Hoosier lore

NBC's political blog, in noting the shift to Obama in recent polls, says Indiana is probably "the surprise of the cycle":

Awww, them mean old policemans is spoling the widdle kids' fun:

I confess to not having followed the attorney general's race closely, so I can't say much yet about how the candidates compare. The Republican is currently the chieft deputy of the office, so that would seem to make him more qualified than the Democrat. But I don't think much of this campaign tactic:

Heaven forbid we should tighten credit:

I will continue supporting efforts to pass legislation to restore credit flow to homeowners, businesses, farmers and all the people who, by the very nature of their businesses, need to borrow money to maintain their activity and keep employees," Lugar said Friday.

The chain-reaction accident in which two dump trucks hit a school bus, killing four special-needs children, apparently started all because of this slug:

According to The Cass County Sheriff office, the dump truck that hit the school bus swerved to miss a motor scooter ridden by Raymond Gust. Gust had slowed to turn into his driveway off U.S. 24, forcing the dump truck to try to avoid him.

The things they teach in school these days:

SOUTH BEND — Carmen Chandler, 19, didn't have a favorite in the presidential race before Friday night's televised debate between Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama.

"Now I'm leaning toward Obama," she said afterward.

Chandler, an Indiana University South Bend student from Mishawaka, was disturbed by McCain's support for additional nuclear power plants. "I'm an environmentalist," she said.

I've always thought it would be a nightmare to live in a historic preservation district where you have to get permission from the governing board of busybodies before you even paint your house. And heaven forbid there should be an emergency:

Still paying off a building after it's torn down. Only government would have the audacity to do something so breathtakingly irrsponsible:

INDIANAPOLIS -- Indianapolis leaders on Wednesday did what a homeowner could never legally do -- demolish a building while the mortgage is still unpaid.

The three gubernatorial candidates talked to a bunch of editors about the press this week. Libertarian Andrew Horning was the most critical:

Although he has run for governor as a Libertarian before, Horning suggested that the media figures he will only get 2 percent of the vote "so let's throw him off the side."

He even quipped that it would fine if they called him "poopy head" if it got him more press.

Our 2nd District Rep. Mike Pence is getting some attention for his pithy quote on the bailout proposal:

"I must tell you, there are those in the public debate who have said that we must act now. The last time I heard that, I was on a used-car lot," said Rep. Mike Pence, R-Indiana. "The truth is, every time somebody tells you that you've got to do the deal right now, it usually means they're going to get the better part of the deal."