The stupid controversy over whether lethal injections are painful and therefore unconstitutionally curel and unusual punishment has affected three inmates on federal death row in Terre Haute, reports the Tribune-Star:
The stupid controversy over whether lethal injections are painful and therefore unconstitutionally curel and unusual punishment has affected three inmates on federal death row in Terre Haute, reports the Tribune-Star:
If any of you candidates out there are looking for tips on how to campaign, here's something you should definitely avoid:
A mayoral candidate in Winter Park, Fla., accused of smearing dog feces on another man during an apparent outburst of anger is fighting back after anonymous fliers about the incident have circulated around the city.
So, if you need to get a crime off your chest, just write a column confessing to it. Everybody knows police don't read the newspapers:
A newspaper columnist who confessed to killing a terminally ill relative has been arrested by police on suspicion of murder. Last month Maureen Messent, 67, used her column in the Birmingham Mail to say that she had given her great aunt, who was stricken by cancer, a fatal dose of morphine more than 30 years ago.
I was an early skeptic of proposed legislation to make disruption of funerals a felony, arguing that because it proposed to treat protests at funerals differently than other types of protests, it amounted to unequal treatment under the law. But as the law is playing out, I'm beginning to see its value. We've just had our first funeral of a fallen Hoosier soldier under the new law (Sgt.
OK, tell me again why I should vote for Republicans this year?
It is expected that after intense debate, Congress will approve an increase in the current $8.18 trillion debt limit by perhaps $781 billion.
Boy, the toys are just getting cooler and cooler:
One day you may roll up your computer and toss it in your bag -- no more rugged titanium cases. Today's visionaries are planning a world of flexible electronics that will make even your svelte new laptop look clunky.
This is about as cold and calculating as an analysis can get:
Indiana's casinos are to blame for about $1 million in crime each week, but the 10 riverboats raised $763 million in net revenue for the state during the fiscal year that ended in June.
Lawmakers on Tuesday were expected to officially release those findings, part of a seven-month assessment of Indiana's gambling industry by Indianapolis-based consultant Policy Analytics LLC, The Indianapolis Star reported Monday.
You know, if you go through life thinking mostly in terms of victims and victimizers, you probably see yourself as victim rather than victimizer, so you're likely to be unhappy most of the time. That's my take on the guest column we published by Judy Harris, an adjunct faculty member in women's studies at IPFW. She quotes approvingly the work of another academic, Rose Brooks of the University of Virginia School of Law:
The Journal Gazette's Sunday Perspective section presented what was probably meant to be a comprehensive look at downtown redevelopment. But the effort seemed a lot like the downtown initiatives themselves -- isolated looks at individual projects, without any sense that an overall vision is in play. A baseball stadium is problematic. People living downtown is a pretty good idea.
I haven't heard all these guitarists, so I can't comment on the overall quality of this guy's choice for the 100 greatest rock guitarists, but it has some credibility with me because he got No. 1 right (and I wouldn't argue too much about the top 3). No one before or since Jimi Hendrix has gotten closer to pushing the guitar to its full potential; of all the rock stars who died too young, his, before he reached the limits of his talent, if he had any, was the greatest loss.
A lot of people have commented on this moronic twit who used his classroom pulpit not just to bash the Bush administration but to vent what seems to be a deep and genuine hatred for America:
He said that in Bush's State of the Union speech, the president was, in effect, "threatening the whole planet."
The worst thing about a scam like this is that the next defendant who comes along and legitimately deserves some consideration will have a harder time getting it.
Christopher Flauding was considered retarded.
Now, 27 years after he killed a Merrillville woman, he's about to go free, a bachelor's degree in anthropology to his name.
Indiana Senate President Pro Tem Robert Garton, who might end up being personally responsible for killing several wineries in the state, gets called on his "selective respect" for the judiciary:
Consider the ramifications of Garton's position. Want to stop a bill, any bill, from making its way through the Indiana General Assembly? Apparently, all it takes is the filing of a lawsuit? Now consider the hypocrisy.
Leave it to the animal lovers to find the real controversial issue in an otherwise unremarkable movie:
"Brokeback Mountain," the controversial film about homosexual cowboys in love, allegedly had a lack of loving concern for the animals featured in the film.
The discussion of those Muhammad cartoons at IPFW was a little more civil than this one:
A student panel discussion on Islamic extremism that included the "unveiling" of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, including one of him wearing a bomb-laden turban, repeatedly descended into name-calling chaos Tuesday night.
Does dying count as sick leave?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Businesses need to plan on having 40 percent of their workforces out if a flu pandemic strikes and need to start rewarding employees for staying home when they are sick, U.S. government advisers told a conference on Tuesday.
I've always known that the state of my birth is more with it than most people realize, but, dang, it is really out there:
Few city employees knew about the new dress code passed by the Danville City Commission Monday. Several were asked to talk about it publicly, but they refused, fearing they would get in trouble with their supervisors.
A fascinating take on patriarchy, not used in the pejorative way you might be used to:
What in the world are we to do about a woman like this?
A 28-year-old Fort Wayne woman hesitantly testified Tuesday in Allen Superior Court about being held against her will and sexually assaulted by a man she still loves.
The man, Anthony W. Shepard, 25, is charged with one count each of criminal deviate conduct, criminal recklessness, intimidation, domestic battery and invasion of privacy, and two counts of criminal confinement.
I don't know all the details of this bill, so I can't really argue with this objection:
