Daily Archives: December 4, 2025

Friday Focus

Quick Takes: Friday Focus The January 6 Pipe Bomber Is Finally in Custody After nearly five years of dead ends, grainy surveillance footage, and a $500,000 reward that went unclaimed, the FBI has arrested a suspect in one of the most chilling loose threads of January 6, 2021: the person who planted viable pipe bombs outside the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters the night before the Capitol riot. On Wednesday, December 3, 2025, agents took a 30-year-old Virginia man into custody. Sources familiar with the case say the breakthrough came from a combination of new forensic analysis of the bombs’…

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When the Alarm Bell Had to Be Un-Rung

The Week the Climate Narrative Lost One of Its Loudest Megaphones Something remarkable happened in the first week of December 2025, and most of the press that helped create it is pretending it didn’t. On Monday, December 1, the Wall Street Journal published a front-page autopsy titled “Europe’s Green Energy Rush Slashed Emissions-and Crippled the Economy.” It was a cold, data-driven indictment: Europe had indeed cut emissions faster than any other region, but in the process it had delivered the highest electricity prices in the developed world, shuttered chemical plants, triggered a moratorium on new data centers, and watched households ration…

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