Category Archives: History

History, Social Commentary, Space, Space History

The Right Stuff

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Brian Binnie (who flew the first X-Prize flight) emails:

…this e-book:

The Right Stuff: Interviews with Icons of the 1960s, is available just in time for Father’s day. It’s the first in a series dealing with “adventurers” over the decades, many of whom are leaders in the space arena. I wrote the forward to it and the SpaceShipOne story will appear when the chronology finally gets to the 2000’s.

I met Jim via the eclectic Explorers Club and he is regular contributor to Forbes Magazine.

Cheers, Brian

You might want to check it out.

History, Media Criticism, Political Commentary

Remember How The Wisconsin Recall Was Good News For Obama?

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Nope.

The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Romney with 47% of the vote to Obama’s 44%. Five percent (5%) prefer some other candidate, and four percent (4%) are undecided.

Hard to see a path to victory for him if he loses Wisconsin.

[Afternoon update]

The GOP is born again, in Wisconsin. Most people aren’t aware that the state is the birthplace of the party.

History, Political Commentary

Sixty-Eight Years

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…since the troops hit the beach at Normandy. It wasn’t as bold a military gamble as killing bin Laden (just ask Joe Biden), but still. Let’s hope we have a different president to commemorate the seventieth anniversary.

[Update a while later]

Here’s Reagan’s commemoration twenty-eight years ago, on the fortieth anniversary:

[Update later morning]

Well, it was inevitable, and it didn’t take long — Hitler has found out about it.

It’s hard to believe that was almost thirty years ago. I’ve probably mentioned this before, but I remember almost forty years ago, on the thirtieth anniversary, and my mother remarking that it was hard to believe that it had been thirty years (she had been a WAC in Egypt at the time). She’s been gone over twenty years now.