Pointman’s Page

A wonderful YouTube treasure! In 1959 Mike Wallace interviewed Ayn Rand ( Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 ) at a time when Mike knew how to actually ask hard questions. And Rand doesn’t miss a beat in rebutting Wallace and her critics. Wallace seems to miss that it is the individual who determines […]

Tuesday was such a beautiful day the missus and I took advantage to visit some of the covered bridges in the county we’d never been to. You’ll find the new additions in the Covered Bridges gallery. The new bridges are the Edna Collings, Houck and Dick Huffman bridges.
While out beating around the back waters of […]

It looks like I was not alone in my view of Greg Garrison’s pay website for it is now a free site. So trot over and check out GregGarrison.com…

I found it well worth the time to explore some excellent photography from 9/11. One of the galleries are exposures taken by a photographer killed in the WTC collapse, I believe.

Now available online: The Federalist Papers

Like airshows? Check out Flickr: Photos from LD50…. I especially like the shots with P-51, F-4, F-16 and F-22’s flying formation.

How about a few pictures from the Mojave Airplane Graveyard…

Though read Cooper regularly I’ve never gotten that desire to hunt big deadly things on the Dark Continent. But a link on a bulletin board about a 4-Bore double rifle caught my eye. From that link I found the African Hunter website run out of Zim and with some very good writing. I was […]

For your viewing enjoyment, a nice gallery of Plant artwork. This is some truly impressive hedge trimming and photography.

Somewhere this past week I came across pictures of the Maunsell Towers and even more impressive the Kent Underground website.

I’m always one to appreciate stories of men who rise above You Think You’re Tough?….

Timmeh has posted his photos of Naval aircraft. I forget where I picked up this link as I found it several days ago and its been patiently waiting in a Firefox tab for me to come back and post it. The few photos there are amazing and any military or aviation enthusiast will enjoy them.

A rather interesting article on Taking politics out of the gun. While the article deals mainly with proliferation of military weapons at large one specific sentence jumped out at me as something I don’t think I’d realized but is very true:
The popular obsession with arms and arms trading festishises weapons, elevating The Gun to centre […]

I am dubious to the validity of the data (being anyone can publish anything on the Internet - they let me on here didn’t that?) but the sight NationMaster.com - Where Stats Come Alive! is rather interesting. I particularly found the mortality stats fascinating especially where the United States doesn’t have the highest in […]

A National Guardsman Jeremy Hall is on the ground in NOLA is bloggin running commentary and images from New Orleans. The insight and photos are well worth spending a few minutes to visit.

Here is a astoundingly beautiful gallery of Deutschland 1929.

Check out Fred’s Airshow Journal. Lots of cool prints available.

DDT-eating scientist exposes eco-fraud If all these people so concerned with Africa really want to do something how about getting DDT UN-Banned and into large scale and cheap production. Fast…

Found an excellent list of Wyoming webcams. If you remember the movie Shane the Blacktail Butte cam is, I’ve been told, where the ranch was located. Other listed cams include 3 for Jackson Hole, Mammoth hot springs and even Old Faithful. Without counting there is probably 40 cams listed. Beautiful scenery.

The type of stuff available on the Internet is amazing. It appears to be Gun Tests for silencers.

Perusing Nealz Nuze I found 4 items that, while too late to comment tonight (because each deserves a lengthy post) I have to at least point them out as worthy reading.
First is Atrocious analogy
By Mark Steyn, then Stephen Moore on W’s tax cuts. Third is why the now rabidly anti American Red Cross will never […]

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, by Marek Edelman

A Second Amendment focused blog - Of Arms and the Law. I’ve not decided if it’s good or bad, not read enough of it yet. But you’re all typically smart enough to make that decision on your own. That is unless you’re a Democrat or member of the Senate in which case you must not […]

This looks interesting…blogger location mapping… Under the “Currently Support Standards” section it says:
BlogMap also supports ICBM and geo.position tags.
I don’t know about you’all but this is one blogger that doesn’t particularly want ICBM’s to have my geo coordinates!

Found a great gallery of ships in Heavy Seas. Interestingly many of the images are taken from oil tankers.