One of the largest spills of untreated wastewater in American history happened while an environmental review process held up sewer line repairs because they were studying risks to a flower and a bat.

Let's go to the tape.

It is rather fun to watch pundits speedrun “I was always against the Iraq war.” But much harder for them to disavow things they said last Tuesday.

It’s not illogical to believe, as Hegseth allegedly did here, that the calibrated use of force by the U.S. would lead to a calibrated Iranian response. But what IS shocking is that he would see the war being waged by the U.S. and Israel as calibrated or limited in its aims. When

It's just one triumph after another.

There are corrections and there are CORRECTIONS.

I stand by the President’s actions taken in defense of our national security interests in the Middle East. But we must be clear-eyed about history and the Constitution. While I support maintaining our readiness and replenishing stockpiles, I cannot support funding for further

OMB: "This amount exceeds even the Reagan buildup by approaching the historic increases just prior to World War II, a level that recognizes the current global threat environment and restores the readiness and lethality of our forces." I'm sorry but the U.S. is simply not facing

It’s a mistake to distort NATO into a mechanism for projecting American force into the Middle East.

more escalations like this likely mean oil prices continue heading higher when markets open tomorrow night. We’re going to see a dozen states and more push higher gas prices down around mid-day Monday, especially in price cycling states. Be prepared.

Gas prices in the US have moved up to $4.12 per gallon, their highest level since August 2022. The 38% spike over the last 5 weeks ($2.98/gallon to $4.12/gallon) is the biggest we've seen in the past 30 years. Video: youtube.com/watch?v=Nk1CcJ…

A ground war will extend rather than shorten — by a very wide margin — the closure of Hormuz. Make no mistake: a ground war will be vastly more costly than the air-missile war for all concerned, which is all of us.

EARTHSET. April 6, 2026. Humanity, from the other side. First photo from the far side of the Moon. Captured from Orion as Earth dips beyond the lunar horizon. Photo: NASA

“A whole civilization will die tonight” sounds uncomfortably like what the Oracle at Delphi told Croesus of Lydia before he attacked Persia. If we really are committed to the destruction of an entire civilization then we have lost our own.

The "different, smarter, and less radicalized minds" foreseeably harden when you explicitly threaten civilizational destruction, even as a negotiating tactic.

Yet another account of how integral Netanyahu was in getting Trump to go to war with Iran, this time from the NYT: nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/…

Deeply reported story by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan about an extraordinary pitch/presentation Netanyahu made to convince Trump to go to war with Iran, including catastrophically wrong Israeli assumptions about how easy it would be to win.

There it is—Dated Brent (i.e., spot) crude hits $144.46/bbl, a new all-time high.

I mostly avoid commenting on what President Trump says from day to day, while pulling no punches in my assessments, whether positive or negative, of his policy. His Iran ultimatums feel different. Making such threats is a policy. If he were to follow through on them, the