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Opening Arguments

Sort of stupid

Been there, done that

Odorific

If you think TV smells now, just wait:

Television viewers are surrounded by sight and sound, but U.S. researchers want to add smell to the small-screen experience.

Another fish story

I would never torture a puppy or strike a kitty or even say an unkind word to a hamster. But call me a heartless animal abuser, I've never really given much thought to the welfare of goldfish:

Missing link

The White House drug czar is trying to make a case for correlation that just isn't there:

A new federal report has found that more than two-thirds of Indianapolis men arrested last year were under the influence of at least one illegal drug.

 

Wednesday's National Drug Control Policy report showed that 69 percent of Indianapolis men arrested in 2010 tested positive for at least one drug at the time of their arrest.

 

Semper fie

A Marine vs. Leo High School:

A soon to be Leo High School graduate will be skipping out on her big day this weekend because she won't be allowed to wear her Marine Corps dress blues.

Private Kylie Furnish graduated from high school early and recently graduated from Marine Corps Boot Camp.

Adult supervision

An American university trips and stumbles into the obvious:

Here is one simple step colleges can take to reduce both binge drinking and hooking up: Go back to single-sex residences.

Corn dogs

What is there to say? This is disappointing but not really surprising:

How is it that the party loudly proclaiming how the government shouldn't "pick winners and losers" could only manage to get 34 senators to oppose one of the most egregious examples of federal industrial policy?

What so proudly we hail

Head fake

Posted in: Current Affairs

Hole-in-the-

Every city needs a theme song, don't you think? Fort Wayne's should be Vince Gill's modern country classic, "One More Last Chance," which contains the memorable refrain: "Give me one more last chance/Before you say we're through/I know I drive you crazy baby/It's the best I can do." We are talking, of course, about the Harrison Square project:

The seven dwarfs

"Obama sucks."

"Obama sucks."

"Obama sucks."

"Obama sucks."

"Obama sucks."

"Obama sucks."

"Obama sucks."

Heck of a debate.

Tipping point

This is no big issue -- I just don't get it:

Police said Sunday that an “America's Most Wanted” television show segment about a missing Indiana University student generated numerous tips, but so far none of them have led to major breakthroughs.

Choice

Democrats and Republicans must be quaking in their boots, huh?

Though the Indiana Libertarian Party has not landed a candidate for the 2012 governor's campaign, it has identified an opening to influence the race.

Enemy of our enemy

My, my, how things change:

Vietnam has called on the US and other nations to help resolve the escalating territorial disputes in the resource-rich South China Sea, in a move likely to anger Beijing, which opposes what it sees as outside interference.

Lights out

One of my favorite libertarians takes on one of my favorite examples of government overreach:

Not quite a masterpiece

One big reason the Civil War sesquicentennial is getting so much enthusiastic attention is the monumental PBS series 20 years ago in which Ken Burns, aided principally by Shelby Foote, managed to "take a knotty and complex history of violence, racial conflict, and disunion and turn it into a compelling drama of national unity." (George Will gushed that the series was a"masterpiece of national memory. Our Iliad has found its Homer.")

The least bad

Anybody still think ObamaCare will mean better coverage for more people?

Official calculations show that Medicare has $34 trillion less than it needs to keep all its promises to seniors. Yet ObamaCare will take $500 billion out of Medicare over 10 years to cover 30 million uninsured Americans.

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