INDIANAPOLIS, IN - The Indiana General Assembly honored Ball State University’s football team today for their undefeated 2008 season. The team went 12-0, marking the third undefeated regular season in Ball State’s 84-year history and setting a school record for most wins in a sing...

The Philadelphia Daily News’s John Baer this week reported a conversation with PA Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald Castille about the injustice inflicted by the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas on thousands of children. Click here for a link to Baer’s column, which says a lot more ...

Annapolis Update #2 - Feb. 12, 2009 As the legislative session moves slowly forward, there are some observations I would like to share with you. First, in his State of the State address the Governor does not seem to have offered any stimulus package for the State of Maryland. With the economy as it ...

Apparently all of Baltimore City's problems have been solved. Why else would State Senator George Della of Baltimore City introduce legislation aimed at beer pong in the city? Don't believe me? Here's some verbiage directly from the text of the legislation : (B) A HOLDER OF A RETAIL ALCOHOLIC BEVERA...

Via RPV Chairman / Del. Jeff Frederick via Twitter update: “Big news coming out of Senate: Apparently one dem is either switching or leaving the dem caucus. Negotiations for power sharing underway.” UPDATE:  Is Sen. Ralph Northam switching parties? UPDATE 2:  Jim Geraghty from Nationa...

Via Christian Grantham, Metro Police Chief Ronal Serpas wants to know why it is so easy for the State of Tennessee and the General Assembly to let convicted rapists go free to rape again: “It's an issue of the state that refuses to hold dangerous people behind bars. It's the legislature's duty to ...

Wanted to give a shout out and thanks to Minority Leader Tony O'Donnell and the other members of the House Republican Caucus for sponsoring HB472 , a bill that would extricate Maryland from the National Popular Vote scheme that has been floating around for a few years that would tie Maryland's Elect...

Remember the 2007 primary debate when Senator Hanger said that his primary challenger Scott Sayre was misleading voters, or even 'spinning it', about Hanger authoring legislation for illegal immigrants to get in-state tuition at Virginia's Colleges? Well, here's almost the same identical b...

By Tim Potts When the House resumes session on Tuesday, the Democratic majority will propose new rules that will turn back the clock to the bad old days of the Pay Raise of 2005, the slots gambling law and other stealth lawmaking. A summary - not an actual draft - began circulating in the Capitol at...

Sen. Mark Obenshain is trying to criminalize miscarriages. Old-timers in the Virginia political blogosphere may remember when Del. John Cosgrove tried this in 2005. That was hoot. Maura Keaney had him on Nightline within days. Cosgrove had some cock-and-bull story about how the bill didn’t do ...