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Category Archives: Political Commentary
How Trump Can Save NASA
An analysis by Jim Meigs, in which he quotes Yours Truly.
I strongly disagree that SLS/Orion is the fastest way to get back to the Moon. I’ll be discussing that in a study I’ve done for the Reason Foundation that I hope will be published in a week or three. Briefly, we have all the pieces we need to do it quickly, without SLS/Orion, as long as we’re willing to go back to the Apollo levels of risk acceptance. And we’ll have to do that to beat the Chinese.
Capitulation
When Scott Pace says it’s time to throw in the towel, the end of SLS isn’t far off. I had lunch with a friend in Santa Monica yesterday who had just gotten off the phone with him, in anticipation of his testimony.
By “off ramp,” I assume he’s saying fly Artemis 2 and 3, but end the program after that. That would mean an immediate cancellation of the Exploration Upper Stage, and the ML-2 mobile platform, whose costs were beyond ridiculous, because they were only needed for Artemis 4. As I’ll note in my upcoming study for the Reason Foundation, that in itself would save almost a billion dollars per year. But cancellation of SLS itself will save a couple billion.
The NGO Industrial Complex
Yes, it’s time to deploy RICO against it.
The Rise Of The Jacksonians
Thoughts on current politics from John Ringo.
The Republican Party Is Dead
Long live the Republican Party.
A bunch of pranksters have skinned the republican party and are wearing it as a hat.
— Devon Eriksen (@Devon_Eriksen_) January 27, 2025
And I am in serious danger of running out of popcorn.
They understand something that actual republican politicians never did.
Ridicule is the best weapon against the ridiculous.
Jokes move… https://t.co/z2wBwgpJAm
The Transgender Ideology
A Restoration, Not A revolution
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 21, 2025
Gaza
Guy Benson writes that it’s time to raise hell.
This may be the most savage culture on the planet, and those who defend it are either profoundly stupid, or profoundly evil. And possibly both.
Pigs Get Fed, Hogs Get Slaughtered
Thoughts on the history of the civil service, and recalcitrant bureaucrats:
🧵Pigs get fed. Hogs get slaughtered.
— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) February 21, 2025
The deal for moving from a spoils system to a civil service system for government workers contained exchanges. The government workers were paid less than in the public sector. In exchange, they received job protections and a pension.