His campaign thinks he can. Of course, just by campaigning there, it forces Obama to divert resources from other places. I think he’s got a good shot. I’m pretty sure that my GM-employed UAW-member brother isn’t going to vote for Obama.
And it’s true that he would be the first Michigan native in the Oval Office. Dewey would have been had he been elected in one of his two runs (he was from Owosso), and Ford was raised raised in Grand Rapids (and went to Michigan), but born elsewhere.
The White House has implicitly admitted that it knew about Fast&Furious. So what did the president know, and when did he know it?
Between this, and the enemies list, with the IRS going after conservative donors, I feel like I’ve been transported back to the Nixon administration. Except no one died in Watergate.
Anyway, now that executive privilege has been invoked, it’s going to be pretty hard for the media to ignore the story, as they have been for months.
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More from Andy McCarthy.
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…and from (former DOJ prosecutor) Christian Adams as well.
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…by cutting government spending.
Keynesianism has always been a crock.
But is it really a black swan if it is done purposefully? Of course, with this crowd, it’s hard to tell which consequences are intended and which are inadvertent.
So I’m watching the Senate Commerce Committee hearing on commercial space, and seeing Jim Muncy and Laura Montgomery (FAA-AST legal counsel) sitting behind Gerstenmaier as he testifies.
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Now I’m seeing Alex Saltman of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation over Mike Gold’s left shoulder. And Patti Grace Smith is behind Alex’s left shoulder.
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Now I see Stu Witt of the Mojave Air and Spaceport off Gerst’s left shoulder.
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Hearing adjourned. We certainly heard a lot of the usual ignorance from the usual suspects. Nelson didn’t know that NASA science missions are FAA licensed.
…in Obama’s public-sector “stimulus” strategy. Not surprising, since he’s demonstrated himself on multiple occasions to be an economic ignoramus.
I’d guess that all of Obama’s speeches are archived somewhere. Could someone do a search on them and compare the number of times he’s used the phrase “create jobs” compares to the number of times he’s used the phrase “create wealth”? I’m guessing the number of uses of the latter is approximately, or exactly zero. If so, it will be fodder for a rant on his Marxist tendencies. You can guess the theme. In fact, here’s the Twitter version: You can create jobs without creating wealth, but it’s very hard to do the latter.
An interesting article on the ecosystem that is our body.
It isn’t with NASA, or any government. It’s with SpaceX and U.S. private industry. Though it’s amusing that the author actually believes that the SLS will be sending anyone to the moon or asteroids.
…from a fifteen-year old. I found this telling:
For now Andraka is going to continue promoting his breakthrough test, which he says will “completely replace the ELISA test” within a few years. He’d like to explore how to put multiple antibodies on a single test strip to check for a variety of agents in the bloodstream. And what about the rest of high school? Andraka says “hopefully” he will finish North County High School in Glenburnie, Md., but if he does form a company to commercialize the nanotube test strip, he will put high school on hold.
A young man after Peter Thiel’s heart. Some of the most talented people we have have no need for formal schooling. Speaking of which, thoughts on parents who public-school their kids.