I generally avoid the city. The South Bay, with the resurgence of the space industry and many start ups, remains in better shape.
[Update late morning]
LA 2025: Welcome to America’s future.
I hope not.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
What’s Happening In California
This is a must watch to understand what is really happening in California. Thank you @shellenberger for breaking it down so succinctly 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 pic.twitter.com/aKlziQJKnW
— Michelle Maxwell (@MichelleMaxwell) June 9, 2025
[Afternoon update]
The LA chaos is an illusion, and Trump will not fall for it.
On The Trump-Musk Feud
Beyond the Trump-Musk fallout?
— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) June 6, 2025
At first impression, it makes no sense that Musk would start firing away at the (admittedly imperfect) budget bill, or escalate to DefCon 1, by tweeting nonsense about impeachment, the Epstein files, or disengaging his space efforts from the U.S.…
Assuming that Trump is serious, wait until he hears that there's no Golden Dome or Mars without SpaceX.
— Not-So-OK Boomer (@Rand_Simberg) June 5, 2025
[Saturday-evening update]
Sorry about the formatting issues. I’m trying to get used to the WordPress update, which munged everything up in terms of how I post. Among other things, it made it a lot more effort to insert HTML.
Eighty-One Years
The thanks we owe to the men who stormed the Normandy beaches and the leaders who made the extraordinarily difficult decision to send them is to ensure the civilization they saved remains the beacon of light and truth and is not worn away by neglect and contempt.
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) June 6, 2025
I remember when I was nineteen my (veteran) mother saying, “I can’t believe it’s been thirty years.”
[Update a few minutes later]
The great crusade and the men who made it work.
On Black Voting Patterns
KJP is right on this one point.
There are better messengers on it, though, as noted there.
Blue Origin Speaks
It’s time for NASA to get out of the launch business.
I’ve only been saying this for over two decades.
Don’t read the comments, though.
[Tuesday-morning update]
Bob Zimmerman is very encouraged about the future of America in space.
Light posting today if at all, because I’ll be at the Space Tech Expo in Long Beach all day.
[Thursday-morning update]
Bob has a follow up post. I do think the proposal to reduce crew size on the ISS is penny-wise pound-foolish.
The Jews
Where have they gone, and where are they going?
[Update a few minutes later]
Hamas’s war against the Jews has come to America.
[Update a few more minutes later]
Did CNN cause the Boulder attack?
It didn’t help.
Five Years Ago
The public-health “experts,” along with most of the media, completely destroyed their credibility.
They haven’t regained it with me, but we’ll see what Jay Battacharya, Marty Makary et al can do.
News On The Mann Front
New: DC Court orders climate scientist Michael Mann to pay $477,350.80 to the @ceidotorg and @Rand_Simberg in Mann’s long-running libel action.
— Andrew M. Grossman (@andrewmgrossman) May 22, 2025
That’s on top of the $530,000 Mann was ordered to pay to National Review in January.https://t.co/BxvzbI7fz3
[Friday-morning update]
The worm has turned.
[Update Saturday morning]
An actual news report in Pennsylvania.
[Update]
[Update a few minutes later]
More over at WattsUpWithThat.
This is the best reporting on the legal situation so far, but I hope that at some point Jonathan Adler weighs in.
Harvard
FAFO:
This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus.
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) May 22, 2025
It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments… pic.twitter.com/12hJWd1J86
[Saturday-morning update]
Harvard is totally corrupted.
It’s unclear that it’s even salvageable.