It doesn't get any better than this -- Alec Baldwin sympathizing with Anthony Weiner:
It doesn't get any better than this -- Alec Baldwin sympathizing with Anthony Weiner:
This just in: Life is the leading cause of death:
Smoking cigarettes is the cause of so much preventable, deadly disease. But now new research shows sitting for long stretches of time may be just as dangerous.
“Smoking certainly is a major cardiovascular risk factor and sitting can be equivalent in many cases,” explained Dr. David Coven.
Does that mean that if you get up to walk around while having a smoke, your behaviors cancel each other out?
Alert! Alert! It will be safe to open your front door for a few days:
The Evansville Convention & Visitors Bureau is spreading the word to local restaurants, businesses and residents that attendees for the first of two consecutive weekends of the Jehovah's Witness Annual Convention will begin arriving today. Organizers expect 5,000 to 6,000 attendees here each of the two weekends. They travel from Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee.
A new poll finds that -- no big surprise -- Americans remain incredibly conflicted about abortion. This is especially interesting:
The survey devoted particular attention to the views of young adults. It noted that 18-to-29-year-olds are far more likely than their elders to support same-sex marriage, but found there is no comparable generation gap regarding abortion.
The state has announced a sensible policy on immunizations based on the fact that there isn't an unlimited pile of money available to pay for them -- starting now, it will no longer allow county health departments to provide low-cost immunizations to children who have insurance. But the panic is already settling in. This is a move that "some fear will lead to fewer children receiving critical vaccinations."
Juxtaposition of the day -- make your own decision about what it means.
First, some people are working on $135,000 to, among other things, erect a 13-foot statue of Larry Bird at Indiana State University.:
Where's Michael Moore when you need him?
General Motors Co. CEO Dan Akerson wants the federal gas tax boosted as much as $1 a gallon to nudge consumers toward more fuel-efficient cars, and he's confident the government will soon shed its remaining 26 percent stake in the once-bankrupt automaker.
Tim Pawlenty's Google Test for government:
We can start by applying what I call “The Google Test.”
If you can find a good or service on the Internet, then the federal government probably doesn't need to be doing it.
The post office — the government printing office — Amtrak — Fannie and Freddie were all built for a different time in our country. When the private sector did not adequately provide those services. That's no longer the case.
The General has a point:
Bob Knight criticized the NCAA and called the rule Ohio State football players broke when they sold and traded their personal memorabilia "idiotic."
The former Indiana and Texas Tech basketball coach, and an Ohio State alum, spoke to reporters Monday night before the Henry P. Iba Citizen Athlete Awards ceremony, where he was scheduled to deliver the keynote address.
Only 24 percent of Americans say their political views are about the same as President Obama's! Dang -- looks I'm finally in a super majority and I can quit worrying about Obama getting re-elected. But then a little farther into the poll report:
High-speed-rail advocate Geoff Paddock reaches for common sense and almost makes it:
Before rail supporters set their sights on a sleek, new rail system to Chicago, they should focus on bringing Amtrak back to Fort Wayne for the first time in more than 20 years, said Geoff Paddock, co-founder of the Northeast Indiana Passenger Rail Association.
Professors William Ruger and Jason Sorens have just released their "Freedom in the 50 States" Index and -- wait for it, drum roll please -- Indiana is one of the five freest states, along with New Hampshire, South Dakota, Idaho and Nevada. The least free were New York, New Jersey, California, Hawaii and Massachusetts.
A 40-year political philosophy professor at Michigan State University has notcied ominous changes in his students in the last six or eight years:
As graduation day arrives, students will say goodbye to their classmates and teachers. And many are departing without a traditional yearbook to preserve those memories.
State budget cuts and the weak economy are causing elementary schools, middle schools, high schools and colleges across the country to either do away with yearbooks or look for more cost-effective publishing options.
The great star-spangled experiment is over at Goshen College. The college has decided to stop playing an instrumental version of the national anthem at sporting events, followed by a peace prayer:
Some were upset with the school's decision last year because the song's lyrics contain references to using war and military might to defend the country.
This is one of Gov. Mitch Daniels' education initiatives that hasn't gotten the attention and discussion it deserves:
When the Indiana legislature passed the budget at the end of April, it also launched Daniels' plan, which allows high school students who complete their core requirements by the end of their junior year to skip senior year and go straight to college.
I'm with you, man:
I can be pretty cynical about "the homeless" and the pollyannaish approach to them by some of their advocates, but this seems pretty harsh even to me:
Aww, we will no longer be allowed to pay for rapists and murderers to get philosophy degrees?
Indiana prisoners will no longer be able to earn a taxpayer-funded bachelor's degree or study liberal arts under a shift in state prison-education policy.
