It’s at the highest level since Ronald Reagan was elected.
Not surprising. The people who've had their jackboots on small business's neck for the past decade have been completely removed from power. https://t.co/LIKJKZYRTt
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) January 10, 2017
No, it’s not Trump; it’s Barack Obama.
Henry Vanderbilt is retiring from putting on the annual Space Access Conference. The good news is that it accomplished a lot of its goals, as we enter a new era of lower-cost launch, and likely destined to continue to see prices fall. I hope that someone else can take up the torch.
Rest in peace to someone who wasn’t afraid to stand up to his fellow leftists on freedom of speech.
…has resigned her tenured faculty position:
A deciding factor was that I no longer know what to say to students and postdocs regarding how to navigate the CRAZINESS in the field of climate science. Research and other professional activities are professionally rewarded only if they are channeled in certain directions approved by a politicized academic establishment — funding, ease of getting your papers published, getting hired in prestigious positions, appointments to prestigious committees and boards, professional recognition, etc.
How young scientists are to navigate all this is beyond me, and it often becomes a battle of scientific integrity versus career suicide (I have worked through these issues with a number of skeptical young scientists).
Despite the fact that she was protected by tenure, I suspect that she will be able to speak out even more effectively now.
[Update Thursday morning (London]
Thoughts from Mark Steyn.
Saturday-morning update]
Tucker Carlson interviews her.
[Bumped]
The latest on the issue.
It’s a pointless discussion, because it presumes it’s going to be a government program: Apollo back tot the moon again, or Apollo to Mars. We need to be developing capabilities to go wherever we want, affordably. Then let the people paying for it decide.
Related: Howard Bloom says that NASA needs to get out of the rocket business, and start working on an actual superhighway in space. I’m not sure I want Marshall in charge of that, though. To put it mildly.
Popehat weighs in. I haven’t read it yet, but even if I had, I’d be unlikely to comment.
They have a literacy problem.
Meanwhile, despite all the angst about Muslims, Christians remain the most persecuted religion in the world. They obviously need to check their privilege.
Cops say it was exacerbated by Black Lives Matter. I wouldn’t doubt it. Which is ironic, considering that most of the victims are black.
It’s not so glorious.
I suspect history will judge harshly. And of course, in doing so, it will be racist.