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Opening Arguments

Too late baby now

Thanks for the warning, but it's not exactly timely, is it?

Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) says President Obama's continued use of the executive order "brings the modern presidency dangerously close to an elective dictatorship."

The kids are all right

Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the Penn State scandal -- and there so many -- is this reaction by too many students:

Splitsville

The results of the Indianapolis city election provide an interesting comparison to Fort Wayne:

Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard's re-election victory benefited from thousands of crossover votes. But in giving him a vote of confidence, those Democrats, along with some independent voters, handed him what may become the greatest challenge of his second term: split government.

Maybe they had their fing

So much for pledges:

Grover Norquist's grip on the House Republican Conference is loosening.

A growing number of GOP lawmakers have disavowed Norquist's pledge against supporting tax increases in recent days, telling The Hill they no longer feel bound to uphold a document that they signed, in some cases, more than a decade ago.

Suicide watch

Concerning this news, I suppose I could choose to cackle with partisan glee:

Ho, ho, ho

Is there any clearer symbol of how far the lunacy has gone?

President Obama's Agriculture Department today announced that it will impose a new 15-cent charge on all fresh Christmas trees—the Christmas Tree Tax—to support a new Federal program to improve the image and marketing of Christmas trees.

Big deals

I think National Review columnist Jonah Goldberg was trying to be so earnestly serious that he let a joke go right over his head:

Still the support for Cain is interesting in its own right. In all the coverage as well as in the comments sections from readers and in my own email and conversations you find people saying, in effect,  “He made a pass, he took no for an answer, what's the big deal?”

Nothing is in there

When you put up a government website and promise to answer any question that gets enough petition signatures, this is the kind of foolishness that can be expected:

The U.S. government has said it has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet or that an extraterrestrial presence has ever contacted any human being.

Be reasonable

Every move we make:

The Supreme Court is considering whether police use of GPS devices to track criminal suspects requires a judge's advance approval.

The case being argued Tuesday could have implications for other high-tech surveillance techniques in the digital age.

[. . .]

The government argues that people have no expectation of privacy concerning their travel on public streets.

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People who do in-home stuff for us don't think our time is nearly as valuable as theirs, which is why they give us big windows instead of specific times, as in: "Yes, we can have someone there between noon on Wednesday and 2 p.m. three weeks from now." But out time is worth something:

Close to

Forever and ever without any stories concering small, private or "backyard" burials, and today there are two of them. A widow in southern Indiana has buried her husband in the backyard of the home they lived in for 50 years, working her way around a state law requiring all bodies to be bured in cemeteries:

The party label

This story seems a little overblown to me:

Casual voters heading to the polls in Indianapolis Tuesday could be forgiven for not already knowing which party Mayor Greg Ballard represents and whether challenger Melina Kennedy is a Democrat or a Republican.

Their respective lawn signs throughout the city bear no mention of their political affiliations.

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Rage, rage against the dying of daylight

USA TODAY trots out the "quaint Hoosiers" attitude we all know and love so much:

Nothing to see here

Isn't this the kind of thing they say in all those disaster movies to lull the population and prevent a panic?

"There is no chance that this object will collide with the Earth or moon," Yeomans said.

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When worlds collide

Something to mull over:

Costly illusion

The Journal Gazette had a story this morning about the high demand for the new condominiums going in the old Anthond Wayne Bank building. I was intrigued by the quote from Mark Ulmschneider, identified as a downtown worker and prospective condo buyer:

“The location is just indescribable,” he said. “You almost feel like you're not in Fort Wayne.”

Posted in: Our town

Put me in, coach!

Thank goodness we don't have to put him on the injured reserve list:

Governor Mitch Daniels returned home after undergoing surgery to his right knee Friday morning.

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A little light reading

New from the Cato Institute, Libertarianism.org, a resource on the theory and history of liberty. From the opening page introduction:

Would you like to know more?

"Starship Troopers," Paul Verhoeven's movie take on the Robert Heinlein classic, is interesting in the casual way it shows us an advance in communications technology. Though supposedly set in the far future, the TV/Internet mixutre it shows us could be from tomorrow. People watching news shows are told to "click here" if they want to know more. And it looks like tomorrow just arrived:

Protectionism 101

John Stossel on why "Buy American" is a dumb idea:

It would not only not create prosperity, it would cost jobs and make us all poorer. David R. Henderson, an economist at the Hoover Institution, explained why.

"Almost all economists say it's nonsense," he said. "And the reason is: We should buy things where they're cheapest. That frees up more of our resources to buy other things, and other Americans get jobs producing those things."

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