A couple weeks ago Haley Wilt asked me and Eric Berger for suggestions as to what to ask the chairman of the House subcommittee on space for an interview she had scheduled. Here is the result.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
The Nightmare Of 1914
Are we doing it again?
[Afternoon update]
Blake Powers seems to be continuing to recover from the lightning strike, with an essay on the Ukrainian puzzle pieces.
Mastercard And Visa
Why Americans shouldn’t be happy that they suspended Russian operations.
Yes, they can do it to anyone they want with “unacceptable” opinions.
Elon And Russia
Climate, And The Real Crisis
A roundup on the latest insanity, from Judith Curry.
The Limits Of Libertarianism
Thoughts from Joel Kotkin.
The World’s Weak Leadership
Biden’s War On Energy
Thanks to it, American are paying more, and Putin wins.
If you support this administration’s energy policies, you are objectively pro-Putin.
[Update a few minutes later]
No, Joe, you don’t fight inflation by doubling down on all the stupid things you’ve been doing that cause inflation.
No Matter How Bad You Think It Is
…you can’t keep up with what a programmatic disaster SLS/Orion is.
[Wednesday-afternoon update]
More commentary from Bob Zimmerman.
Ukraine’s Deadly Gamble
A history you won’t read much of anywhere else.
There should be hearings on this when the Republicans take back Congress.
[Update a few minutes later]
Broken link fixed, sorry.
[Update a while later]
Kyiv is holding out, and Putin is furious.
I’ll bet he is. He believed his own propaganda about Ukraine, and Ukrainians.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Putin’s failure.
[Update later afternoon]
An assessment of the current situation. The Ukrainians have surprised everyone, and for Putin the surprise is quite unpleasant.