"A civilization is not destroyed by wicked men; it is destroyed by weak men who cannot defend what is good.” —G. K. Chesterton

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For four years Republicans had a simple message on energy: prices were higher under Joe Biden. It worked. Voters remembered $5 gasoline in the summer of 2022, and Donald Trump promised to bring it down. The war with Iran has turned that argument on its head, and the evidence is in the government’s own price data.

I went back through the Energy Information Administration’s monthly averages for every month since 2017. Here is what they show.

The POLITICO Poll finds most Americans see no clear way for the party to regain the advantage as the election reaches its final weeks, with even Republican voters skeptical that President Donald Trump could pull off a last-minute move that could shake up the campaign.

A million people live in Kaliningrad, a Russian territory that borders no friendly country. Squeezed between Poland and Lithuania and severed from the Russian mainland since 1991, it can be crossed by car in under two hours. The Baltic Fleet is stationed there, along with Iskander launchers, S-400 batteries and a network of radars and jammers that reaches well into Polish and Lithuanian airspace.

There’s a kind of rust that doesn’t just eat at steel; it eats at nations. For decades, America’s shipbuilding capacity has been quietly corroding, and the numbers are damning. We once built as many as four ships a day. More recently, it has taken an average of seven to fifteen years to deliver a single vessel.

The Pentagon has prepared plans for renewed attacks on Iran, including strikes on missile and drone arsenals, energy facilities and other military sites, The New York Times reported on Thursday.

According to the report, “Trump has once more ordered up strike options.” 

US President Donald Trump has once again complained that he did not receive the Nobel Peace Prize, calling this year's decision "disgraceful and embarrassing".

The prize was awarded to former International Criminal Court judge Navi Pillay on Friday. Hours after the announcement, Trump told a rally he had "never heard" of the "mystery person".

"This is an indelible stain on the country of Norway," he said, adding "we will not forget".