• Opinions 25 March 2026

    The two biggest myths about AI data centers

    Across the country, Americans are flocking to city council, planning commission, and water board meetings trying to stop data centers from being built. Driving this NIMBYism are two main arguments: data centers will drive up electricity rates, and data centers will guzzle local water resources. Data centers are prodigious consumers of both power and water, so these views are understandable. They are also (mostly) wrong. 
  • Opinions Fr. Mike Paraniuk 25 March 2026
    A sermon for Palm Sunday Matthew 21:1-11
    You can find peace knowing that God is personaIly involved in your life in good times and in bad. Jesus can transform your hardships into blessings.
  • Opinions 24 March 2026
    How much more does it take?
    Senate Democrats should follow suit, face reality, admit defeat, and end the shutdown. They are running a risk of an attack. Senator Schumer, it is time to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
  • Opinions 24 March 2026
    Iran was existential threat
    Any serious student of the Middle East knows that an unrestrained Iran is not just an imminent threat; it is an existential threat. Not just to Israel or the United States, but to any country that does not follow its fundamentalist Shi’ite philosophy.
  • Opinions 24 March 2026
    Why the Strait of Hormuz may be a feature, not a flaw
    Trump is at work eliminating international bad actors while ramping up pressure on China.  
  • Opinions Jim Thompson 24 March 2026
    Tippy, Chapter 12
    The chicken and I had another meeting. I’ll call it a strategic meeting. We had certainly met through the winter, but those had been quick, tactical meetings, planning no further than one day ahead.
  • Opinions Christine Tailer 23 March 2026
    A keeper
    Soon we'll be riding our zero-turns, but this too can wait. Today my spring chore is working alongside Greg in his shop.
  • Opinions 23 March 2026
    Secret Service agent faulted for Butler failures suspended again
    The Secret Service agent who was in charge of developing and executing the failed security plan for the 2024 rally where President Trump was nearly killed has been suspended and is under internal agency investigation for allegedly improperly reporting her relationship with and eventual marriage to a foreign national, several sources told RealClearPolitics.
  • Opinions 23 March 2026
    Democrats are gambling with our lives by not funding DHS
    My Democratic colleagues have opposed President Donald Trump’s agenda at every turn, and that’s their right. But their decision to shut down the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) isn’t some harmless act of political gamesmanship; it’s incredibly dangerous.
  • Opinions 22 March 2026
    FBI misled court to spy on second Trump campaign adviser
    Civil-rights watchdogs have called the egregious spying violations against Carter Page the worst abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act since it was enacted more than 45 years ago. Now another U.S. citizen may have been subjected to even worse abuses.
  • Opinions 22 March 2026
    Stop congressional insider trading
    Americans deserve elected officials who will put their communities’ interests ahead of their own personal interest. Every American deserves this. Insider trading is illegal, period. 
  • Opinions 21 March 2026
    Poll: More than a third of American voters don't trust U.S. power grid
    The Energy Department’s models predicted as much as 800 outage hours per year. Recent winter storms have led Energy Secretary Chris Wright to call on grid operators to use backup generation resources at data centers across the country.
  • Opinions 21 March 2026
    Republicans fight to end Democrats’ DHS shutdown; Dems have 'blood on their hands'
    Democrats need to listen to President Obama’s Secretary of Homeland Security. His name is Jeh Johnson. Johnson had a warning this weekend for the Democrats. He said, ‘If ever there was a time we needed to fund the Department of Homeland Security, it’s right now.’ This is the statement of a Democrat. He ran this Department for Barack Obama. Now he is telling Democrats on this floor to fund all of it.
  • Opinions Jim Thompson 21 March 2026
    Potpourri
    My mind has been all over the place this week. Hence, you get to peer into a scrambled cranium with many thoughts.
  • Opinions 21 March 2026
    Secret Service agent faulted for Butler failures suspended again
    The Secret Service agent who was in charge of developing and executing the failed security plan for the 2024 rally where President Trump was nearly killed has been suspended and is under internal agency investigation for allegedly improperly reporting her relationship with and eventual marriage to a foreign national, several sources told RealClearPolitics.
  • Opinions 19 March 2026
    Democrats' shutdown jeopardizing national security
    The safety of the Americans should not be used as a political bargaining chip.
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