Well, this would be a good start:
Inspector General David Thomas, in a report released last week summarizing the findings of an investigation into alleged wrongdoing by the Indiana Horse Racing Commission, suggested that the state should consider scaling back its subsidy, which was $58 million in 2010, to pre-2009 levels.
For two years, volunteer Frank Coyles has played Santa for chemotherapy patients at the Hollings Cancer Center in Charleston, S.C. This year, the center told him to stay away:
"Because of our state affiliation, we decided not to have a Santa presence this year," Hollings spokeswoman Vicky Agnew said. Hollings is a part of the Medical University of South Carolina.
Let us not let this milesone pass without note:
The Treasury Department said Wednesday that the federal debt has climbed to a record $15 trillion — a staggering figure that caps a precipitous decade-long rise.
What a crappy little nothing institution UNO must be to even consider such a decrepit, useless old empty shell for a leadership position:
NEW ORLEANS (WANE) - IPFW Chancellor Michael Wartell is among five semi-finalist for the presidency at the University of New Orleans.
According to the Associated Press, Wartell was picked from 12 applicants by a search committee Tuesday.
Not much comment needed here except that TOP seems to be a great organization with a noble mission and with no hand out for government funding:
Rick Perry has thrown quite the bomb, calling for a greater diminishment of federal power than I've heard from anybody else. Give him credit for being so provocative that it should make even the staunchest libertarians among us question our beliefs:
C-SPAN is asking the Supreme Court to drop its ban on cameras in the courtroom when it hears arguments over President Obama's healthcare reform law.
Not exactly a brilliant campaign strategy:
AP) PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Jon Huntsman is betting his entire presidential campaign on New Hampshire. And he's not trying to hide it.
It's conventional wisdom among many that the GOP took a drubbing in 2006 and 2008 because it had failed to be "sufficiently Republican," a sentiment summed up by Mike Pences's much quoted observation that "we did not just lose our majority, we lost our wasy. In recent years, our majority voted to expand the federal government's role in education by nearly 100 percent, created the largest new entitlement in 40 years, and pursued spending policies that created record deficits, national debt and rampant earmark spending.”
Yesterday I meant to comment on The Journal Gazette's Sunday editorial about Occupy Fort Wayne, but time slipped away from me. The piece is a rather hamfisted exercise in belaboring the obvious:
We can run but we can't hide. Are you naughty or nice? Don't have to wait for Santa to pass judgment:
People with a certain gene trait are known to be more kind and caring than people without it, and strangers can quickly tell the difference, according to US research published on Monday.
The obesity and nutrition police will be here tomorrow, and there will be a tastebud inspection at 0900:
Visiting an organic farm in Hawaii on Saturday, First Lady Michelle Obama said that “arugula and steak” was her “favorite” meal and expressed her view that American children need to “get their palates adjusted” so they will begin eating properly.
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It's not particularly shocking that friends of Margaret Thatcher suspect the new Meryl Streep movie of her life might be a "leftwing fantasy." That's about what you'd expect given the opinion Hollywood and the right have of each other. But the reason for the suspicion is interesting:
Oh, get over it. Life is tough:
As more retailers try to turn Thanksgiving Thursday into Black Friday — some employees are fighting back.
Universities of Michigan and Chicago law professor Catharine A. MacKinnon, 1998, on Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky:
A commentary in the Indiana Daily Student makes a good point about this state's deplorable ballot access procedures, making Indiana one of the five most difficult for indpendent and third-party candidates (along with Texas, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Georgia):
Breaking news isn't often my concern here, but this is big/bigger/biggest stuff:
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's health- care overhaul in a clash that will shape the 2012 election and spell out the extent of the federal government's power.
"Shrinking zone of privacy" question of the day: Should police be able to track you by placing a GPS unit on your car, without getting a warrant?
Gee, just think. If I'd stuck with the job I had to make money in high school, I could have had a real career:
A woman in Evansville, Indiana, has been working at McDonald's for nearly 40 years.
89-year-old Loraine Maurer says the reason she's continued to work at the town's very first McDonald's is that she's happy.
Thank goodness for small blessings:
