I did not know this about Indiana law:
The law on neglect in Indiana doesn't state a definitive age for when a child can be left alone, she said.
"As far as minimum age it really isn't one," she said. "It depends on the maturity level of the child. As long as everything works out OK there isn't a problem. We don't get involved until something occurs. It's very subjective.
That courthouse attack in Tippecanoe County?
A rural Lafayette man accused of attacking a lawyer at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse after a civil court case last month has been charged with attempted murder, attempted aggravated battery and confinement.
Prosecutors on Tuesday filed the charges in Tippecanoe Superior Court 1 against Russell A. Timmons, 48. The June 22 attack occurred outside Tippecanoe Superior Court 2.
A couple of Indiana University professors take the typical hardline establishment view of illegal immigration, i.e. that anyone who worries about it is an inhumane monster trying to deny basic human dignity. Even calling immigrants "illegal" instead of "undocumented" is an attempt to dehumanize them. One of them takes a pass at "birthright citizenship," the practice of granting citizenship to children of illegal immigrants born in this country:
News on the immigration front:
Since 2005, the backlog of legal U.S. immigrants whose applications for naturalization and other benefits are stuck on hold awaiting FBI name checks has doubled to 329,160, prompting a flood of lawsuits in federal courts, bureaucratic finger-pointing in Washington and tough scrutiny by 2008 presidential candidates.
There was a gruesome murder in rural Indiana back in April. Two teenagers are alleged to have savagely beaten a man to death, even having the audacity to e-mail a photo of the deed to someone. The crime has been largely ignored by the major media, according to the posts that have been racing through the blogosphere, even though it should have gotten major attention as a Matthew Shepard-like crime.
Sorry, don't believe him:
The agreement, coming after President Bush's pledge earlier today to provide $4.4 billion for border security, revives a bill that had stalled in the Senate and was all but given up for dead.
If we were serious about border security, we'd be following the current law that requires it.
Having 17 years to think about his coming execution might have made this guy more reflective, but it sure hasn't made him any smarter:
Michael Lambert has had 17 years to think about how his life could have been so different if a police officer had found the gun in his jacket pocket as he patted him down.
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Lambert was in the back seat of Winters' police cruiser when he pulled out the stolen gun and began shooting. He says he doesn't know why he did it.
He's getting what he deserves, i.e. a fair trial, which is something he wasn't willing to give:
On Tuesday — more than a year after he took the lead in investigating claims three men raped a stripper at a March 2006 party thrown by Duke's highly ranked lacrosse team — the Durham County district attorney will stand trial on ethics charges ranging from lying to the court to withholding potentially exculpatory evidence.
Just when almost everybody, including some death penalty supporters, has decided that capital punishment does not deter, some evidence to the contrary:
After the Supreme Court upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act back in April, I wrote an editorial saying the decision would "put ne energy back into the abortion debate in this country, which is good, and shift the focus of the debate at least partly back to the states, which is even better." I said it was at least a partial defeat for the pro-choice crowd: "As the debate now proceeds, at least the idea of a continuum will be back and the 'right' of abortion can no longer be considered an absolute that does not have to acknowledge competing interests."
