“But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.” I Timothy 5:8 I worked with a biker, who was also a cocaine dealer, and a womanizer. He slept around, because cocaine was what his “girlfriends” wanted. He…
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Insanity & Doom Update XXVII
Homeschooling Parents Would Rather ‘Go to Jail’ Than Send Daughter to State School The parents of a home schooled child have said they would be willing to go to prison rather than submit to Westminster Council’s demand to interview their daughter or send her to a state-run school. Edward Hardy and his wife Eileen Tracy,…
Riley J. Hood
The National Soap Opera
“Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceives not in him lips of knowledge.” Proverbs 14:7 I stick to things that I can prove. I try to avoid “bad optics.” Yet many Americans, Libertarians in particular think that the infinite regression applied to politics, namely an unending list of questions constitutes proof.…
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Agrees to Hear WILL Case Against State Superintendent of Public Instruction Evers
Statement from WILL President & General Counsel, Rick EsenbergMilwaukee, WI– Today, the Wisconsin Supreme Court of Wisconsin has agreed to hear oral arguments in Koschkee v. Evers, WILL’s case about whether the State Superintendent of Public Instruction violated state law when he ignored the REINS Act, a newly enacted law meant to curb the power…
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Materion releases downhole tech proven in Bakken, Permian
Materion Corp., an advanced materials solutions provider, recently introduced a new oilfield coupling that is designed to significantly reduce failures in wells that are prone to extreme rod string buckling and wear deep in wells. The new, trademarked ToughMet 3 Valve Rod Guide Bushing Coupling (VRGB) is engineered to prevent tubing leaks by reducing metalon-…
Luke Geiver
Frack Fleet CEO: Decades of work remain in Permian
A year into its existence as a publicly traded company, ProPetro Holding Corp. has secured its foothold in the Permian Basin. In 2017, the company grew employee headcount by nearly 100 percent and saw its hydraulic fracturing fleet utilization rate also near 100 percent. With almost 700,000 HHP from 16 fleets running in the Permian,…