Thomas L Matula Ph.D.

I have a Ph.D. from New Mexico State University and have been doing research on space commerce for over 30 years. We must develop space to save the Earth.

[Thomas L Matula Ph.D. @ThomasLMatula]

This is why it is important to look at economics from the Free Market - Command Market spectrum instead of Marx’s Capitalism-Communism dichotomy.

India was a “Capitalist” economy by Marx’s definition with multiple political parties and private ownership of Capital. Yet it had what was functionally a Command Market economic system through excessive regulation and licensing, which was why for decades it preformed as bad as a “communist” economy. Only when they eliminated most of the licensing and moved towards a Free Market did it boom.

https://t.co/F4opYlEHKf

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Keep praying.

[Thomas L Matula Ph.D. @ThomasLMatula]

@SaveLucyTheDog 🙏

[Save Lucy @SaveLucyTheDog]

Thank you, my friend. You've been supporting this since the beginning. #SaveLucy

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

Dropping heavy equipment out of a C-17. It’s an amazing experience to watch in the back. The CG change up front is pretty special too! 💪🇺🇸🔥

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🚨 CHAOS: Catholic Church in Columbus, OH Forced to SHUT DOWN annual family festival after mob of “Teens” turns it into a brawl.

A community event with carnival rides for St. Catharine Parish and its Catholic school was completely destroyed.

Arrest the parents. It will stop.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

They are disappearing

[Thomas L Matula Ph.D. @ThomasLMatula]

@netanyahu 🙏😪

[Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו @netanyahu]

רעייתי שרה ואני מביעים צער על פטירתו של האמן האהוב ישי לוי ז״ל. ישי היה קול מיוחד במוזיקה הישראלית - קול של נשמה, שמחה, כאב ושל אהבת אדם.

ישי נגע בשיריו בלבבות של מיליוני ישראלים. הוא חצה דורות, עדות ומגזרים, והפך לחלק בלתי נפרד מפסקול חיינו.

בשם אזרחי ישראל, אני שולח תנחומים למשפחתו, לאוהביו והמוני מעריציו.

יהי זכרו ברוך.

[DC_Draino @DC_Draino]

The Supreme Court may soon strike down blue state laws that allow mail-in ballots to keep being received after election day.

California has mastered this fraud.

Republicans get elected on election day and then California Democrats keep sending in more mail-in ballots until the Democrat wins.

[Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet]

This is eye-opening. One of the reasons the US has better long-term prospects than Europe is demographics.

Why don’t people understand what collapsing birth rates mean for pensions, healthcare, and real estate? Europe won’t be able to maintain its current standard of living.

[Thomas L Matula Ph.D. @ThomasLMatula]

@PhilWMagness Yes, it’s promotion, tenure and grants are all based on who you know, not what you know.

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

When Gabriel Zucman manipulated tax rate stats to show the wealthy paying less than the poor and tried to memory hole his own previously published numbers that undermined this claim, academia cheered him on because they liked his political narrative and gave him the Clark Medal.

When Kevin Kruse plagiarized multiple passages in his published works over the past two decades, academia circled the wagons around him, attacked the person who discovered it (i.e. me) as "politically motivated," and dismissed overwhelming evidence as "accidental copying and pasting."

When Quinn Slobodian got caught altering the text of Mises quotations to make them sound racist, academia made him co-editor of the journal where he did it and showered him with prizes.

When Nancy MacLean got caught engaging in wholesale fabrications of evidence (as well as egregious incompetence) in her book about James M. Buchanan, academia made her a finalist for the National Book Award.

When Nikole Hannah-Jones got caught denying and ghost-editing one of her most controversial claims out of the 1619 Project, academia handed her a cushy endowed professorship with full tenure despite her having nonexistent scholarly research outputs and zero teaching experience.

When Michael Bellesiles falsified historical documents to make an anti-second amendment argument as part of his history of gun ownership in America, academia gave him the Bancroft Prize and only rescinded it after the evidence became so overwhelming that they could not deny it anymore.

When Claudine Gay plagiarized multiple scholarly works over her career, academia made her president of Harvard and also tried to circle the wagons until the evidence became so overwhelming that they could not deny it anymore.

Yes, higher ed has a politicization problem and it often shows through in the exceedingly low standards of rigor in many of these fields. But it also manifests in other ways that are much more serious than a simple lack of rigor.

[Thomas L Matula Ph.D. @ThomasLMatula]

@r0ck3t23 @Rand_Simberg Yes, the environmentalists really demonize it with propaganda and fake news.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Marc Andreessen just explained how the United States assassinated its own future.

In the 1970s, the Nixon administration launched something called Project Independence.

The mandate was absolute.

Andreessen: “Build a thousand new civilian nuclear power plants in the US by the year 2000.”

One thousand reactors. Unlimited, carbon-free baseload power. Enough electricity to move the entire country to electric vehicles four decades ahead of everyone else.

