Politics and other nightmares

Desperate times in Gary:

When you hear that Gary, IN, has a dozen homes for sale for $1 each, you might be inclined to dig into your wallet and ask, “Will you take a 10-spot for the whole lot of them?” But these home aren’t available to just anyone with four quarters to rub together, so nearly 94% of interested buyers have been turned away.

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.

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.

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Just plain toopid:

Is this really news to anybody?

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:

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.