MARK FELTON ON NASA’S ARMORED CORPS:

Given the massive risks of each Space Shuttle launch, NASA’s use of armored personnel carriers made sense — if the astronauts had a chance to actually survive the time it would take in a rocket malfunction on the pad to get out of the cockpit and onto the zip lines to take reach the APCs. But as Mark Steyn has written, maybe it would be easier to list which federal agency doesn’t have its own paramilitary arsenal?