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I guess they found a way to keep Stevens from taking his seat back after all. In case everyone has forgotten it was Stevens who the Democrat prosecutors brought up on corruption charges which were dismissed after the election.

Stark has obviously been caught flat footed to which a politician’s normal reaction seems to be to stick their flat feet straight into their mouths.
Stark’s slip may be of ignorance or more likely Freudian but how much of this do we lay at his or the party’s feet? More likely Stark’s ignorance […]

I’ve repeated until I’m blue in the face that CO2 is plant food and have pointed to articles showing increasing C02 makes plants grow better/faster not once but twice as far back as 4+ years ago.
And these were largely articles meant to sweep the whole C02-is-plant-food under the rug by focusing on poison […]

Nothing a few Marines can’t fix….

With a month to go for the primaries only today was I clued in to Bucshon for Congress who is seeking to be my Representative in place of Brad Ellsworth, the Democrat looking to win Evan Bayh’s Senate seat.
Getting past the first thing that popped into my head I read through his site and found […]

We’ve been watching gas prices creep back up for some time now. I’ve even lamented what the prices will be when the economy craws out of its morass. If its this high now some fire in the old economic engine is only going to increase demand and send the price higher.
But the amusing […]

It doesn’t amount to anything but I find it amusing considering they’ve been calling the Republicans the Party of No and here Harry’s Pavlovian reaction to the roll call vote is “No”.
Or was it a Freudian slip?

Remember the umbrage when Bush Jr. mentioned letting citizens keep their retirement monies in their own retirement accounts? The opposition called W a liar when he said Social Security would be insolvent by 2016 and guess what…. Social Security Payouts Exceed Pay-ins which means W might have been overly optimistic with his projections.
And the […]

I was wrong that Ellsworth voted for healthcare in exchange for his senate bid. He voted for it for a $1 million campaign contribution from Evan Bayh. You can’t tell me the timing is a coincidence.

Last week I sent the Governor a letter concerning House Bill 1065 and other firearms related provisions from this session. The Governor signed them all into law despite the high pitch whining coming largely from boardrooms and activists outside of Indiana. Today I received a response to my letter:
Considering the clear language of the Second […]

If you’ve not already best check the Final Vote Results for Roll Call 165 to see where your elected officials stood yesterday. Notice that not one Republican voted for it and 34 Democrats defected.
I have already put my Congressman, Brad Ellsworth, on notice that I firmly believe he sold out his […]

Indiana weather has been unseasonal for almost the past year, running 8 to 15 degrees below normal across the board. But this isn’t according to the global warming, er… climate change worshipers an indication that the earth isn’t warming. No, they say, regional weather trends cannot be pointed out to refute that the earth is […]

Governor Daniels still has a fair amount of work to do this session but I’m most interested in seeing him sign onto HB 1065. If you’re so inclined it probably wouldn’t hurt to drop him a note of encouragement.
Though Governor Daniels is of the “compassionate conservative” brand of Republican Indiana could have done far […]

If our economy is still in the tank yet gas is still $2.75/gallon - what does that portend when the economy recovers?

Following up on getting the “guns in your car” bill through to the governor there are 2 on The Indiana Law Blog (worth a bookmark btw). The first ran on March 6th and a follow up on March 8th following a work place shooting up in Portage Indiana which opponents are attempting to use to […]

The liberals/progressives/nutcases are always harping on war spending and a way to tell Republicans to shut up already when they oppose yet more spending. Of course this is a diversion to stop opposition to their political roadmap of turning America into a European style Socialist State.
But back to spending money… we know where there is […]

I cannot believe I’m linking to them but even the Daily Kos sees Hostettler as the man to beat in the coming race to fill Evan Bayh’s senate seat. They even instructs their minions to remember to “…root for Coats in the GOP primary”.
Coats’ remember is the seat Bayh took, who now wants […]

Looks like Indiana Dems are trying to sink HB 1065, the Emergency Powers and Parking Lots today. Why is anyone surprised? Democrats always scream “democracy! democracy!” until they don’t like the results…

A little history from the Great Communicator…

Yet another example of why McCain didn’t win is the Dietary Supplement Regulatory Bill. McCain, a RINO on a good day, also stands as a touchstone on who in politics, especially Republican politics, got the message in 2009. Sadly at the national level few of them have as demonstrated by their rallying around […]

Reflecting on Bayh’s stepping aside I realized the whole point of doing it so last minute was to put the power of nominating his replacement directly with the party rather than allowing the people their choice in the primaries. At this late date there simply isn’t anyone who can muster the signatures to get onto […]

U. S. Senator Evan Bayh plans to announce he will not seek a 3rd term in the U.S. Senate. A press conference is scheduled for 2 p.m. this afternoon in Indianapolis.
My money is that Senator Bayh realized he was toast… But it is unfortunate as by not running, and he’s not alone here, we […]

Remember all that bitching and whining about how evil Bush was for tapping cell phone conversations of citizens who happen to call a terrorist? If the Administration gets their way you won’t have to be talking to a terrorist for them to track you. You just need a cell phone.

There may be some conservative votes happy to see Dan Coats come out of hiding in Virginia to take on Evan Bayh but I am not one of them. Its been many years so many have forgotten Dan Coats voted for the crime bill in 1994 otherwise known as the Assault Weapons Ban.
Dan […]

Just writing about Pelosi I recall that John Hostettler, 8th district Indiana - and now doing is part to take down Evan Bayh - essentially ran on a campaign of “a vote for Brad Ellsworth is a vote for Nancy Pelosi for speaker of the house”. The powers that be had been pretty […]