Nate Ardle

Who made the United States the police of the world?

Poor Americans who attend church regularly are happier than rich Americans who never go. Behavioral scientist William von Hippel thought he'd made a coding error. He hadn't. "Regularly attending services has a bigger impact on your happiness than wealth," he writes. "Money buys a fair bit of happiness but connection gives you more bang for the buck." What's happening? Rich people already have most of what money buys. What they lack is what churches provide for free: weekly, repeated contact with people who know your name. Von Hippel is direct about the cost: "I suspect that wealthy, educated urbanites are paying a steeper price for their lifestyle than they realize. Many of us have paid too great a price in connection for our increased autonomy."

Clearly retailers are gouging at this point. Oil at roughly $100 a barrel does NOT justify these prices.

No one should be surprised but what he left out is that this turbine costs an estimated $50-80 million to build and install. It only produces power 35-45% of the time because wind is intermittent. Its output degrades 12-16% over its 20-25 year lifespan. It requires hundreds of tons of steel, concrete, fiberglass, and rare earth minerals mined largely in China (his favorite country). The other 55-65% of the time you need backup power, which comes from natural gas. And it exists only because of massive government subsidies. A natural gas plant of the same 26MW capacity costs $26-39 million, produces more than double the effective output, runs on demand 24 hours a day regardless of weather, and lasts 30-40 years. Half the price. Double the output. No weather dependency. No subsidies required. But this was never about the environment. If it were, you would care that rare earth mining for wind turbines devastates landscapes across China and Africa, that thousands of birds and bats are killed annually by turbine blades, that the blades themselves are non-recyclable fiberglass rotting in landfills, and that natural gas produces half the emissions of coal with none of these problems. You ignore all of this because environmentalism was never your goal. It is your vehicle. The destination is what it has always been: government control of energy production, which means government control of the economy, which is socialism. Rand identified this decades ago. The green movement is not a scientific movement. It is a political one, and its target is not pollution. It is capitalism.

The fundamental problem for this nation is that the Democrats have internalized that only they are virtuous and all power exercised outside of their control is illegitimate. Historically, when groups do that, it ends badly for everyone. From Hitler to Mao to Pol Pot, when a party cannot love its nation and people unless it rules them, it ends badly for everyone. The Democrats are headed in that trajectory. Again, you can say the GOP provokes violence or Trump says awful things, but the bullets are all going from left to right.

"NO KINGS" crowd greets King Charles with a standing ovation

Ilhan Omar pronounces "World War II" as "World War Eleven." UNBELIEVABLE

Every breath you take contains an atom that Julius Caesar exhaled when he was stabbed to death in 44 BC. The same goes for Cleopatra, your great-great-grandmother, and every human who lived before you. The math just works out. Each breath holds more atoms than there are grains of sand on every beach on Earth. Within a couple of years, atoms from any single breath have spread evenly around the world. So when you inhale, you're picking up molecules that have already been inside Lincoln's lungs, Joan of Arc's lungs, a T-rex's lungs. Author Sam Kean ran the math in his book Caesar's Last Breath. The same logic applies to the iron in your blood, the calcium in your bones, the gold in your wedding ring. None of this existed at the start of the universe. All of it was forged inside stars that died billions of years ago. Most came from stars that exploded. Some (the gold, the platinum, the iodine inside you) came from something even rarer: two dead stars crashing into each other. MIT confirmed this in 2021. Your body is also constantly rebuilding itself. Right now, you're swapping out about 3.8 million cells every second. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute, a top biology lab in Israel, calculated that in roughly three months you replace about 30 trillion cells. That's basically your entire body. The version of you reading this is made of mostly different material than the version of you from one season ago. The meme is right. We're a temporary arrangement of atoms borrowed from the universe, swapped out billions of cells at a time, breathed in and out across every life that has ever lived.

Ilhan Omar gives a history lesson: “The last time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked it was used during World War ELEVEN.”