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The president undoubtedly has an extensive wish list this Christmas. If you have the caption that will make this funny, send it in to "Caption This."
Just go to garyvarvel.com and post your caption on the "read comments" link above the cartoon. Keep it clean (this is a [...]
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas and shoppers are making the best of their economic situation. Our winner this week is, Joyce Beckner, Rushville, IN - "It's a toss-up, either buy groceries and medicine, or go Christmas shopping."
Runners up: Mike Blane, League City, TX - [...]
We had headlines like, "Families finding food scarce," "Hunger rising, children and elderly losing ground." I thought this would be a good end of the week cartoon so I sketched up a regular cartoon family serving up a small turkey. Before I started the cartoon the next [...]
[...] The mayor decided today to retain two mayoral advocates: Ken Nicolet and Cherise Dixie. It was the right move. He deserves some credit for a mess he created.
During the budget hearings council president Tom Smith and member Tom Didier pushed to cut two of the four mayoral advocate positions. There [...]
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, encouragement [for the unemployed] may come from an unexpected source: the Puritans.
Often misunderstood and perennially maligned, the Puritans—tested first by religious persecution and later by [...]
I favors a .45.
Late edit explanation: Alan said, “Brother Mouzone favors a Walther PPK380. Omar was the one carrying the .45. He said the Walther tends to jump in the hand.” Whatever. But I admit the error.
[...]The Post-Tribune, while offering the opinion that Mitch Daniels has been a decent governor for Indiana, finds his environmental record to be very bad, noting that Gov. Daniels has done the following:
Since Daniels came into office, under the direction of Easterly and his boss, Indiana has:
* Closed the [...]
Aww, the poor babies:
One night in Adams Morgan, the sons and daughters of lawyers and corporate executives padded into a friend’s rowhouse for a kind of group therapy session about their families’ wealth.
They are young people who have inherited or stand to inherit big money, and they are spending [...]
Someone at the gym sent me one of the parody videos for the Shake Weight. No links here, as they’re about as difficult to find as Vi@gra spam, and I don’t want to be responsible for offending any of you. But it raises the question of what, exactly, the [...]
When we were young and the world was more moral, our games were more wholesome and entertaining. If we wanted to break the ice with members of the opposie sex, a simple straighforward game of strip poker was sufficient. We weren’t absolutely depraved, like these irresponsible young people today:
Allegations [...]
Those mean, stingy county officials just wouldn’t go along, and the mayor is sad, so unbearably sad:
“The dream of a joint solution to Fort Wayne’s and Allen County’s space needs through co-location just died,” a somber Mayor Tom Henry said in a hastily arranged news conference Thursday afternoon.
But who [...]
Got your “God in the Hoosier news” update here. A teenager in Terre Haute expressed dismay at what she perceived as an “intolerant” sign at a church:
Saagarika Coleman submitted a letter to the editor of the Tribune-Star (see page A8) stating that she was “hit with a wave of [...]
SATURDAY SENATE VOTE ON HEALTH REFORMS: The Senate version of sweeping health legislation would cover five million fewer people than a companion bill passed by the House, but it would cost less, in part because Senate Democratic leaders felt they had to win support from fiscally conservative members of their [...]
As noted earlier here, former Gov. Joe Kernan is returning to Vietnam for the first time since his release from a POW camp there. Guess old warriors can’t help the urge to revisit the battlegrounds of their youth:
It’s been 40 years since John Eckenrode was suspended from the [...]
Andy Barr from POLITICO was in Noblesville last night? Really?
Weekend Roundup....I went looking for a copy of Governor Sarah Palin book “Going Rogue” at the downtown Borders bookstore. I couldn’t find it. It wasn’t because they were sold out, but because I was looking in the fiction section.
More than 1,000 people gathered in Noblesville to see the former [...]
