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Category Archives: Political Commentary
The Ratchet Of History
The Democrats just nuked it.
I was thinking that myself yesterday, though not in as quite vivid terms.
[Saturday-morning update]
Six questions about the Senate’s nuclear winter.
[Update a few minutes later]
The Senate goes MAD.
Mannsuit Update
The government of Washington DC has joined the media organizations and ACLU in filing an amicus brief on our behalf, advocating for a speedy appeal of the refusal of our motions to dismiss. AFAIK, no one has done so on behalf of Mann.
JFK
I don’t really have much to say about him, other than what I wrote about space policy, except that I think he is the most overrated president in American history. Not the worst, but definitely the most overrated. Actually, though, I’ll have to confess that he only regained that status in the past few weeks or so, because prior to that, for the past five years, Obama had the crown.
Dear NASA
JFK just wasn’t that into you.
My space-related thoughts on the anniversary of the assassination, over at USA Today.
Education
…in a free society:
The present essay calls for the complete separation of school and state, indicates what a fully free market in education would look like, and explains why such a market would provide high-quality education for all children.
Log overdue.
The Broken Promises
Not just of Obama, but of the media, who were almost criminally negligent in their Fifth-Estate responsibilities.
Senior Senate Staffers
…see their health costs skyrocket.
My schadenfreude runneth over.
The Senate Goes Nuclear
Expect fallout.
The President’s Poll Numbers
…are in free fall.
Deservedly so. He lied his way to reelection. I think there’s a lot of buyers’ remorse out there from a year ago.
Related: Also sprach Obama:
The most telling line, the one that encapsulates the gulf between the boundless fantasies of the faculty-lounge utopian and the messiness of reality, was this: “What we’re also discovering is that insurance is complicated to buy.” Gee, thanks for sharing, genius. Maybe you should have thought of that before you governmentalized one-sixth of the economy. By “we,” the president means “I.” Out here in the ruder provinces of his decrepit realm, we “folks” are well aware of how complicated insurance is. What isn’t complicated in the Sultanate of Sclerosis? But, as with so many other things, Obama always gives the vague impression that routine features of humdrum human existence are entirely alien to him. Marie Antoinette, informed that the peasantry could no longer afford bread, is alleged to have responded, “Let them eat cake.” There is no evidence these words ever passed her lips, but certainly no one ever accused her of saying, “If you like your cake, you can keep your cake,” and then having to walk it back with “What we’re also discovering is that cake is complicated to buy.” That contribution to the annals of monarchical unworldliness had to await the reign of Queen Barry Antoinette, whose powdered wig seems to have slipped over his eyes.
There’s more.