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By John McGauley

To borrow a line from one of my favorite movies, it’s Groundhog Day in Fort Wayne – again.

Despite announcing her retirement a few years ago, City Clerk Sandy Kennedy is running for re-election – again.  Someone has had the gall to point out a glaring hole in her ability to perform the basics of her job – again.  Mark Giaquinta is there to distract you and defend her — again.

Sound familiar?  It should. Read the rest of this entry »

By Andrea Neal

Gov. Mitch Daniels, Attorney General Greg Zoeller, House Speaker Brian Bosma, Senate President Pro Tem David Long and the attorney for a man convicted of battery on a police officer all agree: The Indiana Supreme Court went too far when it ruled 3-2 “that there is no right to reasonably resist unlawful entry by police officers.”

The misdemeanant wants the court to rehear the case. And at least one lawyer-blogger says, “it seems almost a sure thing” that the court will reconsider its ruling and narrow its opinion. Read the rest of this entry »

By Andrea Neal

Bring back the smoke-filled rooms, please. Without the smoke. Thoughtful deliberation by political insiders intent on winning the general election would produce far better candidates for president than the mass-media vetting process we use now.

Mitch Daniels decided against a run for the White House because his family didn’t want to endure a national campaign and all that comes with it. Who can blame them? Read the rest of this entry »

Via ACRL: A federal judge today denied a Planned Parenthood of Indiana request for a restraining order against a new Indiana law that denies state-directed funding for abortion businesses in Indiana, declaring that no emergency existed that would warrant such a restraining order. Read the rest of this entry »

By Indiana State Senator Mike Delph

Statehouse Democrats continue down the path of irrelevance as Conservatives act on the demands of constituents across the State of Indiana. Conservatives pushed for and won an honestly balanced budget without a tax increase. We lifted up the institution of marriage while shutting off the taxpayer faucet that flowed to the death camps better known as Planned Parenthood. Founded by Eugenicist Margaret Sanger with the real goal of sterilization of most minority communities, liberals, African Americans especially, forget the history and bemoan the attack on the health care needs of the poor and underserved. Read the rest of this entry »

“The law of unintended consequences, often cited but rarely defined, is that actions of people and especially of government always have effects that are unanticipated or unintended.” — the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.

By Andrea Neal

Before lawmakers put finishing touches on any private-school voucher bill, they should consider the law of unintended consequences.

Opponents of vouchers worry that they’ll lead to excessive entanglement of church with state. Proponents should worry about excessive involvement of state in private and religious schools. Read the rest of this entry »