Friday, October 19

Clearing the Tabs 10-19-2018

Some things I've read this week or will be reading over the weekend.

October 7
Whole Foods Explodes The Myth About Big Businesses Targeting The 'Corner Store'

October 14
Real-World Examples of How the Minimum Wage Destroys Jobs and Hurts Workers

California becoming more feudal, with ultra-rich lording over declining middle class

October 17
Republicans’ new rallying cry is ‘Remember Kavanaugh’ and it may lead them to midterm victory

October 19
Arthur Brooks and American Enterprise Institute (AEI) will release a documentary in the Spring of 2019 and it looks amazing:

Wednesday, October 17

Senator Ben Sasse Rightly Takes On Sean Hannity

Hannity of course will never accept this challenge, but good for Senator Sasse for not just letting Hannity go unchecked.

Monday, October 15

Kirk Gibson's Homerun Is 30 Today

My grandfather had passed away exactly a week before this game. We still had family in town after the funeral and all. I can still remember sitting by myself on the couch, all the way to the right side. The adults were talking and whatnot over at the dining room table. Kirk Gibson came to the plate and I thought, "no way." I was stunned into silence as the ball cleared the right field fence. A truly remarkable moment.

 It happened 30 years ago tonight, almost to the hour that I'm posting this.

Earlier today, AM570 in Los Angeles had Kirk Gibson on the radio talking with Steve Sax (who hopefully you recall was also on that 1988 team. You can listen to that interview here.

Goosebumps.

Friday, October 5

Clearing the Tabs 10-5-2018

Some things I've read this week or will be reading over the weekend.

September 29
How Do Christians Fit Into the Two-Party System? They Don’t
The historical Christian positions on social issues don’t match up with contemporary political alignments.

September 30

October 4
How Jeff Flake's One-Week Delay Helped Clear Brett Kavanaugh's Name

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This may be the stupidest take I have seen during this confirmation battle. It is just totally pointless and ridiculous.

October 5
Senator Collins Announces She Will Vote to Confirm Judge Kavanaugh
The speech by Senator Collins was amazing and should be read by every student of life, law, civics, economics, and political science.

Susan Collins Consents
The Maine Republican restores reason to the Kavanaugh confirmation.