San Antonio Court Presents Interim Texas Redistricting Map

German Scientists Developing Robotic Mission to Saturn Moon Enceladus

Doomsday Bill Fails in Wyoming Due to Skepticism About Doomsday

Sen. Olympia Snowe to Retire, Throwing Maine Senate Race into Chaos

Super Tuesday Will Not Prove Decisive for Republican Candidates

Energy Secretary Chu Admits Administration OK with High Gas Prices

Romney's Wins Not Decisive; Brokered Convention More Likely

Robotic Examination of New 'Jesus Tomb' Creates Archeological Controversy

Bill Maher Being Provocative by Calling Jesus a 'Palestinian'

Bill Maher, always looking for an opportunity to be outrageous, announced that Jesus was a "Palestinian" while being interviewed on Piers Morgan's CNN show. Newsbusters' Noel Sheppard takes him to task over the statement.

Newt Gingrich: Romney would have fired Christopher Columbus.

Ouch

Santorum Should Be Ashamed for Denigrating Higher Education

Pakistan Demolishes Bin Laden Hideout, Removing Source of Embarrassment

Neil DeGrasse Tyson's Proposal to Double NASA's Budget

Sgt. Brandon Morgan's Marine Homecoming One of the First of Many

Race to Replace Ron Paul in the Texas 14th District Takes Shape

Latest Polls Point to Bad News for Barack Obama

TransCanada to Build Portion of Keystone XL from Oklahoma to Texas

'Act of Valor' is a Salute to Navy SEALS, Starring Navy SEALs

"Act of Valor" is frankly the sort of film that we should have expected more of in the more than ten years on in the War on Terror. But in many ways it is an action/war film that has never been seen before, because the actors are real SEAL operators.

Mitt Romney Rules Out Space Race with China

Clinton: Arming Syrian Rebels Support Terrorists

How Walter Cronkite Helped Lose the Vietnam War 44 Years Ago

Michigan Primary Loss Would Not Be the End of Mitt Romney

Wasilla High School Sculpture Causes Consternation

How Jessie Sansone's Gun Nightmare Proves Texas is Freer Than Canada

My Sunday chat with the esteemed David Livingston on the Space Show.

Foreign Countries, Private Groups Plan Robotic Lunar Missions

Texas, Obama Administration in Clash Over Funding of Abortion Providers

Obama's Algae Biofuel Proposal Could Be His 'Lunar Base' Moment

PETA Conducting an Animal Holocaust

It's election season again, so it's time to go to the townhall and yell at our elected representatives. This time it's about the birth control mandate.

One of theirs, one of ours, or -- most likely -- CGI. You make the call.

Penn Judge: Muslims Allowed to Attack People for Insulting Mohammad

Addendum: It appears that despite a garbled YouTube video and transcript, Judge Martin is not a Muslim convert after all. The point about using a Sharia defense to excuse an attack on a man exercising his First Amendment rights still stands, of course.

Playboy Club in Space Latest Concept for Space Tourism

Gay Texas Judge Refuses to Perform Marriage Ceremonies for Straight Couples

Apology for Murder of American by Afghan Soldier Demanded

Ron Paul on Birth Control Issues

Obama Has a Solution to High Gas Prices -- Algae

Arizona Debate: Santorum Stumbles, Gingrich Shines, Romney Wins

Space Access Could Likely Be Fall Campaign Issue

Romney, Gingrich Present Serious Proposals on Tax, Energy

The book trailer for Homer Hickam's novel about a most unzany lunar mining colony:

Pat Buchanan Oddly Thinks Israel is a Bigger Threat Than Iran

Pat Buchanan, the columnist, author, and until recently MSNBC's token right-winger, garnered a lot of sympathy when he was fired from his job at the left-leaning news network apparently because of a book he wrote

Japanese Company Proposes Space Elevator by 2050

Bush and Quayle, the Next Generation, to Hold Texas Fundraiser

'Game Change' -- Anatomy of a Smear of Sarah Palin

Newt Gingrich, ever the master of the outside the box, takes about a half an hour to explain energy policy.



If only he had done the same approach for the moon base. It might not be too late.

Obama Dividend Tax Increase Aims at the Rich but Will Hit the Elderly

Santorum Not the First to Invoke Satan in Political Discourse

Simulated Space Mission to Teach People How to Cook on Mars

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Affirmative Action Case

"Castle" Presents a Secret Conspiracy with Real World Villains

"Castle" just concluded a wonderful two-episode story about an international plot to bring down the United States. A number of things distinguished the plot from the usual stories that one sees on episodic network television.

Oliver Stone's Son is Shocked to Find Islamophobia in Hollywood

Spiking Gas Prices Could Cost Obama Re-Election

How Prince Henry the Navigator Would Run the Space Program

Charles Miller, a recently resigned adviser to NASA on commercial space flight, has sounded an alarm on the need to create low-cost access to space in an article in The Space Review. His arguments are sound, but his proposal is doomed to fail.

