Herman Cain's lawyer, on the claim that the candidate had a 13-year-affair:
Herman Cain's lawyer, on the claim that the candidate had a 13-year-affair:
Lincoln Plowman is a former Indianapolis police officer and City-County Council member who could get up to 30 years in prison after being convicted of bribery and extortion. He was taped in conversations with an undercover FBI agent accepting more than $5,000 in cash and requesting a $1,000 campaign contribution to help plan a strip club downtown.
Dropout Nation is a blog covering the public education reform movement, edited by RiShawn Biddle, formerly an editorial writer for the Indianapolis Star. A recent post -- written by Biddle -- takes off on the Indianapolis school system ("The worst school district in the Midwest outside of Detroit" -- ouch) as a way to promote the importance of mayoral control of school systems as a reform strategy:
Fort Wayne in the spotlight:
The Indianapolis Colts are a sad, mopey, miserable football team that aggressively drains the life force out of anyone who watches them play because they want them to win.
Indiana school boards are sensitive to criticism that superintendents make too much money. So, it is reported in an examination by the Evansville newspaper, they don't even report the full compensation package earned by the school chiefs:
Proof in a snarky Politico column of Ramesh Ponnuru's assertion that the mainstream media 1) don't really understand conservative arguments and, 2) Don't really understand the Constitution:
If any of you have a chance to attend an event at the Baker Street Station, you should take the opportunity to see a historic Fort Wayne site that's been lovingly restored instead of demolished or neglected into ruin.
Come on, guys; could we stick to arguing the issues instead of just hurling vile insults? There's plenty of snark in the blogosphere without us adding to it. I've been leaving the threads alone, even though it got pretty rough on a couple of them. Somebody was bound to go too far, even by today's online standards, and now somebody has. I've removed the comment from Christopher Swing purporting to be a Tweet from Tim Zank's daughter. Even if you're going to taunt each other like kids in the schoolyard, let's not be dragging any 15-year-old girls into it, OK?
Welcome to Black Friday 2011, the new "you can't do anything without making a political statement" milestone. If you decide to stay home just to avoid the mad frenzy, you could also be accused of supporing the "Occupy Black Friday" movement, an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street that seeks to shake us out of our materialistic stupor or something ("hit the corporations that corrupt and control American politics where it hurts, their profits").
For the "ignorance is bliss" file, this is really sad. Don't know, don't wanna know, just let the government take care of it:
The less people know about important complex issues such as the economy, energy consumption and the environment, the more they want to avoid becoming well-informed, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.
Just when you think you're so jaded and world-weary that nothing that can happen in politics can possibly startle you anymore, along comes Tamara Scott, new Iowa co-chair of Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign:
I think it might be a little premature to cite this article as evidence of the coming death of the mall, but if you want to test out the idea, just visit Glenbrook a few times between now and Christmas:
The "well, duh" research of the week:
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A statewide survey suggests that Indiana's rural residents are more likely than their urban counterparts to be prepared for a disaster.
Researchers at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis surveyed more than 2,000 Indiana residents in a joint project with Indiana Department of Homeland Security.
Never mind all that supercommittee budget-reduction nonsense; let's talk about something really important. No, just to stop the myth before it becomes firmly entrenched, Congress did not declare pizza a vegetable:
This is not a fight over pizza. It is, instead, a fight about tomato paste. Specifically, it's a fight about how much of the product counts as one serving of vegetables.
Newt Gingrich's personal baggage isn't as interesting (or damaging, I think) as his political baggage. He's been on all sides of as many issues as Mitt Romney. And if Romneycare is the one thing of Mitt's that I have the most trouble getting over, this is Newt's.
(Via Nick Gillespie of hit & run, who reminds those who have fogotten what an "opportunistic changeling" Gingrich is.)
Boy, I don't know about this; seems risky to me. Don't some of you secretly distrust those of us with facial hair, as in, "Hey, what've you got to hide?"
Indianapolis attorney Richard Kammen has defended a lot of people facing the death penalty in his 40-year career, but now he has probably the most despicable client of all, Abd al-Rahim Mohammed Al-Nashiri, the accused terrorist charged in the 2000 USS Cole attack that killed 17 sailors and wounded several dozen others:
State Treasurer Richard Mourdock visited with the editorial board yesterday as part of his primary campaign challenge to Sen. Richard Lugar. Mourdock outlined his bold (Lugar says "not serious") propsal to cut $7.6 trillion in spending over 10 years. The plan includes eliminating four Cabinet-level departments, trumping Rick Perry by one -- and Mourdock had no trouble remembering them all, Commerce, Education, Energy and Housing & Urban Development.
Well, this will be two days in which no mischief will be possible:
The General Assembly plans to take a break in the days before next year's Super Bowl in Indianapolis, in part because out-of-town lawmakers are losing their rooms at area hotels or long-term residences in favor of visitors for the game.
Not sure I care for his attitude:
Watching Republicans jockey for position as they fight to become the presidential nominee isn't distressing Gov. Mitch Daniels, who decided not to join the race earlier this year.
For one thing, he's not watching them.
