Policy – Rankled Nuts

The next time you tell me that there’s no need to focus upon judicial diversity…

I think I’m going to be sick.

An 18-year-old accused of raping and sexually assaulting two unconscious classmates in April will serve two years of probation, and will not carry a record of a criminal conviction or have to register as a sex offender.

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Higher prices for you, lower costs for him

I get it — if the movement of manufacturing abroad has cost you a job that paid you a fair wage in return for an honest day’s work, you should be upset. And when politicians (both Republicans and, more recently, Democrats) say that the “service economy” or the “information economy” is better for America, that doesn’t bring new opportunities to Elkhart, IN. It certainly doesn’t make use of your skill set and replace your reliable income.

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Doubling down is only a good idea when you hold a winning hand

Wow. I really thought the economic conservative/social moderate part of the Indiana GOP was ready to take their party back and rebuild the state’s tarnished reputation. I was wrong.

Picking Holcomb to take Pence’s place on the ballot passes over other contenders who had strong business bona fides but who have avoided the social land mines that Pence repeatedly stepped on.

Democratic candidate Gregg had been running a campaign that could be summed up as “Vote for me. I’m not Mike Pence.” By picking Pence’s heir apparent — a man who has sought three public positions in the span of one year, Gregg now need only modify his campaign to “I’m not Mike Pence, but Eric Holcomb is.”

Below is a list of all of Mr. Holcomb’s successful campaigns for elected office:

You be you, Bill [UPDATED]

Whatever else he is, Bill O’Reilly (seen above discussing a topic Trump famously addressed in the Republican debates) is not easily ashamed.

O’Reilly: Slaves who built White House were ‘well-fed’

UPDATE: He’s wrong about the history, too. Because of course he is.

Chickens something something Roost

I am disappointed to read that a police officer was denied service by an employee of a local business.

I suspect Mike Pence is disappointed that it didn’t happen in Indiana, and that the cook didn’t assert a religious basis for this act of stupidity.
Just a friendly reminder of how appalling it is when discrimination in any form is turned against people you like.

Police officer in Virginia denied service at Noodles & Company, department says