t-shirt
'I promise
not to talk politics
during dinner'

Steve's favorite news links

* The Newseum's daily compendium of front pages from around the world

* Alan Keyes for President

* Google News, updated continuously throughout the day.

* Maryland Independent Party



"Contemplating" ...

Your humble host
agrees with the signers of
Declaration of Independence
that all men are created equal,
endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable rights,
including the rights to life,
liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness

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April 12, 2008

"Unbelievable" - that's how the lady in spot next to mine in parking lot this evening described the cloud cover here near the Shady Grove station on the Washington, D.C. Metrorail's Red Line. I had come to similar conclusion a few minutes prior, and had snapped these photos.

March 31, 2008

Hello and welcome.

I'm Steve Schulin. Before the web, I ran a dial-in BBS for subscribers to the nuclear power plant radiation protection newsletter I published, called Radiological Inspection Reports. When the internet was opened up for email domains, I was delighted to add that feature to the BBS. My first choice for domain name was rad.com, but that was already taken. So I thought about it for about a week, and decided on nuclear.com, which was available. That was in the early 1990s. Now that every word in the dictionary has reportedly long been registered, I feel very lucky indeed to have been one of the early adopters. I still spend most of my time on things nuclear, but I've registered some other domains in recent months, and this site points to them all.

* MarylandIndependentParty.org - The dominant political parties have failed, miserably, in leadership. The coming presidential election is an important one, and it looks like the Republican nominee will be John McCain, and the Democrat nominee will be Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. None of these folks come close to representing my views, and each one looks like a disastrous choice to me. So I want to help ensure Alan Keyes is a choice on the ballot in my state, as others are also working on throughout the nation. I invite all of good will and judgement to consider joining a new party this year. In Maryland, that new party is the Maryland Independent Party, and I'm happy to be providing the party's initial web presence. We need 10,000 signatures on a petition by August 4 to get our candidates on the ballot in November. If you're a registered voter in Maryland, please go here, get the petition, complete it (and get others to sign it too), and mail it in to the address on the petition.

* md4steve.org - I started this page when our MD4 district Congressman, Rep. Albert Wynn, decided to move on with his life and resign his seat in the U.S. House. There's a special election scheduled for this seat on June 17, and I believe I can win this election. I've registered as a write-in candidate, and that means votes for me will be counted. I've taken Alan Keyes' message to heart: these are extraordinary times, and all of us who want future generations to enjoy the blessings of liberty need to ask ourselves what we can personally do, and then do what we can. I ask for your vote on June 17, and could sure use your help in informing others.

* CompleatAdvocate.com - This is a public policy discussion board. The name continues in the tradition of Isaak Walton's book on fishing and the environment, titled "The Compleat Angler". Our debate team at The Catholic University of America became quite active in serving high school debate. One year, we decided to try writing a handbook to introduce students to the coming year's topic. When it came to selecting a title, my suggestion of "The Compleat Medical Advocate" was adopted. The following year, we published "The Compleat Energy Advocate".

* Calamitology.com - I was a debater in high school and college. At that time, the role of particulate air pollution in an impending global cooling was source of much more immediate emphasis than was the role of CO2 in sooner or later warming the climate. I read as much as I could find in the libraries on the subject during those years, and continued to read the occasional climatology articles in Science and such when I was out in the working world. When George W. Bush took office in 2001, two of his cabinet were quite vocal about the threat posed by CO2, and it was this which prompted me to want to better understand the scientific basis for their policy recommendations. I spent thousands of hours over the next several years studying climate science, and I concluded that there's been a lot of exaggerations and other lies being told, some out of ignorance and others apparently quite purposefully. I became one of the "regulars" in the sci.environment usenet group. Calamitology.com is where I plan to highlight some of the memorable discussion, as well as comment on new developments in the literature.

* NuclearWeb.org - In this age of citizen reporters, I thought the nuclear industry was of enough interest to support an independent credentialing agency, sort of like the various state press associations. This site is envisioned as fulfilling this role, and will provide other features of special technical and commercial interest to nuclear webmasters.

* TodaysCrisis.com - You might be amazed at how many things are portrayed as crises by the media and by Members of Congress on a given day.

* ConstitutionPartyMD.org - Here's how I described this website before deciding to support Allen Keyes in his continued candidacy for President: If you don't vote for the candidate who best represents your views, then what chance do you have of ever having your views reflected in our goovernment policies? I switched my voter registration to Constitution Party when Alan Keyes (the candidate who best represents, by far, my views) announced that he will seek the Constitution Party's nomination for the 2008 presidential election. I'm going to do what I can from here in Montgomery County Maryland to help elect Constitution Party candidates at all levels, and I hope that Alan Keyes for President is one of them.

* FruitsOfSuccess.com - Business-oriented success stories

* FruitsOfAchievement.com - Academic success stories

* FruitsOfVictory.com - Sports success stories was the intent here, but when a like-minded supporter of Alan Keyes was telling me about the Massachusetts petition drive to get Dr. Keyes on the ballot, I offered her this domain to help in getting the word out.

* Schulin.net - if you're a Schulin, you can have a free email forwarding address @schulin.net

* nuclearwaist.com - Nuclear waste is a pretty serious matter, but a nuclear waist, well, that's different.