At least our senators are only aliterate -- they pass 1,000-page bills without reading them because they choose to. Looks like the Canadians now have the real thing:
Jacques Demers, the Stanley Cup-winning coach who has spoken frankly about his lifelong battle with illiteracy, was appointed Thursday to the Canadian Senate.
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What if you invited legislators to a town hall meeting, but nobody came? Well, improvise:
Cardboard cutouts of Senators Evan Bayh and Richard Lugar, who were not present, were carried up to the podium so attendees could address them.
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David Long is against a casino in Allen County and, furthermore, has not noticed "any major economic development improvements in any of the cities the casinos have been installed." But, on gambling in general:
We may already be at the point where so many things are illegal that you will unwittingly become a criminal several times over every time you set foot outside your house. Oh, wait! Now they can get you there, too:
If you're planning a garage sale or organizing a church bazaar, you'd best beware: You could be breaking a new federal law. As part of a campaign called Resale Roundup, the federal government is cracking down on the secondhand sales of dangerous and defective products.
Just because you have the right to possess in one state, that doesn't mean you have the right to carry in another. No, not guns:
A Michigan man learned the hard way that a medical marijuana card doesn't apply to individual bags and a cereal box of pot in Indiana.
The Indianapolis Star notes in an editorial that the state's two racinos are pleading poverty and asking for a tax break, the second time they have "tried to escape an agreement they freely entered into last year." I have no special love for the racinos, and I think gambling has done more harm than good in Indiana. But I wonder about this reasoning, in the editorial's final paragraph:
A lighting expert says our mandated switch to CFL will probably save "some" energy, but at too great a cost in rampant dissatisfaction with lighting:
At Mark Souder's health care town hall meeting Friday, former City Councilman Dr. John Crawford succinctly identified a major problem with Obamacare and similar proposals:
Got an interesting Charles Krauthammer column on "Obamacare Version 1.0," which he says is dead. I'm not sure if I can find the room for it on the editorial page, so I'll share it here.
My native state has figured out how to solve the problem of atheists -- just legislate them away. The law creating Kentucky's Office of Homeland Security declares that the "security of the Commonwealth" cannot be secured without "reliance on Almighty God."
The language in the 2006 legislation had been inserted by state Rep. Tom Riner, D-Louisville, a pastor of Christ is King Baptist Church in Louisville.
