While the nation’s unemployment rises, Indiana is on the right track today and announced that they are adding more jobs right here in Indianapolis.

Today the nation’s unemployment went higher today and it is at the highest it has ever been since 1983! This is not good news and now Congress and the President need to focus on job creation in the private sector, instead of trying to grow into a bigger and less efficient Government!

Then we see this report come out yesterday that Indiana was one of 11 States that are recovering from this recession.

See our Governor and Mayor get it, instead of spending more money and creating a bigger Government, they are focusing on recruiting more companies to our great State and City!

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I like Greg Ballard, really I do. I gave him money when he had no chance (and urged others to do so also) and blogged about him when the Indy Star wasn’t even giving any coverage at all to the nobody challenging Bart Peterson.

Of course, you’d have a hard time believing that I like him, given that–horror of horrors–I dared to blog about something that had already been broadcast on television to the entire Indianapolis media market.

What happened to Greg Ballard? I’m not talking about the occasional verbal malapropism that is to be expected from an inexperienced politician.

What happened to the retired Marine Corps colonel who had the little campaign that could? I’m not talking about his habit of random musings about policy ideas in public forums. In a lot of ways, that sort of thinking out loud is commendable in this age of scripted politicians, even if the musings sometimes send the GOP base into a frothing rage.

What happened to the guy with the little book of sound management principles who seems lost on the 25th floor of the City-County Building? What happened to the guy that stood in line to see the President along with everybody else, while two-bit local politicians of far less importance or stature were trying to argue their way to the front of the line? What changed about Greg Ballard? More importantly, who changed him?

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…because the existing mountain of gun control laws are just enforced so vigorously.

The man just doesn’t understand the beauty of the unspoken thought.

From WISH:

…in November, Ballard got inspiration from, of all places, a football star that shot himself in the leg. Giant Plaxico Burress is fighting 3 years in prison, not for the shooting, but for the weapon. Even if Burress had never fired, New York has mandatory jail time for carrying a gun that’s not registered with the city. Ballard thinks what works there might also work in Indy.

“I wonder about our gun laws. Should we be harsher with our gun laws,” said Ballard.

Ballard’s idea is clearly still in its earliest stages. He told 24-Hour News 8 his hopes before he even mentioned them to his own staff or public safety director. He revealed it, unexpectedly, during an otherwise routine interview about his first year in office.

“I’d like to look at gun laws, frankly. Penalties for illegal guns,” said Ballard.

Ballard said he knows many will oppose the idea, and he wants to make clear what kind of guns he’d target.

“I have no problem with second amendment legal guns. No problem what so ever on that. It’s the illegal guns that are concerning,” said Ballard.

Talk about shooting a hole in your head and enraging (what’s left of) your base.

During a recent bout of insomnia, I decided to have some fun with the WHOIS database, a nifty listing of who owns a given domain name and when they bought it (among other things). Because of the importance of the internet in modern politics, and the cheap cost of registering a domain name, politicians and campaigns frequently register their domain names far in advance of any official campaign declaration.

So, being bored and unable to sleep, I started punching in combinations based around potential gubernatorial candidates for the 2012 race. A study, if you will, in the advance web positioning of potential gubernatorial candidates.

For each candidate, I tried a variety of similar combinations:

joesmith.com
smithforgovernor.com
joesmithforgovernor.com
joesmithforindiana.com
smith2012.com
joesmith2012.com
hoosiersforjoe.com
hoosiersforsmith.com

It’s an interesting exercise, to be sure. It might not catch everyone (Mitch Daniels’ campaign website was mymanmitch.com, for example, which you wouldn’t find with any of the above searches), but I figured that the results should be interesting, so I set out searching.

Because this study was an exercise in boredom rather than some exhaustive academic research, I tried to limit myself to the first eight or nine people for each party that came to mind when running the search.

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Good Morning, Hoosier Access readers.

