I've seen this argument made in several places:
If the Supreme Court decides to strike down the new health care law’s individual mandate to purchase insurance, it will represent a remarkable election-year rebuke for President Obama – the rejection, by the nation’s highest court, of a central provision of his main domestic policy accomplishment.
It might also help him win re-election.
Well, that was fun, let's not do it again:
Local government reform will not be a front-burner issue in the 2012 governor's race. Indiana has 3,086 local governments and 10,000 officeholders -- a potent political force in opposition to government restructuring.
The latest bulletin from the administration with an all-of-the-above energy policy:
The Environmental Protection Agency will issue the first limits on greenhouse-gas emissions from new power plants as early as Tuesday, according to several people briefed on the proposal. The move could end the construction of new conventional coal-fired facilities in the United States.
Ah, the world we live in:
In a bizarre case of political correctness run wild, educrats have banned references to “dinosaurs,” “birthdays,” “Halloween” and dozens of other topics on city-issued tests.
That’s because they fear such topics “could evoke unpleasant emotions in the students.”
OK, separation of church and state. I get it. Can't have the government trying to impose a religion on us. But so many of the complaints against religious impulses these days are too trivial to take seriously. I'm supposed to believe this is a threat against my religious freedoms?
Hey, Hoosiers know what's important in life:
Indiana still boasts 12 of the nation’s 13 largest high school gyms. That is one reason people continue to romanticize the state’s relationship to basketball.
If all he's got going for him is "name recognition," he'd better think again; 2004 is a loooong time ago in Short Attention Span America:
Former reality TV star Rupert Boneham said he thinks he has a real shot at becoming Indiana’s next governor after being nominated as a third-party choice Saturday.
Reporters gone wild!
In this politically charged climate, Wisconsin residents have gotten caught up in state politics with an intensity not seen in decades.
It's an issue this newspaper has covered extensively, including Sunday, when the Gannett Wisconsin Media Investigative Team broke a story exposing 29 circuit court judges who signed the petitions to recall Gov. Scott Walker.
One of my favorite political books is Virginia Postrel's "The Future and its Enemies." I was so impressed by it when if came out in 1998 that I bought copies for all my staff members so we could discuss it (that was back in the heady days when I still had a staff). Naturally, they just put them on their shelves and never read them.
Was this an overreaction -- would a suspension have been more a more just punishment than an expulsion?
An Indiana high school senior has been expelled for a Tweet he says was posted from home on his personal account.
Don't expect any help from the governor in choosing a presidential candidate:
If tolerance of gays gets our troops killed by jihadists, and our generally wicked ways can cause hurricanes, I guess a little football karma isn't out of the question in the wrath-of-God department:
Televangelist Pat Robertson is not happy with the Broncos shipping out Tim Tebow. So unhappy that he's wishing Peyton Manning bad karma.
Ever hear of the steamship Sultana? Most people haven't (including me, until I stumbled across an article about it this week), even though its demise marked the worst maritime disaster in Amercan history. (And here's a whole book about it.) On the night of April 27, 1865, the steamer was on the Mississippi River near Memphis, loaded with soldiers who were veterans of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. The boiler exploded, and more that 1,800 of the passengers died.
It's getting harder and harder for Sen. Lugar to put the residency controversy behind him:
Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar’s residency problems just grew more uncomfortable: He’s reimbursing the Treasury for erroneously billing taxpayers for a series of hotel stays in Indianapolis in recent years.
The cynical axiom (anthough a libertarian would say it is merely realistic) is that government can only go in one direction: bigger. Here's the exception that proves the rule:
KELLER -- Keller City Manager Dan O'Leary decided that someone from the top management ranks at City Hall had to go. So the person he laid off was himself.
You will be assimilated into the hive mind:
Educational psychologist Gaynor Sbuttoni said the policy has been used at schools in Kingston, South West London, and Surrey.
She added: “I have noticed that teachers tell children they shouldn’t have a best friend and that everyone should play together.
"Great comfort in small blessings" department:
I yield to nobody in my conviction that Barack Obama's presidency has been a disaster for the Republic. Last week, in this space, I even suggested that some of his offenses rose to the level of impeachable "high crimes and misdemeanors."
Any comment really needed here?
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s food police have struck again!
Outlawed are food donations to homeless shelters because the city can’t assess their salt, fat and fiber content, reports CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer.
Good piece in the National Review on the killing of 17-year-old Trayson Martin by "neighborhood watch" vigilante and cop wannabe George Zimmerman. It makes an important point that those committed to armed self-defense must also commit to the principle that those who bear arms must act responsibly:
