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Politics and other nightmares

Resistance is futile

Might as well send invitations to the burglars and assorted creeps -- "No resistance here":

CASTLE ROCK - Retired Marine Art Dorsch says his Second Amendment rights are in danger.

His apartment complex, the Oakwood Apartments in Castle Rock, sent out a notice telling all residents to get rid of their guns.

A team effort

This still seems wrong to me:

East Allen County Schools board voted Tuesday night to allow homeschooled students to participate on the district's high school athletic teams.

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EACS officials believe the district is the first in the state to allow homeschooled athletes to play for IHSAA member schools.

A tad off

Heaven help us

We just can't figure out where to draw that church-state line. There are now three controversies in Indiana alone. First, Indiana and Texas, joined by 21 other states, have filed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court for an "unambigious ruling" permitting prayer before legislative bodies without requiring legislative leaders so screen prayers for sectarian references:

Bad, bad words

PC has been running amok for some time, of course. And just when we think it can't possibly get any amoker, here come Seattle and New York to prove us wrong:

Head fake

Yikes! As an editorial writer, I'm somewhat taken aback when I see that an opinion page editor got fired for a headline he put on an editorial:

Libertarians and abortion

Howard Dean doesn't know what he's talking about:

First of all, lesson number one, for Rand Paul, who is, by the way, not a libertarian. If you believe you ought to be able to tell women what to do with their reproductive rights you are not a libertarian.

Tony's gone

Whoops!

Tony Bennett is expected to resign Thursday as Florida education secretary following two days of raging controversy over a school grading controversy in his home state of Indiana.

Asylum

The man without a country now has a home, at least temporarily:

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum in Russia and is allowed to enter the country’s territory.

The whistleblower has been granted temporary political asylum in Russia, Snowden’s legal representative Anatoly Kucherena said.

Mitch Daniels' gift

Andother defender of Mitch Daniels in the great textbook controversy:

Most Americans would agree that academic freedom is a sacred right of the academy and crucial to the American experiment in democracy. But what is it really?

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