Thoughts on its source(s), from Virginia Postrel.
One of the irritating things about the immigration debate is the conflation of opposition to immigration per se, and opposition to the unrestricted flooding of the country with people who have been completely unvetted, and many of whom are coming not for American opportunity but rather government handouts, and many of whom hate America (e.g., Somalians in Minnesota).
I remember the Chicago event. It’s interesting that some aircraft get their lives extended forever (e.g., the B-52 and the 737) and others age out.
…and the right to repair.
It’s a complicated issue. I wonder how much this issue is going to bleed over into space hardware?
Good news, from VDH.
What could it look like?
I was digging through the archives looking for my first Veteran’s Day post in 2001, and I ran across this fisking of an op-ed on space policy from The Economist. It holds up pretty well, I think. I wish that they had followed my advice then. We’d be a lot further ahead.
When it means “more fear.”
I think/hope that the climate grift is on its last legs.
In this scenario, which is basically almost an interest-only loan, you don’t really own your home; you’re just renting it from the bank.
I’m not sure — he’s sometimes subtle — but one gets the impression that he doesn’t like it.
Why he (finally) turned on the climate alarmists and said it isn’t an apocalypse.
I don’t know why anyone ever took him seriously on the subject in the first place. Just because you’re rich doesn’t mean you’re smart.