Quite the epic church-state battle going on here in Indiana:
Striking down Indiana’s school voucher program because some schools are affiliated with churches would amount to unnecessary government interference into religion, the law’s supporters argue in court documents.
The ads run by the Lugar campaign slamming Richarcd Mourdock are some of the nastiest I've ever seen, getting pretty close to character assassination. Others have noticed this, too:
Dick Lugar has the reputation, deserved or not, of being the gentleman of the Senate, a now-grandfatherly figure who is well-liked personally if not politically.
Finally, someone with the courage to ask the bold question: "Lincoln had one. So did Uncle Sam. Why don't politicians today grow beards?"
The logical next step for the Occupy movement is here:
In the spirit of spring rebirth, the Occupy movement is ramping up activities as warm weather blankets the country. But while the season is typified by a reawakening of life outdoors, demonstrators are using sleep to get their points across. They call it "sleepful protest."
No doubt you've noticed the endorsements: the Club for Growth for Richard Mourdock; the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for Richard Lugar. There is an epic battle going on, and Indiana is right in the middle of it:
Big business and the Tea Party are at swords' points once again, with GOP Senate primaries for the second straight election becoming proxy battles in the war over the soul of the Republican Party.
Let's at least note in passing the end of an era this week as the space shuttle Discovery took a piggyback ride to its final museum resting place. I've seen two sets of strong opinions on this. One is a sad lament that perhaps we're done in space.
The usual hand-wringing victimologists harangue us over the annual celebration of a phony issue:
In Indiana, women earn about 72 cents to every dollar a man does; nationwide the average is 77 cents.
About 30 people gathered Tuesday morning to highlight those facts at an Equal Pay Day rally at the Fort Wayne Women's Bureau, 2417 Fairfield Ave.
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This is news? Did anybody really think there was a chance he would have picked Newt Gingrich or Ron Paul:
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels today endorsed Mitt Romney for president, becoming the latest high-profile Republican to end his neutrality and urge unity behind his party's likely nominee.
Here's a shock -- somebody who was actually responsible for something might actually be held accountable:
Gov. Mitch Daniels on Tuesday outlined a handful of changes Indiana is taking following last year's deadly state fair stage collapse.
Emblazoned on the Supreme Court building’s façade is the promise of “equal justice under law.” Yet the horrendously complicated tax code illustrates how far the government has strayed from that promise. Sadly, the purpose of those 73,608 pages of federal tax rules is not equal treatment but the top-down manipulation of society by Washington.
