Category Archives: History
Space Resources Update
An article on the legal state of asteroid mining. This isn’t true, though: “Much like the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, the United States has not signed the Moon Agreement but by custom it adheres to the treaty — at least until Donald Trump’s recent executive order, which explicitly rejects the idea that such agreements are binding to the USA.”
Meanwhile, Michael Listner writes that we must return to the moon to preserve the rule of law in space. Well, that’s certainly a reason, but not the only (or even best) one.
After The Plague
The Declassifications
…show that Durham is the Democrats’ biggest nightmare.
[Afternoon update]
We cannot have two standards of justice in this country.
Sadly, apparently we can, because we certainly have for decades. Hopefully, that’s coming to an end.
Xi Jinping
Did he deliberately sicken the world?
I wouldn’t put it past him.
[Update a couple minutes later’
World turns to China to come clean.
No, I won’t be holding my breath, either.
[Update a while later]
How China corrupted the WHO response to the virus.
[Afternoon update]
Heh. Wuhan lab changes sign to “0 Days Since Accidentally Releasing A Virus.”
Irony Abounds
It looks like Putin turned the FBI into a Russian asset.
Federalism
A remedial explanation for Jonah Goldberg.
The Coronavirus Commies
…censored.
This is great.
James Comey
…should apologize.
A lot of people should, but they won’t. What hacks both he and Mueller turned out to be. It’s frightening that people like this can rise to the head of such a powerful agency.
Trust The “Experts”
Public health authorities have failed us at every level, and the powerful people who were catastrophically wrong about China.
[Update a while later]
The long hard road to decoupling from China. We cannot have globalization with countries that do not share our values of liberty and individualism. But we should more strongly embrace the China that works: Taiwan.
[Update a couple minutes later]
A bipartisan call for WHO to make Taiwan a member. That of course begs the question that WHO is an organization even worthy of our funding.
[Update a while later]
The massive failure of the federal government in the pandemic argues against Medicare for all.