John Glenn Started the First Age of American Orbital Space Flight

Why We Should Only Celebrate the Great Presidents

Beware of the Bacon Police

Santorum Opens Big Lead in Texas Primary Poll

John Glenn's Friendship 7, Part of the Lost, Heroic Age of Space Flight.

Bill Maher's Strange Rants About Mrs. Santorum and the Death of Barack Obama

How Obama Brought the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street Together

Ron Paul Denounces Woodrow Wilson, Fascism at Campaign Rally

John Glenn, Retired Space Workers Celebrate 50th Anniversary of Friendship 7

Russia Proposes Using Space Station as Mars Voyage Simulator

Why Rick Santorum is Right About Income Inequality

Study: Fracking Does Not Cause Groundwater Pollution

New Narrative for Sarah Palin -- The Wasilla Machiavelli

Also: Sarah Palin for the World Bank?

Foster Friess' Cheap Birth Control Pill Makes the Media to Have the Vapors

Xombie Vertical Takeoff and Landing Rocket Tests New Navigation System

Ron Paul Decries 'War on Drugs' at Washington State Campaign Stop

As Europe Inches Toward the Free Market, Obama Drags America Toward Socialism

Let's Use Obama's High-Speed Rail Money to Return to the Moon

If Catholic-Provided Free Birth Control is Required, is Free Sex Far Behind?

Texas Exploring Houston-to-Austin High-Speed Rail Line

How About a Jeb Bush/Sarah Palin Ticket?

Gingrich Should Get Out of the Race When the Voters Decide

Missions to a Comet, Mars, and an Ocean of Titan Compete for NASA Funding

Is Romney Too Negative -- or Not Positive Enough?

Whether Mitt Romney is too negative depends on whom one asks. His opponents suggest that he is way too negative. Mitt Romney would be pleased to disagree, noting how useful negative advertising has been for him so far.

NASA Flagship Planetary Missions on Hold Indefinitely

Political Activities Call Media Matters' Tax Exemption into Question

The Gunny as one has never seen him before:

Julianne Moore Does Not Understand Sarah Palin

Government Food Gestapo Pronounced a Preschooler's Lunch 'Unhealthy'

Texas Congressmen Press NASA for Documents on Shuttle Display Venues

Could 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' Be the Start of a Genre?

One can only imagine what the pitch session for the movie version of "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" was like. "It's sort of like 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' only Buffy is the 16th president of the United States."

Rick Santelli, whose rant heard 'round the world inspired the Tea Party, demonstrates the difference between it and the occupiers.

Bob Zubrin drops the hammer on Obama for the attempt to cancel Mars exploration.

Thus, in order to accept the constraints on human aspirations demanded by Holdren, Ehrlich, and like-minded thinkers (whether rationalized by alleged limits to available resources in the 1970s, or by the putative threat of global warming due to excessive use of natural resources today), people must be convinced that the future is closed. The issue is not that resources from space might disrupt the would-be regulator’s rationing schemes. Rather it is that the idea of an open future with unlimited resources and possibilities undermines the walls of the mental prison that the would-be wardens of mankind seek to construct.

Indeed. This disproves the idea that Obama's space policy is the one bright spot of an otherwise dysfunctional administration.

Justice Breyer Robbery Raises Question, Provides Teachable Moment

Wooly Mammoth Hoax Video Shows Will to Believe

Navy Railgun Survives Budget Ax, Could Help Win Wars of the Future

Obama Budget Filed with New Spending and Accounting Gimmicks

Occupy Houston Protesters Evicted from Tranquility Park

Gingrich Defies Calls to Withdraw, Accentuates the Positive

In NASA Budget, Space Exploration and Commercial Crew Compete for Funding

NASA Mulls Exploration Space Station Behind Lunar Far Side

Ron Paul Places Second in Maine; Supporters Cry Foul

NASA to Receive Small Decrease in Obama's Proposed FY 2013 Budget

Moon Base Supporters Struggle to Justify the Project

The Railspitter goes all Buffy on Sesech blood suckers:

Wang Lijun's Disappearance Incites Rumors of Corruption

Romney Win in CPAC Straw Poll Means Little

Obama's 'Act of Supremacy' Against the Catholic Church Just the Beginning

Sarah Palin is the Most Powerful Female Politician in the World

The conservative message in the classic Trek episode "Patterns of Force." Come to think of it, the episode was an early examination of Jonah Goldberg's concept of liberal fascism.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry Raises Money for Newt Gingrich

Obama Proposed Planetary Exploration Cuts Has Scientists, Congress Reeling

Who a Brokered GOP Convention Might Choose

Can a Female Ex-Fighter Pilot Take the Giffords District for the GOP?

Obama's Holy War Against the Church Will Not End Well

Back during the 2008 campaign, then candidate Barack Obama groused about certain people who bitterly clung to "their God and their guns" to a group of well heeled and presumably secular liberal donors in San Francisco.

Rick Santorum Comes to Texas, Looking for Votes and Campaign Cash

NASA Biocapsule Could Change the Practice of Medicine

Can Mitt Romney Become the Great Right Hope for President?

Is War with Syria Now Inevitable?

