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The Indiana Law Blog: Ind. Law - More on "I&M fight costs Fort Wayne $300,000 for lawyers"

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:10:30 -0500

The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, whose story is quoted in this ILB entry from Nov. 7th, today has an editorial... [...]

Indiana Barrister: Gather Ye Muslims While Ye May*

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:08:13 -0500

As Americans mourn the loss of more than dozen people murdered by alleged shooter Nidal Malik Hasan thoughtful people are asking thoughtful questions and the crazies are coming out of the woodwork.

Hasan apparently left signs all over the place that something just wasn’t quite right; A PowerPoint presentation on [...]

Indy's Conservative Hardball: Malik Nadal Hasan and Jews and Blacks In World War II: Racism and Anti-Semitism

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:39:00 -0500

From The Political Commentator

Did They Shoot Up Their Bases And Kill Their Tormentors?

Is Hasan A Victim Or A Perpetrator?

During World War II, as well as most other times in recent history, both blacks and Jews faced a degree [...]

Berry Street Beacon: PIQUA PRESERVATION AND GRAND LAKE ST. MARYS

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:54:50 -0500

Last week I drove down to southern Ohio to see one of my sons and his family. I take a fairly regular route, heading southeast out of Fort Wayne on U.S. 27 to Decatur and then picking up U.S. 33 through St. Marys. Just outside Sidney, Ohio, I hop onto [...]

Reverent and Free: From The Desk Of Sarah Palin's Editor

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Pretty funny [...]

Sevens: The Horse Genome

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:31:00 -0500

The genome of the domestic horse has been mapped by a team of scientists. The team surveyed the extent of genetic variation both within and across breeds to create a catalogue of more than one million single-letter genetic differences in these breeds.This is slightly larger than the genome of the [...]

Indy's Conservative Hardball: Isiah Thomas starting over

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:00:00 -0500

Hey Pacer Fans!!
Anyone remember Isiah Thomas??

Now please... stop throwing things at me and keep your boo's down.
Isiah Thomas is trying to start over... rebuild his life and more importantly, his reputation.

Check out this blog post from Dan Wetzel from Yahoo Sports:

The [...]

Reverent and Free: "Banging Your Heart Against Some Mad Bugger's Wall"

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:56:00 -0500

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Reverent and Free: Mandates Not Needed With A Strong Public Option

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:35:00 -0500

...and what this guy says. [...]

The Sample Gates: The fate of WoW in China…serious news here.

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:29:03 -0500

A battle is waging now between two Chinese government agencies, the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) and the Ministry of Culture regarding the regulation of online gaming, particularly the widely popular World of Warcraft. The game literally has China divided over the issue of online media regulation. Here’s an [...]

The Indiana Law Blog: Ind. Courts - More on "Red Spot may have to pay $26 million for cleanup"

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:26:01 -0500

Updating this ILB entry from August 6th, Dan Shaw of the Evansville Courier & Press is reporting this evening:A lawsuit... [...]

Advance Indiana: CIB Sees Surplus But Will Still Borrow $27 Million From State

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:49:00 -0500

Earlier today, the IBJ's Scott Olson posted a story online bringing news of a potential surplus for the CIB in its 2010 budget. Olson wrote:

Approaching the end of 2009, Indianapolis' cash-strapped Capital Improvement Board is on much more solid financial footing than it was at this time' [...]

The Indiana Law Blog: Courts - Still more on Judge David Hamlton's nomination to 7th Circuit

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:46:38 -0500

Updating this ILB entry from earlier today, which quoted from the Baltimore Sun story today headed "Long wait may soon..." [...]

Gary Varvel: Health-Care Bill

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:31:00 -0500

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

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:28:00 -0500

Who's fair and balanced?
Larry Elder

Pew Research Center recently studied the cable channels' viewers' politics.

CNN? Fifty-one percent liberal, 23 percent independent and 18 percent conservative.

MSNBC? Forty-five percent liberal, 27 percent independent and 18 percent conservative.

Don't know about the "fair" part, [...]

SchansBlog: a memorial for the victims of Communism

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:01:00 -0500

ReasonTV on the 20th anniversary of the Wall...

Good stuff!

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SchansBlog: Uric's blog gets starting: eye on the economy

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:10:00 -0500

For all of you Macro fans out there...

