Jim is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a Wall Street Journal columnist

-The tractor beam of sexuality

-James B. Meigs is here

-Tucker Carlson is just asking questions. He’s less interested in the answers

-It’s 9/11 season. Call in the OG debunker

-Jet fuel didn’t have to melt steel

-Death threats for… Popular Mechanics

-Tucker finds Israel in the JFK files

-Revisiting Loose Change, 20 years later

-Conspiracy theories thrive in the ruins of journalism

-Data centers or, hear us out, server farms

-The mailbag interrogates Mr. Science Man

-Hugging Face and the AI agents chatting amongst themselves

-Midterm Madness goes to Texas

-Talarico vs. Paxton, somehow a toss-up

-Flock cameras solve crimes. They also know where you’ve been

-Nature, Jason Arday, and the death of fact-checking

-UFOs are real. The aliens remain elusive

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