I have been a regular listener to the Hugh Hewitt Show since 2001. That’s a long time to endure the host’s unfailing, loud and unbearable braggadocio regarding the college football team that plays in Columbus, OH. The host has not lived in Ohio for his entire adult life, just as I have not lived in the place I grew up – Indiana – for my entire adult life. My connections to the state of my rearing remain as strong as his. Therefore it brings me great joy, happiness (and no small amount of return fire) to announce that last night INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BEAT OHIO STATE – solidly – FOR THE BIG TEN FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP. (It was routine in basketball for many years, but not football.) The Cleveland newspapers and Sports Illustrated are noting just how good IU actually is. This might just get mentioned in every post moving forward for a while – but on to serious business.. . .
Two major stories are floating around right now that are extremely important, but not getting huge traction. One is just how the National Guard shooter got in the country and what motivated him. Lots of investigation and investigation angles. The other is the breathtaking scandal erupting in Minnesota wherein Somali nationals have immigrated and are bilking the taxpayers out of enormous sums of money. (None of the links just provided give a complete picture of these situations, just enough to make the point and to serve as a jumping off point for your own look into the problem.) There is a tendency to want to assign malfeasance to these situations – and there certainly was in the actors proper – but it would require a very large scale conspiracy (in other words an impossible one) for the government actions, or inactions, in these circumstances to be anything other than incompetence – sheer bureaucratic and leadership incompetence.. . .
So, the GOP held the 7th district Tennessee special election, preserving its narrow margin in the House. The reporting is fascinating. Fox, “With some votes still being counted, Van Epps was headed towards a nine-point victory.” Mediaite, “Van Epps, a former Army helicopter pilot, secured Tennessee’s 7th District with barely 54% of the vote, defeating Behn in a district Trump carried by 22 points just last year. ” One report – a decent victory, the other it was a very near thing. Which was it?. . .
It’s funny how things work out. What we think will never happen does and what we think should happen never materializes. That’s one of the reasons the social engineering our government too often attempts these days is almost universally a bad idea. We think we know how things will work out, but we are almost always wrong. It’s like Dirty Harry said.. . .
We’re all old now, but some of us grew up in the golden age of manned space travel. Mercury-Gemini-Apollo-Skylab-Space Shuttle are words intimately familiar to us. It was ever so exciting and adventurous. As a science geek, I was glued to the TV for every launch and recovery. In second grade we had what passed in those days for a “portable” (bloack-and-white) TV and we dragged it to school where we spent the day watching John Glenn’s first orbital journey. But then I got older and was told, much to my disappointment, that the world had higher priorities than space exploration. My dreams of moon colonies and Mars mission were dashed. Priorities…. . .
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