Bet you thought hand-cranking was just for ice cream.
AP reports that the United Nations (your tax dollars at work elsewhere ) has agreed to purchase and ship 1 million laptops to governments for use in schools.
The cost of these small wonders is around $100 each. In unveiling the laptop, Kofi Annan broke the hand [...]
I understand in war there are “innocents”, but there aren’t a voting majority of them in Palestine.
Unable to succumb to reality and tolerate the Israel at its disputed borders, the Palestinian “people” voted Hamas into their government. How does one deal with a “party” that will not negotiate nor rest until Israel is driven [...]
Devotions. Memories of parents reading to their kids. Some Lutheran grandparents and great-grandparents still have their copy of Little Visits with God that they might dust off for the kids come age 3 or 4. Most devotions I’ve seen regardless of denomination have a nice moral story and that verse at the end that [...]
BBC reports that the French government has begun a crackdown on pork soup served in soup kitchens. The government accuses Bloc Identitaire, Soulidarieta, and other groups of discriminating against Muslims and Jews.
The websites for these groups are hilarious to read through Google Translate. It’s hard to tell whether they are off the deep end. [...]
The GOP Blog “The Loft” provides a link to this story from the Arizona Republic.
A group in Tucson, “Humane Borders,” designed maps of the Arizona desert, with rescue beacons and water stations. These maps will be given out by Mexico’s human rights agency to anyone willing to run the desert and enter the United [...]
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Thanks to the Aardvark, I’ve now updated my blogroll with the blog of Rev. Tom Baker, who hosts a terrific show called Law & Gospel on KFUO-AM. Justification by faith alone may be the article by which the church stands or falls, but rightly dividing Law & Gospel also [...]
An AP report on CBS News summarizes a literacy study of college students:
More than 50 percent of students at four-year schools and more than 75 percent at two-year colleges lacked the skills to perform complex literacy tasks.
That means they could not interpret a table about exercise and blood pressure, understand the arguments of newspaper editorials, [...]
HT: Vox Populi
Take one 36-year-old high school coach who had been convicted of raping a 15-year-old. Sentencing guidelines allowed the judge to give up to 15 years in jail.
Add in a “father” who says it’s cool and the fact that both rapist and teenager were female. Sentence? Two years house arrest and 8 years [...]
