Why it’s important to go after them.
Yes, we have to slap this atrocious behavior down now.
Category Archives: Law
Democrats Are “Targeted” By “Bombs”
…and suddenly the rules change.
Square quotes because I don’t think the bombs were intended to go off. They were intended to be found.
California Has A Housing Crisis
…and doesn’t know how to solve it.
Just spitballing here, but maybe build more housing?
Space Force
Pence is talking about it today at an event sponsored by the WaPo. Here’s a description of the Pentagon’s current plans.
Space Access
Henry Vanderbilt will be on the show on Friday with a “mystery guest.” Hope this is good news about a resurrection of the conference.
I’ll miss it because I’ll be attending this event in DC. Flying up from Orlando this afternoon.
[Afternoon update, from MCO]
Welp, missed my flight from MCO to DCA by ten minutes. Now on standby for a 5:55 that gets into DC a little after 8
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) October 17, 2018
[Friday-afternoon update]
Here’s the official press release:
We are very pleased to announce that there will be a Space Access Conference next spring, April 18th-21st 2019, in California’s Bay Area at the Fremont Marriott Silicon Valley.
Space Access 2019 will be run by a team from the Experimental Rocket Propulsion Society with advice & support from us. The SA2019 Conference Chair will be ERPS’ Michael Wallis, with much relevant experience with both space and conference running. Proceeds (if any) will benefit both ERPS and SAS.
We expect the conference style will evolve – that’s one of the benefits of bringing in a new crew with fresh perspectives. But the essence of Space Access will remain the same: Three intensive days focusing on the technology, business, and politics of radically cheaper space transportation, discussed in depth by a cross-section of the people making it happen.
We will post occasional pointers to updated conference information on the space-access.org website, but the primary web page for SA2019 information will be https://sa2019.erps.org/. Check it out for conference hotel and registration information, and for the conference program as it evolves.
See you all there in six months!
About the same in terms of distance from LA, maybe a little further. But I look forward to it.
[Bumped]
Legal Insurrection
…is ten years old, and the professor is feeling a little more optimistic. Happy bloggiversary.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Good lord, I just realized that I’ve been blogging for seventeen years. Where did the time go?
Bring On More Kavanaughs!
Bob Zimmerman debuts over at American Greatness with a cry to strike while the iron is hot.
The Battle Of Brett Kavanaugh
Was it the high-water mark of the new civil war for “the Resistance”? I’d like to think so, but I think they’re perfectly capable of getting more vicious.
The New SCOTUS
Glenn Reynolds on what adding Kavanaugh will mean.
TL;DR: Less than both leftists fear, and conservatives hope. It will take at least one more, maybe two picks, to really change its direction in favor of the Constitution.
A Never Trumper
…finally grateful for Trump:
A few moments have crystallized my view over the past few days.
The first moment was a remark by a friend. “I’d rather be accused of murder,” he said, “than of sexual assault.” I feel the same way. One can think of excuses for killing a man; none for assaulting a woman. But if that’s true, so is this: Falsely accusing a person of sexual assault is nearly as despicable as sexual assault itself. It inflicts psychic, familial, reputational and professional harms that can last a lifetime. This is nothing to sneer at.
The second moment, connected to the first: “Boo hoo hoo. Brett Kavanaugh is not a victim.” That’s the title of a column in the Los Angeles Times, which suggests that the possibility of Kavanaugh’s innocence is “infinitesimal.” Yet false allegations of rape, while relatively rare, are at least five times as common as false accusations of other types of crime, according to academic literature.
I am sickened by vile people willing to condone an accusation of rape in pursuit of political ends. It’s a horrible thing to do to someone, and it is compounded when people shrug it off as though it’s no big deal, and then criticize someone for their “temperament” when they defend themselves against it.
I would also note that the next murder victim who falsely accuses someone of their murder will be the first.
And this is amazing.
Leland Keyser (Bob Beckel’s ex-wife) told investigators that Monica McLean pressured her to “clarify” her statement that was key evidence against Blasey Ford. McLean’s lawyer is David Laufman. He (DOJ) and Peter Strzok were the two seniors in the softball Hillary interview. What a circle jerk.
[Update later morning]
“I’m an immigrant minority woman who is becoming a Republican over the treatment of Kavanaugh.”
She won’t be the last. I hope we find out in a month that the Democrats are going to reap a whirlwind.
[Afternoon update]
Conservative women are angry. At the Democrats.
[Update mid afternoon]
Women should fear Democrat “champions”:
Claiming most Americans are racist gives Democrats political power over blacks. Of no concern to them is the harm this lie has inflicted on blacks’ happiness and wellbeing. Democrats have sewn up the black vote for the past 50 years and delivered nothing but destruction of their men, their families, and their chances at economic success. Now it is women’s turn for the Democrats’ dysfunctional brand of ‘protection.’
Lucky them.
[Update a while later]
Sorry, first link is there now.