OP-ED: Cost-Plus Con: Bureaucratic Fraud Is Sabotaging Space  

May 5, 2025Posted inEditorials and Opinions
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SLS on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center. Photo: Charles Boyer / FMN

Imagine a scam where you’re paid more for stalling, overspending, and underdelivering. That’s NASA’s cost-plus contracts, the rotten core of the Space Launch System (SLS), Orion capsule, and Lunar Gateway. These deals, guaranteeing contractors like Boeing and Lockheed Martin profits no matter how epically they flop, are a taxpayer-funded crime scene. The real enemy? Corporate CEOs and politicians, fattened on this bottomless trough of waste, raking in millions while NASA’s programs are kept on life support, eternally late and eternally over budget. The White House’s fiscal year 2026 budget is hacking these boondoggles to pieces: it’s a Johnny Cash size middle finger to their hustle. This isn’t just about saving cash—it’s about torching a fraudulent system that’s gifting China the Moon while US taxpayers bankroll bureaucratic bloat. 

OP-ED: What Have You Done for Me Lately, China?

April 28, 2025Posted inEditorials and Opinions
President Xi: credit: Wikipedia

Oh, China, you conniving, economic vampire, what have you done for us lately besides leeching our prosperity and cackling from your smog-choked throne? You’re not just flooding our markets with your dirt-cheap junk, fentanyl-laced death traps, and vapes so toxic they could double as chemical weapons—you’re orchestrating a full-scale assault on our economy while we twiddle our thumbs like spineless idiots. Your trade barriers on our goods are so blatant they might as well come with a middle finger emoji, yet here we are, drowning in your plastic garbage at every Walmart, Dollar Tree, and big-box cesspool. When’s the last time you saw our goods clogging up your stores in Shenzhen or Beijing? Oh, right—never. It’s a one-way con, and we’re the morons eating it up.

OP-ED: Sanctimony Spiral—How Dems’ Coin New Term to Cover for Lousy Policies

April 21, 2025Posted inEditorials and Opinions
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Oh, gentle reader, let us pause to mourn the quivering liberal soul, cowering before the ominous specter of the “Manosphere.” This shadowy online realm, where men—those wretched beasts—dare to swap stories, bench-press their feelings, or question the gospel of woke orthodoxy. The manosphere is apparently the apocalypse in flannel. According to the high priests of The New York Times and CNN, this digital den of “toxic masculinity” isn’t just a threat to progress—it’s the sinister force behind the Democratic Party’s slow-motion implosion. And I, old enough to remember when men wore overalls and steel-toed boots, drove pickup trucks with rifles in the back, and grilled “Tarzan” steaks in the heart of the woods, can only shake my head at this pitiful charade.

OP-ED: From Sleepy Joe to Full-Throttle Trump: The Great American Revival in 85 Days 

OP-ED: From Sleepy Joe to Full-Throttle Trump: The Great American Revival in 85 Days 

April 14, 2025Posted inEditorials and Opinions
Trump’s cabinet meeting at the White House. Source: X.com

Eighty-five days into Donald Trump’s second term, and it’s been like a quad espresso venti to the nation’s veins—no dozing Joe Biden shuffling through the White House here, folks! With a cabinet meeting straight out of a Hollywood blockbuster, Trump’s team reported on the progress to save us from open-border chaos, a drug epidemic fueled by China’s, and a debt crisis that has our nation on the ropes. The last administration was asleep at the wheel, but Trump is here to drive this train now and remind us what “America First” really looks like—and China’s not happy about it.  

Let’s start with the border, where Trump’s turned the tide on a security nightmare. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem reported a second month of record-low border crossings, rolling out a self-deportation program with a legal return path. This comes after Trump shut down Biden’s CBP One app on day one, which had 280,000 migrants logging in daily to waltz across our border. Now they remain in Mexico, and the Pentagon’s building walls, not bridges, to keep it that way.  

Op-Ed: Fiscal Fiasco–Tariffs Might Save Us from Our Own Stupidity

April 7, 2025Posted inEditorials and Opinions
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America—while we’ve been busy playing the world’s economic punching bag, other nations have been laughing all the way to the bank, raking in our dollars and slapping us with trade barriers so lopsided they’d make a funhouse mirror blush. For years, we’ve been in a tariff war—don’t kid yourself—but we’ve been the chumps who brought a butter knife to a gunfight.

