President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is on a mission to “fix” the despisedstart/stop technology in newer cars that shuts down a vehicle’s engine when stopped in traffic or at a red light in the name of conserving fuel and saving the planet...
It also means that some policymakers are demanding bad policy because they’re relying on incomplete data.
The Marshall Project reported that 31 percent of the 18,000 law enforcement agencies across the U.S. failed to report crime data to the FBI’s national database after transitioning to a new data collection system, according to the latest statistics from the FBI...
Two congressional Democrats seeking to win "toss-up" Senate contests in states won by President Donald Trump are co-sponsoring legislation that would eliminate female-only spaces and infringe on the right of girls and women to compete against only members of their own sex in sports.
Democratic Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff and Democratic Michigan Rep. Haley Stevens, who voted against legislation to bar biological males from women's sports earlier this year, are backing the Equality Act, a bill that would make "gender identity" a protected class under federal anti-discrimination law.
Previous posts (here, here, and here) have detailed how a second-hander company, trying to be all things to all people, and living off of special government subsidies, was a liability parading as an asset.
Sunnova was never profitable, and the only winners among the countless thousands involved with the company were founder and CEO John Berger (inflated salary and cashouts) and some other executives paid for misallocating resources...Notice “by the numbers” above.
Unprofitable companies try to chalk up moral victories, while hiding the bottom lines and the analysis behind them. Enron was great at that–so was Berger’s Sunnova.
Stephen Colbert 1964 - Television host ("The Colbert Report")
1607 - An expedition led by Captain Christopher Newport arrived at Jamestown, Virginia. The passengers went ashore the next day and this site became the first permanent settlement English colony in America.
1821 - The first practical printing press was patented in the U.S. by Samuel Rust.
1888 - Slavery was abolished in Brazil.
1897 - Guglielmo Marconi sent the world's first wireless communication over open sea.
1954 - U.S. President Eisenhower signed into law the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Act.
1985 - A confrontation between Philadelphia authorities and the radical group MOVE ended as police dropped an explosive onto the group's headquarters. Eleven people died in the fire that resulted.
I'd like to update you on some things that I think are going well, and some things that we can, and will, do better.
The workforce has been working overtime on task force operations to remove dangerous illegal aliens from the country. The work continues. The message is clear. If you came here illegally to prey on our citizens, your days here are numbered. These removal and incarceration operations will dramatically change the crime landscape in the country when combined with the administration's laser-focus on sealing the border shut. Expect these operations to ramp up, not slow down.
Your town’s zoning board may be the only thing standing between the Chinese Communist Party and critical US resources. That’s not hyperbole — it’s already happening.
We’ve all seen the headlines: More and more U.S. land is being bought up by foreign nationals. It’s an alarming trend — one that should concern every American.
Foreign adversaries, often with ties to the Chinese Communist Party, are purchasing U.S. farms and land. While Chinese-owned agricultural land remains a small piece of the pie of the country’s total agricultural land, the amount has increased significantly in recent years.
If you came here illegally to prey on our citizens, your days here are numbered.
These removal and incarceration operations will dramatically change the crime landscape in the country when combined with the administration’s laser-focus on sealing the border shut.
Expect these operations to ramp up, not slow down.
Crimes against children are a priority for the workforce.
Operation “Restoring Justice,” where we locked up child predators and 764 subjects, in every part of the country, is just the beginning...
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) is urging the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) to permit the administration to end a parole pipeline, created by former President Joe Biden, that imported more than half a million migrants to American communities.
“Were about 10-15% of the way through reviewing all 4,500 of these documents — The early story appears to be that the Governor Janet T. Mills administration has been using taxpayer dollars like the USAID Fund.
They've been using no bid contracts to funnel money to nongovernmental organizations.
And those NGOs are run by individuals who are friendly with their reelection efforts, friendly with what the administration is doing.
And this money includes, by the way, federal dollars, Covid dollars, even emergency funding for Lewiston shooting response has been funneled to friendly NGOs.”
Something to think about with the Truman’s deployment.
1. She departed home port September 23, 2024
2. A sailor died onboard from a medical emergency on October 1st.
3. Entered Straits of Gibraltar November 25, 2024
4. Transitted Suez Canal December 12, 2024
5. Had an F/A-18 Shot down by friendly fire December 22, 2024
6. Collided with a merchant vessel while at anchor on February 12, 2025
7. New CO February 20,2025
8. Conducted evasive maneuvers due to being shot at with missiles- that required a DDG to use her CIWS due to how close the missile got, losing another F/A-18 over the side in progress on April 28, 2025
9. Arresting wire #2 snaps while recovering F/A-18’s losing their 3rd jet in 4 months, and the second in a week on May 6, 2025
It is May 8, 2025 and this strike group has been deployed 7 months with no return in sight. They are exhausted. They’ve been in constant combat operations since December, and the crew is tired. The equipment is tired.
We (media and speculators) can sit here and talk about how “Today’s Navy is soft” and “These kids can’t hack it” all we want. But a US carrier has not conducted 6 months of non stop COMBAT operations since the 20 teens. We have not had a situation where these young men and women are having to brace for shock in a real life situation for the first time in their lives, in a very very long time.
I understand that in Vietnam, and the early days of the Gulf War’s, this was standard. But it’s no longer standard. There is no uniform we’re fighting. There is no nation we’re fighting. There’s no clearly defined enemy anymore. It’s time to sit back, and pray for these kids and what they’re going through.
Having been shot at by Houthi’s in 2016, I understand. I know what that is like. I know the panic and fear that sets in. These are no longer errant MiG’s, or RPG’s or 1970’s missiles being shot at us. There are extremely high speed, low flying missiles that have very real chance of hitting, and killing ships and sailors.
Let’s think about this before we criticize the Navy of today.
Now, frustrated business owners and locals are weighing whether to abandon downtown altogether,blaming the Dem-run city's leadership and law enforcement for failing to curb the chaos and restore a sense of safety. 'This isn't a race issue, this isn't a political issue, this is a safety issue,' David Lopez, a local business owner, told Fox News, noting how chaos right outside is a constant occurrence, posing extreme danger for the surrounding community...
California Governor Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers are bracing for a $10 billion budget shortfall — even before federal spending cuts undertaken by the Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Newsom and the Democrats took a near-$100 billion surplus in 2022– partly fueled by federal coronavirus funds under the Biden administration — to a near-$50 billion deficit in 2024.
Three Rafale jets were shot down plus at least one Sukhoi and one MIG plus a large Israel reconnaissance drone were destroyed by Pakistan's Air Force...
Pakistan was operating over Pakistani air space when its J-10 jet (Chinese but co-produced in Pakistan) launched Chinese PL-15 air to air missiles.
The PL-15 is China's answer to the US AIM-120D AMRAAM (Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile) which is an all weather, beyond visual range (BVR) missile. It has a range of 200 to 300 km (124 to 186 miles).
By way of contrast, the French MICA air to air missile has a significantly shorter range, around 60 to 80 km (37 to 50 miles).
Thus the Chinese PL-15 as a stand off weapon has a significant advantage. It seems that paid off in the recent encounter... Russia also has a BVR air to air missile, the R-77 which is being upgraded...
What happened to India in the latest firefight is bad news for NATO, which appears to be falling behind technologically and it is a warning to the United States to speed up development of an AMRAAM replacement...
Now, frustrated business owners and locals are weighing whether to abandon downtown altogether, blaming the Dem-run city's leadership and law enforcement for failing to curb the chaos and restore a sense of safety.
Three Rafale jets were shot down plus at least one Sukhoi and one MIG plus a large Israel reconnaissance drone were destroyed by Pakistan's Air Force...