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A look at urban environmental hero, Taylor Frazier McCollum, billionaire Marxist Neville Roy Singham, and how 40 American data center projects were rejected by voters.Back in June, I reported on lawmakers’ warnings that China may be fueling opposition to American data centers, which is a serious concern worth keeping in mind as the backlash spreads. Now NPR offers a sympathetic profile of Taylor Frazier McCollum, whose organizing helped put a $5 billion Maryland data center project on hold, even as the surrounding county struggles with a budget deficit and the region is struggling economically. Frazier McCollum is one of a...

The Secretary of War’s sweeping Pentagon reforms are exactly the defense revolution America needs, and exactly why the Democrats want his head on a pike.In a cabinet of superstars, Pete Hegseth shines among the brightest. His willingness to take on the corrupt Pentagon procurement system and the Woke FOGO and Deep State establishment — oh, and his willingness to blow up pirates, smugglers, and drug runners just like in the earliest days of the U.S. Navy — has earned him the wrath of many on Capitol Hill, including the entire Democrat caucus and (of course) Thomas Massie. They would much...

The fallout falls fully on the voters. They are wrong, and they foolishly voted against their own interests out of short-term outrage.I don’t blame President Trump for the terrible fallout of Election 2026. President Trump has done everything that he can to make America great again. This is going to offend some people, but I don’t blame the vast majority of candidates across the country, either.The fallout falls fully on the voters. They are wrong, and they foolishly voted against their own interests out of short-term outrage. Across the country, Americans chose to punish the Republicans by punishing themselves even...

What I Saw At The CoupShort-fuse fiction by Matt Bracken intended to spread alarm among progressives, in the spirit of dispiriting them from ever attempting such a mad folly in order to cling to power. Matt Bracken is the author of the Enemies Foreign And Domestic trilogy, and Castigo Cay.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++This is the first time in many years that I have put pen to paper for a lengthy letter, so please forgive my misspellings, poor handwriting or any other errors. I will probably do this in one go and be finished with it. I won't need much of this new notebook....

Video short at link. Nick Freitas responds to Raskin calling for Federal gun registration.

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The vote to ban data centers in Trenton has passed, according to unofficial election results Tuesday, Nov. 3.With 100% of precincts reporting, the measure passed by a landslide 80% to 20%.Trenton resident Barry Blankenship, who led efforts in the city to get the ban on the ballot, said seeing the results was emotional.“Everybody’s just so happy right now that a group of citizens came together, stood up for an issue — Democrats, Republicans alike,” he said. “We stood together and we beat a city.”Looking forward, he hopes the ban will keep an 18-building Amazon Web Services data center from developing...

I asked Grok:Compare and contrast the rate of rebuilding after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake with the rate after the 2025 Pacific Palisades fire. Explain why this difference exists. Talk about the ease or difficulty of getting a building permit, red tape and bureaucracy, environmental regulations, and any other relevant reasons for the difference.This is Grok’s answer:After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fires, rebuilding was dramatically faster than after the January 2025 Pacific Palisades (and related Eaton) fires. The city largely recovered its built environment and commercial activity within about 3 years (essentially complete by ~1909–1910, with a major...

Florida woman was arrested on a DUI charge after allegedly trying to pay for food with tampons at a Taco Bell drive-through, where an employee reported that she appeared intoxicated and confused. The encounter took an unusual turn when Roshelle Anderson, 37, struggled to explain where she was going, at one point telling police her mother lived "two stones" away. Boca Raton police arrived at the restaurant on West Palmetto Park Road around 9:08 p.m. on October 25 and saw Anderson get out of the driver's seat of her car.

A New York State violin teacher and aspiring golfing influencer is in hot water after his comment celebrating the death of an Israeli soldier on October 7th went viral, which uncovered months worth of anti-Jew and anti-Israeli sentiments. The teacher in question — Drew Martin Youmans — who describes himself as a 28-year old professional violinist working with an orchestra called The Orchestra Now, also teaches lessons through LessonFace, according to his bio. The comments showcasing his distaste of Israelis and Jews were made under his golfing account Fiddlesticks Golf on Threads, which he deleted after Mazelit’s Corner asked him...

Harry Houdini died 100 years ago on Halloween, and depending on who you ask he either died whilst performing a stunt inside a water torture cell, as the result of being punched in the abdomen, at the hands of spiritualists he had annoyed, or, according to one book, "by a crew of malevolent circus midgets who surreptitiously entered his hotel room to add arsenic to his morning tea". Not to complicate things further, but a recent book has suggested that none of these are correct, and that he didn't even die on Halloween. Harry Houdini used his time here on...

