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Air National Guard airmen work clearing leaves and debris from McPherson Square Park in Washington, D.C., Aug. 28, 2025. (Andrew Leyden/Getty Images)

Nebraska has been on a roll. After voting big for President Donald Trump in 2024 and Republicans since forever, the state is now reaping what it so eagerly sowed. Its economy is collapsing . ...

Leave it to Donald Trump to grossly exploit a true human tragedy in order to exalt himself and divert attention from his multitude of failures. The latest example stems from the shooting of two National Guard troops in Washington, D.C. by an Afghan...

Today it was revealed that American military forces conducted a "double tap" strike on an alleged drug running boat on September 2d. They hit the boat once, killing some and disabling the boat. However, there were survivors. They hit the boat again to...

Shocking as this moment is, none of us should pretend we weren’t warned. When Donald Trump installed Pete Hegseth — a television provocateur whose public record is soaked in belligerence, booze, and culture-war performance — as America’s Defense...

Updated and expanded from the 2014 TPJ post (https://trenzpruca.wordpress.com/2014/08/11/el-topo-and-jeanne/) In my never-ending quest for something—anything—to do in suburban El Dorado Hills, I recently decided to revisit Alejandro Jodorowsky’s early...

Electricity is getting more and more expensive, and there’s much more to it than simply increased demand, though that's bad enough. The worst part is utility companies are guaranteed a profit for a bad business model that never reduces their returns,...

A Russian missile test didn’t exactly go as planned -- but it made a pretty cloud. I have to agree. Probable missile types involved: • UR-100NUTTKh (SS-19 Stiletto) • R-36M2 / RS-20 (SS-18) Both rely on UDMH fuel and nitrogen tetroxide oxidizer, which...

I haven’t seen a word in the USA media about this story so I am putting it out here. This is a major disaster. Sri Lanka is an island about the size of West Virginia and sits off the southeast coast of India. It is home to about 22 million people....

Trump’s “peace plan” for Ukraine, crafted by Witkoff and Dmitriev, has hit a dead end, The Atlantic reports. Vance bet Kyiv would cave after a corruption scandal, but Zelensky held firm. General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Operational...