It's nice to know the youth of today are still enterprising and creative enough to live by the "necessity is the mother of invention" principle:
KOSCIUSKO COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) - The Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department arrested two men Tuesday for allegedly using counterfeit money.
"They were low on money so they decided to print money," Detective Chad Hill of the Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department said
Taxpayer-funded study of the week (this one in England, thank goodness):
The assumption has always been that rainy weather is good for ducks. Now a three-year study funded to the tune of £300,000 by the taxpayer has proved it.
A warning shot in California:
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to permanently fix California's "broken budget system." But three times now he has tried and failed to smooth out the state's roller coaster revenues.
Voters on Tuesday resoundingly rejected his latest effort, a package of budget-balancing measures that he promised would provide a short-term patch for the current financial crisis and prevent further catastrophe in the future.
The fight over closing the Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's Home always seemed to be about money. The facility was aging, the enrollment was shrinking, and spending millions a year on the place, it was argued, didn't make a lot of sense. The state didn't really respond to the arguments of home supporters, who said it was much more effective for troubled youth than the dismal foster-care system or those mythical community-based solutions that are always promised.
Today's Juxtaposition Workshop features two stories from today's wires. First, a matter of religious conviction:
A proposal to shield doctors and pharmacists from penalties for refusing to provide health services because of religious or moral objections won approval Tuesday from the Louisiana House, but only after the measure was rewritten to limit its scope.
The Obama administration is expanding a program initiated by President George W. Bush aimed at checking the immigration status of virtually every person booked into local jails. In four years, the measure could result in a tenfold increase in illegal immigrants who have been convicted of crimes and identified for deportation, current and former U.S. officials said.
All but two (31 of 33) of Indiana's Republican state senators are urging Sens. Lugar and Bayh to oppose the nomination of Indiana University law professor Dawn Johnsen for a senior position in the U.S. Department of Justice. It's hard to tell from news stories whether the senators are expressing a reasonable pro-life objection to a pro-choice candidate or being just this side of loony.
President Obama said at Notre Dame that, since the views of the two camps in the abortion debare are "irreconcilable," we need to at least stop demonizing one another and reducing those with differing views to caricature. I was with him on that, but then he said:
"Open hearts. Open minds. Fair-minded words. It's a way of life that always has been the Notre Dame tradition."
The Journal Gazette's Sunday Perspective section had a couple of pieces by people who, it could be argued, do not exactly have in mind the best interests of the people they are criticizing. First up is Tracy Warner, who says the local GOP won't succeed without its moderate wing:
Gov. Daniels tells President Obama to take his cap-and-trade and shove it (politely, of course):
