I disagree about pre-existing conditions, though. That requirement completely screws up the insurance markets. We need a different solution for that issue.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
Stop The Personal Attacks And Answer The Climate Questions
Thoughts from Tim Ball on ad homimem and ad verecundiam.
Train Wreck
Will Gavin Newsom finally put an end to the not-so-high-speed madness?
The Weekly Standard
It’s shutting down, after twenty-three years. Probably a victim of its anti-Trump behavior.
Here are the three pieces that I wrote for it, the most recent being my obituary of Jerry Pournelle. When I read my criticism of SLS from 2011, it seems prescient.
There’s a lot of talent there, from Steve Hayes to Adam Keiper and Jonathan Last, and Haley Byrd. Hopefully they’ll land on their feet.
[Late-morning update]
Thoughts from Rod Dreher.
Constitutional Hardball
Yes. Asymmetric? Not so much.
And related: Why campaign finance violations won’t bring down Trump.
[Update later in the morning]
Looks like Mueller and Weismann may be up to some hanky panky: The case of the missing/altered 302s.
[Update a couple minutes later]
And Mueller destroyed the Strzok-Page texts before the IG could review them. How convenient.
Michael Cohen
…pled guilty to something that is not a crime.
Despite all of the jean creaming among the Democrats and other Never Trumpers over this, it’s pretty weak tea, and has nothing to do with Russian collusion. I find Trump despicable, but if he were on trial for this, I’d vote to acquit.
Safe, Simple, Soon
NASA just had a setback in their ambitious project to make a reusable engine expendable.
An RS-25 engine just had a significant anomaly during a test fire at @NASAStennis. The test was aborted just seconds in. pic.twitter.com/77A0d8XyXK
— Michael Baylor (@nextspaceflight) December 12, 2018
Shame Storm
Thoughts on the viciousness of the Internet, from a thankful victim.
The Mueller Investigation
It’s just missing one thing: A crime.
The Yellow Jackets
Claire Berlinski (who lives in the Parisian district of Le Marais), spent some time with them.