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February 6, 2012
Keeping Peyton in the Hoosier pantheon
When it comes to the pantheon of Hoosier sports heroes - Johnny Wooden, Knute Rockne, Bob Knight, Larry Bird, Reggie Miller, Rick Mount, Bobby Plump, George Gipp - the newest name will certainly be Peyton Manning.

February 6, 2012
I've got 'marvelous dish' fever
You have to be careful what you say these days.

I realize this is a sentiment usually expressed by people who wear colanders on their heads in order to keep the CIA from reading their thoughts. That, of course, is just ridiculous. The CIA does not read people's brain waves. Queen Elizabeth does.

February 3, 2012
The last wasp
Mitt Romney summoned all the righteous indignation he could muster after a Newt Gingrich ad called him "anti-immigrant." Romney blasted the ad shortly afterward in an interview: "It's just inappropriate."

February 3, 2012
Preparing for the SuperDuper Bowl
The city where I hang my shingle, or would if I did something shingleworthy, is all abuzz with excitement over the SuperDuper Bowl, which is coming to town one of these days soon. I forget which.

January 31, 2012
Letters to the Editor Feb. 1, 2012
A man once said, "those who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it."

January 31, 2012
Obama's silly rule
President Barack Obama is making his re-election about raising the taxes of an Omaha billionaire who is volunteering for the honor.

January 31, 2012
Have a super day!
"Have a super day!"

Have you heard anyone say it lately? I'm guessing you have. I'm guessing everyone within a 100-mile radius of Indianapolis has heard it many times over the past month and will probably hear it a zillion times over the next week. I just hope there are no casualties.

January 27, 2012
Letters to the Editor Jan. 28, 2012
Rich Lowry and Brian Howey have each had commentaries in the Hendricks County Flyer that were a great PR job for Gov. Mitch Daniels. However, the recent Indiana unemployment drop from 10.5 percent to 9.8 percent was probably the result of the Bush and Obama bailout of GM and Chrysler, discouraged job applicants dropping out of the labor force (100,000 manufacturing jobs were eliminated since Daniels' election and prior to the financial/banking crises in 2008), imported cheap foreign labor (some who are illegal), and the Obama stimulus ($11 million in Hendricks County instead of collecting impact fees on new development) including energy grants and tax cuts for the middle class.

January 27, 2012
Bauer leading Democrats from disaster to catastrophe
In the end, it was the crushing fines set up in the 2011 anti-bolt legislation that caused B. Patrick Bauer and House Democrats to cave on Right to Work Wednesday.

January 27, 2012
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