Oh, drat? You mean there will be two whole days in every week when I won't have the house blizzarded with bills and junk mail?
Oh, drat? You mean there will be two whole days in every week when I won't have the house blizzarded with bills and junk mail?
Educattion reformer Michelle Rhee on why she broke with fellow Democrats to beicome a strong advocate for vouchers:
NEW ALBANY, Ind. - A southern Indiana city has taken its first step toward banning charities from collecting money from motorists at intersections.
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There goes France, out to the cutting edge again:
Ladies of Paris, you no longer have to fear arrest for wearing trousers in the French capital.
Well, what do you know? Here's a liberal idea I can actually get behind:
Want to reduce the effects of global warming? Stop working so hard. Working fewer hours might help slow global warming, according to a new study released Monday by the Center for Economic Policy and Research.
OMG, our first post-NFL season Monday night of the year. How wretched.
Heard a story once that may be apocryphal but is so good it should be true even if it isn't, so I've used it anecdotally in editorials several times. It's the one about the famous department store that got its start as a pushcart vendor whose owners, on achieving success, made a priority of having pushcarts outlawed. Now here's the real thing:
Another green-energy fantasy crashes into reality:
REYNOLDS, Ind.— The town of Reynolds has one stoplight, one gas station, 533 residents, 150,000 pigs and was once touted as BioTown USA, a place where then-Gov. Mitch Daniels visited after taking office in 2005.
OK, Super Bowl over, we had a winner, now who cares? But we're still talking about the ads. (How come very single year people say, "They weren't as good this year"?). FWIW, in the "Brings out the sentinmental slob in me" category, I call it a tie between these two.
Even knowing that the U.S. has the highest per capita rate of incarcerated individuals in the world, I found this stastistic startling:
Almost a quarter of the world’s prison population is locked up in one country: the United States.
As Barack Obama begins his second term in office, trust in the federal government remains mired near a historic low, while frustration with government remains high. And for the first time, a majority of the public says that the federal government threatens their personal rights and freedoms.
Two different views on men leaving their traditional roles. From The Wall Street Journal, "At-Home Dads Make Parenting More of a 'Guy' thing"
I really wasn't going to comment on this, but it's been getting international attention, and now even the governor has weighed in:
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has asked for a briefing on the case of the Connersville couple being prosecuted for illegally possessing a deer they rescued and tried to raise until it could be returned to the wild, but he said it appears conservation officers “acted appropriately.”
This is an intriguing possbility:
We all know what fueled the sexual revolution: birth control and rock 'n' roll.
But what if that's not the whole story? What if America's libido was liberated not by the pill and heady doses of Jim Morrison, but by the lowly prescription drug penicillin.
A little light reading for a getting-chillier winter day -- 7 types of dudes who annoy everyong just by their very existence, including trolls, king turds and beta wimps, plus my favorite to hate, the male feminist:
Congrats are in order for Jim Nabors. And from the sound of it, they're long overdue.
The actor, known for playing Gomer Pyle in the 1960s on The Andy Griffith Show and Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., has married his male partner of 38 years.
Yijes. It appears I have harboring a couple of cold-blooded killers:
