I'd say this is good news:
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Some top Indiana lawmakers seem prepared to accept anticipated big drops in business at the state's casinos and to not provide much help as the gambling venues face growing competition from neighboring states.
The New York Times has joined The Associated Press in getting all icky-gooey over "illegal immigrant." From its stylebook:
Wow. Take a look at that chart. So what happened in the last 200 years? Among other things:
We're gonna have to come up with a new name. "Limousine liberal" just doesn't do him justice:
What's it like trying to survive on $1.50 a day? Ben Affleck and other celebrities are going to try it and tell their fans what it's like from first-hand experience.
Today's "well, duh" entry:
The immigration proposal pending in Congress would transform the nation’s political landscape for a generation or more — pumping as many as 11 million new Hispanic voters into the electorate a decade from now in ways that, if current trends hold, would produce an electoral bonanza for Democrats and cripple Republican prospects in many states they now win easily.
Anybody think this is a good idea?
INDIANAPOLIS— After waiting at least five years after their convictions, Hoosiers who commit minor crimes could have those convictions expunged, or removed, from their court records under a bill headed toGov. Mike Pence’s desk.
If there is a line between "nanny state" and Big Brother, I think Michael Bloomberg just crossed it:
n the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday the country’s interpretation of the Constitution will “have to change” to allow for greater security to stave off future attacks.
John O'Connor is executive director of Equality California and thinks the Boy Scouts have discriminated against gays in ways that hurt youths and families. Rob Schwarzwalder is a senior vice president of the Familty Research Council and has supported the Scouts' traditional opposition to admitting homosexuals. Despite their differences, they agree on one thing. The organization's new policy sucks.
There, of course, have been awful weeks before, terrible tragedies, death, war, uncertainty, raw fear.
But this time, in our full-on, post-Sept. 11 surveillance society and freshly Twitterized media, we were able to experience each event in excruciating, exquisite detail.
And a happy "skip the recycling for a day so you can can add one more load to the landfill" to you:
It's a day to celebrate the most famous mother of all — Mother Earth. This Monday (April 22) marks the 43rd Earth Day, with more than 1 billion people in 192 countries expected to participate in activities this year.
I remember having a mildly rough day on the job at the Wabash Plain Dealer. In college -- both for classes and assignments for the Ball State Daily News -- it was one story at a time. You got one assignment, you turned it in, you got another one. On my first day at the Plain Dealer, I was given four stories to work on at about 8:30 in the morning and told I had till the noon deadline to finish them. I remember getting them all done -- luckily, they all required only phone-call sourcing, no trips of the office -- but I felt like I could have done a better job on them.
Hooray for the Koch brothers. Maybe they can save this industrry, or at least put off its demise:
Republican state senators have blocked a vote on a House-approved measure that would force amazon.com and some other online retailers to start collecting Indiana's 7 percent sales tax this summer. That's six months sooner than the date under a deal Gov. Mitch Daniels reached with the company last year.
The Boston manhunt and the mainstream media's gun control blind spot:
We wrote about the MSM’s inability to grasp the politics that caused the gun control bill to fail in the Senate this week. The aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing illustrates the divide.
It's clear why we're continuing to grow government until we match the European model. It's worked out so well there:
COPENHAGEN — It began as a stunt intended to prove that hardship and poverty still existed in this small, wealthy country, but it backfired badly. Visit a single mother of two on welfare, a liberal member of Parliament goaded a skeptical political opponent, see for yourself how hard it is.
Has there been a week in the last decade when TGIF was more appropriate?
It’s not just you: Twitter agrees ‘this week’ needs to end
My favorite Tweets on the subject:
This week can seriously go f*** itself. If Congress wanted to make itself useful, it would mandate everyone to just stay in bed tomorrow.
and
What the hell is wrong with this week?
Lot of nitwittery in my profession on display this week:
In reaction to the defeat of gun control in the U.S. Senate yesterday, editorial pages across the nation are seething with anger, lashing out at rural America, gun manufacturers and the NRA.
Man, this is depressing:
Nearly 6 in 10 Americans say wealth is distributed unfairly in the United States, and a majority want the federal government to play Robin Hood to fix the problem, according to a poll released Thursday.
But the science is settled! Don' they know that?
Reuters) - Scientists are struggling to explain a slowdown in climate change that has exposed gaps in their understanding and defies a rise in global greenhouse gas emissions.
You can get a better understanding of how American culture has changed in the last 100 years by looking at the changes in one organization, such as this fascinating comparison of the Boy Scouts of American 1911 and modern handbooks and merit badges:
