President Trump has reached the top of the 2nd inning in his second term as we approach Thanksgiving 2025. He crushed it in the first inning with a Hall of Fame-level performance. Herewith: ten 1st-inning scores, ten 2nd-inning assets, and ten 2nd-inning challenges for POTUS 47. Bottom line: The game is going great.

The MELTDOWN @ MOSS LANDING public briefing packed them in on Cannery Row.  A hundred citizens came out for this CASI civic education event at Wave Street Studios , a sign of civic health, especially given the terribly grim topic. I participated reluctantly. Duty called. Dr. Francois Melese opened the briefing, followed by me, soon joined by two victims of Vistra’s Battery Bomb: the analytic Larry Moore & the heroic Liza Schmidt — Supermom. I then ceded the stage to my scien

Putin has brought a series of plagues onto Russia, with the first eight listed in this post already occurring. Will he capitulate before Putin's Plagues reach nine, let alone ten? His billion dollar Pleasure Palace hangs in the balance.

New research reveals that Vistra Corp likely received almost $500 million in politically directed money to build and operate its Battery Electric Storage System (BESS) in Moss Landing, prior to its self-destruction. Given the terrible harm that befell the communities surrounding Vistra’s BESS disaster and the fortune in public money used to build and operate it, Vistra should disgorge that $500 million into a community fund for victims of the disaster.

The burgeoning partnership between Burkean Nation & the Monterey County Republican Party took another step today with a press release denouncing Dawn Addis. I appreciate that the Party is using its megaphone to urge citizens up and down the Central Coast to vote out Dawn Addis in November 2026.

Operation Midnight Hammer marks President Trump's latest successful display of Badass Statecraft. He's employed Badass Statecraft at least IX times before, making this Badass Statecraft X.

RENEWABLES are bad energy. They are gluttons for land AND require massive subsidies, yet their juice is super expensive. NatGas & nukes are healthy energy. They are slender, taking almost no land. Healthy Energy is the Golden Ticket for California & America as a whole.

Monterey County Supervisor Glenn Church's Town Hall the other day at the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories was well attended by locals, but deeply sad and profoundly disappointing. The Dem Supe and several aloof bureaucrats repeatedly dissembled and deflected when presented with plain spoken complaints about Moss Landing's demise. Moss Landing has become a Ghost Town Driving to the meeting through Moss Landing village's rugged streets was a tour of shuttered restaurants and st

A Battery Electric Storage plant recently exploded in the heart of Monterey County. That Moss Landing Disaster is hard to fully comprehend, given that it is simultaneously shocking, far reaching and profoundly tragic. This post examines the disaster, including who is to blame.

Tariffs are a better tax than what we suffer under today. Internal vs External, $4$, and Getting There from Here are the three sections of this post that explain it all.