A friend has some thoughts I wanted to pass on: He is so genuinely dumb as to not know that oil is a commodity and even if we "have enough" and "have plenty to sell" that does not insulate American consumers from a global oil...
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Not much going on this Sunday night, apart from the Masters (all hail Rory for defeating Enemy of the Blog Scottie Scheffler), Orban going down, and the world generally going.
Katie Rogers has an entertainingly wry piece [gift link] about Trump and Little Marco attending an UFC match while his Team of Cronies and Nepo Babies were thoroughly botching negotiations.
A great day for liberal democrats everywhere. Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary, a lodestar for MAGA culture warriors and right-wing populists in Europe, conceded defeat on Sunday in a general election, breaking the momentum of a global nationalist revival promoted by President Trump. Speaking...
Companies are so all-in for AI that there is a chip shortage and thus the prices for personal computers are skyrocketing. I built a PC for a colleague in January.
Well this makes sense: President Trump said that the U.S. Navy would begin blockading “any and all ships trying to enter or leave the Strait of Hormuz,” after peace talks.
You could want things done right, or alternatively you could delegate them to JD Vance: Vice President JD Vance said on Sunday that 21 hours of peace talks between the United States and Iran had failed to produce an agreement to end the war, leaving...
We elected this man, twice, which makes me want to resign my membership: Your textual exegesis is requested. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
The National Environmental Policy Act of 1970 was one of the truly groundbreaking laws in American history, creating the entire idea of citizen review of development projects for environmental impact..
Send three idiots to Pakistan, this is what you get. The top Iranian negotiator on Sunday appeared to leave the door open for future diplomacy after marathon peace negotiations between Iran and the United States failed to immediately produce an agreement to end the war....
This is the grave of both Marian Anderson and James DePriest. Born in 1897 in Philadelphia, Anderson grew up in the Black working class. Her father sold ice and later.
Our story begins almost 20 years ago, in 2006, when two ambitious 25 year old Hungarian baby lawyers got married. The bride, Judit Varga, had already joined Fidesz, the main.