Indiana Political Review

This story in Indiana Lawyer raises the question of where parental discipline gives way to child abuse. According to the story, Sophia Willis was convicted of child abuse after spanking her child seven times with an extension cord or belt. The story is sort of fuzzy as to which exactly.
“We sympathize with Willis’s argument that she […]

A recent story in Indiana Lawyer asked the question of whether Indiana needs another law school. The argument against is that Indiana already has four law schools (Indiana, Indiana-Indianapolis, Notre Dame and Valparaiso) and, based on the number of people who take the LSAT (law school admissions test) as a percentage of the national population, […]

OK. This is way off-topic as far as this blog goes. It has nothing to do with Indiana politics or culture, but I just had to comment on this.
Breaking story on Fox News: Apparently, Fox is reporting that on at least two occasions, astronauts flew while intoxicated. I guess the question is: Are they afraid […]

Conservatives are not much for protesting. Indeed, I attended the first political protest of my life at the “Black Sunday” property tax protest. In all candor, it seemed to me to be a lot of idle time. I understand now why so many hippie-types are prone to protesting. However, it seems that the Black Sunday protest […]

Please enjoy this tidbit from Andrew Cusack.
I thought Karl might enjoy the comments, and might have some mathematical/statistical insight.

Sorry for the TRIPLE POST! Ouch, I’ve been out of commission too long. (And, what’s worse is I’ve got two more posts in mind, but we’ll save those for the time being).
I’m looking back over some of the drafts of potential posts that were never posted and I ran across this little gem which was […]

Before I begin, let me apologize for the double post. I have been bottled up in the bar exam for two days and have been raring to go on these two stories for that entire time.  
On Tuesday, the City-County Council voted to raise the county income tax 65%. The vote was 15-13 in favor of the proposal […]

There are two stories in the Star that I think merit some comment, here and here. The basic gist of both is that Governor Daniels has come to the obvious conclusion that the commercial property in Marion, Delware, Posey and Gibson counties were not assessed for the latest round of property tax assessments.
In Marion County […]

from Pat Buchanan. Via Chronicles: http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/?p=215
As usual, of particular interest are the comments after the article.

I wanted, first, to introduce myself. Hi. I’m a friend of Karl’s. You can call me Birdy. Second, I want to let you know I’ll be posting here from time to time. (Excuse me while I scrape and grovel before Karl for a sec. Okay, I’m back.) He apparently thinks I’ll have some thought-provoking stuff […]