tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11719771928583460782024-03-07T19:50:14.821-05:00Eye on IndianapolisKeeping Watch on our Hoosier Heartland HometownUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1750125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1171977192858346078.post-92229058950989964862023-01-22T19:41:00.000-05:002023-01-22T19:41:45.759-05:00Mike Pence sits alone in a corner of sadness<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiffCR8Bt3qiHtfcCYeT8UfwYSFHMN2y5ZWmlA9IyrdMhWe1X4AoeV7XHEsNRqm7BVTCZTDxm8mwp3A-tEovHNeYwGxgIzOTkqLhCjROylCj2RFBHMOFmT62_ACnVz7Cq1T0Fldo7UOX9PeBL1LWyY6QbqsE4UtGZxKUdtNq7OCBzYaGgqWSoeWEQbx7w/s100/eye2.gif" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="200" data-original-height="75" data-original-width="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiffCR8Bt3qiHtfcCYeT8UfwYSFHMN2y5ZWmlA9IyrdMhWe1X4AoeV7XHEsNRqm7BVTCZTDxm8mwp3A-tEovHNeYwGxgIzOTkqLhCjROylCj2RFBHMOFmT62_ACnVz7Cq1T0Fldo7UOX9PeBL1LWyY6QbqsE4UtGZxKUdtNq7OCBzYaGgqWSoeWEQbx7w/s200/eye2.gif"/></a></div>Somebody please come up with a new career trajectory for our unlamented former governor Mike Pence.<BR><BR>
As David Byler <a href="https://wapo.st/3WowGn6" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">writes in the Washington Post</a>, "Mike Pence wants to be president. But there’s one problem — compared to the competition, he polls terribly. According to the latest data from Civiqs, he’s the only potential GOP presidential candidate who is well-known but not well-liked."<BR><BR>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1171977192858346078.post-90734898554327516892023-01-03T23:52:00.000-05:002023-01-03T23:52:22.199-05:00Every good story has an Indiana connection...<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXLMx4wpwY1plmLMQaa91-Aak1m5vx7t1cFGR0c7SNlnljcuJJs-9J1welCNMEQ0MKSRwB_Po6iyMqYAvTwsuqIAdvEXIF-LBiKUAhLuYXQEATO8znwXasprFJCeyHKtAXWuOtkZ9Sww8-dJmE4rKfaybnvTDmuVKiCpd7t2DD1szyIOhX_zRaglbA5w/s100/eye.gif" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="200" data-original-height="100" data-original-width="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXLMx4wpwY1plmLMQaa91-Aak1m5vx7t1cFGR0c7SNlnljcuJJs-9J1welCNMEQ0MKSRwB_Po6iyMqYAvTwsuqIAdvEXIF-LBiKUAhLuYXQEATO8znwXasprFJCeyHKtAXWuOtkZ9Sww8-dJmE4rKfaybnvTDmuVKiCpd7t2DD1szyIOhX_zRaglbA5w/s200/eye.gif"/></a></div>...even the murders in Idaho.<BR><BR>
"Indiana State Police body-camera footage shows that the suspect who was later arrested in the slayings of four University of Idaho students had been pulled over twice on his way back to Pennsylvania from Washington state on Dec. 15," notes HuffPost.com.<BR><BR>
"Though most of the conversation is indiscernible due to background noise, the officer can be heard giving the driver and passenger a warning for following another car too closely. According to WXIN-TV in Indianapolis, Kohlberger had also been pulled over on Interstate 70 less than 10 minutes earlier for speeding, but he didn’t receive a ticket for either traffic stop in Hancock County, east of Indianapolis."<BR><BR>
You can read it all here: "<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/idaho-slayings-suspect-traffic-stop-footage_n_63b4dc2de4b0d6f0b9f66ad6" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Police Body Camera Shows Suspect In Idaho Slayings Was Pulled Over Twice In Indiana</a><BR><BR>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1171977192858346078.post-43031575961915663342022-11-25T21:08:00.000-05:002022-11-25T21:08:42.396-05:00"Let's do a story about roundabouts"<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCGQ_fxC1T7e_64z6HZazkoXj2JKr9J-pTyDIQ6yB0vEnaROjdGnTjpaSpgWi94rQylAQMRXOmsD3FsypibMUB8TmuSfnlug740-RdYw8bgBtKw0HdHYLs1FXG-qisO4MAAHaUPX5jlETOHa67iZGC2FdST5zScINfQsJ8pEPBKBeYD6Wb5K2vdEPP_Q/s75/eye%2075.gif" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="200" data-original-height="60" data-original-width="75" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCGQ_fxC1T7e_64z6HZazkoXj2JKr9J-pTyDIQ6yB0vEnaROjdGnTjpaSpgWi94rQylAQMRXOmsD3FsypibMUB8TmuSfnlug740-RdYw8bgBtKw0HdHYLs1FXG-qisO4MAAHaUPX5jlETOHa67iZGC2FdST5zScINfQsJ8pEPBKBeYD6Wb5K2vdEPP_Q/s200/eye%2075.gif"/></a></div>Carmel gets another shoutout for its roundabouts -- and a confirmation of the Hoosier pronunciation of the suburb's name!<BR><BR>
