A device that finds them in the blood. Early.
Fusion Propulsion
Are we on the verge of a breakthrough? Let’s hope so, but I’ll believe it when I see it. It’s a game changer if it happens.
Free Speech
A victory, in western Michigan:
Van Den Heuvel told National Review Online after the hearing today, “a real pitched battle with the township” that took almost three hours, that the defense laid out a variety of arguments, but emphasized that the county’s statude [sic] was invalid because it privileged commercial over political speech. They argued that the measure, and Verduin’s ticket, amounts to “selective enforcement,” since even the government’s attorney couldn’t explain to the judge what the ordinance exactly meant. Van Den Heuvel explains that, at one point, “they were saying to the judge, you can’t understand this.” The township’s lawyer at one point admitted to the judge that Meijer’s trucks could have as large a message as they liked displayed on the side of their vehicles, but Verduin’s trailers, in order to be legal, would have to be kept out of sight, like in a barn.
Tar. Feathers.
Redford’s Latest
It’s not just awful politics, but a terrible movie. I wonder what Ebert would have thought about it?
Gun Owners
…turning them into felons. I doubt if this would pass Constitutional muster.
Fortunately, I don’t think that Schumer’s fascist nonsense will get through the House, even if it somehow survives the Senate.
[Update a few minutes later]
Link fixed now, sorry.
Redefining America (And Space Policy)
Larry Greenfield writes that those who prefer tyranny are winning. Unfortunately, like many conservatives, he doesn’t understand what’s going on with space policy:
American innovation both promoted and benefited from the space race. Today, Mr. Obama has lowered his sights, cut NASA spending, and opposed lunar exploration and continued human spaceflight.
This is simply untrue. The administration hasn’t cut NASA spending — the Congress has, on a bi-partisan basis. And while the administration did shut down the disastrous Constellation program whose stated purpose was to get us back to the moon, it had no real prospects of doing so. They have not “opposed continued human spaceflight.” They have repeatedly requested funding increases for commercial crew, the only NASA program with any chance of getting Americans to orbit on American rockets in this decade, and Congress has repeatedly cut the funding for it. One can argue about how effective the administration’s plans will be, but to say that they oppose human spaceflight is simply false as a matter of objective fact. In fact, in its actions of wasting billions on an underfunded, unneeded new rocket, and starving of funds the programs actually needed to get humans beyond earth orbit, one could say that it is Congress, including many of the Republicans within it, that is objectively opposing continued human spaceflight.
Rules Of Good Nutrition
…that almost everyone should be able to agree on. I think that the degree to which whole grains are better than refined is marginal. It’s definitely bad versus worse, not good versus bad.
The Global Warming Hysteria
1. Global warming has gone AWOL over last 10 years, per the satellite record
2. Cumulating [sic] CO2 emissions in the atmosphere have had a minor impact on global temperatures over the last 20 years
3. The mainstream press, as represented by The Economist, and other proponents of convential [sic] climate orthodoxy are moving closer to the AGW skeptics’ (lukewarmers’) position
4. The publics [sic] (per Pew) belief in catastrophic AGW predictions is plummeting
As it should. As Robert Tracinski says:
So here’s the state of play of climate science a third of a century into the global warming hysteria. They don’t have a reliable baseline of global temperature measurements that would allow them to say what is normal and natural and what isn’t. Their projections about future warming are demonstrably failing to predict the actual data. And now they have been caught, yet again, fudging the numbers and manipulating the graphs to show a rapid 20th-century warming that they want to be true but which they can’t back up with actual evidence.
A theory with this many holes in it would be have been thrown out long ago, if not for the fact that it conveniently serves the political function of indicting fossil fuels as a planet-destroying evil and allowing radical environmentalists to put a modern, scientific face on their primitivist crusade to shut down industrial civilization.
I think that history will record that 2009 was the height of the hysteria, just before the release of the CRU data and emails, which broke the fever, and was a partial cause of the Copenhagen fiasco. And “FOIA,” whoever he or she is, will be viewed as a hero of humanity.
[Mid-morning update]
The new climate deniers.
[Later-morning update]
Why Freeman Dyson is a skeptic about climate “science”: “I believe any good scientist ought to be a skeptic.”
Amen.
Here‘s the full story.
B612
Instapundit interviews Ed Lu about asteroid hunting.
More Gun Ignorance
Apparently the president is just as clueless as Rep. DeGette.