There’s been a lot of misreporting on this issue all week, that I’ve been admonishing people about on Twitter. Michael Listner explains the issue: No, the Outer Space Treaty does not prevent us from approaching water on Mars.
Category Archives: Law
What Did Hillary Do Wrong?
A summary from Sharyl Atkisson.
I think the commenter over there may be right. Obama wants this to hurt Hillary enough to keep her from becoming president, but he doesn’t want the emails related to Benghazi to be exposed to daylight.
[Update a few minutes later]
It’s not just about Hillary’s crimes and boobery, but the incredible ineptitude of the State Department:
The departing manager of the average pizza restaurant is handled more carefully than departing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was. The Obama Administration was so utterly contemptuous of the public’s need to know, and the prerogatives of Congressional oversight committees, that it simply never gave any thought to securing emails the SecState wrote on behalf of the United States of America, until Congress and federal judges forced them to pay attention to the matter.
And I’m sure they’re very angry about it.
[Friday-afternoon update]
Two of Hillary’s scandals merge into one.
The email scandal is politically dangerous for Clinton because it supports the preconception of her as clannish, paranoid, and privileged. The Clinton Foundation scandal is toxic because it fosters the impression that, under Clinton, American diplomatic influence was a commodity available to the highest bidder, regardless of U.S. national interest. The convergence of those two scandals would doom the careers of Clinton and those who surrounded her all those Halcion years.
I wish. But she’s been getting away with lies, felonies and corruption for decades.
And the campaign is having trouble keeping its lies straight.
That’s always the problem with lying.
[Update a few minutes later]
Oopsie. More work emails from her “private” account. With David Petraeus.
[Bumped]
[Update a few minutes later]
Democrats starting to figure out what a terrible liar Hillary is.
They’d have no problem at all, as long as she was good at it, like Bill.
The Space Policy Mess On The Hill
Michael Listner (at his new space-law blog) has a good description of the difficulty of reconciling the House and Senate bills.
However, even if the learning period expires next week, George Nield knows that both houses want to extend it, and he’s not going to waste any resources trying to suddenly start rule making.
Dear Hillary
A debate over a law is never “over”:
As this debate moves forward toward the next election I would hope that Republicans and conservatives take the opportunity to remind voters that our entire system of government is, to varying degrees, a flexible and constantly shifting beast. Obamacare is, beyond question, the law of the land as it stands today. It’s also true that a couple of aspects of it have been challenged through the proper rules of order and have survived the test all the way to the highest court. But absolutely none of that has magically transformed this piece of legislation into some sort of natural law, essential human right or sacred text brought down on stone tablets from Mount Sinai.
The law of the land is as permanent as the voters decide it should be. Its expiration date may never come or it may be swept way with the next meeting of the legislature. There is no debate over the law which ever truly ends as long as there are those left who wish to debate it.
It’s almost as thought they want to silence dissent.
Frivolous Lawsuits
Yes, as someone on the sharp end of one, I’d like to see some form of “loser pays” here.
Healthcare.gov
The problems she describes with the federal procurement system afflict both Air Force and NASA space projects as well.
Scott Walker And Unions
He wants a dramatic overhaul of labor laws. It’s long overdue. They’re a relic of the thirties.
I haven’t read the proposal, but it’s worth noting that he could eliminate public-employee unions with the stroke of a pen. That’s how Kennedy created them.
The Hillary Email Scandal
She must be apoplectic. Clinton scandals always go away. Why won’t this one?
For Incoming And Returning College Students
Ashe Schow has a warning:
Students, especially male students, need to stop viewing sex merely as pleasure or as an expression of affection or love, and begin seeing it as a potentially life-ruining moment. And as someone who has never advocated abstinence, that is a painful thing to have to say.
The situation has gotten so bad that one parents’ group has begun distributing flyers on California campuses warning students of how easy it is to be accused and expelled.
The reality of it is this: There is little trust anymore between the sexes. Women are being told that men, especially men they believe are their friends, are waiting to get them drunk and rape them. This in turn is leading men to believe that women are going to accuse them of sexual assault for just about any reason, even for consensual sexual encounters.
I’m glad I’m not attending college these days.
[Update a few minutes later]
Defining deviancy up: Remarks about physical appearance now constitute “sexual violence.”
Pleading The Fifth
I’ll bet this IT guy is sorry he ever got involved with the Clintons.
The only reason I can think of to not give him use immunity is because the DoJ doesn’t want to hear what he has to say.
[Update a few minutes later]
Hadn’t noticed the whole story. Apparently he wasn’t just a hired IT guy — he worked on her campaign.
No sympathy, then. Anyone who voluntarily associates themselves with this long-time criminal syndicate deserves whatever they get.