Check out the article in the <I>Washington Post</I>:<a href="https://wapo.st/3GI4jvX" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> Roundabouts are (slowly!) eating the suburbs</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1171977192858346078.post-22026676372214674942022-11-02T22:58:00.000-04:002022-11-02T22:58:23.004-04:00Mike Pence Just Can't Get It Right<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcKP34-T2iF53FoNc9VBCu91Wags-Ip1p2Yyrf6WRjHKQ4XTirgkOr0xsz_-pl24UyDlnj6RnMbr01JS3yeAMwOj-tzEfJc44I_dRkRl8oJnT_LVkE0Wu5D1Qz1tQGMn9-WRW_C_l5iXW5YaivnmiFjZQOwUCoreHxw7kPUsJ0u14dGbTTDLpv3JJ3iw/s75/eye%2075.gif" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="200" data-original-height="60" data-original-width="60" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcKP34-T2iF53FoNc9VBCu91Wags-Ip1p2Yyrf6WRjHKQ4XTirgkOr0xsz_-pl24UyDlnj6RnMbr01JS3yeAMwOj-tzEfJc44I_dRkRl8oJnT_LVkE0Wu5D1Qz1tQGMn9-WRW_C_l5iXW5YaivnmiFjZQOwUCoreHxw7kPUsJ0u14dGbTTDLpv3JJ3iw/s200/eye%2075.gif"/></a></div>"Mike Pence says Americans don't have a right to freedom from religion," notes the headline in Salon.com. <a href="https://www.salon.com/2022/10/27/mike-pence-says-americans-dont-have-a-right-to-freedom-from-religion_partner/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">According to</a> our "esteemed" former governor, "the First Amendment to the United States Constitution does not protect Americans from having other people's faiths forced upon them."<BR><BR>
Pence shares an interpretation of the First Amendment that strays wildly from what Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and James Madison clearly spelled out more than two centuries ago.<BR><BR>
"There are no references to a supreme being anywhere in the Constitution, because the Founding Fathers were adamantly opposed to centralized religious power as well as requiring individuals to subscribe to any particular denomination."<BR><BR>
Don't let the Christian Nationalists claw their way to oppression of those who don't "subscribe" to their "particular denomination". Vote as if democracy depended on it (because it does).Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1171977192858346078.post-1548205688393906602022-09-22T13:50:00.000-04:002022-09-22T13:50:07.670-04:00Live-Stream Shaming in a Parking Lot, Then a Conviction<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnc4nQwfK4917Ga-klUKIMgENwgdhTcGd_J_nyOkwIZiUuuC8noCJ_jnBGN21-Z6pa-BRd0T70OWfUZrJuh2f_VObd6oj_e2Yc8Vr76-XlGeMWHQFwRbQd46TZD41FPe0azAig5EChdNfBslQlEnbZ56wGH8UmfM_uFPxVI-j7fW1t8tEDquSdEilZUA/s50/eye%2050.gif" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="50" data-original-height="38" data-original-width="50" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnc4nQwfK4917Ga-klUKIMgENwgdhTcGd_J_nyOkwIZiUuuC8noCJ_jnBGN21-Z6pa-BRd0T70OWfUZrJuh2f_VObd6oj_e2Yc8Vr76-XlGeMWHQFwRbQd46TZD41FPe0azAig5EChdNfBslQlEnbZ56wGH8UmfM_uFPxVI-j7fW1t8tEDquSdEilZUA/s200/eye%2050.gif"/></a></div>The Washington Post has all the details on the vigilante predator caught in Avon: <A HREF-"https://wapo.st/3qXDbjl"target="_blank">Click here</A>.<BR><BR>
A thousand kudos to Hendricks County for their role in bringing this creep to justice (oh, yes: he was convicted in a jury trial).<BR><BR>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1171977192858346078.post-57052601119225757402022-08-11T13:45:00.001-04:002022-08-11T13:45:08.116-04:00Todd Rokita's actions "improper and smacking of McCarthyism"<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEYeRxP7gYCHqXdhkfee0E_PlkydEUtsblwrDCjP0gPpmEgUn2PJnI9BMZXJuq_u7dnqdLckZ0ZvaUi7doS5sPHkhEPFw1jOo3AqpEoQfRlxCcJcfmbccQbrEKgHXs1Apo8dota99gNMWQ7NIrvFdFMUZip-OEsGbzBy3WfU3CXLyPzwP4N7Q6ibZ0Wg/s75/eye%2075.gif" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="200" data-original-height="60" data-original-width="75" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEYeRxP7gYCHqXdhkfee0E_PlkydEUtsblwrDCjP0gPpmEgUn2PJnI9BMZXJuq_u7dnqdLckZ0ZvaUi7doS5sPHkhEPFw1jOo3AqpEoQfRlxCcJcfmbccQbrEKgHXs1Apo8dota99gNMWQ7NIrvFdFMUZip-OEsGbzBy3WfU3CXLyPzwP4N7Q6ibZ0Wg/s200/eye%2075.gif"/></a></div>Todd Rokita launched an unhinged attack on an Indiana physician recently, and the blowback continues. <BR><BR>
According to <I>IBJ.com</I>, "A former congresswoman and retired federal judge are publicly criticizing Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, describing recent actions as improper and smacking of McCarthyism. Susan Brooks, a Republican who represented Indiana’s 5th Congressional District from 2013 to 2021, and John Tinder, who served on the Southern Indiana District Court then the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, jointly wrote a column that was published Wednesday in The <I>Wall Street Journal</I>.<BR><BR>
Rokita is unfit to be Indiana's Attorney General.<BR><BR>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1171977192858346078.post-24083102235103094782022-08-01T18:42:00.001-04:002022-08-11T13:45:51.413-04:00Poor Mike Pence is toast<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKgTjnaOOwq26RpPGd6ZtuIdpVkXR1fb5sPGk7WJez5daGPmPPQIP5JG9nggx0erUyqI7M9xw736gBwOjb4G4FWBTFqhzt6SYu8UZSQSq0CQlIPyOWIsPZKZuEB1VJ5m8t5PzRyoEqYm_p2QyL9ptaCRxnA7kt4UormVLIhu01BmAq837yIYtv6rq_EQ/s75/eye%2075.gif" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="200" data-original-height="60" data-original-width="75" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKgTjnaOOwq26RpPGd6ZtuIdpVkXR1fb5sPGk7WJez5daGPmPPQIP5JG9nggx0erUyqI7M9xw736gBwOjb4G4FWBTFqhzt6SYu8UZSQSq0CQlIPyOWIsPZKZuEB1VJ5m8t5PzRyoEqYm_p2QyL9ptaCRxnA7kt4UormVLIhu01BmAq837yIYtv6rq_EQ/s200/eye%2075.gif"/></a></div>"Mike Pence can't be president. His devotion to Donald Trump will be his downfall." That's the headline for a <a href="https://www.salon.com/2022/08/01/tied-down-to-trump-mike-pences-devotion-will-be-his-downfall/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">feature article</a> on <I>Slate.com</I>.<BR><BR>
