So what are you people thinking, that there are "fast food" offsets?
If you're feeling virtuous about the sandwich you've ordered at a fast-food restaurant, you'll probably grab some chips, cookies and a soda, too.
So what are you people thinking, that there are "fast food" offsets?
If you're feeling virtuous about the sandwich you've ordered at a fast-food restaurant, you'll probably grab some chips, cookies and a soda, too.
They're all just trying to get to Indiana as fast as they can for our excellent breaded tenderloins:
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- State troopers issued 1,416 speeding tickets last year to drivers going more than 100 mph, an offense that Ohio labels a minor misdemeanor and is punishable by a $150 fine.
Too many students at Oak Park, Ill., Percy Julian Middle School were hugging in the hallway, creating huge backups between classes. So the principal decided to ban hugging in the school:
Sharts said, "Hugging is really more appropriate for airports or for family reunions than passing and seeing each other every few minutes in the halls."
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OK, forget that the proposed $35 billion increase in children's health coverage is regressive taxation that Democrats always claim to be against. Never mind that the income guidelines are so generous that this moves away from providing coverage for the poor and gets well into the middle class. At least listen to one small voice of common sense belonging to Rep. Jim McCrey, R-La., about the wisdom of funding the program with an increase in cigarette taxes:
Sputnik totally freaked out this country. The fact that the Soviet Union might be ahead of us led us to question our science education and fueled the space race, which we won by landing on the moon, still the greatest achievement of humankind. And it turns out that Sputnik was a lot of hype and hoax:
Christian conservatives are going to put Hillary Clinton in the White House. Well, that's not their intent, but it will be the result:
An Indiana State University student tries to improve town-gown relations:
In the end, I guess that Terre Haute really is not all that bad, as long as you are 21 years of age (or older), have plenty of money to burn, like to drink, don't mind loud, smoky, crowded bars, and don't have a car so you can just get the hell out of town.
Boy, talk about your toilet backups:
SELLERSBURG, Ind. -- Five people were injured Monday in an interstate pileup that began when two portable toilets fell from a flatbed trailer in southern Indiana.
A vehicle driven by Thomas Kozenski of Indianapolis struck one of the toilets, causing a chain reaction that involved seven cars, Indiana State Police said.
Sorry. Couldn't help myself.
This Star editorial on the proposed footbaths for Muslim taxi drivers at Indianapolis' airport is, on the whole, pretty unobjectionable:
But if state and city governments can make Good Friday a holiday for their employees, and that policy has so far withstood legal challenge, then why shouldn't the Airport Authority be able to accommodate certain religious practices?
It's nice to know there are still some constants in a rapidly changing world:
Videotapes of angry officers savagely beating civilians and charges that a murder plot was hatched within an elite special operations unit have Chicago's troubled police department reeling again.
The way things have been going lately, we should be grateful the court got this one right:
He's now got a human name — Matthew Hiasl Pan — but he's having trouble getting his day in court. Animal rights activists campaigning to get Pan, a 26-year-old chimpanzee, legally declared a person vowed to take their challenge to Austria's Supreme Court after a lower court threw out their latest appeal.
You misunderstood whom I was calling bozos:
Gary Stark, of the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching, gave a presentation on a Teacher Advancement Program at the invitation of Superintendent of Public Instruction Suellen Reed.
So, basically, it's all my fault:
This will come as little surprise to most parents: Children who have older brothers tend to become more aggressive than those with older sisters, according to a new study.
Sorry, Larry and Judy; it's all biology. You probably won't like this, either:
The evidence against ethanol just continues to mount:
I thought my generation was going to end up being the most arrogant and self-indulgent one in history. Glad to know I was wrong. I guess:
Because he has been among the strongest supporters of the auto industry, Rep. John Dingall of Michigan has frquently been at odds with environmentalists. But now he seems to be going green:
Their puzzlement grew last week when Dingell unveiled what looks, at first blush, to be one of the most visionary environmental initiatives ever laid before Congress.
This story notes that Sen. Hillary Clinton "did not estimate" the total cost of her proposal to give every child born in the United States a $5,000 bond. The math isn't that hard: $5,000 times 4 million babies = $20 billion a year plus the usual billions for administrative costs. I love this logic:
The Indianapolis Star looks at the potential conflicts of interest for City-County Council President Monroe Gray, who is also an employee of the Fire Department, making him a member of both the executive and legislative branches:
It's getting awfully lonely out here for the shrinking handful of us who still think government should be limited to those few things it can do well if it holds to its proper role. We rail against Hillary Clinton's plan for universal health care and John Edwards' promise he will end poverty and Barack Obama's apparent desire to cure all ills from Washington, and George Bush goes to the United Nations and gives a speech that makes all the Demorats seem like rightwing pikers:
A Democratic city council candidate in Flordia has had a couple of endorsments withdrawn because he is too pro-choice:
ST. PETERSBURG - Two state legislators have pulled their endorsement of City Council candidate Gershom Faulkner after he told a group of local gay and lesbian political activists that people choose to be gay.
