The pseudonymous pastor at House, M.Div. scoured the latest submissions to the Lutheran Carnival for the sixty-first edition. As one might expect, someone didn’t survive Tribal Council.
Check out the sixty-first edition for the latest round of posts.
UPI reports (link dead) that the Illinois High School Association studied the safety of using metal bats instead of wooden bats, finding the difference negligible. An Illinois lawmaker wants to ban the metal bats for children under 13. New York and North Dakota have already banned the bats from high school games.
Personally I prefer wooden [...]
I wonder sometimes if social liberals in Portland, Maine, hate sex, or perhaps don’t realize that they do.
Sure, one could argue that those pursuing the city’s health officials dispensing birth control pills to 11-year-olds potentially without the knowledge of parents might be seeking to grant that pleasure to everyone.
But what of the effects? How jaded [...]
Williston, ND, has no major hotel brands. There was a Holiday Inn at the airport once, but it has since been sold off. El Rancho Motor Hotel is the one that Halliburton prefers.
My drive-up room was pretty large, with room to spread out. The king-size bed and the pillows were pretty comfortable. The refrigerator was [...]
HT: BizzyBlog
Last week John Stossel published an article at townhall.com about Walmart’s $4 prescriptions and a medical industry that is growing outside of the normal way of doing business with insurance. It’s an article worth reading. Some drugs are so cheap now that people choose not to pay for insurance; thus, we will never see [...]
The Wall Street Journal’s Washington Wire reports that Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) wants to prevent lobbyists from paying people to stand in line for them while waiting to talk to legislators.
“I find it troubling that everyone in this room is getting paid by someone,” she said in the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing [...]
UPI reports that Chevron is building a new gasoline unit to its Pascagoula, MS, refinery for $500 million.
Within three years, the unit will increase gasoline production by about 10 percent, or 600,000 gallons a day, Chevron said.
Sounds like that new oilfield Chevron and others discovered is coming along nicely. Sweet.
Reuters reports that the first U.S. baby boomer, born in 1946, has filed to receive her Social Security benefits at age 62.
Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue said the agency is bracing for some 80 million Americans to apply for retirement benefits over the next two decades.
I am fairly certain that my family is not going [...]
