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It's been a busy seventy-two hours on the lithium-ion battery front, with some of that action, sadly, being boomtastic in Beantown. Sunday started off pretty quietly in the Greater Boston area suburb of Winthrop, MA. By late afternoon, people in one quiet neighborhood were getting dinner ready and probably planning what to wear to work the next day. Right up to where the electric vehicle (EV) parked in the driveway between the two houses, just like. exploded. Thank GOD no one was outside. An electric vehicle exploded in a driveway in Winthrop, Massachusetts, sparking a massive fire that burned two homes Sunday.

It won’t happen overnight, and it won’t happen in Washington. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) won’t have anything to do with it. And neither will the DNC, at least directly. But it will happen. America’s most rural states have the smallest and easiest-to-change voter bases. In the end, it’s just a numbers game. All these states need is more leftists to move in, and the states will flip from red to blue. Up until now, though, the problem has been giving leftists a reason to want to live in a state like Wyoming, the Dakotas, or Idaho. Enter data centers. The Wall Street Journal has reported on one such example where Wyoming

Solar panels, it turns out, contain a lot of valuable materials: Not only glass, aluminum, plastics, and silicon, but also recyclable amounts of silver, copper, and rare earth minerals. These materials aren't cheap - and, like copper wire and catalytic converters, which contain platinum, they are now becoming targets for thieves. A recent Bloomberg piece highlights just such a problem in Chile. Just before midnight, two men in white coveralls and black gloves scale an electric fence at a solar farm in Chile’s Atacama Desert, then slip soundlessly into rows of sleek panels.” Others use a poultry shear and electric angle grinder to breach the main gate. Three pickups without license plates

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) tried to score points off Donald Trump's appearance at Madison Square Garden for Game 3 of the NBA Finals. And, oh boy, did it backfire spectacularly. Monday's press conference gave the House Minority Leader a stage, and he used it to attack Trump’s planned appearance at the game and to question whether Trump was even a true Knicks fan. "I think Knicks fans just want to enjoy Game 3, the first home [NBA Finals] game that we've had in 27 years," Jeffries said. "But it also is not clear to me that Donald Trump is a big Knicks fan. I mean, does this guy even know the difference

It’s not often life showcases a problem in real time. It is now in the form of California and the Senate. It’s become clear that California voting is designed to give Democrats the ability to cheat. Aside from Ranked Choice Voting scam and a universal mail-out of ballots, the state allows 30 days for votes to be counted, a fraud facilitator if there ever were one. We’re seeing it play itself out very much in real time. Last week in Los Angeles in the battle for Mayor, at one point after an update of 24,000 votes, Spencer Pratt, a guy with 30% support, did not gain a single vote.

You know, Democrats are used to invoking Democrat Privilege like a get out of jail free card when they've been caught saying or doing something they shouldn't have been doing, so it's not exactly a surprise they use similar tactics when it comes to acting like they own celebrities, professional sports players and events, etc. For many years, Democrats have used their connections to the Hollywood elite and pro-sports with wild abandon to try to make themselves appear "hip" on one hand and "relatable" on the other, while painting the GOP as out of touch - and even as Republicans were making inroads with well-known

Election Day returns indicated that Spencer Pratt had easily secured the second position in the Los Angeles Mayor race, and would face incumbent Karen Bass in the general election. But ballots have continued to come in and be counted, and a remarkable number of those ballots have been for the initial third-place candidate, Nithya Raman. So it looks like the runoff election will be between two far-left candidates, and Los Angeles will continue to go downhill. Conservatives generally assume that the fix was in, and Raman’s renaissance is due wholly or in part to voter fraud. Are they right? Today’s Unleash Prosperity Hotline (which you should subscribe to if you don’t)

As I wrote in a prior article, the concept of a grid with distributed energy resources (DERs) has been promulgated by parties pushing for renewables and datacenters. They claim that a network model more approaching what we currently have with the Internet would be an improvement over our current power grid architecture. They envision a shared network for power generation, transmission, and distribution, built through the combined investments of millions of participants. Over time, this model would have the potential to reshape the technical and financial foundation of the energy system. However, they seem to gloss over some important distinctions between the power grid and the Internet.

New Jersey is known as the Garden State, and honestly, if you get out of Newark or any of the other cities into the western and northern parts of the state, you really can see why. But New Jersey's main garden crop these days seems to be questionable voter registrations. We have now learned that not only were noncitizens on the voter rolls in New Jersey, but some appear to actually have voted. Noncitizens in a key blue state were on the voter rolls for years — and some even voted in prior elections, according to documents obtained via public records request. The New Jersey Republican Party (NJGOP)

Governed peoples, in the post-Enlightenment era, adhere to the fiction of having a social contract with the state. Part of that agreement allows the state to retain a monopoly on violence. The governed cede their right to retaliate against parties that have injured them provided that the state intercede on their behalf to deliver justice and retribution. The exercise of vigilante justice by individuals or groups is prohibited. I say it is a fiction because there never was a party called the governed that sat down with rulers to cede their rights in exchange for protection and justice. It was an idea promulgated by rulers alone who understood that violence

Suppose you were a university professor and a liberal -- but I repeat myself. And suppose you were ambitious. What better way to blaze across the sky like a meteor than to write a book about how all those far-right armed insurrectionists were fans of a guy with a semi-Nazi mustache? I first learned about Friedrich von Hayek, born in Vienna, economist of the Austrian school and political philosopher, back in the 1970s when Bob Bartley set the world ablaze at the WSJ editorial page. In 1931, Hayek left Vienna. He joined the London School of Economics, became F.A. Hayek, and hit the big time with his critique of socialism and

Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman has overtaken former reality TV personality Spencer Pratt for the second spot in the Los Angeles mayoral runoff, according to updated vote totals released Sunday by the LA County Registrar-Recorder. Raman, a progressive Democrat representing the city’s 4th Council District, now holds 27.12% of the counted ballots. Pratt, a registered Republican who ran on a law-and-order platform, sits at 26.69%. The gap stands at 3,113 votes. Decision Desk HQ projected Sunday that Raman had secured the second of two spots in the nonpartisan primary, which advances the top two finishers to the November 3 general election