Check out his work and commentary by clicking here. [...]

Angry White Boy: Pat White is an idiot (again)

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:58:10 -0500

As many of you may have seen reported, a 19 year-old Auburn, Indiana woman tossed her newborn into a garbage bag on Sunday, and then pitched the child into a dumpster.

Pat White is on now, saying we should have compassion for this attempted child killer. I had to turn it [...]

The Indiana Law Blog: Ind. Decisions - Transfer list for week ending November 6, 2009

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:36:52 -0500

There is no Clerk's transfer list for the week ending November 6, 2009.... [...]

Angry White Boy: To those that are bumping up the poll numbers

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:27:23 -0500

I know the IP you’re coming from. Either play nice, or I will be forced to start the poll over.

I would hate to embarrass you.

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Fort Wayne Libertarian Party: It shall not pass?

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:02:00 -0500

The healthcare bill passed by the House on Saturday might not pass the Senate. Some of you might wonder why would the House rushed on a bill that might not pass at all. The best answer that I can give you is that politics is fueled by drama, not [...]

The Indiana Law Blog: Environment - "Is New York’s Marcellus Shale Too Hot to Handle?"

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:04:56 -0500

The ILB has had several entries on "a new technique that taps previously inaccessible supplies of natural gas" by drilling... [...]

The Indiana Law Blog: Courts - More on "Justices Weigh Life in Prison for Youths Who Never Killed "

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:49:38 -0500

Updating this ILB entry from yesterday, stories are now coming in re the oral arguments this morning in the two... [...]

Angry White Boy: Take the early-bird Mayoral Poll

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:37:20 -0500

Number of comments: 4

On the right —>

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Indy's Conservative Hardball: Indiana roll call on HR 3962

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:20:00 -0500

No real surprises here...
Let's just remember how each of them voted.

Voted Yes on HR 3962
André Carson
Joe Donnelly
Brad Ellsworth
Baron Hill
Peter J. Visclosky

Voted No on HR 3962
Dan Burton
Steve Buyer
Mike Pence
Mark Souder [...]

Indy's Conservative Hardball: Congressman Buyer's response to Pelosi's late night health care vote

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:03:00 -0500

HOUSE DEMOCRATS PASS GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF NATION’S HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
Republicans Offered Common Sense Alternative

Washington, D.C. — Democrat Leaders in Washington have called health care reform a national priority requiring the best minds to solve, but on Saturday the U.S. House of Representatives [...]

Angry White Boy: Orwell’s 1984 comes to Massachusetts

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:47:21 -0500

Peter Vidala of stands firm when it comes to his Christian beliefs. On occasion, he even has the nerve to express them. Now, it’s cost him his job.

Vidala worked at Brookstone, a specialty retailer located in the Boston Logan Airport. That was until after repeatedly hearing [...]

The Indiana Law Blog: Ind. Courts - "Funds Available to Help Those In Legal Profession Who Need Mental Health or Dependency Treatment"

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:39:22 -0500

A press release today from the Indiana Supreme Court begins:Judges, attorneys and law students in need of mental health or... [...]

Angry White Boy: American Family Association of Indiana PAC endorses Jim Banks for Indiana Senate

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:55:21 -0500

(Indianapolis, IN) – The American Family Association of Indiana PAC announced that it has endorsed Jim Banks for State Senator in Indiana Senate District 17. Hoosiers have witnessed enormous changes during 2009 with an economic collapse, historic government takeovers of private industries, massive and unprecedented federal spending [...]

HoosierAccess: Jim Banks receives yet another endorsement!

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:51:53 -0500

Jim Banks who is running for SD 17 here in Indiana received another endorsement from The American Family Association of Indiana P.A.C. For those who don’t know Jim Banks you can read all about him on his website here. I would encourage you as well to give to his [...]

SchansBlog: a living, animal monument to the Cold War

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:18:00 -0500

From Cecilie Rohwedder in the WSJ...

It has been 20 years since the Berlin Wall fell. But deep in the forest here, a red deer called Ahornia still refuses to cross the old Iron Curtain.

Ahornia inhabits the thickly wooded mountains along what once was [...]

SchansBlog: how soon we forget: November 1989 as "the most liberating month in arguably the most liberating year in human history"

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:11:00 -0500

From Matt Welch in Reason...

