A man of the cloth goes out on a limb:
Pastor Jason Rice will offer a special service at 11 a.m. Sunday at Muncie Morningside United Methodist Church. He'll discuss tough questions about God that people have always wanted to ask, such as "Have you ever wondered if God is real," "Who Jesus really is?", etc.
Well, heaven forbid that we reduce the number of abortions:
Sarah and Todd Palin's decision to complete her recent pregnancy, despite advance notice that their baby Trig had Down syndrome, is hailed by many in the pro-life movement as walking the walk as well as talking the talk.
Thank God neither one of them is for cancer:
If there is one war John McCain and Barack Obama agree on, it's the one against cancer.
Public safety officers have to be "asked" to do what the rest of us have always had to do:
CROWN POINT | Lake County Sheriff Rogelio "Roy" Dominguez is using the current budget crisis to renew his call for hundreds of county police and corrections officers to go to a 40-hour work week.
City Councilman Glynn Hines flat out says he "does not trust" Mayor Tom Henry to do the right thing in hriring enough African Americans. So, after voting against the fire department merit commission, he changed his mind and voted along with five other council members to override the mayor's veto of forming the commission:
Kathleen Parker's take sounds right to me:
Every now and then, in walks a man or woman who turns the world inside out and upside down.
Barack Obama was such a man.
And now, Sarah Palin is such a woman.
Some intriguing ideas on taxes were presented to an interim study committee of the General Assembly this week:
Under one plan, the state's 7 percent sales tax rate would be lowered to 5.5 percent and be applied to all services except medical and legal. Young and Waltz said that would raise enough money to replace $2.2 billion in property taxes that homeowners pay.
The era of saying "the era of bg government is over" is over:
Never forget. But it's been seven years, and we have:
Seven years ago, the roar of exploding planes and the spectacle of collapsing buildings riveted the nation's attention on a single topic, terrorism - and in the terrible aftermath, it seemed that focus would never waver.
Here's an issue I agree with Barack Obama on:
Barack Obama is promising to double funding for charter schools and replace inferior teachers, embracing education reform proposals normally more popular with Republican candidates.
