In this 3 min video, I break down the real reasons why America divorced Britain, and it wasn’t over taxes. I recommend American citizens and British subjects alike listen, because history often rhymes. pic.twitter.com/2T2i119EYR
— The Redheaded libertarian (@TRHLofficial) August 11, 2024
Category Archives: Political Commentary
The Latest On The USSS
Rowe personally crippled Trump’s Secret Service team.
I ask again: If they didn’t want to get him killed, what would they have done differently?
[Tuesday-morning update]
Thoughts on the Secret Service.
[Bumped]
Safe Is Not An Option
Thoughts on flight rationale from Wayne Hale.
[Update a few minutes later]
OK, now I see why Wayne wrote that:
As NASA is working to balance all of these risks—the risk to crew on board Starliner, the risk of an uncrewed departure to the ISS, the risk to astronauts on board the space station, and more — Boeing has been lobbying to bring Starliner home with crew. Although NASA and Boeing engineers have yet to identify a root cause for the failure of the thrusters, Boeing has been urging NASA to accept “flight rationale” as a substitute. That is, Boeing believes it has provided enough data to NASA to be confident the thrusters will not fail in a catastrophic manner.
Boeing seems willing to risk the lives of the astronauts to save the vehicle. I don’t personally think it’s worth saving. I wonder what Boeing’s new CEO thinks?
Kamala Harris And The Masque Of Magical Thinking
The sugar high of the Harris coronation won’t last.
Joe Rogan Goes Live On Netflix
…and leftists lose their minds. As noted, this demonstrates just how far left the media has become.
An Ongoing Foreign-Policy DIsaster
A reminder of the continuing mess in Afghanistan. And it doesn’t even mention the fact that the Chinese probably have effective control of our former strategic air base there.
Starliner Woes Continue
Eric Berger has the latest.
NASA may be playing its cards too close to the vest here for its credibility.
Judith Curry
An interview with John Stossel.
Climate scientist @CurryJa tells me she "had to develop the hide of an armadillo" after she questioned climate alarmism.
— John Stossel (@JohnStossel) August 3, 2024
Former "friends" turned on her, writing things like, “Judith Curry abandons science.”
Did she? Here's my full interview with her: pic.twitter.com/yQBtWnC5ZJ
A Difference Between The Right And The Left
This man went to a Kamala event wearing a Trump shirt, and a Trump event wearing a Kamala shirt. The difference in how he was treated was stunning.https://t.co/d9BRw4wC29
— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) July 30, 2024
The left protests always trash the place, while the Tea Party rallies always left them cleaner than they arrived.
“General” Harris
We’ve been hearing these kinds of stories for a while now. I don’t think it mentions it here, but I saw another story that reported when she was California AG, she would demand that her staff greet her every morning with “Good morning, General!” I have no trouble believing it, both because it matches other stories about her ego, and stories about her intelligence.
One of my pet peeves is people (including media types) addressing a Surgeon General or Attorney General, as “General So-and-So.” “General” is the adjective, not the noun. Morons.
[Update a few minutes later]
How is it that this woman is “Acting President”?
It has been credibly reported that they threatened him with the 25th Amendment if he didn’t drop out of the race. So if that’s true, and they don’t believe that he’s not competent, but removed him anyway, then that would have been a coup. If they do believe he’s not competent, then they have a Constitutional duty to remove him. Either way, this is not “saving our democracy.”
Make up your minds. He can’t be Schroedinger’s President.