Eric Berger has the details. It’s clearly an effort to continue to justify the Gateway, which in turn has become required to justify the Shelby Launch System. If/when Starship lands on the moon, or even orbits it, all of this will be moot.
How Dumb Is AOC?
I think she pegs the meter. As Sarah Hoyt notes, blondes are telling jokes about her.
[Update a couple minutes later]
The rebirth of socialism: Where it came from, and how to stop it.
[Late-morning update]
I suspect that AOC will be successfully primaried after this latest jamming of both feet in her mouth. She just cost her constituents a lot of jobs.
[Noon update]
The worms are starting to turn on her.
The Blob
Beware the metastasis of the Deep State.
People need to go to jail over this. No one elected any of them.
[Update a couple minutes later]
“Andrew McCabe is a national disgrace. And we owe him a big fat thank you.”
Enough Is Enough
L. Neil Smith has a modest proposal on Second Amendment rights.
Careful With Your Drafts
This story reminds me of about thirty years ago, when I was pulling an all-nighter at Rockwell to finish a major deliverable to the Air Force on a study contract on launch systems. PCs were a relatively new thing in the workplace then (at least that one–I’d been one of the forcing functions to get them), and I accidentally munged a file on a floppy, apparently the only copy of it. Fortunately, I had a printout of the pages that I could insert into the document, but it had one section in it that contained the phrase “[Go ask [name of one of my colleagues]].” There was no way I was going to retype the whole thing — I had too much else to do to finish it, and I ended up just inserting the page as is (in a document of several hundred pages). I figured it would be an interesting test to see if anyone actually read these things. I never heard a word from the Air Force about it.
Trump And The Wall
The Failure Of the Deal.
Slowing Aging
A cell-killing strategy to do it has passed its first human test.
I’m taking quercetin (when I remember to take my supplements at all — I wish taking pills was less of a chore).
Overrated Bands
I have to confess that I’m not even familiar with the music of many of these, but I’m glad to see Springsteen on the list.
The Greening Of The Planet
Woah!
Carbon dioxide helps things grow? Who would've thought?!
Big if true! https://t.co/wajoPG1G67
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) February 15, 2019
Government By Executive
The dangers of it.
I’m as unhappy about it as I am with all the other “national emergencies” that have been declared by other presidents (many of which are still in effect). I notice, though, that (as usual), many people are only about things that all presidents do when Trump does them.
As for why the next D president couldn’t do that, I fully expect (s)he will (and would regardless of the faux “precedent” that Trump is supposedly setting). The only legal way to rein in a president (as opposed to what Obama’s Justice Department was illegally doing to Trump prior to the election, in what the guy who was fired for lying to the FBI is now admitting was an attempted coup) is impeachment. It has been used far too seldom, which is why the president has accumulated too much power.
…constitutional structure aside, why is presidential unilateralism bad? Because our system was designed to make major shifts in government policy difficult, and that’s a good thing because it lowers the stakes of politics. We had experience in 1861 with what happens when a significant part of the country believes that the national government has become arrayed against it, and it’s not an experience we should want to repeat on any scale.
But the Left seems determined to do that, even though we have the guns.