John Kerry as Major Frank Burns? Works for me.

NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe let the enemies of space exploration have it. He also seemed to hint that the President will weight in again, in due course.

Houston attorney John O'Neill has some unhappy memories about John Kerry. In 1971, O'Neill was a leader of Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace and debated Kerry on the Dick Cavet Show (a segment recently reaired on C-Span). The smear Kerry put out about American soldiers commiting war crimes still makes O'Neill angry.

George Will gives Dick Clarke the back of his hand, as only he can.

1634: The Galileo Affair, the latest in the Eric Flint series in which a West Virginia coal mining town finds itself in Germany of the Thirty Years War, is out and, I am told, a bit lighter fare than the other books. The plot involves a plot to rescue the father of modern astronomy from the clutches of the Holy Inquisition.

Space power, not only military, but political and economic, is the key to super power status in this century. The Defense Department is working diligently on the military aspect. Naturally there are some confused people who are against seeking space power in a knee jerk fashion.

Michael Mealing has some thoughts about last week's public meeting of the Aldridge Commission.

Dennis Powell discusses what might happen if an asteroid even as small as five hundred feet in diameter lands on Earth.

John Fund sums up the troubling aspects of John Kerry's radical past, including the smearing of American soldiers as murderers and being privy to conspiracies to murder pro Vietnam War Senators.

Was Karen Hughes trying to undermine the President's space initiative by excluding it from the State of the Unions?

Ms. Hughes also advocated dropping from the State of the Union address any mention of the president's ambitious proposal to send humans to Mars, which was attacked by members of his own party as extravagant folly. "At some level the policy gesture didn't pass the communications straight-face test," the Bush adviser said.

It would seem to me that, if true, to demonstrate a uncharectoristic disloyalty to the President and his agenda. Since Ms. Hughes is joining the Bush/Cheney 2004 Campaign, I should like to hear a clarification and an explanation from her own lips.

Via Jeff Foust.

I guess that the Pope is not one of the world leaders who is cheering John Kerry on. And a good thing too, I say.

The Chinese have moved up the launch of its lunar orbiter by a year.

Karen Sisco was one of the most intelligent, witty cop shows to air in a long time. naturally the network put it in a bad time slot and then cancelled it. The last three episodes will air on the USA Network on the next three Wendsdays.

Some leaders of labor unions are supporting President Bush's space initiative as a job creator. They are right to do so, but I wonder how many of these same labor leaders are also supporting John Kerry, who is widely supposed would cancel the initiative, for President.

Dr. Mike Duke is building a robot miner that would rove around the lunar surface, eating lunar dirt, and creating rocket fuel.

Meanwhile, John Kerry's radical past continues to stalk his campaign like an unquiet ghost.

The discovery of an ancient sea bed on the surface of Mars may rank alongside Galileo's discovery of the largest four Moons of Jupiter. Some suggest that this cries out for human exploration.

Private space enterprises would like to be full partners in space exploration.

Today, Dick Clarke did not follow the advice of Mansoor Ijaz (see below) and instead choose to engage in a strange, Washington version of American Grandstand. Rich Lowry suggests that when this is all over, Clarke should write a sequal to his scurrilous book, entitled, "Present at the Self-Immolation."

Mansoor Ijaz suggests that the disgruntled Richard Clarke stop lying and start telling the truth.