Posts Tagged Indiana legislature
Our Despicable State Legislature
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Public Policy and Governance on January 26th, 2012
What can anyone say about Indiana’s legislature that adequately captures the perversity, the stupidity and the venality of the place? It is hard to believe the sheer amount of embarrassing antics they have managed to cram into a short session. From the patently unconstitutional (teaching creationism, really? Every court that has ever considered the matter has [...]
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Legislative Whack-A-Mole
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Education / Youth on December 30th, 2011
As I noted in yesterday’s post, our intrepid legislators are hard at work making fools of themselves on the taxpayers’ dime. There’s the effort to ban the non-existent use of Sharia law by the state’s judiciary, a bill prescribing how school children must sing the Star Spangled Banner (no, I am not making that up–and I’m [...]
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At Least It’s A Short Session…..
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Public Policy and Governance on December 29th, 2011
My own children weren’t among those who feared monsters under the bed, but I had friends who regularly had to assure their toddlers that the room had been cleared of things that go bump in the night. Those children evidently grew up to populate the Indiana General Assembly. Senator Kruse has filed Senate Bill 90, [...]
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Why Do Gun Rights Trump All Other Rights?
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Constitution on December 9th, 2011
As readers of this blog know, I’m a pretty rabid civil libertarian. But even I know that my right to free speech doesn’t mean I can stomp into your living room to harangue you. My right to free exercise of religion doesn’t include the right to impose that religion on students in my public university [...]
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Bumper Sticker Solutions
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Education / Youth on May 1st, 2011
The Indianapolis Star’s editorial this morning offers its glowing endorsement of the mischief created by our (thankfully concluded) legislative session. While the editorial understandably ignored the culture war aspects of the GOP agenda–the same-sex marriage ban, de-funding of Planned Parenthood, the anti-immigrant effort– it especially praised the slogans-masquerading-as-education-reforms measures. I don’t pretend to understand why [...]
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