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You drove? Well, yeah, all of the seats on the space shuttle were taken.

Now, I’m all for a little civil disobedience from time to time. Think of Henry David Thoreau being thrown in jail for refusing to pay a poll tax — his way of speaking out against government complicity in slavery.

Mike Braun, the GOP’s nominee for Indiana governor, aired a new political advertisement this past week using a digitally altered photograph of opponent Democrat Jennifer McCormick, prompting cries of dishonesty because the ads didn’t initially disclose as required by state law that the image was altered.

My neighbor and I often sit out in the evening discussing world events and other interesting topics. Since it is the election year, we decided not to discuss politics. We decided to find something more interesting. We chose the weather. We figured that was a good subject since weather was a sure thing. There is going to be weather no matter what.

When I was taking driver’s training in high school, the teacher in my car always played the local rock ‘n’ roll station on the car’s radio. One song that was popular then was “Silence is Golden” by The Tremeloes. I used to have nightmares about the song, perhaps due to the fact it was playing when the teacher had to hit his special brake to prevent me from gunning it through a red light.

The Wall Street Journal

It’s easy to get caught up in the challenges associated with immigration: controversy over the U.S.-Mexico border, discomfort with demographic change in urban and rural communities, and so on. But we can’t ignore the benefits that immigration and immigrants produce for America.

INDIANAPOLIS — In this upcoming election, voters in 10 states will determine the legality of abortion. Three of these states — Arizona, Nevada and potentially Florida — are so-called presidential battleground states.

The (Anderson) Herald Bulletin (TNS)

by Dennis Ganahl Guest columnist According to the Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank, the United States ranked last among 46 countries in media credibility in...