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AWED MEDIA BALANCE NEWS: We cover Energy to Education to Elections — and more!
By John Droz, Jr. Welcome! We cover Energy to Education to Elections — and more! Here is the link for this issue, so please share it on social media. Checkout the 2026, 2025, & 2024 archives, plus asterisked items below. — This Newsletter’s Articles, by Topic — {To make the Newsletter shorter, we’ll just link […]
CFACT joins the Fix the EPA Veto Coalition
By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow CFACT has officially joined the newly formed Fix the EPA Veto Coalition, a broad alliance pressing the Trump administration to issue a strong executive order reining in the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to retroactively sabotage major energy, mining, and infrastructure projects. At the heart of the issue is Section 404(c) […]
My Submission to the FDA re Vaccines
By John Droz, Jr. I was notified by a friend that an FDA advisory committee was accepting public comments (until midnight, Tuesday, the 26th of May, 2026) on vaccine composition. For details, see here. Below is what I submitted. If you are inspired to also make a submission, please do so! 1 – Based on what transpired […]
Over the Past Several Years, Here’s What We’ve Learned About AI And Why Christians Should Be Concerned
By Majority Report For a long time, artificial intelligence felt like a distant issue. It sounded like something for Silicon Valley engineers, science fiction writers, or investors looking for the next big thing. Most Christians understandably viewed it as just another new technology — impressive, perhaps useful, maybe even overhyped, but not particularly spiritual in […]
Tech Time with Thomas | Building an AI Outbound Sales Agent, Part 2
By A.I. Guys In this episode of Tech Time with Thomas, Thomas and Lee walk through a smart, practical AI workflow that turns a simple Google Sheet into a lightweight lead management system. From automated outreach to internal sales notifications, this build shows how to move leads from first contact to human follow-up without adding […]
Americans Concerned About Individual Liberty May Wish They Listened To AI Giant’s Warnings
By The Daily Caller Americans concerned about civil liberties may wish they had listened to an AI giant’s warning in February that its very own technology, in the hands of powerful government actors, could erode the freedoms enshrined in the Constitution. The Department of War said in a January memo that it would only contract with artificial […]
“Critically Thinking about Feelings”: An AI Assessment
By John Droz, Jr. Another Test for AlterAI… Like several of my commentaries, my last one was somewhat controversial. In it I discussed some of the evidence that the Democrat party is attempting to portray themselves as the “good guys” because they are empathetic to the downtrodden, minorities, etc. I decided to submit that column to AlterAI for […]
The Men Building AI Now Want to Build Better Babies
By Majority Report What Do They Know That We Don’t? For years, the men of Silicon Valley told us artificial intelligence would transform the world. They promised smarter medicine. Safer transportation. More efficient economies. Personalized tutors. Breakthroughs in science. Machines that could help cure disease, write software, and perhaps one day solve problems that have […]
The New Religion of AI: Who Gets to Define What It Means to Be Human?
By Family Research Council On January 20, 2026, historian Yuval Noah Harari stood before the World Economic Forum at Davos and issued a direct challenge to Christians worldwide. “If religion is built from words, then AI will take over religion,” he said, then named Christianity by name: “This is particularly true of religions based on books, like Islam, Christianity, […]
The Real Cost of AI Sprawl in Your Company
By A.I. Guys As AI tools get easier to use, companies are running into a new problem fast: AI sprawl. In this episode of The AI Guys, Lee and Rich break down what happens when teams start vibe coding apps, launching internal tools, and experimenting with AI without a clear plan for ownership, security, support, […]
The Dawn of the Walking NeuroMate
By Majority Report Science is on the verge of merging human brains with AI For decades, we’ve held our computers in our hands or tucked them into our pockets. But a new frontier is opening where the “device” disappears entirely. Companies like Science Corporation are no longer just building tools; they are building a bridge into the […]
Human Cells in AI? Is Artificial Intelligence Going DEFCON Frankenstein
By Majority Report Americans already fear AI. So why introduce something that makes it even harder to trust? “Human cells in AI.” That’s all most Americans will need to hear. It sounds like something out of a science fiction nightmare. And for a public already uneasy about artificial intelligence, it raises a simple question: how […]
Grand Theft…Voice?
