Rand Simberg is a recovering aerospace engineer and a consultant in space commercialization, space tourism and Internet security. He offers occasionally biting commentary about infinity and beyond at his weblog, Transterrestrial Musings.
The "worst nuclear accident in American history" needs to be put into perspective.
The media have lauded Captain Sullenberger as a hero, but he was simply a pilot doing his job, like all the others.
Confusing "tax cuts" with "rate cuts" often keeps us from setting the proper economic course.
Hamas manipulated the deaths of their own offspring to appease the ravenous media.
Panic over "tearing down" barriers between military and civilian space programs is much ado about nothing.
Forty years ago, brave pioneers first ventured into space — and the world was never the same.
Union work rules make it almost impossible for the Big Three to keep up with foreign competitors.
Neither right nor left supports the "creative destruction" necessary for real economic progress.
Minimizing the candidate's problematic associations — or lying about them — has been the pattern of the Obama campaign.