Former Auburn coach Bruce Pearl appears to be stealing the show as an analyst for the NCAA men’s tournament — and BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock is already over it.

“There’s no reason for Bruce Pearl to be the most interesting man in the NCAA Tournament,” Whitlock says on “Fearless.”

“For him to be overshadowing the players and the coaches in this tournament — and he is — that’s a problem. You have legitimate stars in this NCAA Tournament, and everyone’s talking about Bruce Pearl,” he continues.

“The former Auburn coach, the man that is still taking money, as we learned yesterday, from Auburn, while promoting Auburn, while taking a dump on Miami, while taking a dump on SMU. The former coach at Auburn and Tennessee should not be the most interesting man in any NCAA Tournament. He never won one,” he adds.

“I want to walk you through why this is a problem,” Whitlock says, pointing out that there are incredible stories all over the NCAA Tournament that aren’t getting the attention they deserve — because it’s all on Pearl.

“There’s more conversation about Bruce Pearl today than there is about Cameron Boozer at Duke. Cameron Boozer is a 6’9″ post player — power forward — who’s led Duke to the number one overall seed. He’s a fascinating story,” he explains.

“He has a twin brother on the Duke team that’s going to be starting. I believe his name is Cayden Boozer … the Boozer brothers and Duke. Fascinating story. Overshadowed by Bruce Pearl,” he says.

“He’s sucking up all the oxygen in the room. He’s launching this television career, which I hope ends after this year. He’s done enough damage,” he adds.

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Brent crude, the primary global benchmark for oil prices, rose higher than $120 per barrel in early summer 2022, largely on account of the fallout from the war in Ukraine and increased demand in countries reopening after suffering through years of self-imposed COVID restrictions.

At the time, this generated a great deal of excitement and consternation, especially when U.S. gas prices soared to a record high of roughly $5 a gallon.

Americans may soon long for the days of $120 per barrel.

‘Consumers continue to feel the sting of rising oil, gasoline, and diesel costs as geopolitical tensions in the Middle East remain elevated.’

Analysts at Citi said in a note on Wednesday that Brent crude — which recently saw an intraday high of nearly $120 a barrel and is presently trading over 65% above its level at the beginning of the year — could hit $200 a barrel if Tehran executes “broad energy infrastructure attacks” or keeps the Strait of Hormuz blocked until June, Investing.com reported.

Iran appears keen to satisfy both of these conditions.

Following the initial joint U.S. and Israel strikes on Feb. 28, Iran targeted energy facilities in its backyard, prompting various companies to wind down their production and shutter their facilities.

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Qatar’s state-run QatarEnergy, for instance, shut down its LNG production complex following Iranian drone strikes at two of its facilities. OilPrice.com recently noted that even if the hostilities in the region ended immediately, it could take several weeks to restart production.

On Wednesday, Tehran issued a warning via state media to several Middle Eastern oil facilities — the Samref Refinery and Jubail Petrochemical Complex in Saudi Arabia; the Al Hosn Gas Field in the United Arab Emirates; and the Mesaieed Petrochemical Complex, Mesaieed Holding Company, and Ras Laffan Refinery in Qatar — notifying them of imminent strikes “in the coming hours,” Reuters reported.

“These centers have become direct and legitimate targets and will be targeted ⁠in the coming hours,” the warning said. “Therefore, all citizens, residents, and employees are requested to immediately leave these areas and move to a safe distance without ⁠any delay.”

The warning, which was followed by a jump in the per-barrel price of Brent crude, came in the wake of airstrikes against the South Pars gas field, the world’s largest natural gas reserve which is shared by Iran and Qatar.

A source confirmed to the Jerusalem Post that several energy facilities in South Pars and the Iranian city of Asaluyeh were struck by the Israeli Air Force on Wednesday. Two senior Israeli officials told Axios that the attack was coordinated with and approved by the Trump administration.

Amid the attacks and threat of attacks on energy infrastructure, analysts at Citi wrote, “Brent prices will rally as the conflict continues over the coming days, to $110-120/bbl,” adding that could be the “price or market event which drives the U.S. to end its military operation” or alternatively drives global powers to “forcefully reopen the Strait.”

