Here’s an interesting collection. I like the one urging people to car pool. What would today’s equivalent be: when you ride alone, you ride with George Bush?
Category Archives: Political Commentary
The Haters, The Homers…
…and the Boomers. Thoughts on space advocacy.
Stop Criticizing The President
I agree. Every minute spent on the links is a minute not wrecking the country. I wish he’d do it more. I’d even double his salary if he wouldn’t do anything else.
The Feeling Is Mutual
James Cameron says that climate-change skeptics are “swine.”
[Tuesday morning update]
Well, he can dish it out, but he can’t take it:
A real shame [he chickened out of the debate]. Would have been fun to watch the reaction to him calling skeptics “swine” to their faces, for once. Exit question: Forgive and forget? C’mon — he has important things to do this week!
Bwwaaack, buck buck buck buck, Bwwwaaaaack.
[Bumped]
But Don’t Say He’s Not A Moderate
The wisdom of Imam Rauf:
“The United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than al-Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.”
This is a disgusting attempt at moral equivalence.
An Opinion Leader
Support for the Ground-Zero-Plus-Two mosque plummets after Obama weighs in. “If he’s for it, I’m a’gin it,” isn’t generally a good basis for policy opinions, but in his case, you can do worse.
The War That Broke Us
Not.
Just a reminder to people like the ignorant idiots in the Space Politics comments section as to why NASA’s budget is almost certainly going to take a whack from the coming Deficit Commission. It’s not the war, stupid. And note who was in charge of the Congress (and then the White House) when it skyrocketed. Note also that even with the dreaded “tax cuts,” it was declining, indicating that it wasn’t a revenue problem, or at least not one caused by the lower tax rates.
Mine, Too
Do the Gray Lady’s editorial writers even read their own pieces?
…many of Mr. DeLay’s actions remain legal only because lawmakers have chosen not to criminalize them.
Funny how that works.
Peter Fenn
The Democrat strategist has a stupid and ignorant blog post about Elon Musk, SpaceX and NASA over at The Hill. He’s appropriately eviscerated in comments there.
Politics
The government report instantly made headlines for the astonishing conclusion that approximately 75 percent of the oil had been collected, burned, skimmed or simply disappeared. Given the magnitude of the spill — the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history — some scientists concluded it was premature to draw such conclusions.
Another independent study released this week estimated as much as 79 percent of the oil remains in the Gulf, beneath the water’s surface.
Lehr’s admission that the peer review wasn’t completed in advance of the report’s release undermines the administration’s claim that it was.
And then, there’s this:
Interior Department officials knew beforehand that President Obama’s six-month moratorium on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico would cost more than 23,000 jobs and inflict devastating economic damage throughout the region.
Even so, the administration was not deferred from defying a federal judge and doing it anyway.
You’d almost think that they want to destroy the economy. I’m not sure what they’d be doing differently if they did.
And I don’t want to hear any more partisan noise about a “Republican war on science.”