I like movie Westerns, and I'm a big fan of the Coen brothers, so I've been looking forward to seeing their version of "True Grit." If this reviewer is right, I won't be disappointed.
The Associated Press is out with its annual list of top 10 stories based on a poll of U.S. editors and news directors. The No. 1 story, according to those polled:
Best idea I've heard lately:
The coming death of mail as we know it -- no, no, not that mail; the other one:
Signs you're an old fogey: You still watch movies on a VCR, listen to vinyl records and shoot photos on film.
And you enjoy using e-mail.
Gov. Daniels has spent a lot of time and energy in the last couple of years getting the message out that every department in the state had to make sacrifices to see us through the fiscal emergency. So this doesn't make any sense:
State employees got some happy holiday news Tuesday: After a two-year pay freeze, Gov. Mitch Daniels decided that most of them will get raises next year.
When three related things happen close together, it's worth considering the possiblity that we may have spotted the next trend.
A marriage made in hell:
Is Arnold Schwarzenegger angling for a job in the Obama administration?
Two Republican senators are said to be especially in the Tea Party's sights. Orrin Hatch's reaction: Oh, look, I can, too, tack right. Richard Lugar's reaction: Nyah, nyah, nyah:
This is big news:
Lt. Governor Becky Skillman today issued the following statement on a gubernatorial run in 2012.
No nation can claim to be sufficiently civilized if all its citizens* don't have an equal right to die for their country, so let's congratulate American gays and lesbians for getting to join the club. But, good lord, could there maybe be a little more joy and a little less pouty whining?
You little people out there, don't worry your pretty little heads about this, it'll just confuse you. Leave everything to your betters in the legislature; if you can't trust them, whom can you trust?
Republicans for more government. First up, State Sen. Travis Holdman, who wants adults to have the same restrictions placed on teens in the last session of the General Assembly:
Drivers wouldn't be allowed to use hand-held cell phones or send text messages under a bill being proposed by an Indiana state lawmaker.
People still shop without their computers, walking around and going into actual stores?
Forbes' first-ever ranking of the best U.S. cities for shopping says Indianapolis has the kind of numbers that makes retail sparkle.
Shall we start a Fort Wayne chapter?
You might be a redneck if
Taxpayer relief makes it out of Congress:
President Barack Obama plans to sign an $858 billion tax deal into law on Friday afternoon.
The House of Representatives gave final approval late Thursday night to the deal, negotiated by the White House and top Senate Republicans. The final vote of 277-148 had almost equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans in support.
And the spending bill fails:
Leave to CNN, in reporting the story of how Ginger Littleton tried unsuccessfully to disarm the Panama City, Fla., school board meeting shooter with her purse, to include the detail we have all been waiting to hear:
Glad to have the company (pdf file):
I've made fun of Newsweek more than once here for being a bible of leftist orthodoxy. But I've also linked to articles from it -- once in a while, it publishes something both interesting and provocative.
Happy Bill of Rights Day!
On Dec. 15, 1791, the ten amendments to the Constitution known as the Bill of Rights were ratified.
The National Archives this year held a contest via Twitter, asking followers to distill the ten amendments in the Bill of Rights down to 140 characters each.
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