Comments on: Kathuria, Ryan, and the Illinois Senate race http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/02/28/kathuria-ryan-and-the-illinois-senate-race/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kathuria-ryan-and-the-illinois-senate-race Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Alex Russell http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/02/28/kathuria-ryan-and-the-illinois-senate-race/#comment-172 Wed, 03 Mar 2004 21:28:54 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=86#comment-172 If someone had described that Jack Ryan campaign ad to me, I would have thought they were exaggerating. He’s against funding at least for astronomy and perhaps funding for other science. He’s against funding for environmental preservation and possibly biological science. And his third example is apparently for people who think that jobs moving overseas is, not the work of the market and free trade, which is what it really is, but of stupid government subsidies – or maybe it’s for people who are just paranoid about foreigners.

And you can just slam the door before you even know what any of that is about.

His slogan could be, “I’ll stand for your right not to have to know a darn thing.” I do not like to think of the number of people for whom this struck exactly the right chord.

]]> By: Bill White http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/02/28/kathuria-ryan-and-the-illinois-senate-race/#comment-171 Sun, 29 Feb 2004 07:32:36 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=86#comment-171 Too bad about Ryans divorce.

The idea that Seven of Nine might someday have become First Lady would have been awesome.

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