President Donald Trump has implored the international community to aid the U.S. in reopening the strait, emphasizing that China and other nations are far more reliant than America on the supply flowing down the strait.

According to Reuters, China received 1.6 billion barrels of crude oil over the past 14 months via the Strait of Hormuz; the rest of Asia collectively received 1.6 billion barrels; India received 1 billion barrels; Japan and South Korea each received 800 million barrels; the U.S. and Europe each received around 200 million barrels; and the rest of the world received a combined 300 million barrels.

Citing sources familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reported that Vice President JD Vance and other administration officials plan to meet at the American Petroleum Institute on Thursday to meet with oil executives.

“We look forward to convening key officials — including Vice President Vance, Energy Secretary [Chris] Wright, bipartisan leaders in Congress, and governors — to discuss the role of American oil and natural gas in supporting reliable energy supply amid global volatility,” Andrea Woods, a spokeswoman for the institute, told Bloomberg. “Our industry is focused on providing insight into market dynamics and strengthening American energy leadership and resilience for the long term.”

The price-tracking service GasBuddy noted that as of Monday, the national average price of gasoline was up 80 cents per gallon from a month ago and 66.1 cents higher than a year ago.

“Consumers continue to feel the sting of rising oil, gasoline, and diesel costs as geopolitical tensions in the Middle East remain elevated, pushing gasoline prices to their highest levels in years while diesel could soon approach the $5-per-gallon mark nationally,” said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy.

“Until we see a meaningful resumption of oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz, upward pressure on fuel prices is likely to persist,” De Haan continued. “At the same time, seasonal forces are beginning to intensify as several regions complete the transition to summer gasoline, creating a double headwind that could continue driving pump prices higher in the weeks ahead.”

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The New York Post has uncovered a bizarre music video starring Bobby Pulido, an Emmy-winning musician who won the Democratic nomination for a U.S. congressional seat in Texas.

In the video titled “Dias de Ayer,” Pulido portrays several characters, including a gun-wielding gangster in the mold of “Scarface,” a pervert who pleasures himself in public spaces, as well as a gay male who is attracted to the pervert.

‘This freak is who Democrats chose to run in Texas?’

The embarrassing video from 2010 might complicate the campaign effort by the political neophyte.

The Post noted that he had made somewhat derogatory comments to users on social media implying that he might be gay.

“I can swear on the Bible that I’m not,” said Pulido in Spanish to questions about his portrayal of a homosexual in the video.

Pulido is hoping to unseat Republican Rep. Monica De La Cruz for the 14th congressional district in Texas. President Donald Trump won the district easily in 2024, and De La Cruz trounced Democratic opponent Michelle Vallejo by more than 14 percentage points.

Democratic polling found Pulido was trailing behind the incumbent by only three percentage points in September.

His campaign did not respond to a Post request for comment.

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The Republican National Committee did have a comment on its official account on the X social media platform.

“This freak is who Democrats chose to run in Texas?” said the account.

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The governor of New York was reduced to begging the wealthy to move back to the high-tax state in order to help fund its social programs.

Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul made the comments during a Politico forum in Albany on March 11 after the state legislature called for higher taxes.

‘They’re not going there because they have a nicer governor. … They’re going there because of the tax rate.’

“I need people who are high net worth to support the generous social programs that we want to have in our state,” said Hochul.

“There are some patriotic millionaires who stepped up. OK! Cut me the checks. If you want to be supportive, then maybe the first step should be go down to Palm Beach and see who you can bring back home, because our tax base has been eroded,” she added.

“So I philosophically don’t have a problem. It is, like, I have to look at the fact that we are in competition with other states who have less of a tax burden on their corporations and their individuals,” Hochul concluded.

Hochul is seeking to win re-election after she was elevated to the governor’s office because of the fall of Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D).

New York joins other states looking to tax the wealthy in order to fund their socialist schemes, including California, which is facing its own population exodus, and Washington state. Both states have experienced billionaires fleeing to other states with lower tax burdens.

“Wall Street businesses looking at Texas?” Hochul asked rhetorically. “They’re not going there because they have a nicer governor! I know that for sure! But they’re going there because of the tax rate. We have to be smart about this.”

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Hochul’s critics pointed out that she told conservative and Republican New Yorkers to leave the state in 2022 and go down to Florida, “where you belong.”

