History

It has been said that when the founders of this country met, it was one of the greatest collections of smart people in one room ever. But a bunch of progressive yahoos now want to revisit all the principles our constitutional republic were based on, especially the ones involving separation of powers and other factors slowing down government. It's yet another lame argument that what we need is less gridlock and more on the federal government doing big things all the time:

"Affordable" doesn't mean quite what it once did:

Researchers at Indiana and Cornell universities say that how the federal government defines "affordable" could leave millions of dependents of low and moderate income workers without reasonably priced insurance under the federal health care overhaul.

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Gov. Mitch Daniels' new book has passages bashing a part of the state I'm very familiar with:

But Daniels uses a few pages to take aim at Northwest Indiana, a region that has a decades-long loyalty to the Democratic Party. In one passage, Daniels writes about his futile attempt to make inroads in the region by bringing jobs.

Word is that Universal is going to make a third version of "Scarface," which brings up some intersting speculation:

Well, he certainly was right, wasn't he?

US President John F. Kennedy "worried for the country" should his vice-president Lyndon Johnson succeed him, according to taped interviews of Kennedy's widow to be aired next week on US television.