Hmmm. Looks like there's an effort to get some "total ban on handguns" momentum. Here's an AP Enterprise piece on Richard Nixon:
Hmmm. Looks like there's an effort to get some "total ban on handguns" momentum. Here's an AP Enterprise piece on Richard Nixon:
CROWN POINT, Indiana — Lake County officials are awaiting the final bills from the death penalty trial of a Gary man sentenced to death last week for killing his wife and two teenage stepchildren.
Our love-hate relationship with the federal government:
Welcome to the first DST Monday of the year. Why is it such a bad idea? After Indiana finally joined the herd in 2006, two California economists did a study:
For the "questions we never thought to ask" file: Why do people use nope even though no is shorter?
This is an example of sound change, and there are a few hypotheses we can consider as to why this sound change came about.
For the "never too late" file:
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Former Indiana Gov. Edgar Whitcomb has become a newlywed — at age 95.
Whitcomb and his 83-year-old bride, Evelyn, married Feb. 16 in a ceremony at their home overlooking the Ohio River in the Perry County town of Rome.
Of course he's absolutely right, but it's not as if this is a new phenomenon or a trend that can be easily reversed:
With his nearly 13-hour filibuster, fellow Kentuckian Rand Paul is my new hero. From the best article I've seen about it, at Reason magazine's Hit & Run site:
Grotesque anti-gun argument of the day:
Last night Fox News' Hannity, Democratic Strategist Zerlina Maxwell argued that in order to stop rape, we should teach men not to rape.
Got that ladies? So long as you nicely ask your rapist to go away, he will.
In Spain, which experienced a drought in the summer of 2012, the olive harvest is predicted to be down by as much as 60 per cent this year compared to last – from 1.6 million tons to 700,000 tons.
This has created a shortage in extra virgin olive oil and pushed up prices as a result.
Hoosiers will begin to observe Daylight Saving Time Sunday, but some at the Indiana Statehouse are continuing a long-standing argument that the clocks will be set to the wrong time.
Andrea Neal of the Indiana Policy Review: Say, about that "low-tax state" thing:
Popular perception to the contrary, Indiana is not a low-tax state. When you add up all the different taxes — property, sales and income assessed by federal, state or local government — we rank right in the middle.
Beretta to Maryland: If you pass that gun law, we just might leave.
Spurred by the Newtown massacre, Maryland is poised to pass one of the strictest gun control laws in the country.
We haven't had a Jimmy Carter update in a long, long, time, so let's dive right in. Jimmy is beside himself with grief over the passing of that great humanitarian Hugo Chavez:
Dear God in Heaven, does it never stop?
During her Google Hangout today, First Lady Michelle Obama reminded the audience that dogs need a proper diet and exercise, just like children do.
The First Lady admitted that President Obama liked to tease their own dog, “Bo” for being lazy, but that they encouraged her girls to take him on walks.
Remember how some people were saying the only thing wrong with the stimulus was that it wasn't big enough? Well, that's how I feel about the sequester:
Credit rating agencies are shrugging off sequestration, saying the U.S. government will need to do more to reduce the deficit if it wants to prevent a downgrade of the nation’s credit rating.
