Remembering D-Day. In a few years, there will be no one with living memories of that war.
Category Archives: History
Back To Basics
Stephen Smith has a post on NASA’s charter, and what it is and isn’t. It got waylaid by Apollo, but it’s time to restore things to what was originally envisioned. Though as I note in comments over there, space exploration wasn’t given to a civilian agency because of concerns over the military being a hide-bound bureaucracy.
Auto World
Having moved away from Michigan a few years before, I never went, but it does seem ill conceived. As one commenter said, for a fraction of that amount of money, they could have put together the world’s best auto museum, with many classic cars, to rival or even exceed the Ford museum in Dearborn, and it might still be there. Government in action.
Twenty Years Too Late
…but we finally got a Cold-War victory parade. Of course, the fight against fascism/socialism in general remains never ending. It’s a fight against human nature.
At The Edge Of Space
U-2 pilot Cholene Espinoza remembers her trips almost to space, on the fiftieth anniversary of the shoot-down of Francis Gary Powers:
Were the risks worth it? Absolutely. The advantage of having a human being in the pilot’s seat of a reconnaissance plane is overwhelming. A person can troubleshoot problems in mid-flight, with creativity that a computer lacks and a proximity to the problem that a remote-control pilot can never achieve. A pilot also has unique situational awareness: I’ve been on more than one mission in which I was able to distinguish promising details that a drone would have missed.
It was worth it personally, too. I’ll never forget the adrenaline surge of landing what was basically a multimillion-dollar jet-powered glider on its 12-inch tail wheel from a full stall while wearing a space suit. And I’ll always remember the peace of sitting alone on the quiet edge of space, out of radio contact for hours.
People would pay for that. Sounds like they would need better suits, though.
Reclaiming The Constitution
…from the Supreme Court. An interesting view of its powers, and lack thereof.
Echoes Of The Thirties
The words of John Mearsheimer, and others. It’s truly appalling how respectable these sorts of views have become in academia. Not to mention on the left and among Democrats in general.
As a side note, while Coughlin did hate communism, it was only because it was a competing form of socialism to his own — it’s nonsensical to call a man who thought that Roosevelt wasn’t socialistic enough “right wing.” To do so is simply more of the rewriting of history by the left over the past decades.
Six Ancient Traditions
The fact that fundamentalist Islam isn’t that old should make it a lot easier to knock it out of the culture, but we’re too politically correct to even talk about how to do so. Unfortunately, though, it is older now than Nazism was in 1945.
The Railroad To Space
Some thoughts on the history of transportation from Wayne Hale. One part he leaves out of the story, though, is the Great Northern.
For Those Who Don’t Like To Watch The Video
Bill Whittle has the transcript up now for “Reasonable Men.” Quotes from the Founders.