An Obama-appointed judge throws out a Trump executive order overturning an Obama executive order.
Hard to see how this survives an appeal, even if it has to go all the way to SCOTUS.
Category Archives: Business
Reporters Fear Retribution
…and they should. Their ignorant scorn of the rest of us is exceeded only by their sanctimony.
Misunderstanding Socialism
Some instruction for millennials, from Bastiat.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Milan Kundera on historical amnesia.
[Afternoon update]
Socialism: The delusional fantasy that always ends in a nightmare.
Climate Sensitivity
What is the plausible worst case?
The Age Of Vulcan
I’m glad to see the rocket starting to take shape, despite penny pinching from the parents, but that sure looks labor intensive.
Thorium
A long article on the reasons we’re not burning it in reactors, including a lot of comments from Kirk Sorensen.
Blue Origin
…has been working on previously undisclosed Space Act Agreements with NASA on a lunar lander. That would seem to be part of the puzzle of what’s been happening over the past several days.
The Space Council Meeting
Bob Zimmerman isn’t optimistic that NASA can break out of the status quo.
Free Inquiry
“Scientists” are horrified that colleges will have to respect free speech.
To The Moon, Alice
Mike Pence just gave a speech in Huntsville in which he stated as an administration goal to get back to the moon in not nine years, but in five (I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this would be at the end of Trump’s second term). And he doesn’t care how it happens, even if it takes commercial rockets. That’s a shot over Dick Shelby’s bow. And he threw a lot of shade at Boeing over SLS.
That will either require a budget increase, or SLS/Orion cancellation. I imagine that if he’s not already doing so, Elon will put people on 24/7 shifts in Boca Chica.
[Update mid-afternoon]
Here‘s the story from Loren Grush.