Ironically, just months later, she lamented that too many people were leaving the high-tax state to seek better opportunities elsewhere.

“We must and will make our state safe,” she said at her inaugural speech.

“And we must reverse the trend of people leaving our state in search of lower costs and opportunities elsewhere.”

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Thermostats have become so intelligent that they can build entire lifestyle portfolios on a homeowner simply by using the embedded technology that regulates and tracks heat and electricity.

Many smart thermostats are openly asking users for this information. But studies have also revealed that other knowledge, which no homeowner would want a stranger to know, can now easily be harvested and quantified.

A thermostat’s built-in motion sensors determine if a homeowner is home or away.

For example, an Ecobee smart thermostat, available on Amazon for $140, has been used to monitor sleep patterns over the course of a year. A 2022 study used six Ecobee sensors to track sleep time, wake-up time, sleep duration, as well as time spent at home. It also determined how those behaviors were influenced by weekends and seasonal weather.

This all came from the thermostat’s data, which can connect to Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, and Google Assistant.

Google Nest thermostats can come equipped with a series of cameras, sensors, and more, as well as public-facing features like Home/Away Assist and Auto-Away. These features track whether the user is home or not and can do so in multiple ways.

The first option is to sync with the homeowner’s phone location. It asks for user location and address, and it even helps pinpoint the home on a map.

Auto-Away does not even need add-on sensors throughout the house to tell if the user is home. According to How to Geek, it uses the thermostat’s built-in motion sensors to make this determination.

The justification for the intimate invasion of privacy is to lower and limit heating or cooling usage when the user is not at home or to enable security features.

Ecobee also has passive motion sensors that can tell when a person is home or not.

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Ecobee also utilizes a feature so it knows which rooms in a home are occupied. “Follow me” mode is an attempt to maximize energy efficiency by tracking the resident with sensors as he moves through rooms, and it adjusts the temperature accordingly.

At the same time, it tracks the amount of time spent in each room.

A 2018 study showed a 95% accuracy rating in terms of gauging home occupancy using a technology called WalkSense. The technology identified room occupancy, house vacancy, and even occupant activities.

The latter is helped by what is referred to as “load monitoring,” which is a fancy term for tracking what type of appliances a person uses by how much electricity he uses, another feature of smart home devices.

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Load monitoring works by applying a “signature” to an appliance by extracting data from its power signal. The signature is applied to the typical amount of energy usage from the appliance, which henceforth identifies the amount of power used by a dishwasher, washing machine, etc.

A February 2021 study proposed such a system that identified appliances with 98% to 99% accuracy.

Another study from 2017 even showed it was using load monitoring through a smart meter called Rainforest at the time.

Load monitoring is typically used with energy meter trackers like Sense Energy — installed on the electrical panel — but can be paired with home monitoring systems like Google Nest or Alexa, which either pair with or operate the smart thermostat.

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Actress Katherine Heigl was in attendance at Mar-a-Lago last weekend where she posed for photos with Lara Trump and Jeanine Pirro. And while the left is not happy with seeing the actress there, it was at an event that raised $5.5 million for Big Dog Ranch Rescue.

“Liberals outraged, I told you about everything, including dogs. Dogs,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales comments, shocked. “They don’t like dogs. That’s how you know they’re not the party for you. They are the party of hating dogs, because there was a big fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago to rescue dogs.”

“Now everyone hates Katherine Heigl for going there and trying to raise money to save dogs,” she adds.

One X user wrote, “F**k her and anyone attending maga-lago for any reason,” while another wrote, “Supporting Nazis. So many orgs that aren’t run by white supremacists. This is a choice.”

However, Heigl wasn’t taking the attacks lying down.

“Animals don’t vote. The only room they don’t like is the euthanasia room at a shelter,” Heigl told Page Six in a statement. “They are completely at the mercy of us, and they have no voice of their own.”

“This event was about animal advocacy, something that has always been deeply personal to me,” she continued. “Anyone who knows me knows that protecting animals is one of my greatest passions.”

“The point is, animals, of course, do not knowingly vote,” Gonzales comments, adding, “They’re not involved in our politics. And the charity event raised $5.5 million for rescue dogs.”

