The ENIAC, built by the University of Pennsylvania in 1946 and used to calculate the parameters for America’s first hydrogen bomb, weighed 30 tons, performed 5,000 additions per second, and consumed 200 kilowatts. Today, cellphones are millions of times faster and use 1–5 watts. Quantum computing, still in its early stages, promises similar scaling within a few decades.
From Wikimedia Commons: Classical Figures in an Italian Landscape (Jan Frans van Bloemen, between 1682 and 1749)
Until I came across Monty Don on television, I had no particular interest in gardens. Showing viewers the way, he would dwell on the virtues of attention and patience, with allusions to an unspoken moral order. Through this mediation, curiously modern and faintly absurd, I entered an ancient European conversation: the garden as refuge for the troubled spirit.
For decades, Western policy toward Iran has been shaped primarily by concerns over nuclear proliferation, missile capabilities, sanctions, and regional deterrence. These issues have dominated diplomatic engagement with Tehran.
Human-rights abuses—including executions, political imprisonment, internet shutdowns, and the systematic suppression of dissent—were repeatedly condemned, particularly through United Nations resolutions. Yet they rarely became a determining factor in shaping Western strategy toward Tehran.
Zohran Mamdani (DSA-hole) said of Israel’s Prime Minister:
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. The architect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people. He is responsible for the killing of more than 73,000 people. For the maiming of tens of thousands of children, as those who survive undergo amputation without anesthesia. For the targeting of neonatal hospitals and maternity care centers, denying newborns even the chance to live. For the countless people he starved as he blocked food and humanitarian aid from reaching them. For the gunning down of hundreds of aid workers and journalists.
The socialistas are taking over the Democrat party, and the establishment Democrats are so addicted to power and corruption that they just don’t care. They will say or do anything to save their seats (and stay out of prison).
Their only strategy is to demonize President Trump and oppose everything he does, even when he helps their own constituents. If the Democrats win the midterms, the radical socialistas will run the show.
What is it about our memories that allows us to recall brief events from half a century ago clearly but leaves us unable to remember what we had for lunch yesterday—or whether we ate at all? Such is the mind of someone traipsing through the ninth decade of his life, trying to figure out just why some things stick like epoxy. One of those things is my glancing contact with Dr. Fauci half a century ago.
As the North American FIFA World Cup unfolded, many online videos posted on social media platforms featured Europeans overwhelmed by the wonders of American air-conditioning. Outside of a few especially temperate regions, almost every American household owns an A/C, doing homeowners a favor in periods of rising temperatures and extreme heat. In the meantime, most homes in Europe do not have air conditioning.
James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, was the driving force behind transforming what started out as a water navigation dispute between Maryland and Virginia into the Constitutional Convention, which then produced our Constitution. Madison was not only one of the primary influences during the Convention itself but also, writing as Publius (along with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay) in the Federalist Papers, he advocated for its ratification.
My previous essay examined the parallels between Communism/Socialism and Twelver Shia violence. But to be clear, violence is the currency of all Islam, full stop. Despite claims to the contrary, almost no one converts to Islam (or becomes Commie/Socialist) absent coercion of one form or another. The Twelvers were highlighted because of the current situation with Iran and the homicidal Blues Brothers rulers itching to get their grubby fingers on the nuclear button.1 2
The Trump administration has announced another step in its efforts to identify fraud in government programs and, of equal importance, hold states, organizations, and individuals responsible for these crimes. The governors of the affected states are complaining about enforcement, when they should be angry about massive cheating occurring under their noses.
One of the most revealing statistics in modern education has nothing to do with reading scores, mathematics proficiency, or scientific literacy. Instead, it concerns grades. According to Hannah Frankman Hood, writing for Daily Economy, roughly half of all students graduating from American high schools now receive an A average. At first glance, this sounds like extraordinary success. Upon closer examination, however, it raises a far more troubling question: if nearly everyone is exceptional, what exactly does “exceptional” mean anymore?
America stands at a crossroads that will define her power for generations on end.
The choice is clear: build the foundations for artificial intelligence (AI) dominance or surrender the future to those who already race ahead.
President Donald J. Trump has chosen the path of strength.
