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A Marion County Judge has ruled while the First Church of Cannabis (FCOC) might be a church, it has no right to use cannabis as part of its sacrament. In an order issued late Friday, a Marion County judge ruled the state’s prohibition against legal marijuana outweighed any religious freedom argument pushed by organizers of […]
Whenever I get asked what should happen to Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill, who is accused of groping several women in a bar, my response is easy. I say “get all the facts” and then let’s make a decision. Click Here for More
Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill is denying groping allegations levied against him in a story published Monday on the Indianapolis Star’s website. The Star is reporting that four women accused the Attorney General of touching them inappropriately at a party on the last day of the legislative session at a party at AJ’s Lounge in downtown Indianapolis. […]
You might not know it from being on Monument Circle in downtown Indianapolis, but the overall number of homeless individuals in the city is actually down, but they have fewer places to go. According to the Coalition for Homeless Intervention and Prevention (CHIP), the homeless population dropped by six percent from 2017, but they have […]
With 2018 nearly half over and Indianapolis creeping toward another year of record-breaking murders, here are some of the statistics behind the Circle City’s growing body count. As of Monday, June 25, Indianapolis has had 69 murders. That’s a murder every 2.57 day which puts the city on track for at least 141 murders by the […]
Well, that was interesting, to say the least. Out of a combined sense of morbid curiosity, mixed in with writing about most things political, I went and saw Stormy Daniels at the Pony Strip Club on Indianapolis’ west side. Now please note I freely admit this was not my first adult-oriented rodeo. I went to […]
I spent a good chunk of Saturday hanging out with the Indiana Democratic Party at their state convention in downtown Indianapolis. Now you might think that with our respective politics it would be a contentious relationship, not really. In fact, it’s very similar to my relationships with Indiana Republicans and Libertarians, there are some things […]
For our annual vacation this year, my wife, the Lovely Mrs. Shabazz, wanted to go the beach and since Lake Michigan was out of the question, we chose Atlantic Beach, North Carolina. Now I admit I am not a big water person unless it’s carbonated and mixed in a glass with scotch. Regardless, domestic […]
Although Indiana Republican Party Chairman Kyle Hupfer delivered a message of diversity and inclusion at the state convention this weekend, overshadowing the event was a battle between moderate conservatives and social conservatives over platform language regarding the definition of a “family”. Hupfer told the crowd that Republicans can take the party to the “Next Level”, […]
There’s an old saying in academia, “the biggest fights are over paper clips and post-it notes.” In other words, it’s the littlest things that at the end of the day that don’t amount to much which cause the biggest problems and headaches. And someone just dropped a truckload of paper clips and post-it notes over […]