Posts Tagged Indiana
Representing Indiana?
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on March 18th, 2013
The Journal-Gazette has an article about Indiana Congressman Marlon Stutzman, and his “leadership” on “gun rights.” So far this year, in his second term in the House, he has sponsored legislation that would require states to honor one another’s concealed-carry gun permits, and he has written letters inviting gun manufacturers Beretta USA and Magpul to move [...]
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Just Shoot Me In Johnson County
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on March 15th, 2013
Evidently, the Johnson County Commissioners never heard of the Supremacy Clause. Let’s just add this tidbit to the growing pile of evidence that Americans are constitutionally illiterate and seriously paranoid.
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Words Fail….
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Local Government on February 23rd, 2013
A Facebook friend notes that Indiana Sen. Travis Holdman–author of the bill to require insertion of a transvaginal probe into a woman’s womb in order to take a video both before and after she obtains medication causing abortion–is also the author of a bill making it a crime to take a video of a farm [...]
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Giving Christians a Bad Name…Again
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Gay Rights on February 11th, 2013
I was going to blog about the controversy in Sullivan, Indiana (somewhere south of Terre Haute, as best I can locate that metropolis), where a few teachers, students and parents at Sullivan High School are upset that gay students are actually allowed to attend the prom. They are so upset that they are planning to hold [...]
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The Times They Are A-Changin’
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on February 8th, 2013
I’m beginning to wonder whether GLBT folks are today’s canaries in the coal mine. For those of you unfamiliar with the canaries’ function, the phrase refers to the fact that well into the 20th century, coal miners would bring canaries into the mines to serve as early-warning signals for toxic gases, primarily carbon monoxide. The [...]
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