Don't mess with the hillbillies:
Republican campaign operatives are taking down an ad against West Virginia Democratic Senate candidate Joe Manchin following a report that the ad's casting call asked for actors who could look "hicky."
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Don't mess with the hillbillies:
Republican campaign operatives are taking down an ad against West Virginia Democratic Senate candidate Joe Manchin following a report that the ad's casting call asked for actors who could look "hicky."
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"About the same as everybody else" isn't exactly a ringing endorsement:
If you want to know how the Fort Wayne Metropolitan Human Relations Commission is spending your money, here's one way: It's going to send 19 fifth-graders to a re-education multicultural human rights camp:
Love Italian, love Mexican, but this just isn't right:
I had just finished writing about unlikely combinations--mashed potatoes and rice, cheddar and pickes--unlikely at least to me, when I came across this New York Times article about Spaghetti Tacos, another unlikely pair.
So, three large plastic bundles of $20 bills totaling an estimated $3 million fell off an armored car in downtown Indianapolis, and the questions are: How many people tried to make off with as much cash as they could? And how many people tried to protect the cash until police could get there?
The answers are: A lot:
Talk about a good deal:
I'm no great fan of Nancy Pelosi, but this is just plain stupid:
"We've come up with a new ranking of the female power elite that reflects the New Order of now ," Forbes explained in an article accompanying the list.
Just imitating a war hero shouldn't get anybody any jail time, but John Rodriguez deserves the 7 1/2 years he'll get for representing himself as a Marine with several presitigious medals, because he used the deception to profit fraudently:
Don't know what this means, but it's intriguing:
Mitch Daniels remains a popular governor according to the WISH-TV Indiana 2010 Election Poll. The Republican's approval rating is 62 percent.
But while Republican Party leaders and pundits continue to encourage Daniels to run for President in 2012, most Indiana voters don't like that idea.
MSNBC is running a poll at the bottom of this story, asking whether respondents think the fire department was right or wrong:
Firefighters in rural Tennessee let a home burn to the ground last week because the homeowner hadn't paid a $75 fee.
So we spend uncountable hundreds of billions to bus American school kids all over creation so we can create a magical "racial balance" that will elevate all achivement scores and create a future of peace and harmony, in the process all but destroying the concept of neighborhood schools, which pushed many at-risk neighborhoods right into the abyss. Naturally, we now have this to make it all better:
There's a special safety effort happening in local school zones Wednesday morning.
The Supreme Court today will hear arguments in the case of the demented or evil (take your pick) Fred Phelps and his merry band of pranksters, who have graced Indiana among their visits to picket military funerals with their "God hates fags" and "Thank God for dead soldiers" signs. It is almost universally agreed among followers of all religious doctrines and across the political spectrum that the Westboro Baptist Church's actions are vile and despicable.
Project Vote Smar has a handy little website called VoteEasy that should help those who want to be informed voters. It sent out questionnaires to candidates to get their views on such issues as crime and abortion, the education and the economy and taxes -- 12 in all. But it didn't just print the results of those who answered the questions. For those who didn't respond, the Vote Smart people used everything from candidates' statements and stories about them to their voting records to discern their stands as best they could.
I'm guessing these will be about as useful as chastity pledges and "just say no to drugs" pledtes:
The state Department of Education is touting a new "parents pledge" it hopes will increase parent involvement in schools.
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This seems a little, well, behind the times:
Students at Indiana University will build basement printing presses and print their own underground newspaper, learning from a legendary Polish journalist whose low-tech publishing innovations fueled the popular uprising that brought an end to Communist rule in Poland.
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I did both a blog post and an editorial last week arguing that while it might have been a mistake in the new alcohol law to require carding everyone regardless of age, it might make sense just to leave it alone. The hassle created for old codgers and other regular customers is relatively insignificant, and there is a benefit in taking discretion from the store clerks and thus reducing the chance of mistakenly selling to minors.
Further proof of one regrettable but unavoidable fact of human nature: Bad people will take advantage of good efforts, leaving us to decide whether the good efforts are worth it:
Bristol -- A Northern Indiana animal shelter says it is closing boxes that allowed people to drop off stray animals after hours because the system was being abused.
The Indianapolis Star on Sunday published an editorial about how unfriendly to voters and the voting process the state is. We make it harder than most states for third-party candidates to get on the ballot. And we have a very narrow window for voting -- our 6 p.m. closing time for polls, for example, is one of the earliest in the nation.
Maybe I'll become a member of the Druids, who, after thousands of years, are going to finally be recognized by Britain as a religion. I could get in on all that good tax-deduction stuff without having to do any heavy metaphysical lifting:
Druids worship nature and that they also believe in the spirits of places such as mountains and rivers, as well as in
