I agree. As he notes, unity can be a useful tool to achieve good political ends, but it’s a double-edged sword. And disunity is a helpful way to limit government.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
CA HSR
The LA Times has the latest on the mess.
[Update a few minutes later]
Kind of amusing that the contract value for WSP, the biggest consultant, is the number of the beast.
A Space Resources Institute
There is a bipartisan bill from two Colorado congressmen to establish one.
I heard about this from George Sowers when I stopped by to visit him in Golden a couple weeks ago. Presumably, their goal is to put it in the Front Range, and probably affiliate it with the School of Mines, which currently has the only graduate program in this discipline.
California Gas Prices
They’re now averaging $4 a gallon. I paid sixty bucks to fill the BMW last weekend to drive back down from the Bay area. Just nuts.
The Day Of Reckoning
Conrad Black writes that it’s now dawning for the Democrats. I hope that Barr exposes the whole scheme.
[Update a few minutes later]
Strzok and Page are back in the news. I think we’re going to start seeing more and more as we continue to turn over the rocks.
[Update mid morning]
The Obama administration’s problem with spying, and Trump.
The Childrens’ Crusade
Thoughts on the modern version of it. What’s horrible is that children like Greta Thunberg are being terrified by leftist propaganda.
Local Man
Space Guard
As if the issue wasn’t already confused enough, now the Pentagon and Congress are talking about a “space national guard” (which is not a U.S. Space Guard).
John Batchelor Show
I’m going to be on Hotel Mars this evening at 1830 EDT (1530 PDT).
[Thursday-morning update]
Sorry, I forgot that he records the shows. That’s just when I did it. I’ll let people know when it will air (if they care, or even if they don’t).
The Democrat Primary
Yup. The only one who has a chance of beating Trump is Biden, and he probably can’t get the nomination.
[Update a while later]
[Update late morning]
With twenty-one entrants, here’s the state of the 2020 Democrat primary.