Please don’t be evil, if you really care about humanity going into space.
It shouldn’t be surprising — it’s the same aggressive IP strategy that he’s always taken with Amazon.
Category Archives: Economics
Something The Administration And Democrats Don’t Understand
Where do jobs come from? Real jobs, that is, not the ones created by parasites leeching the wealth of the productive.
How To Balance The Budget
Just increase spending at a lower rate. But that would be heartless and inhumane, of course.
The Day Of Reckoning Has Arrived
Social Security is officially broke. Thanks, Washington politicians. You guys make Bernie Madoff look like a piker.
Welcome To Michigan
…America. The failed Granholm model, that Obama wants to emulate.
Plus, when it comes to transportation, the US is not China.
Socialism Is Back
A long but interesting essay, by Kevin Williamson.
Repeal And The Deficit
Why the one won’t increase the other, despite the pathetic attempts at fiscal legerdemain by the left. And Yuval Levin versus Jonathan Chait. Levin, in a knockout.
America 2.0
Thoughts on a needed upgrade for the country, from Walter Russell Mead.
In Search Of A Conservative Space Policy
With the quarter-century anniversary of the Challenger loss coming up next week, my thoughts on where we’ve been, and where we go from here. Even though I’m not really a conservative, I hope that the essay will make sense to them. Because unlike many, I at least speak the language, particularly when properly edited.
[Tuesday morning update]
I would note that there are two companion pieces to this, by Jeff Foust and Bob Zubrin.
Real Health Care
Some thoughts from Jim Pinkerton:
…every billionaire eventually discovers that vast wealth is little better than health insurance when it comes to securing good health. Wealth and health insurance are both forms of finance, and whether the plan is deluxe or bare-bones, finance is retrospective — after you get sick, people get paid to treat you. And yet what plutocrats — and all of us — really need is prospective, even preemptive, medical science, the kind that produces not just wellness plans, but actual vaccines and cures. The rich can afford the best doctors, and the plushest hospital suites, but if that scientific spadework isn’t done in advance, if the right cure doesn’t exist when it’s needed, it can’t be bought on short notice at any price. The polio vaccine, for example, took 17 years; genuinely effective treatments for AIDS took 15 years. Cures cannot be impulse purchases. They can’t be bid for on eBay, or even at Sotheby’s.
And the Democrats’ preferred policies will only make things worse. It’s mass murder, really. Or at least manslaughter. If I can be so uncivil.