August 28, 2026

NIFTY: Army awards $2.2B in contracts for nuclear microreactors.

The initiative, dubbed Project Janus, looks to achieve greater energy independence so critical military missions can continue if the commercial electrical grid fails.

“Everything that we do, from communications to radar, just requires constant energy,” Jeff Waksman, principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army for installations, energy and environment, told reporters Wednesday. “As we start to think about where things are going in the future with drones, with energy weapons, there’s just more and more demand for electricity.”

Nuclear energy is a “natural game-changer” for the Army, he added.

My offer to host a microreactor in my backyard to power the neighborhood remains open.

Posted at 2:50 pm by Stephen Green

THE FEMINISTS ARE TOO BUSY COSPLAYING AS “HANDMAID’S TALE” SEX SLAVES TO COMMENT:

Posted at 2:34 pm by Stephen Green

VIGILANTISM IS THE NATURAL BYPRODUCT OF BAD GOVERNANCE:

Or in Spain’s case, criminal governance.

Posted at 2:03 pm by Stephen Green

WELL, GOOD: Hoplophobe’s Hell: More Americans Are Rejecting Gun Control. “The decline wasn’t a landslide, but represents a consistent trend downward for America’s gun control industry. Sure, the right to keep and bear arms isn’t an 80/20 issue — yet — but it’s favorable enough that almost no one running for Congress outside a handful of crime-soaked blue cities wants to test voter support for more gun control laws.”

Posted at 1:48 pm by Stephen Green

MAKE MERIT GREAT AGAIN:

Posted at 1:32 pm by Stephen Green

SUMMARY EXECUTION WAS GOOD ENOUGH FOR PIRATES, AND TERRORISTS ARE EVERY BIT HOSTIS HUMANI GENERIS:Why Is KSM Still Alive?

Posted at 1:17 pm by Stephen Green

21ST CENTURY MEDICINE: AI Tool Mapped Nerves During Brain Surgery That Saved A Man’s Eyesight. “Doctors at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN) in London operated on the patient, Rhys Hibbert, using an AI tool to analyze live surgical footage and highlight vital nerves and blood vessels to avoid while removing the tumor, the BBC reported Wednesday. This real-time AI video tool was designed in-house at University College London’s Hawkes Institute and runs on NVIDIA’s Clara IGX computer, according to a Thursday University College London Hospitals (UCLH) NHS Foundation Trust announcement.”

Posted at 12:46 pm by Stephen Green

LOTS OF SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY ON THE INTERNET. IT’S BEEN THAT WAY FOR A COUPLE OF DECADES.

Posted at 12:09 pm by Glenn Reynolds

PASS THIS BILL: America Strikes Back Against Foreign Censors With the Rulli GRANITE Act, HR 10174.

The GRANITE Act is a bill to stop foreign governments from censoring Americans on the Internet.

Per reporting in the Times, a federal GRANITE Act, the “Guaranteeing Rights Against Novel International Tyranny and Extortion Act,” was introduced in the House of Representatives by Congressman Michael Rulli of Ohio.

Representative Rulli’s GRANITE Act is the first federal foreign censorship shield bill in American history.

The bill text is available in full at congress.gov.

A GRANITE Act amends U.S. law to make foreign censorship threats against Americans toothless. The threat alone, even a threat that would be very difficult to enforce, is enough to chill speech and restrict the American marketplace of ideas.

Today, foreign governments threaten Americans for their online speech on a daily basis. Those threats must stop.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 11:44 am by Stephen Green

IN THE ’80S, WE CALLED IT “BURDEN SHARING” WITH EUROPE:

Posted at 11:28 am by Stephen Green