I have no problem with this, as worded. It’s probably about the best you’re going to do and still have consensus, given who was involved in crafting it. I disagree, though, that the 2010 NASA authorization is consistent with it. I’m sure they had to say that to get Bingham to go along.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
“Deniers”
Well, starting off with the 97% Big Lie at the top, this is all pretty damned fascist.
Unpatriotic Leaders
…are elected by unpatriotic voters.
Yup. And the Democrats want to create a lot more of them. They’ve come a long way from JFK, who said people should ask what they could do for their country. Modern Democrats want them to ask what the country can do for them, and demand that it be provided.
Blatant Anti-Semitism
…at UCLA.
There is nothing “liberal” about this in any way.
Risk Aversion
…costs more than fast failure.
This is about defense, but it applies to space as well. NASA in particular suffers from paralysis by analysis, as demonstrated by how long and how much money it took to do that stupid Orion test flight last year (and how long and how much more money it will be until the next one). But it doesn’t matter, because Congress doesn’t really care if anything is accomplished as long as the jobs don’t go away. I may expand on this in the next edition of the book.
The Filibuster
I think there are good arguments on both sides, but ultimately, I see this is a limitation on government against a tyranny of the majority, and a good thing.
When The Government Tells You What To Eat
It’s time to actually do some science before the government makes more disastrous recommendations. I’m still hearing stupid comments from doctors, like the one on Fox News, about how we should still watch our saturated fat and cholesterol. Why do people think that doctors are nutrition experts?
Republicans
…are trying to “bamboozle” folks, says the guy who said we could keep our doctors and plans.
Electric Cars
It’s time to end our “green” worship of them.
Rudy
Noah Rothman, on the idiotic outrage over Giuliani’s comments:
The press did not recoil in horror when former Vice President Al Gore screamed that George W. Bush “betrayed” the country. Nor did they feign outrage when Obama accused the 43rd President of the United States of being “unpatriotic” because he increased the debt at a pace that the 44th President of the United States would rapidly eclipse. And why would they? It’s not their place to defend the president’s reputation – he is, after all, merely a temporary civilian custodian of one branch of our republican government. Americans have a rather grand tradition of besmirching the character of our presidents, and it is a healthy and cherished one. By “civility,” the press really means deference and observance of subjectively assessed standards of decorum. That’s not merely bias, its servility.
Yes.
Every man who loves his wife bitches about her to everyone he knows. He goes on teevee and makes speeches about how awful she is.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) February 19, 2015
[Afternoon update]
Obama not only doesn’t love America, he doesn’t even like it.