But it went further than energy.

Andreessen: “It’s called Project Independence because it means the US won’t have to be involved in the Middle East anymore, because we won’t need the oil.”

No oil dependence. No Gulf Wars. No generations of soldiers stationed in deserts protecting supply chains that never needed to exist.

A complete strategic withdrawal from the Middle East. Permanent.

And none of this was hypothetical.

Andreessen: “France ran for a long time almost entirely on nuclear power. Japan ran for a long time almost entirely on nuclear power.”

Other nations proved it worked at scale. America had more capital, more engineers, and more ambition than all of them.

Andreessen: “How many nuclear power plants were built out of the thousand? Rounds to zero.”

Zero.

Not because the physics failed. Not because something superior replaced it.

Because the same administration that drafted the blueprint for unlimited energy also created the institution that killed it.

Andreessen: “They never got built because the Nixon administration also created the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which made it its purpose in life is to stop nuclear power plants from getting built.”

Same government. Same decade. Same pen.

One directive launching the most ambitious energy program in American history.

Another creating the bureaucracy that would quietly dismantle it from the inside.

Andreessen: “The Nuclear Regulatory Commission did not approve a new nuclear plant design for 40 years.”

Forty years of zero approved designs. Not because no one submitted them. Because the institution built to regulate nuclear energy became the institution built to prevent it.

That’s not oversight.

That’s abolition dressed as due diligence.

We spent the next fifty years fighting wars in the desert for a resource we never needed.

Choked the atmosphere with carbon we didn’t have to burn.

Terrified an entire generation with the illusion of scarcity.

And the entire time, the physics already worked.

The government didn’t fail to navigate the energy crisis.

They took the densest source of energy in the universe and drowned it in paperwork.

Every war fought for oil. Every carbon debate. Every geopolitical crisis of the last half century.

All of it was a policy choice.

We didn’t lack the technology to power the future.

We let a committee outlaw the math.

[Thomas L Matula Ph.D. @ThomasLMatula]

@LunarCitizens @NASA @SpaceX Good idea. Landing Starship on Titan might however be tricky with its Methane atmosphere.

[Lunar Citizens @LunarCitizens]

NASA has never dropped a probe into another world’s ocean. Titan’s seas remain completely unexplored.

James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenger can withstand pressures down to 11,000 m.

Why not build a Titan-adapted version? Launch it with Starship to explore an extraterrestrial ocean for the first time. 🚀🌊#starship #titan #sea

[Franklin Graham @Franklin_Graham]

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” (2 Corinthians 5:17)

[ThePatBoone @Pat_Boone]

Happy National Boone Day!

[The Dr. Margaret Show @DrMargaretShow]

🕊️ ANNELISE UPDATE as of last night🙏 From what we understand, arrangements are being made to transfer little precious Annelise to an East Texas hospital that has a Ronald McDonald House where her parents can stay.

This needs to happen ASAP to avoid a situation where her lungs/oxygen supply render her unable to travel.

The family still needs financial help to defray many costs (See link below and add another one yourself, so everyone can share!).

🙏 ❤️ Thank you for your PRAYERS 🙏 and for SHARING, especially if you cannot GIVE to their Fundraiser. 🙌 ❤️

🕊️ WHAT THE FUTURE LOOKS LIKE 🕊️

Judge decides June 11: Should 2-year-old Annelise Camp stay on life support and ventilator longer? Can her family block brain death declaration and move her to another hospital for more treatment (like oxygen therapy)?

Texas Children’s uses standard brain death rules for kids: They do 2 full brain checks + breathing tests about 12 hours apart. She must show no reflexes, no response, fixed pupils, etc.

If declared brain dead: She is legally dead in Texas. Hospital usually removes ventilator within hours (often under 6) up to 1-2 days.

BUT They cannot declare brain death if her pupils react to light (family says they do, plus she has bowel movements).

Timeline after brain death pronouncement:

Once officially declared brain dead (legal death in Texas), the hospital can withdraw ventilator/support shortly after—often within hours (e.g., <6 hours in some protocols) or up to a day or two for family time/organ donation arrangements. No fixed multi-day waiting period like futility cases.

🌟 Pupils responsive: They cannot declare brain death if pupils react to light.

Standard criteria (AAP/AAN) require absent pupillary light reflex (fixed, non-reactive pupils) + other absent brainstem reflexes. Family says Annelise shows pupil response + bowel movements, which would disqualify her from brain death under the protocol.

This is why the June 11 hearing matters—testing is paused pending the judge’s decision on extended care/transfer. Hospital says no imminent withdrawal now.

✅ Please see the family’s fundraiser link below and share widely, especially if you cannot give! 🙌 Thank You and God Bless You!

Thank you for remaining in prayer and bringing Annelise forward to your Pastor today ❤️ All for the Glory of God! @Txmaniac @HISGLORYME

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Fate hates hypocrisy.