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AI, China, and the Collapse of Digital Trust: The Cyber Reckoning Facing America

January 16, 2026 1:00 pmJanuary 16, 2026 1:01 pm

As 2026 begins, America is staring down a long-overdue cybersecurity reckoning. What was once dismissed as an IT nuisance or a post-breach cleanup task has hardened into a national liability. Cyber risk now runs straight through the economy, politics, and...

California Governor Gavin Newsom’s Fairytale State of the State

January 8, 2026 3:56 pmJanuary 11, 2026 9:57 pm

“Was that a State of the State address, or the opening act of a campaign speech?” California State Senator Tony Strickland (R-Huntington Beach) asked, following Governor Gavin Newsom’s final State of the State address. “Californians want honesty and accountability, not...

U.S. Energy Shift Offers Economic Hope to Global South

October 17, 2025 7:38 amOctober 17, 2025 7:38 am

For decades growth strategies in poorer countries of the Global South – Asia, Africa and South America – leaned heavily on energy-intensive industries powered by fossil fuels and, in a handful of cases, by nuclear power. Cities grew, factories rose,...

Trump Floats Lead Trial Balloon, Says US May Accept 600,000 Chinese Students Into Universities

August 26, 2025 1:22 pmAugust 26, 2025 1:22 pm

During an Oval Office press conference yesterday, President Trump told reporters that the United States is prepared to accept 600,000 Chinese students as part of his ongoing trade negotiations with Beijing. “We’re going to allow their students to come in....

Choosing the Positive Reality of Hydrocarbons Over ‘Green’ Fantasies

August 13, 2025 11:13 amAugust 13, 2025 11:34 am

British multinational BP has announced its largest oil and gas discovery in 25 years in Brazil’s Santos Basin. By 2030, daily production is expected to be 2.3 to 2.5 million barrels of oil equivalent, which leaves little doubt that the...

Did Microsoft Hand China Front Row Access to the Pentagon?

July 29, 2025 1:38 pmJuly 29, 2025 1:38 pm

Let’s set the stage: Imagine Fort Knox, doors flung wide open, while a tour group from the Chinese Communist Party strolls through the vault with full access badges. Ridiculous? Sure. But swap out gold for data, and you’re not far...

The Great ‘Zero-Carbon Renewables’ Deception

July 21, 2025 11:13 amJuly 21, 2025 11:23 am

Simple narratives are employed to seduce a populace, and none is more seductive today than the promise of “carbon-free” energy. In California, a state often touted as a green pioneer, Gov. Gavin Newsom celebrated an “achievement” whose announcement was free...