Darn good question:
Should you keep paying your mortgage?
If you have significant equity in your home, absolutely.
If you don't, it's getting harder to answer that question, especially when our government keeps giving people who owe more than their homes are worth so many reasons not to pay.
Support continues to grow, slowly but steadily, to allow grocery and liquor stores to sell alcohol on Sunday. The Indianapolis Star and WTHR (Channel 13) recently commissioned a poll on the subject:
The poll showed 46 percent of Hoosiers support changing that law, while 45 percent favor keeping it. Nine percent were undecided.
That shows a slight change from two years ago, when a poll conducted by The Star found that 50 percent of Hoosiers favored the Sunday ban and 43 percent opposed it.
The Journal Gazette does a typical "life is tough in the shadows when you fear being rounded up any minute" heart-tugger:
Pilar can turn on her radio or television and hear Spanish broadcasts. At most specialty grocery stores or Mexican taquería , she can pick up a local Spanish-language newspaper.
Did you know that grocery carts have more bacteria than public phones and restrooms? If you use one without at least wiping off the handle with one on the sanitary wipes the stores are starting to provide, you're taking your life in your hands. But at least, by God, we're being protected from those dastardly food pushers who are trying to kill us with their evil outdoor grills (third item):
Some good advice for Republicans:
Expel your base or retreat into an echo chamber: If those choices seem dispiriting, Republicans can take heart. They're the same false alternatives that the Democrats allegedly faced four years ago. Then a politician who hadn't fallen behind the bipartisan Iraq war -- but, unlike Howard Dean, actually wanted to be president -- came out of nowhere to beat his party's establishment and take the White House.
Why I could never get a government job:
Want a top job in the Obama administration? Only pack rats need apply, preferably those not packing controversy.
The Muncie Star Press doesn't think much of the idea of concealed weapons on the Ball State campus:
In Indiana, there is one very good reason for a campus ban on concealed weapons: Just about anyone can get a gun for any reason.
The only requirement for a gun permit is that you pay the fee, which runs around $100 or so, depending on whether you are applying for a four-year or lifetime permit.
Gov. Mitch Daniels is being suggested for a course he should probably avoid:
As Republicans do some soul-searching about the future of the GOP, political analysts say they should look to their crop of progressive governors -- including Indiana's Mitch Daniels -- to help mold the party's future.
That may mean Daniels, who won a commanding victory Tuesday to a second term, has a future as a candidate for higher office -- an idea he has shunned so far.
Yesterday, I wrote about people getting prematurely agitated over Barack Obama and the Second Amendment. Some are predicting an early demise for the First Amendment as well, specifically the reinstitution of the Fairness Doctrine as a way of shutting up conservative talk radio. That one's not high up on my worry list, either. There are some Democrats for it, and some against it, and Obama has said it's not something he would push for.
