…has been airbrushed out of Greenpeace history.
But don’t call them Stalinists!
[Monday-morning update]
Google does evil to Patrick Moore.
Evil is as evil does. #DontBeEvil
Category Archives: Political Commentary
The New Zealand Massacre
I see that the media and the Left (but I repeat myself) wasted no time in blaming Trump for it, because his name appeared in the manifesto. But we also see the left eating its own, with the attack on Chelsea Clinton. But maybe they have a point.
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Radicalization and degeneration:
It seems clear to me that it in no way requires one to endorse Tarrant’s vile crimes to recognize that like splitting the atom, the unwinding of Western civilization is going to release some extreme energies. It already is.
Yes. And more thoughts, from Richard Fernandez, on the tribal score settling that has infected the West.
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From the last link:
The old devils are on the loose and the problem is what to do now. One option is to deliver even higher doses of political correctness and demographic replacement. But perhaps the absolute worst thing politicians can do is respond by collecting guns, imposing hate speech restrictions, and announcing open borders. In the current atmosphere of distrust toward authority, such actions can destroy the only asset a state faced with ethnic conflict has: the public belief that it is above the fray and won’t sell anyone out. That quantity can itself run out and therein lies the danger.
And that was the gunman’s stated goal in his manifesto: To drain the public of trust in its own government, and set off a civil war.
Max Boot
Giving him the boot.
He does seem to have gone completely nuts.
Embryonic Stem Cells
What are they good for? It seems to me they were mainly good for the pro-abortionists to hold the line against any restrictions on it, or any notion that embryos might be worthy of consideration as humans. Unlike them, I’m very glad that adult stem cells now seem to be the gold standard.
The American Left’s Anti-Semitism
In order to understand it, look to Europe.
[Sunday-morning update]
The American Left’s anti-Semitism is part of Barack Obama’s legacy.
Indeed.
The Space-Pork Empire
SLS is still running behind schedule. It is very likely it will not be ready for that June 2020 launch. In a few weeks Bridenstine’s review will come out, and it is likely going to show that a combination of private rockets can do the job, on time and for less money. Faced with further SLS delays, Bridenstine will likely have the political clout to enable him to make the switch, especially because he clearly intends to also continue his public and strong support for SLS for later launches. Such statements will act to placate these naysayers
Get that first Orion launch up using private rockets however and game will shift. It will then become very obvious that SLS is unneeded, and too expensive. While the corrupt political class in Washington will likely continue pouring taxpayer money into this black hole for years to come, the political winds will steadily begin shifting against it. And this shift will become even more evident should SpaceX succeed in getting its Starship/Super Heavy rocket operational in the next few years. At that point even Washington lawmakers will have to bow to reality and shut SLS down.
What will they then do? Don’t fool yourself. The pork and corruption will not cease, as long as these people remain in power. They will find a new boondoggle they can fund that will use these cheaper private rockets. Gateway immediately comes to mind. It won’t get us back to the Moon, but it will give lawmakers a big space project which will allow them to funnel money to their big old space contractors like Lockheed Martin and Boeing.
I wonder if part of this is Bridenstine trying to light a fire under Boeing and Marshall to get SLS flying sooner?
Michael Mann’s Smears At Newsweek
Future Visions, Current Issues In Space
I haven’t read it yet, but this testimony from the Brookings Institute looks like it could be interesting.
Tucker Carlson
The attacks on him are absurd and hypocritical. You can tell he’s over the target.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Related: Boyden Gray has filed a complaint to the IRS against Media Matters. They should lose their status.
[Update a while later]
It’s time for conservatives to choose: Fight back or surrender.
Space Tourism
Alan Ladwig reminded me this morning of a paper I wrote on the subject almost two decades ago (about a year and a half before I started blogging). It’s interesting to read it now and see how well (or poorly) it holds up. Few policy makers paid much attention to it at the time.