"Pence is running around the country making speeches in front of small audiences as if he has a snowball's chance in hell of winning a national election again when the sad fact is that he is a man without a constituency," writes Heather Digby Parton.<BR><BR>
Of course we Hoosiers know that. He grabbed at the vice-president lifeline when he figured out there was no way he'd be re-elected governor in Indiana.<BR><BR>
" Mike Pence is a walking piece of Wonderbread toast."<BR><BR>
'"Issues" as we previously understood them no longer exist in the Republican Party. Trump's "dark tone and feedback-loop quality" are the issues. It's all about grievance, anger and resentment served up with the juvenile derision and mockery that only a true demagogue can deliver. A bowl of lukewarm water like Mike Pence simply can't serve that no matter how many dramatic pauses he takes in his speeches,' Parton writes.<BR><BR>
Pence is "forlornly trying to salvage a political career based entirely on his fervent devotion to the man whom the only people who would vote for him believe he betrayed. Sad isn't the right word to describe it. It's pathetic."<BR><BR>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1171977192858346078.post-88984559583867696242022-03-23T03:38:00.000-04:002022-03-23T03:38:00.608-04:00Sen. Braun thinks interracial marriage is wrong<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWFMK9qyQfK2HHpRjRbtHzgioIipv6lnDhrbYv_2QF7Ad-YPHb_08J3X7PKZuT2KnFQiGH-zW4YjImng7uVn0qVCd_onS4ufQhI32iaeluWg8PDAlqr63r1aPlqG3E51uiizN0ZWmKPQHoiezn7Hyu2V2I1MLDoSYS-fyNKVdRz8pfzU9odOmPeOhO0g/s100/eye%20new.gif" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="200" data-original-height="80" data-original-width="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWFMK9qyQfK2HHpRjRbtHzgioIipv6lnDhrbYv_2QF7Ad-YPHb_08J3X7PKZuT2KnFQiGH-zW4YjImng7uVn0qVCd_onS4ufQhI32iaeluWg8PDAlqr63r1aPlqG3E51uiizN0ZWmKPQHoiezn7Hyu2V2I1MLDoSYS-fyNKVdRz8pfzU9odOmPeOhO0g/s200/eye%20new.gif"/></a></div></a></div>Republican Sen. Mike Braun says Supreme Court was wrong to legalize interracial marriage. That's the headline on an article in Salon today.<BR><BR>
"Suggesting the historic Loving v. Virginia ruling by the Supreme Court decades ago was a case of improper judicial activism, Braun said the court should have left that decision to the individual states, including those which had already outlawed interracial marriage."<BR><BR>
And that's not all, folks.<BR><BR>
"Braun went on to tell a <i>Times of Northwest Indiana</i> reporter that he is also open to the Supreme Court rescinding its 1965 Griswold v. Connecticut ruling establishing a right to privacy on contraceptive use."<BR><BR>
Seriously, who elected this clown?<BR><BR>
Source: <A HREF="https://www.salon.com/2022/03/22/sen-mike-braun-says-was-to-legalize-interracial-marriage/"target="_blank:>Republican Sen. Mike Braun says Supreme Court was wrong to legalize interracial marriage</A>: Interracial marriage, the Indiana Republican argued, should have been left to states.<BR><BR>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1171977192858346078.post-51689793920329701362021-11-21T21:52:00.002-05:002021-11-21T21:54:04.942-05:00Carmel Gets a Shout Out in the NY Times<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFNTS9moObGZlLAcSXbl3In0KjCk1U4c5l5D55qO08Ag8DHRGE7zywva0UNe0qYB4tz8cIasUbM2ypYt3I_LqOJjDjx6-N7ldJyr-lN0YLnfNq-yGYiGp4KwEQ6yoFTIYBoRHMzH-CuRgL/s100/eye.gif" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="200" data-original-height="100" data-original-width="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFNTS9moObGZlLAcSXbl3In0KjCk1U4c5l5D55qO08Ag8DHRGE7zywva0UNe0qYB4tz8cIasUbM2ypYt3I_LqOJjDjx6-N7ldJyr-lN0YLnfNq-yGYiGp4KwEQ6yoFTIYBoRHMzH-CuRgL/s200/eye.gif"/></a></div>The <I>New York Times</I> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/20/climate/roundabouts-climate-emissions-driving.html" target="_blank">heaped praise</a> on the roundabouts in Carmel, Indiana, this weekend: "An Indiana city has the most roundabouts in the country. They’ve saved lives and reduced injuries from crashes — and lowered carbon emissions."<BR><BR>
"Carmel, a city of 102,000 north of Indianapolis, has 140 roundabouts, with over a dozen still to come. No American city has more. The main reason is safety; compared with regular intersections, roundabouts significantly reduce injuries and deaths," writes reporter Cara Bukley.<BR><BR>
