Dang. Who knew worldwide peace was so easy?
Yoko Ono is calling for the anniversary of the death of her husband, John Lennon, to become a day of worldwide healing.
In a full-page advertisement appearing in Sunday editions of The New York Times, Ono urges readers to mark the anniversary by apologizing to those who have suffered because of violence and war.
If a plaintiff is already required to have his name and address on a sex-offendry registry, available to all Hoosiers, including in an online data base, how much more potential harm can for him can there be in not letting him sue the state anonymously?
If "three strikes and you're out" is a reasonable step, why isn't "two strikes and you don't get out early"? Donna Ellis says, reasonably, that if Charles Boney had not been released from prison early after he was sentenced for robbing her, his second conviction, he would not have been avaiable to take part in the slayings of a woman and her two children. Boney's lawyer is not so reasonable:
Well, we've had women's studies and black studies and lesbian studies and disability studies and ethnic studies, none aimed at a real education, all just full of "victims" railing againts the larger oppressive society. So this should come as no great surprise:
A sign of the changing times:
In many companies, the year-end bonus is becoming a quaint memory of earlier times, when an extra envelope from payroll in December was an almost certain reward for everyone in a firm.
Local school districts aren't the only education institutions enamored of brick-and-mortar projects:
Ball State University students will see a lot of changes to campus in the coming years - a new residence hall, a renovated dining hall, a high-tech media building and a new recreation center.
The university isn't alone in its construction boom - other Indiana schools are building or planning new facilities to attract students and support academics.
I don't know if this writer doesn't understand the difference between part-time and full-time legislatures, but the article ignores the distinction:
If no purpose would be served in sending George Weller to prison, what purpose was served in trying him in the first place?
Happy 50th anniversary to the Interstate Highway system. I'm probably a little less enthusiastic about it than this guy, a little sadder about some of the small-town flavor of the country that it helped kill off. But there's no question about the ways in which it reshaped this country, and it was Big Government that did it.
We can go on talking and talking about the unintended consequences of raising the minimum wage, the inapprorpriateness of such government involvement in the private sector and the simple facts that most people make more than the minimum wage and most of the people who make the minimum are not poor, but it will continue to fall on deaf ears. I suspect it's because many of the people who champion the minimum wage believe as this guy does:
Those lousy, unreliable Democrats. You put them in office to further your agenda, and it turns out they are as, um, diverse in their opinions as other Americans:
Last week's election results may be more of a mixed bag for gay rights supporters than many originally thought.
At least 13 of 50 newly elected House and Senate Democrats oppose same-sex marriage, with two of those backing constitutional amendments to ban such unions.
Bet you thought our student anarchists were keeping a low profile these days:
Anarchist students of the Purdue Alliance of Libertarian Socialists, in solidarity with the Purdue Organization of Labor Equality and the oppressed workers of the world, are currently engaged in a hunger strike and camp-in, the purpose of which is to pressure Purdue University to stop having its apparel maunfactured in sweatshops.
I guess if the police chief is happy, we should be happy:
Mixed in with the many white male faces that seem to dominate the applicant pool every year, the number of Hispanic and Asian faces jumped out at York.
I think people who keep saying Gov. Daniels is too unpopular to earn a second term should remember that two years is a long time in politics. I likewise thing this sentiment is overly optimistic and suffers from the same shortsightedness:
I'm not sure what to make of this, except maybe, "Yahoo, the Democrats are in, so we'll get more money."
Just one month ago, the superintendent for the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore said funding for the Dunes looked grim and that challenges for the National Park Service were growing increasingly difficult.
Dale Engquist now feels better about the future of the park, given the new makeup of Congress.
Here's one way the government can cut back a little. Stop wasting money on things Americans clearly don't want to use:
Can George Washington and Thomas Jefferson succeed where Susan B. Anthony and Sacajawea failed? The U.S. Mint is hoping America's presidents will win acceptance, finally, for the maligned dollar coin.
The public will get the chance to decide starting in February when the first of the new coins, bearing the image of the first president, is introduced.
Henry Kissinger says we can't win in Iraq:
If you mean, by 'military victory,' an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support, I don't believe that is possible.
Charles Rangel's proposal to reinstitute the draft -- just like all his similar proposals in the past -- shouldn't be taken as a serious plan. It's just not going to happen. But that doesn't mean it shouldn't be discussed. A debate over the draft can tell us a lot about the war in Iraq, the war on terror and what we think about the relationship of the government and citizens.
Smart politics doesn't necessarily mean good government. Gov. Daniels' health initiative is clever politics because it puts pressure on the new Democratic majority in the House right from Day 1. It's a tax increase and big new social spending -- help for the uninsured -- both of which could come straight from the Democratic agenda. About the only response they can have is that this doesn't go far enough to solve the problem.
Here we go. Everywhere but in the home, and can that be far behind?
Belmont is set to make history by becoming the first city in the nation to ban smoking on its streets and almost everywhere else.
