Obama Tells Advisers To Find How To Approve Stimulus Projects "Without Additional Congressional Authorization"
Obama Tells Advisers To Find How To Approve Stimulus Projects "Without Additional Congressional Authorization"
A couple of points on federalism, if I may. The first comes courtesy of Romneycare:
Newly obtained White House records provide fresh details on how senior Obama administration officials used Mitt Romney's landmark health-care law in Massachusetts as a model for the new federal law, including recruiting some of Romney's own health care advisers and experts to help craft the act now derided by Republicans as “Obamacare.”
And the winner of the annual stick-up-the-butt award for the complete absence of a sense of humor goes to Tracy Warner of The Journal Gazette, who says a tweet from Republican city clerk candidate -- five months ago! -- is so urgently "callow" and "shallow" that the public flogging should begin immediately. This is the tweet: “Saw parking Nazi on the corner, so I quickly went and fed every meter on the block. Got the stink eye but it felt so good! ” Tracy:
I didn't think it would take this long for the keepers of the faith to decide that Herman Cain must be evil because his tax plan is nothing but a well-disguised way to help those filthy rich people:
Herman Cain has a plan to radically reform the nation's tax system and make things a lot simpler for taxpayers.
I've always suspected optimists were delusional and dangerous. Now the evidence:
you are always seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, be warned -- it could be an oncoming train.
Did you happen to see this at one of the Occupy Space rallies recently?
Finally, a serious issue we can argue passionately about: Set our drunken spring-breaker dwarf-tossing people free!
Calming down the askeert Californians:
California Gov. Jerry Brown announced Monday that he signed into law a measure that bans handgun owners from openly carrying their weapons in public.
Previous regulations had allowed the open carrying of unloaded handguns in public, but police chiefs and sheriffs objected to the rule because people felt frightened when they saw handguns in public places.
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Last week I referenced George Will's takedown of Elizabeth Warren's tribute to the joys of liberalism:
The Occupy Space movement has come to Indianapolis, so I suppose it will reach Fort Wayne soon. Doesn't this sort of say it all about them?
The throng broke into occasional chants of "You are the 99," referring to the 99 percent of the American people they say government and corporations take for granted.
I read an inspiring tidbit somewhere recently about Stevie Ray Vaughan and Buddy Guy. I can't remember where, and I haven't been able to verify it with Google research, but it sounds like the kind of story that should be true even if it isn't. It seems that when Stevie was learning to play the blues, Buddy was one of his major influences -- he listened to his music over and over to get the licks down. Then, Stevie went on to fame and fortune, but Buddy fell on hard times. He was ready to put down his guitar and just quit until . . .
How depressing. There are still four NFL teams without a win -- the Rams, the Vikings, the Dolphins and the Colts. Who'd have thought at the beginning that we'd have to be grateful for even this small crumb?
The Peyton Manning-less Colts are the most likely team to shed the title of "winless" first.
Lot of that "not thinking like a government" going around:
Indiana lottery officials say they overspent on their new headquarters and will sell some of their equipment after reports raised questions about the lavish facility.
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Elizabeth Warren, challenging Scott Brown for his Senate seat from Masachusett, became the darling of progressives when she succinctly stated the "what's yours is ours" case"
Many consumers are irked by the catalogs, credit-card pitches and other "junk mail" they receive. But the U.S. Postal Service loves it—and wants to deliver more.
I referenced this piece about Steve Jobs several weeks ago. With the news of his death, it seems appropriate to link to it again:
Jobs gave people products they didn't know they wanted, and then made those products indispensable to their lives.
My sister is obsessed with storage. She is forever on the lookout for boxes and bags and bins and all other kinds of containers that will help her catalog and organize and sort and arrange all her stuff so she can put in neatly in closets and on shelves all neat and tidy, out of the way but easy to get to. One of the cable networks actually has a program devoted to storage solutions, and she watches it just like it was the Syfy channel or Fox or some other venue of real entertainment. I don't know where she got this unhealthy fixation. What's the big deal?
An Indianapolis Star editorial asks and answers the question: What do liberal New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and conservative Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels have in common?
Both are attempting to streamline local governments. And both are using property tax caps as a tool to force changes in how local leaders approach their budgets.
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Tony Bennet has generally projected a "take it or leave it" attitude that falls just short of "I do not suffer you fools gladly." So it's interesting that he might have some regrets for his approach:
Indiana's state schools superintendent says he has fences to mend following his push for sweeping education overhauls that legislators approved this year.
