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The Democrats have a lying, stupid child at the wheel of the DNC. Ladies and gentlemen... Howard Dean. He also said the president was partly responsible for a recent Supreme Court decision involving eminent domain. "The president and his right-wing...

Are the media ignoring good news out of Iraq? Perhaps. That's the theme of a some recent columns, one of which evidently has gotten a St. Paul Pioneer Press assistant editor in big trouble. You can read about that story...

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.

It's certainly been an odd week up in my old South Dakota stomping grounds. First off, it appears that Bob Novak (yeah, that Bob Novak) was/is planning some sort of story on the anti-Thune bloggers up there. This comes hot...

Daniel Pipes makes an argument today about what the Osama Bin Laden's of the world want. In nearly all cases, the jihadi terrorists have a patently self-evident ambition: to establish a world dominated by Muslims, Islam, and Islamic law, the...

Why do I get the impression that the New York Times would characterize any organization that isn't part of the MoveOn/Soros wing of the Democratic party as "an organization of hard-line conservatives"?...

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