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U.S. energy dominance is a global good

3 days ago | americanthinker.com | Chris Talgo

One of the most underreported and overlooked achievements of President Trump’s first term is that the United States became a net oil exporter for the first time in 75 years in 2018. During his first four years in the Oval Office, Trump launched an ambitious plan to foster what he called American “energy dominance.” Without question, this was a successful endeavor.
Trump Is No TACO After All: Surprise Iran Attack Proves He Means What He Says

4 days ago | americanthinker.com | Ned Barnett

No sooner did President Trump give Iran “up to two weeks” to agree to go into serious negotiations to strip the ancient Persian nation’s ability to make and use nuclear weapons, his far left critics immediately revived the nickname “TACO.” This is the latest cute, smart-ass Wall Street-turned-leftist slang; this time it’s short for “Trump Always Chickens Out.” This came from a gross misunderstanding of his use of publicly announced way-high tariffs as a means of negotiating reasonable, low,...
Iran: About that two-week deadline...

5 days ago | americanthinker.com | Noel S. Williams

I just read one of the most disingenuous articles imaginable about strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities. It skillfully lists the technical specifications Iran must ensure in order to develop a functional nuclear weapon, but after obliging the reader with this expertise, it draws wrong-headed conclusions. Presented, compliments of Fox News, by retired lt. colonel Robert Maginnis, it argues against a “hasty and unjustified war” against Iran.
California creates another problem for all of us: Illegal alien CDL drivers stealing semi-truck hauls

1 week ago | americanthinker.com | Olivia Murray

What happens in California (or any other Democrat-run state) doesn’t stay in California (or any other Democrat-run state), and here is yet another example, from an article published yesterday at Breitbart News: ‘Authorities in a recent cargo theft bust recovered more than $1.6M in stolen electronics recovered from a tractor-trailer owned by someone whose CDL stated their first name was ‘No Name Given’ and their last name was ‘Diamond,’’ reported Overdrive.
Newsom claims Trump's immigration enforcement interferes with wildfire containment

1 week ago | americanthinker.com | Monica Showalter

In the annals of hypocrisy, it's hard to top California's governor, Gavin Newsom. In a speech yesterday, he came up with a creative new reason to try to stop President Trump's immigration enforcement. According to KTLA: California Gov. Gavin Newsom says that President Donald Trump’s “illegal militarization” of Los Angeles is hamstringing firefighting resources across the state, just as peak fire season begins.
Middle-aged man dressing as a little girl given license to drive a school bus-hangs a sign in window that reads ‘Lolita Line’

1 week ago | americanthinker.com | Olivia Murray

Tell me you’re a pedophile without telling me you’re a pedophile: If you’re a man, and you dress in frilly pink mini-frocks with knee-high stockings before heading off to your professional job, which is a bus route for an elementary school, and then you add “Lolita Line” to the bus identification placard—a nod to Vladimir Nabokov’s Humbert Humbert, or perhaps the colloquial name of Jeffrey Epstein’s plane (which is also a Nabokov reference)—you’re probably (but most definitely) a demented...
Mayor Karen Bass admits it: Los Angeles would shrivel without its illegals

1 week ago | americanthinker.com | Monica Showalter

Thinking she could get President Trump's attention by pulling out big money numbers on illegal immigration , Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass whipped them out: There are entire sectors of the economy in Los Angeles that depend on immigrant labor. This administration is waging a war against our own economy. pic.twitter.com/9G8YXV8i5P — Mayor Karen Bass (@MayorOfLA) June 16, 2025 It was not the slam dunk she thought it was.
End the EPA’s Endangerment Finding

1 week ago | americanthinker.com | H. Sterling Burnett

In December 2009, the Endangerment Finding was born when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under then-president Obama ruled that carbon dioxide (CO2) endangered human health and thus could be regulated as a pollutant. The EPA’s action flowed from an expansive and unjustified decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that CO2 was a pollutant simply because it was emitted into the air, and if the agency found it endangered human health or welfare, it could regulate it.
MA governor on-track to spend more than $1 billion in FY2025 on ‘emergency shelter’ program that largely serves illegal migrants

1 week ago | americanthinker.com | Olivia Murray

To be honest, I for one am completely underwhelmed by the “largest deportation operation in American history.” Wake me up when we start deporting more illegals than Obummer and Crooked Joe, but, here’s a tip for ICE: Start at the shelters and hotels of Massachusetts.
Chicago Public Schools sees in-the-toilet enrollment numbers, tuition at one school costing $93k per student

1 week ago | americanthinker.com | Olivia Murray

Only the government could create a school system that comes with private tuition costs and one of the verifiably worst educations. Actually, allow me to rephrase that: Only a “progressive” leftist government could accomplish such a feat.