Pointman’s Page

Remember in the 90′s when Conservatives were bashing Clinton for allowing satellite technology to be transfered to China? The media kept it as low profile as possible covering it only when the few independent newsies of the day shamed them into it. Well that bird has come home to roost now that we’re finding out [...]

I always wonder at the DNC when they rhetorically ask of the Bush administration “where is Bin Laden” when at the same time Bin Laden continues his tour using the DNC’s own talking points. Do they really want us to “get” Bin Laden? No more than they want us to win in Iraq… it would [...]

I’m tellin’ ya.. it’s enough to spark a glimmer of hope in Americans… • 64% of those polled do not trust press coverage of the presidential campaign. • 88% believe that campaign coverage focuses on trivial issues. • 84% believe that media coverage has too much influence on American voting choices. • 92% say it [...]

An interesting look at the dangers of radiation in the Spiegel article Nuclear Exaggeration: Is Atomic Radiation as Dangerous as We Thought? We know there are dangers in radiation and to error on the side of caution is prudent. But with a couple of real world population center detonations studying the effects is also prudent.

A fascinating technology, the nuclear power cell or battery or what ever you wish to call it. But with it’s size and output, if production efficiencies can produce a marketable price such a device could be used in all sorts of situations. Just considering the implications for large data centers is staggering. Let alone other [...]

I don’t know how I have managed to be such an old school conservative for so long yet only recently found P.J. O’Rourke’s How to Explain Conservatism to Your Squishy Liberal Friends Conservatism is sometimes confused with Social Darwinism or other such me-first dogmas. Sometimes the confusion is deliberate. When those who are against conservative [...]

Want to know why we don’t take your global warming doomsaying seriously? While the European Union has taken the lead in enforcing the carbon emission targets outlined in Kyoto, the United States opted out of the 1997 accord. President Bush described it as flawed because major developing countries such as India and China, which are [...]

It must have really been a slow news day for this totally inane piece to have gotten past the editor or more importantly the logic sensors…. Most of the United States, including the Northeast heating oil market except for Maine, will see above-normal temperatures from December through February, government forecasters predicted Thursday. Part of me [...]

We’re gathered today, just as we have gathered before, to remember those who served, those who fought, those still missing, and those who gave their last full measure of devotion for our country… One of those who fell wrote, shortly before his death, these words: ‘Take what they have left and what they have taught [...]

After purchasing Nitro Racing’s cold weather gear I finally got a chance to test it in todays weather mix. The good news is that I was plenty warm and toasty where the Nitro gear is concerned. The First Gear gauntlet gloves aren’t as warm as I’d like but my polyprop liners add enough extra warmth [...]