The bomber incident was considered highly unusual. Russian strategic bombers are not known to have conducted such operations in the past into the south Pacific from bomber bases in the Russian Far East, which is thousands of miles away and over water.
The case has also drawn attention in the Senate where Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, raised the issue with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden.
Liberal censorship, gotta love it. Score one for tolerance, open-mindedness, generosity, and all that.
These days, the edicts are issued by commissars deep in the bowels of the hyper-regulatory state, and most of them are, like King Charles, a little too bald in their assumptions of government power to be bandied in polite society. So, in public, the modern ruler issues goals, orders dreams, commands unicorns.
Tensions are building over Japan’s efforts to drive down the yen, but ministers have resisted a crackdown.
Russian news networks noted that the meteor struck just hours before the Earth was due its closest recorded shave with an asteroid.
GOP governors didn’t buy in to what they saw as a massive federal overreach into the health care system. When they couldn’t repeal the law or get it thrown out in court, many decided to sit on their hands and say to Obama: “You want it? You build it.”
Senator Graham said he will block the president’s nominee to head the CIA until he hears more details about what Mr. Obama was doing.
More jobs ‘investment’ from the Obama Administration . . . Yeah, it’s all shovel ready!
It remains to be seen where the balancing act between progressive social values and military preparedness leads.