a life is lost. Marches, rallies, and street confrontations have always been a powerful way to demand change. But they can also become flash-points for injuries, arrests, and unintended escalation. There’s a different lever available: Personal Sanctions — targeted, financial pressure on the…
If you thought AI data centers got their mojo from lots of coffee and venture-capital-funded smugness, think again: soon they might run on the retired stern glow of a decommissioned aircraft carrier. Texas startup HGP Intelligent Energy has asked the U.S. Department of Energy for a loan guarantee to repurpose two retired U.S. Navy nuclear reactors and power an AI data center project at Oak Ridge —…
If you thought 2025 was the year property taxes quietly stewed on the back burner, surprise: next year looks like a full-service tax buffet! Lawmakers across the country have been wrestling with homeowners’ fury at ballooning property bills, and 2026 promises more drama — from carefully targeted exemptions to full-throated proposals to eliminate property taxes altogether. Manish Bhatt of the Tax…
