Maybe a long shot, but doable:
Indiana Republicans are hoping to score a rare kind of victory this November: winning enough seats to claim a “super majority” in both the House and Senate while taking the governor’s office as well.
Maybe a long shot, but doable:
Indiana Republicans are hoping to score a rare kind of victory this November: winning enough seats to claim a “super majority” in both the House and Senate while taking the governor’s office as well.
Men have long claimed that their pain threshold is higher than women’s, while women cite childbirth as proof the opposite is true.
There was a line we always knew they'd cross eventually, and now they're starting to sneak over it. It's the line between how we must conform our public behavior and how free we are to live in peace in private:
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - The Fort Wayne Housing Authority has approved a policy change that will prohibit smoking in all public housing units beginning Jan. 1, 2013.
Man, this stuff is getting waaaay beyond tiresome:
BELLINGHAM - A fragmented nation and a fragmented audience for news is making the country more difficult to govern, PBS News Hour co-anchor Jeffrey Brown said during a weekend talk at Western Washington University.
"Happiness is a warm gun" update:
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The senior executive of the county that includes Chicago dropped a proposed tax on bullets on Wednesday but kept a plan to tax firearms to help defray healthcare expenses associated with the high rate of gun.
Finally, a campaign ad that doesn't make me want to run from the room screaming or throw the nearest cat at the TV screen:
Before the state went to its A-F grading system for schools, there were a lot of complaints from teachers and school administrators that the system would set schools up for failure and hand out a lot of D's and F's. Turns out that isn't the case. "New A-F grades aren't as scary as feared" is the way the Indy Star's headline put it:
The South Bend Tribune puts a snippy little bit of snark in the opening of its gubernatorial race endorsement editorial:
No women or minorities need apply, of course. Diversity has never been the watchword of Indiana gubernatorial politics.
Still, it is difficult to imagine three white males more different from one another than the three candidates for governor this fall.
My goodness, if even Bono is educable, maybe there's hope for making common sense the norm:
It should not be a partisan issue to ask that our civil liberties be safeguard even in a time when threats to the nation increase. Warrantless wiretaps and promiscuous email snooping were worrisome under President Bush and remain so under President Obama. We must continue to be vigilant no matter who wins the election next week:
The Benghazi scandal is getting riper by the minute, a third of the country is dealing with the storm of the century, the economy is still on the verge of collapse and the debt is still unsustainable and growing, but let's not let any of those minor concers distract us from the really important issues:
President Obama says he would like to establish a "secretary of Business" if he wins a second term.
In an interview with MSNBC, the president said he wants to consolidate a number of business and trade-related agencies, creating a "one-stop shop" for oversight.
An Indiana man tattooed his face with a Mitt Romney presidential campaign logo in exchange for $15,000.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Police departments around Indiana will have to review how officers conduct traffic stops after the state appeals court threw out a marijuana possession conviction against a driver, legal experts said.
Leave it to The New York Times to use a Big Storm as one more excuse to call for Big Government:
This is scary and infuriating, but it's not really all that surpising, is it?
The notion of a "fiscal cliff" suggests the country is approaching a calamitous drop-off at the end of the year — and it would be tantamount to suicide to jump off.
The Journal Gazette on Saturday ran this pseudo-intellectional, unintentionally hilarious column by one Katie Roiphe that orginally ran in Slate. Seems Katie got tired of the whole "echo-chamber of election anxiety" thing, and so watched the last presidential debate with her 9-year-old daughter Violent, who had some remarkable insights about the candidates' resemblance to "Harry Potter" characters:
I'm not quite as scandalized as some people seem to be over the fact that the Obama administration tried to sell a lie about the attack on us in Benghazi (it was a spontaneous riot because of a vile video, not a well-planned terrorist attack to commemorate 9/11) in an apparent effort to keep their "al Qaida is on the run" narrative going. I'm cynical enough to consider that politics as usual.
I've never been exactly all torn up about not being one of the Beautiful People. Now I can even feel good about it:
Beauty is boring. And the evidence is piling up. An article in the journal Psychological Science now confirms what partygoers have known forever: that beauty and charm are no more directly linked than a high IQ and a talent for whistling.
