Forbes magazine has come up with one of the most absurd lists in recently memory. It ranked the "top 10 most influential pundits," and made some very strange choices:
CHICAGO -- Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert is the nation's most influential pundit, according to a new ranking by Forbes magazine.
We knew it was coming, and here it is:
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider the constitutionality of lethal injections in a case that could affect the way inmates are executed around the country.
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What a waste of time and energy this would be:
A new statewide poll released today found strong support for moving Indiana's May primary election to January or February.
Some 61 percent of those surveyed in a WISH (Channel 8) poll said the primary should be held earlier in the year to give Hoosiers more of a voice in presidential politics.
Evan Bayh endorses Hillary Clinton, so once again we have to endure a load of this nonsense:
The backing by Bayh, a moderate Democrat, could help Clinton with those who fear her reputation is too liberal to win the general election.
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Indiana, it is said, has the strictest voter ID law in the nation. So it's not surprising that our law is going to become the test case before the U.S. Supreme Court:
The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether voter identification laws unfairly deter poor and minority Americans from voting, stepping into a contentious partisan issue in advance of the 2008 elections.
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A hardy band of entrepreneurs given a helping hand by a caring government, or another group of downtrodden further oppressed by the man? You decide:
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) -- In an effort to bring prostitutes into the legal economy, officials said Monday that Hungary will allow sex workers to apply for an entrepreneur's permit -- a move that could generate government revenues from an industry worth an estimated $1 billion annually.
St. John, Ind., apparently has a zoning ordinance that forbids persons "who are unrelated to each other" from living together in a dwelling that is in a single-family district. The town is getting grief, justifiably, for not granting a variance:
This isn't exactly comforing:
Nearly 10,000 foreigners from states sponsoring terrorism have obtained permanent residency in the United States in the past seven years, congressional investigators say.
If you've read many USA Today editorials, you know there is hardly an issue -- no matter how controversial or complicated -- on which the paper will not try to find the middle ground. In this piece, the paper tackles the subject of high school exit exams, which 26 states use to make students prove they have learned what they were supposed to in order to get diplomas. Without them, a high school diploma becomes less and less valuable. But with them, many kids will get left behind without a diploma.
