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Nobody in the 1850s ever wrote a novel about a man who changes society by figuring out how to mass-produce horseless carriages. Similarly, nobody a century later wrote the story of the man who turns the world upside down by building miniature electronic brains in his garage. So how did a popular American writer of the 1940s come up with a novel that accurately portrayed the activities and historical role of Elon Musk as a pioneer in the exploitation of space? That man was Robert A. Heinlein, and his book, published in 1950, was titled The Man Who Sold the Moon.

The other day, I argued that the modern panic industry has mastered a single, lucrative trick: detect something, strip away all quantitative context, and declare a crisis before the science can deliver a verdict. The mold-sniffing dog and the Florida government’s botched candy arsenic announcement were my examples. I suggested the playbook was institutional and repeatable. I did not anticipate how quickly the next example would arrive—or how much larger it would be. The plastics-in-blood story is now everywhere. Microscopic images circulating in journals, documentaries, and social media feeds show strange, alien-looking geometric fragments suspended in human blood samples—translucent shards and angular clusters

I’m not someone who watches horror movies, literally ever, because I hate them. I don’t find anything artistic, creative, or impressive about sadistic and macabre productions, I don’t agree with fictionalizing horrendous realities that human beings have actually experienced for cheap gratification, and there’s nothing I personally enjoy about filling my mind with deeply disturbing sights and sounds [snip]. (Plus, my job requires me to be in the news, which is horrifying enough, as evidenced by the point to which I’m getting.) [snip] take a trip to Spain, where they can enjoy the Mediterranean and watch horror-flick gore in real time!

Democratic socialist candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier won a shocking primary victory in New York, but veteran Democratic strategist James Carville is not celebrating. The socialist backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who won Tuesday night’s primary election in New York’s 13th Congressional District [snip] NewsNation interviewed Carville on Thursday for his response to multiple far-left candidates winning in New York. While he downplayed some of the panic as essentially being about three seats in New York, he nonetheless argued Avila Chevalier should not be associated with the Democratic Party.

The World Cup, as everyone knows by now, has been taking place across several cities in stadiums that have surprised foreign visitors by being gigantic and air-conditioned. [snip] Overwhelmingly, they are blown away by the abundance of food, both in restaurants and in grocery stores, not just in amount but in variety (e.g., the dozens and dozens of varieties of coffee, or cereal, or snacks). They have been likewise overwhelmed by the size of everything, from onions to sandwiches to steaks to stores to cars. They found refreshing the unashamed patriotism, evident by all the flags.

And here you thought Trump was being naïve, trusting Iran to adhere to the MOU (Memo of Understanding.). It’s not a treaty or an agreement or a promise. It’s just a memo. Here is what I think Trump is doing, four steps ahead of everyone else, as usual. Trump made a big deal out of signing the MOU publicly. Cameras, people standing around, a worldwide press event of the signing. But Trump knew, and still knows full well, that the Iranians have no intention of adhering to the memo or to any future deal. They will cheat. And when they do, Trump will be able to say,

A professional baseball team in Pennsylvania will be forfeiting a game on Thursday that was scheduled to be the team's Pride Night after players refused to wear LGBTQ-themed jerseys, the team announced. The York Revolution of the Atlantic League, the same league where Trevor Bauer currently plays, said the decision "was not reached lightly" in announcing the forfeit to the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs on Wednesday. The team was not afraid to throw its players under the bus in a rather scathing statement, saying it was "deeply troubled and profoundly disappointed by the decisions of these few players." "To be clear; this action by the players is completely inconsistent with our vision

Kurt Schlichter's 2024 novel, "The Attack," is an eye-watering what-if scenario of the coming attack on America. The new one will be a 3-day summer attack that will cripple America. The Attack will be a coordinated attack on our government, our infrastructure, and our cyber-capabilities. Why is this novel more worthy than others of our POTUS' attention? Because I believe Schlichter knows things. "The Attack" is about a highly-coordinated, massive, comprehensive Muslim attack on everything America uses to survive and thrive. Due to the open borders of America and other nations, really, really bad things happened which we are only now seeing.

A Collin County jury has sentenced Karmelo Anthony to 35 years in prison after he was found guilty of murder in the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Memorial High School student Austin Metcalf during a high school track meet in Frisco, Texas. Anthony faced up to life in prison after being convicted of murder. He will be eligible for parole after serving half that time. He broke down in tears and was shaking as the verdict was read Tuesday afternoon, and he was immediately taken into custody. The case immediately moved into the sentencing phase, with Anthony's mother as the sole witness

So-called renewable energy has never lived up to its extravagant promise. Windmills are very expensive, hard to service, and produce power only when the wind blows, and solar only when the sun shines, [snip] And then there is the Ivanpah solar plant in the Mojave Desert, an extraordinarily expensive flash-fryer for birds flying into its heat beams, and a futuristic failure. Even the Sierra Club has been forced to admit the thousands of birds and tortoises killed, and the despoiling of the desert ecosystem, are too much. And so was the cost to taxpayers:

Time will not diminish the glory of their deeds.” General John J. “Black Jack” Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Force during World War I, spoke those words about America’s doughboys of the Great War. They ring as true today as they did a century ago. Yet while time has not diminished their glory, it has, tragically, diminished the memory of who they were -- these American soldiers of the “Great War” -- and what they sacrificed. I have written 16 books [snip] Every publisher who reviewed the proposal loved the story. They passed anyway. “WWII books still sell,” they told me. “WW1 books don’t.”

I must admit that I’m feeling a little reassured by some developments in the arena of law enforcement and justice. [snip] we see that Tina Peters will be released from her Colorado jail cell in June; people are being indicted for fraud involving SNAP, hospice care, and Medicare/Medicaid scams; and Jeanine Pirro will be cracking down on the parents of rioting juveniles. [snip] Vice President J.D. Vance spoke powerfully at the National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service, invoking Isaiah 6:8 to honor law enforcement officers who answer the call “to their last breath.” In that passage, the prophet Isaiah wrote,