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Giffords Shooting: Don’t Just Do Something — Stand There
The only lessons to be learned from the tragedy in Tucson are the age-old ones that life isn’t fair and sometimes bad things happen to good people.
The Dishonest ‘Tax Cut’ Debate
It’s nonsensical to describe avoiding further damage to the economy as a “stimulus.”
Out-of-this-World Pork in the Beehive State
How the Utah congressional delegation is betraying fiscal conservatism.
WIth NASA Budget, Time for Republicans To Be … Republicans
There is no reason to continue NASA programs, like the Space Launch System, that can be more efficiently run privately, and which provide meaningless prestige rather than progress.
You Just Might Be a Marxist
Many people uphold Marxist tenets without considering themselves Marxists.
(UPDATED) Pigs in Space: Utah and Alabama Repubs Lobbying for Space Pork
When is a “conservative” not a conservative? When it comes to space policy, and his state or district is getting its pork sliced too thin, apparently. (Watch Glenn Reynolds' interview with Rand Simberg here.)
Repeating Myths of a Flawed NASA Past
Free enterprise had nothing to do with the U.S. getting to the moon ahead of the Russians.
Saving Suborbital: Will Congress Kill NASA’s Reusable Space Program?
A $15 million program may have more potential than all the other billions NASA spends, but the House may cut it.
‘Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, Who Cares? Call Them Racists’
Evidently, to Spencer Ackerman of the ironically-named Washington Independent, all conservatives look and act alike — and hence can be tarnished as racists with equal impunity.
Obama to NASA Chief: Make Muslims ‘Feel Good’
The administration's manned spaceflight policy is one of the few things that it’s gotten at least partly right. Too bad NASA's public-relations efforts have been so bad.
One Giant Leap for Commercial Space
While the Obama administration shuts down the Shuttle and the Constellation programs, commercial space firms are stepping into the void. Rand Simberg on the first purely commercial orbital flight.
A Translation Guide to the Obama Space Program
Noted space blogger Rand Simberg translates the current controversy over Obama's revised space program.
Dramatic Changes Ahead for NASA
The space agency will give up plans to go to the moon and concentrate instead on technology development programs for missions beyond low-earth orbit.
Will Health Care Reform Tip Senate Race to GOP in Massachusetts?
In the special election to fill Ted Kennedy's seat, Republican Scott Brown might benefit from a backlash against the Bay State's own failing health insurance plan.
Some Thoughts on the Latest Man-Caused Disaster Attempt
When someone from Nigeria named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is lighting his pants in the window seat, it's pretty hard to be politically correct and avoid reality.
The Precautionary Principle and Global Warming
How much risk from climate change should there be before we spend trillions of dollars to address the problem?
Climategate: When Scientists Become Politicians
Fudging results in an attempt to make the world fit one’s preconceptions is beyond the scientific pale and a real crime. (Also read Ed Driscoll: All the News That's Fit to Bury)
Whether or Not Obama Focuses on Economy, It Gets Worse
The problem is not that Obama doesn't spend enough time on the economy — his philosophy isn't capable of (or interested in?) stimulating growth anyway.
Barack’s Socialist Mop
The crowd loved Obama's (faulty) mop metaphor, as it played well to the willfully uninformed partisan.
Iranian Nuke Crisis Creates Giant Headache for NASA
The Kremlin's relationship with Iran may seriously interfere with U.S.-Russian cooperation in space.
Two Anniversaries and Our (Private Sector) Future in Space
The anniversaries of Sputnik and SpaceShipOne point the way forward for the private exploration of space.
Panel Recommends Major Changes in Space Policy
Extending the life of the space shuttle and encouraging private space companies are two options being considered.
A Giant Leap for Commercial Spaceflight
A satellite put in orbit by the first privately funded liquid fueled rocket may signal the end of NASA dominance of the heavens.
Obama and Munchausen’s Syndrome By Proxy
Making the patient sick in order to aggrandize power? That might explain the president's policies.
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