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Syria, Iran, North Korea Share Three Strategic Imperatives

Previous White House administrations have dealt President Trump a lousy hand in in high-stakes nuclear gambles with Syria, Iran, and North Korea, along with their Russia and China backers. Fortunately, the tables may finally be turning. Adversaries who have become accustomed to winning through deceit and intimidation have finally met an opponent who is evidently…

Coal Cuts Dangerously Clip Texas Power Capacity

As reported in the Hoston Chronicle (chron.com), “Texas’ electricity grid operator expects the state’s power demand to hit an alltime high this summer, possibly requiring customers to reduce power consumption and triggering emergency measures to keep electricity flowing through the grid.” Titled “A Summer Bummer Looms,” the article goes on to say that the Electric…

California’s Petroleum Wars Costly in Dollars and Sense

Oil companies, energy producers, car manufacturers and customers who depend upon all three, are finally experiencing an overheated man-made climate threat truly worth worrying about. It is arriving in the form of expensive and irrational anti-fossil legislation and litigation. On March 7, a three-judge panel in the 9th District Court of Appeals in San Francisco…

Putin Boasts of Advanced, Invincible Weapons

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced during his March 1 State of the Nation Address to his country’s Federal Assembly that his nation has developed new types of strategic weapons against which there are no known defenses. Referring to maneuverable precision hypersonic missiles that fly too high and fast to be intercepted, and to undetectable unmanned…