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Carl von Clausewitz framed war as a “continuation of politics by other means.” Weaponry, in this view, is an extension of state judgment, a tool pulled from the kit when the talking stops. Looking at the landscape of directed-energy weapons and autonomous subsea networks, one suspects the tools have begun to write their own script. The question is no longer just what we do with the tools, but what kind of world becomes thinkable and governable once they exist.

The new frontier is the management of latency, visibility, and energy at the very edges of the habitable world. It is a reorganization of politics around the capacity to see and the speed at which one can destroy.

The border is becoming a software-defined stack of sensing and response.

The visual theatricality of directed-energy weapons appeals to our desire for a clean defense. We hear of the Iron Beam, a 100kW-class laser system integrated into multitier defense arrays. The descriptions are intoxicating: an unlimited magazine, almost zero cost per interception, and the promise of reduced collateral damage. These defense systems promise to restore cost symmetry in the face of cheap, numerous drones that can saturate expensive missile defenses.

The technical reality is more mundane and perhaps more telling. These weapons of light remain stubbornly bound to the earth. A laser is a system of ordering: power generation, cooling, and software integration. It is also a prisoner of the weather. For all their speed-of-light elegance, lasers are degraded by the most common of things: rain, fog, and storms. Even when the technical feasibility is proven, the operational reality is constrained by the atmosphere itself.

If the sky is becoming a theater of light, the ocean is becoming a laboratory for a different kind of visibility. Historically, the undersea domain was the last holdout against panoptic ambitions: It was difficult to see, difficult to communicate through, and difficult to police. The Cold War depended on this opacity, on stealth and the difficulty of detection by sonar.

Now, the sea is being made a platform. Subsea drones, from small autonomous vehicles to the U.S. Navy’s Orca extra-large uncrewed undersea vehicle, are designed to make the underwater domain legible. The goal is a distributed fleet architecture, storing eggs in many baskets to ensure that no single loss is catastrophic.

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Yet the physics of water remains punishing. While we take high-speed wireless for granted on land, the underwater acoustic channel offers only a few kilobits per second over a 10 km link. This scarcity of bandwidth forces a shift toward decision-making at the edge. A drone under the ice cannot call home for instructions but instead must interpret its own sensors and manage its own contingencies through a complex stack of perception, state estimation, and mission policy.

Reliability here is engineering for trust. In the extreme cold of under-ice operations, in which temperatures can sustain -35°C, there is no fail-safe of surfacing. The ice layer removes the luxury of escape.

The Arctic was once the site of exceptionalism, a region governed by cooperation, science, and the explicit exclusion of military security from the mandate of the Arctic Council. That story is ending. As the sea ice declines, this environment is being revealed as a corridor for commerce and surveillance.

The IPCC suggests the Arctic may be practically free of sea ice in September at least once before 2050. The U.S. Department of Defense is more aggressive, suggesting an ice-free summer could arrive by 2030. This melting makes minerals, fisheries, and choke points like the Bering Strait newly available for military and commercial ordering.

The map is being redrawn by infrastructure as much as by diplomacy. Finland and Sweden have joined NATO, shifting the alliance geography of the North. The U.S. Air Force maintains a North Warning System of 49 radars, a logistical feat that requires sustaining sensors and fuel in an austere environment. In this theater, sovereignty requires infrastructure: keeping the sensors on, the parts moving, and the communications flowing.

The cost of latency here is strategic. Because geostationary satellites do not sufficiently support high-latitude operations, there is a frantic move toward low-Earth-orbit constellations to provide the connectivity required for modern command and control.

We are witnessing a shift in the nature of the border. It is becoming a software-defined stack of sensing and response. NATO now treats the ocean floor, the hidden architecture of cables and pipelines, as a critical space that must be monitored by AI and sea drones. It is the defense of the material substrate of digital life. Technologically mediated violence produces a new kind of border politics, in which the decisive terrain is invisible, found in electromagnetic spectra, sonar inference, and satellite coverage gaps.

In this world, we are always operating under imperfect information. We return to Clausewitzian friction, though today we call it packet loss, acoustic noise, or navigation drift. We find ourselves at the edge of the habitable world, watching the ice melt and the sensors blink, waiting for the speed of light to solve a problem that remains stubbornly human.

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