" A recent study of Carmel’s roundabouts by the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety found that injury crashes were reduced by nearly half at 64 roundabouts in Carmel, and even more at the more elaborate, dogbone-shaped interchanges," she reports.<BR><BR>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1171977192858346078.post-32462837908553168882021-11-19T00:22:00.002-05:002021-11-21T21:53:14.650-05:00BMV profits by selling Hoosiers' data<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAbkw8_I3hwADZX9yTLvCyQdm95N-8i5NCh8OPWQ48I0wDzPxH6izTUPUYYjvLGwPLLAEw37eMMkZXIwH1XOdyxofe-xxpRtiecMPzwBcQ1vOsyv7vs8WK1uuWWcbYaE-7ebnU8c_kxRTz/s100/eye+new.gif" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="200" data-original-height="80" data-original-width="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAbkw8_I3hwADZX9yTLvCyQdm95N-8i5NCh8OPWQ48I0wDzPxH6izTUPUYYjvLGwPLLAEw37eMMkZXIwH1XOdyxofe-xxpRtiecMPzwBcQ1vOsyv7vs8WK1uuWWcbYaE-7ebnU8c_kxRTz/s200/eye+new.gif"/></a></div>CBS4Indy.com reports: "Records show the Bureau of Motor Vehicles is selling people’s personal information and has been for years."<BR><BR>
Yep: the repository of all the "REAL ID" information on millions of Hoosiers is sending that detail out into the world. The bureau that collected our birth certificates and passport information and utility billing details has been SELLING the data for profit. "CBS4 dug through public records and found the agency has made $43 million off of the practice since 2018."<BR><BR>
"CBS4 spoke with several people outside of the BMV. None of them were aware their information was being accessed by third party companies."<BR><BR>
Read the whole report <a href="https://cbs4indy.com/news/records-show-the-indiana-bmv-has-been-selling-peoples-personal-information/" target="_blank">here</a>.<BR><BR>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1171977192858346078.post-33135931760698487762021-11-11T14:52:00.002-05:002021-11-11T14:53:48.609-05:00Mike Braun campaign repeatedly violated election rules<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFNTS9moObGZlLAcSXbl3In0KjCk1U4c5l5D55qO08Ag8DHRGE7zywva0UNe0qYB4tz8cIasUbM2ypYt3I_LqOJjDjx6-N7ldJyr-lN0YLnfNq-yGYiGp4KwEQ6yoFTIYBoRHMzH-CuRgL/s100/eye.gif" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="200" data-original-height="100" data-original-width="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFNTS9moObGZlLAcSXbl3In0KjCk1U4c5l5D55qO08Ag8DHRGE7zywva0UNe0qYB4tz8cIasUbM2ypYt3I_LqOJjDjx6-N7ldJyr-lN0YLnfNq-yGYiGp4KwEQ6yoFTIYBoRHMzH-CuRgL/s200/eye.gif"/></a></div>The <i>Indianapolis Business Journal</i> has an <a href="https://www.ibj.com/articles/braun-campaign-violated-numerous-election-finance-rules-audit-says" target="_blank">online feature</a> today about the mutiple violations uncovered in a Federal Election Commission audit.<BR><BR>
"Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Braun improperly gave more than $1 million to his 2018 campaign, and received contributions in excess of legal limits, a federal audit has concluded," IBJ.com reports.<BR><BR>
The ethical lapses have been reported by other media as well, including the <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/embattled-gop-sen-mike-braun-says-a-staffer-messed-up-his-campaign-reports-and-vanished-we-found-him" target="_blank">Daily Beast</a>.<BR><BR>
Braun's disingenuous hedge that "he can’t fully answer the government’s questions because one of his key staffers "vanished" falls apart when <i>The Daily Beast</i> notes they found the "missing" staffer "within minutes".<BR><BR>
This Indianapolis Observer waits for the next shoe to drop.<BR><BR>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1171977192858346078.post-70284450645404480992021-10-24T21:44:00.000-04:002021-10-24T21:44:14.318-04:00GOPer Jim Banks steps in it again<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFNTS9moObGZlLAcSXbl3In0KjCk1U4c5l5D55qO08Ag8DHRGE7zywva0UNe0qYB4tz8cIasUbM2ypYt3I_LqOJjDjx6-N7ldJyr-lN0YLnfNq-yGYiGp4KwEQ6yoFTIYBoRHMzH-CuRgL/s100/eye.gif" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="200" data-original-height="100" data-original-width="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFNTS9moObGZlLAcSXbl3In0KjCk1U4c5l5D55qO08Ag8DHRGE7zywva0UNe0qYB4tz8cIasUbM2ypYt3I_LqOJjDjx6-N7ldJyr-lN0YLnfNq-yGYiGp4KwEQ6yoFTIYBoRHMzH-CuRgL/s200/eye.gif"/></a></div>Rude, arrogant, discourteous, stupid, coarse, ill-mannered, ungentlemanly ...pick your adjective. There's no excuse for Banks' boorish behavior toward Dr. Levine.<BR><BR>
As noted on Huffpost: "Twitter suspended the account of Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) on Saturday for violating its hateful conduct policy after he intentionally misgendered Assistant Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine, the nation’s first openly transgender four-star officer and federal official confirmed by the Senate."<BR><BR>
