It’s time to end it, obviously, because it’s un-Islamic.
Charles Martel weeps.
The Glomar Explorer
…is going to finally be scrapped.
Seems like a shame. It’s an interesting bit of history. Might make a nice toy for a(nother) billionaire.
Of course, it appears that Paul Allen is building the equivalent for space.
How To Become Less Racist
I honestly couldn’t tell whether or not this was satire until I looked at some of their other articles. I could easily imagine such a theory coming out of our vaunted “studies” departments.
The Latest Review Of “The Martian”
From space historian, and mission controller Jim Oberg. Interesting discussion in comments.
[Tuesday-afternoon update]
Another review, from Alex Knapp.
[Bumped]
Gina McCarthy, John Koskinen
…and other obstructers of justice. Congress should impeach them. And remove them. They should have done it with Holder, too.
Yes. Impeachment is used far too seldom, largely, I think, because political partisanship has come to take precedence over Congressional prerogatives against the Executive. The Founders would be appalled at the degree to which partisans in Congress allow the Constitution and law to be spit on.
Doctoring Intelligence To Fit A Narrative
What the left false accused Bush of doing, the Obama administration actually did.
Stephen Hayes says this could be the biggest scandal of the Obama administration.
I don’t know about that, but it’s certainly the one they’re having trouble destroying the evidence for. Testimony of dozens of intelligence officials is pretty hard to cover up.
Ann Coulter
“…broke my [a woman’s] heart.”
She does seem to have lost her way. First her Christie infatuation in 2012, and now Trump. I’m tempted to wonder if there’s some hormonal stuff happening.
How We Get To Mars
Rick Tumlinson channels me in this Space News op-ed:
If settlement is the goal, Apollo redux is dead. Giant expendable government rockets hurling government employees and return vehicles at Mars won’t cut it in the long run. The main reason to do so is government public relations, as the heroes return and share their stories. If settlement is the goal, we send other kinds of PR heroes — settlers — who land and live out their days on camera, building the first community as more and more follow. Again, it’s different models. One model works for government, the other for private ventures. And since the one-way model is so much cheaper, and the people who will have working one-way systems first are private sector, they may well beat the government to Mars.
He proposes a much more viable approach, but for now, it’s politically unrealistic. Congress doesn’t want to send people to Mars. It wants to build big rockets.
"If settlement is the goal, Apollo redux is dead." And if settlement is not the goal govt HSF is a waste of money. http://t.co/GM5ksrGSvC
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) September 21, 2015
[Afternoon update]
Keith Cowing isn’t impressed.
The Lamentations Of The SJWs
What miserable lives these people must lead.
The “Palace-Guard Creeps” In The Media
Mark Steyn: “Get lost“:
As to whether he’s a Christian, have you asked him whether he has attended even semi-regularly any church other than that of Jeremiah (“God damn America”) Wright? A man is free to attend the Westboro Baptist Church but if he chooses to do so I’m not obligated to defend his Christianity. And frankly, whatever the President’s personal faith, there is no dispute that his leadership of the western world has been an utter catastrophe for Christians around the planet. Some of the oldest Christian communities on earth have been entirely extinguished on Obama’s watch: in Mosul, Iraq, which was an American protectorate on the day he took office, not a single Christian remains. Every single one of them is dead or fled. So, instead of jumping through your preposterous hoops and speaking up for the most powerful man in the world, I would rather speak up for the powerless – for the Nigerian schoolgirls, for the Yazidi, for the Copts in Egypt, and for all the other beleaguered Christian communities in the world this feckless president has set alight and watched burn.
No, Trump has no obligation to defend Barack Obama from charges of being a Muslim, or anything else. McCain was a fool to do so, and to be unwilling to hit him on Jeremiah Wright.
If I’d been in Trump’s position, my response to that guy would have been, “No we don’t have a problem with Muslims. But we do have a problem with Islam. to the degree that Muslims take their religion too devoutly, it becomes a problem, and it’s un-American. In this country, we have separation of church and state, a concept that is anathema to Islam.”
I agree with Ben Carson, too. Who in the world would advocate that a devout Muslim become president? Certainly no one who cares about the founding principles of the country, or the First Amendment.
[Update a while later]
I agree with Powerline‘s take on Carson’s comments (not to imply that I’m a big Carson guy).