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The Nanny State Can’t Last
Monday, April 11, 2011 10:32 AM
Instead of the left agreeing to cut social spending and the right agreeing to cut military spending, the right agrees to more welfare and the left agrees to more warfare. How long will it be before foreigners stop buying our debt, and hyperinflation arrives?
Albany’s Historic Student Ghetto: Kegs N Eggs Mark the Spot
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 9:25 PM
Albany, New York isn't just the seat of a clown car state government -- it's also a college town. And college students, when boozed to the gills, can out-bozo politicians. (Well, almost.) On March 12th crowds of drunken students rioted in the Albany neighborhood known as the student ghetto. Their cellphones captured the riot. YouTube took it viral. Suddenly, all eyes were on Albany's student ghetto.
Gaming the Game: Baba, Elvis, and the NBA Betting Scandal
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 6:41 PM
Sean Patrick Griffin’s new book Gaming the Game won’t make disgraced NBA referee Tim Donaghy happy. In 2007, Donaghy was busted by the feds for conspiring with pro gambler Jimmy “Baba” Battista and their mutual boyhood pal, low-level drug dealer and all round dogsbody Tommy Martino. Donaghy had been supplying Battista with picks on games [...]
No-Fly Won’t Fly Constitutionally
Monday, March 14, 2011 11:51 AM
Establishing any kind of military presence in the sovereign territory of Libya will require committing troops to engage in combat against the Libyan air force, as well as anti-aircraft systems. The administration has stated that nothing is off the table as they discuss US responses to the unrest. This sort of talk is alarming on so many levels. Does this mean a nuclear strike is on the table? Apparently so.
Buying Friends Creates More Enemies
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Wednesday, March 09, 2011 12:57 PM
Many observers claim that the recent overthrow of governments in northern Africa and the Middle East will result in more liberty for individuals across those regions. I sincerely hope this proves to be true, but history is replete with revolutions that began as a cry for freedom against oppressive governments but ended badly.
Why the Freedom Box Won’t Save You
Monday, March 07, 2011 10:55 PM
The temporary shutdown in Egypt of Internet and other telecommunication services, as well as similar interruptions in other Middle East countries experiencing large-scale protests and rebellions, has galvanized hackers and human rights activists as well as U.S. foreign policy makers. The consequences may be not be what anyone expected.
Left, Right, Third Party in Sight?
Wednesday, March 02, 2011 10:09 PM
Remember the late great Tea Party? The grass roots movement that made the political establishment quake? For one glorious moment it seemed as if a truly independent, average Joe/Joan movement might be gathering steam. A memory from that halcyon time: assorted TV pundits telling Republican leaders that Tea Party people “don’t like you guys either.” [...]
Congress Must Reject the Welfare/Warfare State
Monday, February 28, 2011 10:01 PM
The $99 billion figure merely represents the amount that HR 1 reduces spending from the President's proposed Fiscal Year 2011 budget -- not reductions in actual spending. Trying to claim credit for a reduction in spending based on cuts in proposed spending is like claiming someone is following a diet because he had only five slices of pizza when he intended to have 10 slices!
Central Economic Planning at its Worst
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 9:41 AM
But none of these explanations can answer why this crisis occurred. Why was there excessive borrowing? Why was there an explosion of subprime lending? Why were there failures in corporate governance? Why did virtually no one except Austrian economists see this coming?
Mortgage Fraud! Mollusks! Taxpayers Rush to Invest
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 10:11 PM
With government now owning or insuring 97% of mortgage bonds via Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), taxpayers are on the hook more than ever. And they're paying for new twists. Quoting mortgage fraud attorney L. T. Lafferty, a former federal prosecutor specializing in white collar crime, "fraud is ... perpetrated differently when there are different opportunities."
Universe Today
Space and astronomy news
NASA: Decreasing the Suck, Increasing the Awesome
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 2:02 PM
Just try to keep up with internet vlogger Hank Green of Vlogbrothers as he explains why he believes NASA is worth every .45 penny of your hard-earned US tax dollar. And believe it or not, this is a video from NASA Television. They really are increasing the awesome. © nancy for Universe Today, 2011. | [...]
Sideways Looks at the Moon Like You’ve Never Seen it Before
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 1:28 PM
The Zooites working at the Moon Zoo citizen science project have uncovered some very unique oblique views of the Moon taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Occasionally, LRO takes “sideways glances” at the Moon instead of looking straight down like the spacecraft normally does. The Moon doesn’t really look like this close up, because these [...]
The Many Colors and Wavelengths of the Andromeda Galaxy
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 11:51 AM
Andromeda is a beautiful galaxy to see with your own eyes, but in this video, ESA’s fleet of space telescopes — XMM Newton, Herschel, Planck and several ground-based telescopes — has captured M31, in different wavelengths, most of which are invisible to the eye. Each wavelength shows a different aspect of the galaxy’s nature, as [...]
Carnival of Space #194
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 11:24 AM
This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at Next Big Future. Click here to read the Carnival of Space #194. And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s an archive to all the past Carnivals of Space. If you’ve got a space-related blog, you should really join the carnival. Just email an [...]
An Astronaut’s Eye View of Shuttle Endeavour on the Launchpad
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 6:56 AM
A great picture of shuttle Endeavour sitting on launchpad 39A at Kennedy Space Center, taken by Mike Fincke as he and his crewmates arrived in Florida yesterday to prepare for Endeavour’s final launch, scheduled for Friday. © nancy for Universe Today, 2011. | Permalink | One comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: kennedy space [...]
What Triggers a Type Ia Supernova? Chandra Finds New Evidence
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 9:15 PM
What makes a star go boom? A new look at Tycho’s supernova remnant by the Chandra X-ray telescope has supplied astronomers with previously unseen evidence for what could trigger specific type of supernova, a Type Ia supernova explosion. Astronomers have spotted what appears to be material that was blasted off a companion star to a [...]
Several Student-Led Experiments to Fly on Endeavour
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 6:11 PM
CAPE CANAVERAL – STS-134, the final flight of the space shuttle Endeavour – is set to carry several experiments of students from the middle school, high school and collegiate levels. Two of these payloads are sponsored by the NASA Florida Space Grant Consortium. (...)Read the rest of Several Student-Led
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Shuttle Endeavour Will Be Visible Over UK Just After Final Launch
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 5:35 PM
On April 29th, 2011, the space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to blast off for the last time, delivering the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and an ExPRESS Logistics Carrier to the International Space Station. If you live in the UK you can watch the launch live on NASA TV and a number of other sites on the [...]
Commander Mark Kelly and STS-134 Crew Arrive at Kennedy for Endeavour’s Final Flight
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 4:29 PM
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER – The six man crew for Shuttle Endeavour’s final flight to space arrived today (April 26) at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew flew in to the Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) on a quartet of T-38 jets from their training base in Houston. Shuttle Commander Mark Kelly introduced his crew [...]
Think Traffic Interview About Universe Today
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 9:58 AM
This isn’t exactly space news, but here’s a behind-the-scenes video interview with me and Think Traffic’s Corbett Barr. It’s about how I run Universe Today, what I’ve done over the last few years to increase the traffic and number of subscribers, and the software company I co-founded to let other webmasters to the same thing. [...]
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