This seems downright un-American, or at least anti-Hoosier:
HIGHLAND | It was a divided Town Council on Monday that passed an ordinance to prohibit alcohol from all public areas, including streets and parkways.
Prior to the meeting, Redevelopment Director Cecile Petro said sidewalk cafes are becoming popular and that the new ordinance would prohibit them.
"Outdoor dining is very important to revitalize a downtown area," she said.
We can all sleep better tonight knowing that the Secret Service has given the Obama family their code names:
The President will now be known as "Renegade," Michelle Obama as "Renaissance," Malia as "Radiance" and Sasha as "Rosebud." Vice President Joe Biden got tagged with the fairly ho-hum "Celtic" and his wife, Jill, will be known as "Capri."
A couple of weeks ago, we had a story about guns "flying off the shelves" because of the mere possibility Barack Obama might be elected president. Now that he's actually been elected, it's beginning to look like gun sales nationwide are so huge that they could even save the economy!
First up, we have a prime early example of Obama Derangement Syndrome:
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican congressman from Georgia said Monday he fears that President-elect Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist dictatorship.
If you were humiliated off the national stage after being discovered in a sleazy affair while your spouse was dying from cancer, would you be shameless enough to ask for $35,000 to deliver a speech and brazen enough to talk about everything but the affair and take only written queries so you could duck it in the question-and-answer period, too? If you can find dunces willing to go along with it, why not?
OK, show of hands. Who's shocked, shocked, shocked and dismayed by this?
Reporting from Washington -- Will $700 billion be enough? That question emerged Monday as the Bush administration decided to pump more money into insurance giant American International Group Inc. and lawmakers pushed to extend the government's rescue to the ailing automobile industry.
Indiana legislators are still going around in circles over illegal immigrants:
A panel of lawmakers studying illegal Immigration couldn't agree on major legislation to propose in the upcoming legislative session. The group couldn't agree on a more minor bill, either, and barely approved a report outlining its previous meetings.
What the king decrees, the king can undo:
President-elect Barack Obama is poised to move swiftly to reverse actions that President Bush took using executive authority, and his transition team is reviewing limits on stem-cell research and the expansion of oil and gas drilling, among other issues, members of the team said Sunday.
Sarah Palin has become another litmus test of the cultural divide. She's either a budding superstar or another amiable dunce. This Wall Stree Journal editorial has a more balanced look:
Malia and Sasha Obama now go to a private school in Chicago, and the speculation has started about where the Obamas will choose to send them to school in Washington:
