Category Archives: Political Commentary

History, Law, Media Criticism, Political Commentary

That Meeting On The Tarmac

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Jim Treacher has an interesting theory about it.

Maybe. But had she described a meeting in which Hillary’s legal fate was discussed, she would have opened herself up to a clear case of obstruction, so perhaps she thought a risk of a perjury rap was preferable.

Business, Economics, Political Commentary, Space, Technology and Society

$40B Over Five Years

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That’s NASA’s estimate of how much additional funding it would take to get back to the moon by 2024 (doing it The NASA Way, of course). Eric Berger has the story.


[Thursday-afternoon update]

Bob Zimmerman writes that Trump’s moon effort exposes the power-hungry DC bureaucracy.

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Business, Economics, Law, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Science And Society, Technology and Society

California’s Scientific And Economic Insanity

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This just has me shaking my head:

The Don Pedro hydropower project, just west of Yosemite National Park, has been churning out carbon-free electricity for nearly a century. As the Tuolumne River flows from the Sierra Nevada to the Central Valley, it passes through Don Pedro Dam, spinning four turbine generators.

None of the electricity is counted toward California’s push for more renewable energy on its power grid. A new bill advanced by state lawmakers last week would change that — and it’s being opposed by environmental groups, who say it would undermine the state’s landmark clean energy law by limiting the need to build solar farms and wind turbines.

That law itself is nuts.