This Is What Two Million People Wandering Around D.C. Looks Like

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Saturday September 12, 2009 · 4:35 PM PDT

2009/09/12 · 16:35

Glimpsing at the 9/12 DC trending topic on Twitter, many of the teabaggers are claiming that upwards of two million people are marching on DC right now.

Um, I doubt it.

Here's what two million people walking around D.C. looks like.

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Sunday August 16, 2009 · 1:35 PM PDT

2009/08/16 · 13:35

I won't claim to know the President's endgame. I won't claim to know whether we are on the verge of a great victory or a great defeat, whether this is part of Obama's master plan or a genuine screw up on his part, since truthfully, I don't know. I hope for the former but I fear the latter. So I won't claim any judgment on that front.

Instead, I'd like to engage in a hypothetical, an exercise in hindsight, if you will. Yes, hindsight is always 20/20, but we should take advantage of such perfect vision more often, even if it points backward. So my hypothetical is this:

What if, at the beginning of this whole ordeal, the whole reform effort had been framed as simply expanding Medicare?

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Wednesday July 22, 2009 · 11:06 AM PDT

2009/07/22 · 11:06

Roy Blunt was bloviating from a podium in Congress yesterday and in doing so confused the battle for the war:

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Saturday January 10, 2009 · 11:49 AM PST

2009/01/10 · 11:49

An article by Dennis Wingo at SpaceRef talks about needing a compelling reason for space exploration and development, in response to the recently released MIT report.

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Wednesday December 24, 2008 · 9:09 AM PST

2008/12/24 · 09:09

There is an argument against space exploration that goes something like, "We shouldn't spend time and money on space exploration when there are so many problems on Earth still to be solved." It's a popular argument, seemingly logical on the surface (if only on the thinnest film of a surface). Think of all the millions of dollars wasted! Think of the hundreds of thousands of people flitting away days, years, lives! And all while cancer remains an uncured scourge! Except that those millions of dollars stay firmly planted on Earth. And those hundred thousand people are mainly aerospace engineers and the like, and entered that field over the medical sciences for a reason.

But even those aside, there remains an irrefutable refutation of the "Time on space exploration is wasted time" below.

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Thursday November 27, 2008 · 5:48 AM PST

2008/11/27 · 05:48

So my friends and I made a movie awhile back - a parody of Apollo 13 whose premise was what Thanksgiving at Gene Kranz's house might be like. It was actually posted on the front page on Redstate a long time ago (on Memorial Day, of all days), so I thought it only fitting it get a showing here.

We actually managed to get it into the hands of Mr. Kranz and the original astronauts, who all loved it. Mr. Kranz has said watching it is a new Thanksgiving tradition at his home, which is a pretty amazing thrill for us.

So, I hope everyone enjoys and has a happy Thanksgiving.

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Thursday November 06, 2008 · 7:47 AM PST

2008/11/06 · 07:47

Remember when we were worried when the polls were tightening?

Remember when we were worried when Obama was taking a precious last few days of the campaign off to visit his grandmother?

Remember when we were worried when they wouldn't shut up about Bill Ayers?

Remember when we were worried when McCain started throwing the real heavy mud around?

Remember when we were worried when he picked Sarah Palin?

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Tuesday October 14, 2008 · 9:34 AM PDT

2008/10/14 · 09:34

We've all done it. We've all watched the talking heads go at it. The Very Serious People discussing the Very Serious Issues and screamed at the television or computer in frustration, maybe even thrown something. Who are these idiots pushing these talking points? Or missing the crux of the whole thing, ignoring the real issue and chattering on about absolutely nothing to fill their requisite twenty-four hours?

I don't know about you, but one thought inevitably follows the ones I have just described, at least for me and my colleague, BBQ Chicken Madness. And that is, "We could do so much better."

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Saturday September 27, 2008 · 6:55 PM PDT

2008/09/27 · 18:55

UPDATE: In retrospect, I spent too much time describing the anatomy of the smear and not enough dissecting it. If anybody thinks my writing wasn't clear enough or suspect my intentions as a result, my apologies. But thanks to some wonderful commenters, I can add the other side of the story (which I just didn't think I needed to do for this audience), which can be found below the original text.

I have been recently going back and forth with a very conservative friend of mine, who has repeatedly told me to look up who paid for Obama's Harvard education. She has refused to provide any evidence, cite any sources, or even elaborate in any way beyond, "Do you know who paid for Obama's Harvard education?" and "Did you ever look up who paid for Obama's Harvard education?"

So even though, as we all know, it's incumbent upon the person making the claim to provide the evidence, I looked it up anyway. And I discovered the next smear that's making the rounds and if you haven't heard it yet, you're likely to soon. Here's the story.

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Wednesday March 12, 2008 · 4:49 PM PDT

2008/03/12 · 16:49

From my childhood, I have heard all about the horribleness of the Clintons; their lust for power, their egos, their desire to win at all costs and no matter what the expense, their lack of principles and standards.

My mother is a Republican and this side of the crazies (though by how much, I wonder sometimes) and since childhood, since Bill Clinton's presidency, I have heard many times how awful and evil and terrible they both are. As a child, I accepted it as fact, as one tends to automatically do when their parents espouse something.

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Monday March 10, 2008 · 1:14 AM PDT

2008/03/10 · 01:14

Bill Foster's win on Saturday got me thinking again about the idea of scientists playing a larger role in actually creating and deciding policy. Anybody familiar with the work of Kim Stanley Robinson should be familiar with a recurring theme in his work - the idea that scientists, or at least those with a scientific or engineering background, logically should be the ones calling the shots.

It's an idea that I think has a lot of merit and one which deserves a lot more exploration. Science is inextricably woven into the very fabric of our lives in every conceivable way. Our modern world is almost entirely a creation of a multitude of scientists and engineers. Why shouldn't the architects of that world have a greater say in deciding its direction?

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Wednesday February 20, 2008 · 12:08 PM PST

2008/02/20 · 12:08

In McCain's victory speech last night, there was a line that speaks precisely to the difference between Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and which clearly betrays the lack of understanding that Republicans and conservatives have for this country which they claim to love so dearly.

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