One wonders if Representative Olson, or his staff, even know what the word “suborbital” means.
These are the people running your space program. And your country.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
The Incompetence And Partisanship
…at the Justice Department. Some thoughts:
…if Holder can’t give up the pipe dream of running a war from the ACLU handbook and conducting witch hunts to please the MoveOn.org crowd, Obama should find an attorney general who will.
Don’t hold your breath on that one.
Name Names, Governator
I’m getting more than a little tired of Arnold the RINO decrying hypocrites in his ostensible party, who supposedly rail about the Porkustimulus bill, while going out to cut ribbons at events funded by it and taking credit for them. And yet somehow, he never provides an actual example.
I’m willing to believe that such people exist (Republicans do have some repugnant people in the party, Scharzenegger being quite prominent among them), but if you’re going to damn the party to which you claim to belong in such a way, it would seem that, at a minimum, one should offer some evidence for it. Or admit that one is just blowing it out his…abs. And of course, the press (in this case Greta) never calls him on it.
Racists
A lot of white people are protesting high taxes in Michigan. You have to admit, it’s not a very diverse crowd.
An Invitation
…to the white people at MSNBC…
If Dramatic Praire Dog doesn’t show, he’ll be the Worst Person In The World.
The President Lying About ACORN?
Like the rest of you, I’m shocked, of course. But I’m sure that this will be front-page news at the New York Times. Not.
Ouch
President Obama told the Dalai Lama that he “strongly supported” him, despite the fact that he refused to be seen with him in public.
Isn’t that the same line that Tiger Woods used on his mistresses?
There’s more than one parallel, I think.
There Seems To Be A Step Missing
In all the media discussion over Iran’s incipient nuclear capabilities, two phrases seem to be intermingled. The headline on Fox News uses the word “warhead,” while Jamie Colby is talking to John Bolton, who continues to use the phrase “nuclear weapons.” While Iran having nuclear weapons is obviously nothing to sneeze at (though the White House seems to have a different view), nuclear weapons are not warheads. A warhead is a specific kind of nuclear weapon — one that not only works, but is light enough to be delivered on a missile, and has reentry and guidance systems to deliver it to its target. One does not go from enriching uranium to building warheads in a single step, but I hear no discussion of this. I wish I did.
I Like This Phrase
“A smaller Washington will result in a bigger America.” I hope we hear it a lot more in the next few months.
Going Post-Doctoral
One line stuck out to me in this piece about Professor Amy Bishop:
“You have to talk about Amy Bishop’s mental health in this situation as one of the variables, but being denied tenure when you’re in your mid-40s at an out-of-the-way obscure rural campus in the deep South is a catastrophic loss, and people don’t understand that,” says Jack Levin, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston.
This looks like northeastern Ivy bigotry to me, and it seems to be driven by ignorance. I think that most people at UAH would be surprised to learn that their university is “out-of-the-way,” “obscure,” or “rural.” Huntsville is a non-trivial city (it has a major NASA center, and Army R&D facility, and a vast aerospace contractor industrial base), and UAH has an excellent engineering school, particularly for aerospace (despite their having picked up Mike Griffin as a professor, though it’s probably a job to which he’s much better suited than running NASA). I suspect that, to Mr. Levin, its real crime is being in the “deep” south (just below the Tennessee border). And he probably thinks that for someone with a post-graduate degree from Harvard, her willingness to subject herself to such a benighted place is just one more sign of a mental disorder.