If only our elected reps would stop conforming to the Indiana hick stereotype....<BR><BR>
Read the article <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jim-banks-rachel-levine-twitter_n_6175e72de4b066de4f642643" target="_blank">here</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1171977192858346078.post-44335819302346646562021-10-21T22:31:00.000-04:002021-10-21T22:31:25.565-04:00Yet another GOP rep from Indiana caught in lies<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrAMy-nA2jtcoHkm34XYu_LpRhTFP5xHfH5Rvb_Fj0AXXs8FBBzy3ehDwGNIkWOdqaqGNs3MZKCbbBqlAuVoDWr3xeXEQEwXU1IMOiXDghgoaxQJvmx2I54FzU7ftCISGUu03pIY2YPlys/s100/eye2.gif" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="200" data-original-height="75" data-original-width="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrAMy-nA2jtcoHkm34XYu_LpRhTFP5xHfH5Rvb_Fj0AXXs8FBBzy3ehDwGNIkWOdqaqGNs3MZKCbbBqlAuVoDWr3xeXEQEwXU1IMOiXDghgoaxQJvmx2I54FzU7ftCISGUu03pIY2YPlys/s200/eye2.gif"/></a></div>According to CNN, "GOP Rep. Jim Banks lamented on the House floor that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi prevented him from serving on the House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol on Thursday [21 Oct 2021]. And yet, Banks sent a letter to at least one government agency falsely claiming that he is ranking member of the committee in his signature."<BR><BR>
Seriously? He thought he could get away with that blatant lie?<BR><BR>
Banks has served as the U.S. Representative for Indiana's 3rd congressional district since 2017.<BR><BR>
Read all about his chicanery here: "<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/21/politics/jim-banks-liz-cheney-jan-6-committee/index.html" target="_blank">Liz Cheney calls out Jim Banks</a>".Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1171977192858346078.post-35848893838083565812021-09-14T22:27:00.001-04:002021-09-14T22:30:01.100-04:00Quayle finally did something good<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx6E6eacQwpDNbV0tvZPg-KrbVuGL8NL6WGObiIbXAXRY53qTwcQC5XlGLFhNNv0koCjHlgw9hHMM4ANdgzyGywZDqCBK-Av9aWemPhSiEwJ9Vq8UNJAhxjK9ef3rQQ3-_jW5RD4eM6j2u/s100/eye2.gif" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx6E6eacQwpDNbV0tvZPg-KrbVuGL8NL6WGObiIbXAXRY53qTwcQC5XlGLFhNNv0koCjHlgw9hHMM4ANdgzyGywZDqCBK-Av9aWemPhSiEwJ9Vq8UNJAhxjK9ef3rQQ3-_jW5RD4eM6j2u/s200/eye2.gif"/></a></div>
Yeah, yeah: we've all made jokes about Dan Quayle's inability to spell potato (and other <a href="https://www.bauer.uh.edu/rsusmel/Other/Quayle.htm" target="_blank">innocuous gaffes</a>) but this year he did something that might actually have saved the country.<BR><BR>
When Mike Pence called him to consult about Donald Trump's efforts to have him nullify the Electoral College vote, Quayle said "nope". The former vice president told Pence he couldn’t throw out the election results in order to keep Trump in power. What a concept!<BR><BR>
Here's one place to read all about it: "<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dan-quayle-saved-republic-mike-pence-donald-trump_n_614101fbe4b0628d0961ae78" target="_blank">Dan Quayle Convinced Mike Pence To Ignore Trump’s Decertification Pleas</a>"<BR><BR>
As MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell said, "“Wow. Dan Quayle comes to the rescue of the republic.”<BR><BR> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1171977192858346078.post-52300317097071809942021-07-29T10:58:00.000-04:002021-07-29T10:58:23.281-04:00Venable's Indy Kiss-Off Gift<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE3Yf86PkOO43d3gBUz0F2q-tNf2_VizwTlQ9jnp18JFG1zuChD05eP3hKmYSPWziPOWW6JXuOwqCHkLeOumYE5eC-MAMi9Ge-NyWnOYgBFuFCFDv0-8fT2sh5pX6I02STrq8oKPL65Ge3/s100/eye2.gif" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="200" data-original-height="75" data-original-width="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE3Yf86PkOO43d3gBUz0F2q-tNf2_VizwTlQ9jnp18JFG1zuChD05eP3hKmYSPWziPOWW6JXuOwqCHkLeOumYE5eC-MAMi9Ge-NyWnOYgBFuFCFDv0-8fT2sh5pX6I02STrq8oKPL65Ge3/s200/eye2.gif"/></a></div>Lou Harry notes: "More than the resources, tech, and cost, what’s staggering and saddening about this is that an entire floor of an ART MUSEUM is being devoted to this sideshow, which is to art what an amusement park Laser Floyd show is to an actual Pink Floyd concert."<BR><BR> And, even worse (IMHO) it's just one of 50 such shows on view at the moment. The IMA (excuse me, "Newfields") should rue the day it let Charles Venable reset its focus.<BR><BR>Read the rest of his commentary <A HREF="https://louharry.com/2021/07/22/the-lume-needs-a-vowel-change/"target="_blank">here.</A>.