VAN HORN, Texas (AP) — Ed Dwight, America’s first Black astronaut candidate, finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company on Sunday. Dwight was an Air Force pilot when President John F. Kennedy championed him as a candidate for NASA’s early astronaut corps. But he wasn’t picked for the 1963 […]
America’s first Black astronaut candidate finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company on Sunday. Source link
Earlier today I wrote about police stepping in to clear another pro-Palestinian encampment, this time at UPenn. But that was one of just one of three camps cleared today. Tent encampments at the University of Pennsylvania, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Arizona, Tucson, were all dismantled in early morning raids […]
One night in 1983, I wandered through the Sam Goody record store in New Jersey’s Burlington Mall in my usual quest for new albums. It was a year or two before compact discs became popular, and decades before digital downloads. It was also 14 years before DVDs, and I spotted a copy of the […]
A ship that disappeared on Lake Superior in 1909 has been found. The Adella Shores, which went down on May 1, 1909, with 14 crew members aboard, has been found 650 feet below the surface and about 40 miles northwest of Whitefish Point, according to WOOD-TV this week. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society chose […]
Knock me over with a feather. The New York Times does a story about vaccine side effects. I wonder if Google News is going to censor this. They surely will do so to this article, but then again The New York Times is “safe” and Hot Air is filled with a bunch of lying hacks […]
ESG was supposed to be the future of smart investing, but the future looks increasingly politically incorrect, according to a new Axios report on the “exodus” of money from “sustainable investment funds.” To put it bluntly, ESG was meant to be a money bludgeon for beating corporations into toeing […]
The First Amendment of the United States Constitution is easily the most frequently cited section of the Bill of Rights. It’s also the most frequently misunderstood, misinterpreted, and abused. A classic example of the latter is the notion that if public school kids gather on the field and pray before a high school football […]
Time for a little “soul” searching. Here’s a particularly relevant set of questions for today’s presidential candidates regarding this year’s election and politics in general: “Would you sell your soul to the devil to win the presidential election this year, one which all competitors have routinely labeled ‘the most important of our lifetime, if not […]
To borrow from Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, few things are as lasting as a temporary government building. That was driven home this week when the General Services Administration announced it had finalized plans to dispose of the Liberty Loan Federal Building, which when it was completed in 1919 was billed as a “temporary structure” […]
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