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Retired Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a former National Security Council official who played a central role in President Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial in 2019, entered Florida’s 2026 Senate race Tuesday to unseat Republican Sen. Ashley Moody. Vindman, who testified about his concerns about a phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, […]

As global corporations and governments increasingly shed ideologically driven policies that raise energy prices and undermine supply, governors in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic cling to counterproductive agendas of contradiction and equivocation. 

Programs that prioritize dubious environmental goals over economic growth and basic human needs have been losing support. In the U.S., the Trump administration promotes fossil fuels and nuclear power over so-called “green” energy, suspending leases for? five offshore wind projects?Christmas week while offering loan guarantees to nuclear operators and promoting coal as a?“clean” stocking stuffer. 

Half a globe away, Japan has ended its financial support for large-scale?solar projects. Meanwhile, the island nation plans to restart the world’s?largest nuclear power plant, which was shuttered a decade ago as an overreaction to a tsunami-induced disaster at another plant. 

Private enterprises that had invested billions of dollars into green energy initiatives are returning their focus to core businesses. 

ExxonMobil reduced?“low-carbon” investments?by $10 billion even as it announced that?oil and gas production?would fuel $25 billion in earnings growth over the next few years.? 

Shell, Aker BP, and Enbridge—companies based in the UK, Norway, and Canada, respectively—have withdrawn from the?Science Based Targets initiative, which was supposed to address the purported threat of climate change. 

“The trend toward a carbon-neutral society appears to be slowing,”?says?Tomohide Miyata, the CEO of Eneos. The Japanese refiner abandoned plans to produce hydrogen (an overhyped “alternative” energy source?that still relies on fossil fuels) to expand its liquefied natural gas business. 

Meanwhile, Pennsylvania’s Democrat Gov. Josh Shapiro is unaware—or unconcerned—that his confused policies stymie the development of affordable energy in the most densely populated region of the United States. 

The Pennsylvania governor’s record has been, at best, mercurial. 

Shapiro recently surprised many when he agreed to withdraw Pennsylvania from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), the multistate compact that imposes carbon taxes on member states. But just months earlier, Shapiro sued to?stay?in RGGI. The reversal drew positive reactions from Republican lawmakers and labor union leaders, who predicted increased investments in the state’s natural gas and coal industries with the abandonment of RGGI’s tax on fossil fuels. 

“?The war’s over,” said?Shawn Steffee?of Pittsburgh Boilermakers Local 154, who had been among those blaming RGGI for discouraging fossil fuel projects in Pennsylvania since the commonwealth flirted with joining in 2019. “It is time to … rebuild right here in Pennsylvania.” 

However, within weeks, the?Environmental Quality Board?(EQB) of Shapiro’s Department of Environmental Protection recommended increasing setbacks for natural gas wells by as much as tenfold. The restrictions—up to a mile in distance—would shut down gas drilling and increase energy prices, according to industry sources. 

Jim Welty, president of the?Marcellus Shale Coalition, calls the setbacks “a ban on future natural gas development” that “is extremely concerning, especially considering that [the Shapiro administration] claims they’re doing everything possible to protect Pennsylvania consumers from rising electricity prices.” 

Exceeding its “legal authority,” the EQB sent “a chilling message to consumers, landowners, and economic investors by threatening access to Pennsylvania’s reliable and affordable energy resources,” said Welty. 

In addition to the EQB recommendation, Pennsylvania’s Democrat-controlled?House of Representatives?is considering its own setback restrictions. “Make no mistake, this proposal is a de facto ban on natural gas development in Pennsylvania,” said Stephanie Catarino Wissman of the American Petroleum Institute (API). Numerous regulations already govern the industry, notes API. 

So, Pennsylvania has at least two propositions to kill natural gas development, in addition to ?Shapiro’s own proposals?to reduce fossil fuel generation and increase wind and solar energy use. The governor’s programs would?double?household electricity bills, but Shapiro blames the power grid’s market policies for already elevated costs. 

However, Republican state?Sen. Gene Yaw?disputes the blame shifting, saying grid operators do not drive energy costs. “The real reason electricity prices are rising is because we’re not producing enough of it,” says Yaw. “Over the past decade, aggressive renewable mandates have forced the premature retirement of dependable baseload generation without replacing it with sufficient new baseload generation capacity. … That’s a policy failure.” 

Other governors in the region exhibit Shapiro’s pattern of awkwardly balancing between championing low energy costs and backing more costly policies. 

In Gov. Kathy Hochul’s New York,?regulators?approved a pipeline to move Pennsylvania natural gas to New York City and Long Island. But they also refused to approve another to serve New England, even though?Connecticut’s Democrat governor?and?New Hampshire’s Republican governor?supported it. 

Seeking reelection this year, Hochul has become concerned about “the need to govern in reality,”? as she continues a ban on natural gas drilling that keeps billions of dollars from upstate New York. The state’s drilling ban “has unjustly denied New York landowners their property rights and lucrative natural gas royalties and has been for purely political reasons,” says the?Institute for Energy Research. 

