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When They Come for the Children It’s Personal
There’s a line we used to believe no one would cross. A line etched in moral clarity: You don’t come for the children. But that line’s been blurred. And now, it’s being crossed—in broad daylight. Last week, agents presumed to be from Homeland Security walked into two...
Mystery Meat and the American Malaise
I remember school lunches the way you remember your first heartbreak—with equal parts nostalgia and indigestion. Back in the day, our cafeteria cooks had access to five-pound blocks of government cheese that came in plain brown cartons—USDA surplus with a side of...
Tariff Tantrums vs. Oil Reality: “Drill Baby” Hits a Wall
Just yesterday, I told you “Drill, baby, drill” was dead. Now the International Energy Agency (IEA) just zipped the body bag. In its latest forecast, the IEA reports that global oil demand in 2025 will grow at its slowest rate in five years, and that U.S. oil...
Homegrown Are Next: When Citizenship Becomes Conditional
Some warnings are subtle.This wasn’t one of them. Walking into the Oval Office the president of El Salvador, Donald Trump reportedly made a statement so blunt, so authoritarian in tone, that it didn’t just cross a line—it erased it: “Homegrown are next.” Let that...
Why the U.S. Can’t Build Without China’s Minerals or Canada’s Steel
You can’t build a military without minerals.You can’t win a tech war without magnets.And you can’t bluff your way through a crisis when your opponent controls the raw materials and the map. Welcome to the rare earth trap.And as of April 4, the trap has been sprung. In...
Drill, Baby, Drill” Is Dead—and Wall Street Killed It
You can almost hear the silence in the oil fields. Not too long ago, “Drill, baby, drill” was more than a campaign slogan—it was the energy gospel for a certain flavor of American politics. Black gold, job creation, oil independence, wave that flag. And for a while,...
Kilmar Garcia’s Deportation Wasn’t a Glitch—It Was a Warning
You can say a lot of things about the Trump administration’s immigration policy. But “legal” sure as hell isn’t one of them. Let’s talk about Kilmar Abrego Garcia—a man with a Green Card, living in Maryland, protected by an immigration judge’s 2019 ruling that barred...
Deploying Troops for a Political Show: The Border Becomes a Stage
President Trump’s latest order to hand the Pentagon control of federal land along the southern border reads like the fever dream of a late-night cable host. He’s calling it a “Military Mission for Sealing the Southern Border of the United States and Repelling...
Where Are the Shipyards?
You can write all the executive orders you want. You can form task forces, launch action plans, and declare a new era of American shipbuilding. But before we start pouring steel and painting hulls red, white, and blue—we’ve got to ask a basic question: Where the hell...
Isaac Cubillos
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