Sunday car sales aren't just proscribed by state legislation, they're criminalized. It's a Class B misdemeanor to buy or sell a car on Sunday:
State Sen. Phil Boots, R-Crawfordsville, is pushing legislation to eliminate the regulation, which he considers antiquated. Boots is also sponsoring a bill that would lift the ban on Sunday alcohol sales.
Top Illinois Democrats have agreed to push a plan that would temporarily boost income taxes by 75 percent and double cigarette taxes, Senate President John Cullerton said Thursday.
Illinois' personal income tax rate, now 3 percent, would climb to 5.25 percent for four years under the plan Cullerton outlined. After that, it would drop to 3.75 percent.
Big Brother is alive and well, and he will be surveiling in Lafayette:
By month's end, small, dome-covered cameras mounted on light posts could begin monitoring activity along three blocks of Second Street in downtown Lafayette.
"Statist" sometimes seems a more apt label than "liberal" or "progressive." Blind acceptance of whatever the government orders "for our own good" is the default position. Case in point, the forehead-smacking dumb editorial in this morning's Journal Gazette:
Question of the day for fiscal conservatives: Should Defense be immune from budget cuts? In defense of Defense, it's actually a constitutionally prescribed duty of the federal government, unlike a lot of the other nonsense that is funded these days. And keeping us safe from all the evil in the world is a complicated business, so the fear of cutting the wrong thing is justified. BUT. The cuts needed in government, especially i9n the short term, just can't be made without considering Defense:
Because of Sen. Richard Lugar's votes on such issues as New START and the DREAM Act, his support for earmarks and his votes to confirm Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, he's certain to face a Tea Party challenge in the primary next year:
Hoping to head off a primary challenge from the right, Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Indiana, sat down with Tea Party leaders last month but did little to persuade them of his conservative credentials.
Mitch Daniels talks to the New York Times about what a smaller government might look like:
State Rep. Tom Saunders is re-introducing a bill that would prohibit employees of city, county and town government from serving as elected officials within their local government.
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Oh, puh-leeze:
President Barack Obama, while returning to Washington from a vacation in Hawaii, said Monday he hopes Republican leaders Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Rep. John Boehner of Ohio can put aside partisanship in the coming months to help lift the economy.
I hope Navy Capt. Owen Honors, who produced profanity- and-slur-laden videos while second in command of the USS Enterprise, isn't being relieved of command of the ship for the wrong reason -- a reaction to public pressure based on our goody-two-shoes culture. But he is in trouble and might deserve to be:
