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A hardcore liar is one who has been made aware of the truth, but continues the false allegations while attacking the messenger. After seeing the light of truth from this web site, Chad Schuldt attacks me for not allowing comments...

Another sign of unhealthy politics on the left is the current issue of Harper's. It contains a lead article None Dare Call It Stolen, about the 2004 presidential election in Ohio, and a forum on the Conyers Report concerning alleged...

Interesting juxtaposition of spaceflight-related stories here. Private enterprise vs. government bureaucracy?

NASA to Ground Shuttle Program Over Foam Debris

More trouble with the fuel tank foam has caused the grounding of the shuttle fleet (again), pending some resolution of the problem. They KNOW how to fix it...but...when they changed the foam due to new environmental requirements, they started having trouble with it. 'nuff said. In this decadant age bureaucracy trumps good engineering every time.

Richard Branson and Burt Rutan Form Spacecraft Building Company

British entrepreneur, Sir Richard Branson, has teamed up with aerospace designer, Burt Rutan of Scaled Composites to form a new aerospace production company. The new firm will build a fleet of commercial suborbital spaceships and launch aircraft. Called The Spaceship Company, the new entity will manufacture launch aircraft, various spacecraft and support equipment and market those products to spaceliner operators. Clients include launch customer, Virgin Galactic?formed by Branson to handle space tourist flights.

These guys will do it themselves, do it right, and make money at the same time!

If NASA is to maintain any credibility, they had better get off their keisters and get going on building something a bit more state-of-the-art than the 50-year old shuttle technology.

Essie Mae Washington-Williams was raised in Pennsylvania believing that her aunt and uncle were her parents. Imagine her shock when her aunt?s younger sister came to visit and announced she was actually Essie Mae?s mother. Imagine her shock several...

Voice of Anti-America

Radio France Internationale is like most other French media?but more so. Not to be confused with "public radio," RFI is part and parcel of the government-owned and controlled Radio France organization...

So starts this report - which describes in lurid detail the Alice in Wonderland world of the view from the Frog pond. The total disdain for the US, coupled with the implicit and explicit anti-semitism of coverage of the middle east is enough to lead one to believe that the spirit of Vichy is not only still alive, but that it is the dominant voice of 21st century France.

A reader chimes in on the prairie dog story:If they had called prairie dogs prairie rats the easterners wouldn't be all upset about anyone shooting them.I guess we have Lewis and Clark to blame....

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