Politics and other nightmares

Congratulations to the state and the governor for having the courage not to be tolerant. Many parents and students affiliated with the Indiana School for the Deaf are upset with Gov. Mitch Daniels for his appoinment of three new board members with ties to the mainstreaming approach to teaching deaf children, an approach that encourages them to listen and sometimes read lips.

It's commendable to keep "the children" and their welfare in mind when considering public policy, but it can get out of hand. Judges in Tippecanoe County are proposing new rules intended to shield youngsters from the bickering and resentment that often accompany divorce:

The Fort Wayne City Council is considering an ordinance that would require the city to maintain existing brick streets, a costly proposal that only the council's self-designated penny-pincher protested:

Boy, President Obama has the thinnest skin of anybody in politics today:

With Mike Huckabee bowing out, Newt Gingrich blowing up and Donald Trump dropping the pretense, the already-hot buzz for Mitch Daniels jumped up several notches. It's hard to turn on a political talk show and not hear his name. It's almost being taken for granted now that he will seek the presidential nomination:

This must be the day for astounding, unbelievable news. First up is the revelation that many of the same Democrats who ripped Republican senatorial candidate Dan Coats last year for being a lobbyist-- better sit down for this -- are backing Democrat gubernatorial candidate John Gregg, a registered lobbyist in Indiana. Gasp! Hypocrisy! In politics!

The furor isn't dying down over the Indiana Supreme Court's 3-2 ruling that Hoosiers don't have the right to resist if police officers illegally enter their homes. I can't remember the last time a court ruling in Indiana was so quickly and so roundly condemned. The consensus seems to be that the court pretty much gutted the Fourth Amendment, though not everyone puts it quite that strongly.

Indiana has among the laxest gun-permitting statutes in the nation. One restriction even a lot of staunch pro-gun advocates support, sensibly, is a firearms-instruction requirement. You can get a carry permit here without knowing diddly about how to actually use a gun safely. Such instruction might have been a help here:

Oh, goody, more lawyers:

Convinced that Indiana needs more lawyers, Indiana Tech plans to open the state's first new law school in more than a century.

"We haven't had a new law school open in Indiana since 1894," Arthur Snyder, president of the private Fort Wayne-based college, said Monday. "It's about time we did."

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Game, set and match to the gentleman from Wisconsin:

U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan said Monday that Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich does not fully understand a GOP proposal to turn Medicare into a voucher system, dismissing criticism from the former House speaker that the plan would be a radical change.