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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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The woman who had been in charge of the IRS office when targeted conservatives beginning in 2010 now heads the IRS office that will enforce Obamacare.

O goody: The woman who had been in charge of the IRS office when it targeted conservatives beginning in 2010 now heads the IRS office that will enforce Obamacare.

Her name is Sarah Hall Ingram. Remember it, you will hear that name again. Meanwhile, the man who announced his resignation from the IRS today, Joseph Grant, had been her deputy until 2012. He only took over her office after that date, which means most of the scandal occurred during her tenure.

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

9 comments

  • Oh great, medical care based upon weather or not you are a democra or a republican, or upon ideology.

  • D. K. Williams

    I get all tingly just thinking about this.

  • jwing

    And they are protected by union rules. In effect they can’t be fired by the IRS itself but by a union appointed greivance panel that makes firing an IRS employee literally like pulling teeth. The process can be drawn out over several years all the while receiving full pay. Welcome to the tyranny of the bureaucracy.

    This is how your medical care will be run, how your education will be run, how your carreer will be run. This is how your life will be run by nameless, faceless bureaucrats.

    Your life will be controlled by political bureaucrats.

    Your life will be controlled by others.

    Your life will be controlled.

    Welcome to the fundamental transformation of this country.

    Welcome to statism.

    Welcome to the state being the individual.

    Welcome to the state being you and you being the state.

    Welcome to the Borg.

  • jwing

    Willkommen, Arbeit macht frei.

  • Publius 2

    Except that this can all be shut down, and quickly. It requires the GOP leadership in the House, each of them, to grow a pair and cut the funding out from under the IRS. Then let them continue to work if they want, but they will not be paid. Same with the new crop designated to run Obamacare. No money, no programs, and there is nothing (legal, that is) the White House can do about it. No more time for half-hearted measures and idle threats. The future of the country is at stake.

  • jwing

    I left the Rebublican Party this year having first voted for Ronald Reagan for his second term after being sicked by the moderate RINO establishment Republicans i.e Dole, McCain and anymore Bushes.

    I am a libertarian-conservative and former US Air Force Reservist who loves this country more than any party, any generational identity or any religious identity.

    FACT: We are at war with domestic leftists the likes of Bill Ayers and his 1960’s and 70’s ilk.

    Either our elected statesmen and stateswomen stand up and risk all, regardless of their political fortunes, and decent hard-working Americans wake up, or this country will be seriously and irreparablly harmed.

  • Pzatchok

    We will only get rid of federal unions when someone like Ronald Reagan becomes president and just plain fires them all for not doing their duty.
    And sticks to it.

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