Posts on Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Another Battery Catastrophe
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Wind and solar energy are both intermittent and weather-dependent, while our needs for electricity are constant. How, then, to make them viable? Batteries! What batteries? Big ones. Do such batteries exist? Not exactly.
Australia’s left-wing government has been trying to transition from coal power to wind and solar, without success. Most recently, a giant battery facility at Waratah, not yet in operation, has suffered a catastrophic failure and will be off-line indefinitely. The facility is huge:
The one-billion-dollar Waratah Super Battery is rated at 850 MW (1680 MWh) — in other words, it can deliver 850 megawatts of power for about two hours before it’s a flat battery.
Somehow, two hours doesn’t
A 2,500-foot bridge partially collapsed in China following a landslide on the mountain where it was built.
The Hongqi Bridge was only just completed earlier this year.
It was part of a highway that links Sichuan and the nation’s heartland with Tibet
Harrowing video of the incident shows the landslide pounding rubble onto the bridge, with the span collapsing under the weight and impact.[snip]
The Hongqi bridge was completed earlier this year to create an easier connection between Sichuan and the Tibetan Plateau.
Less than five months ago, Associate Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas warned that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. CASA, limiting lower courts’ use of nationwide injunctions, failed to address loopholes open to abuse by left-wing activists and judges.(snip)g, the two senior justices have been proven right. (snip Yale Law School Professor E. Garrett West praised the Supreme Court’s CASA decision as “a brilliant vindication of the formalist argument that says universal injunctions are totally impermissible” under America’s constitutional framework. However, he noted, “the bad news is that it practically will make almost no difference with respect to the functional problems created by the universal injunction.”\
A protester at the chaotic protest against Turning Point USA at the University of California-Berkeley was charged with assault and robbery after a brawl broke out, cops said.
Jihad Dphrepaulezz, 25, allegedly snatched a chain necklace from an attendee, sparking a vicious fight that left the victim covered in blood. The unidentified second combatant was also arrested but later released. “Officers determined that one of the men—Jihad Dphrepaulezz … had stolen the other man’s chain from around his neck. The other man was attempting to get his chain back from Dphrepaulezz,” a spokesperson from the Berkeley Police Department told The Post. Aerial footage from FOX 2 appears
President Trump gave an extensive interview to Laura Ingraham, one of the primary advocates for the Ron DeSantis alligator emoji tribe. Ingraham did her best passive aggressive routine, positioning herself to antagonize yet appeal to the base of the DeSantis voter`(snip).There is currently a rather extensive political operation afoot that has been rolling out for the better part of this year. The objective of the coalition is to fracture the MAGA base in a similar fashion to how the Tea Party movement was compromised in 2012.
In March 2016, the same group now undermining President Trump and the America First movement, assembled in Sea Island, Georgia to plot how
If you come for Donald J. Trump, you better not miss.
That’s a lesson the BBC just learned the hard way.
The Beeb went after Trump, slurring him with vicious lies. It used its flagship current-affairs show to defame him as a fascistic monster who stirred up violence at the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
And the result of these outrageous libels has been not the fall of Trump, but the fall of the BBC.
The Beeb thought it could drag down the leader of the free world — but ended up dragging its own reputation into the gutter, burying itself in its own Trump-phobic BS. It is hands-down the worst
For reasons known only to herself, former First Lady Michelle Obama has been on an extended whinefest the last few months, consistently moaning about her oh-so-awful life as a multi-millionaire and complaining about her past treatment from the press, who in reality treated her like some sort of goddess despite the fact that she is bitter, unsympathetic, and utterly entitled.
In one of her recent rants, she went after Trump’s plans to (self-finance) a White House ballroom, which would serve the nation long after he is gone from office. The horror! Like many Democrats who have been acting as if the East Wing of the People’s House
First and foremost, on this Veterans Day, we honor the courage, sacrifice, and steadfast devotion of our vets; brave men and women who’ve put everything on the line to protect our freedoms. It's my sincere hope that our veterans feel and experience the gratitude they are owed, perhaps more than words can express.
