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Yes, Test Our Nukes
Donald Trump has trampled on another taboo, and it's a good thing.
The president said in a Truth Social post that the United States will begin "immediately" testing our "Nuclear Weapons" on "an equal basis" with Russia and China. It's not clear what this means exactly. Trump could be referring to the delivery systems that carry nuclear ...Read more
America's Gambling Problem
Terry Rozier of the Miami Heat has built a respectable NBA career, averaging about 20 points per game some years.
In all likelihood, though, the Miami Heat point guard will now be remembered less for what he did on the court than as another data point in how runaway sports betting is corrupting major athletics.
Rozier stands accused of ...Read more
The Rare-Earths Travesty
In the 1960s, the conservative intellectual James Burnham wrote a book arguing that the decline of Western civilization was a self-imposed choice.
The volume, famously called "Suicide of the West," desperately needs to be updated with an epilogue about the U.S. dependence on China for the mining and processing of rare earths, which ranks as ...Read more
New Jersey's Wind Debacle
In one of his classic New Jersey ballads, Bruce Springsteen sings of the sun "rising over them refinery towers."
If New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy had gotten his way, the Boss would need to update the lyric to rhapsodize about enormous wind turbines looming on the horizon instead.
Murphy's obsession with wind power is one of the reasons that ...Read more






























