Good advice from the GOP national chairman to the party faithful:
"Lift your heads," Steele told about 800 people at the Indiana State Republican dinner at the downtown Marriott Hotel. "I'm so sick and tired of Republicans whining and moaning and complaining. You lost, get over it. "
And some easier-said-than-done words:
Private enterprise, defined by the need to make a profit and compete with others trying to do the same:
The Indiana constitution's guarantee of a free public education isn't really being met, and that lack will become more and more pronounced as new technologies become increasingly available and seen as necessary. It's not just books anymore but things like computers:
Maybe "Buy Indiana" doesn't sound as scary as "Buy American" or "Buy Chinese," but it's part of the same mindset:
Council members Mitch Harper, R-4th, and Liz Brown, R-at large, voted against recommending passage of the ordinance.
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Poor President Obama. He can't leave Joe Biden alone for a minute:
The administration is trying to tamp down talk that it didn't get it quite right -- talk created by Vice President Biden. On Sunday, he told ABC's George Stephanopoulos, "We and everyone else misread the economy." But he insisted that the stimulus "is the right package given the circumstances we're in."
Another pope calls for "economic justice," i.e. the market's profit motive being useful only as a means to the end of eliminating poverty and various "glaring inequalities." The writer, a fellow at a theological center, makes this interesting point:
Since a "proxy" is someone who is authorized to act for another, isn't that sort of part of the definition of a representative of "the people," even one with such a lofty title as "senator"?
You probably thought the General Assembly just wasted its time this year on trivialities such as the budget and public education. But our lawmakers took up a really serious lack in the law and did something about it:
There was a time when you didn't know what to expect when pulling up to a building with a "Massage" sign in the window.
If this guy really has entertained thoughts of running for governor, a couple of words of advice: Forget it. As a matter of fact, you don't even deserve to be mayor:
Let us give thanks to, and wish for continued common sense from, the so-called centrists of the Senate Democratic Conference:
Half a dozen members of the Senate Democratic Conference pose the biggest threat to President Obama's agenda, giving Senate Republicans a fighting chance to block the administration's major expansions of government.
