by Isaac Cubillos | May 12, 2025 | Brown Eyes, Clear Truth
Last week in Palm City, Florida, the Florida Highway Patrol and ICE staged a show of force at a gated community like they were raiding a drug lord’s mansion. Their targets? Landscaping trucks. Their crime? Apparently, looking too brown in the wrong ZIP code. One of...
by Isaac Cubillos | May 12, 2025 | Energy
You can always tell when the oil boys start feeling queasy—they park the rigs, talk about “discipline,” and suddenly forget all that tough talk about energy independence. This week, they did just that. Baker Hughes’ latest rig count shows U.S. oil and gas...
by Isaac Cubillos | May 12, 2025 | Energy
When Halliburton starts waving red flags, you’d be wise to stop, look, and listen. The big dog of the oil patch posted a 7% drop in revenue last quarter—and while they tried to put on their Sunday best for Wall Street, the cracks were showing like a drunk at a church...
by Isaac Cubillos | May 12, 2025 | Energy, Journal
They keep saying the oil industry is being strangled by Washington red tape. Thousands of drilling permits sitting on desks, unused, collecting dust because of the evil feds and their love for solar panels. That’s the bumper sticker version. One keyboard warrior even...
by Isaac Cubillos | May 11, 2025 | Journal
They came from different corners of the world, many meeting face-to-face for the first time. They’d known each other by name, by reputation, through debriefs and whispers carried on desert winds. But when they finally gathered at The Four Green Fields—an Irish pub...