Some supporters of Barack Obama are shocked and amazed -- shocked! I tell you -- that the man is exactly who he said he was:
Wealthy Wall Street financiers and other business figures provided crucial support for Mr Obama during the election, backing him over the Republican candidate John McCain as the right leader to rescue the collapsing US economy.
Reason magazine has been predicting the end of the postal service so long that even another 2-cent increase for stamps can't get it that excited these days:
As Associate Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward said in a post two years ago, "Reason has been predicting the imminent demise of the post office since at least the '80s, so I suppose we'd better not get too cocky just yet."
Finally, someone realizes that it is OK to make fun of a black, liberal president:
Good evening, everybody, I would like to welcome you to the 10-day anniversary of my first 100 days," the president told a ballroom full of Washington reporters and editors and celebrity guests. "My name is Barack Obama; most of you cover me. All of you voted for me."
If there's an exception to the guideline that the state should cut all spending in tough economic times, maybe it should be for Ivy Tech:
Rapidly growing Ivy Tech Community College could consider capping enrollment statewide during the next school year because of budget worries.
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:
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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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.
