It’s not working as advertised, but it is working according to its design.
Time Travelers
A search of the Internet for them comes up empty.
Remember, though, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
[Update a few minutes later]
Related: If a time traveler encountered a smart phone.
The Peter Principle
Could it explain the Fermi paradox?
The Liberty Constitution
…or what about slavery?
This always strikes me as one of the more illogical ad hominem arguments against the Founders.
Dedication To Going To Mars
This guy’s so determined he’s willing to leave his wife and four kids.
Christian Martyrdom
Meet the new age of it, same as the old one, absent the lions:
It’s chilling to imagine worse treatment than what the average North Korean prisoner has reported, including a mother forced to drown her own baby in a bucket, and tales of subsisting on nothing more than rats and insects. According to first-hand accounts from former prisoners reported by Amnesty International, “every former inmate at one camp had witnessed a public execution, one child was held for eight months in a cube-like cell so small he couldn’t move his body and an estimated 40% of inmates die from malnutrition.”
Syria, ranked as the third-worst country by Open Doors, has devolved in the last year to a horror show for Christians. The Hudson Institute’s Nina Shea noted in December 2013 a message she received from a contact in Syria who reported, “Kidnapping, killings, ransom, rape . . . 2013 is a tragedy for Christians in Syria. All Syrians have endured great suffering and distress. The Christians, however, often had to pay with their lives for their faith. Our bishops and nuns have been kidnapped, our political leader killed by torture. After our Christian villages have been occupied, our churches have been destroyed and even mass graves were found in Saddad. [T]he Islamists have put [to] the Christians the alternative: Islam or death. Why [is] the West just watching?”
They came for the Christians, and I said nothing, because I was post-Christian.
NASA’s 2004 Budget
Did you know that it was eighty-six billion dollars? The National Journal thinks it was.
Layers and layers of fact checkers.
Bob Sackheim
…has died.
I met him a couple times, but didn’t really know him well. But the man is a propulsion legend.
Yoko Ono Versus Ayatollah Khomeini
Yup:
A lot of sound and fury, but it doesn’t signify nothing. It tells the Iranians that the thing the president values most is the talks themselves – not stopping their nuclear program, not cutting their regional ambitions down to size, not defending American allies. The Iranians understand that Obama’s greatest desire is to be able to say that his central foreign policy promise – that he can settle conflicts through diplomacy – is finally, five years on, being fulfilled.
For their part, the Iranians know that with the talks set to begin, they have what amounts to a blank check from the White House to make mischief. They know that Obama will now say and do little lest Iran play its trump card – leaving the talks. Obama is thus playing cuckold, willing to absorb repeated public humiliation so long as his partner doesn’t leave him.
That’s been clear since he first ran for president and said he’d go to talk with Tehran “unconditionally.”