This should not be a shock to anybody except the politicians who still think we are all out here desperately seeking "comprehensive" reform:
A new statewide poll found overwhelming support for stricter penalties on employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants.
The WISH-TV Indiana Poll released Wednesday night found 71 percent favored such penalties, while 19 percent opposed them and 10 percent were unsure.
The steady flow of bad budget news out of City Hall continued Tuesday, as Mayor Richard Daley announced he will shut down city services except for police and fire for three days during the holidays.
Fark is having a "Photoshop McCain and Obama into a movie poster" contest. Here's one of my favorites. You figure out why.
The "early voting" sites are opening in Gary, East Chicago and Hammond after a back-and-forth court battle, and shame on Lake County Republicans for trying to make it a little tougher on the predominating Democrats in those cities. Sometimes partisanship is called for, and sometimes it isn't. But also shame on the Democrats and their hyperbolic sputtering:
Moderator: What was the most significant setback in your life?
Mitch Daniels: I was arrested when I was young and spent a night in jail. That taught me the value of owning up to your mistakes.
Jill Long: We almost lost the family farm in the 1980s, but we persevered, and that's why Daniels has been a terrible governor.
This is stunningly dunderheaded:
Today, when Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama returns to Toledo, The Blade, on its front page, asks Mr. Obama a simple question: Do all Americans who want to work have the right to a job where they live?
John Robinson Block, co-publisher and editor-in-chief of the newspaper, said the answer to that question is important to all Toledoans and to all Americans.
Remember when it was actually being said that the maverick John McCain and the post-everything Barack Obama might wage a new kind of campaign free of so much of the venom and bile of modern American politics?
David Brooks, who is what passes for a conservative at The New York Times, peers into the future and sees -- Gasp! -- Big Government as Democratic liberals and moderates duke it out:
Here's one I agree with Obama on rather than McCain:
Even as the U.S. confronts two long wars, neither Sen. John McCain nor Sen. Barack Obama believes the country should take the politically perilous step of reviving the military draft.
The General Assembly passed a measure session before last that allows almost any unit of local government to "reorganize" with almost any other unit. Mostly, it's been ignored by officials who like things fine just the way they are. But in West Lafayette, Mayor John Dennis and West Side Schools Superintendent Rocky Killion are enthusiastically embracing change:
