As I just noted on Twitter, if Trump picks him, I’d seriously consider voting for him, not least because he would be a vice president more visionary about space than any in history. More anon.
[Update a while later]
Related non-space thoughts on a Gingrich pick from Jonah Goldberg.
An amusing people-on-the-street interview by Mary Roach. I knew four out of five.
I should do something like this to try to promote my book.
The U.S’s oil reserves now larger than Saudi Arabia’s.
Huh. Like Glenn, I’m also old enough to remember when the Obama the Wise told us we couldn’t drill our way out of the energy situation. Reminder: Every resource is a renewable resource with sufficiently cheap energy.
Yes, they colluded to hide documents showing collusion with the White House.
Nixon could only dream of what this administration has gotten away with.
Now he faces a Congressional probe.
Appropriately, in my opinion. One of the questions asked should be to explain the substantive semantic difference between “extreme carelessness” and “gross negligence.” I don’t think most sane speakers of English would think that there is one.
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Someone once indicted by Comey has some choice words.
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Seems pretty clear that the "interview" was simply a formality. Comey had already decided what he was going to do. https://t.co/WRZ0zJjZNB
— Apostle To Morons (@Rand_Simberg) July 6, 2016
In fact, I'd argue that Comey was derelict in his duty, given how little time there was between her interview and his pronouncement.
— Apostle To Morons (@Rand_Simberg) July 6, 2016
Congress should demand a release of all transcripts of all interviews, so someone more competent than Comey can evaluate and compare them.
— Apostle To Morons (@Rand_Simberg) July 6, 2016
I'm guessing they could have set a lot of perjury traps for her that they didn't. But we need to see the transcript.
— Apostle To Morons (@Rand_Simberg) July 6, 2016
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Comey’s unusual public recommendation:
Comey’s announcement takes the path of the least politicalization. Comey is a former career prosecutor who served twice as a political appointee in George W. Bush’s Justice Department. He is now serving a non-renewable 10-year term as FBI director that expires in 2023. It’s hard to come up with a clear argument for why Comey would be beholden to Clinton or why his recommendation would be politically biased.
While true, that doesn’t change the fact that the fix was clearly in.
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“I’d rather have a sister in a whorehouse than a brother in the FBI“:
This has to be very painful to the many hardworking non-political people at the FBI. The Bureau has always had the reputation of employing first-rate worker bees, but suffering from politicized shenanigans at the top. But a fish rots from the head, and it’s hard to see how the sort of high-level assault on the rule of law that Comey’s decision involved can fail to trickle down, with the Bureau’s reputation among Americans in general inevitably, and justifiably, suffering.
The corruption of the federal government is close to complete.
It might be possible to live thirty years longer. I wonder to what degree treating diabetes with metformin will also extend life? I also think that people confuse cause and effect between aging and many of the “diseases of aging.”
I think there’s potential for much more than that. I don’t buy the notion that the body can’t be repaired indefinitely. It violates no laws of physics.
[Afternoon update]
The mystery of the Missing Link has been solved once again!
Joel Kotkin and Victor Davis Hanson have both written about the California oligarchy, but this piece points out their cruel but self-righteous youth:
“There are literally shanty towns underneath most highway overpasses in the city,” says Martínez. “But that techie kid who goes and gets his $5 single-origin, cruelty-free pour-over in some trendy coffee shop? He doesn’t give a s***. He just wants to get some liquidity around his shares and steps over the homeless guy en route to his yoga class.”
And, of course, as Ed Driscoll points out, and will come as no surprise to readers here, the dirty little secret is that they’re self-righteous Democrats.
This has already started to be discussed in comments at yesterday’s post, but I want to start a new one: The fourteen worst things for Hillary to come out of it. He basically said she was guilty of pretty much everything, except he wasn’t going to indict her because she was a Clinton.
The Clintons have gotten away with so many felonies over so many decades, Comey didn't want to be the guy to spoil their record.
— Apostle To Morons (@Rand_Simberg) July 5, 2016
[Update a few minutes later]
Comey’s remarks were devastating to Hillary. And no “reasonable” Attorney General meets with the spouse of someone under FBI investigation.
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Comey sells out the rule of law. And “today’s the day that rule of law died.” And did Comey “destroy Hillary by ‘exonerating” her“?
Pro tip: He didn’t exonerate her any more than Bob Ray did in Whitewater. “Insufficient evidence to indict” is no an exoneration.
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This is amusing. The State Department refuses to say whether or not Clinton and her aides have retained their clearances.
No one else in this situation would. They’re refusing to say because if they say she and they haven’t, they know the damage it would do to the campaign, as Obama flies her around on AF1, and lets her speak with the presidential seal in front of her lectern.
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A ” target=”_blank”>mashup from ReasonTV of Comey’s presser and Hillary’s lies. Expect to see a lot of SuperPACs showing this.
What’s next for them? With bonus video from Ashe Schow.