All posts by Rand Simberg

Media Criticism, Political Commentary

The Clinton Campaign

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No, it didn’t deny being complicit in violence at Trump rallies. As Stephen notes:

A lie is the default response from the Clinton Camp, and if pressed they will admit to only as much truth as they absolutely must.

This has been the Clinton’s SOP for more than 30 years, and the Democrat-operatives-with-bylines are usually all-too-happy to play along.

It’s worth noting in this context that Bill Clinton has never denied raping Juanita Broaddrick. But of course, no one will ask him about it.

[Update a while later]

The incestuous Left and those who provide cover for them:

Extensive evidence from Wikileaks, FOIA responses, and “human sources” of the incestuous and improper coordination between the media and the Democrats have been detailed by Sharyl Attkisson…

Wikileaks promises to unleash even more insider accounts of the Clinton campaign and DNC shenanigans this coming week and has said it has even more current information — material respecting serious wrongdoing by the DNC head Donna Brazile and Clinton’s vice-presidential running mate Timothy Kaine coming up next. James O’Keefe of Project Veritas says that on Monday he is releasing a video of Robert Creamer, shown as a vote fixer in previous videos, coordinating with Clinton and Brazile. “Anything happens to me, there’s a deadman’s switch on Part III, which will be released Monday. @HillaryClinton and @donnabrazile implicated.”

The video is up now.

Business, Economics, Space, Technology and Society

Elon’s Mars Plans

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He had an AMA yesterday. I’d be more interested in this, if I gave a rat’s patoot about Mars.

I found this bit more interesting:

Musk was asked about the reusability of the Falcon 9 rockets currently flying. He stated “I think the F9 boosters could be used almost indefinitely, so long as there is scheduled maintenance and careful inspections.” He emphasized that the current Falcon 9 rockets in production would be retired soon and that their next version would be designed for easy reuse. The new Falcon 9, which he calls “Falcon 9 Block 5” – the fifth and final version in the Falcon series, is scheduled to have its first flight in six to eight months.

I assume the cores for the heavy will be of similar design. I wonder how often “careful inspections” need to occur? Every flight?

Law, Media Criticism, Philosophy, Political Commentary

Hillary Clinton

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Book burner:

A liberal society is one in which everybody has free-speech rights. A society in which some people have free-speech rights and some do not, depending on the self-interested whim of people with political power, is a totalitarian society realized to a greater or lesser degree. Heinrich Heine’s advice on the connection between the treatment of books and the treatment of human beings is always and forever relevant.

As I wrote recently, Trump has never read the Constitution. She hates it.