The frontier was a crucible which tested and refined the young American republic and infused the Scots-Irish ethos into communities across the continent. Following the closing of the Western frontier at the end of the nineteenth century, America immediately started searching for new frontiers to conquer and a century after the death of Sam Houston finally found one in the form of outer space.
Houston, Texas, was the natural choice to become home to NASA’s mission control. Of the twelve men who walked on the moon, ten were Americans of Scots-Irish or Scottish ancestry, and the first Christian communion service held in space was Presbyterian. Today, NASA is still largely based in the South, in Houston, Huntsville, and Cape Canaveral, and SpaceX is assembling rockets in Texas as well.
I can’t read Charles Cooke’s article but I did read the Axios article via Ace of Spades. It was a bunch of jumbling words together to make things seem nefarious that are not. For instance, Trump promised to “deport millions of people in the US illegally”. Well yes, but you are supposed to read that as Trump’s actions would be illegal because SCOTUS gave him immunity rather than the people here illegally will not be above the law and sent home.
I really like just prior “turn the Justice Department against critics”. You mean like AG Garland has done? They aren’t calling Biden the imperial President. Biden also tried several times to use DHS to silence critics of the administration on social media. Just two weeks ago, the White House was saying videos of Biden in Europe were deep fakes and then acted surprised when Biden did the same things during the debate.
This stuff is too obvious now. Also, Axios complained about tariffs, which Trump did during his first Administration quite effectively.
OT: Just saw this outstanding piece at IM1776:
The frontier was a crucible which tested and refined the young American republic and infused the Scots-Irish ethos into communities across the continent. Following the closing of the Western frontier at the end of the nineteenth century, America immediately started searching for new frontiers to conquer and a century after the death of Sam Houston finally found one in the form of outer space.
Houston, Texas, was the natural choice to become home to NASA’s mission control. Of the twelve men who walked on the moon, ten were Americans of Scots-Irish or Scottish ancestry, and the first Christian communion service held in space was Presbyterian. Today, NASA is still largely based in the South, in Houston, Huntsville, and Cape Canaveral, and SpaceX is assembling rockets in Texas as well.
Recommended.
I can’t read Charles Cooke’s article but I did read the Axios article via Ace of Spades. It was a bunch of jumbling words together to make things seem nefarious that are not. For instance, Trump promised to “deport millions of people in the US illegally”. Well yes, but you are supposed to read that as Trump’s actions would be illegal because SCOTUS gave him immunity rather than the people here illegally will not be above the law and sent home.
I really like just prior “turn the Justice Department against critics”. You mean like AG Garland has done? They aren’t calling Biden the imperial President. Biden also tried several times to use DHS to silence critics of the administration on social media. Just two weeks ago, the White House was saying videos of Biden in Europe were deep fakes and then acted surprised when Biden did the same things during the debate.
This stuff is too obvious now. Also, Axios complained about tariffs, which Trump did during his first Administration quite effectively.