American actions involving Venezuela have stirred up a flurry of theories and narratives around the United States’ strategic intentions.  Some theories highlight apparent contradictions between rhetoric and policy, such as President Trump’s pardons of major drug-traffickers despite his public anti-drug stance. Others frame potential U.S. military threats against Venezuela as being driven primarily by America’s dependence on oil.  Additional narratives have revived allegations of Venezuelan interference in U.S. elections, including claims from a former Maduro regime official about a “narco-terrorist war” against the United States.

Renewable energy really means anti-establishment energy, or politically correct energy.  The energy is usually electricity that is distributed via the electric grid.  The source of energy has to be “natural.”

Solar and wind are the most popular types of renewable energy.  Hydroelectric energy derived from a big dam on a river might seem ideal, except that the promoters of renewable energy don’t like dams.  If you can figure out how to generate hydroelectricity without a dam, you can call it renewable.  Nuclear energy might seem like a good candidate except that nuclear energy is too scary and too good a fundraising tool to accept as renewable.

Pithy social critic David Burge said it best: “Journalism is about covering important stories — with a pillow, until they stop moving.”  

One of the important stories that “journalists” are covering up today is the Trump administration’s increasingly successful efforts to combat violent crime.  At the end of July, the Department of Homeland Security released a report showing that violent crime rates had dropped significantly during the first six months of President Trump’s second term.  Homicides were down 17%; gun assaults were down 21%; aggravated assaults were down 10%; sexual assaults were down 10%; and carjackings were down 24%.  These reductions appear to have continued through the end of the year.  

For a brief, shining moment in 1945, the United States stood astride the world like a colossus. In four years, we had built the greatest military machine in human history, liberated half the planet, and dropped the sun itself on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to prove the point. Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, and imperial Japan (three empires that had terrorized the globe) lay in smoking ruins. The message was unmistakable: try America on the battlefield and you will be annihilated.

Over the past months, prominent political figures have attempted to convince Americans that those illegally in the country have not committed any crime. By their argument, immigration violations are civil offenses, not criminal offenses. Sure, laws were broken -- but no “crime” has been committed. By this reasoning, those illegally in the country have not committed any crime; therefore, removing them is wrong.

Safe to say, traditional Catholics repelled by the liberal views of the late Pope Francis are not finding much relief under its new pontiff.

In October, Pope Leo took yet another sharp-tongued and sarcastic aim at President Donald Trump for ejecting illegal immigrants from America, likening it to abortion and implying he is a hypocrite. "Someone who says I am against abortion but in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro life," the Bishop of Rome pondered out loud to media from his luxe Castel Gandolfo digs in Italy.

The American right has weathered storms before, but few moments have revealed its internal fracture quite like the Candace Owens controversies of 2025. 

What began as a season of mourning after Charlie Kirk’s assassination quickly morphed into a spectacle of spiraling claims, public feuds, and personal destruction. Her early tribute to Kirk, offered with presumably sincere sorrow after his September 10 assassination, spoke to millions who were stunned by the violence. 

In the history of American governance, few chapters will stain the pages as darkly as the utter failure of the Biden-Harris administration to safeguard unaccompanied migrant children. I must ask this question: If their goal was to intentionally traffic children into sexual slavery and forced labor, how would their actions have been any different?

The German government has shifted into hyper-mode to defend its green patronage economy. To pay for it, heirs, high performers, and savers are being drafted into service. The end of the eco-socialist nightmare will be convulsive and chaotic.

The Right-to-Die issue appeared in the headlines recently with the death of Ludwig Minelli, who died at the age of 92. He was the founder of a Swiss organization, Dignitas, (a Right to Die organization) in 1998. He died, no surprise, by assisted suicide.

Last week’s Supreme Court order upholding Texas’s revised congressional districts unleashed a torrent of complaints about how supposedly partisan the Court has become. Adam Liptak, the New York Time’s Supreme Court analyst who can be counted on to give any decision a leftward spin, published a piece on December 6 proclaiming the Court was “all in” on partisan gerrymandering.