<BR><BR>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1171977192858346078.post-599647587988161882021-07-02T21:05:00.001-04:002021-07-02T21:05:34.135-04:00"The Mike Pence Saga"<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGWdo4x-OpEL8bX9SUAieaIe4qnRd3K_WL0_y_ktHPeSPeQuYKUSVz1mcLE0obE_3R7tCXSknA4vvt7m7JcliHTVURJv4Hl7RC148uvLo_ZQ_RvEULoUDQAn2jjO1XHlPYz39AGiR3D_Xr/s100/eye2.gif" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="200" data-original-height="75" data-original-width="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGWdo4x-OpEL8bX9SUAieaIe4qnRd3K_WL0_y_ktHPeSPeQuYKUSVz1mcLE0obE_3R7tCXSknA4vvt7m7JcliHTVURJv4Hl7RC148uvLo_ZQ_RvEULoUDQAn2jjO1XHlPYz39AGiR3D_Xr/s200/eye2.gif"/></a></div>Recovering Republican Sheila Kennedy has weighed in on the governor Hoosiers love to hate.<BR><BR> In a column July 1, 2021, she writes: Pence's " balancing act is unlikely to mollify either the crazies who form the base of today’s GOP or anyone who spent four years observing Mike Pence. (It’s especially unlikely to endear him to Indiana voters, who found his preference for pontificating over governing during the prior four years very tiring)."<BR><BR>
"Pence never had the respect of anyone other than a few naive fundamentalists."<BR><BR>
You can read her whole column <A HREF="https://www.sheilakennedy.net/2021/07/describing-mike-pence/"target="_blank">here</A>.<BR><BR>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1171977192858346078.post-23641038163360059542021-06-28T18:50:00.002-04:002021-06-28T18:50:37.686-04:00Pence is past his "sell by" date<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKHtFL-2yxUvD3kVVq8dJjb9rI6KBxbRFxKL-Hm_l7-xI0w0lHq59Rz3cjZ8bsZmn9El4rssgBylAXznvztjrGgmZWEpYmz8GM16wN7Gpq7Wx1XCVPNo5mt7Y40jb7l4elw57LgGmLkKP-/s100/eye2.gif" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="200" data-original-height="75" data-original-width="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKHtFL-2yxUvD3kVVq8dJjb9rI6KBxbRFxKL-Hm_l7-xI0w0lHq59Rz3cjZ8bsZmn9El4rssgBylAXznvztjrGgmZWEpYmz8GM16wN7Gpq7Wx1XCVPNo5mt7Y40jb7l4elw57LgGmLkKP-/s200/eye2.gif"/></a></div>As Bret Stephens writes in <i>The New York Times</i>: "Here’s a guy who makes his career on the Moral Majority wing of the Republican Party, until he hitches his wagon to the most immoral man ever to win a big-ticket presidential nomination."<BR><BR>
Hoosiers know he did it to avoid the ignoble result of losing his second bid for governor, but still it was a shock.<BR><BR>
"Pence spends four years as the most servile, toadying, obsequious, fawning, head-nodding, yes-sirring, anything-you-say-boss vice president in history," he continues.<BR><BR>
"For this, Trump rewards Pence by throwing him to a mob, which tried to hunt him down and hang him."<BR><BT>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1171977192858346078.post-40149441565791347542021-02-23T18:42:00.001-05:002021-02-23T18:42:53.014-05:00Goodbye and Good Riddance to Venable<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFNTS9moObGZlLAcSXbl3In0KjCk1U4c5l5D55qO08Ag8DHRGE7zywva0UNe0qYB4tz8cIasUbM2ypYt3I_LqOJjDjx6-N7ldJyr-lN0YLnfNq-yGYiGp4KwEQ6yoFTIYBoRHMzH-CuRgL/s100/eye.gif" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="100" data-original-height="100" data-original-width="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFNTS9moObGZlLAcSXbl3In0KjCk1U4c5l5D55qO08Ag8DHRGE7zywva0UNe0qYB4tz8cIasUbM2ypYt3I_LqOJjDjx6-N7ldJyr-lN0YLnfNq-yGYiGp4KwEQ6yoFTIYBoRHMzH-CuRgL/s200/eye.gif"/></a></div>"By eliminating free general admission, instituting an $18 admissions charge, erecting costly barriers to keep the public from enjoying its expansive grounds without paying, and implementing extravagant ticketed 'attractions', the museum excluded its Black and lower-income neighbors and was left with a much smaller, whiter, and more privileged audience."<BR><BR>
Thus sayeth Maxwell Anderson in a scathing takedown of the recently resigned IMA president, Charles Venable, on Artnet.com.<BR><BR>
Anderson is hopeful of a reset: "by resuming a sane business model, the museum can return to its historic purpose and its obligations to the field at large."<BR><BR>
Maxwell L. Anderson is president of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation and was the Melvin & Bren Simon Director & CEO of the Indianapolis Museum of Art from 2006 to 2011.<BR><BR>
Read the whole item <A HREF="https://news.artnet.com/opinion/indianapolis-museum-of-art-maxwell-anderson-1945878/amp-page"target="_blank">here</A>.<BR>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1171977192858346078.post-75999302442207853132021-02-16T23:44:00.002-05:002021-02-17T21:31:21.608-05:00Indianapolis Museum of Art tries to defend the indefensible<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFNTS9moObGZlLAcSXbl3In0KjCk1U4c5l5D55qO08Ag8DHRGE7zywva0UNe0qYB4tz8cIasUbM2ypYt3I_LqOJjDjx6-N7ldJyr-lN0YLnfNq-yGYiGp4KwEQ6yoFTIYBoRHMzH-CuRgL/s100/eye.gif" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="100" data-original-height="100" data-original-width="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFNTS9moObGZlLAcSXbl3In0KjCk1U4c5l5D55qO08Ag8DHRGE7zywva0UNe0qYB4tz8cIasUbM2ypYt3I_LqOJjDjx6-N7ldJyr-lN0YLnfNq-yGYiGp4KwEQ6yoFTIYBoRHMzH-CuRgL/s200/eye.gif"/></a></div>What were they thinking?<BR>
