Politics: April 2006
Kiser, Kiser, Kiser!
Filed by Jerame Davis | April 29, 2006 10:32 AM |Is anyone else feeling like Jan Brady right now? (Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!) Yes, friends, it seems bilerico.com has gone all Kiser all the time in the past couple of days. It's not that we don't love you Julia, it's just...Read More
Kiser v/s Carson Some Thoughts
Filed by Bruce Parker | April 29, 2006 1:40 AM |Julia Carson - I first learned that Julia Carson existed last year at Indianapolis Gay Pride when she took the stage to speak about equality. She was impressive, inspiring and motivating. Later I learned that it wasn't a moment but...Read More
Kiser revisited or Here's a real "Word" for the wise...
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | April 27, 2006 8:43 AM |Editor's Note: This post has been removed under threat of litigation by the Kiser campaign. We're a small independent blog that doesn't even sell ad space. We have no means to fight the litigation. While we're big believers in the...Read More
Kiser revisited or Here's a real "Word" for the wise...
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | April 27, 2006 8:43 AM |Editor's Note: This post has been removed under threat of litigation by the Kiser campaign. We're a small independent blog that doesn't even sell ad space. We have no means to fight the litigation. While we're big believers in the...Read More
Indianapolis School Board
Filed by Bil Browning | April 25, 2006 6:52 PM |From an email circulated this morning... May 2nd is primary election day for most races, but it is the election for school boards in Marion County, including Indianapolis Public Schools. In IPS District Three, Kelly Bentley, a friend of our...Read More
Please vote for Karen Celestino-Horseman
Filed by Linda Perdue | April 24, 2006 9:52 PM |"An independent and honorable judiciary is indispensable to justice in our society." Indiana Code of Judicial Conduct, Canon 1(A) Every so often an elected official will go to extraordinary lengths to improve the lives of those around them. In...Read More
Impeach the bastard!
Filed by Bil Browning | April 23, 2006 11:02 PM |Three members of the Illinois General Assembly have introduced a bill that urges the General Assembly to submit charges to the U. S. House of Representatives to initiate impeachment proceedings against the President of the United States, George W. Bush,...Read More
Bloomington Gender Identity Amendment Passes
Filed by Bil Browning | April 19, 2006 8:46 PM |The City Council in Bloomington, Indiana passed the gender identity amendment tonight. This makes the second city in Indiana to recognize that basic civil rights for people regardless of gender identity. Yay right!? Yes, it's exciting but in the wake...Read More
Even things out a bit...
Filed by Bil Browning | April 19, 2006 7:13 PM |Friday will be a dark and dreary day here in Indy as rain and gloom falls over the metropolis. Oh, you didn't hear? Our Lord of Darkness and Despair (aka Vice-President Dick Cheney) will visit Indianapolis on Friday and the...Read More
Btown: Transfolk 2 - Bigots 0
Filed by Bil Browning | April 13, 2006 11:03 AM |The Bloomington transgender community is one step closer to having full rights and protections under the law. The Bloomington City Council cast an initial vote in favor (subscription required for Btown Herald Times's stupid website) of adding "gender identity" to...Read More
Feingold backs same-sex marriage
Filed by Bil Browning | April 08, 2006 10:59 AM |Prospective Presidential candidate Senator Russell Feingold (D-Wisc) recently announced that he is in favor of same-sex marriage rights. This puts him directly at odds with front-runner Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and last election's nominee Senator John Kerry (D-Mass). And isn't...Read More
Dear Red State,
Filed by Bil Browning | April 07, 2006 4:25 PM |This came in today from an out-of-state reader: Dear Red States, We've decided that we're leaving. We intend on forming our own country, and we're taking the other Blue States with us. In case you arn't aware, that includes, California,...Read More
"Post-Turtle"
Filed by Annette Gross | April 03, 2006 6:04 PM |While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75-year-old Texas rancher, whose hand was caught in a gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually, the topic got around to former Texas...Read More
Beyond the BS (Bumper Stickers!)
Filed by Sheila S. Kennedy | April 01, 2006 5:30 PM |It's primary election time. Soon, the 2006 political season will descend on us--and with it, the inevitable assortment of exaggerated claims, pious moral pronouncements and impractical, unconstitutional and ludicrous policy proposals. Since hiding in a cave somewhere until it's all...Read More
Tyranny and Oppression
Filed by Bil Browning | April 01, 2006 4:01 PM |About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:...Read More
