3 billion miles and 9 years.

OK so the New Horizons spacecraft arrived a few seconds late. Not bad for government work.

For all those critics telling us that America’s day in the sun is done and the US empire is ending, I have a free one way ticket waiting. Destination of choice – Pyongyang, Beijing or Moscow. Somehow I doubt I’m taking much of a risk.

America is just getting started. And its heart is far larger than Pluto’s.