It’s long past time that someone spoke truth to mendacity and hypocrisy.
Category Archives: History
Timekeeping
This is an interesting history, but it makes me wonder how Huygens knew how long a second was to adjust the pendulum length.
I Pulled At The Thread Of My Ideology
“…and it all unraveled before me.”
Delta II
It’s about to make its last flight. Most of the media won’t realize how historical this event, or that rocket is. Somewhere, Max Hunter is smiling.
Nazis And Marxism
Read a bunch of them talking about how much they love it. This is one of the best arguments I’ve seen that they were leftists. To deny it is to deny history, but much of academia has been rewriting that history for decades.
The Leftists
Thoughts from Wretchard on their reactionary attempts to return to the past.
The Anniversary
It’s hard to believe that it’s been seventeen years. Glenn Reynolds has some links and thoughts. Yes, Barack Obama was feckless, but part of the reason we got him was due to the fecklessness of George Bush, and the mismanagement of Iraq. I thought at the time the administration had a strategic plan for the Middle East, but I was wrong.
[Update a while later]
The Need For A Space Force
It’s a 19th-century solution for a 21st-century problem. Most of the takes on this have been idiotic, but this is a good one. I’d note though, per the end, it’s not a choice between a Space Corps/Force or Space Guard. We need both.
When A Foreign Power Meddled In A Election
Like me, Byron York remembers the 90s, the Clinton administration, and the Chinese government. But that was different because shut up.
Another Arkancide?
The reach of the Clinton’s is long.