Both Hochul’s and Shapiro’s lapses into commonsense have drawn the ire of the environmental Left, which may explain the caution of 2025 gubernatorial candidates. 

In New Jersey and Virginia, incoming governors campaigned for lower energy prices while remaining loyal to costly green policies. The?Garden State’s membership in RGGI?is included in the energy policy of Democrat Gov. Mikie Sherrill. In?Virginia, Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger will reverse Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s withdrawal from RGGI. 

Although supporters of largely Democrat environmental policies claim that their favored green technologies lower energy prices, the evidence says otherwise. An?Institute for Energy Research?study reports that “86% of states with electricity prices above the national average in the continental U.S. are reliably blue.” Those states include New England and most of the Mid-Atlantic, including New York, New Jersey, and “purple” Pennsylvania. 

Vijay Jayaraj, a science and research associate who regularly comments on Asia’s growing use of coal to reverse generational poverty, sees a global split emerging between the practical and the ideological. 

“Very likely, there will be a bifurcation,” he writes. “On the one hand, western bureaucracies, particularly in Europe, continuing an economic decline under mandates and taxes, and on the other, pragmatic governments, many of them in Asia, pursuing prosperity with fuels and technologies that work.” 

But this divide appears to be happening even within the United States, with blue states on one side and red states on the other. And considering the rising cost of electricity, states like Pennsylvania and its neighbors may want to prioritize energy affordability and reliability—free of ideological baggage. 

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., likes to argue that the “whole point” of protesting is to make people “uncomfortable.”

Debate. Dissent. Running highly misleading political ads on TV. These are all part of our great tradition of political discourse.

In this, as in so much else, the Democrat darling is incorrect. Taking to the streets to disrupt the lives of average citizens is a leftist ideal, not an American one. It’s antithetical to the highest virtue of republicanism, namely, minding your own business.

But decades ago, American leftists began conflating “activism” with patriotism, and millions of young people were convinced that protesting was an expression of good citizenry. These days, caring is often given more reverence than wisdom, knowledge, or achievement, let alone patriotic activities like working, getting married, and raising kids.

An equally intolerable and parallel notion has also sprung up: It says the rest of us have a patriotic duty to admire anyone who’s “making a difference” or engaged in “participatory democracy,” no matter how insufferable or wrong they are. And protesters are almost always insufferable and wrong.

Every loudmouth ignoramus with an opinion has a First Amendment right. You’re not special.

Yet modern left-wing protesters believe their passion and anger imbue them with moral license to demand things and speak over their fellow citizens.

Just watch the video of those self-righteous “activists” disrupting church services in St. Paul the other day, or global warming cultists shutting down traffic in major cities, or college students using their heckler’s veto to disrupt speeches and debates.

Then again, most of these efforts aren’t organic or spontaneous expressions of political anger anymore. They are well-funded and well-managed by organizations that see political benefit in creating chaos and turning our country into a revolutionary battleground. From Lenin to Alinsky, forced confrontation has been a tactic of Marxist activism.

Every bully, of course, sees themselves as the embodiment of Martin Luther King Jr., though most of them lack dignity and a worthy cause. It’s amusing hearing these self-aggrandizing activists treat protests as great acts of bravery. But wake up: You’re not actually living in a fascist state.

Those marching against the clerics in Iran risk their lives. As did those who marched in Tiananmen Square in 1989, who rose up against the communists during the Prague Spring of 1968 or engaged in civil disobedience against the Stamp Act in 1765.

You can be as passionate as you like here in these United States, but our laws governing the border and immigration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement itself, were all democratically instituted.

You’re free to vote in the next election.

Failing to get your preferred legislation passed isn’t repression, and you’re not Gandhi.

Though it’s heartening for the rest of us to know that most protests are merely performative acts with little political consequence.

Demonstrations are rarely a barometer of public sentiment.

In the Left’s hagiographic rendering of the 1960s, peace-loving demonstrators took to the streets and ended the Vietnam War.

In the real world, Richard Nixon, who won a historic landslide victory in 1972 against peacenik George McGovern, ended the conflict. Anti-war protesters couldn’t stop the Iraq War, either. Or any American war, for that matter. Tea Partiers couldn’t stop Obamacare. “Occupy Wall Street” was unable to overturn the laws governing basic economics.

P—- hat marchers embarrassed themselves, but they didn’t stop Donald Trump from occupying the White House—any more than Jan. 6 marchers and rioters did Joe Biden. And the anti-ICE nuts disrupting church services who accuse parishioners of being “white supremacists” will likely have similar luck.

That’s good news.

The “right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances” is our inheritance. It guarantees anyone can march without worrying about punishment or reprisals from the state.

Though it shouldn’t escape our attention that many of the same progressives who treat public demonstration as the purest form of “democracy” advocate for censoring views they find dangerous and regularly conflate speech with “violence.”

Democratic socialists nearly always shed the adjective as soon as they gain power.

Let’s face it, though, most unhinged activists you see ranting and raving act like children. And children have trouble comprehending the distinction between things you can do and things you should do.

