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Category Archives: Law
Gun-Control Backfire
This is hilarious:
I was chatting with a friend of mine recently and the topic of gun sales came up. My friend’s father owns a gun range near me and she said he’s seen a huge amount of liberals coming in to purchase weapons in recent weeks.
How does he know they’re liberals?
“They’re shocked to discover they can’t just walk out of the store with a gun.”
We’ve all heard about gun sales skyrocketing recently, but I hadn’t considered some of the tangential effects of the phenomenon until I spoke to my friend. Not only are many liberals suddenly learning to love their Second Amendment rights, many of them are finding out that the gun control narrative in this country — as repeated loudly and often by Hollywood and the mainstream media — is a complete lie.
But they were told by all the smartest people how easy it was!
Space Resources
The White House just released an executive order that in effect repudiates the Moon Agreement. I’ve been urging them to do this for months. This could be a prelude to start to pressure Canberra to withdraw from it.
It also encourages the development of multilateral agreements, which I’ve also been promoting.
[Update a while later]
Glenn Reynolds has the full press release.
One of the significant things about this, that many won’t realize, is that it effectively bypasses COPUOS.
[Update Tuesday morning]
Here‘s Jeff Foust’s story.
[Update Wednesday morning]
Here’s the story from Mike Wall. I don’t think this is right, though:
The new executive order makes things even more official, stressing that the United States does not view space as a “global commons” and sees a clear path to off-Earth mining, without the need for further international treaty-level agreements.
It specifically says that it is seeking bilateral and/or multilateral agreements. What it doesn’t think is necessary is doing this through the UN, or COPUOS.
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[Update a while later]
TASS: “Privatizing” space is “unacceptable.”
Putin’s trying to eat his cake and have it, too. He wants us to abide by the Moon Agreement without Russia actually acceding to it. This sort of nonsense is one of the reasons I’d been pushing for what the White House did.
[Update a while later]
Here’s some nonsense from the Grauniad.
[Saturday-morning update]
A piece from Popular Mechanics. This isn’t quite right, though: “…the ESA plan describes an interest in regolith, which is lunar soil rich in specific elements.”
Regolith per se is not soil; soil implies a biome, or at least fertilizer. also, it does not need to be rich in any particular element or elements to be regolith. Regolith is simply dust or rocks on a planetary surface. The entire lunar surface is covered with it, and nothing else, other than our few artifacts in a few locations.
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The CDC And FDA
How they wrecked the economy.
They both are overdue for a thorough overhaul, to the degree that they should even exist.
Linda Tripp
RIP.
She was the only person in that mess who told the truth, or showed any integrity, and she paid a societal price for it. She was brutalized by the Clinton-worshipping media, and the “comedians” on SNL.
This is a reminder that we really need an early-detection capability for pancreatic cancer.
The New Prohibition
Pennsylvania has made it both difficult and dangerous to purchase liquor.
Much of the response to this has been insane (and unconstitutional, and power grabby).
The Copperhead Media
A history lesson relevant to the current crisis.
The Suburban Stasi
Yes, this makes me want to go out for a drive just as a big FU to der Staat.
[Update a few minutes later]
Related: I’m glad I don’t live in the new police state of Los Angeles.
These businesses should file suit on Constitutional grounds: There is no law against doing business, even in Los Angeles.
[Update while later]
Everyone jumps off bridges after following government guidelines to jump off bridges.
The FISA Court
…is (finally) dropping the hammer on the corrupt FBI.
Mark Steyn
His latest on the lawsuit, in which we are still in discovery.
[Update a while later]
Here is McIntyre’s Twitter thread.