As a proud son of a United States Marine and member of the Greatest Generation, who, as a 23-year-old from a town of less than 1,000, drove a tank onto the black-sand beach of Iwo Jima in what would prove to be one of the costliest battles of World War II, I will be forever grateful
Last week, New York City’s Department of Education announced the latest enrollment numbers for the city’s public schools. Another year of declines confirms an unsustainable trajectory—and highlights the challenge for newly elected mayor Zohran Mamdani.
For the 2025–26 school year, NYCDOE reported 793,300 students enrolled in K-12 grades. That’s down 2.3 percent from the previous year and nearly 10 percent since 2020. DOE data also reveal that 112 of the city’s public schools have fewer than 150 students, up from 80 schools just two years ago.
Kamala Harris is continuing her push toward yet another run for president, and that's leading to some awkward exchanges. As RedState reported, the failed 2024 Democrat nominee and former vice president is peddling a new book, doing her best to rewrite history in her favor. Part of that requires convincing Americans that she wasn't given a fair shot, both because of Joe Biden's late exit from the race and the dynamics surrounding President Donald Trump. Of course, that's not really the truth, is it? She's going to try, though, and that apparently includes claiming her 2024 campaign was "3D chess" in which she outmaneuvered Trump.
Last month, I reported that, despite what politicians said, Memphis residents were excited for Donald Trump to send the National Guard in to clean up their crime-ridden city. The president created a Memphis Safe Task Force, whose job was to "end street and violent crime in Memphis to the greatest possible extent." It sounds like the task force, which is comprised of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies and authorities, has been quite successful, especially for families with young children.
The United States Marshals Service announced on Saturday that since the task force began, 101 missing children in the Memphis area have been found and returned to their homes.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced the arrest of a Moldovan illegal immigrant and convicted killer who tortured and threw a victim out of a ninth-floor window. Victoria Sorocean was taken into custody in Los Angeles on Nov. 4 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after authorities learned she had been convicted of premeditated murder with exceptional cruelty in 2013, ICE told Fox News on Tuesday.
Some days it feels like I ask too much of you, gentle reader, and yet here I go again, asking you to hate the mainstream media more than you already do. But I have three new reasons just this morning.
So settle in while I share today's Trifecta of Suckitude, but first, take a deep breath, set aside your coffee, and take any prescribed blood pressure medications.
Just in time for Veterans Day comes this gem from Newsweek Senior Defense Reporter Ellie Cook: "Memorial to Black US Soldiers Who Died in WW2 Quietly Removed."
Before we get to the Fake News,
The Washington Post editorial board praised the eight Senate Democratic caucus members who broke with their party leaders to vote in favor of a House-passed continuing resolution (CR) Sunday night, arguing that "the party that takes the government hostage to advance its policy goals almost never succeeds." Comparing the ongoing government shutdown to when conservatives shut down the government in 2013 in an unsuccessful attempt to defund Obamacare, The Post contended that Democrats have followed suit and allowed "angry activists" to influence them into doing something that they knew wouldn't end well.
Three generations of a Dutch family have been the caretakers of an American soldier’s grave since 1945 — and promise future descendants will do the same.
Ernest Francis Fichtl Jr., from the Little Neck neighborhood of Queens, was killed during one of World War II’s bloodiest European battles and is buried at Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial in Margraten.
But until recently, his family back in New York did not know that his grave site is lovingly tended to by his adopted family in the Netherlands. And it’s not the only one. Since the end of the war in Europe in 1945, Margraten residents have honored the sacrifice of
We all remember mid-2020 through all of 2021 when every news channel, it seemed, had a running scoreboard with the daily infections and daily deaths allegedly caused by COVID-19, remaining pinned as a sidebar even when the stories being covered were wholly independent from the ‘pandemic’. [snip]
That publication went as far as quoting an In-Q-Tel employee, Luciana Borio, saying that the “CDC normally ‘gets the ball rolling’ with diagnostics because it has the expertise and the biosafety laboratories to handle dangerous novel level pathogens. In-Q-Tel was the “first government-sponsored venture capital firm” chartered by the Central Intelligence Agency.
