My Journal
Cheap Oil Travels Fast. Pain Reaches West Texas First
Yesterday, I wrote about the oil glut—too much crude sloshing around the world, prices easing, and gas at the pump finally calming down. That’s the national picture. This is the local one, and it looks different depending on your ZIP code. In the Permian Basin, the...
The Oil Glut Is Real, and Your Gas Pump Knows It
The Energy Information Administration—those famously unexcitable federal bean-counters—has wandered into the room with a wet blanket and a calculator, and the news is not what the oil bulls or the "drill, baby, drill" crowd want to hear. According to the latest...
Big Oil to Trump on Venezuela: Slow Down, Big Guy
There was a moment in the White House this week that told you everything you need to know about Washington fantasy versus oil-patch reality. Donald Trump, freshly confident about Venezuela, sat across from the men who actually write the checks — and they gave him the...
Ink in My Blood
A New Year’s look at how journalism changed, who paid the price, and what readers should watch next. I started in newspapers in 1987, at a daily in California, back when journalism was a physical activity. My first assignment was writing obituaries, which is about as...
Nigeria Isn’t a Holy War — It’s a Land War We’re Lying About
On Christmas Day, the President ordered U.S. missiles fired from a Navy destroyer into Nigeria. The explanation came pre-loaded for television: protecting Christians from terrorists. It sounds moral.It sounds simple. It feeds his base. And it gets the war wrong....
Santa Declared a Trade Violation
The image says it all: a U.S. Navy jet firing a missile at Santa’s sleigh, because apparently Christmas failed a compliance review. According to officials, Santa was flagged for carrying contraband toys, dodging tariffs, and operating an unregistered international...
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