One thing I really admire about Gingrich is that he is not backing down on the moon base. It matters less how he wants to do it as that he wants to do it:



Also How Newt Gingrich Can Save the Moon Base

Addendum: Rand Simberg, having something like the same idea I had, decides to play speech writer for Newt Gingrich. Unfortunately Rand forgets that when one writes a speech for someone else, one needs to consult with that person about what he wants to say and not write the speech one would like to give oneself. My suspicion is that even if he does a follow up speech, Gingrich is not going to get into the weeds of technical details that Rand does. He would present a few easy to understand reasons for a Moon base, establish a few general principles about how it could be brought into reality, but leave the details to people who know how to do that sort of thing. The last thing Gingrich needs to do is to take sides on the whole heavy lift vs. fuel depot fight. If he were to do so, Romney's aerospace brain trust would bury him.

Bumped

Rick Perry Makes First Public Appearance Since Ending Presidential Campaign

'Iron Sky': Moon Nazis vs. President Sarah Palin in 2018

"Iron Sky," the movie about Nazis on the Moon, has been in development for the past five or six years. Now it appears that it will hit movie screens on April 4. It also appears that they have picked the wrong president of the United States to mess with.

PETA Orca Slavery Lawsuit Has Disturbing Implications

Former NASA Astronaut Janice Voss Dies

Rick Santorum's Sweep Unveils Weaknesses of Opponents

Proposition 8 Decision Raises Constitutional Conundrum

Texas Abortion Sonogram Law Now in Effect After Court Ruling

Charles Miller makes the case for a return to the Moon.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Trashes Constitution; Should She Be Impeached?

NASA Looks to Fission Power for the Future of Space Exploration

Eric Anderson, head of Space Adventures, chairman of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, and Romney commercial space adviser, discusses the importance of space exploration in the current political environment:

Barack Obama's Step-Grandmother Slightly Injured in Auto Accident

Report: Russian Scientists Drill Through Antarctic Ice Sheet to Lake Vostok

Former JFK Intern, Mimi Alford, Publishes Book About Affair with Kennedy

Santorum, Romney Reject Reagan's Space Legacy

Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum Fight Over the Moon Base

and

Three American Presidents Have Aimed for the Moon

Commercial Composting a Growth Industry in Austin

Clint Eastwood Advertises for a Corporate Welfare Queen

Sarah Palin Writes About Her Son in Newsweek -- and Heads Explode

Wish you were still with us, Mr. President...

Let me see if I understand this. There is to be a movie based on the premise that Osama Bin Ladin comes back from the dead to lead the Zombie Apocalypse?



Wow.

National Research Council Highlights Need for NASA Technology Development

Newt Gingrich Looks to Texas to Save His Campaign

Romney Wins in Nevada and Pretends He Has Won the Nomination

How Newt Gingrich Turned a Lunar Colony into a National Joke

Iranian Missile, Nuclear Program a Direct Threat to the U.S.

Bad News for Obama in Latest Rasmussen Polls of Uncommitted Voters

Over 6,300 Respond to NASA's Request for Astronaut Applicants

Romney Debate Coach Fired for Being Too Good at His Job

Fort Worth Family's Life Changes Thanks to Online Chat with President Obama

A Lunar Exploration Reading List for Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney Continues to Attack Newt Gingrich's Space Proposals

Romney, Santorum Attack Gingrich 'Half Trillion Dollar' Lunar Base

Roseanne Barr to Run for President -- or is it Goddess?

Trump Endorsement of Romney More About Trump Than About Romney

Dana Rohrabacher, a supporter of commercial space, throws Newt Gingrich under the bus over the lunar base issue. Despite the fact that Rohrabacher has had some nice things to say about Obama's Solyndra approach to commercial space, he has endorsed Romney for president.

Space Adventures Plans Private Lunar Voyage for February 2017

Obama Should Keep His Peace Prize for Making Enemies of Peace Rest in Peace

Ron Paul Sets His Sights on Nevada

Obama Recruits Jesus Christ in His Fight to Soak the Rich

'Game Change' Meant to Stop Sarah Palin Campaign that Didn't Happen

Conservatives4Palin has a story about the upcoming HBO movie "Game Change" based on the John Heilemann and Mark Halperin book which was an account of the 2008 election that brought Barack Obama to the presidency.

Texas Emerging Development Fund Comes Under Scrutiny

Susan G. Komen for the Cure Cuts Planned Parenthood Funding

Recap: 'Justified,' Season 3, Episode 3, 'Harlan Roulette'

"Justified," Season 3, Episode 3, "Harlan Roulette" begins with Ava having a parley with Limehouse to set up another meeting with Boyd. Boyd is interested in splitting Maggs Bennett's legacy, once Dicky joins her in the afterlife.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio Looks at His Political Future

Return to the Moon -- Heavy Lift vs. Fuel Depots

Does Obama Really Find Unemployed Engineer's Plight 'Interesting?'

Romney and Gingrich Look Ahead to Their Future Presidencies

How NASA fixed a $100 million problem for five bucks. Too bad the project was cancelled later for political reasons.