Thoughts from Michael Barone.
I’m encouraged that he wants to emphasize science and technology. This could create some useful Anglospheric alliances in space, particularly if he sets up a Royal Space Force.
[Update a few minutes later]
He’s going after the Beeb. That would be amazing if he could get rid of that pack of leftist hacks.
[Wednesday-morning update]
An interesting article on General Kwast (who reportedly has people read my book), but isn’t it obvious that he’s talking about things like Starship? Nothing magical or secret here.
RIP, Dame Mary Barraco. What a story.
It was a failure on the part of the Navy (and the Pentagon in general). I continue to find the notion of disarming troops in bases insane.
Did she perjure herself in the impeachment “hearings”?
Do Pelosi and Schiff really think that this won’t come out if there’s a trial in the Senate? I know that most of the Democrat operatives with bylines want to pretend that this story doesn’t exist, but there will be some actual news organizations (like OAN) reporting on it.
Is it on the brink of disintegration?
This wouldn’t necessarily be a good thing; the resulting chaos could be disastrous not just for the Chinese people, but the world.
Bari Weiss writes about its rise in the West.
…and thanks to Trump hatred, the “elites” didn’t even see it coming.
I remember a political cartoon from 1979, showing one spook talking to another: “Pssst, there’s a revolution happening in Iran.” The other one replies, “Quick, notify President Truman!”
One of the most shameful things that Obama did was to implicitly support the Mullahs during the Green Revolution, probably because that’s what Valerie Jarrett told him to do, and partly because he wanted to have them around in order to “negotiate” a shit “deal” with them.
…has been diagnosed with CIA disease.
It has been its finest hour.