"Perfect metaphor for the times" alert:
One of only a handful of a type of small bird from Asia to have been spotted in the U.K. in the past two centuries was thrilling twitchers off the northwest coast of Scotland earlier this week.
Then, tragedy struck. It flew into the blade of a wind turbine and was killed.
I agree with the thrust of Robert J. Samuelson's concerns, if not the near-hysterical fear:
Well, it always was a big, fat lie, wasn't it?
Before “sequestration” took effect, the Obama administration issued specific — and alarming — predictions about what it would bring. There would be one-hour waits at airport security. Four-hour waits at border crossings. Prison guards would be furloughed for 12 days. FBI agents, up to 14.
What are the chances that many of us will end up breaking the law without even knowing it?
New Indiana laws taking effect Monday allow pharmacists to offer more immunizations and let people convicted of many felonies and misdemeanors to petition to have their record expunged if they haven’t re-offended in several years.
Lawmakers approved nearly 300 bills during 2013 General Assembly, and many of the new laws take effect July 1.
The pilot of a sightseeing helicopter that made an emergency landing on New York's Hudson River says he was just doing his job.
Michael Campbell tells the New York Post (http://bit.ly/12xUuqj ) everything was going smoothly Sunday when suddenly he heard "a big boom."
I suspect Charles Krauthammer is right about gay marriage:
The question of the day: Is the digital camera dead? And the obvious answer is, You betcha:
When does a moral obligation also become a legal obligation?
The parents of missing Indiana University student Lauren Spierer say three students failed their moral obligations to protect their stumblingly drunk friend the night she disappeared two years ago.
This is one of those "good idea, but . . ." things:
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Department of Correction officials said Wednesday they hope to move all of the prison system’s seriously mentally ill inmates to one central location designed for their care by the first of next year.
"Repugnant" is the right word:
INDIANAPOLIS - The Indiana Supreme Court says Hoosier parents cannot surrender parenting time to avoid paying child support.
In a unanimous ruling released Tuesday afternoon, the state's high court rejected a divorce settlement where a father agreed to give up all parenting time, in exchange for not having to pay child support.
At least somebody's thinking ahead -- way ahead:
Suppose this will increase their appetites? Because they already eat like, well, you know, pigs:
Part flavor experiment, part green recycling, part promotion and bolstered by the legalization of recreational marijuana in Washington state, pot excess has been fed to the hogs by their owners, pig farmer Jeremy Gross and Seattle butcher William von Schneidau, since earlier this year.
If the Indiana Supreme Court is going to make bold decisions like this one, it might risk its reputation as a stodgy old conservative insitution:
Wow, no hyperbole here, huh?
Fort Wayne City Council members Tuesday approved increasing the local option income tax from 1 percent to 1.35 percent, a move they said was necessary to pay for critical gaps in police, fire, parks and roads.
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I was one of those who both preached the virtues of cursive writing and criticized as misguided efforts by the General Assembly to mandate its teaching. Perhaps the mandate attempt wasn't so misguided after all:
The comprehensive immigration bill illustrates everything that is wrong with Washington:
The comprehensive immigration bill illustrates everything that is wrong with Washington:
The debate over the U.S. government’s monitoring of digital communications suggests that Americans are willing to allow it as long as it is genuinely targeted at terrorists. What they fail to realize is that the surveillance systems are best suited for gathering information on law-abiding citizens.
A mystery that has befuddled us all is finally explained -- Why do socks always get lost in the laundry?
You have many socks, and if you see one of them and don't immediately find its partner, you say, "Oh! A sock has been lost!" You remember that a sock is missing, but you do not exactly recall its type or color.
