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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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Life on the GLAAD blacklist.

McCarthyism of the left: Life on the GLAAD blacklist.

And yes, this gay activist group has a blacklist and they use it to squelch and destroy people who disagree with them.

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

7 comments

  • Cotour

    Very intelligent, very organized, very politically savvy, very well connected, very well funded, very plugged in to mass media and very, very liberal.

    Its too bad that a competent Conservative / Republican can not articulate a message of respect related to their individual chosen life styles, even if that Conservative / Republican strongly disagrees with that life style. Respect is the beginning of compromise and votes, and one mans morality may not totally be another mans morality and government can not legislate morality.

    By not being able to accomplish that goal and end run them (no pun intended), if it in deed is a goal, is to allow liberals to loose their gay dogs of political war on the general public and force through political correctness their full liberal agenda. Enough of allowing the liberals to define the subject and whip it out ( pun intended) when ever they want to change the subject at hand.

  • It is groups like GLAAD and the unions that make up the far left, is it any wonder why the democrat party has left the JFK dems, the author of this article was very good at conveying the hate that GLAAD has for conservative Americans, and about McCarthy, his tactics were brutish, but who was it that turned those tactics around on him, I fear that he was correct in his assertions of communism being rampant in Hollywood.

  • Cotour

    Q: How do you make Conservatism less of an existential threat to these people?

    Everyone at their core is Conservative, liberal thought is intellectualized luxury thought with the effect of appearing compassionate but actually causing dependency.

  • Cotour, it seems as if the liberal media and liberal education(all facets) are much to blame for the dishonesty in liberal thought, the people who aspire to run a civilization have this thought that if they do it right, that they can enable a cradle to grave lifestyle that keeps their subjects under control and elevates their status as intellectual and to be thought of as DIETY.

  • Cotour

    And when the people begin to understand (as I believe they are beginning to understand) that they are being lied to and being shackled with massive debt as a strategy of control, empty promises and a violated Constitution?

    At that point there must emerge someone who can properly articulate an alternative reality, someone who lies outside of the main stream, go along to get along rubber stamp politicians. This political sickness of dependency is now almost 3 generations deep. There are Gays, Liberals and disillusioned main stream Democrats that understand that their party is broken to the point of farce.

    A Conservative must immerge that can articulate sane and respectful ideas where these people feel included and not vilified. That person to me at this point is Ted Cruz, he’s the only politician who talks both about respect of the individual and the Constitution.

  • Cotour

    want to ad two names to that list: Mike Lee and Scott Walker.

  • Favorite sentence in the article: “A bunch of people on the left . . . called GLAAD out,”)

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