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Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
November 9, 2024
STARLINK COMPETITION? Ex-Google exec attracts financial backers for LEO megaconstellation.
WAR ON WOMEN, FEMINISTS SILENT:
Iraq is poised to slash the legal age of consent from 18 to to 9, allowing men to marry young children.
The proposed legal change also deprives women of rights to divorce, child custody and inheritance. pic.twitter.com/nLEquxcS8Y
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) November 8, 2024
EXERCISE NEWS YOU CAN USE: The humble pushup.
YOU CAN’T BE WOKE AND DO SCIENCE: Scientific American Editor-In-Chief Has Spectacular Post-Election Social Media Meltdown: Subsequently, Laura Helmuth disavowed her screed and vitriol. Unfortunately, it is a sign that too many scientists would rather offer elitist insults then address reasonable concerns and different ideas.
EVERYTHING OBAMA TOUCHES: CNN Pundit: No Wonder Dems Are Distraught, Obama ‘Produced Trump,’ And Biden Made Him ‘Stronger.’
Bonus Obama flop sweat pic:
Rare pic of Obama sweating do to major liberal meltdown, a true climate change pic.twitter.com/x1d2E8q7PD
— Manoloh102 (@manoloh102) November 7, 2024
Plus:
What really fell, and in slow motion, was the Tower of Obama. From far across the plain it fell and the thunder of its collapse shakes the landscape. "The third term is ended".
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) November 6, 2024
BOB CASEY BEING A HACK AS USUAL:
Democrats complained their biggest fear would be Trump refusing to concede the 2024 Election
He won in a landslide.
The Pennsylvania Senate race has also been called, but Bob Casey still refuses to concede.
Where is the Democrat Party calling him a ‘threat to Democracy’? pic.twitter.com/jrtc1qNlE7
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 9, 2024
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Federal Court Strikes Down Illinois ‘Assault Weapon’ and Magazine Bans.
ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: How Can Nissan Be Fixed?
ROBERT HEINLEIN WAS RIGHT: Memories are not only in the brain, human cell study finds.
WE LIVE IN HISTORIC TIMES: Space policy is about to get pretty wild, y’all. “So it’s entirely possible that the sitting chief executive of SpaceX could be the nation’s most important adviser on space policy, conflicts be damned. Musk possesses flaws as a leader, but it is difficult to argue against results. His intuitions for the industry, such as pushing hard for reusable launch and broadband Internet from space, have largely been correct. In a vacuum, it is not necessarily bad to have someone like Musk providing a vision for US spaceflight in the 21st century.”
If he were a Democrat advising a Democratic administration, he’d be part of a “Brain Trust” instead of having a conflict of interest.
NONSENSE, SEX IS SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED: Women, men face different heart risks while on dialysis.
CHANGE:
It's a quo vadis moment for the world. The US may have been the first major power to reorient, but not the last. In some way it feels like 1989, except that what is crumbling is the Western progressive establishment.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) November 8, 2024
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: ‘The Confederacy won,’ Emory professor says of Trump victory.
I remember when higher education was defended as encouraging historical literacy and a sense of proportion.
GOING ON OFFENSE:
Jack Smith:
Preserve your records. pic.twitter.com/Toazp1EATk
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) November 8, 2024
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Washington U in St. Louis offering drop-in counseling to people feeling anxious over election.
WELL, JOY REID:
Joy Reid is upset that Gen X voted for Trump and that Latinos voted for mass deportations of illegal immigrants pic.twitter.com/6Ym0lUXXUB
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 8, 2024
DON SURBER: We won a battle, not the war.
Plus: “The happiest man in the USA this week was Donald Trump. The happiest woman was Jill Biden.”