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April 2, 2008 WISH TV BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (WISH) - Grammy Award-winning singer and song writer Dave Matthews will perform at Assembly Hall in Bloomington on behalf of the Barack Obama campaign. Hundreds of students lined up outside Barack Obama's campaign office in Bloomington to get registered to vote and to get their hands on tickets to the free concert.

Restaurant Robbery Foiled By Gun-Packing Customer August 18, 2006 INDIANAPOLIS -- An armed customer foiled a robbery at a fast-food restaurant on Indianapolis west side on Thursday afternoon, according to Indianapolis police. Police said William McMiller Jr., 40, ordered a bucket of chicken before demanding money from a cashier and threatening to shoot at the KFC in the 2800 block of West 16th Street. Police said the clerk didn't understand what McMiller wanted and thought he was asking for a refund. Investigators said McMiller repeated his demand two more times before the clerk reached for money. Investigators said that when...

MR. SPEAKER: I move that House Bill 1028 be amended to read as follows: SOURCE: Page 3, line 10; (06)MO102801.3. --> Page 3, delete lines 10 through 17, begin a new paragraph and insert: " Sec. 2. (a) Notwithstanding any other law and except as provided in subsection (b), a person may not adopt or enforce a policy or rule that prohibits or has the effect of prohibiting an individual from possessing: (1) a loaded or unloaded handgun; or (2) an unloaded rifle or shotgun; that is locked in the individual's motor vehicle while the motor vehicle is in or...

CHICAGO -- How well do you know your civics? A survey by a lawyers group suggests many Americans could use a refresher. The American Bar Association poll finds many adults struggle to identify the branches of government -- legislative, executive and judicial -- and have trouble explaining separation of powers. One in five incorrectly said the three branches were Republican, Democrat and independent. Sixteen percent thought the three were local, state and federal. While eight in 10 people said separation of powers is important, fewer than half, when given four choices, correctly picked that "Congress, the president and the federal...

No Sense! Daily Drink Does WHAT? This seems counterintuitive, but researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Mass., have determined that consuming moderate amounts of alcohol may prevent kidney function decline in men, reports HealthDayNews. Before you run out and celebrate with a six-pack, know this one important fact: Moderation means about one drink a day. (Also, the researchers stressed that no one should take up drinking as way of protecting the kidneys.) In this study, patient blood samples and questionnaires were collected from more than 11,000 healthy men who are enrolled in the ongoing Physicians' Health Study. Those...

By BARRY WILNER AP Football Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Peyton Manning's phenomenal season earned him his second straight Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player Award. He was nearly a unanimous choice. The Indianapolis Colts' star quarterback, who surpassed Dan Marino and Steve Young with his passing prowess in 2004, earned all but one of 48 votes from a national panel of sports writers and broadcasters who cover pro football. Manning tied with Steve McNair for the award last season, but this time only Atlanta quarterback Michael Vick drew a vote. Manning joined the likes of Joe Montana, John Unitas, Steve...

Peterson Outlines Plan To Pay For Colts StadiumIndy Mayor Wants Pull-Tabs To Help Pay For Stadium December 20, 2004 INDIANAPOLIS -- The city will ask the General Assembly to approve pull-tab legislation to help pay for a new stadium deal that would keep the NFL's Colts in Indianapolis for 30 years, Mayor Bart Peterson said Monday. The city will ask lawmakers to approve pull tabs, which are slot machine-like devices, for horse racing tracks in Anderson and Shelbyville and an off-track betting parlor in Indianapolis, Peterson said at a news conference. Colts owner Jim Irsay and the NFL will contribute...

There is a lot of detailed information that is not real useful to the layperson, except this - Medicare (the National health program for Seniors, not to be confused with Medicaid, the health program for the poor and disabled), made net overpayments of $19.9 Billion (yes, with a "B") in fiscal year 2004. That is roughly $66.33 per US citizen (300M) or $118.45 per taxpayer (rougly 168M taxpayers in 2003, per irs.gov).

Evolving Nature of Al Qaeda Is Misunderstood, Critic Says By JAMES RISEN Published: November 8, 2004 WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 - The Bush administration has failed to recognize that Al Qaeda is now a global Islamic insurgency, rather than a traditional terrorist organization, and so poses a much different threat than previously believed, says a senior counterterrorism official at the Central Intelligence Agency.

