Apparently it’s not just Harry Reid. He seems to be demented, too.
We had a choice of frying pan or fire in 2008, except for the fact that Palin was on the ticket. My hope was that McCain would win, then die of joy upon taking the oath of office.
The Democrats’ Scandals
They’re all rooted in the evil of unlimited government:
Adam Smith’s formula for prosperity — “peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice” — is the very modest ambition that conservatives aim for. Limited government is the tool by which government can be made to do good without necessarily being good, or being composed of good men.
The progressive state, on the other hand, is a state infused with moral purpose. If politics is to be a jihad, then the state must be invested with extraordinary power to achieve its moral mission. There is no way to invest the state with extraordinary power without also investing those powers in the men who hold its offices and staff its bureaucracies, which hold ever more nearly absolute power over our property and our lives. (And given that the Obama administration has made a policy of assassinating U.S. citizens without legal process, we might as well call that power “absolute.”) But if those elective offices and regulatory fortresses are to be staffed with men who are corrupt and corruptible, then the progressive vision of the morality-infused state must falter.
And they — we — are all corruptible.
Lord Acton was right, once again, about the power of power to corrupt.
Asimov’s Laws Of Robotics
Why they can’t protect us.
Unfortunately.
Government Ranges
We can’t rely on them for commercial spaceflight. It’s truly appalling that we’re going to have a multi-week delay at the Cape because the infrastructure lacks robustness. Unfortunately, the incentive structure for government expenditures allows this to happen.
Oculus Rift
Is the device sexist?
Ariane 6
The Germans want ESA to rethink it.
SpaceX is being very disruptive.
Doctor, Can I Go To Space?
A story on the legal issues associated with personal suborbital spaceflight.
Anthony Weiner To Elon Musk
Stop being such a disruptive innovator!
Why should anyone care what Anthony Weiner thinks about anything?
There Is College
…and then there’s college.
It’s foolish, even devastating, to put yourself deep into undischargeable debt to get a worthless degree. In a sane world, the people promoting this would be jailed for fraud.
Harry Reid
I think that we have indeed reached a point where we should legitimately ask if he’s suffering from dementia. I wouldn’t wish it on any one, but if it’s true, he should step aside, for the sake of his party, and country. I wonder if there is anything happening behind the scenes? Certainly Schumer must see an opportunity there.