It was 62 years ago today. I think it was sometime after 911 that I noticed that the anniversary was no longer noted by the media. When I was younger, it was always commemorated; it was one of those “what were you doing when it happened” things, but the event is now long outside the lived memory of most people.
Category Archives: History
The Future Of Journalism
Yes, the times they are a’changing.
ICBMs
Yes. It’s time (long past time, IMO) to move them from the Air Force to the Army. They’re really just very long-range artillery. Get the USAF out of both the missile and space business and get it to focus on aviation.
The Anti-Promethean Backlash(es)
Thoughts on its source(s), from Virginia Postrel.
One of the irritating things about the immigration debate is the conflation of opposition to immigration per se, and opposition to the unrestricted flooding of the country with people who have been completely unvetted, and many of whom are coming not for American opportunity but rather government handouts, and many of whom hate America (e.g., Somalians in Minnesota).
The Fascist Kennedy Family
It’s just more evidence of the failing of the American media that too many Americans still worship these people as royalty.
Nothing New Under The Sun
I was digging through the archives looking for my first Veteran’s Day post in 2001, and I ran across this fisking of an op-ed on space policy from The Economist. It holds up pretty well, I think. I wish that they had followed my advice then. We’d be a lot further ahead.
Veterans
…you should remember today.
[Update a while later]
At precisely 11:11 a.m. on Veterans Day, November 11, the sun shines in perfect alignment with the Anthem Veterans Memorial in Anthem, Arizona. pic.twitter.com/88E80aSkTG
— James Lucas (@JamesLucasIT) November 11, 2025
Both my parents were veterans of WW II. Very few of that generation remain with us, and that war, the greatest one in history, is passing from living memory.
The Armed Awakening
…of America’s radical left.
The Cold Civil War is defrosting, and I don’t think the left will ultimately be happy with the results.
John Brennan
As Roger says, I’ve always been aghast that this horrible man was in the intelligence community at all, let alone head of the CIA. Let’s hope justice is finally served.
[Update a few minutes later]
Related thoughts from Stephen Kruiser.
No Kings
…versus the Democratic deep state. You can have a constitutional republic, or a massive federal bureaucracy. Pick one.