Topic: Decline of the West
Newt Gingrich attracted a fair amount of ridicule when he proposed that the United States embark upon a program to establish a permanent base on the Moon. How they laughed at the candidate’s cluelessness! Though to tell you the truth I thought that Gingrich had an excellent idea there (I’ve read my Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, etc.) I, too, cracked a rueful smile. A presidential campaign in a time of economic hardship is no place for soaring visions. Gingrich ought to have known a bunch of media “fact checkers” would rush to add up the costs of a lunar colony and debunk its claimed benefits.
Ah, but there’s one law for Newt but quite a different one for Barry! When the Prez promoted pond scum as the cure for America’s energy woes, the fact checkers must have been out to lunch…
