…from Climaquiddick. It’s hard to read these and still believe that “the science is settled.”
Category Archives: Political Commentary
It Wasn’t The Ads That Hurt Newt
It was his response to them:
Voters who once supported Gingrich but have now turned away from him say that his hot-tempered response to the ads, rather than the ads themselves, simply turned them off. “He’s got a temper,” said one Tea Party member at a Nashua coffeehouse Saturday morning. “I don’t want a guy with a temper with his finger on the button.” Other voters said Gingrich’s ill-tempered complaints about the ads distracted them from the former speaker’s message about jobs, the economy, and American renewal.
In South Carolina, Gingrich’s decision to call Romney a liar did not sit well with many Republicans, including those who don’t support Romney. “I think people saw him calling Romney a liar as just un-presidential,” says one well-connected South Carolina political figure. “It just looked unpresidential.”
Life is ten percent about what happens to you, and ninety percent about how you respond to it.
One-Way Trips To Mars?
It’s actually the only way that makes sense right now:
The hard part, he says, isn’t subsisting in a hostile environment millions of miles from home but changing the Space Shuttle-era culture of timidity.
It would be easier to just ignore NASA than to change it. I’m working on an issue paper on risk aversion and reward, and how we have to stop fretting so much over killing people if we want to open up space.
Congress’s Five Options
…to reverse the administration power grab. I like John Yoo’s solution, which doesn’t involve Congress at all:
Most importantly, private parties outside government can refuse to obey any regulation issued by the new agency. They will be able to defend themselves in court by claiming that the head of the agency is an unconstitutional officer, and they will have the grounds for a good test case. They can call Richard first, me second, for advice!
I hope we don’t have to wait until the regulations are issued to resolve it, though.
Sorry, Rush
…but Santorum really is a big-government conservative. He may be preferable to Romney, but anyone who thinks he’ll shrink government is fooling themselves.
[Afternoon update]
The Green Movement
…is dead in the water. But it continues to do a lot of economic damage.
A Mother
An Academic Lynching
This is atrocious, but all too typical of modern academia, ever since the leftists began their takeover in the sixties.
Can A Christian Be A Libertarian?
A discussion. As a skeptic, it’s not a problem for me, of course.
A Way To Show Opposition To Earmarks
The presidential candidates should support legislation to forbid politicians from naming earmarks after themselves.