The Indy Star’s Jon Murray has a report today on the Democratic candidates in the 9th District primary. Several Democrats bring attention-grabbing backgrounds. Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Jonathan George most recently served as a national security adviser to President…
In just 4 months, the state of Indiana has discovered $526 million in taxpayer funds that had been mishandled by the Daniels administration. On Thursday, news broke that Indiana had discovered more than $206 million dollars that should have been…
Offered without comment: Occupy Catholics & Catholics United protest the Ryan budget: “Were you there when they crucified the poor?” Bishops don’t have time to discuss poverty “Archbishop Charles Chaput told me in early November, along with an audience at…
Here’s a quick compare and contrast exercise for you. First, an excerpt from a slobberingly fawning profile of Brian Brown, Executive Director of the National Organization for Marriage. Second, highlights from the newly-unsealed internal NOM strategy documents, marked confidential. Note…
“We have become a nation in which children have become expendable. Trayvon Martin is just the most recent example.” – Charles Pierce, “Trayvon Martin and the End of Excuses” The murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on February 26 by George…
Last month, I noted that taxpayer funds from Indiana were being used to hire a lobbyist for a foreign oil company. Now, the Indiana GOP is again supporting redistributing taxpayer money to private, foreign corporations. Last week, the Senate finally…
Indiana’s primary elections are still a few months away, but we’re already starting to see some outside groups start buying airtime. In Indiana’s 8th District, the American Conservative Union is up with a cookie-cutter radio ad supporting incumbent Republican Larry…
Threatening to hold the entire government hostage to his whims has been a go-to strategy for Indiana Congressman Mike Pence. Just a few months ago, Pence threatened to shut own the government over a small percentage of the budget that…
