And least we can say we're smarter than some voters in Virginia and Florida, who were too early
People are showing up at polling places across Virginia expecting to vote in presidential primaries that are still a week away.
By noon Tuesday, the State Board of Elections had received about 400 calls . . .
or too late
If you start micromanaging economic development, it can be hard to stop:
It wasn't too long ago that any potential investment downtown would be hailed as good news. In the post-Harrison Square era, however, the bar has been raised. Whether that results in better development - or simply less development - remains to be seen.
Thank God there isn't a Democrat in the White House yet to irresponsibly increase the size of government and the spending needed to sustain it:
Bush, who was the first president to propose a $2 trillion budget, back in 2002, will leave office as the first president to hit $3 trillion with a spending plan.
Because of environmental concerns (clothes dryers account for 6 to 10 percent of household energy use), clotheslines may be making a comeback:
OK, it's not a bad idea to encourage bartenders to quit serving people who are obviously drunk. But for the "give 'em an inch" file:
Mississippi legislators this week introduced a bill that would make it illegal for state-licensed restaurants to serve obese patrons.
Sure hope the next step isn't barring -- well, you fill in the blank.
A mostly overlooked and undiscussed byproduct of the state taking over control of cable TV:
Each side of the presidential race is now down to one nice candidate and one mean one. All political considerations aside, does it mean anything that the Democrats seem to be moving to the nice candidate and the Republicans to the mean one? With Hillary Clinton or John McCain, we'd have four years of a grating voice screeching, "Eat your peas!" and "Sit up straight!" and "Because I said so!" Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are at least pleasantly optimistic in demeanor.
Sounds good to me:
Since 1913, Indiana has endorsed some form of death transfer taxation, and it is time to repeal this outdated tax. I adamantly believe this is an unfair tax, and that Hoosiers should be able to leave their heirs an inheritance without the government imposing taxes. I have proposed legislation to repeal all three forms of the death tax, but, unfortunately, it never received a committee hearing.
A couple of thoughts prompted by the passing of Earl Butz:
1. Could his forced resignation have been a factor in Jimmy Carter's defeat of Gerald Ford?
The ensuing political firestorm created a dilemma for Ford. Butz's popularity in Midwestern farm states was a crucial asset to the president, who was in the middle of a tight election campaign against his Democratic challenger, former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter.
My brother lives just outside Wimberley, Texas, and I've visited him there several times, so this story caught my eye:
Protests from this small school district nestled in the Texas Hill Country are reverberating across the state's school finance landscape.
