As Americans Struggle with gas prices and rising inflation, the Trump administration is preparing a $2.8 billion taxpayer-funded weapons sale to Israel, including 40,000 2,000-pound bombs. American families are getting hammered by another round of rising energy costs, with diesel now well above $6 a gallon nationally, gasoline climbing again, and crude oil back above $100 a barrel. At the ...
On September 4, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the August jobs report and the headlines practically wrote themselves. Employers added 162,000 jobs, nearly three times the 56,000 economists expected. The unemployment rate held at 4.1%. Financial television called it a rebound, the stock tickers turned green, and the story was over by lunch. Buried further down in that same ...
Patrick De Haan has been tracking fuel prices for GasBuddy since 2011. He has worked through refinery fires, hurricanes, COVID and the 2022 diesel spike, and he is the guy reporters call when pump prices start going crazy and they need somebody to explain what is actually happening. This week he pulled up the diesel spot market and posted a ...
The names of firearms designers such as John Moses Browning, Mikhail Kalashnikov and Eugene Morrison Stoner are synonymous with iconic firearms. Stoner was a prolific firearms designer who was responsible for the AR-7 U.S. Air Force survival rifle, the AR-10 rifle, the SR-25, and, of course, the AR-15 and M16 rifles. A member of a U.S. Navy SEAL team armed ...
Remember when Americans were fighting over toilet paper at Costco? For a few weeks in 2020, the country got a crash course in just how fragile the modern supply chain r–eally is, and just how eaily people can push things over the edge when they start to panic. A product nobody thought twice about suddenly disappeared, stores slapped limits on ...
Editor’s Note: In today’s article, Ramon Ramirez takes a look at the Springfield Armory 1911 Emissary 4.25″ AOS pistol chambered for the 9x19mm Parabellum cartridge as a modern self-defense handgun. The firearm was provided to the author by the company for this article. I didn’t step into the firearms space thinking reviews were going to become the main focus. That ...
For the first time since the AI industry started, the four companies building the most powerful artificial intelligence on the planet agree on something — AND NO IT’S NOT GOOD. Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI and Google DeepMind spend every waking hour trying to destroy each other. They poach each other’s researchers, sue each other, mock each other in public, and burn ...
Would you believe it if I said that hiking around the woods and catching fish is my work? I own a fly fishing guide business in Utah named “Chunky Trout Outfitters,” and in order to stay up-to-date on where the fish are hungry, what they are eating and what lakes are hot for the week, I need to fish on ...
A couple of things happened Friday that, taken separately, probably looked like just more noise coming out of the Middle East. Saudi Arabia shut down its East-West Crude Oil Pipeline after drones launched from Iraq struck targets along the line Thursday morning in the Riyadh and Medina regions. Fires broke out, several people were reportedly injured, and US officials told ...
Since World War II, arguments have raged over the abilities of German tanks compared to those of the Western Allies. AFV enthusiasts and armchair generals have debated the merits of the thick armor protection and big gun armament of German armored vehicles versus the less protected and under-gunned, but mechanically reliable and numerically superior British and American tanks — particularly ...