Random Musings from the Warped Minds of Jonathan Goff, Ken Murphy, John Hare, and Kirk Sorensen
Posted in Commercial Space, Politics, Space Policy on Nov 6th, 2008
It’s been interesting watching the space corner of the blogosphere during the last several months. Many of my friends in the space advocacy community tend to support the Republican side of things, and it was sad to see how many of them started nearing the boarder of tinfoilhatdom during the course of the Presidential campaign. [...]
Posted in Politics, Space Policy on Sep 25th, 2008
Immigration is one of those topics that I don’t like to think about, because the current mess we have in this country tends to just get me depressed. Earlier today, I saw a flowchart from Reason’s October 2008 issue showing how complicated and screwed-up our immigration process is. The basic takeaway is that barring a [...]
Posted in Politics on Sep 22nd, 2008
by guest blogger Ken While Jon is trying to keep the politics to a minimum out here in the Selenian Boondocks (and so I now owe him several space-related posts), this is a little something that you’re not likely to see through major news sources. Libertarian candidate Bob Barr filed suit in Texas court to [...]
Posted in Politics on Sep 18th, 2008
Robert Higgs, author of the libertarian work Crisis and Leviathan, explained one of my key issues with “temporary powers” granted to government in times of emergencies: One aspect of my model, however, has received relatively little notice, although I have always regarded it as especially important. That is the notion that episodes of crisis and [...]
Jim Henley hit it on the head (again): My kids bought me an insurance company! Sweet children: they don’t even have jobs yet. I’m really looking forward to helping pick up the tab for the past several decades worth of government fiscal mismanagement in this country. But not to worry folks! Our plucky moose-hunting Reformer [...]
Posted in Politics on Sep 12th, 2008
I just saw a quote that I think illustrates a clear difference between the two prospective presidential candidates, on the topic of the right of Habeas Corpus: Calling it “the foundation of Anglo-American law,” he said the principle “says very simply: If the government grabs you, then you have the right to at least ask, [...]
Posted in Politics on Sep 6th, 2008
I know I don’t post on politics that often, and I don’t want to turn this site into yet another political punditry place. Quite frankly there’s far more than enough blogs like that out there, and the light to heat ratio among political blogs is pretty darned lousy. That said, I wanted to try and [...]
I know I’m late to the game, but there’s been a lot of navel gazing of the past week about what people wrote back on the eve of the Iraq War, and typically “what they got wrong.” Because, quite frankly, a lot of the blogosphere, and the media elites were painfully wrong about a lot [...]
Posted in Politics on Mar 10th, 2008
This country has immigration problems. Case in point. A good friend of our family here in town is an immigrant who has been living in the US since around when she was 6 or so (about a dozen years). She’s about to graduate from high school, and would like to save up for college. Unfortunately [...]
Posted in Politics on Feb 4th, 2008
I really hate to bump such a good post as Ken’s last one from the top of the list (go read it if you haven’t had a chance yet), but I’ve been meaning to say something about this year’s Presidential election for some time now. Tomorrow’s primary day here in California (and about half of [...]