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Political Commentary

Sequestration Impacts On NASA

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I missed the talk, but at the conference yesterday morning, NASA’s chief of staff, apparently said not to worry about it:

“If you talk to the leadership in the administration or Congress, most people believe it’s not going to happen,” said NASA chief of staff David Radzanowski in response to a question on the subject after his keynote address at the NewSpace 2012 Conference in Santa Clara, California, Thursday morning. “They’re confident because the alternative is not good policy.”

Phew. Well that’s a relief. Because as we all know, nothing ever happens in Washington that results in bad policy.

Business, Economics, Media Criticism, Political Commentary

“You Didn’t Build That”

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The policy consequences.

As Glenn says:

The key policy implication is that if he can convince enough people that you didn’t earn your success, he’ll face less opposition when he tries to take the fruits of your success for himself. And that’s what this whole “you didn’t build it” thing is about. I’m not taking your property away — it was really mine all along!

Yup.

Media Criticism, Political Commentary, War Commentary

Huma

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Andrew McCarthy has some questions for John McCain and Speaker Boehner:

So I was hoping maybe the speaker could explain to us: Hypothetically, if Huma Abedin did have a bias in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood, and if she were actually acting on that bias to try to tilt American policy in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood, what exactly would the State Department be doing differently?

Yes, I’d like to see an explanation of that, too. But Huma’s not really the problem — Barack Obama is.