Energy
Good Progress, Bad Structure
Why is the United States building a rival to the American oil patch?
Erick EricksonColumnist
09 / 04 / 26 · 3 min read
Features— 9 stories
Climate ChangeCornwall Alliance
Climate Gloom Dispelled by Light and Truth
The era of modern energy did not produce a dying civilization. It enabled longer, healthier, safer, and more productive lives.
PoliticsTim Graham
Who Is Renaming Everything on the Map? It’s Not Just Trump
Liberals can’t seriously object to renaming things. They just want to be the only people who get to rename things.
EconomyNate Jackson
Deportations Shrink the Labor Force, But...
President Trump is fixing an epic crisis of illegal immigration. That doesn’t mean there aren’t economic trade-offs for doing so.
More Jobs, Lower Prices, More Money in Your Pocket
The economy added 162,000 jobs in August as President Trump continues to help make life more affordable for Americans.
EducationHudson Baldwin
AI Is a Tool, Not a Solution
Schools are increasingly wrestling with effective policies to handle the radical technological innovation of artificial intelligence.
FaithEmmy Griffin
Court Blocks Christian Mother From Bringing Daughter to Church
Maine’s Supreme Court ruled in favor of the non-believing father, who claimed his daughter’s worrying about his soul was “psychological harm.”
EconomyBrian Mark Weber
‘Clever Maneuvers’ Don’t Solve Debt
The Federal Reserve will likely raise interest rates soon, which is necessary to tame inflation but will have ripple effects throughout the economy.
American Profiles of ValorMark Alexander
Profiles of Valor: LTC Robert G. Cole (USA)
“His courage was legendary, and his hold on his rugged parachutists is an example which few other commanders ever attained.”
FaithRon Helle
By His Stripes We Are Healed
While physical healing has been a part of the church’s ministry since the time of Christ, we fail to grasp the deeper meaning.
Right Opinion— today’s columnists
The Executive News Summary— from the editors
- ICE officer faces charges after lying under oathAn ICE officer was charged with lying to investigators about his shooting of a Venezuelan migrant. Reports say that Christian Castro had fired at…
- Dan Driscoll’s replacementAssistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works Adam Telle has been named by President Donald Trump to serve as acting secretary of the Army following…
- Missouri Supreme Court throws out newly drawn mapsRepublicans’ efforts to potentially eliminate a Democrat House seat in Missouri have been thwarted after the state Supreme Court unanimously ruled…
- Cueta updatesFollowing the invasion of 70,000 foreign migrants into Ceuta in late July, the Spanish people are out in the streets of Madrid and other towns across…
Short Cuts— in their own words
- From the Loony Left“[Murder] is preventable when it’s done by anyone. So whether it’s done by an illegal immigrant, a legal immigration, an American citizen — it literally does not matter because all of those are horrible crimes.” —CNN’s Abby Phillip“Masked troops in unmarked cars are still arresting…
- For the Record“I reject your guys’ sympathy, to be honest with you. There’s no way you guys are sorry. Not one of you guys have ever called me. Not one of you guys have ever reached out to me. Not one of you guys have ever sat there and seen me in the hallways and said, ‘Hey, sorry about your daughter.’…
- From the Reasonable Right“Remember, President Trump secured the border in 48 hours upon becoming president in his second term. So it wasn’t a big ordeal to secure the border. It was a choice that Biden and the Democrats made to have that open border, which allowed fentanyl to come across, which allowed lots of…
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