Author Archive: Charlie Martin
February 11, 2025
February 10, 2025
IS IT JUST ME? OR DOES “SCOUTING AMERICA” SOUND LIKE SOMETHING A FOREIGN POWER WOULD DO? Is This the Final Nail in the Coffin of the Boy Scouts?
February 9, 2025
GAME? WHAT GAME? A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Bird Flu.
February 7, 2025
HAPPY SKY CANDY DAY! Happier Sky Candy — With Stars and Stuff.
Warning: there will be a quiz.
But not on spelling.
GEE HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? Egypt says it will work with partners to reconstruct Gaza without Palestinians leaving the strip.
It was just yesterday I wrote that Trump was making an opening move to force new responses from the rest of the world. So now Black responds.
A CONSUMMATION DEVOUTLY TO BE WISHED: Could We Be Witnessing the End of Liberal Media?
I doubt it will be the end of liberal media, but I bet we’re seeing the end of several liberal media publishers.
February 6, 2025
IT’S ALWAYS WISE TO ASK “WHAT IF TRUMP KNOWS WHAT HE’S DOING”: Trump’s Chess Move In The Middle East.
NO SUCH THING AS A DEEP STATE FIGHTING TRUMP: Bombshell Report Links USAID to Trump’s Impeachment.
February 2, 2025
THE FRUSTRATING PART ABOUT ACCIDENTS IS THERE’S USUALLY LOTS OF MISTAKES LEADING UP TO THEM [VIP]: Accidents Happen No Matter How Hard We Try.
February 1, 2025
THE END OF JANUARY IS A HARD TIME [VIP]: Heavy History on Sky Candy Today.
I usually concentrate Sky Candy on astronomy and space photographs with a little bit of space history. But all of NASA’s major losses of astronauts happened in the last part of January or the first of February.
January 31, 2025
AYN RAND WROTE ABOUT THE “RETURN OF THE PRIMITIVE”: STUDY: Objectivism and Rationalism Now Signs of “White Supremacy”.
In some sense, she’s right: it’s not exclusively white by any means, but the sense of rationalism and science writ large is what has been supreme.
January 30, 2025
ANOTHER PERFORMATIVE PALESTINIAN FIRED: 2 High School Basketball Coaches Fired for Antisemitism and Pro-Hamas flags: Denver.
This was at the Lotus School for Excellence, a STEM (or STEAM) charter school that’s actually in Aurora, a Denver suburb. The website shows a number of girls wearing headscarves and a thoroughly mixed student population. Denver has a pretty substantial Jewish population, so the odds are good some of the students there are Jews.
January 25, 2025
REDUCE REGULATION, PRIVATE FUNDING [VIP]: Trump’s Stargate initiative to Support AI Development.
I HAVE A GUEST POST UP AT SARAH HOYT’S BLOG: Today Is Not That Day.
January 24, 2025
I WANT TO BELIEVE [VIP]: Sky Candy and the World of Tomorrow.
And yes, I know it’s behind the paywall. That’s what “VIP” means.
January 23, 2025
BIG SURPRISE: Lawsuit: Meritocracy abandoned to hire transgender, gay, black faculty at Northwestern University.
It’s an interesting experiment:
The lawsuit cites three white male law professors applied to Northwestern. This includes First Amendment expert Eugene Volokh, Ernest A. Young of Duke University’s Law School, and Ilan Wurman, a distinguished professor at The University of Minnesota Law School.
“As a result of the mandate, Northwestern University School of Law refuses to even consider hiring white male faculty candidates with stellar credentials, while it eagerly hires candidates with mediocre and undistinguished records who check the proper diversity boxes.”
Well, maybe not that big a surprise.
January 20, 2025
AND THE CELEBRATION CONTINUES: LIVE: Inauguration of Donald J. Trump, 47th President of the United States.
WHAT IF YOUR AUTISTIC SON IS ACCUSED OF HARASSMENT? Biden was Horrific for Students Falsely Accused of Sexual Misconduct: Here’s Why.
At some point, we’re going to need to distinguish between being a dweeb and being an abuser.
IT’S MORNING IN AMERICA: LIVE: Inauguration of Donald J. Trump, 47th President of the United States
January 19, 2025
MATH IS HARD! Math classes cause “intellectual trauma” to minorities: STUDY.
I wrote a piece a while ago: Why Affirmative Action May Be Doing More Harm Than Good for Black Americans. The gist is that if you and everyone around you believes you can’t learn something, you won’t learn something. This, and other arguments like this, just reinforce that “fixed mindset”.
January 17, 2025
PLANETS, AURORAE, AND ELON PUTS ON A SHOW: Spectacular Sky Candy [VIP]
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January 16, 2025
“WE REALLY IDOLIZE SOMEBODY… WHO ACTUALLY GOES TO A PLANE AND HIJACKS IT”: The Anti-Israel Institute Critics Call a ‘Terrorist Think Tank’: Inside the ICSZ Controversy.
AND HERE IT COMES AGAIN: Day 3: Trump Cabinet Nominees Face Off Against Senators. Yesterday turned out to be quite entertaining. Well, for a hearing anyway.
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January 15, 2025
YOUR CHANCE TO BE VERY IMPORTANT: VIP Sale at PJ Media.
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WE’RE BA-ACK: LIVE: Six Trump Nominees Head to the Hill for Confirmation Hearings.
Watch for the excitement as we try to cover six simultaneous hearings.