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Editorial: Elon’s Edge: Demanding Like Kelly, Delivering Like Ford 

March 31, 2025Posted inEditorials and Opinions

Elon Musk, the Department of Government Efficiency’s relentless taskmaster, gets flak for his brash, unemphatic biting style—yet delivers results that dwarf the whining of his critics. Sound familiar? The SR-71 Blackbird soared to once impossible heights and speeds due to innovators like Kelly Johnson, whose demanding approach and boundless thinking crushed notions of impossibility. Henry Ford churned out Model Ts while steamrolling naysayers who thought no one needs to go 40mphs. Tesla didn’t just invent—he illuminated the future, and we’re finally seeing it. 

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Editorial: Torched Teslas: The Dumbest Rebellion Since Flat Earth

March 24, 2025Posted inEditorials and Opinions
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“Hey, Geniuses: Vandalizing Teslas Is as Dumb as a Bag of Hammers”

Oh, you brave eco-warriors, you absolute paragons of logic! You’ve gone from hugging trees and praising Elon Musk as the messiah of green tech—remember when his electric cars, solar shingles, and charging stations were going to save the planet?—to smashing windows and chucking Molotov cocktails at Tesla dealerships.

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Editorial: To Trump or Not to Trump—Tariffs Are the Question

March 17, 2025Posted inEditorials and Opinions

Oh, the horror! The pearl-clutching elites and free-trade fanatics are at it again, wailing about President Trump’s tariff policies like they’re the end of civilization. “Higher prices!” they shriek. “Trade wars!” they moan. Well, grab your shovels, snowflakes, because I’m here to tell you why Trump’s tariffs are the glorious, red-white-and-blue gut punch the world deserves—and needs.

In Defense of The Teflon Don: Donald Trump, The Presidential GOAT 

In Defense of The Teflon Don: Donald Trump, The Presidential GOAT 

February 11, 2025Posted inEditorials and Opinions
47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. Credit: White House official presidential portrait
47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. Credit: White House official presidential portrait

In the annals of American history, few figures have been as resilient, as contentious, and as indomitable as Donald J. Trump, the man I now referred to as the “Teflon Don” and the “Presidential GOAT” (Greatest of All Time). His journey to reclaim the presidency was nothing short of a modern-day odyssey, replete with lawsuits, allegations, and the kind of scrutiny that would have crushed lesser mortals. 

Three and Half Miles From History: Watching the Launch of Apollo 11

Three and Half Miles From History: Watching the Launch of Apollo 11

July 16, 2024Posted inEditorials and Opinions
Apollo 11 Launch, July 16, 1969 View from the Press Site aside the Launch Control Center Photo: Dan Beaumont Space Museum
Apollo 11 Launch, July 16, 1969
View from the Press Site aside the Launch Control Center
Photo: Dan Beaumont Space Museum

Fifty-five years ago today, I saw Apollo 11 as she lifted off from Cape Kennedy and on her way to the moon. There are still a lot of us that were present that morning here on the Space Coast, and like a lot of those folks, the memory is as vivid today as it was in July, 1969.

SpaceX’s Booster Failure Highlights Need For “Dissimilar Redundancy”

SpaceX’s Booster Failure Highlights Need For “Dissimilar Redundancy”

July 13, 2024Posted inBoeing, Editorials and Opinions, Space News, SpaceX
KSC's Pad 39A sits empty as uncertainty looms about the Falcon 9 launch schedule. Photo: Mark Stone-FMN
KSC’s Pad 39A sits empty as uncertainty looms about the Falcon 9 launch schedule following a booster failure on July 11, 2024. Falcon 9 boosters have been grounded by the FAA pending investigation. Photo: Mark Stone-FMN

The Commercial Crew Program – All About Redundancy

SpaceX’s second-stage failure on their venerable Falcon 9 booster Thursday demonstrates exactly why NASA wants dissimilar redundancy for crewed flights. The idea is simple: if one launch provider is grounded for a technical issue or a launch failure investigation, the other can take up the slack. The duopoly of crewed launch providers is meant to assure the nation of continuous access to orbit while launching from American soil.