A warning from Robert Samuelson. I wouldn’t mind if the government committed suicide, if it wasn’t so determined to take the rest of us with it.
Category Archives: Economics
The Debt-Limit Fight
Why it will be different than the one we just went through.
The Window For Government Human Spaceflight Is Closing
Jeff Foust has an article at The Space Review in which he repeats his spoken remarks on Saturday in Phoenix. It includes quotes the same day from me and Jeff Greason.
[Update a few minutes later]
I have some thoughts on tomorrow’s anniversaries, over at the Washington Examiner.
The Razor’s Edge
Thoughts from Victor Davis Hanson on California’s precarious situation.
It is beautifully (and misleadingly) green here right now.
The Higher-Education Bubble
Thoughts from Peter Thiel.
Ann Arbor Follies
Should students have to pay to get a newspaper they don’t want to read? I know Pinch is in trouble, but this reeks of desperation. But then, it’s been a long time, if ever, that the paper had any interest in letting the market work. And now would be a very bad time for it to advocate it, given that “letting the market work” would mean a reorganization, in which one likely outcome might be a paper that people actually want to pay to read.
The Democrat War On Science
Today, we have a pair of California airheads, who are unfortunately elected representatives. First, we have Barbara “Don’t Call Me Ma’am” Boxer, who thinks that carbon dioxide is a pollutant, and then we have Lois Capps, who thinks that global warming is a bigger threat to humanity than AIDS, malaria and pandemic flu.
No one tell Chris Mooney.
The Purple Health Care Plan
I haven’t read it, but it can’t be worse than ObamaCare.
The Tech Behind The Falcon Heavy
My piece on yesterday’s announcement is up at Popular Mechanics.
Falcon 9 Heavy
I’m watching the press conference now. Clark Lindsey is live blogging it.
I’d say that the big news is that it’s got more payload than expected, and will mean previously unthinkable price per pound. It is also big enough to do any conceivable planetary mission one would want, in sufficient numbers. The one question I wish that someone would ask is fairing size.
[Update a while later]
Clark has the press release.
[Update later in the morning]
Apparently I mistitled the post. It’s not a Falcon 9 Heavy, it’s a Falcon Heavy. I’m not sure what this means, other than the upgraded engines. Is is a different upper stage as well? It’s not obvious from the press release. Time to ask SpaceX.
[Update late morning]
Here’s the SpaceX simulation: