My Journal

South Korea’s HD Hyundai says it wants in on American shipbuilding. That’s right: the world’s biggest shipbuilder, already running circles around us in commercial yards, is sniffing at buying a U.S. yard to feed President Trump’s new “revival” plan for American...

You know the ICPC, the International Collegiate Programming Contest? It's an annual academic bloodsport where the brightest college coders on the planet cram into hotel ballrooms and try to outsmart the universe in five hours flat? Well, this year, the real winner...

I commit the First Amendment every day. I write, I publish, I dissent. So do you. Every text, every post, every gripe at the bar is protected by the same amendment. That’s the deal in America: speech is speech. You don’t need a license. You don’t need permission. But...

Let’s not pretend we didn’t see this coming. If you're just now waking up to the idea that the U.S. president can kill people overseas—even American citizens—with no trial, no charges, and no oversight ... you’ve been asleep since the Clinton administration. President...

Well, look who just shook hands in the shipyard. Austal USA and Master Boat Builders out of Bayou La Batre are teaming up to do what the Pentagon hasn’t figured out in decades—build ships faster, better, and without the bureaucratic fog. The two companies signed what...

Same crime. Same kind of boats. Two totally different endings. In the Caribbean, smugglers are “narco-terrorists.” No boarding, no warning, no court date. The Navy tracks them, calls them combatants, and sinks them in international waters. Eleven dead. No drugs...