That’s the biggest argument for him, but I don’t buy it, and neither does Richard Miniter. The entire field is just awful, and likely to give the president a second term, because none of the Republican A team chose to run this year. It’s quite depressing.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
Let The Religious Purges Begin
The latest battle in the war against the climate heretics.
Return To The Moon?
It’s not that loony.
Did Newt Wreck The Space Program?
He sure made it a lot harder to have a serious discussion about it. And for some reason, most reporters just find it impossible to describe history accurately:
President George W. Bush planned a return to the moon, but didn’t give the program the resources advocates hoped for. President Obama scrapped Bush’s plan in favor of promoting a private sector future farther out in space, but also cut back dramatically in the face of a budget crisis.
Sigh. The administration proposed a budget increase for NASA. But instead Congress, on a bipartisan basis, added in an unneeded rocket development while cutting funds for anything useful. Because it’s all about jobs, not doing anything in space.
It’s Global Warming
Better bundle up:
Based on readings from more than 30,000 measuring stations, the data was issued last week without fanfare by the Met Office and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit. It confirms that the rising trend in world temperatures ended in 1997…
CO2 levels have continued to rise without interruption and, in 2007, the Met Office claimed that global warming was about to ‘come roaring back’. It said that between 2004 and 2014 there would be an overall increase of 0.3C. In 2009, it predicted that at least three of the years 2009 to 2014 would break the previous temperature record set in 1998.
So far there is no sign of any of this happening.
Why does the stupid earth hate science sooooooooo much?
The Groundhog State Of The Union Address
Five things we don’t want to hear any more:
What is it about debt that Mr. Obama does not get? Please spare us any new programs or initiatives. We owe now $16 trillion. America is borrowing at the rate of $3 billion-plus a day. So please, Mr. President, no more Solyndras. We did not want or need Cash for Clunkers. There is no money for more expansions of food stamps. Nothing is left for student loan reprieves, high-speed rail, or anything else. To propose any new expenditure would first require some honest disclosure, like the following: “I wish to borrow $10 billion at 3% interest to lower student loan debt and I propose to pay for it by selling off 1000 new oil leases.”
The problem with these Obama initiatives is not just that we do not have the money and must borrow to pay for them, but that we feel most of them only make things worse, whether by subsidizing another mortgage for someone who is by market standards not likely to meet the loan payments and would be better off renting, or by paying some insider crony to make and sell solar panels at a loss. Again, chill on the new programs, and just start paying off what you already borrowed. Outside government, psychiatrists often treat with mind-altering medicines the unstable who compulsively charge things that they cannot pay for and do not need.
That’s just one of them.
Eric Holder Perjured Himself
Either that, or he’s a rank incompetent. Either way, long past time for him to go.
More On Moon Base Feasibility
Ken Chang has a story at the New York Times. I’m glad to see he’s starting to get it when it comes to orbital propellant.
Some Space Policy Advice For Mitt Romney
I have some more questions for him over at PJMedia.
Senator Grassley
…is unhappy with the (In)Justice Department: “#F&F Documents releasd Fri nite by Justice clearly show Holders people knew abt gun running days b4 I opend investigation Yet they lied.”
Transparency!