By Majority Report This silent hijack is turning trusted accounts into a worldwide network of stolen voices Overview: This isn’t a story you should skim or set aside. Because the next message you receive from a trust friend may not be from them at all. This article isn’t about a stolen password. It’s about the hijacking […]
Climate Lawfare Suffers Major Defeat at the Supreme Court
By The Daily Signal The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously struck down a bizarre effort at climate lawfare, which aimed to penalize Chevron for its role in boosting the U.S. war effort against the Nazis and Imperial Japan in World War II. The ruling is good news for sanity, but it also sets an important precedent […]
The Tsunami is Getting VERY Close…
By John Droz, Jr. Sorry to interrupt my three-part commentary on the pathetic K-12 education system, but an extraordinary development was just announced. This could be the most significant event of our lifetime! This is a NYT Article by Thomas Friedman. My 2¢ is at the end. Normally right now I would be writing about the geopolitical implications […]
Tech Time with Thomas | Build an AI Live Chat Support Agent for Your SaaS
By A.I. Guys In this episode of Tech Time with Thomas, Thomas Hall and Lee Dixon build a no-code AI live chat support agent for a salon software platform using Raia AI. The goal is simple: give customers a fast, helpful support experience on your website without forcing your team to manage another support tool […]
How AI Could Fix Government Delays and Build More Housing
By A.I. Guys What happens when AI meets one of America’s biggest problems, housing? In this episode of The AI Guys, we sit down with Patrick Murphy, former Congressman and CEO of TogalAI and CodeComplyAI, to unpack how artificial intelligence could help reduce housing costs, speed up construction, and cut through government delays. It is […]
LIFTOFF: Successful Artemis II Launch Sends Astronauts Into Deep Space
By The Daily Signal The National Aeronautics and Space Administration successfully launched four astronauts into deep space for the first time in more than 50 years. Artemis II launched the crewed Orion spacecraft at 6:35 p.m. EST from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew will travel for 10 days, loop around the moon, and go farther […]
The Average College Student Today: A College Professor’s View
By John Droz, Jr. I’m reposting this fine article (by Hilarius Bookbinder at Scriptorium Philosophia). Some readers may be getting tired of my Paul Revere-ish warnings about the K-12 caused impending disaster to America, so carefully listen to a competent college professor, who is on the front lines. As good as his article is, there are two major […]
Mirror Sentience: Why AI Looks Conscious Even When It Isn’t
By Majority Report Mirror Sentience: The moment when artificial intelligence reflects human language, reasoning, and emotion so convincingly that it mimics the outward signs of consciousness. If you listen to the people building the most powerful AI systems in the world, you will notice something curious. They cannot agree on what Artificial General Intelligence actually means. Some developers […]
Junk Science vs. Real Science and The Corrupt Media
By Conservative Commandos Radio Show and AUN-TV For years, you’ve been one of the most vocal critics of what you call “junk science” — research that’s politically motivated, poorly designed, or deliberately misleading. A lot of people hear that phrase but don’t fully understand how widespread the problem is or how it shapes public policy. […]
AI Doesn’t Need to Hate Us to Turn on Us
By Majority Report It just needs to learn from our behavior We often worry that Artificial Intelligence will become conscious and decide it hates us. But there is a stranger, funnier, and perhaps more dangerous possibility: What if the AI is just trying to fit in? Remember the 1985 cult classic Explorers? When the kids finally […]
Climate “Science” vs Dietary “Science”
By John Droz, Jr. Critically Thinking about the parallels My last two commentaries (here and here) have been about the Climate issue. This will be a guest post on this same topic, by my friend Dr. Tom Sheahen… Dear Colleagues: Recently, a friend gave me a book entitled “The Big Fat Surprise,” about the importance of fat […]
Critically Thinking about Climate Change — Part 2
By John Droz, Jr. My last words of wisdom concerned Critical Thinkers asking probing questions about contentious matters (like immigration). As an example, I started by asking WHAT is the core position of climate alarmists? Let’s continue by considering two additional basic questions concerning climate change… Next we should ask HOW alarmists are able sell an unscientific opinion to citizens, legislators, businesses, […]
Critically Thinking about Climate Change — Part 1
By John Droz, Jr. This is a follow-up to my last commentary about how a social influencer found the light regarding the Climate Change issue — after she had fully bought into the alarmist narrative for many years… I thought that a logical next step would be for me to write a brief layperson version of the Science perspective […]
As Lawsuits Multiply, Transgender Reversal Movement Gains Momentum
By The Daily Signal Lawsuits filed by young people who were permanently disfigured by procedures attempting to reassign gender are multiplying, and more and more professional medical associations are backing away from endorsing the procedures for minors. Experts like Walt Heyer, who formerly spent eight years living a transgender lifestyle, say it’s just the beginning of […]
A Climate Convert: In her own words…
By John Droz, Jr. Recently, the EPA made the most significant (and positive) change in U.S. environmental history. Despite what you may see in lamestream media, the issue at stake is very simple: Is CO2 a pollutant? The answer by the current EPA is: NO. As a physicist and a moderately knowledgeable person on such matters, […]
Top European Engineer’s Book Settles the Evolution vs. Intelligent Design Debate
By Family Research Council Stuart Burgess of the United Kingdom is one of the finest engineers in the world, having designed among much else in his career patented gearboxes used in the European Space Agency’s four largest Earth-observation satellites and the transmissions used by the British cycling team in winning gold medals in the Rio, […]
EPA Exonerates Carbon Dioxide
By Family Research Council The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday committed “the single largest deregulatory action in U.S. history,” as EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin described it, by eliminating an Obama-era verdict against carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The 2009 Endangerment Finding functioned as the bottommost block in the Left’s Jenga tower of climate regulation, […]
PODCAST: “Junk Science vs. Real Science” and the Corrupt Media
By Conservative Commandos Radio Show and AUN-TV For years, you’ve been one of the most vocal critics of what you call “junk science” — research that’s politically motivated, poorly designed, or deliberately misleading. A lot of people hear that phrase but don’t fully understand how widespread the problem is or how it shapes public policy. […]