I don’t think this justifies Obama’s comments, though.
Last Week’s Little-Noticed Space Triumph
Thoughts from Instapundit on the FAA’s lunar move.
You know what else wasn’t reported much? The problems with SLS/Orion in the ASAP report. All the focus was on “lack of transparency” in commercial crew.
[Update a while later]
More thoughts from Tom Meyer.
[Early-afternoon update]
Analysis from Matt Schaefer, of the space law department at Nebraska.
Dodd-Frank
…has increased industry consolidation, and destroyed community banks.
Gee, it’s almost like that was the intent.
Fifty Shades Of Bricks
Is Our Children Learning?
If Apollo 11 Had Gone Wrong
XKCD has the other contingency letters.
Extreme-Left Democrats
Are pushing Middle America away:
“It always strikes me as funny that the folks on TV call Republicans ‘extreme,’ and pretty much ignore that Democrats have left no room for people like me in my own party,” said Yvonne, a Youngstown native who did not want to give her last name.
To Yvonne, who has lived all of her 30-plus years in that eastern Ohio city, being a Democrat is like listing your religion, the part of town where you grew up, and the school you attended.
“It’s a part of my identity,” she said, adding after a pause: “Or was.”
When Ryan made his announcement last week, the national press offered no questions or headline-grabbing adjectives — just praise.
That was an interesting departure from the media reaction when then-candidate Cory Gardner, a Colorado congressman running for U.S. Senate last year, changed from support to non-support of “personhood.”
“Bombshell,” “extremist” and “cheap election-year stunt” were the words in some of the milder headlines.
Gardner moved to the center. Ryan moved to the left wing.
Ryan was praised. Gardner was hammered.
Now think about that for a moment: One politician moved to his party’s wing, not its center, and it was as if a tree fell in a forest — with no one listening. Another politician moved to his party’s center, and hair collectively caught fire.
Apparently, “extremism” is only bad when it’s in favor of liberty and limited government.
Netanyahu
Did the administration lie about him?
At this point, it’s easier to ask, does the administration ever tell the truth about anything?
The Best Steak House
…is your house.
I don’t eat out much if I can avoid it, but you know what I almost never order when I do? A steak. Nothing is simpler to cook at home.
On Climate Change
…the science battle rages.
It would sure be nice if some of these self-identified climate “scientists” would learn some statistics. And stop calling people who understand statistics names like “denier” and “anti-science.”
[Monday-morning update]
Inside the latest global warming scandal:
This kind of thing is going on all over the world. It is one of the reasons why the satellite data (which, however, go back only to 1979) are so important: they have not been corrupted.
Yup.
[Bumped]
[Update a few minutes later]
Soviet-style disinformation dominates the climate “debate”:
Why is it that when a political figure makes a misstatement about a global warming-related issue, which happens many times every day, no government scientific agency or leading university scientist ever corrects them?
For example, all climate modelers correctly label their speculations of future world temperatures as “projections,” meaning that they have no validated forecast skill. Yet politicians, mass media, and the public treat the models as providing temperature forecasts or predictions. Because this misusage is never corrected, politicians cheerily continue to base expensive public policy on it.
Another example: carbon dioxide, as an essential factor in photosynthesis, is the elixir of planetary life, yet politicians dub it a “pollutant.” Similarly, badging the theoretical global warming problem as a “carbon” issue represents scientific illiteracy because it fails to distinguish the element “carbon” from the molecule “carbon dioxide,” and deliberately encourages the public to confuse a colorless, odorless, beneficial gas with soot. Again, climate-alarmist scientists say little or nothing to correct these mistakes.
Many in the public understand that Hendricks’ behavior is typical of politicians everywhere. But most people do not recognize that fraud is also being directly committed in support of this travesty by many of today’s self-appointed “leading climate scientists.” For when they are not directly massaging the data relied upon in their scientific writings, these scientists often report their findings in ways that are intended to deceive the reader into believing that dangerous global warming exists, or will shortly exist. The UN’s climate reports are the magnum opus of this style of operation.
Yes.