On August 23, 1989, officials from the newly reformed and soon-to-be-renamed Communist Party of Hungary ceased policing the country’s militarized border with Austria. Some 13,000 East Germans...fled across the frontier to the free world...the largest breach of the Iron Curtain...kicked off a [...]

SchansBlog: who was the immediate catalyst for the East German fumble that led to the Wall coming down?

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:01:00 -0500

From Marcus Walker in the WSJ with a famous AP photo...

The world believes Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev or peaceful protests brought down the Berlin Wall 20 years ago...But for those who had front-row seats, the argument boils down to Ehrman vs. [...]

Ain't That Sherific?: Mondays suck . . .

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:48:00 -0500

Even though I hate Mondays, I must remember to be thankful that I actually have a job to go to. I am blessed to be working and doing a job I love. . .

This weekend was a jumble of craziness. Friday I decided to undertake a big project [...]

Opening Arguments: Threats

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:57:51 -0500

I swear, I can’t leave you people alone for a second. I take one little week off, then come home to discover no one has killed cap and trade or health care reform yet. In fact, the march toward statism is so far along I wonder if the whole concept [...]

The Indiana Law Blog: Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 2 today (and 1 NFP)

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:47:10 -0500

For publication opinions today (2): In Joshua P. Lindsey v. State of Indiana , a 19-page opinion, Judge Vaidik writes:In... [...]

The Indiana Law Blog: Courts - More on Judge David Hamlton's nomination to 7th Circuit

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:50:31 -0500

Updating this ILB entry from Nov. 5, which included this quote from the Washington Post:WASHINGTON -- Ten months into Barack... [...]

SchansBlog: my visit to the Berlin Wall

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:48:00 -0500

I was fortunate to visit the Berlin Wall in the summer of 1988-- on the first of my two trips during grad school to Western Europe.

I was surprised to learn that there were really two walls, between which was a dead zone. This prevented many more people from [...]

Opening Arguments: Fort Hood

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:46:07 -0500

Number of comments: 2

What is it they say, God takes care of drunks and fools? He must also keep an eye out occasionally for journalist bloggers, who often exhibit characteristics of both.

At my brother’s last week, we didn’t get around to our range session until Wednesday, but we had a good time shooting [...]

SchansBlog: the background of "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall"

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:37:00 -0500

Credit for the phrase goes to "the writer who had the assignment, Peter Robinson". For text and audio of the speech of June 12, 1987, click here. (The key phrase is uttered around minute 12 of the recording. Good luck in trying to listen to it without tearing up.)

Reagan [...]

SchansBlog: how materialism damages the family

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:32:00 -0500

Powerful/prophetic words from Russell Moore in Touchstone...

...one of the roots of the family crisis all around us—in the pews we sit in or preach to every week—is the wallet in our own back pocket.

It is no accident, after all, that our Ancient Foe first appears [...]

The Bilerico Project: My worst fear: Microphobia

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:30:00 -0500

I should be hopping on a flight to New York around the time this goes live on the site. Flying has never scared me; snakes, spiders and rodents don't really bother me either. Instead, there's one thing that will send shivers of' [...]

Veritas Rex: Real Healthcare Reform: Get Government Out of the Way

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:26:42 -0500

Number of comments: 2

Democrats in the U.S. House voted "Obamacare," the beginning of the government takeover of our health care system, through to the U.S. Senate on Saturday. What's ironic about that is that government intervention got us into this mess (explained below). I don't think more government intervention will get us out. [...]

HoosierAccess: Rep. Mike Pence gives an amazing speech

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:19:05 -0500

Rep. Mike Pence nailed this speech against the Pelosi Health Care package!

Click here to view the embedded video.

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SchansBlog: Christian reflections on (Christian) burial

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:12:00 -0500

Excerpts from a symposium in Touchstone...

Burial Plots & Parking Lots by Russell D. Moore
Our Buried Sentiments by Wilfred M. McClay
Landscapes of the Dead by Anthony Esolen
The Grave Not Taken by David Mills
Stone Sobriety by S. M. Hutchens
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Blue County in a Red State: Berlin Wall Fell 20 years ago, no one cares

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:10:00 -0500

It's strange that the most momentous occasion of most of our lifetimes is being more or less ignored on its 20th anniversary.

