Politics and other nightmares

For today's excursion into liberal bias, let's look at The New York Times:

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:

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:

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:

This is certainly good news:

In the Midwest, Indiana is No. 1. Nationwide, it's No. 5.

So now we finally know, though I'm not sure what real benefit the news will be to us:

OWENSVILLE — The Food and Drug Administration has identified a southern Indiana farm that produces cantaloupes linked to a deadly salmonella outbreak and says the operation has recalled its melons.

The FDA says Chamberlain Farms of Owensville could be one source of the multistate outbreak.

Should jail inmates be able to eat better than most of us on the outside?

Time in jail comes with a guarantee: three square meals a day.

But those meals can't be just anything.

Wow, here's a stunner -- state officials and union representatives disagree on the effects of the right-to-work law that ended compulsory union dues:

Officials at 20 companies have said Indiana’s passage of a right-to-work law this year was a factor in their decisions to bring more jobs to the state, according to Daniel Hasler, who leads the Indiana Economic Development Corp.

This is pretty lame:

The White House is doing something with its local TV interviews that it could not easily get away with in encounters with the White House press corps, which President Obama has been studiously ignoring: choosing the topic about which President Obama and the reporter will talk.