Whoda thunk it? Interest groups commission polls and get the results they were hoping for:
Indiana’s same-sex marriage ban has become a battle of dueling polls.
A group that backs the ban, the Indiana Family Institute, released poll numbers Thursday that say almost two-thirds of likely voters favor an Indiana constitutional amendment that defines marriage as being between one man and one woman.
I tweeted this yesterday: "Phony crisis almost over, so now we can go back to ignoring the real crisis -- the fact that gov't borrows 40 cents of every $1 it spends."
So now the phony crisis is all over, or at least postponed for a few months, so let's celebrate the fiasco with this final note:
Ted Cruz campaigned as a staunch conservative, so they're surprised he turned out to be a staunch conservative?
Sen. Ted Cruz’ hometown newspaper, the Houston Chronicle, wishes it could take back its endorsement.
The Chronicle’s editorial board, which endorsed Cruz, R-Texas, in his 2012 race, now says it misses his predecessor, former Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.
This is a controversy I've never quite understood:
Indiana made history when its voter ID law was upheld by the Supreme Court and became the blueprint for similar laws in other states. Now the Richard A. Posner, the judge who originally upheld the law when it came before the Seven Circuit Court, says he was wrong:
So, maybe Grandma was right after all -- we really can feel the weather in our bones:
Scientists don't understand all the mechanisms involved in weather-related pain, but one leading theory holds that the falling barometric pressure that frequently precedes a storm alters the pressure inside joints. Those connections between bones, held together with tendons and ligaments, are surrounded and cushioned by sacs of fluid and trapped gasses.
The poll we're running on the editorial page this week asks if it's time for a third major political party in this country. So far, the results are duplicating the recent Gallup poll on the same subject, with a strong majority saying indeed it is time.
Perhaps the results help explain this:
Yeah, well, it might be "legal," but we'd better not catch you using it:
To protect young people from alcohol-related death and injury, Indiana has a relatively new law granting immunity to those who call law enforcement to aid intoxicated friends in alcohol-related emergencies. In one Massachusetts community, they've decided to go the other way:
No good deed goes unpunished, at least in the case of 17-year-old Erin Cox.
Here's a sobering thought. Way back in 2004, America could have been saved from Barack Obama and all the havoc he has wreked -- by a football coach:
Aww, did you miss me yesterday? I apologize for my absence, but it was necessary. I was in seclusion downtown, rediscovering the joys of euchre.
Oh, forget those whiny World War II geezers wanting to visit their memorial, or all the national parl shutdowns, or the death benefits to the families of fallen soldiers, or drug trials to aid dying children. Now this shutdown has caused real hardship:
Congratulations to Alice Munro:
Alice Munro, the renowned Canadian short-story writer whose visceral work explores the tangled relationships between men and women, small-town existence and the fallibility of memory, won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. Ms. Munro, 82, is the 13th woman to win the prize.
Ever check out your symptoms online and talk yourself into being sick? There's a name for that:
Hoosier lawmakers might want to rethink that new anti-bullying statute they're so proud of:
The study concluded that students at schools with anti-bullying programs might actually be more likely to become a victim of bullying. It also found that students at schools with no bullying programs were less likely to become victims.
CNN's Jake Tapper: Why, yes, there is media bias:
“Do you believe there is bias in mainstream media?” a Reddit user asked. “If yes, which way does it slant and which networks?”
“Yes I do,” Tapper replied, “but I also think it’s more complicated than just liberal bias.”
An interesting piece on the death of the phone call:
In case you've forgotten what this whole government "shutdown" and impeding debt-ceiling fight are all about:
See if you can follow the legal reasoning on this one:
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Three people convicted of murder in deadly crashes urged New York's highest court Tuesday to throw out their convictions, arguing they were too intoxicated to know the threat they posed to others.
TOWAMENCIN TWP., Pa. - October 9, 2013 (WPVI) -- A decision to cancel Halloween celebrations at an elementary school in Montgomery County is stirring controversy among some parents.
Parents received a letter Tuesday from the principal at Inglewood Elementary School.
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