Hoosier lore

Good to see Hoosiers aren't being left out of the fun for a change:

The Indiana Tea Party was among the numerous conservative groups unfairly targeted by the IRS over the past three years, that according to the group’s president.

Whoops. Guess we have a little work to do:

Indiana didn’t just get an F in a state-by-state comparison of laws requiring outside groups to report their campaign spending.

The state got a zero.

Why don't they just go ahead and make it .00 -- that's what they'd really like to do:

WASHINGTON (AP) — States should cut their threshold for drunken driving by nearly half— from .08 blood alcohol level to .05_matching a standard that has substantially reduced highway deaths in other countries, a federal safety board recommended Tuesday. That's about one drink for a woman weighing less than 120 pounds, two for a 160-pound man.

We all know the federal government is so invested in "clean" energy that it will waste billions of dollars to prop up technology that can never deliver what is promised. Anybody suspect they'd go this far, though?

It's the not-so-green secret of the nation's wind-energy boom: Spinning turbines are killing thousands of federally protected birds, including eagles, each year.

I neglected to post about this when it first broke, but they were talking about it on the "Indiana Week in Review" show I watch on PBS every Sunday, so this gives me another chance:

I wish someone from the Deartment of Natural Resources would explain the logic behind this law, because I sure don't understand it:

A northern Indiana man who allegedly shot a 42-inch-long muskie with a bow and arrow could face formal charges for killing the fish.

If you want to talk about a group of people who are getting big, big money despite not getting the job done, we don't have to stop with members of Congress:

Third District Rep. Marlin Stuzman is getting some attention for his revelation that his mother considered aborting him (see this National Review piece, for example):

Brave new world:

BLOOMIINGTON - Indiana University researchers have re-released a smartphone application that allows people to report their sexual behaviors after taking steps to protect users' privacy.

IU said in a news release Wednesday that it has released the free Kinsey Reporter app. University attorneys had pulled the plug on it last September.

Good for him:

Gov. Mike Pence issued the first vetoes of his administration today, rejecting two bills that created new professional licenses.