Business as usual in space policy.
It’s interesting to note that Augustine thought it would take six years for the first cargo delivery to ISS, when it really did happen in three.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
The School Shooting In Connecticut
The politicizing has already begun, while the bodies are still warm. Bryan Preston is following and updating.
I’m wondering how many of the teachers in the school were male, and if any of them had carry permits?
The Coming Tsunami
The fiscal one.
As others have noted, this is the most predictable crisis imaginable.
What Kind Of Negotiator Is Barack Obama?
I’d say door number three:
President Obama has not negotiated a single win-win middle ground legislative compromise with the other political party. I fear he may not know how to do so or be unwilling to do so because he sees all his dealings with Congressional Republicans as pure zero-sum.
The scary part about model 3 is that the President might unwittingly kill an agreement, further inflame a nasty partisan blame game, and trigger a recession even though in this model that’s not the outcome he wants. In model 3 a different negotiator (say, Mr. Bowles) could find a middle ground that could pass both the House and Senate, but President Obama cannot or will not. Some combination of legislative inexperience, a distaste for interacting with Congress, and a naturally combative rather than cooperative temperament may hobble the President’s ability to close deals with those who have different policy priorities. And if model 3 is correct, in the next few weeks it could all go sideways because we have a President who doesn’t know how to or isn’t willing to negotiate.
We’ll find out in a couple weeks.
The Social Safety Net
…is a form of institutionalized child abuse. And as the New York Times would say, minorities are hit hardest.
Healthier Snacks
This is a step in the right direction, though they persist in the myth that the problem with potato chips is fat. I’d love to try a collard- or cabbage- or kale-based chip.
Michigan
…is the new Wisconsin:
Expect recall attempts, lawsuits, ballot questions, and more money poured into the gubernatorial and state legislative races than ever before…”We’re looking at two years of war to hold the ground we took today.”
I predict that Michigan job growth in the next two years will help.
[Update a while later]
Unions begin a long war after a stunning blow in Michigan.
The False Flag Of The Left
…and the media silence:
This alternative version the left offered didn’t have to be true. It didn’t even have to appear to be true. There did not have to be a single grain of a fact anywhere near it. It just had to be floated out there and give so-called mainstream journalists enough of an excuse to decide not to cover the real story. Mainstream media journalists know all about editing, for instance, since they go out of their way to edit out the conservative world view in just about every story they write or produce. Many journalists know about false flag operations, because they are living false flag operations. They pose as objective while they work as Democratic Party operatives. That’s how they spend their entire careers.
The left’s alternative reality keeps winning, though. The casual news consumer scans Google News and sees nothing about the unions’ use of violence to attempt to overturn the legislative process. The casual news consumer has been trained to hate alternative media that counters the prevailing culture. The mainstream media didn’t report that Big Labor tried its hand at intimidating Michigan’s elected representatives out of restoring for the state’s workers the freedom of choice and assembly, so to most Americans, it didn’t happen.
That’s how they win elections, too.
The Anti-Liberty Movement
…is growing afraid.
Good.
Our Drug Laws
They’re criminally insane. No one should be serving life without parole for a non-violent crime. Of course, in California, we have a huge taxpayer-funded lobby for this, in the form of the prison-guard union.
[Update a couple minutes later]
California’s pampered public employees.