Have you ever noticed that pessimistic and depressed people avoid babies? I’m sure there are exceptions to this statement, but on the whole, I think it’s accurate. Dark, gloomy minds shy away from babies. I think there’s something to learn from this. Here’s…

FPV drones are rewriting military calculus. The asymmetry thesis applies to warfare and money.

How a Martha's Vineyard tick bite and a chance encounter with a CIA black-ops operative in Texas launched a 20-year investigation.

A 1953 Army document. Radioactive tick releases. The 2019 declassification amendment. The documented history behind America's Lyme crisis.

The 6am prison phone call. The FinCEN call DOJ sat on for 14 months. The pardon campaign. Lauren Rodriguez on what's at stake.

FinCEN said no violation. SDNY indicted anyway. Keonne is serving 60 months. The documented case and pardon path.

When I say homeschooling is easier than you think, I really mean it: it’s easier and better. (And yes, I’ve done it myself.) That said, there are complications and difficulties involved. Given the current reign of madness in so many schools these difficulties…

Asian LNG +97%. 6M bbl/day refinery cuts. Chevron CEO: physical shortages in June. Full breakdown.

I got an email from my old friend Dick not too long ago, who is maybe the smartest guy I ever met, and I’ve known a lot of smart guys. He was coming through town and we decided to meet at our old hangout, Jay’s Bar. Dick was from California, but he came through…

Washington banned the CBDC and built its twin out of stablecoins. Issuers are required by law to freeze and block. Tether has already frozen $4.4B. The record.

I’ve made no secret of my admiration of Thomas Jefferson, and today I’d like to show you at least part of why. And so I’ll give you a collection of my favorite Jefferson passages. There was considerably more to the man than just his writings, but this will…

$90T AI buildout. 97% of returns from AI. Scarcity portfolio: silver, copper, Bitcoin. Plus Burak's Cube, BIP324 spy node patch, Hormuz mines unconfirmed.

(Originally posted August 17, 2023 and still important.) I make a practice of not posting any link tied to Google, but this time I’ll make an exception. This is the voice of the working class… the productive people who‘ve been treated like serfs by the “rich…

Gemini 3 and Opus 4.5 trained on TPUs. Anthropic and Meta adopting. More competition, cheaper compute, faster buildout. Plus LDK Server, post-quantum research, open hardware mining.

There has been no more important teacher in human history than Jesus of Nazareth. Not only was Western civilization (the civilization that eliminated slavery, spawned science and unleashed production) based upon his teachings, but more than two billion people…