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Last month the Media Equalizer (MEQ) reported on a story regarding the radical and violent Antifa group By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) and a court case the group lost . BAMN’s leader, Yvette Felarca, had a temporary restraining order against Troy Worden, president of the Berkeley College Republicans withdrawn after attorney Mark Meuser of the Dhillon Law Group successfully argued for its removal. The order impeded Worden’s ability to move about the college freely and exercise his First Amendment rights on campus. Yesterday, Worden filed a motion for more than $100,000 in damages against Felarca. Worden also asked the court...

The long-expected announcement on April 21 that retired Air Force Brigadier General Simon “Pete” Worden would be replacing the popular and respected Scott Hubbard as director of NASA’s Ames Research Center in San Jose, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley, is good news for the space agency and for its exploration initiative. Worden is an innovator and a risk-taker whose record shows that he can accomplish difficult goals without depending on massive funding. In 1991, when the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) decided to go ahead with developing a flight demonstration vehicle for a single stage to orbit (SSTO)...

Scientists, technologists, and policy experts who gathered recently at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are enthusiastic about the prospect of lunar and Mars missions. However, they cautioned that the path to exploration beyond Earth orbit will not be easy and will probably require significant changes at NASA and in the aerospace industry. "We can in fact do this mission inside the resources that are available," but there are several thorny issues, said Robert Walker, a former Republican Congressman from Pennsylvania who chaired the House Science Committee and also served this year on the Presidential Commission on the Implementation of...

Lauds credentials and talents of former Air Force space director U.S. Senator Sam Brownback today urged the Bush Administration to choose Brigadier General Simon P. Worden (USAF, Ret.) as the next head of NASA. Worden is a former legislative fellow in Brownback’s office. “General Worden would serve our nation strongly as NASA Administrator,” Brownback stated. “We are at a critical juncture in the agency’s history, when NASA is implementing the President’s vision for space, the shuttle is returning to flight and the agency is learning to work hand in hand with private enterprise. The agency needs an administrator with a...