Talk about landing on your feet after getting fired:
The Denver Broncos have a new quarterback and his name is Peyton Manning. Team owner Pat Bowlen along with VP John Elway introduced Manning at a Tuesday afternoon press conference.
Talk about landing on your feet after getting fired:
The Denver Broncos have a new quarterback and his name is Peyton Manning. Team owner Pat Bowlen along with VP John Elway introduced Manning at a Tuesday afternoon press conference.
For the "With friends like these . . ." file:
For the "Oh, give me a break" file -- in order to head off "climate catastrophe," we have no choice but to have an effective "world government":
At multiple events in New York City on Monday, March 19, First Lady Michelle Obama -- in campaigning for her husband's re-election -- made reference to the effect that Supreme Court appointees will have on "whether we can ... love whomever we choose."
Today's metaphor for life -- feel free to give it to your high school sophomore for the next theme due. (Do they still have to write themes in high school these days?)
Kimberly Bois’ tiny front yard garden isn’t much to look at right now. But in a few weeks, it’ll be in full bloom, and every blossom will cost her dearly.
Sweden is just slightly ahead of the curve -- the whole world is succumbing to this change:
AP) STOCKHOLM - Sweden was the first European country to introduce bank notes in 1661. Now it's come farther than most on the path toward getting rid of them.
Let's hear it for one of our favorite Hoosier natives and Purdue graduates:
Brian Lamb, who created the revolutionary nonprofit cable television network C-Span in the late 1970s and has been its public face ever since, is handing it over to two lieutenants, Rob Kennedy and Susan Swain.
Really? They'll trade their good quarterback at the very beginning of his career so they can get someone with only two or three good years left?
Welcome to the future, fellow baby boomers:
"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle" update:
Looks like this is a real race:
Richard Mourdock has closed within single digits of Sen. Dick Lugar in the Indiana GOP Senate primary race, according to a pair of polls commissioned by groups seeking to oust the six-term incumbent.
So a wine spy ended up at the state dinner for British Prime Minister David Cameron, and he informs us that the wines included a 2009 Peter Michael Chardonnay Ma Belle-Fille, Sonoma Valley, California (average price about $97), a 2008 Leonetti Cellar Cabernet Sauvignon, Walla Walla Valley, Washington (average price about $90) and a 2007 Iron Horse Vineyards Russian Cuvée (average price about $30). This will probably not please the White House:
The struggle to revive the IPO market is a microcosm of the larger debate: Is government regulation strangling the economic recovery?
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Say, whatever happened to "please" and "thank you"?
Listen to the conversations around you — colleagues at the office, customers in the coffeehouse line, those who serve you, those you serve, the people you meet each day. "Give me a tall latte." "Hand me that hammer." "Have a good one."
The political shenanigans behind the "Lugar can't vote here" decision:
After the do-not-call list and the do-not-fax list, this had to happen:
ROYAL OAK (WWJ) – After the murder of an 80-year-old woman in her home last fall, the City of Royal Oak is looking into possibly adopting a so-called community “no knock” list in an attempt to tighten the limits on door-to-door solicitors.
Sorry, Democrats, the governor gets to pick the new secetary of state:
Former Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White was eligible to run for office, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled this morning.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told a constituent in favor of legalizing marijuana that he doesn't support the idea because drugs like pot lead to death.
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Not sure this is a good crusade for Sen. Coats to be pursuing:
The Senate easily rejected Tuesday an effort by Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind., to boost highway funding for Indiana and some other states while lowering it for others.
