Bernard Lewis says that women hold the key to winning the war against the Islamofasciomisogynists.
The Age Of Emotion
Thomas Sowell asks if thinking has become obsolete.
I doubt if this is a new phenomenon. I suspect that it’s been a problem down the ages, as have many aspects of human nature.
[Update a couple minutes later]
More evidence for my proposition.
A Blooming Islamic Reformation?
Maybe. In Morocco:
More Hypersonic Hype
Via Clark Lindsey, here’s one of those periodic stories that someone is working on a Concorde successor. As usual, it makes little technical or economic sense (at least the story, if not the reality).
It is full of contradictory statements, to anyone who understands basic aeronautics. Example:
Japan is trying to leapfrog ahead in the aerospace field with a plan to build a next-generation airliner that can fly between Tokyo and Los Angeles in about three hours. But a string of glitches, including a nose cone problem during the latest test flight in March, has led the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to look for an international partner.
Growth Industry
This is a good example of how it’s easier to make your investments grow with small companies than big ones (albeit riskier). Just a few days ago at the ISDC, Jeff Greason was saying that XCOR’s sales had increased dramatically, to about three million per year in the coming year. I noticed that Jeff disappeared for a day after that announcement on Thursday, arriving back at LAX late Friday night. I suspect that this may have been the subject of that excursion. They just doubled their sales for this year again:
XCOR Aerospace announced today that it had won a $3.3 million contract with ATK as part of ATK
Attack Of The Flying Robots
It’s actually a potentially serious problem:
The technology for remote-controlled light aircraft is now highly advanced, widely available — and, experts say, virtually unstoppable.
Models with a wingspan of five metres (16 feet), capable of carrying up to 50 kilograms (110 pounds), remain undetectable by radar.
And thanks to satellite positioning systems, they can now be programmed to hit targets some distance away with just a few metres (yards) short of pinpoint accuracy.
Security services the world over have been considering the problem for several years, but no one has yet come up with a solution.
Sounds like a job for the hive mind of the blogosphere.
Another Story That Wasn’t
Why don’t we hear more about the Israelis saving the Palestinian leader from assassination by Hamas?
Obviously, this report is very uncomfortable for those “cycle of violence” types who insist on finding moral equivalence in the Palestinian/Israeli violence. It’s also another unpleasant slice of reality for supporters of democratizing the Middle East to observe, yet again, that the Palestinians have freely chosen a government of incorrigible murderers (to replace the last bunch of incorrigible murderers). But it is what it is
Another Story That Wasn’t
Why don’t we hear more about the Israelis saving the Palestinian leader from assassination by Hamas?
Obviously, this report is very uncomfortable for those “cycle of violence” types who insist on finding moral equivalence in the Palestinian/Israeli violence. It’s also another unpleasant slice of reality for supporters of democratizing the Middle East to observe, yet again, that the Palestinians have freely chosen a government of incorrigible murderers (to replace the last bunch of incorrigible murderers). But it is what it is
Another Story That Wasn’t
Why don’t we hear more about the Israelis saving the Palestinian leader from assassination by Hamas?
Obviously, this report is very uncomfortable for those “cycle of violence” types who insist on finding moral equivalence in the Palestinian/Israeli violence. It’s also another unpleasant slice of reality for supporters of democratizing the Middle East to observe, yet again, that the Palestinians have freely chosen a government of incorrigible murderers (to replace the last bunch of incorrigible murderers). But it is what it is
Rule Of The Mob
Jonah Goldberg has a good essay on the nonsense that is populism:
It should be no surprise by now that populism has always been a fundamentally left-wing phenomena. Indeed, just looking around the world to see which countries call themselves