Simberg: The Incivil War of Climate Change Heats Up
Those of us who have not succumbed to the fashionable hysteria over anthropogenic global warming (aka “climate change”) have long become accustomed to being demonized and threatened by its more...
View ArticleSimberg: California Prefers Trains to Nowhere over Rocket Ships (2)
In the grand scheme of the ongoing economic disaster being wrought by Sacramento, it’s perhaps not a big thing, but it’s very symbolic. On the same day that the California legislature passed a law...
View ArticleSimberg: The Other Scandal In Unhappy Valley
So it turns out that Penn State has covered up wrongdoing by one of its employees to avoid bad publicity. But I’m not talking about the appalling behavior uncovered this week by the Freeh report. No,...
View ArticleSimberg: First Man – Neil Armstrong, 1930-2012
He was of a different era. Raised during the Depression in Ohio, but born too young to fight in the Big War, he grew up dreaming of airplanes and flight. A brilliant student, he went to engineering...
View ArticleSimberg: Chelyabinsk – What, Exactly, Just Happened? (Updated)
When you have the largest land mass on Earth, you’re an all-too-likely target. This morning, Russia was hit once again by a space object, as a bolide exploded over Chelyabinsk, just east of the Ural...
View ArticleSimberg: The Asymmetric Outrage of Big Government Scandals
Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) has apparently had enough of both the IRS and Eric Holder, and thinks that it’s time for both to go. But I was struck by this comment of hers: She feels the outrage...
View ArticleSimberg: The White Elephant in NASA’s Living Room
Space policy has not traditionally been particularly partisan, but amidst the ongoing fiscal battles, the recent congressional attempts to write an authorization bill for NASA have generated some...
View ArticleSimberg: The Dinosaurs of the Launch Industry
Tuesday’s communications-satellite launch from Cape Canaveral didn’t get much attention from the mainstream media, but it will be viewed as an historic event. Delivered by Space Exploration...
View ArticleSimberg: Time to End Our Dependence on Russian Spaceships
As the artillery rolls into Ukraine, and the notion that Vladimir Putin’s Russia is an ally has been revealed to one and all to be a fantasy, it’s time to finally end our policy insanity of relying on...
View ArticleSimberg: Moscow Expresses ‘Concern’ About Treatment of Ethnic Russians in...
NEW YORK (Routers) Russia signaled concern on Wednesday at New York City’s treatment of its large ethnic Russian minority in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach, comparing language policy in the region with what...
View ArticleSimberg: We Are All Scientists
USA Today had a story last week about a state environmental official in Indiana, who had made a joke in a text message, and was harshly criticized for it. The story led with a fascinating sentence:...
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