February 2, 2013
It’s hard to tell when the notion began to sink in that too many Americans have forgotten the point of the American
Revolution.
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December 15, 2012
Indiana seems to be experiencing a fresh outbreak of reefer madness.
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November 17, 2012
Oh, what strange things partisanship and ideology can be. The day after the votes had been counted in the 2012 election, Republican
leaders new and old in state government declared that nothing—not even a pesky upset—was going to stop them from
implementing their education agenda.
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October 13, 2012
For the past few days, Indiana Republicans have pounded away at a new message in their fight to hold onto the U.S. Senate
seat that’s up for grabs this fall.
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September 15, 2012
Now that the national political conventions have come and gone and the presidential campaign season is about to reach top
gear, at least two Hoosiers have to be watching with mixed emotions.
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August 18, 2012
Mitch Daniels’ letter inviting the candidates who want to succeed him as governor to weigh in on how Indiana should
implement parts of President Obama’s health care reform law demonstrates at least two things.
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July 14, 2012
The Supreme Court will have to revisit this issue again—and perhaps more decisively.
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June 16, 2012
It shows, early in the campaign, just how desperate Gregg is.
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May 19, 2012
The voucher advocates got their way and now have no else to blame for any failures.
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April 14, 2012
It’s hard to know what produced the change.
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March 17, 2012
So much for a U.S. senator’s deliberative function.
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February 18, 2012
If lunch together is good, living together would be even better.
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January 21, 2012
The protestors in the building shouted that the governor was a liar.
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December 24, 2011
Somehow we think behaving churlishly is acceptable.
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November 26, 2011
He won because he did things—things that mattered. There’s a lesson in that for Democrats.
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October 22, 2011
Kennedy shrugged her shoulders and said she didn't think about it that much.
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September 24, 2011
Is it right to allow kids to suffer because of their parents's choices?
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August 20, 2011
The reality is that we now have two political parties determined to go to Disneyland for the weekend. They just want to take
different groups and pay for the trip with different kinds of credit cards.
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July 23, 2011
For many of the journalists whose jobs have fled or who are just barely hanging on, it is as if they are pilgrims whose church
has abandoned them.
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June 25, 2011
Both sides, of course, claim the public supports their position.
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June 11, 2011
There are politicians out there who see the ability to strip away one’s feelings as demonstrating toughness. To me,
it sounds soul-deadening.
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May 21, 2011
Richard Lugar stands shoulder-to-shoulder with Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Robert Taft and Ted Kennedy.
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May 7, 2011
Without someone to ring the bell and call out the low blows, there isn’t much stopping political tussles from escalating
to fights and then to brawls.
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April 23, 2011
Indianapolis now has a mayor who fades into the background. He is the mayor we still do not know.
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March 26, 2011
We tend to think that elections in which one party or the other racks up an overwhelming majority should calm the body politic.
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Can IBJ please stop referring to this property as "Kessler Mansion"? What a ridiculous title for the biggest, bloated, blight in our city. It's not a mansion. At best, it's an ideal site to shoot low-budget porn. Ahhh! Another business use!
Its stories like these that prove that a Ball State diploma is worth less than the paper that its printed on. A real institution of higher learning would have taken care of this long ago. No way should this crap be taught in a SCIENCE class.
It is such a shame that King Ballard has made Indianapolis into Chicago south with all of the rampant corruption.
How many of these 1,259 bills were actually heard and voted on on the floor vs how many were shot down in committee?
When a an arrogant young guy with essentially no experience and no qualifications for the job, was dropped into an Administrator position out of nowhere by his "mentor" in the Mayor's office things seemed fishy. Sometimes things are what they seem.