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Category Archives: Political Commentary
The Path Forward In Space
Dennis Wingo has the 2014 edition. Long but worth a read. I disagree with him on the first flight for commercial crew. I think it may happen as soon as next year.
Another Second-Amendment Victory
The 9th Circuit seems to be taking Heller seriously. We really do have the gun grabbers on the run, constitutionally.
New Pressure To Accelerate Commercial Crew?
Someone needs to tell Kevin McCarthy that “as soon as possible” could be within a year, if they accelerate the docking system, and they could fly someone in ten days, if someone decided it was important.
SpaceX Versus “Boeing”
The headline of this good National Journal article on yesterday’s Senate Appropriations hearing is very misleading. One would think from it that’s it’s about the commercial crew competition between Dragon and CST, when in fact it’s about the competition between SpaceX and ULA for milsat launches. I assume that the copy editor screwed up, not the author. Anyway, note the typical socialist argument against competition that Dick Shelby uses.
A New Generation Of Republicans
Schoolkids apparently hate Michelle Obama’s lunch menu, and they know whom to blame it on.
Making Russia Pay For Ukraine
…with seven energy policies.
They’d have the additional benefit of sparking economic growth.
Public Schools Are Child Abuse
“These people shouldn’t be allowed around children. In fact, they shouldn’t be permitted to breed.”
The Pause
Causes and implications of it.
The biggest implication is that the models are worse than useless as a guide to policy on climate. And places like California are taking a wrecking ball to their economy for nothing.
Our Space Dependence On The Russians
I say it’s time to end it, over at PJMedia.