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Nation in meltdown over data centers

Data centers are big buildings full of machines that process what we do on our phones and computers. AI requires even more computing power, so companies are eager to build more data centers. The usual suspects are freaking out. "We must stop it!" says Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "Slow it down!" demands Sen. Bernie Sanders. Data centers do use lots of power, and water to cool them down because their computers generate heat. One center can use as much power and water as a small town. "Uses resources like a madman!" says one protester in my new video. Last year, ...

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Bucks want to settle future of Giannis before draft

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Jimmy Haslam says he would like to have Giannis Antetokounmpo's future sorted out before next month's NBA draft. Haslam spoke Wednesday alongside general manager Jon Horst at a news conference introducing Taylor Jenkins as the Bucks' coach. Antetokounmpo has spent his entire 13-year career with the Bucks, but it's possible he could leave Milwaukee after a frustrating, injury-marred season. "I just think before the draft is a natural time," Haslam said. "Because if Giannis does play somewhere else, we've got to have a lot of assets. That's ...

Stop blocking the care rural America needs

Rural hospitals are closing at alarming rates; more than 80 have shut down since 2005, and another 700 are at risk of doing so. The standard policy response is more subsidies and federal aid. But rural healthcare is struggling largely because the system blocks competition, innovation, and new providers. The solution is not more government funding—it is removing the barriers that prevent healthcare providers and emerging technologies from serving rural patients. Rural healthcare can improve if policymakers allow competition and expand provider supply. Rural communities face healthcare ...

Putting a scare into the silenced generation

Are America's college students doing to themselves what the Chinese Communist state does to its citizens? An Ivy League professor -- an old-fashioned liberal who actually cares about free speech -- recently warned me about what's happening in classrooms like his. He encourages class discussion of the great books he teaches in class -- but students are afraid to speak, not because they're afraid of the professor but because they fear each other. Communist regimes have tried to stamp out dissent for more than a century. Tyrants and totalitarians have always tried to sow suspicion ...

Is anyone monitoring the U.S. debt?

People of a certain age will recall a lyric from the Tennessee Ernie Ford song "Sixteen Tons": "Another day older and deeper in debt." I thought of that song as Secretary of War Pete Hegseth asked Congress to approve a $1.5 trillion budget for fiscal year 2027 to put the military on what he called a "wartime footing." Hegseth says the Pentagon needs the money for more drones, munitions and modernized systems. Though President Trump has denied it, bragging that we have the strongest military in the world, it would appear that the Iran conflict has significantly depleted U.S military ...