"Over the weekend, Sam Zeff, a reporter for KCUR, Kansas City's NPR affiliate, told me over X that 'you wasted your money on your degree.'

I am a recent college graduate with a degree in meteorology. Zeff was replying to my post on social media, pointing out that he, and other climate activists, were ignoring basic scientific facts when they blamed man-made climate change for the tragic flooding in Texas. The truth is that the rainfall and flooding along the Guadalupe River were not historically unprecedented and had little, if anything, to do with climate change. Neither heavy rainfall nor river flooding has increased in the Texas Hill Country over the last six decades.

The devastating loss of life in Texas is a reminder of the importance of meteorology and accurate science when it comes to understanding the weather. This is no time for politics or finger-pointing from either the left or the right."

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"Explosive new evidence suggests that some of the highest-ranking officials in the Obama-era CIA and FBI perjured themselves regarding their claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin helped Donald Trump secure his victory in 2016.

"A newly released CIA review challenges their sworn denials to Congress that the Steele dossier -- a discredited set of allegations about Trump funded by Hillary Clinton's campaign -- was used as the basis for the years-long Russiagate probe that hamstrung President Trump's first term.

"The eight-page review conducted by career CIA analysts found the dossier did, in fact, worm its way into the text of the highly classified report known as an Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) to buttress the thinly sourced, yet inflammatory allegation that 'Putin and the Russian Government aspired to help President-elect Trump's election chances.'"

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"The Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted a judge's order preventing the Trump administration from conducting mass layoffs across the federal bureaucracy, for now.

"The court in its unsigned ruling said Trump's February executive order directing federal agencies to prepare for reductions in force (RIFs) is likely lawful.

"It enables federal agencies to resume implementing Trump's directive, though the high court left the door open for plaintiffs to challenge any agency's specific plan down the road."

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"Donald Trump has been accused of many outlandish things, but killing children with flash floods has to be among the worst.

"The first reflex of his critics was to blame him for the appalling tragedy in central Texas, where a flood on July 4 killed more than 100 people, including over two dozen children at a Christian summer camp.

"This is one of the deadliest floods in the United States in the last 100 years, and the toll among kids is a particular gut punch.

"It's natural that observers will ask how it could have happened, but the fact-free, malicious attacks constitute one of the more poisonously stupid episodes of the Trump years -- and that's saying a lot."

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"Although Democrats were unable to stop President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill from becoming law, their relentless attacks on its provisions -- particularly their fearmongering over cuts to Medicaid -- have left a lasting negative impression on many voters.

"By framing the bill as a ruthless assault on vulnerable Americans, the Democrats, the legacy media, and even a few Republicans -- North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis and Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon come to mind -- succeeded in planting doubt and stirring public anxiety about this legislation. ...

"In a recent op-ed, The Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote, 'No one is "gutting" the safety net: The GOP will have to rebut the Democratic and media distortions about their reforms or lose the 2026 election.'

"They are right. Republicans have 16 months to replace this false perception with the truth. They must make it their highest priority. Failure to do so will all but guarantee the loss of their majority in the House, and could even put their control of the Senate at risk."

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"No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July."

"'"Everyone, from the President on down, is bound by law." That goes for judges too,' the Supreme Court declared last week in holding several lower court judges erred in entering nationwide injunctions in the lawsuits challenging Donald Trump's birthright citizenship executive order. The Supreme Court's Friday decision in Trump v. CASA, Inc. represents the high court's most recent check on what it branded an 'imperial judiciary.' Yet, there appears no end in sight to the lower courts' entry of lawless injunctions against the Trump Administration.

"The Supreme Court -- or more specifically, Chief Justice John Roberts -- holds much blame for enabling this coup by court. Early on during the second Trump Administration, when single district court judges began crowning themselves Kings (or Queens) of the Constitution, rather than forcefully halt the lawlessness of the lower courts, Justice Roberts led the high court in providing gentle corrections."

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"In its last two working days, the Biden administration's Energy Department signed off on nearly $42 billion for green energy projects -- a sum that exceeded the total amount its Loan Programs Office (LPO) had put out in the past decade.

"The frenzied activity on Jan. 16 and 17, 2025, capped a spending binge that saw the LPO approve at least $93 billion in current and future disbursements after Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election in November, according to documents provided by the department to RealClearInvestigations. It appears that Biden officials were rushing to deploy billions in approved funding in anticipation that the incoming Trump administration would seek to redirect uncommitted money away from clean energy projects.

"The agreements were made despite a warning from the department's inspector general, urging the loan office to suspend operations in December over concerns that post-election loans could present conflicts of interest."

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"The top-secret Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) assessment that claimed Iran's nuclear sites suffered only moderate damage likely relied on faulty information from deceitful Iranian sources, according to several former U.S. intelligence officers, one of whom described the document as so unreliable 'you can wipe your ass with it.'

"The classified DIA report ignited a media firestorm in the days after President Donald Trump authorized precision strikes on Iran's top three nuclear sites. The findings were leaked to CNN and the New York Times, which presented them as bombshell evidence that the U.S. bombing run only set back Tehran's nuclear ambitions by several months.

"The U.S. intelligence community deemed that initial assessment 'low-confidence,' a fact CNN omitted from its original piece, and based it solely on satellite imagery and intercepted communications -- known as signals intelligence, or SIGINT -- from Iranian officials. Shortly after the assessment leaked, Axios reported that communications intercepted by Israel 'suggest Iranian military officials have been giving false situation reports to the country's political leadership -- downplaying the extent of the damage.' Such communications likely made their way into the DIA report, according to three former U.S. intelligence operatives, a current U.S. official, and other veteran national security insiders who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon both on and off the record. Some of them referred to the DIA as the 'discount intelligence agency.'"

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"Heaven help New York.

"A Democratic primary election for mayor that offered no good options managed to deliver the worst of all possible outcomes.

"A nepo baby who is a socialist antisemite came storming from behind to grab the inside track to City Hall."

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