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When the Oil Boys Start Sweating, You Know the Party’s Over
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...
Permits, Profits, and Pipe Dreams
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...
No Handshake Required
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...
The Boardroom Math Behind California’s $8 Gas
While politicians bicker over carbon credits and green bragging rights, the real decisions driving California's gas prices are being made far from the Capitol—in oil company boardrooms, where the only green that matters is printed on a balance sheet. California is...
The Houthis-U.S. war, and the Ceasefire Spin
So the White House says the Houthis “capitulated.” That they folded like a cheap tent after a few months of airstrikes. But here’s the thing: capitulation usually means surrendering your weapons, your will, and your fight. The Houthis have done none of that. Let’s...
Killing Big Bird to Own the Libs—Again
Somewhere between declaring war on gas stoves and trying to deport American children born in Duluth, the President has found time to wage battle against the most dangerous enemy of all: Sesame Street. Yes sir, the White House has set its sights on public...
Europe to U.S. Scientists: Pack Your Bags, We Still Believe in Research
Living in San Diego, I knew the name Scripps Research Institute carried weight—real weight. It wasn’t just another science lab. It was where breakthroughs happened. The kind of place that gave science a capital "S." So in 2004, when I took over a scrappy newspaper in...
Celebrating Culture While Deporting the People Who Live It
Today is Cinco de Mayo—a day when America orders nachos, sips tequila, and shouts "¡Salud!" in the name of Mexican pride. There’s nothing wrong with celebration. But what exactly are we celebrating? Because while restaurants sling margaritas and marketers wrap...
Running Low: From Baby Boom to Birth Bust
I read Age Wave back in the ’70s. Ken Dychtwald’s book. It wasn’t just about aging—it was about what happens when an entire generation, the Boomers, crests like a wave and crashes onto the shores of society, changing everything in its path. I’m part of that wave. And...
Isaac Cubillos
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