Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
President Donald John Trump is a Rolling Stones fan. When they started out, they asked John Lennon and Paul McCartney to write a song for them. The duo said yes and the Stones had their first hit in Britain, I Wanna Be Your Man.
South Dakota stands at an energy crossroads. The explosive growth of data center development, driven by the artificial intelligence revolution and the insatiable demand for cloud computing, is converging with longstanding agricultural and industrial energy needs to strain the state’s grid in ways that cannot be managed through inertia or wishful thinking.
One of the three South Dakota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) billets is up for election in 2026 (commissioners are elected in partisan elections to staggered six-year terms).
Let’s examine some questions that should be asked of PUC candidates this year.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry and Commonwealth LNG chair Ben Dell discuss the $13 billion LNG project on ‘The Claman Countdown.’
He has the oil, the military and the corporate wizards on his side
Landing in Beijing with his secretary of state, his treasury secretary and the No. 1 executives of the top 30 corporations in America, President Trump received the royal treatment.
Foundation for Defense of Democracies founder Clifford May discusses President Donald Trump’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Iranian conflict on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’
The Heritage Foundation’s Victoria Coates assesses whether the United States needs Chinese assistance in the U.S-Iran conflict on ‘The Bottom Line.’
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum discusses the push to suspend the federal gas tax and President Donald Trump’s upcoming summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping on ‘Fox & Friends.’
Yes, fuel prices are high, but the war with Iran is only a small part of the pain at the pump. Why has the government spent the past half century quietly building so many costs into the petroleum industry, that the added cost burden of even a brief war is the straw that breaks the camel’s back?
‘Barron’s Roundtable’ panelists discuss three things investors should keep in mind.
Don Surber covers the media’s offerings this week with a precision in mockery that only he can execute. It may take you a moment to figure out where he’s coming from, but when you do, you’ll be better informed than if you’d watched mainstream media 24/7.
Fox News correspondent Steve Harrigan reports on the new developments out of Venezuela on ‘Special Report.’
New York state’s tax policy is exiling millionaires to Florida. California’s craziness is banishing billionaires.
But Illinois has them beat with its climate change laws that are forcing two-thirds of an electric plant in Elwood to take the advice of Suzy Bogguss and drive South with the one they love.
The chattering class has once again been shocked by President Trump’s out-of-the box actions. For years, we’ve been led to believe in the oft-repeated international consensus among “experts” that Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz and has a stranglehold on the world’s hydrocarbon-powered economy.
Even though Tesla has exhibited supremacy in electric vehicle development, the EV revolution got off to a bad start due to a few isolated, but well publicized, reports of car and cell phone battery fires. Hurting worse was the lack of conformity for charging stations/plugs. China and European car makers are expanding their increasingly better EV models while Ford, GM and Honda, being unable to catch-up with the technology, scaled back their battery-tech programs after Trump relaxed federal mandates.
South Dakota’s 101st session of its state legislature recently completed work and adjourned last month, with a number of unresolved matters carrying forward for further work and deliberation.
The top 12 issues that continue to be debated are discussed below, with the ranking order determined by estimated public interest and salience. Each of the issues presented concludes with a positional statement on the issue from a traditionalist constitutional and fiscal conservative standpoint.
The modern “15-Minute City” can provide some wonderful benefits; however it also provides increased opportunity for politicians to control the people.
What is FERC, you ask?:
“FERC’s Mission: Assist consumers in obtaining reliable, safe, secure, and economically efficient energy services at a reasonable cost through appropriate regulatory and market means, and collaborative efforts.”
“Privatize the profit – socialize the costs?” You betcha.
Utility companies are their own personalized legal black hole. Private companies own them – but get all sorts of government cronyism to aid and abet their profit making and taking.
It’s a quintessential example of the Diet Fascism that now dominates the US.
That rascally rodent, Punxsutawney Phil projected six more weeks of winter, something which should have expired on Monday, but Tuesday sure was cold as well. We know that the groundhog’s projections are scientific, because the Weather Channel sends very scientifically-minded Meteorologist Jen Carfagno to cover it. Alas! Not only did we not get an early …