December 2025

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 […]

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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