Posted By Russ Emerson on October 5, 2004 at 5:21 pm
I was born the day Scott Carpenter went aloft and into orbit in Aurora 7. Space flight has always been an interest, no, a fascination of mine. Astronauts have always been heroes to me.
It’s a dangerous thing, going into space. Many have died, and yet the ranks of those eager to follow the path into space never seem to shrink. We hope our astronauts will fare well, but we know some will die.
But we somehow never expect them to be old men, dying of the things old men die of.
So long, Gordo.
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Posted By Russ Emerson on October 5, 2004 at 4:11 pm
Daniel J. Flynn, discussing his book Intellectual Morons : How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas:
The Left’s reflexive hatred for America and its allies overrides its genuflections to human rights. That’s why they don’t cheer human rights advances in Afghanistan, or Israel’s tolerance of Arab homosexuals who would be severely punished for their behavior in their homelands.
The Left used to get their marching orders from the Soviet Union. They’re gone now. But their enemy remains, and some leftists simply define their positions by what opposes the United States. If there has been a cohesive idea uniting the Left since the fall of the Iron Curtain, it is anti-Americanism.
In an interview with Jaime Glazov at FrontPageMag
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