John Kerry proves once again why he is unqualified to be President when he calls Al Sadr a legitiment voice.

Catherine Seipp writes in defense of cowboys against sophisticates who sneer at them.

Prospects for full funding of the President's space initiative seem to be looking up in the Congress.

A few years back, Harrison Ford played a heroic President of the United States in the film Air Force One who vowed to overthrow tyrants and fight terrorism wherever in the world they were and whether or not the allies (France and Germany) liked it. I wonder if he now realizes he was playing the current President Bush (who does seem spry enough to beat the crap out of Gary Oldman and kick him off the plane)? I wonder how he feels about that?

Looks like left leaning Air America is so far pretty much a bust. And it seems to have annoyed black folks in New York.

The news has been out for quite a while that Nicole Kidman was going to play Samantha in the big screen remake of the 1960s sitcom Bewitched. Only, according to this she isn't. Instead she is going to play a completely different person who plays Samantha in a fictional remake of Bewitched.

I think I see the hand of Terhan in Al Sadr's little adventure. Deadly as this rising has been, I suspect that it will end quickly and in the only one way it can.

It's always sad to see a once great statesman turn to dotage and insanity when he retains public office for too long. He starts to say things that are--well--embaressing.

Fortunately, Teddy Kennedy is not an example of this phenomenom. He was never great and was always an embaressment. His raving about Iraq being"Bush's Vietnam" is just the latest example.

Taylor Dinerman has an interesting response to French concerns about American "unilaterialism" in space. The French are not only mistaking an policy in still in process of borning as a "grand design", but they ultimately don't know the half of where it will eventually lead.

In NASA’s February 2004 “Vision for Space Exploration” paper, the US government includes as one of the most important questions that the program needs to answer, “…how could we live on other worlds?” This phrase could end up being the Balfour Declaration for space colonization. An American strategic goal of populating the solar system with US citizens is far more ambitious than anything Alain Dupas has detected, yet it is inherent in the long-term implications of Bush’s space vision. It is also consistent with the US tradition of big ideas and its quest for new forms of national greatness.

A prospect, I imagine, that will drive Paris crazy.

Rome was not built in a day, especially if one is a set designer for the upcoming HBO series about a pair of Centurions in the Rome of Julius Caesar.

Welfare Reform was one of the most successful pieces of social legislation in a hundred years, freeing millions of people from poverty and welfare dependency. Naturally, the Democrats, led by Teddy Kennedy, want to kill it dead.

Paul Spudis once again makes the case for the Moon.

Looks like the terrorists are not satisfied with Spain's craven appeasement.

We've always known that Hollywood (with some exceptions) hates President Bush. But this insertion of Bush bashing into episodic TV scripts is a bit much. Drama is certainly not well served to have--say--a couple of TV detectives take some time off from solving the latest sex killing to discuss how and why Bush sucks. It violates the maxim that if one wants to send a message, use Western Union. It also unneccesarily offends a good part of the audience

Next thing you know, charecters on Star Trek will talk about how silly that space exploration initiative back in the early 21st Century was.

Cold Fusion is rearing its much maligned head fifteen years after it was born and then promptly laughed out of existence (or so we thought) by the scientific establishment. Understandably, some remain skeptical.

Dr. Donald Campell explained the economics of lunar ice to members of Congress.

One of the interesting aspects about the politics surrounding the President's space initiative is that some Senators think that it is too cheap and too slow. This actually sounds promising.

As someone who has been advocating this kind of space competition for over ten years, I cannot be more pleased that it's coming to fruition.

Paramount is now adapting Tom Clancy's two John Clark novels, Without Remorse and Rainbow Six. My question: If Rainbow Six gets greenlit, will they keep the environmentalist wacko back guys or will they morph into Central European neonazis?

The prospect of a space race between the United States, Europe, China, and perhaps other countries may seem daunting to some. But as beguiling as the idea of cooperative ventures is, one should approach it with a great deal of skepticism.