George Giles wrote: The space shuttle was a horrific disaster. While sucking up hundreds of billions of tax dollars it failed in every single specification that was its justification for existence. The shuttle’s ancillary behavior was all the astronauts it killed. The Soviet launch system has proven vastly safer and lower cost. Think about that. […]
Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! Don’t forget to eat those July 4 leftovers, it’s probably the last good day for them. I’m away on vacation, but I’ve got a great interview for you to read about sports and local politics colliding over stadium subsidies. But don’t sleep on the links this […]
Twelve years after facilitating the largest national security leak in American history, Edward Snowden remains exiled in Russia, unable to set foot on U.S. soil without losing his freedom. A bipartisan consensus denouncing Snowden as a criminal traitor quickly formed in Washington, D.C., following the revelation of his identity in 2013: “I don’t think Mr. […]
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Who knows what to believe these days? Well, what would you expect after years, even decades, of anti-reality operations by everyone from the CIA to The New York Times to Harvard U. Is it any wonder that reality-optionality is making the people both apathetic and insane? We are told now by the FBI that there is no […]
The TSA ends its stupidest rule ever after 20 years of pointlessness: The Transportation Security Administration has started to phase out its rule requiring travelers to take off their shoes before going through security after, oh, just 20 years of forcing everyone to show off their ugly toenails in public. Per The New York Times, “the […]
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A few weeks ago I urged President Trump to make a deal with Iran that would satisfy his stated goal of no nuclear weapons production and would allow Iran to continue its lawful pursuit of civilian nuclear energy. The deal on the table, as described by the Iranian foreign minister himself, was a win-win “update” […]
From Judge Edward Shippen in Rue v. Mitchell (Pa. Ct. Com. Pl. Phila. County 1790): Generally speaking, indeed, actions of slander, founded on trifling causes, to gratify a petulant and quarrelsome disposition, will not be encouraged by the court; but when the reputation, trade, o Read More Article from Reason.com
Here’s a summary of the underlying legal issue, as reported in Jackson v. Wright, decided in 2022 by Judge Amos Mazzant (E.D. Tex.): This case stems from the suppression of academic scholarship at the University of North Texas …. Plaintiff Dr. Timothy Jackson is a professor and scholar of music theory at UNT. He has […]
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