Eric Scheske

Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick of Detroit wants Detroit voters to approve a two-percent fast-food tax. Critics of the plan say the tax would unfairly burden the poor and hamper economic development in the city. Link [http://www.kfor.com/Global/story.asp?S=3315172]. Comment I: Maybe the Mayor

An 11-year-old boy was arrested this week for carrying ten nails in his pocket at a middle school and charged with carrying an unlawful weapon. The nails were left in his pocket after a Boy Scout meeting. Ten nails at first, sure. But then it's AK47s

She should've used a cottage industry computer consultant who doesn't even own a floor model. Yeah, it would've cost her 8% more, but at least some stranger doesn't know her credit card numbers and the names of all the high school boyfriends

Interesting article at Lew Rockwell about GM's problems. Essentially, the writer says it comes down to this: Starting in the 1950s, GM bought lower wages for workers by giving them great OPEB ("other post-employment benefits"): great pensions and lifetime health care. The workers didn'

iPod vending machine at the Atlanta airport:

Great piece by Victor Davis Hanson in The Washington Times about the need to respect our ancestors. Link [http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20050506-090931-9566r.htm]. Excerpt: > To appreciate the value of history, we must also accept that human nature is constant and fixed across time and space.

Two by Muggeridge: > When Christ was in the world, He was despised by men; in the hour of need He was forsaken by acquaintances and left by friends to the depths of scorn. He was willing to suffer and to be despised; do you dare to complain of anything?

Microsoft is again pushing the gay agenda. Link [http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBSYSITE8E.html]. Excerpt: > In a turnaround Friday, Microsoft Corp. chief executive Steve Ballmer said the company will support gay rights legislation.

Hmmm. The Virgin Mary under the overpass is back. > But the faithful turned out, and one or more people somehow began to remove the paint. It was not known how they did it, but by afternoon, the image was back largely intact and apparently with no sign of the

There's nothing like stooping lower than your opposition. With dolts like these battling the homo-lesbian community, Andrew Sullivan's campaign for gay rights and marriage is all but won: > The [pro-gay] demonstrators stood on [an] American flag, saying the red strips represented AIDS-tainted