October 17, 2005

Today's Reading List

On the Blogroll: Terry Heaton is facing surgery this week. Without insurance. Naturally, the blogosphere is stepping up to help. Give here, generously. I've already tithed this month, but next payday I'll be tithing to help Terry, a friend as well as a colleague-in-blogging.

The War: Regime Change Iran has the latest news from and involving Iran, the terrorist-supporting country that's on the verge of developing nuclear weapons. ... Donald Sensing has thoughts about the amazingly successful consitutional referendum in Iraq - and what it tells us about the current state of al Qaeda. ... Walid Phares counts up the victory.

Religion: Mike Cope has some thoughts about real salvation. (Hint: it isn't an event but a process.) ... Tod Bolsinger is blogging GodBlogCon 2005 and wonders if it's wrong for faith-bloggers to be anonymous. Here's the Technorati round-up of GodBlogCon bloggage.

Politics: Former state Rep. Jim Henry, a Republican may run for governor of Tennessee against the incumbent Democrat. You can expect the Democrat to use this information to paint Henry as pro-state income tax. ... Bob Krumm connects mandatory nursing home sprinklers, Hurricane Katrina and Tip O'Neil.

In the News: Nashville City Paper reports on how illegal immigrants are taking advantage of Tennesse's "toughest in the nation" driver licensing laws and then using their not-legal-for-ID "driver certificates" in order to get Virginia car tags that they shouldn't have - and then getting into wrecks. ... Also, Larry Daughtrey is right.

Advice Department: Never bring a knife to a gunfight.

And Finally...: Doh!