Off the deep end in India:
You stay rebellious, Hoosier kids:
After Elwood Community Schools started serving meals with more whole grains, mandatory fruit and vegetables, and weekly limits on meat and grains last year, some students chose to pack a lunch, or not to eat at all.School lunch participation fell 12 percent.
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Schools have struggled with the new rules.
You know that next session the General Assembly will consider a resolution to have a voter referendum on whether to put Indiana's same-sex-marriage ban into the state constitution. But perhaps you didn't know this provision of Indiana law just approved in the last session:
Behind Wal-Mart, the second-largest employer in America is Kelly Services, a temporary work provider.
In a sure sign that the silly season is upon us, the editor of the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper has apologized to "anyone offended" by this headline:
Fright 214
At least 2 die, 181 taken to hospital after S.F. crash-landing
It's explained that the Asian American Journalists Association says:
Boy this ought to be one hell of a campaign:
Guess it's official now -- The Associated Press is part of the Media For Obama cheering section:
President Barack Obama is laying our a vision for better government services delivered at lower taxpayer expense.
It's not like this is anything new, but seeing it again is depressing anyway. From the latest Gallup poll:
PRINCETON, NJ -- Television is the main place Americans say they turn to for news about current events (55%), leading the Internet, at 21%. Nine percent say newspapers or other print publications are their main news source, followed by radio, at 6%.
Yeah, sure, he's the Dalai Lama and all, so we have to acknowledge that his heart's in the right place. Still thise sounds naively optimistic even for him:
The Dalai Lama said he was counting on young people to created a "happier" century as he celebrated his 78th birthday on Saturday in southern India with tens of thousands of Tibetan exiles.
A belated happy Indpendence Day with some "final" words of wisdom from Calvin Coolidge, smarter than 99 percent of the politicians around today:
Question of the day: If Obama can unilaterally delay ObamaCare’s employer mandate, why wouldn’t he delay new border security measures too?
Today's "well, you get what you ask for" example is courtesy of Professor Cornel West, who is upset with President Obama because "black folks are being pushed to the back of the bus" while "our gay brothers and lesbian sisters" are "being pushed to the center." As Will Allen observes at NRO's "The Corner":
The abortion debate seems pointless and futile because a majority of Americans don't agree with the most zealous advocatesd of either side:
Regular readers know I've been arguing against a shield law for journalists for years, for many reasons, chief among them that the press can't be a very effective watchdog of the government if the government is allowed to define who the legitimate press is. James Taranto of The Wall Street Journal fills out that argument a little by putting it in historical context
Much has been written about the unanswered questions arising from the Supreme Court's DOMA decision, chief among them the status of people who got married where same-sex marriage is legal, in New York, say, but live where it's not, Indiana, for example. Do they or do they not qualify for federal benefits? Here's an unexpected twist:
From "great quotes about pets" at barnorama.com:
"No animal has more liberty than the cat . . . the cat is the best anarchist." -- Ernest Hemingway
The manliest man in all of literature, and he was a cat person. Take that, dog lovers. Hemingway's six-toed cat has achieved legendary status.
Oh, OK, props for dogs, too:
Not exactly an uplifitng message for those hoping for a better life:
But I repeat myself -- another thoughtless political whine:
The filibustering Texas state senator who became an overnight sensation by temporarily blocking a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy said Monday that she might try to unseat Texas Governor Rick Perry in 2014.
And then, of course, they could campaign full-time:
