Well, OK, guess those not buckling up are not all young men driving pickups in rural areas:
Indiana ranks second in the nation for fatal truck wrecks as a share of all deaths in road accidents.
Well, OK, guess those not buckling up are not all young men driving pickups in rural areas:
Indiana ranks second in the nation for fatal truck wrecks as a share of all deaths in road accidents.
Just what I'd be looking for at a government-surplus sale, a $250,000 fixer-upper helicopter that hasn't been flown in three years. Nice try, Mitch, but I think I'll wait for the desks and bookshelves.
I know some of you are getting sick and tired of some of us who keep beating the political-correctness drum. We'll quit as soon as the political-correctness crowd keeps going off the deep end. Don' thold your breath.
Tuesday, the Boulder City Council will take up the matter of allocating public funding for a "hate hotline," which would give residents an opportunity to report incidents in which Boulderites use tactless language.
Here's a creative teaching assignment:
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. - A high school teacher has apologized for asking students to write about who they would kill and how they would do it, and officials said he will likely keep his job.
I'll bet you find this shocking. About 48 million people do not regularly put on seat belts when they are on the open road. Who are they?
Often they are young men who live in rural areas and drive pickups, the government says.
The day afer the primary, I did a rough estimate of Allen County voter turnout and came up with 15 percent. I just got off the phone with the Election Board, and the official results have been certified -- 16 percent. Given my math-challenged brain, I'm pleased to have been so close. But 16 percent is about as dismal a turnout as 15 percent.
How do Americans feel about all those phone calls the NSA is stuffing into a database? Well, says an ABC-Washington Post poll, 63 percent strongly endorse the program as an effective way to combat terrorism. No, no, says a USA Today poll, Americans oppose it by a 51-43 percent margin. The poll results differ, the USA Today story suggested "because questions in the two polls were worded differently." Gee, do you think?
I know it's so customary to slam other people's success that any attempt at it seems suspicious, but I confess that my reaction to "The Da Vinci Code" was the same as this:
One of the reasons it has been tough for people with mental health problems to get fair treatment either from the law or from insurance companies is the widespread belief that it is so easy to fake mental ailments. Like that never happens
A wheelchair-bound Los Angeles woman, who has repeatedly filed lawsuits over access for the disabled, got up and ran after police arrested her for fraud, authorities said on Thursday.
A couple of commenters on a previous post take me to task for disparaging raging atheist Michael Newdow and say no "reasonable person" could be against some of his efforts, such as restoring the Pledge of Allegiance to its original form and eliminating the "In God we trust" motto from coins.
The Christian Science Monitor likes public-private arrangements such as the Indiana Toll Road lease as a way to tackle the mounting infrastructure costs in this country, estimated at $1.6 trillion over the next five years. Its editorial makes the point that the public trust requires scrupulous government oversight of such deals, but:
In an era of globalization, when foreign companies invest in the US and vice versa, the foreign aspect should not alarm - especially since these are lease, not buy, deals.
I know that with the tragic loss of Madalyn Murray O'Hair, many of you worried that the United States would no longer have a crazy atheist to keep shoring up that shaky wall between church and state. But your fears were unfounded:
The California atheist known for his legal challenge against the Pledge of Allegiance is in court arguing the national motto "In God We Trust" is unconstitutional.
Oh, for God's sake:
OAK BROOK, Ill. - McDonald's Corp., a magnet for criticism that fast food helps make kids fat, has signed on some accomplished moms to get the skinny on nutrition.
Might as well get the kids prepared for their main lifetime pastime early:
NEW YORK (AP) -- Escalating an already heated national debate, a first-of-its-kind TV channel premieres Thursday designed specifically for babies - an age group that the American Academy of Pediatrics says should be kept away from television altogether.
Perhaps this "quit outsourcing American jobs and give us free trade and stop that giant sucking sound" business is a bit more complicated than some people imagine:
I'm afraid someone is going to have to explain this one to those of us in the slow lane:
What was to have been a simple renewal of the historic Voting Rights Act has become snarled in the heated debate involving immigration issues.
Conservative House members tried Wednesday to end a requirement in the 1965 law that bilingual ballots and interpreters be provided in states and counties where large numbers of citizens speak limited English.
I can't decide which one of these is funnier (both strange and ha-ha meanings):
Howard Dean, explaining to the Christian Broadcasting Network
. . . that his party has a lot in common with the evangelical community. With the 2006 midterm elections creeping closer, CBN News sat down with Dean to discuss the Democrat's new outreach to conservative Christians.
So many people at work, I mean just about everybody, was babbling about this shocking, stunning, unexpected, unbelievable turn of events on, yes, "American Idol:"
The other "Idols" stood speechless, mouths agape. Even the judges — usually unflappable — didn't foresee Daughtry's ouster: Simon Cowell's jaw fell slack; Paula Abdul's eyes filled with tears.
