The next memo is going to target John Brennan.
IMO, he is a partisan scumbag, and an enemy of freedom.
[Tuesday-morning update]
Sorry, broken link is fixed now.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
My Lawsuit
It’s been over a year since we filed a petition for a rehearing en banc from the DC Court of Appeals.
[Monday-morning update]
While doing a search for other related links, I an across this, from a year or so ago, which I find quite bizarre. He thinks both that Mann is a fraud, and that I nonetheless deserve to be sued.
Sea-Level-Rise Acceleration
Judith Curry’s latest thoughts (this is part of a series, to be continued).
The more times goes on, the less concerned I get about climate change (not that it may not change for the worse — that’s always a possibility — but in the sense that we really understand and can predict it). For example, consider the Iceland event of 1783. If that happened today, it would be much larger than anything we’ve been doing with CO2, and it’s entirely unpredictable.
As always, our best bet is to get as wealthy as possible so we’ll have the resources to deal with whatever the future holds. Instead the climate alarmists advocate polices that make energy needlessly more expensive (and hence everything more expensive, inhibiting economic growth).
[Update late afternoon]
Judith’s weekly climate roundup, which is usually interesting.
On The Corruption Of Obama And Clinton
Break down that wall of silence.
Yes, they figured they’d get away with all of it because they assumed they were going to win a rigged election. Then when she was to incompetent to win a rigged election, they panicked and the big cover up and counterattack began.
[Saturday-morning update]
Given all of the other revelations that are pouring out, it sure would be nice if there were some discussion in comments about, oh, I don’t know…the actual topic of this post?
[Update a while later]
FBI agents ready to revolt in the corrupt Clinton probe. Long overdue, if true. I think, or at least hope, that Comey’s name will go down in infamy.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Oops, just noticed the date on that. Still, it rings true.
And this one is today: Hillary’s fingerprints are all over the FBI investigation of Trump. This really is (or should be, if we had a press worthy of the name) the biggest scandal in U.S. history.
The Memo
Here it is.
This gross abuse of power comes as no surprise to anyone who was actually observing and reporting on the Obama administration for eight years. #IRS
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) February 2, 2018
[Update a few minutes later]
And here are the key findings.
[Late-night update]
This is worse than Watergate.
I’ve been saying for years that Barack Obama got away with things that Nixon could only dream of. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. And we’re only finding out because despite all their machinations, their candidate lost. If she’d won, it would have been corrupt business as usual.
[Saturday-morning update]
Why did the Democrats lie so baldly about the memo?
Because they’d reached the point at which it was the only, last resort.
Columbia Anniversary
It’s been fifteen years. Challenger was the beginning of the end of the Shuttle program, less than five years after the first flight. Columbia doomed it, though it continued to fly for eight more years. But the decision to end it led to the much more hopeful future we have now, with new commercial vehicles finally demonstrating real reusability, and competing with each other to drive down costs.
Here are my immediate thoughts at the time. Click on follow-up posts for a lot more.
[Update a few minutes later]
Glenn Reynolds: We just entered a golden age of space exploration. Why all the pessimism?
More importantly, we’re finally entering an age of not merely exploration, but development and ultimately settlement.
[Afternoon update]
In rereading what I wrote then, I’m surprised at how prescient it was and how well it held up. Including the foretelling of the book that was to come a decade later.
[Update a few minutes later]
Note my comment there at the time:
Who has an operational solution that’s any better than NASA’s?
Who’s been funded to provide one?
The fact that NASA hasn’t done better does not imply that it cannot be done better. NASA operates under significant political constraints.
Note that fifteen years later (and the two people doing this had started two years earlier), that problem seems to have been solved.
The NASA Safety Bureaucracy
Bob Zimmerman has some useful thoughts on how it continues to hold it back.
And yes, I did see the launch, from Jetty Park, but I didn’t see them fail to expend it out to sea. I’m sure that Loren Thompson will declare it another SpaceX failure tomorrow, and now a hazard to shipping lanes.
The Lancet
It’s catching up on the nutrition science:
High carbohydrate intake was associated with higher risk of total mortality, whereas total fat and individual types of fat were related to lower total mortality. Total fat and types of fat were not associated with cardiovascular disease, myocardial infarction, or cardiovascular disease mortality, whereas saturated fat had an inverse association with stroke. Global dietary guidelines should be reconsidered in light of these findings.
It’s a epidemiological study, but it matches most recent research.
Don’t Know Much About The Constitution
No, Congress can’t prevent Trump from firing Mueller. I think firing Mueller would be a bad idea, but if I were Trump, I would refuse to be interviewed, and if I were subpoenaed by a grand jury, I’d ignore it.
The Tax Bill
No, sorry, blue states, you can’t fix it.
This may be one of the most consequential things of Trump’s presidency. So far, anyway.