Candidate's Stage Fright Ends Debate Parra: 'I Just Can't Do This' October 22, 2004 FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- A northeastern Indiana congressional candidate said she abruptly ended a debate because she got stage fright. Democrat Maria Parra walked off a television stage Thursday, ending what would have been her only debate with incumbent Republican Mark Souder in the 3rd District congressional race. "I'm not used to being in front of the camera. ... I couldn't get my words out. I was just overwhelmed," she said after the aborted debate, which was being filmed at WPTA and would have been aired...

Black Felons who want to vote are crucial to Election Date: Thursday, October 14, 2004 By: SHERREL WHEELER STEWART, BlackAmericaWeb.com Felons who are barred from voting by criminal disenfranchisement laws could hold the key to presidential victories in major battleground states, according to a BlackAmericaWeb.com analysis. In several states where neither President George W. Bush nor Democratic challenger John Kerry hold a secure margin in the polls, the votes of prisoners, inmates, those on probation, parole or former felons could change the outcome – that is if they could vote. A disproportionate number of the disenfranchised are black. Blacks account...

Bush Urges Blacks to Consider What Dems Have Done for Them Lately By Susan Jones CNSNews.com Morning Editor July 23, 2004 (CNSNews.com) - President Bush came right out and asked African-Americans for their vote on Friday. In his address to the National Urban League, Bush said he understands that the "Republican Party's got a lot of work to do." And he urged Democratic voters to consider some questions. "Does the Democratic Party take African-American voters for granted?" It's a fair question, Bush said. Do Democrats earn your vote and deserve it, he asked?

FreeRepublic is a great resource for all of us. It allows us the opportunity to gather information in one place that we would otherwise not be able to access easily. However, with this privilege, comes responsibility. We need to get the word out. What are some ways that you get the word out to friends/foes who you know don't get the "full" story, or don't have time to research on their own? One way I do this is to send out mass e-mails with story links and commentary to my liberal and non-liberal friends. If nothing else, they at least...

WHAT THEY SAID: In honor of president Reagan's funeral, here's a useful corrective to the notion that his legacy was always celebrated. Today, almost everyone concedes his historical significance. But that wasn't what was said at the time. Here's a smattering of commentary from the 1980s. "A few years from now, I believe, Reaganism will seem a weird and improbable memory, a strange interlude of national hallucination, rather as the McCarthyism of the early 1950s and the youth rebellion of the late 1960s appear to us today." - Arthur "Always Wrong" Schlesinger, Washington Post, May 1, 1988. "I wonder how...

The media elite, Hollyweird elite, and French keep bringing up the "fact" that we haven't found any WMD and that we exaggerated the claims to justify the war (for oil, of course.) I would suggest, however, that in a country the size of California, it's difficult to find things. For instance, we haven't yet found the POW from Gulf War I (grave/body/etc.) and we KNOW he's still there. To put this all in perspective, let's look at this mathmatically: - Iraq is 169,235 square miles. Yes, there is water, but there is also a neutral zone between Iraq and Saudi...

Action Alert Tell Bureaucrats to Stop Harassing Parents! Help Save Parental Choice in MA! ISSUE: Our friend Chuck Muth (ChuckMuth.com) has just alerted us of an INSANE situation up in Waltham, Massachusetts. This one's so ridiculous, it makes our blood boil just to think of it. Take a look at his message: Kim and George Bryant have been home-schooling their two kids, George (15) and Nyssa (13), much to the chagrin of the Waltham Public School (WPS) system. The Bryants thus far have refused to force their children to take a government-mandated standardized test to assess their education level. The...

Local News 4/21/2003 1:26:57 PM Student suspected of stealing 854 pairs of panties, police say Pamela Powers Menomonie News Bureau MENOMONIE -- Police say a 22-year-old UW-Stout student wasn’t hunting for Easter eggs but thong panties when he broke into a rental home Sunday in Menomonie. Anthony Scholfield, 516½ S. Broadway St., was in custody this morning at the Dunn County Jail and is scheduled to appear in court today. Eight women, ages 20 to 22, living at a rental home in the 900 block of Eighth Street East reported thong-style panties missing after break-ins during Thanksgiving and the university’s...

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