…on foreign policy.
Would that it were only on foreign policy.
[Update a few minutes later]
Oops, link was wrong. Fixed now.
“Executive Orders” On Guns
The College Textbook Racket
This is one of the things that’s going to implode when the higher-ed bubble pops.
Dreamliner Electrical Issues
This has implications for space transports. Even during the Shuttle program, we were always trying to figure out how to upgrade to electromechanical actuators, not only to save weight, but to eliminate the Auxiliary Power Unit that drove the hydraulics, whose hypergolic propellants made it a pain to service between flights. Modern vehicles will want to go this route, with the advances in battery and actuator technology, but there will probably be lessons learned from Boeing’s 787 travails.
Sorry, Mr. President
…but it is a spending problem.
How To End School Mass Shootings Right Now
Abolish pretend “gun-free” zones:
The policy has been in effect for years in Utah, and there have never been any problems caused by armed teachers. Not a single one.
At Utah public colleges and universities, the same law has applied for years, so that school employees, and students who are least 21 years old, can carry lawfully. That has been the rule at Colorado State University since 2003, at almost all other Colorado public institutions of higher education since 2010, at the final hold-out (the University of Colorado) since early 2012, when CU lost 7-0 in the Colorado Supreme Court. Opponents have raised all sorts of hysterical scenarios (e.g., 18-year-olds bringing Kalashnikov rifles to a kegger; students pulling a gun during a heated debate in a literature class), but of course none of these scenarios have come to pass.
But hysterical and ignorant speculation is all they have.
Mars One
They’ve announced their selection criteria for Barsoomanaughts.
I think that this is a more realistic plan than any proposed government missions.
The Left And The Media On Gun Control
Thoughts on the stupidity:
The position of pro-Second Amendment Americans is that gun ownership is part of the fundamental human right to self-defense, explicitly stated in the Constitution by the Founding Fathers due to an overarching political philosophy regarding the balance of power between the individual and the state.
The position of the anti-gun activists in the Obama administration is “guns are icky.”
The media consider them the intellectuals in this debate.
…Most laughable (and this is no laughing matter, which makes the White House’s position even more angering) is the “stiffened penalties for carrying guns near schools.”
So Joe Biden’s telling me that Lanza, overcome by his mental condition to the point that he’s murdered his mother and is headed to an elementary school on a killing spree, is going to stop 1,000 yards from the playground and think, “Hey — I don’t want Obama to take away my student loan subsidy. I better keep these guns away from school!”
These are the thoughtful, well-reasoned ideas from the Obama brain trust?
The Obama brain trust has always been intellectually bankrupt. And yes, I know the post title is redundant.
It’s Not Just Mathematics
The curious physics of domino chain reactions.
The “Fact Checking” Press
How it gives the president a pass.