POSTED BY MARTIN KICH

Yesterday, on Labor Day, this was the lead item in the Today’s Headlines newsletter from the Los Angeles Times:

Will ‘Space Force’ Mean ‘Jobs, Jobs, Jobs’?

President Trump’s plan to create a “space force” is still a long ways from launch, but already some experts and former military officials think it could benefit Southern California in a big way. Depending on whether Congress approves the new branch of the military and how much money it’s willing to spend, the region is well positioned to take advantage of billions in funding for satellites and technology. The biggest question mark: whether Trump or Congress would try to direct the rewards to other states that have been more sympathetic to (or at least not “at war” with) the president.

With all of the tracking of Trump’s lies, it seems almost beside the point to track all of slogans that he has generated, the deals that he has promised, the initiatives that he has announced, the threats that he has made, and the executive orders that he has signed that have amounted to absolutely nothing beyond a few fevered days of media discussion.

Meanwhile, a large number of statutory revisions of all sorts of corporate, environmental, and political rules and regulations and a large number of dubious judicial appointments have been receiving extremely minimal attention at best.