Under the headline "Voters, are you bluffing?" George Will raises a valid and troubling point:
Under the headline "Voters, are you bluffing?" George Will raises a valid and troubling point:
Seven-month old Jayden Noel was taken to a shelbyville emergency room with cuts and bruises. The emergerncy room doctor suspected abuse but bought the mother's story that her boyfriend had thrown a toy into Jayden's crib, not realizing the child was in it. The doctor did not report his initial suspicion, and six months later the boy was dead, another victim of child abuse who fell through the cracks:
I think it's about to be a lot of fun to be a screwup student in New York City but there are tough times ahead for serious students who might actually want to learn something. The school system is easing its discipline code so that smoking, cursing and cutting classes will no longer result in a suspension. This is just fine with "education law specialist" Nelson Mar, who says the adjustments will be a "great first step" in changing school culture.
Veep nominee Paul Ryan gave the rousing speech that was expected of him last night. This is a pretty good assessment:
Making the case for Indiana's sex and violent offender registry for the people who deserve to be on it is tough enough -- yes, it might contribute to public safety, but at the cost of hounding for life people who have already served their sentences. Trying to dodge responsibility for putting people on it who don't belong is just inexcusable:
One of the oddest crimes in recent history has now reached the trial stage:
Jury selection began today in the hate crimes trial of Samuel Mullet Sr. and 15 followers of his breakaway sect, who are accused of forcibly cutting the beards and hair of other Amish men and women.
Indiana is heavily invested in the great charter school experiment, so this Cato Institute study is of more than passing interest:
While most students are drawn from traditional public schools, charter schools are pulling large numbers of students from the private education market and present a potentially devastating impact on the private education market, as well as a serious increase in the financial burden on taxpayers.
I watched both big GOP Convention speeches last night -- Ann Romney followed by Chris Christie -- and I'm not sure I totally agree with this assessment:
Heck of a tribute to celebrate the life of Neil Armstrong:
Nobody knows where the next astronauts on the moon will come from. But I expect there is a good chance that they will be Chinese," said Morris Jones, an Australian space expert.
"China's space programme is moving steadily forward. If they continue at this pace, they will develop the capability to reach the moon around 2030."
More Americans rely on their families for assistance than the government, so federal officials have undertaken an effort to help people to apply for federal assistance.
For today's excursion into liberal bias, let's look at The New York Times:
In a column for Saturday's paper about the Bob Dylan concert at Parkview Field, I wrote this:
Some chicken**** busybodies in Liberty, Ind., have complained about a perfectly ordinary 28-foot-tall rooster sign for a restaurant, so now there'll be a hearing on whether a zoning variance should be granted allowing the sign to stay:
Wise words from first-man-on-the-moon and Purdue graduate Neil Armstrong, from his commencement address at the University of Southern California:
First, we had the news about the Obama team dictating the subjects to be covered by interviews with the "local media." Now he find out Mitt Romney wants to play the same game:
I found this to be an astonishing claim: "New study says full-frontal nudity on prime-time TV up 6,300 percent over last year." Did TV suddenly start running porn movies while I was in the kitchen getting a sandwich? But then we see these examples of what is counted:
For you traveling gun-toters, here's a map showing castle doctrine, sstand-your-ground and duty-to-retreat states. A bigger map and lots more information at the link. Nohe that, A) Indiana is a true Red State and, B) there are only six -- count 'em, six -- "duty to retreat" states.
When lawmakers and educators get to the serious discussion of whether IPFW should break away from IU and Purdue and become an indpendent Fort Wayne University, they might want to study a similar breakup in Florida, where the University of South Florida Polytechnic was given permission to split from the main campus. There, as here, it was felt the local community was slighted by the main campus. The change, however, did not go over well with students:
