Rep. Ander Crenshaw (R-FL) announced on the Hill Blog that he has introduced a bill (H.R. 2370) that would create tax-exempt spending accounts for the care of disabled people. This looks like the already existing tax-exempt flexible spending accounts for health care, and if that is the case, this would be really cool.
According to the [...]
Just as the House of Representatives seems incapable of understanding human incentives with respect to competition, the Senate does little to address incentives in illegal immigration.
There are several facets I’d like to address.
The sheltering of illegal immigrants by churches, be they Roman Catholic, Methodist, or otherwise, flies in the face of the authority given to [...]
I am going back and forth on whether this vote or the vote to sue OPEC is the stupidest vote the House has made in recent memory. Since this vote actually has meaningful results, I went for this one.
The bill calls for criminal penalties of up to $150 million for corporations and up to $2 [...]
It had been several years since I had flown to Rock Springs, but the memories came back as I boarded the Beech 1200D turboprop, a plane I have repeatedly referred to as a trash can with wings. This plane at least had a little bit of insulation on the interior walls, and I was glad [...]
I’m currently waiting out a change in planes in Denver. I noticed several things about the first leg of my flight:
Pretzels and drinks are free. If you want a shrink-wrapped snack box with canned meat, cheese, and miniature Toblerone, $5. I passed. The first time I flew to Denver on United, perhaps 5 [...]
What a cool run the NBC show “Heroes” has had. Every show has been awesome, and I’m glad we’ve been able to record the times I’ve missed. The writing, special effects, and actors have been terrific. The commentary on the web site has been cool too, whenever the bandwidth allows.
It’s a nice thing to see [...]
Carol Rutz has posted a video by one of her favorite bands, Depeche Mode. We have a couple Depeche Mode albums at the house. Paralleling the Eminem discussion in the Lutheran blogosphere, but hopefully keeping the debate reasonable without name-calling as happened in the Eminem debates on other blogs, I think there are things to [...]
The mother ship/home office/headquarters of the Lutheran Carnival has posted its fiftieth edition. Random Dan, who started the carnival, takes time out to thank Pastor Walt Snyder and some blogger with a repeating task item on his PDA.
It’s been enjoyable checking out the sites of those who host the carnival and reading the articles. It [...]