Bloody brawl breaks out after Antifa members
clash with TPUSA attendees and cops at
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clash with TPUSA attendees and cops at
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A bloody brawl broke out at a sold-out event for Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA at the University of California, Berkeley — with keffiyeh-clad protesters clashing with attendees and cops in disturbing scenes.
One man could be seen with blood gushing from his face after getting into a fight with an agitator as the campus event for the group was kicking off late Monday, Fox News reported.
Police were spotted pulling the two men apart as anti-Turning Point demonstrators – including some donning keffiyehs – tried to intervene.
At least two people had already been arrested, including one for battery, before the event got underway, police said.
Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Patel have produced to Congress a new cache of documents showing how Bill and Hillary Clinton's foundations collected money from foreign and domestic interests seeking influence -- raising fresh concerns that such evidence was kept from federal prosecutors who tried to investigate pay-to-play allegations against the first family a decade ago.
We went to bed on Sunday and there was vague talk of a shutdown workaround. We wake up on Monday, and the Democrats have caved.
Analogies, anyone? If this were a boxing match, the Democrats didn’t come out of their corner for the 8th round. If it were a softball game, the ten-run rule got applied. If it were a war, they flew the white flag and laid down their arms. If it were wrestling, they tapped out.
If it were poker, they folded, though the time to fold ‘em was a month ago. They didn’t know when to walk away, and so now they have to run.
Veterans Day, which was originally founded around the virtue of the cessation of hostilities in World War I rather than the commemoration of any individual or group, should be a holiday beyond reproach. Unfortunately, patriotism came under assault like never before with Covid-19, the lockdowns, and the riots and attacks on law and order that ensued from the untimely death of George Floyd. The founders of the country and heroic figures — from Christopher Columbus to Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and even George Washington — came under siege and desecration over the last four years, resulting in a diminution of respect for American heritage.
The assassination of Charlie Kirk and the subsequent behaviors on the part of a shocking number of leftists ever since have proven that the battle between good and evil rages on greater than ever in America and the world. In my life, while evil may have existed throughout society at the same levels as today, it was never this brazen.
But here we are. And by “here,” I’m talking specifically about the latest public display of pure evil that happened at the University of California at Berkeley last night when Turning Point USA (TPUSA) tried to host an event. To say Antifa tried to disrupt it
Florida AG launches investigation into
JP Morgan Chase for its targeting of Trump
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JP Morgan Chase for its targeting of Trump
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Monday launched an investigation into JPMorgan over its failure to notify President Donald Trump that former Special Counsel Jack Smith was seeking Trump Media's bank records as part of the Arctic Frost probe.
Trump Media and Technology Group CEO Devin Nunes on Sunday tore into Smith and JPMorgan for its efforts to obtain the company's bank records and emphasized that the company did not exist in 2021, when the January 6 riot occurred.
Uthmeier notified JPMorgan Chase of the investigation in a letter, which also comes after the Biden administration was accused of spying on Republican senators and lawmakers as part of the Arctic Frost investigation.
The largest school district in Alaska is facing controversy after the recent revelation it had added a “disclaimer” to the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution.
Must Read Alaska reported Saturday that the disclaimer reads “The Anchorage School District does not endorse these materials or the viewpoint expressed in them.”
A student in the district discovered the disclaimer and showed her mother, who then posted about it on Facebook.
“I was honestly stunned,” the mom wrote. “These aren’t controversial documents, they are the foundation of our country and what our students are supposed to be learning about. Why would a school need to distance itself from the very principles we are built on?
Dense or Indecent?
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Celebrity entitlement is rarely more stunning than when an actor publicly lectures a corporation on “fascism” while omitting any basic human decency in the same breath.
So when Star Wars actor Oscar Isaac declared he’d only work with The Walt Disney Company again if they could “figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism,” it raised a question worth asking: Are celebrities this dense, or this indecent?
Let’s pause. Disney is a publicly traded corporation with a legal obligation to its shareholders. Its executives must maximize value, which means developing programming that attracts broad audiences, protects advertisers, and safeguards the company’s market position. That’s not ideology—that’s economics.
