Source: Niskanen Center
by Elliot Lo

“The Department of Energy’s Speed to Power Initiative addressing large-scale transmission and generation projects represents an important step toward ensuring affordable and reliable power, both focus points of the Trump administration’s national energy emergency declaration. The need is significant: In 2022, Grid Strategies estimated that insufficient capacity to deliver the lowest-cost generation cost consumers $20.8 billion. Increased ‘reconductoring’ of aging powerlines stands out as a highly promising tool to remedy this issue quickly.” [editor’s note: The solution to the problems of long-distance transmission via “grids” is to abandon “grids” in favor of local and decentralized power generation. Anything else is just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic – TLK] (03/24/26)

https://www.niskanencenter.org/transmission-is-the-problem-reconductoring-is-part-of-the-solution

Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard

“A recent Facebook memory notice reminded me of when I was young and naïve and full of political hope. Okay, maybe I wasn’t full of political hope but at least I wasn’t as old at the end of the last century. Facebook flashed a jpeg image with a quote from my 1999 book, Freedom in Chains: ‘It is absurd to expect governments to descend gradually, step-by-step into barbarism – as if there was a train schedule to political hell and people could get off at any stop along the way.’ When I wrote that book, I reached deep within to dredge up whatever remnants of positive thinking that I could find. But that didn’t stop the Los Angeles Times from denouncing my ‘political paranoid’s view’ in which ‘government assumes an overweening, menacing aspect.'” (03/23/26)

https://jimbovard.com/blog/2026/03/23/our-train-trip-to-political-hell/

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“For those Americans who still believe that the U.S. government’s deadly, destructive, illegal, and unconstitutional war of aggression against Iran is about concern for the freedom and well-being of the people of Iran, what the U.S. government is now doing with its war on immigrants will help dispel such Americans of such a quaint notion. That’s because U.S. officials are in the process of deporting 400 Iranian immigrants to Iran as part of their war on immigrants. Yes, you read that right! U.S. officials are forcibly returning 400 Iranian immigrants to a country that the U.S. government and the Israeli government continue to bomb to smithereens. How is that action consistent with a supposed concern for the freedom and well-being of the Iranian people?” (03/23/26)

https://www.fff.org/2026/03/23/the-war-on-immigrants-meets-the-war-on-iran/

Source: Libertarian Institute
by Jim Bovard

“Former FBI director Robert Mueller died last week at the age of 81. The New York Times eulogized him as a ‘button-down, lockjawed, rock-ribbed exemplar of a vanishing caste.’ In reality, Mueller was simply a twenty-first century version of J. Edgar Hoover, trampling the Constitution and seizing new power on any pretext.” (03/23/26)

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-late-robert-mueller-bill-of-rights-executioner

Source: Sex and the State
by Cathy Reisenwitz

“I’d kind of assumed that the frontier AI labs (Anthropic, OpenAI, X) would reap the financial rewards of frontier AI development. But that might not be correct. AI might be more like electricity than Google. After all, who profited from electrification? It certainly wasn’t the inventors. Or their companies. The people who got rich from electricity were the ones who used it to make other things. Profits went to the factory owners who electrified their factories and the folks who sold light bulbs. The electric companies became utilities. I had assumed that the companies currently building AI would become the next Google and Bing. However, many believe that the actual models are more likely to become cheap and interchangeable, like electricity. Or Wi-Fi. Or railroads.” (03/23/26)

https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/why-ai-may-never-be-profitable