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Our poet laureate’s latest effort

Samuel Taylor Sully on the moon bombing, now in off-the-wall format:
At Cabeus did NASA geeks,
A swifty Centaur rocket hurl,
Where dust, and mayhap water reeks,
‘Pon craters numberless, and peaks,
Under the cosmic whirl.
So twice two tons of massy metal,
To test the lunar soil’s mettle.
And also careful cameras set,
To record impact on lunar rill,
Ensure the wants of public [...]

Does America’s Superpower Status End with a Bang or a Whimper?

The Weekly Standard has adapted as an article the 2009 Wriston Lecture of the Manhattan Institute delivered this past week by Charles Krauthammer. The topic is whether that sound we now hear resonating throughout the globe is the death knell of America’s tenure as a superpower.
Unfortunately, the video link to the entire address at the [...]

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