Thursday, December 4, 2025

Trump is not wrong in killing the EV subsidy and reducing Biden's stricter fuel efficiency standards when you consider the environmental effects of mining rare earth minerals for batteries

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  T rump Returns to Gasoline as Fuel of Choice for Cars, Gutting Biden’s Climate Policy The president said he would weaken Biden-era mileage...
Wednesday, November 26, 2025

The schisms underscore the growing fragility of the nascent coalition in the waning days of its founder. But the idea that the party can go back to some kind of status quo that existed before Mr. Trump is fanciful. A year after it decisively reset the national direction, MAGA seems slightly lost.

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  What Happens When Trump Has Left the Building? Divisions are appearing as we all wonder what a post-Trump MAGA looks like. Or if it will e...
Monday, November 24, 2025

Last winter, the federal government released the results of its semi-annual reading and math tests of fourth- and eighth-graders, assessments that are considered the most authoritative measure of the state of learning in American elementary and middle schools. In nearly every category, the scores had plunged to levels unseen for decades—or ever. On reading tests, 40 percent of fourth-graders and one-third of eighth-graders performed below “basic,” the lowest threshold. A separate assessment of 12th-graders conducted this past spring—the first since schools were shuttered by the COVID pandemic—yielded similarly crushing results. Many graduated from high school without the ability to decipher this sentence. How can I assume that? The test asked them to define the word decipher, and 24 percent got it wrong.

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  How Public Education Failed in the Liberal Enclaves That Care About It Most
Sunday, November 23, 2025

Savor the Moment

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  Dear Diary: Late to work on a cold, sunny, spring morning, I decided to take a shortcut through Madison Square Park. With the sound of tra...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Does Mark Gongdolf actually think it would be real for "Landman" characters to talk about the deleterious effect of oil on the climate? Actually this week it had the drilling company's young female lawyer think about it and Billy Bob telling her to grow up

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  Big Oil Hijacked ‘Landman’ for Its Propaganda By  Mark Gongloff Mark Gongloff is a Bloomberg Opinion editor and columnist covering climate...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

“We are in trouble in our country. We are not talking about this enough,” Mr. Farley said. “We have over a million openings in critical jobs, emergency services, trucking, factory workers, plumbers, electricians and tradesmen.” He said Ford is struggling to hire mechanics at salaries that Ivy League grads might envy.

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  Why Ford Can’t Find Mechanics Forget about reshoring manufacturing without more skilled workers. By  The WSJ Editorial Board Nov. 17, 2025...

Many observers have begun calling the new U.S. approach “the Donroe Doctrine” — a term that appeared on a January cover of The New York Post — a Trumpian twist on a 19th-century idea. In 1823, President James Monroe aspired to stop European powers from meddling in the hemisphere.

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  The ‘Donroe Doctrine’: Trump’s Bid to Control the Western Hemisphere President Trump has tightened the U.S. grip on the Americas by reward...