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INDIANAPOLIS — Sen. Jim Banks of Columbia City has proposed allowing students to carry firearms on Indiana's public university campuses. Sen. Dennis Kruse of Auburn wants a bill that would exempt guns made exclusively in Indiana from federal rules and regulations.

American Life LeagueSpecial Issue: STOPP analysis of Planned Parenthood 2011 and 2012 finances Planned Parenthood getting more taxpayer money *excerpt*"The data show that federal and state officials elected by the American taxpayers have increased the millions of dollars going to Planned Parenthood by 11 percent in the last two years. We now provide $542.4 million (over a half-billion dollars) to the nation’s largest abortion chain. That’s $1.5 million per day, each and every day. Since 1964, our government has given Planned Parenthood $6.8 billion of our hard-earned money. Most people know Planned Parenthood gets taxpayer money for its clinic services....

A "trusted contact" in Washington has sent us this photo, stating that the children in it are the illegitimate offspring of Senator Harry Reid and a young Occupy Movement girl he had intercourse with when she was only 15 years old. According to the source, Senator Harry Reid initially paid to keep her silent, but recently stopped all under-the-table child support. The source claims that "Reid is going to use that money to purchase a plot of land in Nevada, on which he intends to build the most vile of Kapitalist shrines - a casino! A casino to suck...

President Obama seems hell-bent upon foisting bad gun control legislation upon America. And why not? He loves this stuff. Just every other stupid liberal. Many conservatives are quick to ascribe malevolent motives, sometimes to a degree that is bluntly ludicrous. Liberalism is above mental dullness, a way of being carried along by sentiment instead of thought. I donÂ’t care how many degrees the President has. His problem is not that heÂ’s evil. His problem is that he just isnÂ’t terribly bright. In this, he is typical. Terribly bright people donÂ’t get to be President. Middling narcissists do. This is a...

Someone finally has done all the math on the recent sale of Al Gore's Current TV to the Arabic language channel Al-Jazeera for $500 million. Jobs were lost, buzz created, employees angered, but the former vice president had little to say about it. He did walk away with a reported $100 million — a tidy sum for a man who had less that $2 million in assets when he ran for president more than a dozen years ago, says Forbes magazine. "Taking into account taxes to be paid on the deal, possible earlier debt and the fact that Gore's representatives...

Someone finally has done all the math on the recent sale of Al Gore's Current TV to the Arabic language channel Al-Jazeera for $500 million. Jobs were lost, buzz created, employees angered, but the former vice president had little to say about it. He did walk away with a reported $100 million — a tidy sum for a man who had less that $2 million in assets when he ran for president more than a dozen years ago, says Forbes magazine. "Taking into account taxes to be paid on the deal, possible earlier debt and the fact that Gore's representatives...

In the wake of the financial meltdown, President Barack Obama derided Wall Street bonuses as “obscene,” calling them examples of “fat cats who are getting awarded for their failure.” But now, Mr. Obama has announced that he will nominate as his next Treasury secretary Jack Lew, a man who in 2009 bagged a $950,000 bonus after his bank, Citigroup, received billions in a taxpayer-funded bailout. Mr. Lew is the former chief operating officer of Citigroup’s Alternative Investments unit—a group that bet billions against homeowners paying their mortgages.

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I want to go to Apple Valley, California. Larry, are you there? Great to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello. CALLER: Hello, Rush. I'm honored that you took my call. RUSH: Well, it says up here that you're a former SEAL, and I'm honored that you're in the audience and that you called. CALLER: Well, I wanted to tell you a couple things, if I may. RUSH: Yeah. CALLER: I won't waste any of your time. After losing my right leg and part of my right arm and fingers and disfigured on my face, I...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — David R. Ellis, the actor-turned-stuntman-turned-director of “Snakes on a Plane,” has died. He was 60 years old. Ellis’ manager, David Gardner, confirmed his death Monday and said Ellis’ body was found in a hotel room in Johannesburg, South Africa. Ellis was in Johannesburg working on “Kite,” a remake of the 1998 Japanese anime film that was to have starred “Snakes on a Plane” actor Samuel L. Jackson. Gardner declined to provide additional details, and no cause of death has been released.

