ANYBODY WHO TRUSTED HAMAS, FOR STARTERS: Whose Fault Is the Gaza Aid Fiasco?
May 30, 2025
THE STANDARDIZATION OF DEMORALIZATION: Mark Judge: An interview with Jennifer Hofmann.
LIMITED TIME DEAL: Carhartt Men’s Force Relaxed Fit Midweight Short-Sleeve Pocket T-Shirt. #CommissionEarned
THERE’S STILL SOME LIFE LEFT IN THE LEAD SLED: F-4 Phantoms Sought By Private Space Launch Company Starfighters International.
The Kennedy Space Center-based research, test, and now space launch company Starfighters International, which has been flying F-104 Starfighters privately for decades is now, is in the process of acquiring a dozen F-4 Phantoms. The deal would see the iconic third-generation Cold War fighters fly primarily in service of the firm’s space launch operations, which aim to provide rapid and flexible access to low Earth orbit (LEO) for small satellites, as well as suborbital offerings.
Starfighters International began as a company around three decades ago, and grew from doing air shows to becoming largely a research and development support firm with a very unique address. The company and its fleet of antique Mach 2-capable F-104 Starfighters, which includes seven airframes today, moved into Kennedy Space Center in 2007. There they would have access to arguably one of the most famous and largest runways on earth, the Shuttle Landing Facility. Now they are in the process of building a 150,000-square-foot facility in Midland, Texas, to support the firm’s more ambitious space launch aims.
And this is precisely where the F-4 Phantoms come into play.
While the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter is capable of zooming up into the stratosphere at high speed, they cannot carry heavier, outsized launch vehicles at the required performance that will allow larger payloads to be inserted into low Earth orbit. The F-4s — at least in concept — can.
More lift is always better.
DON SURBER: It’s Democrat policies, stupid.
IS THIS THE MOMENT WHEN THE ZEITGEIST SHIFTS? The NYT asks: “What would make you want to have more children?” They’re even worrying about the impact of society’s treatment of men!
Welcome to the party, pal!
Related: Harrison Butker, Harbinger? Life during and after the coming Demographic Winter.
I’D LIKE TO SEE AN IRS RULE ON TREATMENT OF EXCESSIVE UNRECOUPED ADVANCES:
Do publishing houses next. Find out where the advances come for the leftist politician books! https://t.co/OT4blXbM84
— Sarah A. Hoyt (@SarahAHoyt) May 29, 2025
MAKE THEM PAY: Florida Appellate Court to Pulitzer Board: Stand Up And Take Your Medicine in Trump Defamation Case. “Talk about desperation. Why would the Pulitzer board try to get out of a trial with a claim of executive privilege? Are they that afraid of losing at trial? They should be, given what Senior Judge Robert Pegg had to say in his ruling on their initial motion for dismissal.”
I WAS FEELING FAIRLY TERRIBLE ALL DAY YESTERDAY, SO MY ASSISTANT DID THE BLOG: Just a little Skip–No Man’s Land Teaser.
AN INDICTMENT IN ONE PHOTO:
“The gold standard for expertise.” https://t.co/y2Bxpaphvv pic.twitter.com/kzjHWKoomL
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) May 29, 2025
Related: The Suicide of Expertise.
HAMAS WILL OTHERWISE STARVE THE GAZANS: Why Israel should starve Hamas.
THE ROT HAS BEEN DEEP: The three-fold assault on freedom in the West, Part 2.
THE LEVERAGE TO PRY CONCESSIONS FROM RUSSIA IS LIMITED: Putin’s high price of peace will have to be paid.
IMO THE BEAUTIFUL IS THAT HE KEEPS DOING IT: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful of the Starship 9 Test Launch.
THE LEFT HAS RATS IN THEIR HEADS: Making the man’s point for him.
NO, IT’S THEM. THEY JUST AIN’T RIGHT: It’s not just the words.
OKAY, BUT DON’T EAT THEM! YOU KNOW WHERE THEY’VE BEEN: Are Buffalo Public Schools Finally COOKED? (Video)
SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED: Labor Dept to suspend Job Corps centers it says put students in danger, cost taxpayers $1.7B.
FOR STARTERS, THERE IS ONLY ONE: What is Truth?
May 29, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Because I love you and want you to be happy.
