Don't ever think Paul Helmke will stop going after our guns (especially if he gets Barack "reasonable controls" Obama as an ally in the White House). He just thinks losing in real court will eventually help him in the court of public opinion:
Don't ever think Paul Helmke will stop going after our guns (especially if he gets Barack "reasonable controls" Obama as an ally in the White House). He just thinks losing in real court will eventually help him in the court of public opinion:
Ever think we're maybe going too far in asking not to be bothered?
INDIANAPOLIS - A dispute over whether a state law can ban prerecorded telephone calls in political races is about to be in the hands of the Indiana Supreme Court.
The justices were scheduled to hear arguments Monday over a lawsuit by the state attorney general's office against a Washington, D.C., group that made the so-called "robo" calls during a 2006 Indiana congressional campaign.
Who knew?!?!
Dutch statisticians have established that Friday 13th, a date regarded in many countries as inauspicious, is actually safer than an average Friday.
Swell. I'm safe today, but I'll have to watch over my shoulder every Friday 1-12 and 14-31.
There might be a campaign dispute out there somewhere that is stupider and lamer than the one being carried on by the Third District congressional candidates, but I can't for the life of me figure out what it would be:
With the national average of a gallon of gas well over four dollars, Democrat Mike Montagano says his Republican opponent in Washington is partly to blame. But, now the way he went about showing that is being questioned.
Should there be a price to pay for being stupid?
LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Two brothers rescued from a rain-swollen stream after an ill-advised journey in an inflatable raft without oars or life jackets may have to repay the cost of their rescue if Tippecanoe County's sheriff gets his way.
Sheriff Tracy Brown said he's considering asking the Lafayette brothers to reimburse his department for about $1,000 spent in man hours on Tuesday night's rescue from Wildcat Creek.
I'd fire every one of these "educators":
OCEANSIDE, Calif.—On a Monday morning last month, highway patrol officers visited 20 classrooms at El Camino High School to announce some horrible news: Students had been killed in car wrecks over the weekend.
Classmates wept. Some became hysterical.
He doesn't mince words (pdf file):
America is at war with radical Islamists.
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The game of bait-and-switch that today's opinion plays upon the Nation's Commander in Chief will make the war harder on us. It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed.
The right to give a good whuppin' is upheld:
The Indiana Supreme Court has reversed a woman's 2006 battery conviction for whipping her 11-year-old son with a belt or extension cord, holding that she was reasonably exercising parental discipline.
In a 4-1 decision, the court ruled that Sophia Willis' use of discipline did not cross the line into criminal conduct.
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For Indiana's favorite bleeding-heart columnist, the Indianapolis Star's Dan Carpenter, it probably doesn't get any better than this -- he gets to disparage the military, stick up for the poor, downtrodden homelesss and stick it to less-enlighted Hoosiers, all in the same column:
So who's guilty of pushing obscene material here?
LOS ANGELES - What violates community obscenity standards in the nation's reputed pornography capital? Federal prosecutors think they have a case.
Both John McCain and Barack Obama distrust the private sector and see government solutions to most problems. That means either one is more than likely to screw up more than once. That's the bad news. The good news:
Your unexpected explosion entangles us in a web of premature umbrellas and precocious timepieces and other surrealist compliments, randomly generated.
Well, they're paying attention to what happens in flyover country now, aren't they?
Raging floodwaters that have swallowed homes, bridges and roads across the Midwest this week now threaten to stunt the region's economy and raise already heightened food prices.
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The Joseph Decuis restaurant in Roanoke gets a nice writeup in the Star for its American version of Kobe beef, for which the restaurant owners keep their own herd of Japanese Wagyu cattle:
What has come to be called American Wagyu is typically a cross between Japanese Wagyu and black or red Angus.
At least Indiana University isn't the only school with a basketball-program recruiting controversy:
Michael Avery's recent announcement that he will play basketball at Kentucky created quite a stir.
Avery is considered a talented guard with good size at 6-4, but none of that contributed to the buzz.
I'm getting so tired of Bush and Obama and McCain and gas prices and Iran and flooding and taxes and all that silly stuff. Thank God I stumbled across a cable news outlet last night and learned about something really important: the Hulk Hogan crisis:
If you've suspected that sending in the "grief counselors" after every school tragedy might be doing more harm than good, you might have been right:
Now these are some enlightened officials:
DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich., June 9 (UPI) -- City officials in Dearborn Heights, Mich., say they may ban ice cream truck drivers from playing music because residents think it's too loud.
The city council is preparing to pass an ordinance Tuesday, permitting drivers to sound bells only as they are making an ice cream sale, The Detroit News reported.
