Good news for the Colts. The Stadium funding bill passed, 108-36
After four months of sometimes angry debate, the General Assembly took a crucial step toward solidifying the city’s NFL future Friday night by easily approving a financing plan for a new Colts stadium and expanded Indiana Convention Center.
Ground-breaking for the new, retractable-roof stadium is scheduled [...]

Vyvoda asks what “Bush supporters” have to say about this Reuters article, which in typical roto-Reuters fashion is headlined World Terror Attacks Tripled in 2004 by U.S. Count:
The U.S. count of major world terrorist attacks more than tripled in 2004, a rise that may revive debate on whether the Bush administration is winning the war [...]

While I don’t often agree with their politics, I generally enjoy reading the sub-/counter-culture weekly Riverfront Times. It usually has well-written articles of local interest, like this one, which ConservativeDialysis found and wrote about. (Ditto the caveat: RFT doesn’t fall under “family-friendly” in the language department.)
Some choice nuggets:
Samir says a soldier fired several blank rounds [...]

Wittenberg Gate hosts this week’s Christian Carnival:
Posts are divided into the following categories: Apologetics, Bible Study, Books, Christian Living, Church Issues, Culture & Current Events, Family, Gospel, and Theology.
Do you think anything I write is carnival-worthy?

Stones Cry Out reports on much ado about nothing in the Washington Post:
Yet there’s lots of chatter in the blogosphere, but little coverage in the mainstream media, of a study that suggests the early exit polls that showed Kerry beating Bush may have been accurate after all. The study, conducted on behalf of U.S. Count [...]

With the 243rd overall pick in the ‘05 draft, the Indianapolis Colts take Anthony Davis (RB, Wis, 5′6, 200, 4.51). From the ESPN NFL Draft Tracker:
Davis is one of the more explosive backs in this class and he also has terrific overall running skills. He’s quick, shifty, decisive, tough for his size and shows a [...]

With the 202nd overall pick in the ‘05 draft, the Indianapolis Colts take Dave Rayner (PK, MSU, 6′2, 210, 5.0). From the ESPN NFL Draft Tracker:
Raynor has one of the stronger legs in the country but accuracy continues to be a problem. He has been below average in terms of his field goal percentage and [...]

With the 148th overall pick in the ‘05 draft*, the Indianapolis Colts take Jonathan Welsh (DE, WIS, 6′3, 244, 4.52). From the ESPN NFL Draft Tracker:
Welsh is a bit of a late-bloomer. He lacks ideal size as a DE prospect and he has limited experience dropping into coverage as a linebacker. However, his combination of [...]

With the 129th overall pick in the ‘05 draft, the Indianapolis Colts take Dylan Gandy (OG, Texas Tech, 6′3, 304, 45.12. From the ESPN NFL Draft Tracker:
Gandy is undersized, lacks great strength and still needs more experience. However, his athleticism, versatility and quickness make him an intriguing mid-to-late round prospect in the 2005 draft class. [...]

With the 92nd overall pick in the ‘05 draft, the Indianapolis Colts take Vincent “Sweat Pea” Burns (DE, Kentucky, 6.0, 267, 4.89). From the ESPN NFL Draft Tracker:
Burns reminds us a lot of Anthony Adams, a second round pick of the 49ers in 2003. He is a ‘tweener DE/DT that may never be more than [...]

With the 60th overall pick in the ‘05 draft, the Indianapolis Colts take Kelvin Hayden (CB, Illinois, 5′10, 197, 4.48). From the ESPN NFL Draft Tracker:
Hayden transferred to Illinois in the fall of 2003 and started 10 games at WR (52 receptions for 592 yards and three TD’s). He moved to cornerback in the spring [...]

With the 29th overall pick in the ‘05 draft, the Indianapolis Colts take Marlin Jackson (CB, Michigan, 6′0″, 198, 4.59). NFL Draft Countdown profiles Jackson:
Strengths: Great size…Excellent athlete…Very physical and aggressive…Good speed with the ability to close in a hurry…Technique is impressive…Really steps up and rises to the occasion when facing top wideouts.Weaknesses: Had [...]

