…people froze. Someone should ask the president why he hates white people.
Note that I don’t actually think that it’s the president’s responsibility to go and give hugs to people in a natural disaster. I’m just (continually) sickened by the media double standard.
Some useful thoughts from Ilya Somin.
They’re actually increasing in size. I blame global warming. Or George Bush (is there a statute of limitations on being able to blame things on George Bush?).
Of course, the new growth doesn’t necessarily preserve the species that were being lost in the original cutting, but it’s unclear what, if anything, had actually gone extinct.
I have a piece up at PJM today on the ongoing misleading (if not mendacious) discussion of taxes.
George Abbey and Neal Lane have a new white paper on space policy recommendations. I haven’t read it yet, but I expect it to be pretty bad, based on history.
[Update a few minutes later]
OK, I skimmed it. Other than the recommendation to cancel Ares 1, almost everything else is wrong. Certainly turning our backs on missions beyond LEO is, as is a focus on energy and the environment. There are other agencies responsible for this. I was amused by this:
It is distressing to observe the current state of the U.S. space program as the nation moves into a new progressive era with the inauguration of President Barack Obama in January 2009.
Emphasis mine. I don’t think that word means what they think it means.
[Mid-afternoon update]
Like one of the commenters over at NASA Watch, I too am shocked, shocked that John Muratore wants to revive X-38 and come back in a lifting body.
Wayne Hale is shocked, shocked to discover gambling in this establishment.
Sorry, but that’s how bureaucracies work, Wayne. It goes with being a federal agency, unfortunately, particularly when what the agency is doing is perceived to be politically unimportant.
More discussion over at NASA Watch, where I found this.
I’m back in Boca, having a busy afternoon, but Iowahawk has been busy too. He has some multicultural wisdom, and tax advice from the new Treasury secretary. Also, questioning whether the new president took the short bus to the White House.
It seems like it’s getting to be time for this. The problem is that people who pay taxes are too busy working to earn the money on which to pay taxes to have time to go to Washington. Massive marches on Washington are reserved for those with no jobs, or nothing to do, or because they are on the dole of some kind, sometimes aided by federal subsidization of “community organizers” like ACORN.
That’s one of the reasons that big-government programs are a positive-feedback ratchet that are almost impossible to reverse. The programs have their own built-in constituencies, that are funded by the programs to allow them to agitate for more, while the ever-shrinking rest of us who are trying to actually earn a living get stuck with the bill. It can’t go on forever, of course, but it can go on long enough to ruin a nation.
Melanie Phillips on Jews who hate their Jewishness.
I don’t want Barack Obama to succeed, and it’s not my job to make him succeed, or pledge to be his servant.
I want America to succeed. I only want him to succeed to the degree that he shares that goal. Based on his actions so far, in supporting this travesty being shoved through Congress, it doesn’t appear that he does.