There is a lot of good Thanksgiving reading out there, from Touchstone’s Pilgrims and Patriots to Borghardt’s Thankful? You betcha!. It looks like all that’s needed to be said has been said.
It seems to me that this is the way it always is for holidays. All the stuff that’s needed to be done has been [...]
An interesting article in the Washington Post relays concerns from Columbia. Employees of a jeans factory that exports to the United States are worried that trade deals that kept their factory in business will be nixed by the Democrat-controlled Congress.
President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia has championed the free-trade agreement and cultivated a friendship with President [...]
I tell my email (Outlook, by corporate fiat) to let me know when someone has read an email I sent them. This leads to some interesting messages like this one:
Your message
To: (list)
Cc: (another list)
Subject: (program) Usage
Sent: 10/30/2004 9:38 AM
was deleted without being read on 11/18/2006 8:20 AM
Well, I’m glad he [...]
I was checking the various airlines sites for stated policies about handling infants when I saw this on the Southwest Airlines site:
Book November 23 travel by November 27. Useful if you have a Thanksgiving Day disaster and want to try something else.
The Washington Post reports that “nurse-ins” were scheduled last month at over 30 airports around the country. The mothers were protesting airlines that moved nursing mothers onto later flights when the mothers refused to cover up.
I am well aware of the benefits of breast feeding for children. Nursing them during take-off and landing is fine [...]
The 37th edition of the Lutheran Carnival is up, with some information on what is known as Mendelssohn’s “Reformation” symphony. If it’s half as good as the Elijah oratorio, I may have to add this to my collection.
Thank you, Ryan, for your efforts. O-H-I-O!
The Hill’s Congress Blog contains a Thank You to CITGO from Representative Jose Serrano (D, NY-16).
CITGO you may recall is Venezuelan and controlled by commun—excuse me—democratic socialist dictator Hugo Chavez. Chavez you may recall had some unkind words at the U.N. in September for President Bush and called the U.S. government the “first enemy” of [...]
My sympathies to those (ghp) who wished Michigan to win on Saturday. It was one slobber-knocker of the game, one that wasn’t over until Ohio State got the last first down of the game with 30 seconds left.
I thought for a second that OSU was in trouble when Michigan lost its Coach Schembechler, but then, [...]
