80% of Mexican territory, including the border regions (natch) is controlled by drug cartels.
There is one, and only one way (or at least it’s a necessary if not sufficient condition) to deal with this: Legalize drugs.
Category Archives: Economics
Europa
The IG has released its report. Bob Zimmerman is (as usual) unimpressed with our betters in Washington.
Culberson losing his seat may have been the death knell for this mission, at least as it has been planned so far. I think Enceladus is more interesting, anyway, at least from the standpoint of looking for life. I hope that Yuri Milner follows through on that.
LEO Commercialization
NASA has released the study summaries.
They Don’t Know Clouds At All
But maybe they can get better at modeling them. Our lack of ability to model clouds to date is one of the things that makes me a skeptic on climate alarmism.
Space Settlements
…will require a new policy direction.
You don’t say. I’ll be speaking at Steve’s Space Settlement Forum next week about property rights.
Climate Millenarianism
Thoughts on people like Greta Thunberg, with some history.
Radical Green Ideology
It has taken over and corrupted professional engineering and science societies.
Drivers’ Licenses
Should they even be issued by the states? I’d prefer they not, but they are a convenient form of ID.
Advanced Nuclear Reactors
Will they be here sooner than many think?
I hope so. Faster, please.
Back To The Moon, This Time To Stay
My op-ed on one-way trips to the Moon is up at Space News.
[Update a few minutes later]
Related: Can Trump put people on the moon by 2024? It seems unlikely under current political circumstances.