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After reading all the recent beer postings, I got curious: What's in your beer fridge? And to add a philosophical angle, what WOULD BE in your beer fridge if you could have any beer you wanted there?

MitchellC will take over administration of the NC Ping list.

HENDERSON - It was late morning, but Marines learn to sleep whenever they can; so a shrieked obscenity was the first sign for Pfc. Alex Hand, 18, that his bus trip back to Jacksonville after holiday leave was about to end badly. < /snip >

Quick drives to the grocery store and long road trips to Grandma's might not be as tempting some day in North Carolina. < snip >

NEW YORK - Ohio State has been here before, leading the Bowl Championship Series standings. For second-place South Florida, it's another breakthrough in a season full of them. < snip >

So I'm looking over the web for a new handgun (the only one we own is my wife's 9-shot .22, a pretty little piece, but not much for home defense). I came across the website for Hipoint firearms, makers of "polymer frame" handguns, and I thought, "Wouldn't that be really unstable and fragile?" I wanted to get the opinions of the "strangers I trust" here at FR before I actually go drop a couple hundred there. And that's the other thing...these guns are American made and inexpensive. Are they too good to be true?

Host Curtis Wright said this morning that Tom Tancredo, candidate for President, will be on the Morning Beat radio show at 8 am. The radio station is 106.3 FM in Wilmington, NC (and simulcast on 103.9 FM for those north of Wilmington). The station's website is (Carolina's Big Talker)Curtis encouraged listeners to call with questions. Phone numbers can be found on the website.

BreakPoint with Charles Colson Commentary #021212 - 12/12/2002 Because of a controversial beauty contest in Nigeria, 220 people are now dead—brutally, senselessly slaughtered. The blood began flowing first in the Muslim city of Kaduna, later spreading to the capital, Abuja, where the Miss World pageant was scheduled last week. Mercifully, the event was moved to London. Nigerian Muslims were first offended by the contest itself, featuring a bevy of scantily clad women. Insult turned to outrage when Nigerian editor, Isioma Daniel, wrote that Muhammad himself would have added some of the beautiful females to his collection of wives. I’m not...

Sheilaism, Individualism, and Evangelicalism BreakPoint with Charles Colson November 29, 2002 An Unfortunate Cultural Legacy In a book that Ellen Vaughn and I wrote book called The Body, which is now being updated for republication next spring, we described the "identity crisis" confronting the American Church. That identity crisis is a failure to understand what the Church really is: its biblical purpose, mission, and authority. For many Christians, church means the buildings where we meet on Sunday. Building a church means constructing an edifice. When we think of church, we think of it as a place to go—that’s our first...