I was watching the state legislature this year to see what would be done about property taxes, illegal immigration and same-sex marriage, so I confess that I missed this new state law. But, since there is no penalty for not complying, it isn't exactly a real law:
New moms returning to work may find it easier to keep breast-feeding after July 1, when a new state law takes effect.
Dumb idea of the week:
One person's graffiti is the art of another, and if some local officials get their way, the talents of local vandals could soon be put to better use.
City councilman Neil Garrison, D-5th, introduced the “Graffiti Park Concept” to the Terre Haute Parks and Recreation Department's board of directors Wednesday afternoon, offering a plan to allow structured graffiti along a segment of the Heritage Trail near Twigg Rest Area.
Be suspicious of both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on gun rights. Why? Paul Helmke isn't upset with them:
Apparently, sitting in the car while black is just as much a crime as driving while black:
NEW YORK (AP) — A white police officer was disciplined for acting "in a discourteous manner" when he confronted a black motorist who turned out to be one of the highest-ranking commanders in the New York City Police Department, an agency spokesman said Saturday.
You think it's awful that white-collar criminals are treated more gently than ordinary lawbreakers? Well, you ought to love this:
A reminder of just how far we've come:
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Mildred Loving, a black woman whose challenge to Virginia's ban on interracial marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling striking down such laws nationwide, has died, her daughter said Monday.
Peggy Fortune said Loving, 68, died Friday at her home in rural Milford. She did not disclose the cause of death.
We all know people who think they're invisible in their cars -- hey, watch where' you're putting that finger, pal, that's disgusting. Apparently, some kids think the same rule applies for buses:
She could hide, but she couldn't run:
SANTEE, Calif. - Marie Walsh kept a low profile for 32 years, trying to escape her past life as Susan LeFevre.
Bad trip, man:
GENEVA (AP) — Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery grew into a notorious "problem child," died Tuesday. He was 102.
Justice Antonin Scalia was on "60 Minutes" trying to explain Originalist constitutional thinking to Leslie Stahl, and he might as well have been talking to the wall:
Scalia has no patience with so-called activist judges, who create rights not in the Constitution - like a right to abortion - by interpreting the Constitution as a "living document" that adapts to changing values.
"It is an enduring Constitution that I want to defend," he says.
