Finally, we can put the Spanish-American War behind us and move on with our lives:
Finally, we can put the Spanish-American War behind us and move on with our lives:
This doesn't exactly make the case that President Bush is serious about border security:
Chocolate lovers rejoice. A new study hints that eating milk chocolate may boost brain function.
"Chocolate contains many substances that act as stimulants, such as theobromine, phenethylamine, and caffeine," Dr. Bryan Raudenbush from Wheeling Jesuit University in West Virginia noted in comments to Reuters Health.
What? Give a sports team money that should go to schools?
The Cavaliers want taxpayers to help pay for a proposed $20 million practice field in Independence.
The team wants to borrow money from the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority and then use some of the taxes it will pay on the sports complex -- which normally go to schools and government -- to repay the loans.
It's not the medium, it's the message. People want news, and they will adapt (not adopt; somebody needs an editor) to new ways of getting it:
There was no call to throw open the gates. But this is not to pick on our friends at the AP, which is now reorganizing its business to serve the new world (and is a news supplier to this site). The whole industry was slow to recognize that the Web is not a proprietary medium, like print, but a distributed one.
At least on this issue, Indiana is ahead of the curve:
A campaign by gun rights advocates to make it easier to use deadly force in self-defense is rapidly winning support across the country, as state after state makes it legal for people who feel their lives are in danger to shoot down an attacker - whether in a car-jacking or just on the street.
God almighty, GET OVER IT and move on:
Five counties in southwestern Indiana have decided they want to go back to the Eastern Time Zone.
The county leaders are seeking a reversal of this spring's time-zone switch.
Finally, an issue that doesn't involve Red State-Blue State polarization:
Like desperate shoppers fighting over a hot toy on Dec. 24, rival shopping networks QVC and HSN are waging war over the slogan "Christmas in July."
Both networks promote shows with that title in July, offering viewers a chance to stock up early on a $53 porcelain holiday cat or $36 lighted wreath. Now they are competing over the name in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia.
Who says we don't take education seriously in Indiana?
For the 34th time in last 35 years, the Indiana men's basketball team finished the year ranked among the nation's top-11 attendance leaders, as announced the NCAA recently. The Hoosiers had a total of 220,343 fans who went through the turnstiles throughout the season, which equalled an average of 16,949 per contest - a number that ranked as the eighth-best per game average in college basketball this season.
I guess I don't understand this story:
GARY, Ind. -- A male student who has worn women's clothes to school all year was turned away from his high school prom because he was wearing a dress.
I'd say this qualifies as having a really bad day:
INDIANAPOLIS -- A man pretending to be a police officer was arrested after he pulled over an off-duty sheriff's deputy who was in his personal vehicle, authorities said.
Best "headline stating the obvious" so far this year -- Panel: Legislators shouldn't work drunk
Remember "The Bonfire of the Vanities"? Looks like it might be happening in real life:
But when a petty-tyrant prosecutor has perverted and prolonged the legal process without disclosing his supposed evidence, and when academics and journalists have joined in smearing presumptively innocent young men as racist, sexist brutes -- in the face of much contrary evidence -- it's not too early to offer tentative judgments.
Evan Bayh shows his "mellow demeanor" and "folksy Midwestern charm" off in Iowa but still has to explain his vote for the Iraq war to members of the Democratic base who just ain't buying it. For the most part, Bayh apparently was "remarkably non-ideological," sticking with the message that he has proven five times he can win in a Red State.
Yes, I'm sure a McCain-Clinton race would turn out exactly like this:
If Hillary Clinton squares off against John McCain for president in 2008, the race could very well come down to the wire, a new poll reveals.
You remember that old joke? The one with the punch line, "the evil of two lessers." Nothing like being scared to death of both candidates to induce a little nail-biting.
Mitch tells me he almost got wiped out this morning while stopping to let a mother goose and her goslings cross the road, and he remarks that he's seeing far more geese around town than when he was a kid. This is obviously not just a Fort Wayne problem, or even an Indiana problem.
Same set of facts and speculation about the upcoming hurricane season, two different approaches.
If you got tired of lakes and hills and fabulous shopping trips you experienced on your last vacation, try this unique tourist attraction lovely Mansfield, Ohio -- one of the nation's "most historic treasures," where the "extraordinary past of the Ohio State Reformatory comes to life as you tour the dramatic architecture of this unforgettable prison." It was probably unforgettable for all the, um, customers, too. Unlike then, though, it is now handicapped accessible.
