A few days ago, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman called for an invasion of earth by space aliens.

Well, OK, not exactly. But the entire exchange is noted in video excerpted here.

Krugman said at one point:

It's very hard to get inflation in a depressed economy. But if you had a program of government spending plus an expansionary policy by the Fed ( Read more... )

What's the difference between a left-wing nut and a right-wing nut? A left-wing nut thinks Barack Obama is a genius. A right-wing nut thinks he's an evil genius. -- James Taranto

 So it appears that some grand and brilliant compromise will be reached on the debt limit, reached at the very last minute, down to the wire, whew wasn't that close.

I have been (sadly, offline) predicting for weeks that this is exactly what would happen: a last-minute deal, and my guess is that when we see it most people will say "Wow, that's ( Read more... )

 Osama bin Laden is dead. Congratulations go to everyone involved in the team that accomplished this mission. Early indications suggest (and I'm sure all the facts will bear out) that this was a well-coordinated, well-planned mission that was executed with precision due to the training, motivation, teamwork, and support of all involved.

President ( Read more... )

 We've learned that with the end of the program, space shuttles will be going to locations in Florida, Washington, and Los Angeles. The Enterprise in Washington will be relocated to New York City.

But not Houston, home of Mission Control.

Los Angeles provided the team that designed and built the shuttles. Washington DC provided the agency that ( Read more... )

Global Warming Fears Melting

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In other words, the predictive accuracy of alarmist computer models can be assessed by feeding past atmospheric data into the models and observing how well the resulting predictions match up with the current climate. "If this predicted feature of global warming is not evident in the real world," stated Sherwood ( Read more... )

So, last night I'm walking along a dark country road, and a flying saucer lands in front of me. A little green man steps out, and says "Where am I? Take me to your leader!"

I enthusiastically replied "Welcome to America! I'll take you to President Obama!"

The little green man replied "Oh...no..I'm sorry. I actually meant to land in France."

President of China?This is just one more in a series of statements that the President has made that imply he really truly thought the job would be easy...or at least easier than it actually is ( Read more... )

Eerie Coincidences in Failure of NASA Climate Monitoring Satellites

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The failure of two NASA satellites built to study climate change raises the unlikely - but still possible - specter of sabotage.
These two satellites were designed to take human judgement out of the monitoring and modeling loop, to provide direct and unbiased global sensor data ( Read more... )

 NASA science satellite lost in $424 million launch failure

Whoops, splash one more half-billion dollar piece of hardware.

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NASA's Glory atmospheric research mission satellite crashed into the southern Pacific Ocean early today after a protective nose cone fairing failed to separate during launch aboard an Orbital Sciences Corp. Taurus XL rocket ( Read more... )