Apparently, "supporting the troops" is not as widespread a phenomenon across the political spectrum as we might have thought:
A national tour featuring decorated veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan won't be stopping at Forest Lake Area High School today as planned, after school leaders abruptly canceled the visit.
That dang Internet will never get off the ground:
Kathleen Quilligan, who recently left The News-Sentinel, has landed at The Times of Northwest Indiana with an interesing feature about the coming movie about John Dillinger -- "Public Enemies," starring Johnny Depp -- which will be shot partly in Crown Point:
You get the impression listening to the Democratic presidential candidates (especially Obama) that they would never go to war anywhere, at any time, for any reason. You get the impression listening to McCain that he would make war first and ask questions later. I doubt this is quite true, but that's how the candidates sound, so that's where the debate tends to be steered.
We tend to focus on the current war:
Yes, it's a shame Fort Wayne is losing the Lincoln Museum. The world-class operation has been here 80 years and its loss will make the city less distinctive in one more way. But it's a private museum that can locate any place it chooses. If the directors really are motivated by wanting the items seen by more people, moving makes sense. This sentence was intriguing:
Far out, war-hatin' dudes:
The most famous postwar logo without commercial purpose -- or, at least, intended commercial purpose -- the peace symbol, turns 50 tomorrow.
Who was our best president? The top choice of Americans in a new Harris poll:
Far and away, Abraham Lincoln is ranked by Americans as the nation's greatest president, according to a poll conducted by Harris Interactive and released this week, just ahead of Presidents Day.
About 230 years or so after Adam Smith, the Associated Press stumbles into a little bit of economic reality:
It's hard to feel sorry for well-heeled shoppers whose idea of tough economic times is passing on $1,000 Burberry raincoats or that $300 limo ride while the working poor skimp on vegetables and take the bus.
Blogger and former Indianapolis Star columnist Ruth Holladay recalls the visit to Fort Wayne by Martin Luther King in 1963, when she was a junior at Concordia Lutheran High School:
It's the 35th anniversary today of Roe v. Wade, one of the worst Supreme Court decisions ever made, along with Dred Scott and a few others. When some of us passionately rail against the court making up constitutional rights out of thin air, this is the case that usually comes up first.
