How would you describe Evan Bayh? How about "sainted moderate" who is now going to "reap lobbying bucks"?
How would you describe Evan Bayh? How about "sainted moderate" who is now going to "reap lobbying bucks"?
Note to Senate Democrats who have to run for re-election in 2012: Some of you may have blown your last chance:
Efforts to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law died a quick death in the Senate Wednesday, but the GOP got a consolation prize — a bipartisan fix to a tax-reporting requirement in the law that was widely panned by businesses.
The discussion continues on Mitch Daniels and his "truce on social issues." A Notre Dame professor takes exception to the National Review post and comes to Mitch's defense:
Is this the future?
News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch and a gaggle of tech and media chroniclers gathered Wednesday at the Guggenheim Museum in New York for a first look at the debut edition of The Daily, News Corp.'s experimental iPad "newspaper."
Laura Ingram asks Mitch Daniels about his call for a moratorium on social issues, and he doubles down on it, though changing from "truce" to "stand mute" on them for a while:
If you don't accept that we face a republic-threatening issue in terms of the debt--and again I would love to conclude one day that I was overreacting--but that threatens every one of us whatever our views on these other questions.
Smoking-ban advocates have never been able to get a bill through the General Assembly. This might be the year they succeed, but with more exemptions than supporters would like. Some accept the compromise philosophically:
Even Democrats? It's a miracle
OK, that's it. I've had enough of winter, so I hereby declare that spring begins tomorrow. I'm a blogger, after all. I can do anything.
Well, maybe I should call on Phil for an assist:
The Wall Street Journal seems almost giddy over the opportunity presented by this "constitutional moment":
Discipline seems to be a problem in schools nationwide. But a deputy prosecutor singles out the Muncie Community School Corp.:
Borders seems to be near bankruptcy; it's delaying more payments to vendors and landlords to preserve cash. In the meantime, ebooks for the Kindle outsold paperbacks for the first time:
Anat Adi-Atias appeared before the House Education Committee last week with a plea for help. She has a daughter whose treatment for eye cancer left her with long-lasting health problems and a multidude of learning challenges. Adi-Atias told the committeee that her Jewish faith and the outpouring of support from her faith community were what sustained her:
Lots of interesting stuff in the latest Gallup poll, including this bit on health care:
And on Obama's proudest achievement, his signature healthcare legislation, only 13% like the idea of keeping it as is. Everyone else favors minor changes, major changes or tossing out the entire thing.
May I say tee-hee?
Researchers have discovered that contrary to popular belief half of the ice flows in the Karakoram range of the mountains are actually growing rather than shrinking.
The discovery adds a new twist to the row over whether global warming is causing the world's highest mountain range to lose its ice cover.
Mike Pence takes himself out of the presidential race, breaking some hearts and gladdening others:
Guns can be picked up and used for good or evil, but they are morally neutral objects. Gun-control advocates always try to obscure this point as they strain mightily, without success, to connect the dots between bad gun acts and lawful gun ownership. So in commenting on efforts by some state legislators to ease a number of gun restrictions, The Journal Gazette just has to tie it to a recent murder:
An odd little list of state rankings has been published called the United States of Shame. It purports to identify what each state is worst at. I don't want to take all the credit for the No. 1 ranking we got, but I will say it's nice to see that ll my hard work paid off:
This is one of those "only in northwest Indiana" stories:
GARY -- At least three of Gary's declared mayoral candidates have bankruptcy filings in their past, including one front-runner, but each of them says the bankruptcy has no bearing on their ability to manage finances of the cash-strapped city.
The much-maligned, color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System is about to be consigned to the proverbial dustbin of history.
Not that anyone is really paying attention.
We're at the halfway mark of Barack Obama's first term as president. I say "first term" because I'm confident that this isn't his last. Conservatives will not want to hear this, but I've felt all along that Obama will be a two-term president, and nothing I've seen dispels that notion. My thinking is grounded primarily in two sets of data.
