No, sorry lefties, it’s not solved.
Astronaut Wives
It wasn’t necessarily what they signed up for.
The State Department Is As Honest…
…as it is honorable. No, that’s not a compliment. And it was Hillary Clinton’s State Department in both cases, though it’s possible that the Bush State Department would have behaved as despicably in the one case. Arrogant bureaucrats being what they are.
The EPA
…has four scandals going on its own right now. Another monster that has to be reined in.
Hacking The Constitution
How Obama and the other hacks did it.
Sadly, I’m starting to view last fall’s election as illegitimate, so great was the cheating.
[Tuesday morning update]
This isn’t going to end until these people are removed from the power that they do not deserve.
Hillary And The NASA Letter
Did she really get a letter saying “no girls allowed”?
There’s no evidence of it, other than her repetition of the story (which doesn’t hold much weight with me, considering the source). As Jim Oberg points out, she certainly could have been part of the first class in 1978 that admitted women, had she applied herself. But her degrees were in political science and law, which certainly weren’t indicative of someone who desired a career in spaceflight. I wouldn’t be shocked to learn that she couldn’t handle technical subjects, or math.
The Supreme Court
Why the Obama administration keeps losing:
These cases have nothing in common, other than the government’s view that federal power is virtually unlimited: Citizens must subsume their liberty to whatever the experts in a given field determine the best or most useful policy to be.
If the government can’t get even one of the liberal justices to agree with it on any of these unrelated cases, it should realize there’s something seriously wrong with its constitutional vision.
Do tell.
National Space Policy
A “Values-Based Approach“? The question is — what are the values? I think he’s got it wrong:
Discovery is why a nation should go to space. It is what inspires all of humanity. It has been NASA’s only use of human spaceflight in the post-Apollo era that has returned value that is highly regarded by nearly all people in developed countries with free access to information. The synergy that once existed between human-assisted and robotic space exploration in the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) program is a blueprint for sustained deep space human-assisted exploration that can stoke the nation’s competitiveness in science, technology, and math toward realization of long-term financial and physical security.
That’s an opinion, not a fact. I would expect a scientist to think that science is the reason for human spaceflight, but most people don’t agree with him (or have even given it much thought). If it’s not for the purpose of developing and settling space, the amount of money we’re spending on it is unjustifiable.
Commercial Space
Stuck to the ground, by red tape.
Not a lot new there to people who follow this topic, but it’s a good overview of the issues.
The IRS Scandal(s)
Five myths that the agency’s defenders are using.
They’re not “myths” — they’re lies.