Most of the attention for the November elections is going to the presidency and the U.S. Senate race. Let's not forget the General Assembly. Russ Pulliam in the Indianapolis Star:
With Democrats in division and disarray, Republicans hope to boost their 60-40 Indiana House majority even further in November.
When you see a headline like "I wish my mother had aborted me," you might expect to read a damn strange article. Lynn Beisner does not disappoint:
Tiffany Gee Lewis on why we need books now more than ever:
It's been clear since the announcement of the Paul Ryan pick that the cosnervative wing of the Republican Party is ecstatic about it, the libertarian wing not so much. Andrew Napolitano, one of the most passionate libertarian voices on TV, explains why he's not thrilled about having a choice between "a president who has posed more of a danger to personal freedom than any in the past 150 years and a Republican team that wants to return to Bush-style big government."
As a rising star in Hungary’s far-right Jobbik Party, Csanad Szegedi was notorious for his incendiary comments on Jews: He accused them of “buying up” the country, railed about the “Jewishness” of the political elite and claimed Jews were desecrating national symbols.
The always-predictable left is going absolutely nuts over Mitt Romney's selection of Paul Ryan for the vice presidential slot. As she so often does, Maureen Dowd perfectly distills the hysteria and makes it her own:
I’d been wondering how long it would take Republicans to realize that Paul Ryan is their guy.
This is one of those ideas that is so simple and addresses such an obvious need that when somebody comes up with it we wonder why it took so long:
Indiana on Tuesday became the third state to allow domestic abuse victims to apply for wallet-sized cards intended to help police take action against abusers who violate court orders.
The U.S. population has reached a nerdy and delightful milestone.
Shortly after 2:29 p.m. on Tuesday, August 14, 2012, the U.S. population was exactly 314,159,265, or Pi (π) times 100 million, the U.S. Census Bureau reports.
If you've ever wondered what the hell a "pansexual" is, let Texas State Rep. Mary Gonzalez explain it to you, since she just came out as one:
Merriam-Webster adds 100 new words and phrases to its Collegiate Dictionary, including sexting, life coach, man cave, bucket list, and this one with a Hoosier inspiration:
Texas gun enthusiasts -- but I repeat myself -- might be dismayed by Gov. Rick Perry's apparent acceptance of state-level gun control:
Yeah, go ahead and savor those tasty apple slices -- yeah, I'm talking to you, the one with the Big Mac in his grubby hands -- don't you want to be healthy instead of . . . whoops!
Pre-sliced apples distributed to fast-food and grocery chains across the country are among packaged products being recalled due to possible contamination with Listeria bacteria.
Granted, this doesn't mean a damn thing in terms of how the Colts or Andrew Luck will do this NFL season, which, let's not forget, hasn't even started yet. But admit it, it was a supremely satisfying emotional high:
Andrew Luck, just like the legend Peyton Manning before him, threw a touchdown pass on his first play as an Indianapolis Colt. That's what they call a good start.
I guess this isn't a huge deal, but it bothers me a little:
With the now official selection of Paul Ryan as the running mate to Mitt Romney . . . we have the final pairings of the four men running for the highest offices in the land. And for the first time since 1944, not one of them has ever served in the uniform of our country.
That darn Richard Mourdock. He just won't play the game the way he's supposed to:
Fareed Zakaria, writing in Time magazine, says the case for gun control is so obvious that only willful blindness can ignore it:
If I called President Obama a socialist, it'd probably start a big fight and some of you would call me a typical far-right wingnut. But, hey, I'm not the one calling for a government takeover of American industry:
Gary Harrington, the Oregon man convicted of collecting rainwater and snow runoff on his rural property surrendered Wednesday morning to begin serving his 30-day, jail sentence in Medford, Ore.
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If I may be so bigoted as to criticize someone else's religious practices, this is just plain nuts:
JERUSALEM - It's the latest prescription for extreme ultra-Orthodox Jewish men who shun contact with the opposite sex: Glasses that blur their vision, so they don't have to see women they consider to be immodestly dressed.
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