You can cosplay Islamic revolutionaries on campus. What you should do is read some books about the Middle East.

But nothing in a free country compels the rest of us to celebrate spoiled adults making a spectacle of themselves—or to treat them as anything but nuisances.

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The Trace attempted to frame Trump’s pro-gun policies as setbacks. Instead, it compiled a clear record of major Second Amendment victories in his first year back in office.

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Actress Sydney Sweeney has come under fire from the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce after she hung a bra on the famed Hollywood sign.

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Media accounts claiming the Border Patrol leader Greg Bovino has been fired are wrong, according to the White House. Speculation that Bovino was being fired ran rampant after The Atlantic […]

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Breaking: Law-breaking protesters can be treated like they’re breaking laws. I know, this sounds like a joke. And it is, although probably not the way you think: It took a […]

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Democrats are "misreading the room" if they believe another government shutdown under the guise of defunding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will benefit them politically, Inquire pollster Rob Schmidt told Newsmax.

A U.S. District judge ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting Director Todd Lyons to appear in Minnesota federal court "and show cause why he should not be held in contempt." The extraordinary order, issued late Monday by Chief U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz,...

'We fired those who acted unethically'

Anti-gun states have set the firearms industry in their sites, working to dismantle industry protections and promote frivolous lawsuits that could drive lawful firearm industry members out of business. 

MSNBC continued its shameless reign as the “King of Fake News” by airing an AI-enhanced image of armed anti-ICE protester Alex Pretti, who was shot to death while allegedly resisting […]

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MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP) — The chief federal judge in Minnesota said the Trump administration has failed to comply with orders to hold hearings for detained immigrants and ordered the head […]

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So apparently, we have a new complaint from the far left about enforcing immigration law in Minnesota: It’s all “about rigging elections.” This, at least, is the line from Squad™ […]

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'The battle to eradicate racism, bigotry and discrimination is an ongoing fight'

I saw an X post recently from a left-wing feminist that summed up First Lady Melania Trump's treatment by the fashion press so succinctly.

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Vice President JD Vance is putting his own spin on MAGA—Make America Grow Again.

Vance and second lady Usha Vance recently announced that she is pregnant. Their fourth child, a boy, is due in June. Usha isn’t the only woman connected to the White House who is expecting. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Katie Miller, wife of deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, are both pregnant, too.

Talk about leading by example. This baby boom fits perfectly with the vision JD Vance articulated at last year’s March for Life.

“I want more babies in the United States of America,” Vance said. “I want more happy children in our country, and I want beautiful young men and women who are eager to welcome them into the world and eager to raise them.”

Sadly, an increasing number of people aren’t interested. A recent New York Times poll found that among childless 18- to 29-year-olds, just 57% said they would like children in the future.

Among all childless women, the rate was 32%, while among men it was 43%. There’s a stark partisan divide here, too. Just 25% of former Vice President Kamala Harris voters said they wanted kids.

Among President Donald Trump voters, it was 43%. These percentages are lower because the sample includes those aged 45 and older.

It’s unsurprising then that America’s fertility rate hit a record low in 2024. The fertility rate has been below replacement level for more than 15 years. This baby bust will have significant negative consequences in the future.

The problem is worse in other countries, especially in Asia. Last year, China had the same number of births as in around 1738, Reuters reported. Its population is now shrinking. South Korea’s anemic fertility rate is on pace to cut the country’s population in half within 60 years.

Governments around the world have tried in vain to reverse this trend. Their main strategy has been throwing money at it, which hasn’t worked.

That’s because raising a child requires far more work and commitment than a full-time job. Even payments worth thousands of dollars do little to change that calculus.

Think of the irony. Modern society put a man on the moon but can’t reproduce itself as well as civilizations that used stone tools. Here are some reasons why.

First, the sexual revolution disconnected sex from marriage and reproduction. Young men have always wanted to have sex. Throughout human history, societies steered that desire toward marriage, a foundational pillar of civilization. This benefitted societies by channeling the strength and competitiveness of young men into something productive—providing for their families.

It also led to more babies.

Today, teenagers can readily view pornography on their phones. Sex isn’t saved for marriage, but treated as a recreational activity. If that leads to pregnancy, the next step isn’t for a man to marry his girlfriend, but to drive her to an abortion clinic.

America slaughters one million preborn babies annually. Experts then wonder why the birth rate is so low.

Next, modern feminism told women to find fulfillment in climbing the corporate ladder, not motherhood. That’s the path to misery. As the Institute for Family Studies has detailed, marriage and children bring parents greater connection and happiness.

Finally, popular culture doesn’t promote marriage and motherhood. Social media glamorizes vacation selfies, not comforting a crying baby three times in one night. Mothers, especially moms of large families, should be treated like societal rock stars.

What’s needed isn’t just better laws, but a change in personal priorities. People need to believe the truth.

For a married couple, having kids is one of the most meaningful and rewarding things anyone could ever do. The Vance family is living proof of that.

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