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Eric Scheske

Wal-Mart Bloggers

The Left is roaring about this story: > Under assault as never before, Wal-Mart is increasingly looking beyond the mainstream media and working directly with bloggers, feeding them exclusive nuggets of news, suggesting topics for postings and even inviting them to visit its corporate headquarters. NY Times Link [http:

Oh, Babs

Drudge cracked me up with this story [http://www.drudgereport.com/flash1bs.htm]: > Barbra Streisand has launched a new spelling error-ridden dispatch on the Internet -- a dispatch that mocks President Bush for being a "C student!" > In her February 28th, 2006 essay, Streisand flubs 11

It's the Dead Babies

Joseph Bottum talks about Republican many problems and the Democrats' big one: abortion. Good stuff [http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/]. Excerpt: > And the trouble is abortion, for the Democrats are pinned by it. Although NARAL may have an ordained Methodist minister to act as its official chaplain, there

Hitting Critical Mass

Approximately 56 new blogs go online every minute. We're at 29.8 blogs right now [http://www.technorati.com/]. I suspect we'll pass the 30 million mark late tomorrow afternoon.

Karate Mom

Heart-warming story? A Columbine averted? Or just a sad story about one pathetic 22-year-old "man"? (Hint: It's not the first two.) > A middle-aged Russian mum has become a black belt in karate to protect her 22-year-old son from bullies.

Fat Kids Everywhere

> Nearly half of all Western Hemisphere kids will be overweight by 2010, the International Obesity Task Force report says in the International Journal of Pediatric Obesity. NY Post Link [http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/60660.htm]. Well, we can't have that. I guess we'll

Good Oil

I was never a big fan of the WWJD bracelets, but I might get some of this: > Introducing WWJD-40 an amazing product with a thousand and one uses. Jesus gave Peter the power to bind and loose and wouldn't you just love to be able to

Inclusion, Universalism, Whatever

> Carlton Pearson has still got it. The dapper clothes. The voluminous vocabulary. The toothy smile. > And, perhaps most important, Mr. Pearson still has an unshakable conviction in his controversial "gospel of inclusion" ”“ the belief that everyone will go to heaven, regardless of his or her actions

Parent-Notification Laws

> For all the passions they generate, laws that require minors to notify their parents or get permission to have an abortion do not appear to have produced the sharp drop in teenage abortion rates that some advocates hoped for, an analysis by The New York Times shows [http://www.

Poor Moses

"No. I said, 'Let's discuss the goy issue.'" > In a closed-door meeting this week in an undisclosed site near Baltimore, a committee of Jewish legal experts who set policy for Conservative Judaism will consider whether to lift their movement's ban