SPACE-X'S CREW DRAGON test flight successfully mates with the International Space Station. Here are some flight test photos.

More: Meet Ripley.

[UPDATED] VICTOR DAVIS HANSON explains President Trump as a 'tragic hero'.

The Q&A is linked from this NewNeo post, who correctly notes that the questioner, Isaac Chotiner, is clearly hostile to Hanson and (in my opinion) clearly outclassed by Hanson in a battle of wits. Instapundit has it right: "[T]hink of journalists as Democratic operatives with bylines and you won’t go far wrong."

I do disagree slightly with Hanson in describing Trump as 'tragic'. Rather than using "Shane" or "High Noon" or "The Magnificent Seven" as classic Western examples, I would choose Richard Boone (Paladin) from the TV series "Have Gun, Will Travel". Paladin was a man with a unique skill set who, when called to to solve an existential problem, did so and moved on of his own volition when his skills were no longer needed. Trump is cut from that same cloth.

I don't see Trump as one who is desirous of either fitting in or remaking society in his own image. He will be ready to move on when the time is appropriate

NOW YOU KNOW why major-league athletes make so much money.

They're pass-through tax collectors for Democrat constituencies (i.e. city/state/federal governments).

GOOGLE NEST: why I will never allow a 'digital assistant' connected to an internet of things inside my home.

PROGRESSIVES: Meet your Creator.

Enjoy life in the bubble....

BUT HE WON'T: Adam Schiff [D(umb)-CA] has met [his own] standard to recuse himself from Trump probe.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Do the 'renewable energy' activists understand that coal, oil, and gas are actually renewable? Or deeply down, do they really believe that some Supreme (but secular, of course) Architect created them out of thin air and buried them deep underground in vast caverns to be kept safe from predation?

Remember, these are people who believe know that money grows on trees....

EVERYONE WHO'S NEVER READ A HISTORY BOOK shocked as Socialist turns into authoritarian at first whiff of power.

It's the Babylon Bee and thus officially satire, but realistically ... not.

AN EXAMPLE of the 'indecent American' (i.e., progressive).

I wonder how her husband manages to live with that shrew....

'NO BORDERS' BERNIE hires an illegal alien as his new campaign spokesperson.

FUN FACT: The Titanic's swimming pool still has water in it.

Seen in the comments to this article on Hillary Clinton's "Bloody Sunday" speech in Selma.

HELL HATH NO FURY like a never-Trumper scorned.

I DON'T KNOW WHY, THEY'RE EXPERTS IN IT: Leftists hate projection.

WHO FORGOT TO TELL THE ECONOMY ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF THE NEW MINIMUM WAGE? Restaurant jobs in New York city decrease after the minimum wage was increased.

In the real world, "Make it so!" doesn't have the cachet it does in the progressive bubble.

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ explains her Green New Deal:

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a famous children's novel by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), similar to his novel, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

The White Queen (chapter 5) is obviously her role model....

YOUR CHILDREN ARE BELONG TO US: Elizabeth Warren wants universal child care. Thankfully it does not seem to be economically viable, but that won't stop the progressive movement from trying.

Brave New World is a warning, not an instruction manual.

BOB HOPE'S Christmas tours with the troops. The lady who forwarded the link to me wrote the following to the person who sent it to her:

"Thank you for this. I watched it and love it. He was a great guy who loved our soldiers in wars, he made them laugh and for few hours forget where they were. There will never be another Bob Hope. The Hollywood group is really so bad, they don't love our country. I shared this video on my facebook page, so the rest of my friends enjoy it as much as I did."

A sentiment I share. Watch. You'll laugh and you'll wonder what has happened to the country we love....