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Or, what did Charles Venable think he could get away with this time? Wasn't it bad enough that he priced the IMA out of reach for most people by switching from free admission to $18? Or that he walled off the grounds to all but paying customers? That he rebranded the historic art-focused institution as the content-free "Newfields"? Or that he discontinued the IMA's popular societies for horticulture, Asian art, etc.? That former associate curator Kelli Morgan, a Black woman who was hired to diversity the museum’s galleries, resigned last summer citing a toxic and discriminatory work environment?<BR>
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He has to go and say outloud that the museum's core membership is white, and it requires a new person in management who will work to uphold that "traditional" ideal.<BR><BR>
The fallout from that horrendously tone-deaf job description continues locally, nationally, and internationally. Newfields employees are on record opposing him. Community leaders have signed a petition against him. The <I>New York Times</I> has written about the fiasco, as has <I>The Guardian</I>.<BR><BR>
Even Brian Payne, president and CEO of the Central Indiana Community Foundation, president of the Indianapolis Foundation, and visionary who created the Cultural Trail, has penned a letter opposing the initiative.<BR>
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(The CICF, in contrast with the IMA, has as its mission "to mobilize people, ideas and investments to make this a community where all individuals have equitable opportunity to reach their full potential—no matter place, race or identity."<BR><BR>
Local business leaders must be in panic mode.<BR><BR>
<B> <I>UPDATE</I></B>
Not one director or trustee of the IMA had the courage to sign <A HREF="https://discovernewfields.org/newfields-statement-02-17-2021"target="_blank">this letter</A>, issued in response today, 17 February 2021. The only good news? Venable is gone.<BR>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1171977192858346078.post-25509258765262280982021-01-02T22:55:00.000-05:002021-01-02T22:55:38.279-05:00Mike Braun needs an intervention<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi7UguH_97EB01Sl4nkjKa9p1eegd7Cc_RkY_JhONSntI8yUg3Dztg5NQDf0OP7Row6a72iYBU85yP7Cv7BsLpulBvPbDYfo3as9FBu3e4e0qggJS0UWYcEf_EAguPANIN9DV57n2uOksc/s100/eye.gif" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="200" data-original-height="100" data-original-width="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi7UguH_97EB01Sl4nkjKa9p1eegd7Cc_RkY_JhONSntI8yUg3Dztg5NQDf0OP7Row6a72iYBU85yP7Cv7BsLpulBvPbDYfo3as9FBu3e4e0qggJS0UWYcEf_EAguPANIN9DV57n2uOksc/s200/eye.gif"/></a></div>Somebody needs to shake some sense into Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) before he makes a laughstock of himself January 6.<BR><BR>
There's no need to curry favor with the soon-to-be-irrelevant president, and Braun will just look like a fool...a seditious fool who hasn't read the U.S. Constitution.<BR><BR>
As CNN put it, "the objection from President Donald Trump's Republican allies has virtually zero chance of changing the election outcome, only to delay for a few hours the inevitable affirmation of Biden's victory as the Electoral College winner and the next president." Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1171977192858346078.post-44803772932106148002020-12-23T00:00:00.001-05:002020-12-23T00:00:37.544-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuik82BLVYDiQLN2B4Bek6Mks9RiUmMN1jj3jYm6CHBGtSHAX1519M6JKB-rSOitRSSLEXHw6BtZzr4dIaVNFgHj5paXpYxAFiANvfM81G70RmVnn5Gx9USz5Ordp47nSGHJFOcKVxox0e/s100/eye.gif" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="150" data-original-height="100" data-original-width="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuik82BLVYDiQLN2B4Bek6Mks9RiUmMN1jj3jYm6CHBGtSHAX1519M6JKB-rSOitRSSLEXHw6BtZzr4dIaVNFgHj5paXpYxAFiANvfM81G70RmVnn5Gx9USz5Ordp47nSGHJFOcKVxox0e/s200/eye.gif"/></a></div>The end is nigh. "It’s time for Mike Pence to choose: Trump, or the truth," headlines the <i>Washington Post</i>.<BR><BR>
"The vice president can either facilitate President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, or he can resist it. Which he chooses will either help or hinder the Republican Party’s recovery from the electoral denialism that afflicts three-fourths of its voters," writes Edward B. Foley on December 22, 2020.<BR><BR>
"Although the vice president may want to use his role then [January 6] to further prove his persistent loyalty to Trump, doing so would exacerbate the horrific damage that Trump has done to the Republican Party and the entire country by his assault on the truth of his defeat."
