A new poll of likely Hoosier voters shows good news for Barack Obama, Mitch Daniels and Andre Carson. The survey conducted by Gauge Marketing Research for Howey Politics Indiana shows each candidate with comfortable leads over their respective challengers. Obama leads Hilary Clinton amongst likely Democratic voters by 40-25 percent with 36 percent of the […]

The Indianapolis Star this morning has a long-piece on  7th District Congressional candidate Andre Carson and the fact that he is a Muslim.  There has been a lot of speculation about what kind of Muslim Carson actually is, especially since Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan spoke at the late Julia Carson’s funeral. As much […]

Normally I blog early Sunday morning, but I had some car issues.  The stupid key broke off in the lock in Danville (Indiana not Illinois) so my morning project was getting that taken care of.  The weekend has been pretty quiet, but I have heard a few things worth mentioning in the world of Indiana […]

You know by now that Marion County Coroner Ken Ackles has withdrawn his name from the race for coroner.  For those of you think Ackles is falling on his sword for the good of the party, you need to think again.  If anything, he got pushed on his sword about five or six times just […]

Acknowledging that Republicans have their work cut out for them this November, GOP Presidential candidate John McCain says he’s confident he can win in November. McCain spoke at Emmis communications to a couple hundred Hoosiers. He told the crowd the surge in Iraq is working as well as the need for young people to get […]

From what my sources tell me, Democratic State Representative Bill Crawford and Republican State Senator Mike Young don’t think very highly of each other.  Crawford thinks Young is a closet racist and what Young thinks of Crawford could not be printed on this blog. However the two have found common ground, their opposition to government […]

You won’t believe this, but the House Ways and Means Committee voted to amend the Governor’s tax proposal so that your residential property tax bill would be capped at 1-percent of your income.  That’s right, income.  I am not making this up.  One percent.  Not one percent of your assessed value.  You figure it out.  […]

There are some rumblings amongst the rank and file of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department over who will be Chief once IMPD is turned over to Mayor Greg Ballard at the end of the month. I’m told many of the officers hope current Chief Mike Spears and many of the top brass will be replaced […]

The friendly rivals over at Blue Indiana have some interesting posts today on the race for the 7th Congressional District.  After being on a conference call with the DCCC, B.I. reports the party says it will back Andre Carson through the May primary against all other challengers. “When asked if the DCCC would be supporting […]

One of my favorite films is Monty Python’s The Holy Grail;  the “bring out your dead” scene in particular.  I bring that up because SB 280 (Marion County Fire Consolidation) is back from the grave.  The bill was added Tuesday on to HB 1105, a public employees pension bill.  The vote was 22-18 much to […]