“We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men.”
If I were running CNN, I’d be ashamed to have this moron appear in front of my cameras. But I guess that’s why I’m not running CNN.
Monthly Archives: October 2018
The Soyuz Failure
It seems to me that the failure of a single sensor shouldn’t cause a hard launch abort.
Halloween Intersectionality
Can African-Americans with no ties to Jamaica dress up as Bob Marley?
In case you’re tempted to not click, it’s Lileks.
[Update a few minutes later]
A couple weeks ago in DC, I met a Danish space lawyer whose middle name is Marley. Based on her appearance, though, I’m pretty sure she’s not related.
My Latest Space-Policy Piece
…has gone live on line. The issue has the theme of a space renaissance, also containing a very technical article by Bob Zubrin on Moon Direct, and a piece by Micah Meadowcroft on why space settlers may be doomed to disappointment.
Web 3.0
Hopefully a return to the idea of Web 1.0, with better tech,
Type 2 Diabetes
Potentially wonderful news on that front. I do think, though, that diet is underutilized in fighting it, and that much of it has been caused by scientifically terrible, bordering on criminal, nutrition advice for decades.
Trump And Birthright Citizenship
Thoughts from Instapundit. It’s pretty clear that the writers of the 14th Amendment never had any idea it would be used for this. It was to deal with the aftermath of American slavery and continuing resistance by the Democrats to end it.
And of course, I’m long on record of believing that no one should have birthright citizenship. Work here, live here, but citizenship is a privilege to be earned, regardless of parentage or place of birth.
[Wednesday morning update, finally home in California after over six weeks away]
To clarify, in response to a discussion on an email list:
Simply, if you are born here, you have a right to stay here. It makes no sense to deport someone to a country in which they’ve never lived (i.e. DACA, even though Obama’s order was illegal). Everyone born here or otherwise legally here would have the same path to citizenship. But citizenship of someone born here via that path would not entitle their family to citizenship (i.e., an end to “anchor babies”). Everyone, including children of citizens born here, is responsible for earning their citizenship. Others are legal residents, but they don’t get to vote to confiscate my wealth.
Also, this is not about “preserving the Republican Party.” It’s about preserving the Republic itself.
Hardening Your Place Of Worship
Four things you can do right now. Plus, “this Jewish boy is buying a gun.”
It’s really the only solution. The Left’s position on guns is both utopian and irrationally inconsistent. They simultaneously insist that Trump is Hitler, but that only Der Staat should have arms.
[Update a few minutes later]
Dad with a gun shoots down a masked gunman at a McDonald’s full of kids. That’s ultimately the only way it can work in a free country. And with more of this, attempts at mass murder would be more discouraged. “Gun-free zones” are nothing but an open invitation to these people.
The Avenatti Lies
Why it’s important to go after them.
Yes, we have to slap this atrocious behavior down now.
The Never-Ending Hypocrisy Of The Left
Alan Dershowitz points it out in the case of the “right-wing” pipe bomber.
Oh, and for lagniappe, the anti-Semite who shot up the synagogue was not a Trump supporter.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Never-Trumper (and Jew) John Podhoretz on the slaughter in Pittsburgh. (Spoiler: It has nothing to do with Trump.)
[Update a while later]
A brief excerpt:
Based on the early evidence, the shooter was not only consumed with a hatred of Jews but possessed a kind of sneering contempt for Trump on the grounds that Trump was basically a Jewish agent or a Jew-lover himself. Trump can only be blamed for the murderous Jew-killing actions of someone who thought of him that way by people who are so consumed by hatred of him that there is nothing they won’t blame him for.
Yup.