IEEE SPECTRUM: When Engineers Had the Stars in Their Sights. I remember; 1964 was the year I joined the IEEE (then the American Institute of Electrical Engineers).

EVEN IDIOTS CAN LEARN: School reverses ban on Air Force logo. But flatworms learn faster....

CARS THAT THINK: why you shouldn’t worry about liability for self-driving car accidents.

Worry about surviving instead....

ANDREW KLAVAN: Ban facts!

SCANDIPHILIA AND INCOME INEQUALITY: "[E]veryone who is not a liberal has long understood that calls for raising taxes on 'the rich' are always a cover for raising taxes on the middle class."

NOEMIE EMERY: Carly cleans up.

Feminists tend to be cute when they're mad, and they've never been madder than they are at the moment, when they're seeing their long-held dream of a Hillary regency blow up in front of their eyes. Their problems seem to stem from three major facts: They hitched their wagon to the wrong star; they assumed female accord on all things, most of all on abortion; and they ignored what occurred in the 2010 midterms, which should have taught them lessons they chose to ignore.

There are 'feminists'; then there are real feminists....

DRUG PRICES spike under ObamaCare.

I don't know that it's ObamaCare since I don't have any prescription drug coverage, but I do know I haven't paid less that $100 for a prescription this year.

HACKING MISS DAISY: We have 10,000 of your cars under our control. (Probably including my new Volkswagen Eos.)

FORBES: Six things you (probably) didn't know about commercial space travel.

VOLKSWAGEN CEO 'sorry' for emissions cheating software in huge car recall.

Actually, I think he should be proud rather than sorry. The time is well past when companies should be telling the regulators "Screw you. We're not going to obey your silly regulations any more." And then leave the market.

ZOMBIE COAL PLANTS reanimated to stabilize the (supposedly 'smart') power grid. The 'zombie' generators are nothing more that huge synchronous capacitors, needed whenever power is transmitted long distances rather than being generated locally. They do little more than absorb energy and waste money.

OBAMA LIED, and my health plan died ... twice!

BRITISH MAN builds helicopter from 54 drones and a garden chair (VIDEO).

'WOMEN'S ISSUES' left unattended at the Democrats' Presidential debate.

ADM. JAMES LYONS: No moral outrage in the military.

Because the Commander-in-Chief is himself amoral....

CARLY FIORINA arrives at Prickly City.

GOING TO WORK IN A PRESSURE SUIT AND PARACHUTE: 20 kilometer high space elevator tower planned.

FREE AT LAST, Democrats finally come out of the Socialist closet.

[Y]es, the candidates sounded like hard-Left, pie-in-the-sky, free-ice-cream-for-everyone, Socialist pander bears. But they do so because that is what the Democratic Party’s primary voters demand. Don’t blame them; blame the party rank-and-file that craves these promises, rhetoric, and worldview.

There are kindergarten classes with more realistic assessments of cost-benefit tradeoffs than the crowd watching this debate at the Wynn Las Vegas.

But they’re still a criminal organization masquerading as a political party.

THE FAA SCREWS UP AGAIN:

Federal Aviation Administration misses deadline for creating drone regulations.

Federal Aviation Administration estimates around one million drones could be given as presents over the holidays this year.

Nothing like coming to the party late and unprepared....

TRASH HAULING ROBOTS: do we really need them? My suspicion is that the solution is fewer regulations, not more robots.