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Blue County in a Red State: What is Mitch Daniels doing fundraising in Chicago?

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:04:00 -0500

The last few weeks, Mitch Daniels PAC has been advertising for a fundraiser in the Times. The fundraiser is taking place in Chicago, in the law offices of the guys that arranged the Tollway sale. If I'm not mistaken, Dan Dumezich works there.

I've been wondering what Mitch's angle [...]

Kenn Gividen's DailyKenn.com: Today's top stories

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:13:00 -0500

Oops! Huckabee's compassionate clemency kills four innocent cops
'Climate change' data dumped
Neo-Nazis claim responsibility for terrorist attack on Russian train
Gallup: Obama Approval Below 50 Percent
RATIONING: Elderly question flu shot controls; 65 and older face H1N1 vaccine limits
Pakistani President Cedes Control [...]

Advance Indiana: Durham Associates Faced Legal Problems In The Past

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:56:00 -0500

Several Indianapolis area business associates of Timothy Durham are no strangers to legal troubles. Fair Finance business partner James Cochran faced domestic battery charges in Hamilton County a couple of years ago. Durham's partner in a New Castle, Indiana restaurant, Henri Najem, was charged with [...]

Masson's Blog: Colts Beat Texans, Clinch AFC South

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:48:54 -0500

Number of comments: 1

With another remarkable come back, this time against the Texans, the Colts advanced to 11 – 0. And, with some help from the San Francisco 49ers in their win over Jacksonville, the Colts also clinched the AFC South with 5 games yet to be played.

The first half against the [...]

TheBellCurve: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:32:00 -0500

My wife informed me the other day that we are cutting back on our Christmas spending this year. Sounds like a good plan to me, although I’ve decided to take a wary “I’ll believe it when I see it” approach to the whole deal. There’s always the possibility that I’ll [...]

Sevens: The urge to save humanity

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:43:00 -0500

The worst scientific scandal of our generation The reason why even the Guardian's George Monbiot has expressed total shock and dismay at the picture revealed by the documents is that their authors are not just any old bunch of academics. Their importance cannot be overestimated, What we are looking at [...]

Sevens: Lady Knights move to 4-0

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:25:00 -0500

The Norwell Girls' Basketball team moved to 4-0, topping Jay County 50-46 on Friday night.' [...]

The Indiana Law Blog: Law - "California's Jessica’s Law too vague to enforce? Most local offenders too close to schools, parks"

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:14:56 -0500

A story today by Denise Zapata and Kevin Crowe from San Diego's Union-Tribune includes this overview:Background: One of the aspects... [...]

The Urbanophile: Midwest Miscellany

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:13:53 -0500

Number of comments: 1

I have received some reports of badly distorted fonts with Firefox on Windows XP. If the font on this site is rendering horribly for you, I’d appreciate you sending me a screen shot, along with your browser and OS version. I’m investigating. In the meantime, you can see a cleaner [...]

The Indiana Law Blog: Ind. Law - "Grappling with Meth in Elkhart County;" Basketball in Medora

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:00:03 -0500

From today's Elkhart Truth:Journalists from The Elkhart Truth and msnbc.com have spent the last several months exploring how methamphetamine is... [...]

The Bilerico Project: The Cleveland Show goes transphobic: GLAAD goes silent

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:00:00 -0500

I realize the Thanksgiving holiday was last week, but surely the folks at GLAAD didn't take the entire week off work. After all, they had plenty of time to critique Good Morning America's decision to dump Adam Lambert after his racy AMA performance.

The week before, the org got into' [...]

The Indiana Law Blog: Ind. Gov't. - "Lean times pressure Indiana's lawmakers Excess is out, pinching pennies is in"

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:56:05 -0500

That is the headline to this story today by Ed Bradner of the Evansville Courier & Press, that begins:INDIANAPOLIS —... [...]

The Indiana Law Blog: Ind. Law - "State turns consumers into syngas patsies"

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:49:25 -0500

Updating this ILB entry from Nov. 25th headed "Still more on: Governor signs first bill of 2009 session," about a... [...]

The Indiana Law Blog: Law - "Ambassador to Costa Rica: Who is Anne Slaughter Andrew?"

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:44:39 -0500

Updating this ILB entry from Oct. 16th headed "Obama Picks Another Ambassador From Big Law", AllGov has a story today... [...]

We The People: Limited Posting for the Near Future

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:17:00 -0500

Postings will be slim for a bit. An announcement to come sometime around the first of the year. Thanks for your loyal support. [...]

The Indiana Law Blog: Ind. Decisions - 7th Circuit's "Gun ruling reversal tests domestic violence law "

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:11:43 -0500

The 7th Circuit's decision Nov. 18th in the case of U.S. v. Skoien (WD Wis.), which the ILB blogged here... [...]

Masson's Blog: Feds Seek Seizure of Durham Property

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:05:42 -0500

Number of comments: 4

The local blogosphere seems to have scooped the main stream media on a filing by the federal government to seize property of alleged Ponzi financier and political mover and shaker Timothy Durham. I read about the filing first at Advance Indiana and Ogden on Politics. Jon Easter at [...]

The Indiana Law Blog: Ind. Gov't. - More on "Ex-Town of Chesterfield Employees Accused Of Siphoning Town Funds "

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:05:20 -0500

Updating this ILB entry from Nov. 24th, Keith Roysdon of the Muncie Star-Press has a long story today headlined "Chesterfield..." [...]

Indiana Barrister: Let the “War on Christmas” Begin

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:08:55 -0500

Number of comments: 10

I know we’re just a couple days into the holiday season, but it’s never too late to start talking about the “War on Christmas”. You know the time when people get upset because someone wished them “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas”. They then go on ad nauseum [...]