Mitt Romney is trying to turn into a Southerner for the upcoming Albama and Mississippi primaries, "learning to say 'y'all' and 'I like grits.' " But he's struggling a tad:
He greeted voters in Jackson, Miss., last week with a hearty "Morning, y'all!" and said he started the day with "a biscuit and some cheesy grits."
Here's the odd story of the day. Dark and dour Richard Nixon had a gushy, mooshy side:
Nixon shared the stage with Patricia Ryan in a community theater production and six of the dozens of letters they exchanged during their two-year courtship will be unveiled Friday at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum as part of an exhibit celebrating the 100th birthday of the woman Nixon playfully called his "Irish gypsy."
Thirty years after a powerful gun-control movement swept the country, Americans are embracing the idea of owning and carrying firearms with a zeal rarely seen since the days of muskets and militias.
Two legal scholars debate whether we should have a new constitutional convention and start from scratch. University of Texas law professor Sanford Levinson says yes, noting that Thomas Jefferson himself warned against treating the Constitution as "too sacred to be touched." But I'm more persuaded by the arguments of New York University law professsor Richard Epstein, who says a convention would introduce a degree of uncertainty that would make matters worse rather than better:
Juxtaposition of the day. Make of it what you will.
Thursday’s squeaker of a Senate vote on the Keystone XL pipeline serves both as a warning to President Barack Obama that a majority of both houses of Congress supports the pipeline and as encouragement to Republicans to keep pushing the issue.
I'm always against absolutism! Sorry, couldn't resist. This is an interesting and persuasive article in defense of Grover Norquist-style antitax absolutism:
Ball State University economics professor Michael Hicks' research on Right-to-Work states from 1929 to 2005 found "no statistically significant differences," either posititive or negative, "between RTW states and non-RTW states in either the industrial composition of their economies or their income from manufacturing." In comparing the recession experience of Indiana and Michigan, and looking at Illinois and Ohio as well, he found something far more sig
And you thought Indiana politics could get dirty:
SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico - A man facing extortion charges involving a stripper, and who is forbidden from entering City Hall, has been elected mayor of Sunland Park, New Mexico.
Indiana's voter-ID law was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. Wisconsin isn't having such good luck.
Indiana soon will have an official state rifle to go along with the state tree, state stone and state flower.
The Indiana House voted 78-2 on Tuesday to declare the Grouseland the state's official rifle. It is one of only six remaining long rifles made by famed Hoosier gunsmith John Small in the early 1800s.
