Forget the great outdoors.
The Department of Consumer Affairs has sent notice to 17 New York restaurants, telling them that that they will have to close their sidewalk seating areas unless they are willing to comply with the city’s zoning regulations.
Because of the Justice Department's overreach in trying to find out who was leaking stuff to The Associated Press, one of my least favorite schemes is back -- a national press shield law, which, sad to say, Gov. Mike Pence has long been an advocate of. I tend to agree with the questions raised by Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin:
Pretty good news to welcome me back from vacation -- "To the Horror of Global Warming Alarmists, Global Cooling Is Here":
This might be the most outrageous piece of statistical crap you'll see this year:
U.S. taxpayers are paying more to deal with climate change than for education or roads.
Two D.C. councilmembers said Thursday that they support some form of mandate that gun owners carry liability insurance, but they would have to overcome the objections of Mayor Vincent Gray for the District of Columbia to become the nation’s first jurisdiction to require such coverage.
Good to see Hoosiers aren't being left out of the fun for a change:
The Indiana Tea Party was among the numerous conservative groups unfairly targeted by the IRS over the past three years, that according to the group’s president.
Poor, pathetic nerds with their silly arguments proving nothing:
Whoops. Guess we have a little work to do:
Indiana didn’t just get an F in a state-by-state comparison of laws requiring outside groups to report their campaign spending.
The state got a zero.
Oh, shut the !@#$% up, you lousy !@#$%^ phone call "analysts." Stop your !@#$%^& lying about Hoosiers, or we'll !@#$%^& frog-walk you out of town:
Indiana residents are among the least courteous in the U.S., according to a call advertising firm's analysis of more than 600,000 phone calls.
David Axelrod asks how President Obama can know what mischief his underlings are creating when the government is just so darn big:
Personally, I wouldn't recommend following the first lady's advice:
Reaching across the aisle can be helpful not only in politics but also in the personal growth of recent college graduates, first lady Michelle Obama said in a commencement address at Eastern Kentucky University over the weekend.
Why don't they just go ahead and make it .00 -- that's what they'd really like to do:
WASHINGTON (AP) — States should cut their threshold for drunken driving by nearly half— from .08 blood alcohol level to .05_matching a standard that has substantially reduced highway deaths in other countries, a federal safety board recommended Tuesday. That's about one drink for a woman weighing less than 120 pounds, two for a 160-pound man.
"But the science is settled!" department:
An unusual medical brawl erupted on Tuesday when the influential Institute of Medicine issued a report questioning the basis of years of advice for Americans to cut their salt intake in half.
We all know the federal government is so invested in "clean" energy that it will waste billions of dollars to prop up technology that can never deliver what is promised. Anybody suspect they'd go this far, though?
It's the not-so-green secret of the nation's wind-energy boom: Spinning turbines are killing thousands of federally protected birds, including eagles, each year.
The federal government is better at creating low-paying jobs than Wal-Mart and McDonald's combined, according to a new report.
Wow, tough call by Angelina Jolies:
My doctors estimated that I had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer, although the risk is different in the case of each woman.
A lot of people on the right are chortling over The Associated Press' outrage, along the lines of, "Ha. How do you like your hero now, huh?" (See here, for example)
Nancy Pelosi: Hey, the Founders would have been cool with Obamacare; in fact, it's probably something they even had in mind:
