I sort of skipped over this when it was first reported, but the more I think about it, the more interesting it seems:
After nearly three years, the White House began installing solar panels on the First Family’s residence this week, a White House official confirmed Thursday.
"Great minds think alke" department: The Evansville Courier & Press and The News-Sentinel have very similar editorials about then-mayor Mitch Daniels' efforts to get historian Howard Zinn's book out of Hoosier classrooms and former Education Secretary William Bennett's book into them. This is from my N-S editorial:
Oh, darn, I was hoping I could be a member of one of the new ones so I, too, could feel special:
The U.S. Supreme Court is making decisions that should be left to Congress or the people, from wiretapping to "inventing" new classes of minorities, Justice Antonin Scalia said Monday.
[. . .]
If the police arrest you, do they need a warrant to rifle through your cellphone? Courts have been split on the question. Last week the Obama administration asked the Supreme Court to resolve the issue and rule that the Fourth Amendment allows warrantless cellphone searches.
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In today's America, this is sad but not really surprising:
Nothing much about the human condition throws me -- I've seen enough strange turns in my lifetime to know just about anything is possible. Once in a while, though, something comes along that is stunning enough to make feel really old and out of it. This is one:
This isn't exactly a shocking headline; it could have been written any time in the last 50 years and, come to think of it, has been, many times: The war on drugs has been a failure:
Will the last one leaving please turn out the lights before you go? Oh, wait, that could be me:
This could be the final blow to paper and ink news: Reporters graduating out of journalism school and headed to work at newspapers and magazines don't read print media, with over seven of 10 choosing digital news and social media websites instead, the highest number ever, according to an authoritative new study.
Well, hell, then, as long as you're sorry, guess we'll just let you go:
Pte First Class Bradley Manning has apologised for hurting the US by leaking a trove of classified US government documents to Wikileaks.
At a sentencing hearing in Fort Meade, Maryland, Pte Manning, 25, said he had mistakenly believed he could "change the world for the better".
Stunning new research from the Institute for the Obvious:
Hey, Fort Wayne was ahead of the curve on one -- we've already had this fight here:
David Rubin wants to be able to put political signs in his yard.
Granted it's just a small sip (not the Big Gulp Rivera slammed back), but even Ann Coulter is drinking the birther Kool-Aid:
Awww, the International Sociast Organization doesn't think much of Purdue Univeristy's new president. From SOCIALISTWORKER.org:
This was much ado about nothing, eh?
The Anthony Wayne Statue will remain at Freimann Square following a deal made Tuesday between the City of Fort Wayne and the Allen County Courthouse Preservation Trust.
Oh, for God's sake, people, chill!
The fallout from a Missouri rodeo clown’s mockery of President Obama continued as the Missouri State Fair said it will force all clowns to undergo sensitivity training and the head of the state rodeo-clown organization resigned.
Yeah, well, just deal with it, you big baby:
Speaking to State Department personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Brasilia, Brazil, on Tuesday, Secretary of State John Kerry said that "this little thing called the Internet ... makes it much harder to govern."
