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Here's The Collective Outrage"It's a lie!" scream the several dozen people who have taken it upon themselves to decry the story that Air America Radio "diverted" funds earmarked for a Bronx community center to itself. The spin they're able to conjure up after...Todd Epp: Hildebrand ?is kind of behind some of this"
South Dakota liberal blogger Todd Epp conceded the obvious last weekend when he told Robert Novak that former/current Daschle campaign manager Steve Hildebrand (who is still being paid by Daschle) was orchestrating the blog attacks on Senator Thune. Novak said:The...What Do They Want?
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...Was Bombing Hiroshima Just? Discuss Amongst Yourselves
The Guardian of London has an intriguing piece on the justice of dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (discriminating readers will notice I have found a gold mine at Real Clear today). The author, Max Hastings, wishes to...Quote of the Day
Glenn Reynolds: When there's a draft, it's evil. When there's not a draft, they're mercenaries. It's almost like the game is rigged so that the military is always wrong . . . . Indeedy, my good man. And really, isn't...NASA Out of Space, Again! Free-enterprise starts Spaceflight Project
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.
South Dakota Blogs
Two and a Half Years of Hillary?THE LEFT LIED AND LONDONERS DIED!?
Todd Epp is pissed again
SD Blog Riddle Solved?
My Point Entirely
Another Blogger Exposed
Murdering Bastards
Blog Wars and ANWR
Predatory lawsuits
A New Forum For Sibby v. Epp
Novak On The Perpetual Daschle Campaign
Ryno
McGovern & the Legacy of Liberalism
Islamofascists Defacto Repeal of Free Speech
The Northern Valley Beacon Discovered Hiding
Pro-life Flip Flops
I'm Not With These People
John Roberts and Catholicism
ChiCom Currency Change Portends Even More Change?
?The fault is not in our stars.?
American Blogs
Freakish Rant of the DayUniversity Rebukes Gay-Bashing Muslim Employee
The Next Real Battle
SCHOOLING THE N.Y. TIMES
BORDER INSECURITY
THE WASHINGTON POST'S MIDDLE FINGER
When brickbats are better than bouquets
Are you now or have you ever been?
Pro-Freedom, Anti-Terror
The Wisdom of Goethe, the BBC, and How the Human Rights Question Is Changing Washington's View of North Korea PolicyNorth Korea's Peace Treaty Gambit: Offer or Demand?
Our 'Dynamic' Partner: This Pig Won't Wear Pearls
Incoming?
Freedom House II: Sharansky Speech
Crossing lanes with China is not crossing wires
Ten Best Books on Fourth Generation Warfare
The pure essence of Navy fear-mongering on China-Taiwan: it doesn't get any more absurd than this
South Dakota Mainstream Media
Blaze torches businessIt?s on
Security breach alert
Highway bill routes funding to state
Framers want more time
Wildfires and bikers
Frist bucks administration (Has John Thune started a trend?*)
Student ID tags under review;
American Mainstream Media
DHS Program Nets Hundreds of Gang ArrestsKing Fahd of Saudi Arabia Dies
DNA Test Frees Man After 19 Years
Orioles' Palmeiro Suspended for Steroids
Report: Cops Helped Diocese Conceal Sex Abuse
Novak: CIA Spokesman Didn't Say Don't Print Agent's Name
Cross Has San Diego at a Crossroads
NASA to Conduct Spacewalk to Repair Shuttle
British Mainstream Media
'300,000 More Immigrants Than Estimated'Saudi Arabia Mourns Death Of King Fahd
Wie Wonder: Golf's Teenage Sensation
New Arrests Over London Terror Attacks
Bottom Falling Out Of Thong Market
Bin Laden 'Bankrolled Jakarta Bombing'
Bus Passenger Killed In Row Over Chips
Troops To Be Withdrawn From N Ireland
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A Milkweed By Any Other Name ?.
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