I mean, if you're a baby boomer or younger, this is pretty much the biggest thing that's happened in your lifetime.

It's strange that nobody cares,' [...]

Indiana Equality: 2009 Indianapolis Transgender Day of Remembrance

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:02:28 -0500

Number of comments: 0
Saturday, November 14th, from 6 to 8 pm
Unitarian Universalist Church of Indianapolis,
615 W. 43rd St., Indianapolis, 46208

This year's observance of the Transgender Day of Remembrance will feature a live performance of the short play "TransActions," directed by Jeffrey Barnes; a moderated panel discussion of the play and issues facing the [...]

Blue County in a Red State: Lake County government now 11% Geezer!

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:59:00 -0500

I got taken to task last time when I complained about geezers in government when a 72 year old Lake County public employee confused the gas for the brake and drove her gold Ford Crown Victoria into the cafeteria of the county building.

But I never learn, so here [...]

The Indiana Law Blog: Courts - More on "If Chicago cop caught you with LIDAR, go to court: Judge will dismiss it"

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:55:21 -0500

Updating this ILB entry from Nov. 6th, Megan Twohey of the Chicago Tribune reports today in a story headlined: "Speeding..." [...]

SchansBlog: Christian reflections on (Christian) dating, courtship and marriage

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:55:00 -0500

Excerpts from four article in Touchstone-- "a symposium on dating, courtship and marriage"...

That Could Be Arranged by S. M. Hutchens
Not-So-Blind Date by Jocelyn Mathewes
Three’s No Crowd by Kevin Offner
Father Knows Maybe Not by James Hitchcock

From Hutchens, on arranged marriages:

One [...]

Advance Indiana: Dr. Hasan Leaves Behind His Calling Card

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:38:00 -0500

Four days after the first Muslim terrorist act on American soil since 9/11, President Barack Hussein Obama and the news media continue to pretend it didn't happen as the evidence of a terrorist attack continues to pile up. Dr. Hasan passed out copies of the' [...]

The Indiana Law Blog: Catch-up: What did you miss over the weekend?

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:34:00 -0500

Stats for the ILB over the weekends fall to one-third or less of these during the week, although the ILB... [...]

The Indiana Law Blog: Ind. Decisions - Upcoming oral arguments this week and next

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:29:06 -0500

This week's oral arguments before the Supreme Court (week of 11/9/09): Thursday, November 12th 9:00 AM - Caesars Riverboat... [...]

nancynall.com: Red in tooth and claw.

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:20:54 -0500

Number of comments: 10

The longer we keep a rabbit in the house, the longer I think it belongs out of the house. Not to live out there — it is a pet, little miss I will be petted oh yes I will — but for a stretch of outside time every day. I’ve [...]

Indy's Conservative Hardball: Mike Sodrel’s Big Weekend

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:10:00 -0500

I blogged late last week about an email that was sent out by Dee Dee Benkie, Indiana’s national committeewoman on the Republican National Committee, and Larry Shickles, the former 9th District chairman, for a lunch for Congressman Mike Sodrel.

First of all, to put [...]

Angry White Boy: Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry member of anti-2nd amendment group

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:01:46 -0500

Number of comments: 6

“Mayors Against Illegal Guns” (MAIG) was founded and funded by activist anti-gun billionaire and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Nationwide, there are approximately 450 mayors that are members of the group. Here in Indiana we have 6 members, and Tom Henry is one of them.

Don’t let [...]

HoosierAccess: All He Needed Was One Minute

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:00:20 -0500

Number of comments: 1

There were quite a few highlights during Saturday’s health care debate. But before the outcome was determined, Congressman Mark Souder took the time to put a sappy Nancy Pelosi in her place.

Click here to view the embedded video.
(H/T – @daltonsbriefs via Gateway Pundit)

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Veritas Rex: Move Over, KKK

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:00:00 -0500

Number of comments: 2

by Peter Heck

Back in February, Eric Holder - the country's first black Attorney General - announced that we were a nation of cowards because, "we, as average Americans, simply do not talk enough to each other about race." Holder is right.

That there are still organizations operating in this country that demonize, target,' [...]

Howey Politics Indiana: Nov. 9, 2009 HPI Daily Wire

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:55:28 -0500

HOUSE HEALTH REFORM BILL DOA IN SENATE? The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate (Associated Press). Speaking [...]