Space News Roundup – December 15, 2018
Virgin Galactic reaches space; its two pilots earn their astronaut wings (SEE VIDEO); PLUS, Elon Musk beats the world record for rocket launches in 2018; NASA seeks private partners to develop reusable Moon landers; Voyager 2 reaches interstellar space; Juno completes global coverage of Jupiter with its 16th flyby; and more.
Open Letter: America’s National Sovereignty Threatened: Congress must fund a Wall that secures our Southern Border
December 4, 2018 Washington, DC As the southern border continues to be overwhelmed by migrants seeking illegal entry into the United States, we urge Congress to finally address this issue in their end of year funding measure. In their legislation,...
Space News Roundup – December 1, 2018
InSight mission lands safely on Mars after “seven minutes of terror”; PLUS, Branson says Virgin Galactic will take people to space “by Christmas”; BFR becomes “Starship”; NASA considers its own space tourism business; Space Force progress; Nine companies racing to the Moon; and more.
Space News Roundup – November 18, 2018
SpaceX delivers the first of 12,000 satellites for its global internet service; PLUS: Air Force explores space-based cargo operations; NASA’s no-sonic-boom supersonic X-Plane; Commercial spaceplanes at Cape Canaveral; a new space medicine hub at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville; Airships on Venus; and more.
Open Letter: Conservative Leaders Urge the Senate to Work Around-the-Clock to Confirm Conservative Nominees
November 16, 2018 Washington, DC Dear Leader McConnell and all Republican senators, Close to 200 nominations, both executive and judicial, are awaiting consideration in the Senate. If these nominations are not confirmed by the end of the year, they will be...
Open Letter: Conservative Urge The Senate to Confirm All Nominees Before Adjournment
November 14, 2018 Washington, DC As Congress prepares its agenda for the upcoming lame duck session, conservatives urge Senate leadership to confirm all remaining nominees before adjourning for the year. Senate Republican leadership has done...
Open Letter: Conservative Priorities for the Lame Duck
November 9, 2018 Washington, DC Congress returns to work after the elections for a lame duck session that already has numerous items on its agenda. Government funding expires on December 7, several statutes must be reauthorized or extended, and House and...
Brazil’s New Leader Strives to Break Old Patterns
Jair Bolsonaro hopes to pull the country out of economic crisis and political scandal with ambitious reform initiatives. It won’t be easy. by Allison Fedirka November 8, 2018 Summary Brazil punches well below its weight class in the geopolitical ring. It is the...
Revenge of the White Woman
by Alexandra DeSanctis November 8, 2018 In the wake of the elections, progressives are accusing white women of betraying the sisterhood. Amid the inevitable outrage fest touched off by the election results, hardcore partisans on the left solidified around one...
President Trump Beats the Green Wave and the Liberal Media
by Newt Gingrich November 8, 2018 The big story of the 2018 election is how totally the news media missed the issue of what waves were building. There was no red wave. If there had been, Republicans would have kept the House and had even more pickups in the Senate....
Did the Shameful Election Coverage of Fox News Cost the GOP the House?
by D.C. McAlister November 7, 2018 “Why can we call the Democrats taking the House this early?” Fox News anchor Bret Baier asked analyst Chris Stirewalt at 9:30 east coast time last night (11/06). “Because we’re just that good,” Stirewalt replied with a proud smirk....
The Morning After – Election 2018
by Rod D. Martin November 7, 2018 So this morning we're exactly where I left off last night (which is exactly as I expected). Arizona and Montana still too close to call, but Republicans leading. There's a very good chance we'll end up at 55 Senate seats, up from 51,...
#YearOfTheWoman, GOP Edition
by Rod D. Martin November 7, 2018 #YearOfTheWoman, GOP edition: 1st woman elected IA Gov. 1st woman elected SD Gov. 1st Korean-American woman elected to Congress. 1st female TN Senator. 1st female AZ Senator* (results pending). 1st...
The Rod Martin Report – Final Pre-Election Update
Final Pre-Election Update Dear Friend, Vote. Vote now. And take friends. As you well know from The Rod Martin Report, from RodMartin.org, and from my constant stream of updates on Facebook, I have been warning for well over a year now that...
Space News Roundup – November 4, 2018
SpaceX to launch first people to Mars “within 6 years”: plus, first Falcon 9 to be reused three times about to launch; Space Force receives key endorsements; U.S. voices alarm over Russian satellite’s “very abnormal behavior”; Goldman Sachs bullish on space development; and much more.
Latest Generic Ballot Numbers – Nov. 1, 2018
by Rod D. Martin November 1, 2018 LATEST GENERIC BALLOT NUMBERS (remembering that historically, the Republicans win the House at D+5 or better): as of this morning, Rasmussen has it D+3, YouGov D+5, Ipsos D+7, Morning Consult D+8, Harris D+9. Last week, Harris was...
The 2018 Democrats: Wolves in Wolves’ Clothing
by Victor Davis Hanson October 22, 2018 If the New Democratic Party was smart, it would do what the old Democratic Party did long ago: always sound centrist if not conservative in the last weeks of a campaign, get elected, then revert to form and pursue a left-wing...
Space News Roundup – October 22, 2018
How American Space Launch Left Europe in the Dust; PLUS, China to launch an “artificial moon” to light a city; Virgin Galactic flight “weeks away”; NSC takes up the Space Force; Satellite operators preparing for autonomous ocean freighters; and more.
The Caravan Attack on America
by Newt Gingrich October 20, 2018 The caravan from Central America that has grown from 3,000 to 4,000 people in the last few days is an attempted invasion and an attack on the United States. This assertion will almost certainly be denounced by the usual sources as...
The Kavanaugh Effect and the Election
by Newt Gingrich October 17, 2018 In the last few days I have been in Seattle, Dallas, and Des Moines. In airports, on airplanes, in hotels, and in restaurants, I have been approached again and again by people who are glad we stood up for Judge — now Justice —...
#BlueWave in Florida? Not So Much
by Rod D. Martin October 17, 2018 #BlueWave in Florida? Not so much. More than 2.6 million mail-in ballots were sent out by elections supervisors two weeks ago. As of early Tuesday morning nearly 446,000 of those ballots had been returned with almost 40,000 more...