VIA RAND SIMBERG, Gary Hudson remembers a space pioneer. Jim Bennett comments: “Bevin certainly would belong on the list of the twenty key people in launching the commercial spaceflight industry, arguably the ten. He deserves to be known that way.”

I’D BE SHOCKED IF HE – OR THE WHITE HOUSE CABAL – HADN’T: Is This Proof That Joe Biden Ordered the Indictment of Trump?

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Hawaii Butterfly Knife Ban Violates Second Amendment.

MATHEMATICS IS THE LANGUAGE OF NATURE: Firing Fibonacci: Change up your drill routine with this unique series.

OABAMA’S UNFETTERED THIRD TERM: Power companies ask Biden to end war on fossil fuel plants as EPA comment deadline looms. “Electricity providers recently spoke out against the Biden administration’s attack on the fossil fuel industry, specifically power plants, warning that the speed at which officials are pursuing a “green energy transition” risks significant energy shortage.”

Previously: Obama: ‘Under my Plan … Electricity Rates Would Necessarily Skyrocket.’

OF COURSE SHE’S UNPOPULAR, EVERYBODY LIKES HER TOO MUCH: Former Kamala Staffer Has a Theory Why the VP Is Unpopular, and You Can Probably Guess What It Is.

LEFTIES KEEP TELLING ME THE RIGHT HAS BEEN GETTING MORE RADICAL BUT I KEEP READING STORIES LIKE THIS ONE: This Group Of Self-Described Socialists Is Growing In Numbers And Pushing Local Democrats To The Left. “Democratic Socialists make up the left flank of the Democratic Party, supporting abolishing prisons, aggressive climate policies, rent controls and radical racial equity policies, according to the Democratic Socialist website. They’ve been aggressively adding to their membership over the past few years, as well as gaining ground in key deep blue cities such as New York City, Los Angeles and Minneapolis, calling for radical policy changes and opposing mainstream Democrats.”

I DON’T KNOW IF IT IS, BUT IT WILL BE: Space junk is a precious treasure trove to some archaeologists.

FITNESS: Fittest Woman on Earth: ‘I Don’t Want to Look Like the New Barbie.’

SO CANCER CELLS ARE KINDA LIKE WOKE WARRIORS, THEN: New research: Immune cells that fight cancer become exhausted within hours of first encountering tumors.

BOOK OF THE DAY: Bushcraft 101: A Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survival. #CommissionEarned

FUNNY HOW THAT WORKS: As US standards fall, military less trusted.

Not only has public trust in the US military declined, so has the US military itself.

The Wall Street Journal in its article “The Military Recruiting Crisis: Even Veterans Don’t Want Their Families to Join,” noted a growing crisis facing US military recruiters who are struggling to find qualified Americans who are both capable and willing to join the US military even as standards are repeatedly lowered.

Standards are lowered for two reasons: to attract more people who are otherwise unqualified to join the military and to resolve the problem that each year the average American is less qualified for military service. This is due to factors such as drug abuse, obesity, criminal backgrounds, and poor education, which in turn lead to poor military entry test scores.

America’s decline feeds into all of these factors, and all of these factors contribute to America’s decline as well as the US military’s decline.

There’s a direct correlation between a declining America and an increasingly chaotic world.

THE LITTLE SPACESHIP THAT COULD: NASA long shot re-establishes full communication with Voyager 2 probe.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Hillary Clinton Wants to Save Me from Loneliness and Honestly I’d Just Rather Die of It.

SUGAR IN GENERAL ISN’T SO GREAT FOR YOU: High-sugar foods may raise risk of kidney stones.

NOW THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY I’D BEEN HOPING FOR: The moon is open for business, and entrepreneurs are racing to make billions.

NOW ELON WILL COVER HIS LEGAL BILLS WHEN HE SUES: NASCAR Driver Indefinitely Suspended For ‘Liking’ Meme On Social Media Mocking George Floyd.

I imagine that’s going to affect a lot of negotiations over this sort of thing down the line.

SHOT: Trump Lawyer Welcomes Mike Pence to Testify in J6 Case: He ‘Will Be Acquitted.’

CHASER: Pence Says He Would Testify Against Trump in Jan. 6 Trial: ‘We’ll Obey The Law.’

BRYAN CAPLAN INTERVIEWS CHRIS RUFO,

Rufo’s new book is America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything.

NOTE THAT THIS IS DESPITE THE MEDIA RUNNING INTERFERENCE AT SOVIET-PRESS LEVELS: Poll: Biden admin ethics “not good” or “poor.”

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Latest Housing Data Are Clear: ‘Bidenomics’ Is Heading Toward a Crash.

From the fourth quarter of 2020 to the fourth quarter of 2022, the U.S. housing market experienced one of the most significant increases in housing prices in American history. Data provided by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis show that over that two-year period, the average sales price of a home skyrocketed more than 36 percent, from $403,900 to a whopping $552,600.

For the first time in history, the 12-month increase in home prices topped 15 percent for seven quarters in a row, beginning in the second quarter of 2021.

Many current homeowners celebrated the unprecedented rise in housing values, but those rapid increases came with an important caveat: whenever housing prices increase as quickly as they have in recent years, an economic, stock market, and/or housing crash is almost certain to follow.

The evidence on this point is well established. In the 1970s, late 1980s, and in the early to mid-2000s, there were similarly large, sustained growths in housing prices. In every case, a large recession followed. And although the rule doesn’t always apply perfectly, it tends to be that the bigger the increase in housing prices is, the harder the economy falls.

Washington can paper over a weak economy with funny money — that shows up in places like inflated home prices that make existing owners feel good — but eventually the truth will out.

HOW’D THAT WORK OUT FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION? Chapel Hill’s DEI Obsession Was Mandated at the Top.

THEY’RE SPINNING LIKE A CENTRIFUGE OVER THE COMPANY’S MARKETING EXECS: Anheuser-Busch Heir Says Ancestors Would’ve ‘Rolled in Their Graves’ if They Saw Dylan Mulvaney on a Beer Can.

CHANGE? Democrats worry young people souring on party. “Della Volpe argued that although young voters appear to be getting more progressive in their values, fewer are identifying as Democrat or liberal, are paying close attention to political news and are likely to believe in politics as a means for system change. The share of younger voters who say they’ll ‘definitely’ vote in the 2024 race is now at 51 percent in the Harvard poll, down from 55 percent who said the same at this point in the 2020 race.”

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE! You can change gender at will, but scholars say ‘simply impossible’ to change your race.

This is all such transparent bullshit. It deserves scorn and mockery.