Month: January 2008

I wanted to post this video done in 2000 to help people to get a feel for just how big the ITER Fusion Test Reactor is. The Bussard Reactor is about 1/100th that size. Here is another ITER video. In the beginning it shows something called the Central Solenoid. A Bussard Reactor producing 100 MW…

What are you supposed to do if you are in your home at night, and suddenly hear the sound of your door being smashed open? The normal response of an armed person would be to grab a gun and shoot at the invader before the invader has a chance to get inside and kill you.…

It looks like Hillary Clinton knew what she was doing when she made a former La Raza President Raul Yzaguirre her campaign co-chair. (Yzaguirre, BTW, has likened the “US English” organization to the Ku Klux Klan.) Analyzing the Nevada results, Bill Bradley sees a serious problem for Obama with the Latino vote — a fact…

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There is a long discussion going on at Gates of Vienna about the divisions in our society. The Left seems intent on multiplying those differences in a divide and conquer strategy. One of the participants said that the answer to what the left is doing is for people of European ancestry to band together to…

HT Lubos Motl

(Sorry for the “Eraserhead” reference, but this is one post I’d rather not write. But the theme is about erasure anyway, so what the hell.) Ron Rosenbaum has a fascinating piece which documents the Mormon practice of baptising dead non-Mormons (something I’d only heard about vaguely). I take a broad general view of religions and…

Today’s Philadelphia Inquirer ran a report by Stephanie Simon of the LA Times about Ward Connerly’s national campaign against affirmative action. DENVER – Intent on dismantling affirmative action, activists in five states have launched a coordinated drive to cut off tax dollars for programs that offer preferential treatment based on race or gender. The campaign…

What might be the biggest unspoken liberal objection to Barack Obama is only being voiced by foreign leftists: In Europe, one senses a quiet shame. The left, which loves to criticize the Unites States for its imperial foreign policy and its discrimination against blacks and Hispanics, is not really saluting Obama. There have been few…

That’s what an angry core of feminist activists is saying about Oprah Winfrey: AMERICA’S favourite television presenter is paying a painful price for her intervention in the US presidential campaign last month. Oprah Winfrey has been dubbed a “traitor” by some of her female fans for supporting Barack Obama instead of Hillary Clinton. Winfrey’s website,…

I’m watching the South Carolina results roll in and I’m sorry that Fred Thompson didn’t win this one. (Right now he’s in third place, which is at least better than he’d done elsewhere.) With 22% of the vote in, it appears that McCain has it — winning by an eight point margin over Huckabee. (36%…

Here’s Boys on Wheels — a disabled Norwegian group singing a song about how glad they are that they’re not gay. This came from a friend who said in the email, Hysterical, but as you see, we are STILL the only ones on whom it will always be open season for ridicule! Exactly how serious…

Back when Power and Control was new (Dec ‘004) I put up a post called Internet Security, where I discussed the problems of controlling critical infrastructure with the Internet, wireless, or worse yet wireless Internet. George Tenent then head of the CIA said we had a problem. Let me quote a bit to give you…

I’m getting tired of what can only be called noose hysteria. I think reactions to images of nooses are leading people to lose all sense of perspective, and allow themselves to be manipulated by what is, after all, only an image. I’ve complained about “imageism” before, and I think that’s precisely what is going on…

John Leo at Minding the Campus discusses affirmative diversity counseling at Yale. Yale’s burgeoning diversity program has another announcement: it wants to “incorporate the role of ethnic counselor into that of freshman counselor, who will become responsible for providing enhanced community support for cultural affairs on campus,” according to the Yale Daily News. What does…

Black Five has an update on the Jay Grodner case that I reported on in A Marine Needs Help. The best stuff is in the comments so I’ll give you those. From Mike the Marine yesterday: [Sgt] McNulty might derive some comfort from the fact that the presiding judge is a former Marine. Circuit Court…

That’s how Charles Krauthammer characterizes Hillary’s LBJ analogy, and the Clintons’ view that only Hillary is qualified to lead black people: In my view, the real problem with Clinton’s statement was the implied historical analogy — that the subordinate position King held in relation to Johnson, a function of the discrimination and disenfranchisement of the…

Has there ever been a time in American political history when both major parties were as fragmented as they are now? Maybe there has been, but I don’t remember ever seeing anything quite like this. True, I have seen unpopular presidents and many scandals come and go. LBJ was much hated by the left because…

Dr. Nebel, who is working on the Bussard Fusion Project has taken some time out of his busy schedule to thank the bloggers supporting the WB-7 Project. Also, I would like to thank M Simon, TallDave and their fellow bloggers for their continued interest in this technology. We appreciate that a great deal, but as…

Newsmax.com sent me this, and I really don’t know what to make of it. The title is “Hillary Plays Flight Attendant” Up next, Obama as a, um…oh, forget it!