The anti-gambling people are up in arms because the Legislature is moving forward with a plan to legalize pull tabs in bars, taverns and resteraunts.  When it comes to gambling, the Libertarian in me takes a seat at the front of the bus.  I don’t have a problem with it as long as it’s regulated […]

State Representative Carolene Mays says the support is there to back her run in the May primary for the 7th Congressional District.  Mays lost her party’s nomination for the seat vacated  by the late Julia Carson.  Mays called it an “inside party vote” so she was not surprised at the outcome.   She says she’s running […]

As someone who is in the talk radio business, I find it deliciously ironic that the conservative chatter class is freaking out over a John McCain nomination for the Presidency.  McCain emerged Tuesday as the clear front runner in the Republican race.  The Limbaughs, Hannitys and Ingrams of the world are going crazy like R. […]

There’s been a negative mailer circulating in the 5th Congressional District attacking Republican candidate John McGoff for his position on immigration.  However the people floating the mailer may want to also take a look at incumbent Dan Burton’s record. While I was under the weather I was doing dome reading of HR 5456.  It was […]

This week was tough on your favorite blogger/pundit. I was hit with whatever bug is running around. I don’t get sick very often, but when I do it’s a killer. (Superman in a room full of kryptonite is the best analogy). What made it worse was I couldn’t take time off from my 20-million jobs […]

Although today was the deadline for the completion of the reassessment of commercial and industrial property, Marion County Assessor Greg Bowes says the project will take about two more weeks.  Bowes says Manatron, the company doing the assessment, need a couple more weeks to guarantee accuracy in it’s work.  Bowes says they got approval from […]