It’s no secret Matt Tully is in the tank for the Left. He’s not quite as obvious about as say, She Who Is Never Mentioned By Name Here By Me, but it’s pretty obvious. Of course with the exception of Gary Varvel the Rag is with little uncertainty a mouthpiece for the Liberal Left.

So what deserves a mention here on the favorite blog of Indiana Conservatives? This column blasting Mayor Greg Ballard.

“Mayor Greg Ballard is tired of putting his foot in his mouth” – He’s not. He’s tired of you twisting the words.

“Ballard’s administration has not been the most communicative in history.” – And you’re upset over it? Oh right he’s not playing mother-may-I and floating trial balloons in the media like the last clown that occupied the 25th Floor.

“But he’s a big boy, and if he doesn’t want to talk anymore, that’s his decision.” – Granted I don’t speak for The Colonel, but more than likely it’s not that he doesn’t want to talk. He just don’t want to talk to a bunch of moonbats at the Indianapolis Star that twist his words and take things out of context to suit an agenda. Then again this was the same Indianapolis Star that issued endorsements without talking to all of the candidates.

We just had a half hour podcast with Mayor Ballard last weekend – it’s available right here on Hoosier Access Radio. And Josh and myself will tell you we were not given a list of topics to discuss, nor did we edit any of the audio. Considering during the 2008 Marion County Slating which was also covered by Hoosier Access Radio, the Mayor stopped by the table to say hello. Josh invited the Mayor to sit down and we ended up doing an impromptu 20-30 minute interview with the Mayor. Wouldn’t that just blow chunks if you were Matt Tully and the Ryerson Rag? A bunch of bloggers having access to the Mayor and the Rag doesn’t? HA!

Let’s face it – the last person anyone – especially the Mayor of the nation’s 13th largest city – wants to talk to on a long airline flight is a political columnist who doesn’t really like his policies or stances on the issues in the first place. So what does Matt Tully do? Writes an excoriating column against the Mayor.

You’ve heard the saying – “Never pick an argument with someone who buys ink by the barrel or owns the broadcast tower”. Well we’re picking that argument with the ink folks. Frankly the age of the newspaper is fading. The blatent bias of newspapers – namely the Gannett chain – is clouding its journalistic objectivity. But what do we know we’re just a bunch of stinking bloggers. Never mind how several blogs including one now defunct blog helped spread the word the MSM never reported upon, exposing the Democrats for what they were and helping elect the Mayor into office.

If you subscribe to the Indianapolis Star, cancel your subscription. If you buy it at the corner Stop-and-Rob, save your money. No use feeding the Gannett propaganda machine any longer.

Just think, they’re all so smart and interesting…

I guess that makes everyone else so stupid and boring…

Isn’t it funny how people who are smart and interesting invariably turn out to be Democrats? That was the reaction I had when I found out that Linda Pence was the Democratic candidate for Attorney General of Indiana.

Let me say a couple of disclaimers right off. I’m not from Indiana. I don’t know what the issues are in this race. I don’t know anything about what’s going on in this campaign.

But I do know Linda Pence. I’ve known her as a lawyer for many years. She is really smart and tough as nails. She just seems like the kind of lawyer’s lawyer any state would want to have as its Attorney General.

I never really knew anything about her partisan political affiliations until I recently found out she was running as a Democrat for the Indiana AG. Again, all I knew was that she is a great lawyer and a smart, funny, and interesting person. It should have been obvious that she was a Democrat.

She’s no relation to the right-wing nutjob Mike Pence who is a Congressperson in Indiana. And I see that the Wall Street Journal recently took a swipe at her for being a “trial lawyer” who would be tough on corporations. Sounds like a pretty good endorsement to me.

Anybody who is in Indiana should know that they’ve got a great AG candidate in their state.

Only lefty crazies would think that a trial lawyer with a reputation for defending corrupt Democrats would make a good attorney general.

Now, I haven’t posted much about Linda Pence lately (something for which I intend to remedy soon with yet more information on her shadiness), but let’s review her record for a bit.

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