Ferris Valyn has a new set of links up, with an extensive discussion on whether or not so-called liberals are opposed to space expenditures. I think that it’s a pointless argument. Both support of, and opposition to, space spending (and government space spending) are bi-partisan (or rather, non-partisan). Both “liberals” and “conservatives” can have reasons to go either way. Of course, it’s silly to oppose VSE simply because George Bush proposed it, but many otherwise sensible people (at least on space issues) seem to do so.
A Novel Solution To Global Warming
When I saw this headline, I wasn’t sure whether or not it was a joke (I’m pretty sure it is).
It reminds me of the old joke about the farmer who had a mule. His barn door was a little short, and every time the mule went through it, his ears would brush against the upper frame. So he got out a saw and cut two notches for the ears to pass through. After his neighbor came over in response to the sound of the barn collapsing, he asked the farmer why he did it. After the explanation, he asked, “Well, why didn’t you just dig a trench through the doorway?” The farmer replied, “It was his ears that were too long, not his legs.”
The Anti-Sheehan
My adult son’s independent decision about what he wants to do with his life has no bearing on me or on what I write. My views and words about the issues that have concerned me for five years or more are not one gram more significant nor my arguments one iota stronger or weaker because of the decision which he independently made. Judge me as a parent if you will, but please do not judge my positions as a writer based on this act by someone else.
Also, on the chutzpah of the surrenderistas at New York Times:
One of the main arguments supporting the claim that we should leave now is the obvious and real collapse of public support for the war – a collapse that is shocking, just shocking, given the years of media spin on the war – media spin that bloggers have been pointing out continually. There’s something to say about the media and antiwar left beating on public opinion for four years, and then using that collapse of public opinion as an argument for their position.
Jules Crittendon has further thoughts on that subject.
New Congressional Moonbat
For those with nostalgic longings for Cynthia McKinney, meet Congressman Keith Ellison:
On comparing Sept. 11 to the burning of the Reichstag building in Nazi Germany: “It’s almost like the Reichstag fire, kind of reminds me of that. After the Reichstag was burned, they blamed the Communists for it and it put the leader of that country [Hitler] in a position where he could basically have authority to do whatever he wanted. The fact is that I’m not saying [Sept. 11] was a [U.S.] plan, or anything like that because, you know, that’s how they put you in the nut-ball box — dismiss you.”
As Lileks notes, yup…could happen. In fact, I think he’s too late.
There’s more lunacy at the link.
Overrespected
Virginia Postrel reiterates a point that I’ve made many times–that even if we accept a scientific consensus on climate change doesn’t mean that we should blindly follow their advice on what to do about it:
…even assuming that scientists agree on the facts, science can only tell us something about the state of the world. It cannot tell us what policy is the best to adopt. Scientists’ preferences are not “science.” You cannot go from an “is” (science) to an “ought” (policy).
The Customer’s Always Wrong
Katie Couric says that the problem is that the viewers weren’t ready for her.
Well, she’s right. I know I wasn’t.
The Customer’s Always Wrong
Katie Couric says that the problem is that the viewers weren’t ready for her.
Well, she’s right. I know I wasn’t.
The Customer’s Always Wrong
Katie Couric says that the problem is that the viewers weren’t ready for her.
Well, she’s right. I know I wasn’t.
The Invasion That No One Noticed
Perhaps because they find it too inconvenient:
If Israel sent the IDF three kilometers into Lebanon and started digging trenches and building bunkers it would make news all over the world. But Syria does it and everyone shrugs. Hardly anyone even knows it happened at all.
Syria can, apparently, get away with just about anything. I could hardly blame Assad at this point if he believes, after such an astonishing non-response, that he can reconquer Beirut. So far he can kill and terrorize and invade and destroy with impunity, at least up to a point. What is that point? Has anyone in the U.S., Israel, the Arab League, the European Union, or the United Nations even considered the question?
“You Can’t Oversell It”
While reading Michael Belfiore’s new book