On "Meet the Press" yesterday, moderator David Gregory was talking with Cardinal Francis George about the new people and seems more interested in American politics than Catholic teachings:
On "Meet the Press" yesterday, moderator David Gregory was talking with Cardinal Francis George about the new people and seems more interested in American politics than Catholic teachings:
Wow. Humans are both social animals and socially constrained. Our constraints were important to our primeval ancestors to make them work cooperatively as a unit. But those constraints didn't lend themselves to such things as exploration and inventiveness that make for a vibrant civilization. So something was needed that could free us from the biological herd instinct. For our civiliazation to really floursih, we needed . . .
It's always a good time for a futile gesture:
I'm not quite following the reasoning in this editorial claiming that "Moving to land is not an expansion":
President Obama, on Michelle's influence:
First Lady Michelle Obama has played the role of Felix to her husband’s Oscar during their entire 20-year partnership, President Obama revealed.
“I had this little bachelor apartment that Michelle refused to stay in because she thought it was a little, uh . . . you know, pizza boxes everywhere,” President Obama says in April’s Vogue.
Juxtaposition of the day. I see this online . . .
Happy Pi Day! Celebrate by learning how to calculate pi by throwing frozen hot dogs, because . . .
The Journal Gazette editorial page is pleased that Republicans aren't using their overwhelming dominance of state government to, well, dominate overwhelmingly:
When Republicans won the governor’s office and built upon their legislative majorities in the General Assembly in last year’s election, independents and Democrats were rightly concerned that the overwhelming GOP control would end debate over key issues.
Watch it, kid, you'll put somebody's eye out!
VALPARAISO, Ind. (STMW) – A fourth-grade boy at Cooks Corners Elementary in Valparaiso who brought a plastic BB gun to school Tuesday has been suspended.
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence Wednesday fired back at Ohio Gov. John Kasich over comments Kasich made earlier this week in Cincinnati needling Indiana.
President Obama said during Tuesday comments on the federal budget that his goal was to fix the economy — not balance revenues with expenditures.
Here's an elected official with way too much time on his hands:
PERU, Ind. (AP) — A northern Indiana county commissioner wants to ban county workers from wearing jeans in the Miami County Courthouse, saying casual clothing is inappropriate in a government building.
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The new owner of Hostess Brands Inc's snack cakes hopes to have Twinkies back on U.S. store shelves by this summer, according to a member of the purchasing group.
Rand Paul, modern-day Edmund Burke?
Speaking yesterday at a National Review breakfast, Sen. Rand Paul R-Ky. explained what he thought about the Tea Party movement vs. the Occupy Wall Street movement, as Jon Ward reports in the Huffington Post.
Sigh. Nobody's interested in holding the line anymore:
A typical Allen County taxpayer could soon pay about $120 more each year and Fort Wayne government will likely scale back employee benefits as the city tries to tame its annual budget shortfall.
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The state wants more money from gullible fools, so it has turned to a private company. Such moves are usually made to save money or achieve efficiencies. This time, it's just about fleecing the public:
The private company chosen to run the Hoosier Lottery has launched its first advertising campaign, a push focusing on what lottery players dream of doing if they won a big payout.
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Money-wasting research project of the year (so far):
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $1.5 million to study biological and social factors for why “three-quarters” of lesbians are obese and why gay males are not, calling it an issue of “high public-health significance.”
At long last, a deseerved setback for the loathsome nanny state:
NEW YORK (AP) - Eateries from corner delis to movie concession stands have gotten a last-minute reprieve from the nation’s first ban on big sugary drinks. But Mayor Michael Bloomberg is urging them to shrink their cups and bottles, anyway.
Here's an odd-lawsuit story for which I tried to summon up enough empathy to root for one side or the other, and failed:
A Catholic church has put the brakes on a headstone designed with the NASCAR logo.
The Journal Gazette doesn't like the proposed drug tests the General Assembly is talking about for some welfare recipients, citing court decisions on a similar Florida requirement to the effect that the state showed no "compelling need" for the tests:
