The loonies in Berkely apparently aren't the only ones who have Marine problems:
The Toledo Blade reports that Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner ordered the Marines out Friday as their buses were arriving for a three-day training mission in the city, where they have periodically trained since 2004.
How to get out of prison after serving only a third of your time:
An Indiana teen convicted in a deadly DUI was released from prison Monday. Paige Grable served her time, but not as much as the victim's family -- or prosecutors -- expected. WAVE 3's David McArthur explains.
Grable was sentenced to 30 months but is out after nine months.
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He who is not pot enough says McCain is kettle enough:
WASHINGTON (AP) — John McCain is a "true conservative," President Bush says, although the likely Republican presidential nominee may have to work harder to convince other conservatives that he is one of their own.
John McCain, the conventional wisdom goes, doesn't have a chance of winning the White House unless he shores up support among the conservative GOP base. One way to help do that, writes Pat Toomey in today's Wall Street Journal, is to choose a "true-blue fiscal conservative" ans his vice presidential running mate. Toomey, a former Republican congressman from Pennsylvania and the president of the Club for Growth, lists several possibilities, including Indiana's Mike Pence:
This seems like a harsh approach to discouraging bad habits, though I sometimes wonder how close to it we will get on anti-smoking measures in this country:
A young Iranian man has been sentenced to hang for repeatedly drinking alcohol which is strictly banned in the Islamic republic, the Etemad newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The Iraq war will fade. The global economy will not. Trade is on the way to replacing war as the dominant international challenge. And countries that don't get that will suffer. Unfortunately, the presidential candidates, Republican and Democrat alike, insist on pandering to the fears of those who insist on "fair" trade instead of telling the truth that free trade is an irresitible force for which there is no immovable object.
With all the back-and-forth over property tax reform, here's a piece of proposed legislation that I missed:
Legislation was introduced at the Indiana Legislative Session on January 8 that, if passed, will require a later school start date for all Indiana Public Schools.
Now that it's been discovered, someone is going to dredge this embarassment up on each anniversary:
1897: Egged on by an amateur mathematician, the Indiana General Assembly almost passes a bill adopting 3.2 as the exact value of pi (or ?). Only the intervention of a Purdue University mathematician who happens to be visiting the legislature prevents the bill from becoming law, saving the most acute political embarrassment.
San Francisco voters suffer a sudden attack of common sense:
Alcatraz escaped plans for change, with voters rejecting a proposal that would have torn down the island's notorious prison to erect a global peace center.
