Thoughts on the abysmal failure of “liberal” social nostrums, and their particularly devastating effects on the urban black community, from Walter Russell Mead. The problem is that they’ll probably take their voting patterns with them to the new locales, ruining them as well.
[Update a few minutes later]
The Jim Crow roots of the Davis-Bacon Act.
Thoughts on the insanity of it, from George Will. Though I beat Andrew Ferguson to this beat almost a decade ago.
Thoughts on the current NASA mess from Ric Locke.
A first-hand report on the Marching Morons, from Mark Steyn:
The money-no-object Metropolitan Police had helicopters whirring non-stop over Central London during today’s mass hallucination (they’re still overhead as I write), but, as usual, not a lot of competent policing on the ground. As is their wont, they did little to prevent property damage – or the general intimidation of visitors to the capital by so-called “anarchists” (an odd term for pro-government welfare-funded thugs).
An odd term indeed.
[Late Sunday evening update]
More thoughts on the oxymoron of leftist “anarchists.”
…is heating up again.
I’ll bet they still don’t have an exit strategy.
Keith Cowing, Marcia Smith and Jeff Foust all have reports on General Bolden’s comments yesterday, some of which were in response to questions from Keith. I would note (as Jeff does) that Congress doesn’t want a vehicle sized in metric tons — it asked for one in tons. NASA seems to have confused this issue by sizing in MT, and now Keith and Marcia are stating that as though it’s the requirement. But that oversizes the system considerably, as I noted in my satirical but sadly accurate robot theater a few weeks ago.
Our tax code is corrupt.
Enlightened women honoring gentlemen.
For quite a while, I’ve been thinking that we’ve lost the concept of a gentleman, to the point that the word has lost its meaning. It makes me crazy when I hear a newscaster say something absurd and with no apparent irony, like “…the gentleman who raped the young woman is still being sought by police.” Folks, it’s not just a synonym for “man.”
…from Jerry Pournelle.