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An F for Plan B

More criticism of Sen. Richard Lugar's Plan B, from Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard:

Let's get started

I heard Pat White on WOWO on the way home last night, talking about this guest column in The Journal Gazette by Daniel Young, Central Catholic graduate and a retired policy analyst for the state of Wisconsin:

It's time for the mayoral candidates, both Tom Henry and Matt Kelty, to step up to the plate and discuss the issues.

[. . .]

Lugar's change of heart

Sen. Richard Lugar is getting a lot of press for his speech breaking with President Bush's Iraq policy. But he's not likely to be recruited by the anti-war activists -- he's still against the Democrats' timetable, and he also opposes an abrupt pullout or total withdrawal, which he says would not be in our best interests. He's also looking ahead to the post-Iraq era, realizing we have to deal with the world the war has created, not the imaginary world we would have had by not going to war:

Talk it up

It's usually one step forward, one step back for the First Amendment. In the good news, The Supreme Court decided a couple of cases yesterday that help reaffirm the core function of the amendment to protect political speech as a vital component of a constitutional republic. In one case, the court loosened restrictions on ads that advocacy groups can run close to elections, which will weaken the despicable McCain-Feingold act. In the other, the court decided that schools have legitimate reasons to restrict student speech.

Faith heeling

What history of Christianity has he been studying in order to come to the conclusion that faith once brought us together?

Same old, same old

Good to see Indiana freshmen congressmen are getting in on the vote buying earmarks:

A House needs a good wall

The Indiana Chamber has released its legislative analysis (pdf file) of the last session of the General Assembly, and the news isn't very good from its perspective:

While some positive legislation was painstakingly guided to success, too many pro-economy, pro-jobs bills derailed due to frequent partisan politics, shortsightedness and too many anti-business legislators.

Fly away

Give the Hillary Clinton campaign credit. This campaign-ad spoof of the Sopranos is pretty funny. Not sure about Celine Dion's "You and I" as the campaign song, though. It's sappy enough ("You and I were meant to fly"), but not quite catchy enough to stick in people's minds. It's no "Can't Stop Thinkin' About Tomorrow," that's for sure.

Partisans

The Allen County Election Board has decreed by a 2-1 vote that Republican mayoral candidate Matt Kelty violated no campaign finance laws by initially failing to report that a personal loan he made to his campaign was, in fact, originally a loan from one of his campaign workers to him. And the vote -- sit down for this one -- was along party lines, with the two Republicans voting to clear Kelty and the Democrat saying there were enough questions to forward the whole thing to the prosecutor's office.

The echo chamber

The BBC is infected with liberal bias, and that affects its news coverage. That's not the opinion of a rightwing crank but the finding of a report commissioned by the BBC itself:

Their review hit out at programme-makers for misjudging where "cultural mainstream" opinion stood and for wanting to "swim" against popular opinion.

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