Morning Jolt: Islamists Are Reenacting the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, and the Green Crowd Couldn’t Care Less

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August 26 2024

Islamists Are Reenacting the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, and the Green Crowd Couldn't Care Less

On the menu today: I can't begrudge everyone for paying a lot of attention to the U.S. presidential race, but there's a lot going in the world beyond Trump's pouting and threatening to withdraw from the remaining debate. The Houthis are reenacting the Exxon Valdez spill in the Red Sea, to the yawns of environmentalists in the West; NASA can't get its astronauts down from the International Space Station; and the U.S. Navy is quietly putting together plans to remove the crews from 17 Navy support ships "due to a lack of qualified mariners to operate the vessels." If you want to get a good sense of how the Democratic nominee would perform in the Oval Office, take a good look at the performance of the administration in which she's currently vice president.

It's an Islamist Oil Spill; That Kind of Spill Is Completely Different

Do America's environmentalists oppose the Houthis' blowing up oil tankers because it results in massive spills and a "severe ecological disaster ...

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