Back to the Future

It seems like everyone is talking about AI. It’s on the news. It’s in every newspaper. “AI is taking over the world,” the media headlines declare. “AI replaces 12 million jobs.” “AI wins Miss America Pageant.” AI might be writing this right now. There’s no way to know. 

Mercury: The Miracle Metal That Tries to Kill Everyone

Mercury was once the miracle metal. Doctors prescribed it. Gold miners depended on it. Hat makers worked with it. NASA even launched it into space as the propellant for experimental ion engines. Then science caught up. The same liquid metal that advanced civilization was quietly attacking the human brain, poisoning rivers, and climbing the food chain. Mercury is a reminder that some of humanity’s greatest innovations come with a simple question we often ask too late: What if the miracle is actually the warning?

When It Rains, It Pours

Strange weather we’ve been having lately. When I say “lately,” I could go back decades, but I’ll stick to just the past five years or so. Do you recall the winter storm that hit the central and southern US, including Texas and northern Mexico in February of 2021? It was called “Winter Storm Uri,” and at least 240 people died because of it. A strong Arctic air mass plunged deep into the southern US. More than 9 million people lost power while facing record-breaking cold, snow and ice.

Turley: US Supreme Court rulings were a BONANZA for Trump

The Supreme Court hands the Trump administration two major wins on immigration, including the authority to end temporary deportation protections for immigrants from countries like Syria and Haiti. Jonathan Turley and Shannon Bream join ‘The Faulkner Focus’ to weigh in.

Maybe It’s Time to Retire the Reflecting Pool

For more than a century, Americans have spent millions of dollars fighting nature at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Built in 1922 as a grand architectural feature, the pool transformed a former Potomac floodplain into a shallow, artificial body of water that has suffered recurring algae blooms, leaks, sediment buildup, and costly repairs ever since. The latest maintenance controversy isn’t a new problem—it’s simply the latest chapter in a hundred-year struggle to maintain a giant pond where nature never intended one to exist. Instead of pouring more taxpayer dollars into perpetual repairs, perhaps it’s time to ask a different question: what if we reclaimed the 15 acres occupied by the Reflecting Pool and returned that space to the public? Expanded lawns, shaded gathering areas, memorial gardens, event space, and recreational areas could serve millions of visitors far better than a body of water that most people can only walk around and photograph. Sometimes the best way to solve a century-old engineering problem is not to engineer harder—it’s to admit the original idea has outlived its usefulness.

The Forgotten Reset Beneath Lake Huron

What if our ancestors really did survive a global catastrophe?

Beneath the waters of Lake Huron lies the Alpena–Amberley Ridge, a prehistoric hunting landscape that once connected Michigan and Ontario. Today it sits submerged and largely forgotten. To some researchers, it is evidence of sophisticated hunters tracking migrating caribou 9,000 years ago. To others, it raises a far bigger question: how much of humanity’s ancient story now lies underwater?

The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis remains controversial, but the idea is difficult to ignore. If a cosmic event helped trigger dramatic climate shifts, floods, and environmental upheaval near the end of the Ice Age, what would the world have looked like a few thousand years later? Perhaps not a world of lost super-civilizations, but one of survivors rebuilding, adapting, and passing down memories of a world forever changed.

The Alpena–Amberley Ridge doesn’t prove the theory. What it does prove is that entire landscapes, ecosystems, and chapters of human history can disappear beneath the waves. The real mystery may not be what we’ve found, but what remains hidden.

A Conservative Audit of the Left’s Ruling Assumptions: The mirror they refuse to look into

There is a particular kind of intellectual dishonesty that does not know it is dishonest. It wraps itself in the language of compassion, hides its power hunger behind slogans of liberation, and mistakes its own cultural preferences for universal moral law. American progressivism, in its current form as embodied by the Democrat Party, has become a nearly perfect specimen of this condition.

Three Knots, No Excuses: The Lost Skill That Still Saves Lives

There was a time—not that long ago—when a man who couldn’t tie a knot was considered about as useful as a screen door on a submarine. Today, we’ve got people carrying $1,200 smartphones, satellite GPS, and enough titanium gadgets clipped to their belt to look like a walking REI catalog… and they can’t tie a loop that won’t slip under load.

Tinfoil Hats, Conspiracy Theories and Truth

Have you ever been accused of “wearing a tinfoil hat?”  Those who blindly accept every official narrative of the mainstream press, the government, the healthcare industry, and the culture at large, often like to ridicule people who have doubts or questions as “conspiracy theorists.” They mock them, saying they’re wearing “tinfoil hats.”