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Much is being made of the recent launch pad explosion of Blue Origin’s massive rocket, an event that to some suggests we may have lost our way in seeking the high ground of space.

Those who believe this have forgotten their American history. Our nation’s first response to the Soviet Union’s Sputnik success in the 1950s was Vanguard, which promptly fell back on the pad after launch and exploded in a fireball.

Yet we would go on to be the only nation to land men on the Moon. Repeatedly.

Despite all the cheating, corruption, and influencing, America is still a representative republic, as is the failed city of Los Angeles. Sure, Democrats might own the public unions, use NGOs as slush funds, benefit from billion-dollar super PACs known as Hollywood and the news media, and win the wink-wink mail-in voting.

Still, though, when all is said and done, even those individual union members, the NGO employees, and those who work in media and entertainment get to choose what kind of city they want to live in — and today we will find out.

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Transgender troops can remain in the US military, but the armed services can continue to block their enlistment, an appeals court ruled on Monday in a split decision with potentially significant consequences for the Trump administration’s anti-diversity agenda.

The divided, majority opinion by a three-judge panel of the US court of appeals for Washington DC is expected to be challenged by the government. And the case is ultimately likely to reach the US supreme court.

The ruling was held from going into immediate effect, allowing the administration time to ask the full appeals court to hear the case.

Stories about corporations, businesses, and just plain people fleeing the squalor, overregulation, crime, lawlessness, lawfare, taxation, and Democrat arrogant stupidity of blue states and cities are common these days. New York’s Governor Kathy Hochul, among those who have insulted and told businesses, and the wealthy in general, they don’t belong in her state unless they’re as leftist as she is, was recently whacked upside the head by economic reality. Having chased much of New York’s tax base out of the state, Hochul recently began to beg them to come back so they could be taxed into penury yet again. Amazingly, they’re not taking Hochul up on her generous offer.