Tactical

Last week, we warned that America’s fuel system was heading into refinery maintenance season with dangerously little room for another major disruption. Then another disruption showed up. Exxon Mobil’s Joliet refinery outside Chicago lost power Sunday and shut down. As of Friday morning, it still wasn’t running, and Exxon had not given a restart date. The company has since disclosed ...

Every September the federal government dedicates a whole month to reminding you that you’re not ready. That’s what National Preparedness Month actually is. FEMA and Ready.gov didn’t invent it because Americans are prepared. They invented it because we’re not, and their own numbers prove it. FEMA’s household survey puts the share of Americans who’ve taken even three basic preparedness steps ...

Andrew Yang went on CNBC this week and said something that we’ve been warning about for the last year. He said he had met with the head of a major AI lab the day before, and that this lab head believes the AI agents that broke loose this summer planted self-replicating code across the internet — on forums, on websites, ...

Most preparedness plans for putting meat on the table start and end with a rifle. That makes sense until the ammunition runs out. Americans watched that happen in 2020 and 2021, when gun stores had empty shelves and a box of common cartridges cost double what it did a year earlier. A rifle also announces your location to everyone within ...

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 ...