Indiana Political Review

and he has an interesting point. It just took him 27 years to get around to making it.

to the newest attorneys to be admitted to practice law in Indiana, announced this week. Heartiest felicitations! May God grant you all prudence, temperance, fortitude, patience, justice, and mercy.

I received the following encouraging message in my Inbox today:

Dear Karl,
If you can’t win, cheat.
Apparently that’s the Republicans’ answer to our work in California. If they have their way, this reliably “blue” state won’t be so blue in 2008.
Faced with a strong Democratic presence, Republicans are campaigning for a new election system instead of their […]

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…and all it got him was these lousy numbers. 10 percent fewer among African-Americans than among Democrats as a group, terrible job performance numbers for a guy with all the favorable press a pol could want (especially the L.G.N. - the local Gannett Newspaper, Novaya Pravda), and tepid support among the die-hards. I can’t remember […]

Currently reading: St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics, Apologia Pro Vita Sua by J.H. Cardinal Newman. Latest aditions to the MP3: Best of Chris Isaak, Jimi Hendrix - Smash Hits, The Black Crowes - The Lost Crowes, Dinosaur jr. - Beyond

from a ridiculous buffoon. Sure, let’s create new taxes without doing anything to prevent property taxes from being raised later. Please, someone, write an amendment to the state constitution eliminating the property tax and addressing the myriad taxing authorities who are unaccountable. Please.

but I read it. Now, I’ve heard the rhetoric, believe me, and I’ve heard the criticisms of Dr. Paul. Most of it rings hollow, frankly. Abe Lincoln, in the context of the political scene of the 1860s in this nation, was a kook, and he came across as such. This is why he won the […]