BlogsforBush reports common-sense election reform in Georgia:
Common sense prevails in the state of Georgia, with Governor Sonny Perdue signing into law today a requirement that voters show photo ID before casting ballots.
Of course, the liberal reaction was as predictible as it was inevitable:
The AP reports that most black lawmakers walked out of the state Capitol [...]

Michelle Malkin comments on yesterday’s atrocity in Iraq, in which a civilian helicoptor was shot down, and then a survivor murdered.
The Islamic Army in Iraq has claimed responsibility and posted video it claims is of the wreckage. Shocking footage of the terrorists shows them discovering a survivor of the crash (whom analysts say is one [...]

Christian Carnival LXVI, brought to you by Pseudo-Polymath:
Welcome to Christian Carnival number LXVI. Thank you all very much for the time and effort XX of you have put into preparing the essays which make this carnival possible.
The theme for today’s Carnival is to try be akin to liturgy, that is I’m going to try to [...]

Glad to see another conservative elected as the next Pope. And a fairly speedy election, as well:
With unusual speed and little surprise, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany became Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday, a 78-year-old transitional leader who promises to enforce strictly conservative policies for the world’s Roman Catholics.
I’m sure there’s a lot of commentary [...]

The 65th Christian Carnival is up today at AnotherThink. Interestingly, the carnival was posted from Oaxaca:
I am posting this week’s Christian Carnival from Oaxaca, Mexico, a land of many languages and cultures. I’m using Paul’s nine evidences of the transformed life as a way of forcing some structure on your entries.
You’ll find a section for [...]

On the cusp of my church’s launch of Revolution School, my Wednesday-night Life Group (The Listening Lifestyle) was given an assignment to pray about and listen to God’s direction concerning this nascent school of worship. I found myself unable to get past one specific passage:
Therefore I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to [...]

The Democrats, once again, are on the wrong side of a Civil Rights debate – and they are using the same old obstructionist tactic in the Senate. ProverbsDaily quotes [LA Times Editorial Page Editor Andres Martinez]* from an LA Times editorial on the history of the filibuster:
A “cornerstone of American democracy” is exactly what Democrats [...]

I didn’t know The Agitator was a Pacer Fan:
If Rick Carlisle doesn’t get some consideration for coach of the year, something’s amiss. He’s taken my Pacers to the brink of hosting the first round of the playoffs after losing his best player for about half the season, his second best player for the entire season, [...]

Understanding Engineers – Take One
Two engineering students crossing the campus when one said, “Where did you get such a great bike?” The second engineer replied, “Well, I was walking along yesterday minding my own business when a beautiful woman rode up on this bike. She threw the bike to the ground, took off all her [...]

Apparently ConservativeDialysis just discovered the Rube Goldberg contest:
I can only imagine what would have happened if they had asked the students to change a lightbulb.
In honor of this discovery, I offer the following Engineering tomfoolery:
Q: When does a person decide to become an engineer?A: When he realizes he doesn’t have the charisma to be an [...]

Each year the staff at Beloit College in Wisconsin puts together a list to try to give the Faculty a sense of the mindset of the year’s incoming freshman. Here is the list for the Class of 2005:

The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1983. [...]

This weekend I was in Kansas City for the marriage of Pritee Phool to Ishwinder Chattha. Both are Sikh, and this marriage was arranged between Ish, of Indian descent, and Pritee, native of Thailand.
PHOTO: Ish with his mother at the Bharaat.
The festivities began Friday evening with the Bharaat reception at the Doubletree hotel in downtown [...]

Hello, Liberal Idiot, this is the Real World; have we met before?
As if the Krugman koolaid-drinking isn’t evidence enough, we get this gem with respect to why liberals tend toward “academia” and conservatives tend toward “corporations”:
To generalize: liberals like studying and discussing and learning; conservatives like making money, and sometimes stealing money.
So close, yet so [...]