On the very day my Examiner piece runs, we come across this story announcing Virgin Galactic’s plans to go forward with scramjet-based passenger liners.

I’ve “only” been talking (and writing) about this technology since 1982, before Reagan’s “Orient Express” speech (which maybe three people in the world remember). So needless to say, the coincidence is pretty cool.

My Examiner piece is out today, and I hope you enjoy it.

It covers four technologies which I believe will remake the world over the next decade. It is part of a four-part series by me, Craig Newmark (of Craigslist, tomorrow), Glenn Reynolds (of Instapundit) and Stephanie Reel (of Johns Hopkins).

It’s a great series, and it’s also a real honor to write in the same pages as Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain and Jack London.

And if you want to know what’s about to happen to your world (tech, not politics, much), you better check it out.

Every presidential candidate should be required to answer the following questions, but don’t count on it happening: (continue reading post »)

As I wrote yesterday, I am being featured this week in the Examiner papers as part of a four-part series by technology people on the near-future changes that will remake the world over the next decade.

Today’s piece (part two) is online here.

And here’s my original post describing the series, which also includes Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) and Craig Newmark (Craigslist). Way cool! (continue reading post »)

TROUBLE TIMES TWO
By JANET WHITMAN

NEW YORK POST

March 27, 2007 — The New York Times is suffering from two bouts of fresh humiliation after admitting to being duped by a woman claiming to be an Iraq veteran and publishing a critique of the $2,000 check a star reporter gave to a source for his expose on child Internet porn. (continue reading post »)

Defeat in Iraq would spell ruin for the U.S. economy. Our past experience in Vietnam makes this clear. (continue reading post »)

In a non-binding vote, the Senate voted to withdraw all troops from Iraq by March of next year, telegraphing to al Qaeda our intention to give them the Middle East and cower in fear waiting for the next 9/11.

We are reminded of this quote from Princeton Islamic scholar Bernard Lewis in his The Crisis of Islam:

One of the most surprising revelations in the memoirs of those who held the American embassy in Tehran from 1979 to 1981 was that their original intention had been to hold the building and the hostages for only a few days. They changed their minds when statements from Washington made it clear that there was no danger of serious action against them. They finally released the hostages, they explained, only because they feared that the president-elect, Ronald Reagan, might approach the problem “like a cowboy.”

Note that the Senate vote — which included Republican traitor Chuck Hagel plus 49 Democrats — did not in any way address the fact that the Surge is working, that violence in Baghdad is down 80% over the past month, U.S. casualties are down 50%, Sadr’s militia has completely disbanded and gone into hiding, the Iraqi economy is booming at a 14% growth rate (almost twice China’s!), and recent polls show that the great majority of Iraqis believe they are far better off now than before the war.

In short, what we’re doing is working. And now the Democrats — the party of surrender throughout the 70s and 80s — are trying to sell us down the river once again.

We can fight these terrorists there or we can fight them here. We can keep our word to the innocents in Iraq or we can deliver them to the slaughter. We can be honorable and safe or we can support the Democrats.

But we can’t do both.

This just in, from Mark Tapscott, Editorial Page Editor of The Washington Examiner.

The Examiner launches a four-part series today with Instapundit.com’s Glenn Reynolds offering his take on the four most-needed technological advances for the next decade. Tomorrow will feature Johns Hopkins vice president for information technology Stephanie Reel, Thursday will be conservative technologist Rod Martin on tech trends to watch and Friday will conclude the series with Craig Newmark on using technology to know who to trust.

The whole series will run on Examiner.com and in all the Examiner papers (Washington, D.C., Baltimore and San Francisco). Watch for it!

For the thousandth time, it’s too darn early for any of this to matter. Except maybe it isn’t.

The latest USA Today/Gallup Poll is out. And it’s, well, interesting.

Rudy Giuliani, “the prohibitive frontrunner” (as his supporters would put it) just three weeks ago at a whopping 44%, watched his support shrivel by nearly a third, to just 31%. Meantime, the man who isn’t running — Fred Thompson — shot up from zero to 12% just by suggesting he “might consider” a race.

Whoa! And there’s more. (continue reading post »)

Does Democrat sugar daddy George Soros know something his fellow Democrats don’t? It would appear so. Mr. Soros has invested $62.6 million in Halliburton Company of Houston, Texas — suggesting that he believes U.S. victory in Iraq is near. (continue reading post »)