Democrats Are Evil, Not Stupid
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Democrats are the evil party, but that doesn’t mean they’re stupid. In fact, I often have to remind people that they are evil, not stupid, to explain why they do the things they do. They know what they’re doing, and you should too. It explains why, after more than 6 weeks, they suddenly decided to vote to reopen the government. It wasn’t because they felt people were suffering – you don’t subscribe to a political philosophy responsible for 100 million deaths in the last century if you have concern over suffering – but because it was electoral politics, plain and simple.
What changed the “principled stance” Democrats had been taking?
Bessent's beatdown
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Hypocrisy must be the mother’s milk of democratic politics. George Stephanopoulos is the highest paid anchor at ABC News. He used to shill for Bill Clinton as his senior advisor for policy and strategy and White House Communicatons Director. Now he shills for the Democratic Party as a “newsman” at ABC News. Despite his purported newsman’s role, it’s all politics. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent showed up George Stephanopoulos to be a world-class hypocrite this past Sunday on the ABC News This Week gabfest.
Lindsay Kornick reports the story for Fox News with relevant background. As one of the photo captions in the story puts it: “U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent repeatedly
A young girl stands on a mountain of ice, her dress glittering like the northern lights. The world below has judged her, feared her, told her to hide what makes her different. Then comes the moment every parent remembers: she spreads her arms and sings, “No right, no wrong, no rules for me — I’m free.”
For a decade now, that line from Frozen has echoed in bedrooms and playgrounds, in sequined Elsa dresses and YouTube sing-alongs. It’s more than a song; it’s a creed. Every generation has a fairy tale that defines its moral world. For ours, it’s this one, a story in which isolation becomes empowerment, repression becomes villainy,
There has been a lot of talk about whether the narco-boats the Donald Trump administration is striking in the Caribbean Sea are, in fact, narco-boats. Most of that talk has come from Gustavo Petro, Nicolás Maduro, and their buddies on the left in the United States, like certain members of Congress and the MSM. The way they tell it, these are just humble fisherman sitting miles off shore in international waters, using these sophisticated vessels to catch a meal or earn a living.
On Friday, the Associated Press attempted to join this chorus that is aimed at making Trump look like a mean old bully by publishing an article entitled
A slick new civil rights-themed video promoting MSNBC's forced name change to "MS NOW" features paid black actors playing ordinary Americans, intercut with pensive shots of MSNBC's white primetime stars. The promotional spot, narrated by Rachel Maddow reading the Constitution, appears to be a ham-handed effort by MSNBC's new parent company, Versant, to cater to MSNBC's large black audience—the largest in cable news—when its primetime and morning anchor lineup is overwhelmingly white. The ad is part of what the New York Times reports is a $20 million marketing campaign to create brand awareness for MS NOW. It uses archival protest footage, video of Martin Luther King Jr., and Maddow's patriotic
Get ready, folks, for Emir George Washington, Imam Thomas Jefferson, and to learn that Benjamin Franklin was a descendant of Muhammad. Coming soon to a leftist history class near you.
The Left, the Democrats, want to change America. Our Founding Fathers (tried to) create a virtuous, limited government, capitalist, republic. The Democrats don’t believe in any of those things. They believe in promiscuity and licentiousness, Marxism, and totalitarian government. To do that, as Marx said, “Keep people from their history and they are easily controlled.” Change the country’s history, revise it, deconstruct it, make the early Americans evil, slave-holding, secular humanists, and it becomes obvious we need a different America from
Being immune to the allure of sports betting is a fringe benefit of being immune to sports – I don’t hate the idea of sports, but I’ve got a lot of stuff happening (including writing the 9th Kelly Turnbull/People’s Republic novel!) and don’t have time to care. But even someone outside of that world can see that legalized gambling has exploded. (Snip) You used to have to go to Vegas or Atlantic City to drop the next mortgage payment; now, you can do it on your phone. The original idea of these gambling meccas was to channel the ancient vice of gambling into something less outright destructive.
The Obamacare secret at the heart of the
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shutdown: insurers made billions at taxpayer expense replies
The 42-day federal shutdown forced by Democrats thrust the economics of Obamacare into the limelight, and exposed an uncomfortable truth: An insurance industry whose executives are increasingly liberal donors has seen its earnings soar with the injection of taxpayer-funded subsidies that propped up Barack Obama's signature health program from collapse.