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1171977192858346078.post-35511342114913331442020-09-25T21:04:00.000-04:002020-09-25T21:04:02.661-04:00Listen Up, Pence! Mutz Won't Vote for Trump!<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiVUZJ58W7x8V7pzqLUTfLIB2tUGaP5rrrwLXVgQyW-eGNqRKlSWGV4TWZFrYN_lMJrGjnGENu1Q6HzIEq30tdEloSLH1xRyTFC_-Rhy1r01oVbNDFwgnuFagx7Pmry0ACmnh6ovwCdsML/s90/green-eye-90.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="200" data-original-height="68" data-original-width="90" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiVUZJ58W7x8V7pzqLUTfLIB2tUGaP5rrrwLXVgQyW-eGNqRKlSWGV4TWZFrYN_lMJrGjnGENu1Q6HzIEq30tdEloSLH1xRyTFC_-Rhy1r01oVbNDFwgnuFagx7Pmry0ACmnh6ovwCdsML/s200/green-eye-90.jpg"/></a></div>From today's IBJ.com, "John Mutz is one of the most prominent Republicans in the state of Indiana. He was lieutenant governor under Gov. Robert Orr from 1980-1988, and he served in the Legislature for 13 years before that. In his 40 additional years as a corporate CEO, entrepreneur and civic leader, Mutz has never voted for a Democrat for president. But he says that he cannot in good conscience vote for President Trump in November. This is not a repudiation of Republican ideals, he says, but rather the result of a harsh evaluation of the president himself. Mutz argues in IBJ’s print edition today that Trump is a threat to our democratic republic form of government and could push the country toward authoritarianism. With his op-ed column, Mutz becomes the most prominent Indiana Republican to publicly rebuke Trump."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1171977192858346078.post-64228925202876362812020-06-22T22:11:00.001-04:002020-06-22T22:11:59.312-04:00Mike Pence is a ‘megaphone for disinformation campaign’ against coronavirus<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<A HREF="
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/dr-vin-gupta-mike-pence-is-a-megaphone-for-disinformation-campaign-against-coronavirus-85746757625"target="_blank">Asked how the White House is handling the coronavirus response, Dr. Vin Gupta says he doesn’t want to hear from the Vice President, calling him a “megaphone for the disinformation campaign.”</A><BR>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1171977192858346078.post-57364583652365753932019-06-23T17:41:00.000-04:002019-06-23T17:41:15.966-04:00Just when you think Pence can't stoop any lower....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiVUZJ58W7x8V7pzqLUTfLIB2tUGaP5rrrwLXVgQyW-eGNqRKlSWGV4TWZFrYN_lMJrGjnGENu1Q6HzIEq30tdEloSLH1xRyTFC_-Rhy1r01oVbNDFwgnuFagx7Pmry0ACmnh6ovwCdsML/s1600/green-eye-90.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiVUZJ58W7x8V7pzqLUTfLIB2tUGaP5rrrwLXVgQyW-eGNqRKlSWGV4TWZFrYN_lMJrGjnGENu1Q6HzIEq30tdEloSLH1xRyTFC_-Rhy1r01oVbNDFwgnuFagx7Pmry0ACmnh6ovwCdsML/s200/green-eye-90.jpg" width="200" height="151" data-original-width="90" data-original-height="68" /></a></div>
<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mike-pence-on-face-the-nation-blames-congress-for-harsh-conditions-at-migrant-child-detention-centers/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=69413248&fbclid=IwAR2CCASYhe-pCTkCHAWcsvKjAh-IXPD457zBOL6pJ1ljIO7xmHKecdvxC_g"target="_blank"">Pence blames Congress for harsh conditions at migrant child detention centers</a><BR><BR>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1171977192858346078.post-27461517985866144012019-05-29T17:27:00.001-04:002019-05-29T17:27:36.071-04:00Pence to be Replaced by Kim Jon Un on 2020 Ticket?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiVUZJ58W7x8V7pzqLUTfLIB2tUGaP5rrrwLXVgQyW-eGNqRKlSWGV4TWZFrYN_lMJrGjnGENu1Q6HzIEq30tdEloSLH1xRyTFC_-Rhy1r01oVbNDFwgnuFagx7Pmry0ACmnh6ovwCdsML/s1600/green-eye-90.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiVUZJ58W7x8V7pzqLUTfLIB2tUGaP5rrrwLXVgQyW-eGNqRKlSWGV4TWZFrYN_lMJrGjnGENu1Q6HzIEq30tdEloSLH1xRyTFC_-Rhy1r01oVbNDFwgnuFagx7Pmry0ACmnh6ovwCdsML/s200/green-eye-90.jpg" width="200" height="151" data-original-width="90" data-original-height="68" /></a></div>
"As the 2020 election gears up, it seems apparent that Mike Pence’s days as vice president are numbered. Trump’s preference is obvious: Kim Jong Un." -- Kathleen Parker<BR>
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Read the whole commentary <A HREF="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-has-a-new-vp-in-mind/2019/05/28/89ce9578-8187-11e9-bce7-40b4105f7ca0_story.html"target="_blank">here</A>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0