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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 […]

While we’re all celebrating Jack Cafferty’s Pelosi’s a horrible woman we mustn’t loose sight of the fact that Cafferty remains an unapologetic Obama fan boy.
The Administration’s first year has been a horrible one by any political measure you choose to use. And if you’re paying attention to the White House’s “stands” on issues […]

Wow, I wonder why no one saw this coming - that the whole H1N1 flu scare was drug firms cashing in. But how would anyone know since the WHO’s involvement and holdings in these drug companies has been effectively buried by the media. Let the Left bemoan the Right’s involvement with Wall Street […]

The Daily Mail’s David Rose has a nice article today, The mini ice age starts here. Why must any current event, especially historically proven cyclic events, be assumed the new status quo? Well, besides that there’s money to be made in the next-big-emergency…
It’s really to bad, too, as I was looking forward to global […]

Americans make seemingly unhealthy choices - smoking, eating too much fast food, roller blading without pads, riding a motorcycle without a helmet, keeping a gun in the house are just a few whereby someone is bound to say “you shouldn’t be allowed to do that because it is making my insurance go up!”. I have […]

So Eric Holder is going to go after ponzi schemes now… if he wants to go after the one that’s stolen the most money from citizens he’d go after Social Security. Oh wait, they’re the ones running that one.. so he’ll focus on the small fish to make it look like he’s doing something….

Roberta X has a great rundown on the Gun Bills In The Indiana General Assembly.
I’m pleased to see mostly pro-freedom for a change. A law to allow you to keep your firearm locked in your car at work even if your employer forbids it. Another to prevent the state from restricting our rights […]

With 2010 almost here you’re going to be bombarded with reviews of 2009 from every news, talk, entertainment and variety show being produced so why not head them all off and get the straight scoop from Dave Barry’s year in review.

I have always felt history would not judge George W. Bush so harshly as the main stream media and political opponents. So I am far from surprised that Bush is closing the gap not even a year into the Obama Presidency.
The numbers are close enough for liberals to start feeling the pressure and they’re only […]

John Hostettler is one of my favorite politicians and I was highly disappointed at the utter lack of support by the national party in 2008 when he lost to Brad Ellsworth.
Now Hostettler has announced his run for the Senate against Evan Bayh who I like only a little better than Dick Lugar (At […]

Speaking of global warming’s “hide the decline”…. Obama Approval Slips to 47%. And now that the EPA has declared CO2 a “pollutant”, which has the potential of reaching all the way down the an individual right to BREATH we’re bound to see more turmoil and unrest before Barry leaves office in 2012.

By the way, in case you didn’t know it teaching a child under 5 to read can damage the child by causing stress when the child should just be having fun.
More like, if you teach your kids to read by age 5 you’ll question why the ones we get for 12 years can’t… but by […]