Category Archives: Political Commentary

“Both Sides”

No, it is not “both sides.”

It is worth noting that this is not especially incisive or contrarian analysis: everyone knows it. Everyone knows that the Left is the violent faction in American public life today. Everyone knows that shop windows were boarded up in November 2020 out of fear of the Left’s reaction to the election, not the Right’s. Everyone knows there is no threat to public order in response to the murder of Charlie Kirk as there was after the death of George Floyd. Everyone knows that a gathering of pro-Palestinians carries with it a high potential for violence, but a gathering of pro-Israel partisans does not. Everyone knows there is a national network of street fighters on the Left, not on the Right. Everyone knows that colleges have to worry about security for conservative events, not leftist ones.

Everyone knows.

To be fair, the media has kept people sufficiently in the dark about many of the depredations of the left that perhaps everyone doesn’t know, but it’s certainly true.

[Wednesday-morning update]

The media are congenitally incapable of properly covering left-wing violence.

Charlie Kirk

[Thursday-morning update]

First gutted, then angry.

I wonder if it was just coincidence that this happened on the eve of the anniversary of 911?

[Update a few minutes later]

A Poor Choice For NASA

This is exactly the wrong person to chart a needed new course:

  • Kshatriya worked within JSC’s mission operations directorate, climbing the ladder from robotics staff to robotics operations lead working on ISS systems.
  • He then served a stint as a Mission Control flight director, where he oversaw cargo and crew missions to the ISS, before becoming deputy manager of the ISS vehicle office.
  • In 2021, Kshatriya moved to Washington, DC, as assistant deputy associate administrator for exploration systems development for the SLS, Orion, and Exploration Ground Systems programs.
  • In 2023, he became deputy associate administrator for the Moon to Mars program.

In other words, despite concerns expressed yesterday about China in the Senate clown show, business as usual.

[Afternoon update]

Sorry, first link was wrong, fixed now.

[Update a few minutes later]

(Depressing) thoughts from Bob Zimmerman.

On The Vaccines

Related: How the CDC’s double standards cost it our trust, and how hard it will (and should) be to win it back.