If you have an hour or so, an interesting discussion between Nick Gillespie and Jonah Goldberg.
Category Archives: History
Andrea Rich
RIP, to a long-time stalwart of the libertarian movement.
Appointing A Special Counsel
Six times the Obama administration should have done it.
But then they wouldn’t have been “scandal free.”
Tommy Robinson
He’s free, for now, but it’s sad to see the degree to which even some conservatives in England have fallen.
Office Of Commercial Space Transportation
Norm Bowles has built a web site with its history. I haven’t looked through it yet.
Very Rich Countries
Chris Hayes doesn’t seem to understand either how a country becomes, or remains wealthy.
Happy Birthday To NASA
It’s sixty years old today.
I think it’s earned an early retirement.
[Via Gail Heriot, with the usual stupidity about “Muslim outreach” in the comments]
America’s Next Civil War
…will be worse than the last one.
Yes. This time it is a war between those who revere the Constitution, and those who hate it.
[Evening update]
OK, let me amend that. It’s a war between those who revere the principles underlying the document (limited government), and those who hate them. Because they are totalitarians. Anyone who thinks (like Elena Kagen) that it would be a “bad idea” (it would actually be a good one, nutritionally) to compel the American people to purchase and eat broccoli, but constitutional, is completely clueless about the philosophy and principles of the document. “Totalitarian” doesn’t have to mean concentration camps. What it means is that there are no limiting principles, and that the personal is political.
The Scandals From The “Scandal-Free” Administration
Mark Tapscott says they all have common elements:
Just as Holder refused to turn over Fast & Furious documents sought by Congress, the DOJ and the FBI have done the same thing.
Just as Obama, Rice, Powers and Clinton lied about Benghazi, so did Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein (appointed by Trump), former FBI Director James Comey (appointed by Obama), and former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe (promoted by Comey) — when they signed the FISA applications and thereby certified the credibility of the material included in the documents.
Just as Lerner weaponized the IRS against the Tea Party, using the FISA process and the Steele dossier to enable surveillance of Page was a raw exercise of federal law enforcement and intelligence resources in an effort to harm Trump and thereby help Clinton.
Finally, just as the double standard of justice protected Clinton, the FBI investigation of the Russian collusion allegations led to the Mueller probe against Trump, even though it was Clinton who paid for Russian dirt on Trump.
In Republican administrations, the media are bulldogs. In Democrat administrations they’re lapdogs. This is one of the reasons to vote Republican.
Amelia Earhart
This is the first time I’d ever heard this: Many people heard her final calls for help.
Blogging light, because I’m still at the ISS R&D conference.