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: The mayor of Washington, DC, picked up on Courtland Milloy's piece in the Washington Post yesterday. The Redskins are gonna have to get rid of that nickname 'cause it's racist and it's bigoted. BREAK TRANSCRIPT Here's Vincent Gray. Vincent Gray is the mayor of Washington, DC, said this last night. GRAY: I think it has become a lightning rod, and I would love to be able to sit down with the team -- and I'm happy to do that, to sit down with the team -- and others who are concerned with this and see if a...

Lost somewhat in the fight over the expiration of the Bush tax cuts and the upcoming standoff over the debt ceiling is the defense sequestration. If you will recall, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the cuts would be devastating. In the campaign, the president said he would take care of that, and he has consistently argued that it was the Republicans who were holding the troops hostage to protect the rich from tax hikes. The GOP has given on the taxes, but the troops and our national security are still being held hostage by the president, who would only agree...

President Obama: Where are the Women? January 10, 2013 President Obama has made a number of high-profile appointments recently -- four at last count, and they are all white men. Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the U.N., was in line to follow Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. The right wing unjustly smeared Rice, and despite the efforts of NOW and allied women's organizations, she was pushed aside and replaced with a white male nominee. And now we hear that Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis is leaving her post. Who will be her replacement? Write to President Obama today and...

~Favorite Little Song's~ Little Bitty Pretty One-Thurston Harris-1957 Little bitty pretty one Come on and talk-a to me A-lovey dovey lovey one Come sit down on my knee Tell you a story Happened long time ago Little bitty pretty one I've been watchin' you grow Little bitty pretty one Come on and talk-a to me A-lovey dovey lovey one Come sit down on my knee *Video* little darlin' - the original diamonds Eye, yi-eye-eye-eye Yi-eye-eye-eye Ya-ya-ya-ahh Little darlin', oh, little darlin' Oh-oh-oh where a-are you? My love-a, I was wrong-a (la-la-la-la-la-la) To-oo try to lo-ove two A-hoopa, a-hoopa, hoopa...

Chicago’s illustrious Police Chief, Superintendent or SuperNintendo (whichever you wish to call him) got on a local radio station in Chicago and told it like he perceives it. He said that citizens licensed to carry could be, and indeed predicted they would be shot by Chicago Police Officers.

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (CBS4)- During a hearing Wednesday for the man who allegedly opened fire inside an Aurora movie theater, killing 12 and wounding 58 others, there were supporters in court for the suspect. Supporters for James Holmes included one woman who said she has tried to contact him while he is in custody. “I have written to him. I am writing to him, other than that, I don’t expect anything back, honestly. Because he doesn’t know who we are. He doesn’t know who his supporters are. He doesn’t know who the people who hate him are, really. I don’t think...

This week is National Migration Week, a campaign of the American bishops aimed at comprehensive immigration reform in order to legalize 11 million undocumented immigrants. The campaign has five goals: Provide a path to citizenship for undocumented persons; preserve family unity as a cornerstone of our national immigration system; provide legal paths for low-skilled immigrant workers to come and work in the United States; restore due process protections to immigration enforcement policies; address the root causes of migration caused by persecution and economic disparity. Since 1975 the Immigration and Legal Services (ILS) department of Catholic Charities of Dallas, Inc. has...

Author's Note: The events related in this story are true. It is set in the real town of Hobbs, New Mexico, although some names have been changed to protect the guilty. It begins early in the morning, the day after tomorrow... Bob Stone stared at the ceiling in the darkness, the popcorn surface barely discernible in the soft glow of the porch light filtering through the bedroom curtains. He had come home angry-- just about as angry as he'd ever been-- and he knew that sleep would not come with his mind still clicking along at about ninety miles an...

Nate Silver discusses his Super Bowl prediction with Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless.

I see the turmoil that is sweeping the great nation to the south of me and was moved to compose a web page voicing concern. I got to the point where I was about to voice my opinion of what an American is. I now think it might be better if members of this site did so themselves. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - When I was in my seventh year my family moved to a small town...