The flag won't be flying at half-mast at the Morris compound today:
Robert Strange McNamara, the former secretary of defense whose record as a leading executive of industry and a chieftain of foreign financial aid was all but erased from public memory by his reputation as the primary architect of U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam, died early this morning at age 93.
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Dang, what will Mayberry get next, electric lights?
This article, like many others I've seen, assumes that Sarah Palin is resigning as governor in order to better run for president, not because she caved to the pressure or is making a pre-emptive move because of some scandal we don't know about yet. Guess we'll have to watch the "surprising, perplexing and just plain fascinating" story unfold to find out for sure. The article also lists the advantages would have running for president without the burden of being governor, such as:
The Tea Parties aren't always about the federal government's spending habits, as the one in South Bend this week illustrates:
Ron Hosinski was among the crowd, holding his sign high as tension spread and tempers flared.
"You don't spend more than you take in," said Hosinki. "I don't care if you are a family, a government, a mayor, a governor or president. You don't spend more than you make."
Members of the Indiana General Assembly stopped playing chicken in time to pass a new budget just before the special-session deadline of midnight arrived, so the state government won't have to shut down. Crisis averted.
Can somebody please shut this guy up so I don't have to take a few days off work, get in the car, drive to South Carolina, hunt him down and kick him where he deserves to be kicked?
Could they please hype the downtown hotel a little more? This was almost too subtle for me:
The long-delayed construction of the Courtyard by Marriott hotel at Harrison Square officially began Monday with a groundbreaking overlooking the construction site.
Representatives of Fort Wayne city government, local lenders, civic leaders and White Lodging, the company building the hotel, gathered for the groundbreaking and expressed their enthusiasm for the project.
Good grief. In an MSNBC/Elkhart Truth tearjerker, we read in the first four paragraphs about how hard the recession is on Angel Rodriguez. Finally, in the fifth paragraph, they get around to telling us what we'd already begun to suspect:
"Us illegals, we don't have unemployment," said Rodriguez, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico City. "If I had unemployment, I wouldn't have had to give up the trailer."
If Hoosiers had voted for Jill Long for governor instead of Mitch Daniels, this man would have been our lieutenant governor:
Dennie Oxley Jr., a former state legislator and last year's Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, avoided arrest on alcohol-related charges early Friday by telling police he was serving in the General Assembly, according an Indianapolis Police report.
The administration and Congress are trying to ram through as much as they can as quickly as they can -- the massive canp & trade bills and health care reform, for example, bills that will be so big and complicated that even those doing the voting won't know what's in them. So thank goodness for small favors:
