April
23rd 2010
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The great Albert Jay Nock on the Anti-Federalist fight against the Constitution and centralization.
Kevin Lamb at Alt Right reviews The History of White People.
Doug Bandow argues for pulling our troops from South Korea.
Chris Roach laments The Death of NASA.
Sean Scallon on 23 Apr 2010 at 2:37 pm #
If Mr. Roach wants NASA to continue to have manned space exploration he should quit screaming about having less government.
There’s no either-or about it. We’re broke as a nation right now and we’ve got so-called conservatives talking out of all sides of their mouth. “Cut my taxes!” “Less government!” “Bomb Iran” “Land a man on Mars”
Well, which is it going to be my friend? Tory or Tea Party? You can’t be both, not if want to be taken seriously.
S.L. Toddard on 23 Apr 2010 at 2:41 pm #
I agree, but at the same time I can sympathize with his sentiments. Landing a man on the moon was a great and monumental achievement. At the same time, though, that was an achievement of a federal government the anti-state right must argue is inefficient and bloated, so advocating for NASA presents difficulties for us on the decentralist right.
Matt Weber on 23 Apr 2010 at 2:46 pm #
Let’s be honest, we’re broke as a nation right now because of military spending, Social Security spending, Medicare/Medicaid spending, Welfare spending, and interest on the debt. NASA is a drop in the budgetary bucket, and on it’s own makes no difference.
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I’m interested in the constitutional argument against NASA. Is it based on there being no mention of exploration in the Constitution, or something more specific? Would the Constitution have to literally mention ‘space exploration’, or would something more general suffice?
S.L. Toddard on 23 Apr 2010 at 2:49 pm #
That is a good question, Matt. Could a NASA advocate not argue that if NASA is unconstitutional, so was the Lewis and Clark expedition?
Bede on 24 Apr 2010 at 4:16 am #
I’ll try to find the article at New Scientist, but before Obama became president there was serious discussion in his inner circle about scrapping much of NASA and using the money for inner-city “education”.