Brave police officers in Bismarck protect North Dakotans from killer comedian:
Brave police officers in Bismarck protect North Dakotans from killer comedian:
Just a point or two from NRO's Marc Thiessen about President Obama's $17 billion in spending cuts:
$17 billion is less than one half of 1% of the entire $3.55 trillion FY10 budget.
CBO estimates that interest costs will be over $172 billion for FY10, or ten times what the administration is proposing to save.
You there, having the yard sale. Up against the wall, and put your hands over your head.
From the Consumer Product Safety Commission's handbook:
This handbook will help sellers of used products identify types of potentially hazardous products that could harm children or others. CPSC's laws and regulations apply to anyone who sells or distributes consumer products. This includes thrift stores, consignment stores, charities, and individuals holding yard sales and flea markets.
I don't want to sound like a defender of Drew Peterson. Anybody whose third wife dies in a suspicious bathtub accident and whose fourth wife disappears off the face of the earth is probably somebody to be avoided, and just a cursory look at his life for the past few years shows a pretty despicable human being. But in their zeal to get him, Illinois authorities are resorting to "evidence" the use of which should trouble us all:
Criminal genius of the week:
An Evansville man released from prison this week found himself back behind bars less than two days later on the same charge.
Anthony J. Johnson, 28, was arrested early this morning after allegedly stealing a car and later leading police on a short foot chase. He was released only Monday from the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility, where he served a year-and-a-half sentence for auto theft.
Why, you silly, ignorant lummox. This is not a porno palace, not in New Haven, Ind. This is an institution dedicated to saving failing marriages:
"80 percent of American families have some sort of adult novelty, I've seen many marriages saved by having adult novelties of some sort," said the owner of Cupid's Castle.
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Honest, this is a straight news story from The Associated Press, not a parody from The Onion:
As a "valued Pontiac and General Motors customer," I got a letter from GMC asssuring me that the company is "very sensitive to" my "concerns and needs." As GM "reinvents itself" for me and "future customers," I am thanked for my business and promised that the company will "work hard" to keep me in the GM family, "providing some of the finest quality vehicles in the world."
I would like to reply.
A Muncie Star Press editorial takes a commendable position on local government spending in tough economic times -- "Nothing should be sacred where tax dollars are concerned" -- but frames the argument in an odd sort of way:
Whether one agrees with the tax caps or not, what they did was put the onus on local government and its citizens to make the decisions that are best for them. That's called local control, which in most cases, is always the best policy.
I guess I've lived a more sheltered life than I had supposed, because here's a problem I really didn't realize we needed a state law to fix:
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - A state lawmaker says he plans to sponsor a bill next session that would bar adult males from applying spray-on tans to female juveniles at tanning salons.
State Rep. Bruce Borders, R-Jasonville, said he was shocked by a recent case where an adult man who works at a tanning salon applied a spray-on tan on a nude 15-year-old girl.
Anna Quindlen makes a whole big Old-Fogy-Steps-Aside and Passes-Along-the-Torch deal out of quitting her very part-time gig of writing one lousy column every two weeks for Newsweek. But at least she leaves me a going-away present, a sentiment so manifestly wrongheaded that it has to be answered:
Richard Nixon's Revenue Sharing program was a misguided assault on the very idea of federalism. The federal government collected money from states, then dribbled it back, minus administrative costs and the usual waste, fraud and abuse. And states actually started feeling grateful for the handouts. Barack Obama seems to have succeeded where Nixon failed:
Huh.
"Any time someone with influenza coughs, sneezes, or even talks loudly, they actually expel the virus in their breath,” said Diana Bowden, Infection Control Preventionist with Regional Hospital. “That's why social distancing is important, because you need to keep your distance so you don't inhale the droplets that are coming out in their breath."
Gun enthusiasts seem to be, um, shooting themselves in the foot. Apparently worried about the future availability of ammunition under a not-so-gun-friendly Obama administration, they are rushing out to buy said ammunition, driving up the price and, ironically, creating the very shortage they feared. This is having an adverse affect on police departments:
Officer Knoll said as the demand rises for ammo, so does the price.
An employee of the Marion County Clerk's Office has been fired after accusations she tried to sell prescription drugs, and now the city officials are being questioned about why they didn't check her Facebook.com page as part of the screening process:
"Im bein charged wit a d n b felony haha {expletive} u will get yers," read a posting on Straw's page. "{Expletive} u will get yers it called karma."
Well, there goes another "coping with madness results in great art" story:
History has always painted Vincent Van Gogh as the artist who cut off his ear. But according to researchers, history might have got the wrong man.
They believe that, in fact, it was Paul Gauguin, an artist of almost equal renown, who cut off his friend's ear.
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! Or, as the president likes to say, "Happy Cuatro de Cinco!"
On the eve of the Mexican holiday, Obama on Monday had an event in the East Room of the White House with Mexico's Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan (sahr-oo-KHAN').
Trekkies decry the new "Star Trek" movie as "fun, watchable." Where are the heavy handed messages? Where is the stiff acting? There isn't even a single scene of people sitting around a table endlessly discussing Klingon politics. And, most disappointing of all, the story line made sense. "Fans felt like the series belonged to them, and now the studio has turned it into something people will actually enjou." I love The Onion.
Does it occur to anybody else that the more "rights" students have, the less the adults are in charge and the less likely real education is being concentrated on? Those rights now extend to the most frivolous of all school activities:
The Indiana High School Athletic Association's executive committee has unanimously approved a rule change allowing girls to try out for baseball and other boys sports, formalizing a move made following settlement of a lawsuit.
"Poverty in America" update:
MUNCIE -- The sign near the door of Papa Murphy's Take 'n' Bake Pizza is subtle but noticeable.
Food stamps gladly accepted."
