Hoo, boy, nobody I'd rather meet on the road early on Monday morning than a bunch of liquored-up Colts fans:
The provision on Sunday bar hours would allow establishments to remain open until 3 a.m. instead of the current 12:30 a.m., a change motivated by Colts games that have ended late on Sunday nights.
Now that Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels has opened the door on a presidential run "just a tiny crack," people are trying to stick their feet in and open that door a little wider.
Sorry, Brian, I'm with Pat and Dave on this one:
Indiana House Minority Leader Brian Bosma says it's more important to pass sound bills on key issues than it is to adjourn the legislative session.
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Democratic House Speaker Patrick Bauer of South Bend wants to adjourn by Thursday.
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So does the state need an "upskirting" law, or is state Sen. Tom Wyss just going to clutter up the legal code with an "offense" that can already be handled by existing statutes? Last year, Wyss decided the state needed to specifically prohibit the practice of using a video camera (usually attached to a shoe) to look up women's dresses.
They're going to have a "community conversation' in Evansville beween veterans and civilians about their "varying relationships with combat" and their "loss of loved ones" or struggles "to support a veteran who has returned." The sessions will be "facilitated" by someone "trained in dialogue," which gives the exercise a strange 1970s encounter-group feel:
The purpose of the ex post facto clause of the Constitution is to prevent authorities from punishing people for acts that weren't a crime at the time they were committed. That seems as straightforward a principle as can be. "Just think about it in terms of olden days when a king could suddenly banish everyone who wore red the day before."
Hundreds of less-than-progressive Harlan residents show up at a meeting on incorporation and say no thank you to the idea of becoming a town:
Opponents feel the costs would outweigh the benefits.
They say incorporation would mean higher property taxes but services, like fire and police protection, wouldn't improve much.
When it comes to assisted suicide, most jurisdictions in this country still make it a crime (34 states, including Indiana, explicitly by aw, and nine through common law). Three staters (North Carolina, Utah and Wyoming) have abolished the common law of crimes and have no statutes criminalizing assisted suicide. In Ohio, the state Supreme Court has ruled that assisted suicide is not a crime. In Virginia, there is no clear case law, but there are civil sanctions against assisted suicide.
The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto on Scott Brown:
If Scott Brown is a RINO, any conservative with a semblance of sanity should drop to his knees and say a prayer of thanks for the creation of RINOs. If the species didn't exist, Sen. Martha Coakley would be the 60th vote in favor of ObamaCare. No, scratch that. She'd be the 62nd vote for ObamaCare, the 60th and 61st coming from the Maine Democrats who would have soundly defeated whatever "real" Republicans ran in place of Snowe and Collins.
