The great star-spangled experiment is over at Goshen College. The college has decided to stop playing an instrumental version of the national anthem at sporting events, followed by a peace prayer:
Some were upset with the school's decision last year because the song's lyrics contain references to using war and military might to defend the country.
This is one of Gov. Mitch Daniels' education initiatives that hasn't gotten the attention and discussion it deserves:
When the Indiana legislature passed the budget at the end of April, it also launched Daniels' plan, which allows high school students who complete their core requirements by the end of their junior year to skip senior year and go straight to college.
I'm with you, man:
I can be pretty cynical about "the homeless" and the pollyannaish approach to them by some of their advocates, but this seems pretty harsh even to me:
Aww, we will no longer be allowed to pay for rapists and murderers to get philosophy degrees?
Indiana prisoners will no longer be able to earn a taxpayer-funded bachelor's degree or study liberal arts under a shift in state prison-education policy.
"It's tough to be a saint" department:
He is the rock legend dubbed 'Saint Bono' for his long-running campaign against global poverty.
But when Bono's band U2 perform at Glastonbury later this month, protesters are planning to accuse them of avoiding taxes which could have helped exactly the sort of people the singer cares about so dearly.
The New York Times editorial page has weighed in on the Obama administration's rejection of the Indiana ban on giving Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood clinics, calling it a "mean-spirited and dangerous" law:
Negotiations between the Fort Wayne Education Association and Fort Wayne Community Schools have hit a snag. The main dispute seems to be over whether to immediately start using new state rules disallowing bargaining over working conditions or to do a new contract before June 30 that would do without those rules for the next two years. This is the eye-popping sentence:
Donation boxes are set up in downtown Indianapolis to help the homeless and control panhandling.
Eight boxes have been installed since 2008, to allow people to put money in boxes instead of giving to panhandlers. But panhandlers are still hanging around the donation boxes, asking for handouts.
"They don't put it in the box," said one panhandler downtown. "Here? 40-50 bucks. Interstate? $300-400 dollars."
This sounds a lot like "Leth them eat cake," doesn't it?
President Obama's solicitor general, defending the national health care law on Wednesday, told a federal appeals court that Americans who didn't like the individual mandate could always avoid it by choosing to earn less money.
On the other hand, maybe this is an attempt to further the administration's goal of helping the little people. The more of us there are, the easier we will be to spot.