Judge Ada Brown of the Northern District of Texas has been suspended pending psychiatric testing and the resolution of a bar complaint after a bizarre hearing in April 2026. In the hearing, Brown, a Trump appointee, went on a racial diatribe against a lawyer, Ezra Young, over his race. Young was accused of being White. When Young informed her that he is Hispanic, Judge Brown went on to say that he is “white-presenting” in continuing her racial browbeating. Judge Brown was also accused of abandoning her work, but the hearing has caused the most chatter among lawyers. Young filed a...

The endless cries of creeping fascism from the Left have become exhausting, particularly when progressives keep reminding us that their problem isn't authoritarianism itself, but who gets to wield the authority. The most recent example? Robert Reich, the former secretary of labor under Bill Clinton - a man who routinely warns about fascism - advocating for the government to seize control of private companies. Reich wants a Democrat-controlled government to cut off Elon Musk's government contracts and prepare to nationalize SpaceX and Starlink if they regain power. In the spirit of Marx himself, Reich wants the state to take ownership...

(Translated) MEGA-SCANDAL: The winner of the BERLIN elections, from the far-left party Die Linke, accidentally confesses that Hamas controls her party and fears for her life💣 A mistake has just triggered an astonishing security crisis. The magazine Der Spiegel—a media outlet, it must be noted, with a marked leftist slant—has brought to light an internal document proving how Die Linke has been hijacked by Islamism. Its candidate to govern Berlin, Elif Eralp, accidentally sent the newsroom her private notes from an interview where she confesses to being coerced and terrified by Hamas operatives within her own party. It turns out...

The dam has finally burst.A major, mainstream news source, which even the political left considers to be highly reliable, has finally acknowledged the existence of evidence that strongly suggests that Ilhan Omar married her own brother.The New York Times just reported the following:Original: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/immigration-fraud-claims-ilhan-omar.htmlArchive: https://archive.ph/7LnKR“Several current and former law enforcement officials said an Obama-era investigation found some evidence that Ms. Omar had entered into a sham marriage with a man who may have been her brother.”That is huge.The article goes on to say:“The federal investigation of Representative Ilhan Omar is focused in part on whether she entered into a sham...

You’re arguing with psychosis. They’re screaming about things that aren’t there. The first task of defeating political opponents is to understand who they are. What is it that Democrats think they’re doing? And what they think they’re doing in 2026 amounts to a relentless ritual hallucination in the service of an institutional status quo. They’re making up a fake world in their heads to protect their paychecks: in media, in academia, in government, in the results-not-required world of the nonprofit organization. If you doubt that, go read the opinion pages of The New York Times, the agenda-setting newsletter of the...

Without Obama, Trump would never have become president, and that’s true both literally and figuratively.Over the weekend, Barack Obama appeared at a campaign rally for Democrats in Ohio and managed to make some headlines by ridiculing President Trump’s design skills. “He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory,” the former president quipped. The crowd, of course, loved it. The media did too. Republicans responded with some mockery of their own, pointing out that Obama has little room to talk about design preferences, given the architectural monstrosity that is his presidential library in Chicago. All things...

A University of California Merced professor of history and critical race and ethnic studies recently called for the “dezionization” of the UC system. Sean Malloy, who according to his faculty page researches “colonialism, war, white supremacy, and the critical study of Zionism,” writes in the Ethnic Studies Council at UC Substack that Zionism is a “driving force behind many of the external and internal threats to the UC and its faculty, staff, and students.” “Dezionization entails not only ending the UC’s complicity in the genocidal actions of the Israeli state (which would include divestment and the end of formal research...

I get tired of Democrats claiming to be on the “right side of history” when both their past and their present are so utterly sordid and destructive. So, if you are a Democrat, let me tell you about MY side of history and YOUR side of history. My side of history is Cato the Elder, John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Irving Babbitt and William F. Buckley. Your side of history is Thomas Hobbes, Karl Marx, Josef Stalin, Mao’s Little Red Book and Noam Chomsky. My side of history is George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Ronald...

And what to do about it.Via DataRepublican, we have learned that a group of Democratic governors, retired military and intelligence officers, and former USAID “color revolution” specialists, have for some time been plotting to pull off a color revolution in the United States. Or, to put it more precisely, they have been conspiring to overthrow the constitutionally elected government of the United States, and to replace the Constitution with something completely different.THE ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK / THE DEMOCRACY FILES: A PRIMER ... There’s a lot of data, including videos, recordings, transcripts of Signal chats, etc., but the gist is this: If...