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Category Archives: Political Commentary
Starliner
With the upcoming launch today, Eric Berger writes that the surprise is not that it took so long, but that it happened at all.
Has Boeing done anything right, or well recently?
[Update a few minutes later]
Reading in the article about the “incident” at White Sands, I recall that I was sitting next to Chris Ferguson at an Apollo 49th-anniversary dinner at KSC a month or so afterward, and I said something like “I heard you had a little oopsie at WSMR.” He said, “You’re not supposed to know about that.” I’m sure that he wished that I (and others) didn’t know about that.
Some Good News
The toppling of the woke authoritarians.
Politicians seem to be going out of their way to alienate and infuriate voters, pursuing unpopular policies at the very same time as they demonise and clamp down on debate. On climate, they have embraced a programme of national immiseration, to be borne on the backs of the working classes, who are expected to just accept being colder, poorer and less mobile. On immigration, they have thrown open the doors to migrants and refugees on an unprecedented scale, without seeking public consent and without ensuring proper provision for – or vetting of – those arriving. On culture, they have embraced a new form of racism under the banner of anti-racism, and a misogyny and homophobia posing as ‘trans inclusion’. Meanwhile, voters are beginning to realise that all those calls to censor ‘hate’ and ‘misinformation’ are calls to censor them.
Now to rid our own country of the similar horrible creatures that are currently running the Republic into the ground.
Screams Before Silence
The must-see documentary on the horrors of October 7th. I’ve never been a huge Sharyl Sandberg fan, but kudos to her.
[Update a while later]
How anyone can imagine that Israel can allow Hamas to remain in power after this boggles my mind.
May 1st
With all the current insanity on campus, it’s worth noting that today is Victims of Communism Day.
Voting For Joe Biden
No, it’s not a vote for “decency.”
Teaching Young People about Communism
The Orion Heat Shield
NASA still doesn’t understand the root cause.
Once SpaceX works out the heat shield problems on Starship, it won’t really matter.
A Voice Of Reason From Gaza
But the idiot protesters are too ill-educated to listen.
Meanwhile, punish the professors, not the students.
Why not both?
Another Framing Of Trump?
This is huge if true. Apparently, the government shipped pallets of marked classified documents to Mar a Lago, then raided the place, “found” them, charged Trump, and covered up what they did. If the judge hadn’t ordered documents to be unredacted, we’d never have known. She seems like a hero of the Republic to me.