Nothing more boring than a "govornor appoints new members to board" story. Except when it isn't:
At first blush, it appears that through his newly appointed members to the state board of education, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has decided to keep the Common Core State Standards in the Hoosier State.
News outlets’ coverage of gay marriage tended to be significantly more favorable than unfavorable, according to a new survey Monday.
Stories focusing on support for same-sex marriage were five times more frequent than those focused on opposition, the analysis conducted by the Pew Research Center found.
The Supreme Court has come up with a new regulation banning demonstrations on its grounds, two days after a broader anti-demonstration law was declared unconstitutional.
Not likely to increase the number of female NFL fans:
I’m a woman. I’m an NFL fan.
And now I’m annoyed.
A shout-out for libertarianism from a conservative:
The only truly new political idea in the last couple thousand years is this libertarian idea, broadly understood. The revolution wrought by John Locke, Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, and the Founding Fathers is the only real revolution going. And it’s still unfolding.
I love a story with a happy ending:
Michael Monaghan has wanted to develop his property on Main Street in Hackensack, New Jersey, just a few miles away from Manhattan. Yet the city twice denied two applications for banks to build on his land.
Indiana revenue from gambling taxes is down and still falling, and I agree with this Journal Gazette editorial that the state should resist pressure to expand operations or give existing operations furthr tax breaks:
Nope, don't think I will, but thanks for asking politely:
Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) wants House members to stop referring to immigrants as "illegal" while debating immigration reform.
Well, here's a controversy you don't see every day:
The mural on the house is clearly a banana. But is it art? Or an advertisement?
That is the question facing a town in Indiana as it weighs whether or not the house can keep its banana mural.
I have mixed feelings about this, but as long as it was a decision made by restaurant management and not the result of a government edict, it probably wouldn't affect my decision on whether or not to patronize a particular place:
Ed Markey's comment that "budgeting is just arithmetic, not math" will likely be the chuckle of the day. But as Ed Morrissey points out:
There is a difference between math and arithmetic. Unfortunately for Markey, he still gets even that wrong.
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After the U.S. Senate voted to pass the motion to proceed to floor debate on the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) claimed that this bill would solve illegal immigration and secure the border.
Hey, how often can you say there are both good and bad toe reports in the same day's news?
Oh, goody, something else I can get obsessive about:
Here’s something to ponder the next time you head to the loo: Only five percent of people wash their hands long enough to kill disease-causing germs. Translation: Ick.
I know I've remarked more that once that this is the stupidest thing in Indiana law (since the repeal of the provision making us promise to use our fireworks out of state, anyway), but it's worth noting that the stupidity is apparently spreading:
Enough frivolity! Let's tackle a profound question:
Spice tolerance: Is it nature or nurture? As with most things, it’s a little bit of both.
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A desperate descent into panic or a creative search for a solution?
ANTIOCH (CBS SF) – The shorthanded Antioch Police Department is enlisting the help of local garbage collectors and letter carriers to spot crime on city streets.
The New York Times finally acknowledges that global warming has plateaued and grudgingly bows to the obvious:
The slowdown is a bit of a mystery to climate scientists.
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But given how much is riding on the scientific forecast, the practitioners of climate science would like to understand exactly what is going on.
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After setting off a storm of criticism from abortion rights groups upset that a Democratic president had sided with social conservatives, the Obama administration said it will comply with a judge's order to allow girls of any age to buy emergency contraception without prescriptions.
I did a post this morning confessing to a certain ambivalence about leaks and leakers. Then on the way back from lunch, I heard Rush Limbaugh also express mixed feelings. He had a different spin, though:
An unprecedented amount of data collected on average, ordinary, every day Americans and everybody else. And as I say, it matters who the people are who are collecting the data.
