General

Merry Christmas To All

I’m not a Christian, but I’m certainly not offended when someone wishes me a Merry Christmas, and while blogging will be light for the next couple days, I’d like to wish all my Christian readers the merriest one yet.

There has never been a Christmas when the world is at peace, and this year is problematic, but it was one in which Afghan women who used to be beaten or worse for appearing in public with too much face exposed, and without their men, just voted in an election, casting many of their votes for other women. It is one in which the Iraqi people, despite the totalitarian scum who continue to murder them indiscriminately, continue to register to vote in their own upcoming elections.

Sadly, it is also one in which thousands continue to be murdered and raped, in never-ending wars in Africa, and the traffic in human slavery continues unabated. But as I said, these things have been going on since time immemorial, and if there’s more of it now, it’s only because there are more humans than ever before–not because humans are becoming worse.

Despite that, in many ways, for many millions of people, things are better on this planet than they’ve ever been, and with diligence and courage, we can continue to spread the zone in which people can celebrate Christmas, and other holidays of this solstice season, free from fear and want.

Political Commentary

I’ll Bet She Does

Diane Feinstein wants to get an amendment to end the electoral college. That way, no one will have to run a national campaign–they’ll just have to do big media buys in the major cities. Fortunately, her fellow Senators will never pass it out of that chamber. This won’t be a partisan issue–it will be a large-state, small-state and urban-state, rural-state issue, and there are more small and rural ones than large and urban ones.

Political Commentary

I’ll Bet She Does

Diane Feinstein wants to get an amendment to end the electoral college. That way, no one will have to run a national campaign–they’ll just have to do big media buys in the major cities. Fortunately, her fellow Senators will never pass it out of that chamber. This won’t be a partisan issue–it will be a large-state, small-state and urban-state, rural-state issue, and there are more small and rural ones than large and urban ones.

Political Commentary

I’ll Bet She Does

Diane Feinstein wants to get an amendment to end the electoral college. That way, no one will have to run a national campaign–they’ll just have to do big media buys in the major cities. Fortunately, her fellow Senators will never pass it out of that chamber. This won’t be a partisan issue–it will be a large-state, small-state and urban-state, rural-state issue, and there are more small and rural ones than large and urban ones.

War Commentary

Michelle On The Case

Michelle Malkin isn’t letting up on the idiots running the TSA. She’s got lots of anonymous letters of support from Air Marshals.

This is citizen reporting at its finest, and she wouldn’t have been able to get the word out like this before the internet. I’ve been concerned ever since September 11 that it would be used as an excuse for bureaucrats (and in this case, vindictive, petty bureaucrats) to aggrandize power and build little tyrannical fiefdoms that have little or nothing to do with actually defending the country. This is a prime example of that. Let’s get the word out, and maybe we can put enough pressure on so that even this White House will realize how foolish this is. I’d like to see this clown transferred here, where he can guard airplanes in his suit and tie.

I wish we’d had better choices last month.

Space

Who’s Got It Right?

I missed the Delta 4 Heavy Launch yesterday–couldn’t justify driving up to the Cape on a weekday. But I’m bemused by the reporting. To read this story, it was spectacular success, but SpaceFlightNow says that it underperfomed significantly, something you’d never know from the space.com piece, which reads like a Boeing press release.

Biting Commentary about Infinity…and Beyond!