Baron Hill Town Hall in Bloomington

September 2, 2009 · by · in Politics

A few notes from Baron Hill’s health care forum/town hall in Bloomington this evening: Baron Hill and Bloomington Mayor Mark Kruzan entered to a remarkably loud round of applause. Kruzan gave Baron a pretty good intro, and tried to emphasize…

“Us” vs “Them”

August 30, 2009 · by · in Politics

Evansville Courier & Press columnist John Gottcent wrote a piece, touching on the health care debate, about how we see the government: “‘They’ is the term with which we most often describe our government,” she said, “and it creates the…

Rachel Maddow & Joe Sestak on Steve Buyer’s healthcare fearmongering

August 15, 2009 · by · in Politics

Rachel Maddow and guest Congressman Joe Sestak (D-PA) tear apart Steve Buyer’s (R-IN) lies about healthcare reform and veterans. It’s unfortunate that Buyer, a former JAG lawyer, would lie about veterans – but Admiral Sestak is there to correct the…

Advance Indiana fooled by fake Michelle Obama interview

October 15, 2008 · by · in Politics

Over at Advance Indiana, Gary Welsh has a post parsing an interview with Michelle Obama – and he finds potentially explosive evidence that she’s admitting that Barack might not be a citizen: Wow. Sen. Barack Obama doesn’t acknowledge in either…