If one of your laws has been widely ridiculed, it's probably not a good idea to respond by making it even dumber:
Indiana legislators are disagreeing about how old someone should look before they have to provide identification when buying alcohol.
Both the House and Senate have approved bills revising a much-ridiculed state law that took effect last summer requiring store clerks to card all carry-out alcohol customers regardless of their age.
One of our religious whack jobs burns a book, and some of their religious whack jobs respond in a mob attack that leaves 20 dead. There is general agreement here that our whack job might be despicable but had the right to do what he did under the "flag burning is symbolic speech" precedent. But we shouldn't glide right by Terry Jones' moral culpabiity: Jones is not quite like the rape victim who is blamed for wearing too short a skirt:
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department is postponing an event that would have allowed people to turn over their guns to police, no questions asked.
The postponement comes days after Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry called Indianapolis Public Safety Director Frank Straub to express concerns about the event.
How do you explore the gun rights/gun control issue without addressing 2nd Amendment concerns? It's easy -- just don't bring the pesky thing up. In this article by Brady Campaign head and former mayor Paul Helmke, "Common-sense steps to reduce gun violence," the 2nd Amendment isn't mentioned a single time, or even referred to obliquely.
Forty-eight states allow citizens to carry guns under some circumstances. The legislature in Illinois, one of the holdouts (Wisconsin is the other one), may vote to allow licensed individuals to carry concealed handguns, and the gun-control advocates are trotting out their usual horror stories. The trouble is, none of the claims they've made in the past have actually come to pass:
One estimate says the Illinois smoking ban has cost the state $800 million in casino-tax revenues. So the sanctimonious numbskulls who keep going on and on about how they're doing everything for our good health are prposing a change:
Something for the open-border advocates to consider:
A potentially explosive admission by federal prosecutors in the pending sentencing of Ahmed Muhammed Dhakane in a San Antonio federal courtroom could aid the case of border states looking to take the initiative to stem the flood of illegal immigrants coming into the U.S.
Thirteen years ago, Earl Dashawn Terrell became a quadriplegic when was shot. Brandon J. Gaither was convicted of aggravated battery and sentenced to 15 years. Terrell has just died, and the coroner has ruled it a homicide because the death resulted from complications related to his condition, which resulted from the gunshots. But it looks like Gaither is going to get a pass:
The story of Chico, the severely neglected chihuahua found during a drug arrest, has a happy ending. Chico has recovered, and Allen County Sheriff's Department Officer Brock Williams, one of the officers who found him, has adopted him. But even a heartwarming tale can have a sour note:
