Boy, President Obama has the thinnest skin of anybody in politics today:
Boy, President Obama has the thinnest skin of anybody in politics today:
With Mike Huckabee bowing out, Newt Gingrich blowing up and Donald Trump dropping the pretense, the already-hot buzz for Mitch Daniels jumped up several notches. It's hard to turn on a political talk show and not hear his name. It's almost being taken for granted now that he will seek the presidential nomination:
This must be the day for astounding, unbelievable news. First up is the revelation that many of the same Democrats who ripped Republican senatorial candidate Dan Coats last year for being a lobbyist-- better sit down for this -- are backing Democrat gubernatorial candidate John Gregg, a registered lobbyist in Indiana. Gasp! Hypocrisy! In politics!
The furor isn't dying down over the Indiana Supreme Court's 3-2 ruling that Hoosiers don't have the right to resist if police officers illegally enter their homes. I can't remember the last time a court ruling in Indiana was so quickly and so roundly condemned. The consensus seems to be that the court pretty much gutted the Fourth Amendment, though not everyone puts it quite that strongly.
From Men's Health, 15 tips that will make you "healthier, slimmer, stronger and happier," including my favorite (because it validates what I already do):
1. Eat Bacon and Eggs for Breakfast
Indiana has among the laxest gun-permitting statutes in the nation. One restriction even a lot of staunch pro-gun advocates support, sensibly, is a firearms-instruction requirement. You can get a carry permit here without knowing diddly about how to actually use a gun safely. Such instruction might have been a help here:
Oh, goody, more lawyers:
Convinced that Indiana needs more lawyers, Indiana Tech plans to open the state's first new law school in more than a century.
"We haven't had a new law school open in Indiana since 1894," Arthur Snyder, president of the private Fort Wayne-based college, said Monday. "It's about time we did."
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Game, set and match to the gentleman from Wisconsin:
U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan said Monday that Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich does not fully understand a GOP proposal to turn Medicare into a voucher system, dismissing criticism from the former House speaker that the plan would be a radical change.
If you lived in Louisiana, what you think about government would depend on where your home was, wouldn't it?
Haven't made any big plans for Saturday, have you?
A New York man spent his entire $140,000 life savings advertising his prediction that the world will end May 21, the New York Post reported Friday.
Robert Fitzpatrick, a 60-year-old Staten Island resident, said he spent at least that sum on 1,000 subway-car placards and ads on bus kiosks and subway cars.
Looks like former Indiana House Speaker John Gregg will be the Democratic candidate for governor going up against Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Pence next year. That means voters will have a choice between a mid-50s attorney and experienced politician who was once a poltical talk show host and opposes abortion and a mid-50s attorney and experienced politician who was once a political talk show host and opposes abortion. But not to worry if you're looking for real differences between them.
Not quite three hours back, and I already feel a fit of nitpicky pique coming on. The Terre Haue Tribune Star had a story about water quality --
Town residents hope to get to the bottom of well-water concerns affecting that northside neighborhood at a public forum Thursday evening.
Gail Phillips, president of the Terre Town Community Association, said the meeting will be hosted inside the Terre Town Elementary School at 6:30 p.m., and the public is encouraged to attend.
I'm taking some time off. Back at the blogging a week from Monday, on the 16th.
Allow me to be a pedantic nitpicker here. According to a news release from Indiana University, "Despite school referenda failures on Tuesday, Indiana now a referenda state." Boy, that grates on my ears. From the personal blog of Lord Norton, professor at Hull University and member of the House of Lords:
The Justice Department doesn't have enough to do without messing around with college football?
The U.S. Justice Department wants to know why the NCAA doesn't have a college football playoff system and says there are "serious questions" about whether the current format to determine a national champion complies with antitrust laws.
"Independent" should not be used as a synonym for "moderate.":
Just six years ago, only 30 percent of Americans identified as independents. Today, that number is 37 percent.
And while growing so fast (and 7 percent in six years is fast), they are also diversifying very quickly, with strongly divergent views between different groups of independents.
Here we go again:
The Obama administration has floated a transportation authorization bill that would require the study and implementation of a plan to tax automobile drivers based on how many miles they drive.
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A little "praise Buddha and pass the ammunition" from the Dalai Lama:
Speaking Tuesday night at the University of Southern California, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader said the al Qaeda chief, responsible for the deaths of thousands, likely deserved his fate.
Well, better hit the books then:
Conservative elites swoon over Mitch Daniels' fiscal conservative bona fides, but the Indiana governor says he's "probably not" ready for a foreign policy debate with President Barack Obama.
It's one thing to argue that our fiscal problems are so great that we should declare a truce on the "social issues." It's another to presume one's strengths on domestic issues