The nation’s largest health insurance companies have seen good business since Obamacare was first passed in 2010 and fully implemented in 2014. This has come in no small part because of federal government subsidies to the insurance industry, which government estimates show totaled $1.8 trillion in 2023 alone.
State Department to allow denial of immigrant
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visas to those with health issues, including obesity replies
Immigrants seeking visas to live in the US could be rejected if they have certain common medical conditions, including obesity, cancer or diabetes, according to reports.
The guidance, issued in a cable sent by the State Department to embassy and consular officials, directs visa officers to weed out applicants entering the US based on their age or the likelihood they would need to rely on public benefits, according to a directive examined by KFF Health News.
“You must consider an applicant’s health,” the cable obtained by the outlet said. “Certain medical conditions — including, but not limited to, cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, cancers, diabetes, metabolic diseases, neurological diseases, and mental health
Our long national nightmare is over, but the Democratic psychodrama isn’t.
The longest shutdown in US history — with increasing pain points across the country, whether among travelers or SNAP recipients — is ending, while the Democratic recriminations are just getting started.
“It’s complete BS,” was a relatively mild take on the deal from one congressional progressive.
As a rule of thumb, government shutdowns are bootless exercises. They rarely work because the party that causes the shutdown, thinking that it will provide leverage, invariably gets blamed for the shutdown and then — surprise! — ends up in a worse position than where it began.
The city of Boise announced the settlement of a federal lawsuit Monday, bringing an end to a legal battle on the city’s anti-loitering ordinance first initiated over a year ago. A challenge to Boise’s ordinance was made by Luke Schuchardt in January 2024 after he was stopped and questioned under the statute by Boise Police officers and subsequently arrested and prosecuted. Under terms of the settlement, the city agreed to pay out $200,000. The ordinance has been suspended due to a ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Barry Lynn Winmill, and the city council will be taking up the repeal of the ordinance as part of the settlement agreement
The Race for the Trump Economy
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The current economic indicators, at least those attributable to the 10-month Trump administration, are strong.
Fourth-quarter GDP is estimated to grow between 2.7 and 4 percent, the robust latter figure according to the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank.
Inflation from June to August ranged from 2.7 to 2.9 percent, significantly lower than the 5 percent annual average during Biden’s 2021-2025 term.Gas prices now average $2.98 per gallon, compared to $3.46, the average cost during Biden’s four years.
In less than a year, Trump has increased oil production by one million barrels per day.
Unemployment in the second quarter of 2025 stayed steady at 4.2 percent,
Recently inaugurated Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz, in the first hours of his administration, restored Bolivia’s full diplomatic relations with the United States over the weekend, ending a 17-year long rupture caused by the formerly ruling Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party.Paz, a former senator of the moderate Christian Democratic Party (PDC), took office on Sunday, becoming Bolivia’s new president for the next five years.His inauguration marked the end two decades of MAS’s anti-U.S. rule in the South American country — first under failed wannabe dictator and fugitive of the law on pedophilia allegations Evo Morales and then under Luis Arce.
As we've reported, the campaign for Maine Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner got off to a promising start before two things happened: The entrance of Gov. Janet Mills (D) into the race and the discovery of some Reddit posts that included Platner boasting about being a communist and bashing law enforcement officers as "b**tards."There was also an unhealthy dose of self-loathing towards rural white Americans and racially insensitive posts about how black people tip, as well as some sexual assault victim-shaming. Adding to all of that was the disturbing revelation that Platner sported a Nazi-themed tattoo on his chest, a tattoo he recently had covered with something else.
Forty Days Wasted
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Forty days and nights. That’s how long the Democrats wasted your time.
Forty days of grandstanding, finger-pointing, and “we care more than you” speeches.
And for what?
Nothing.
After shutting down the government, threatening paychecks, and holding the country hostage over Obamacare subsidies, eight Senate Democrats finally blinked. They crossed the aisle and voted to reopen the government—with none of their big demands met.
That’s not leadership. That’s surrender.
They spent six weeks making America miserable just to end up right where they started. Except now, everyone knows they flinched.