Fox News reports that Matt Murphy, the baseball fan who caught Barry Bonds’ 756th home run ball, will be auctioning it off:
The 21-year-old New York man said Tuesday he had no choice but to sell the ball — several people told him he would be taxed on the valuable souvenir if he holds onto it.
It [...]
I was never a fan of Ohio’s Third Frontier program, which guaranteed low-interest loans and reserved chunks of land for research and industrial development, paid for by selling bonds.
An editorial in the Dayton Daily News seems to indicate that Governor Ted Strickland doesn’t like the program either, but he likes the money:
In the last state [...]
A reader emailed me why I hinted I would vote in the Republican primary when Republicans have joined the Democrats in spending this country into oblivion.
The simple answer is damage control. I don’t want the pro-gun control and pro-choice of Giulani, the tax-raising record of Huckabee, the amnesty and anti-free speech record of McCain, the [...]
Townhall.com has an op-ed by former Senator Jim Talent (R-MO) praising Mitt Romney for the universal health care program in Massachusetts. It’s an interesting read, but I have a couple of thoughts:
The redirection of money from “free care” facilities to health insurance does drive insurance prices higher. Subsidies increase demand. It’s still a net positive [...]
The plan was to save $550, fly in to Denver, and drive to Casper today.
At the time of this post my luggage is missing and will hopefully show up in an hour. I’m staying in the airport until it shows up. I imagine that it got lost in the unanticipated transfer of planes in Chicago-Midway. [...]
CNet reports that two Ohio residents have demonstrated that they can determine who voted for what candidates, given the pollbook and the paper tape that comes out of voting machines that show what time someone voted.
Personally I’m not that concerned. Unless it’s a toss-up between two unknowns, or it’s the Republican primary, I think [...]
Saturday night my big four-year-old went up the stairs with her drink, her Eeyore doll, and her cow, and laid in bed. I tucked her in.
We said our prayers, and as I began the Evening Prayer from the Small Catechism, I drew a cross on her forehead. She immediately said that felt good, and [...]
The four of us went to the Pataskala Street Fair along with my parents-in-law. Both our daughters behaved quite well until it was time to go; we did keep them up past their bedtime.
The fair became embroiled in a controversy where the local fire station was not allowed to continue the fund-raising method [...]
