Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

PUSHBACK IN BRITAIN:

BILL OF ATTAINDER: Nick Shirley SUES California Over ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act.’ “Nick Shirley announced today on X that he is suing the state of California over the controversial bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom that critics have dubbed the ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act.'”

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: The US Could Have a $100 Billion Stash of Rare Earth Elements – Hiding in Coal Waste.

UPDATE: Reader John Steakley writes: “Be it lumber, coal, granite, marble, natural gas, rare earth elements, or just indefatigable young soldiers, America always returns to Appalachia for its most valuable resources. But as John Denver reminded us, where the mountains are older than trees, such returns are to be expected . . .”

So true. John and I were on the National Space Society board together. I had dinner with him not long before he died. He was much buffer than in his 1970s era, and very interested in aviation. Though perhaps not as safety-conscious as would have been ideal.

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It’s a fair cop.

UPDATE: Such a fair cop:

FLASHBACK: Rural Trump Voters Already Live in the Safe, Tolerant Utopia Leftists Claim to Want.

Life in Rural America (where Republican Trump voters live and govern), is clean, safe, and racially tolerant. On the other hand, most of the places in America where life is dirty, polluted, dangerous, and violent, where people are plagued with racial hate and race riots, are cities populated by and governed by Democrats.

What’s more, if you remove Democrat-run cities from our national statistics, you will find an overall America that is overwhelmingly peaceful, safe, clean, and racially tolerant.

True. Read the whole thing.