…versus the Democratic deep state. You can have a constitutional republic, or a massive federal bureaucracy. Pick one.
All posts by Rand Simberg
The Great Feminization
This is extremely explanatory, and extremely terrifying. I love women as individuals, but we should be societally terrified of them as groups. It’s why many people, including many women, think that it was a mistake to give them the vote. It makes me think that if we were to return to literacy tests to vote, maybe we should have some emotional ones as well. It would exclude many men, but probably many more women.
Cutting The Gordian Knot
Lockmart is starting to look to reusability and other launch vehicles than SLS for Orion.
NASA may want to have it for its precious astronauts, but at some point it will be embarrassing when Starship is putting up dozens of people at a fraction of the cost.
Nose-Ring Theory
Feminists have discovered it, and they’re angry about it.
Go put in another nose ring.
The Final Version 2 Test
Looked like it did everything they wanted it to do. Feel free to discuss.
[Tuesday-morning update]
Bob Zimmerman has the story.
Crazy Busy
Posting has been light because we had to repipe the house at the same time as we were scheduling painting the exterior, and the plumber had to break a lot of stucco to run the Pex. (The copper pipes were installed in the slab when the house was built almost half a century ago, and the hot water started leaking in it, and it was judged better to repipe rather than tear up concrete to repair it when it was likely to just develop another leak).
We got the stucco redone yesterday, and are doing everything else necessary for the painters, who are coming tomorrow for a walk through. And when that’s all done, there’s a lot of drywall to patch, and repainting inside (not to mention having to remove a lot of ceiling popcorn).
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!
Reading Empire of the Summer Moon really drove this home — the Comanche started out in Canada, and ended up controlling much of the plains and Texas through total conquest. And they do "land acknowledgments" to the Comanche at SXSW! https://t.co/iGJKGNE6lg
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) October 13, 2025
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Instapundit’s annual C-Day post.
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It's a great Indigenous People's Day for the Jewish people, who had a kingdom in Israel more than 2,300 years before Columbus, & were ejected from that land by a Western colonial empire.
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) October 13, 2025
It is an interesting coincidence.
He’s Had Enough
Forever-Democrat Alan Dershowitz is going to campaign for Republicans next year.
Back In Good Graces?
Will Trump renominate Jared Isaacman to be NASA administrator?
The Left’s Deep-Rooted Violence
…is what insurrection looks like.
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The left has limited time to end its violence.