Visiting Kennedy Space Center and Quoting Peggy Noonan

Pictures of the Day: We're extending our stay in Orlando after finishing the Christian Standard contributing editors retreat yesterday. Today our destination was Kennedy Space Center, and I must say we were impressed. My pictures can't begin to do it justice, but these few will give a little idea of the impressive real rockets and other devices on display (none of these is a reproduction or simulation). They can't convey the excellent way they are presented and the inspiring stories the Center tells about American space exploration (which, by the way, is still continuing today).

Above is the Saturn V rocket, which is taller than two Statues of Liberty.

The Apollo 14 Command Module, the "Kitty Hawk" (above).
The Atlantis space shuttle (below pictures) is perhaps the most awe-inspiring. Evelyn tried to get a picture that would contain the whole thing. That was almost impossible.

Quote of the Day:

Chris Christie's problem isn't that he's a bully, it's that he's selfish. Barack Obama isn't stupid and therefore the maker of mayhem, he's selfish.

There isn't a staffer on the Hill who won't tell you that 90% of members are driven by their own needs, wants, and interests, not America's. The former defense secretary, Bob Gates, has written a whole book about it, and the passages in which he speaks most plainly read like a cry from the heart. . . .

Someday history will write of our era, and to history the biggest scandal will be the thing we all accepted in our leaders, chronic and endemic selfishness. History will be hard on us for that.

—Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal, January 18-19, 2014