I’m flying to Miami this afternoon, to make more progress on the house in Florida, then I’m off to London on Friday night from there. I’ll be staying with Samizdata people there, then to Vienna on Sunday for the Legal Subcommittee meeting of COPUOS, to see what’s going on in terms of space law and particularly property rights. Not sure when I’ll be back in London after that, but I’ll be back in Florida on the 18th. I’ll be taking devices and try to check in occasionally, but blogging may be light and scattered for the next couple weeks.
Category Archives: Law
California’s Illegal Voting Law
I’d love to see Trump do this, and force the state out of the Union, as happened the last time the Democrats defied the federal government to deny citizens their rights. And it shouldn’t be allowed back in as a single state. Let most of the territory in as multiple states, but force the coast to get its act together before being allowed back into the Union.
End Of An Era
I didn’t mention this at the time he announced it was happening to his staff, but George Nield has retired from the FAA. Not clear what the future holds for the Office of Commercial Space Transportation, or who the next head of it will be, but it’s unlikely to remain within the FAA, given the mood on the Hill. It never should have been there. The entire federal regulatory apparatus needs to be restructured for the coming era in commercial spaceflight, both launch and for on-orbit activities.
Repealing The Second Amendment
Good luck with that.
Thoughts from Glenn Reynolds.
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Yes. There is no chance that two thirds of both houses of Congress would pass such an amendment, and even less that three quarters of the states would ratify it.
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Related: The ignorant Parkland kids don’t speak for their dead classmates. David Hogg is the new Cindy Sheehan, and her fate will be his when the media tires of him.
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You can attempt to repeal the Second Amendment, but you can’t repeal history.
As Stephen Green notes, people like Stevens are relying on the ignorance of the American people, deliberately fomented by our public-school system and universities for the past several decades.
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This seems related somehow: Trump and the great unmasking of the Left:
I think that long before he even dreamed of entering politics, Donald Trump realized that by outraging his opponents, he could provoke them into saying and doing things that would prove harmful to their goals by exposing their motives, assumptions, and real intentions.
Yes, even though they pretend they haven’t been doing it:
In the age of social media, reaching irrelevant conclusions is a competitive sport. Nevertheless, tossing red herrings about like chaff from an aircraft under fire does little to dispute the fact that conservatives have been subjected to an absurd gas-lighting campaign over the last few weeks.
It’s enough to drive you crazy. That is, it would be if you were to take any of this performance art seriously.
I haven’t taken the Left’s performance art seriously for decades.
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Bad link fixed, sorry.
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Yes, they are coming for your guns.
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New Democrat senator: “A gun ban is not feasible right now. Or ever, in America.
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Gun control leaves the most vulnerable defenseless. The Australia buy-back myth is particularly pernicious.
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Why the Stevens gun manifesto is so irresponsible.
Space Regulation
With the Legal Subcommittee meeting of COPUOUS in Vienna a little over a week away (I’ll be attending this year), Laura Montgomery has a new paper out, and Christopher Johnson has some thoughts, too.
The New Special Counsel
Why Sessions didn’t appoint one.
It makes sense to me to put a seasoned prosecutor on the case within the department. With the I.G. report, they probably already have plenty of evidence to pursue. And McCabe is clearly worried. Good.
And yes, the FBI needs a thorough overhaul.
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McCabe lied four times to investigators.
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What did Comey know about the Pulse nightclub terrorist, and when did he know it?
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Now here’s a former FBI agent worth providing funding for:
“I went through hell for a year and a half,” she said. “Andy made sure I couldn’t get out of the division.”
Gritz said that McCabe additionally made “nasty, false” comments about her in a meeting — “lying,” she said. “which is why he just got fired.”
“Andy” sounds like a real peach.
King Versus Burwell
SCOTUS has essentially repudiated itself. Many of the decisions from the left side of it have been nakedly political.
The New National Space Strategy
Thoughts on it from Laura Montgomery, with its implications for Outer Space Treaty interpretation.
Comey And Mueller
McCabe just made life tougher for them. As though it wasn’t tough enough. And note: Turley is a life-long Democrat.
At this point, I’d be happy to see McCabe, Comey, and many others do time in Club Fed. It’s probably too much to ask, though.
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A higher loyalty to their inflated sense of virtue.
I think a lot of leftist heads are going to explode when Horowitz’s report comes out, and they’re not even anticipating it, continuing to focus on the Trump/Russia chimera.
Justice-Department Standards
You’ll be as shocked as I am to learn that Mueller’s investigation flouts them.