For more than a decade, Washington elites, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) ideologues, and global bureaucrats declared coal finished.
They told Appalachia its best days were behind it.
They told America to abandon energy independence and trust foreign supply chains, unreliable renewables, and climate mandates written by people who never worried about keeping the lights on.
They were wrong.
Coal isn’t dying. If anything, it’s evolving.
Under President Donald Trump’s leadership, America is finally rejecting the lie that prosperity and energy security must come at the expense of its natural strengths.
This next chapter of American energy dominance is not being drafted in Davos. It’s taking shape in West Virginia, Wyoming, and across the industrial heartland that built this country.
President Trump has made clear that America will no longer wage war on its own energy workers. His administration’s approach – removing regulatory chokeholds, restoring domestic production, and backing innovation over ideology – has reopened the door to technologies that the green lobby worked for years to suppress.
[…]The Trump energy doctrine is not ideological, it is grounded in reality: trust American workers, unleash American engineers, and stop apologizing for America’s strengths.
It rejects the failed belief that prosperity must be rationed or outsourced to please global elites.
Coal built America once.
With the right leadership, it can help build the future again – cleaner, smarter, and more secure. Our nation’s 47th commander in chief understands this.
He has never wavered in his support for American energy workers or his belief that clean coal can power the nation without surrendering sovereignty or common sense.
While others declared coal obsolete, Trump recognized its potential and refused to abandon the communities that depend on it.
— Mark Vargas, Jan. 28 Newsmax column
Greenland may look like a distant slab of ice on a map, but in the 21st century, it has become one of the most strategically consequential pieces of real estate on the planet. Ignoring that reality is not neutrality — it’s surrender by neglect.
For generations, Americans were encouraged to think of Greenland as a frozen curiosity — an enormous, sparsely populated island useful for geography quizzes and climate talking points, but otherwise irrelevant to serious geopolitics.
—Such an illusion is no longer harmless.
—It’s dangerous.
—Greenland is not a novelty. It is a strategic keystone, and the growing fight over its future reveals how far the United States has drifted from the realities of power, geography, and survival.
[…]The Monroe Doctrine was never about imperial ambition or territorial conquest.
It was about realism.
It recognized that geography matters, proximity matters, and allowing hostile powers to establish a foothold near the United States would eventually threaten American security. For nearly two centuries, that doctrine sent a clear signal: the Western Hemisphere was not open season for America’s adversaries.
That clarity collapsed under the foreign policy worldview that emerged under Barack Obama and continued under Joe Biden — a global view that treats American sovereignty as outdated, borders as negotiable, and American leadership as something to be restrained, apologized for, and subordinated to international opinion.
This New World Order approach assumes that if the United States retreats politely, global stability will somehow follow.
History teaches the opposite lesson.
Retreat creates a vacuum.
And vacuums never remain empty.
[…]It’s not about territory for territory’s sake.
It’s about whether America still understands that power abhors a vacuum — and that if we do not fill it, our enemies will.
— Robert Chernin, Jan. 30 Newsmax column
Newsmax columnists have a history of gushing over everything Trump does, no matter how dubious.