Nothing like a little swift and vocal statewide outrage to get the General Assemly's attention:
INDIANAPOLIS — The top leaders in Indiana's Legislature support reversing a new law stripping the names of unopposed candidates from local election ballots.
People like this should be drummed out of the scientif community:
(Reuters) - Scientists around the world said on Friday the discovery of sub-atomic particles apparently traveling faster than light could force a major rethink of theories on the makeup of the cosmos, but the findings would first have to be independently confirmed.
Another case of one thoughtless miscreant spoiling it for everybody else:
HOUSTON — For decades, Texas inmates scheduled to be executed had at least one thing to look forward to: a last meal. Earl Carl Heiselbetz Jr. ordered two breaded pork chops and three scrambled eggs in 2000. Frank Basil McFarland asked for a heaping portion of lettuce and four celery stalks in 1998. Doyle Skillern ate a sirloin steak in 1985.
Gov. Mitch Daniels' new book has passages bashing a part of the state I'm very familiar with:
But Daniels uses a few pages to take aim at Northwest Indiana, a region that has a decades-long loyalty to the Democratic Party. In one passage, Daniels writes about his futile attempt to make inroads in the region by bringing jobs.
Mitt Romney is working awfully hard to show us that, deep down, he's just a Regular Guy:
Like the stars in Us Weekly, Mitt Romney wants voters to know that he is just like them.
Ding, ding, ding! We have a brand-new euphemism:
The headline on this story is "Vote shows Boehner's lack of control," which is kind of an old-fasioned, horse-race way of reporting Washington politics. There is a new group dynamic now that people who should know better continue to ignore:
House Republicans tried a fresh strategy Wednesday night: Go it alone on a spending bill.
The result was an embarrassing setback.
Remember a few years ago there was a government commission on reducing the paperwork burden that was most notable for producing a gigantic report on the subject, on paper? This is almost as good:
Obama administration officials are talking up open government, transparency and accountability, but are doing it anonymously in apparent contradiction of the goal.
Those who hoped the Indiana Supreme Court would rethink and perhaps soften its recent invalidation of the Castle Doctrine will be disappointed at this:
The Indiana Supreme Court on Tuesday reaffirmed its earlier ruling in a controversial case involving unlawful police entry.
David Brooks has finally seen the light:
Yes, I'm a sap. I believed Obama when he said he wanted to move beyond the stale ideological debates that have paralyzed this country. I always believe that Obama is on the verge of breaking out of the conventional categories and embracing one of the many bipartisan reform packages that are floating around.
