Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
Gatestone Institute senior fellow Gordon Chang discusses China’s push for ‘digital sovereignty’ and the threat of Chinese-made products slipping into U.S. government procurement supply chains.
There are, conservatively, a trillion problems a day that arise in the United States. I would, as a conservative, like government involved in as few of them as possible.
But because government at all levels is so huge? It crowds out all the private spaces – and with them the perception that private solutions are possible.
The horse didn’t disappear when the automobile arrived. It simply stopped being essential. Artificial intelligence may be forcing the legal profession into a similar reckoning. When a $20 monthly subscription can research case law, organize evidence, draft motions, and explain legal procedure, the age of the billable hour may finally be facing its greatest challenge. Somewhere, an attorney is still billing in six-minute increments while AI has already finished the paperwork.
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I knew something was wrong when we walked into our hotel room. Namely, because our toilet had blinking lights.
I called the front desk.
“Hello. There’s something wrong with my toilet.”
“What’s wrong, sir?”
“There are lights on it.”
LGBTQ+ activists are upset that Florida placed age restrictions on watching sex shows. That’s because the + stands for pedo. Stopping Drag Queen Story Hours and the like makes the job more difficult for groomers.
In 1935, Smedley Butler warned that “War is a racket.” Twenty-six years later, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned Americans about the growing power of the military-industrial complex. Nearly a century later, their warnings deserve another look. As America replenishes stockpiles from Ukraine and Iran while asking Ford and other manufacturers to help produce more weapons, one uncomfortable question remains: when every missile launched becomes another billion-dollar contract, who is really winning? Soldiers still pay in blood. Taxpayers still pay the bill. But someone always profits.
For the past two years I have watched politicians, pundits, and people who clearly skipped statistics class weaponize the same recycled set of misleading numbers about data centers and water use. AOC brought a jar of cloudy well water to a congressional hearing and implied a nearby data center poisoned it. Spoiler: it was construction sediment. The same sediment you get when they dig up the road in front of your house. Same physics. Different agenda. But facts are inconvenient when you have a camera and a talking point.
Much has rightly been made of the monstrous amounts of resources – water, electricity, land – data centers use.
Data centers that are now being built, we are told, to feed the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Data centers are being called “data centers?” Because the far more truthful “surveillance centers” and “human replacement centers” would be an even tougher sell.
Can America’s newest graduates explain the difference between a two-stroke and a four-stroke engine? Probably not—and that’s the point. Somewhere along the way, we traded shop class for screen time and mechanical know-how for digital convenience. This isn’t really about lawn mowers or chainsaws. It’s about what happens when a society can build apps but struggles to understand the machines that keep the lights on, the food growing, and the country moving. Maybe it’s time to ask whether practical knowledge still deserves a place in a modern education.
For the ever-increasing percentage of the population too young to get the reference in the headline? It’s a gentle alteration of the opening to a very old Superman show. Yes, Youngsters, people used to watch pre-timed television. In black-and-white, even.
I bought a flip phone. One without a camera or a touchscreen. Without AI, facial recognition, video chatting, GPS, or the ability to flush my toilet from the other room. It’s a “stupid” phone. A device with the same level of intelligence as a member of Congress.
Corporate tax law – at every government level in the US – is inordinately ludicrous. A titanic mess of subsidies, deductions and loopholes. Written by Big Business – for Big Business.
‘Varney & Co.’ host Stuart Varney discusses Apple’s price increases, AOC’s calls for antitrust action, Big Tech regulation and the broader debate over American innovation and economic success.
Artificial intelligence may change civilization—but history suggests investors are about to relearn an old lesson. Railroads, electricity, and the Internet all transformed the world, yet each left a trail of bankrupt companies and shattered fortunes before the winners emerged. Is AI different, or are we simply watching another speculative bubble inflate? Buckle up, buttercup. The technology is probably here to stay. The valuations? That’s another story.
Section 230 is perhaps the greatest Big Government crony gift to Big Business in human history. Big Tech can do…whatever it wants. And can’t be sued by anyone for anything.
Those of us who have long sought its end were last week heartened a bit by this….
From what has thus far been presented to me? I am not a fan of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Not because I am a Luddite. Not because I am anti-technology (though I am swiftly getting there).
But because I am pro-human. And everything about AI screams anti-human.
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.
I’m pleased to report that, as far as we know, I’m not dead. I make this statement because a lot of messages have been arriving in my inbox asking questions like:
“Why hasn’t Sean been writing lately?” And, “Where is the daily column?” And, “Is Sean dead? Did he get hit by a Mack truck? Where the [bleepity bleep] is he!!!?”
Bloomberg’s Bailey Lipschultz and David Bauer, head of equity capital markets Americas at JPMorgan, discuss SpaceX’s success on the company’s second day of trading after a record IPO Friday. Bauer said he sees a real ‘investment thesis’ driving SpaceX as the company contributes to reindustrializing America with ‘new ecosystems’ and the emergence of space as an industry.