An Obama-appointed judge throws out a Trump executive order overturning an Obama executive order.
Hard to see how this survives an appeal, even if it has to go all the way to SCOTUS.
Reporters Fear Retribution
…and they should. Their ignorant scorn of the rest of us is exceeded only by their sanctimony.
Misunderstanding Socialism
Some instruction for millennials, from Bastiat.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Milan Kundera on historical amnesia.
[Afternoon update]
Socialism: The delusional fantasy that always ends in a nightmare.
Climate Sensitivity
What is the plausible worst case?
The Day The Dinosaurs Died
This is great science writing. And if this happened today, unlike an excess of plant food in the atmosphere, it probably really would wipe out humanity, or at least a great portion of it.
We could be looking a lot harder for these things, and learning how to deflect them, but Congress would rather build a big monster rocket.
The Democrats’ Identity Politics
A preview of what looks to be a popcorn-worthy and bloody primary battle among the crazy intersectional leftists.
The Age Of Vulcan
I’m glad to see the rocket starting to take shape, despite penny pinching from the parents, but that sure looks labor intensive.
Thorium
A long article on the reasons we’re not burning it in reactors, including a lot of comments from Kirk Sorensen.
Blue Origin
…has been working on previously undisclosed Space Act Agreements with NASA on a lunar lander. That would seem to be part of the puzzle of what’s been happening over the past several days.
The Southern Poverty Law(less) Center
It’s a terrible place to work, that does terrible work.
But the media will probably continue to rely on it.