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Readers! A November fund-raising drive!

 

It is unfortunately time for another November fund-raising campaign to support my work here at Behind the Black. I really dislike doing these, but 2025 is so far turning out to be a very poor year for donations and subscriptions, the worst since 2020. I very much need your support for this webpage to survive.

 

And I think I provide real value. Fifteen years ago I said SLS was garbage and should be cancelled. Almost a decade ago I said Orion was a lie and a bad idea. As early as 1998, long before almost anyone else, I predicted in my first book, Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8, that private enterprise and freedom would conquer the solar system, not government. Very early in the COVID panic and continuing throughout I noted that every policy put forth by the government (masks, social distancing, lockdowns, jab mandates) was wrong, misguided, and did more harm than good. In planetary science, while everyone else in the media still thinks Mars has no water, I have been reporting the real results from the orbiters now for more than five years, that Mars is in fact a planet largely covered with ice.

 

I could continue with numerous other examples. If you want to know what others will discover a decade hence, read what I write here at Behind the Black. And if you read my most recent book, Conscious Choice, you will find out what is going to happen in space in the next century.

 

 

This last claim might sound like hubris on my part, but I base it on my overall track record.

 

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College students gladly sign a big thank you card to the IRS for specifically targeting conservatives for harassment.

Future fascists: College students gladly sign a big thank you card to the IRS for specifically targeting conservatives for harassment. With video.

I repeat: The problem here isn’t that the IRS was researching and challenging organizations that wanted tax exempt status. The problem is that the IRS chose to only challenge (and harass) conservative organizations. The partisan and political nature of the agency’s actions is unacceptable in a civilized society. This video suggests that we no longer live in one.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
 

"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

10 comments

  • The problem here is the mere existence of the IRS.

  • JGL

    The problem is that the dopey students are unconscious to the fact that their Constitution is being used as a political weapon by one party against private citizens that have guaranteed rights under the Bill Of Rights, and are happy about it.

    Forgive them lord for they know not what they do.

    That’s the problem.

  • Edward

    I have to admit, the civics lessons for our current youth are either inadequate or just didn’t stick.

  • These centers of education are in reality indoctrination centers, there is no critical thinking being taught.

  • wodun

    I’m shocked!

  • JGL

    I think the core of this issue is the fact that these “children” have grown up in the relative luxury of their lives, provided by others, many levels removed from the realities of the harsh world. They believe that this American life that they are living is how things are and that they got that way by some kind of osmosis and they do not understand that their good lives rest upon a particular document of governance. This false perspective opens them to blindly accept mindless and emotional changes to the document and in addition the acceptance of religions that are at direct opposition to their freedoms.

    We all know how dopey we all were when we were young, but I know grown adults who blindly and however briefly argue the position. This weakness is taken advantage of by the likes of socialist and Marxist trained operatives, like the Democrat / liberal politician who make themselves the provider of healthcare, food stamps, section eight housing and the promoters of “social justice” (reparations) etc. which runs into the acceptance of religions that pose existential threats to the existence of everything that America represents.

    Please do not interpret this statement as an attempt at abolishing social support systems, that is not at all what I propose.

  • lino

    These “children” don’t even know what a “Marxist” is. They are spoiled brats, not part of an organized political entity. I am sure that a fun time was had by all.

    If we don’t live in a civilized society, I am going to throw away all of my ties. Definitely.

    I knew that our link to civilization was diminishing when men ceased to reliably and consistently wear hats.

    I don’t think that men at the IRS even wear hats any more. I am certain of it.

    Look at movies from before 1960. All men wore hats all the time. They only took them off indoors—and even then they had to be reminded. You had to play the national anthem to get those damned hats off.

    Perhaps a political movement to restore the wearing of hats is the first step towards the restoration of civilzation.

    Jews may have the right idea.

  • JGL

    They are unbeknownst to them by default Marxists and the enemy of their own freedom because they are disconnected from the reality of the real world. This is a by product of American success.

    ( I never wear a hat. And if you have to make a choice, as you may have to in the future, choose the Jews)

  • As you know, I wear a hat whenever I go out.

    I rest my case.

  • Pzatchok

    Hit up a NASCAR race to watch 75,000 men take off their hats during the anthem at once.

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