Two NASA climate missions face one year schedule slip
Continue budget problems at NASA: Two climate missions each face a one year schedule slip.
Tag: budget
L.A. Community College District fires building program chief
Los Angeles community colleges have fired the building program chief who wasted millions on pie-in-the-sky envionmental projects.
New NPR video
A new NPR video from James O’Keefe: This time NPR executives are shown arranging an anonymous donation from the Muslim Brotherhood front group, in direct contradiction to their official claims after the first video was released that “The fraudulent organization represented in this video repeatedly pressed us to accept a $5 million check, with no strings attached, which we repeatedly refused to accept.”
Bill would set aside $60 million to develop in-vehicle alcohol detectors
There are so many ways this is wrong and illegal I can’t begin to count them: Senators Tom Udall (D-New Mexico) and Bob Corker (R-Tennessee) want to set aside $60 million to develop in-vehicle alcohol detectors that could be installed in all cars. You would have to use it before your car would start.
Putting aside the constitutional issues, isn’t there that federal debt to worry about?
Senators defend NPR funding
The squealing continues: Senators defend NPR funding. I like this quote in the comments:
What part of being broke do they not understand?
Wisconsin Republican receives detailed death threat for union vote
The new civility from the left: The Wisconsin Republicans who voted on limiting union collective bargaining have all received a detailed death threat.
We have all planned to assult you by arriving at your house and putting a nice little bullet in your head.
Read the whole thing. It is quite horrible.
Half of Capitol Controlled by Protesters, “No One Is Safe.”
The new civility in Wisconsin: “No one is safe.” In fact, better to read the rest of the quote:
No one is safe. Protesters have broken down doors, broken windows, Democrats are helping them into the building and they’re building momentum. They’re robo-calling like crazy, trying to pack as many people into the capitol so the Assembly can’t vote today. Right now there’s no way the Assembly can vote…we can’t secure the Assembly and we can’t protect our legislators. [emphasis mine]
I don’t seem to remember the tea party protesters doing this kind of stuff when Obamacare was being voted on.
An update on Wisconsin
An update on Wisconsin: Legislature passes union bargaining restrictions, violent protests break out. This quote from Walker is interesting:
This afternoon, following a week and a half of line-by-line negotiation, [Democrat] Sen. Miller sent me a letter that offered three options: 1) keep collective bargaining as is with no changes, 2) take our counter-offer, which would keep collective bargaining as is with no changes, 3) or stop talking altogether.
With that letter, I realized that we’re dealing with someone who is stalling indefinitely, and doesn’t have a plan or an intention to return. His idea of compromise is “give me everything I want,” and the only negotiating he’s doing is through the media.
Enough is enough.
Surprise: New NPR interim CEO a Democratic political contributor
Surprise: the new NPR interim CEO is a Democratic political contributor.
Tiny Cuts, Big Complaints
The squeals keep coming: Tiny cuts, big complaints.
GOP Senator Lugar reverses course to support House Republican spending cuts
A tea party victory: Republican Senator Richard Lugar (R-Indiana) has reversed course and now supports the House Republican spending cuts.
NPR fires its CEO Vivian Schiller
I don’t think this will save them: NPR fires its CEO Vivian Schiller.