The president’s nominee for SCOTUS isn’t very big on free speech.
[Update a while later]
Mark Steyn says that her views on speech rights are more Canadian than American.
A Congressional Space Earthquake
As I’ve been predicting for a few days, long-time space appropriations committee chair (and ranking member when his party was out of power) and corrupt representative Alan Mollohan is out.
So there is no doubt that there will be a new chair of that subcommittee next year. The only question now is, who? And what will it mean for space policy?
[Wednesday morning update]
Link is fixed now, sorry.
Ain’t No Sun Up In The Sky
Mark Steyn remembers Lena Horne, the Cotton Club, and Harold Arlen.
“Financial Reform Is Hard”
An interview between Rick Santelli and Regulation Barbie.
French Profits
I suspect that the phrase is an oxymoron, sort of like “French victory.” Anyway, if anyone would know how economically crazy the French are, it would be Veronique.
[Wednesday afternoon update]
I’m shutting down comments on this post, because it seems to have become a spam magnet.
Stop The Giant Woman Attack
This is a great ad for Murtha’s district.
Albion’s Continued Fall
Mark Steyn, on the decline of democracy in the UK:
So much for those Yank-style televised leaders’ debates only a couple weeks back. Instead, Britain will end up with a leader who didn’t participate in the leaders’ debates, presiding over a coalition that wasn’t on the ballot, implementing a platform no party ran on, yet committed to transformative electoral reform for which there is no mandate.
But other than that, it’s a great plan, and system.
[Update a few minutes later]
Five reasons a Labour/Liberal government will collapse.
[Update a few minutes later]
Looks like the deal has already fallen apart, and Cameron will be the next PM.
Frank Frazetta
A couple of people have emailed that he died.
Sorry for his friends and family, but all I can do is shrug. I was never into his art, or fantasy in general.
[Update a few minutes later]
For those who do care, this is probably a useful site.
How Bad Can The Oil Spill Get?
Alan Boyle has the latest.
NASA’s Murky Future
I have some thoughts over at AOL News today on the political uncertainty of the human spaceflight program.