Today, Congress approved the first round of relief for victims of Hurricane Sandy, which struck the east coast at the end of October. The bill passed 354-67. All 67 “no” votes came from Republicans. Indiana Republicans Todd Rokita (IN-4) and…
Sometimes, The Daily Show accomplishes in a 3-minute segment what a hundred blog posts can’t. Here, the crack reporting team at The Daily Show looks at Michigan’s new “right to work” bill, and what it means for competing with their…
Yesterday, Governor Mitch Daniels and the CEO of the Indiana Economic Development Commission (IEDC) announced deals with 9 different companies to bring 2,500 jobs to the state over the next 6 years. About 1,500 of those jobs will come from…
Last week, Leslie Widenbener wrote in the Louisville Courier Journal that Indiana officials are looking at options, including increasing the gasoline tax, to cushion a 25% drop in highway funding for the 2014-2015 budget cycle. Those revenue streams will total…
The Colbert Report: Symbol-Minded (October 13, 2009) I referenced the Salazar v Buono case the other day – here’s Stephen Colbert explaining why Scalia was right to argue that the cross is a non-religious symbol marking the place of the…
Last week, Fox News pundit Bill O’Reilly insisted that Christianity was not, in fact, a religion, but rather a philosophy. That prompted this righteously funny, indignant response from Jon Stewart: In his bluntness, I think O’Reilly clumsily pulled back the…
Stephen Colbert on Rick Santorum’s conspiracy theories and the Senate rejecting the UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities. (From the December 5, 2012 episode of The Colbert Report.) Partial transcript: And folks, they are not the only politicos out…
The United States is no longer a nation governed by laws. Nor is it governed by men, nor by faith, nor by reason. (If it ever was the latter…) Today, we’re governed by conspiracy theories. One of the threads of…
On Friday, Mitch Daniels offered his explanation for why Mitt Romney lost the election. “Governor Romney memorably discussed the 47% of Americans who, he said, are dependent on government and therefore would never vote for him.” The comments he’s referring…
Over the last two years, Duke Energy has been involved in 2 major scandals – first, for hiring the lawyer for Indiana’s energy regulator, and second, for ousting the chairman of their newly-merged company only hours after completing the deal….
