Porter County Indiana Politics - Latest Comments

Re: Monday, July 9th in Merrillville. Meet Joel Phelps and Matt Kibbe!!!

Charlie Duram — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:17:56 -0000

This is great information regarding estate planning in Merrillville. I didn't realize many were looking at this similar topic for the same area. Thank Heaven for the internet.

Re: Northwest Indiana Politics: There will be an income tax in Lake County

radar — Sun, 12 May 2013 03:19:06 -0000

Crooks in the North steal from the South legally now? Makes you want to move somewhere where the corruption is a small percentage rather than a normal part of government.

Re: Northwest Indiana Politics: There will be an income tax in Lake County

Joe Wszolek-PortercoJoe — Fri, 10 May 2013 20:40:59 -0000

There goes about $1 million of Porter County's budget. No more Lake County residents working in Porter County helping us pay our bills. Couple this with the loss of about $500, 000 from the inheritance tax and some relatively small amount from the reduction in the financial institutions tax will force our Porter County Council into having to make some tough decisions.

Re: Consolidated Dispatch. Police Chief explains why it will be a disaster in Lake County. Kernan-Shepard report strikes again!

Wroemance — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:00:04 -0000

Just came across this, and it is a great article, Thank you for posting.

Here is is, February 27th 2013, and nothing yet on the horizon.

Re: Northwest Indiana Politics: Porter County Predictions Thread

Jeff Freeze — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:13:23 -0000

I think Romney wins the Presidency.

Donnelly takes the Senate, due to the Mourdock mess

Visclosky and Walorski win congressional seats.

Senate stays Dem, House stays Rep.

Pence in a walk.

Really not sure on the County Commissioner races. My guess is Blaney.

County Council, Graham, Joe W, and Hoffman seems likely, but maybe Whitten returns.

Re: Northwest Indiana Politics: Porter County Predictions Thread

daltonsbriefs — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:48:28 -0000

Won't say I agree with all but here's a good statewide roundup

http://www.indypolitics.org...

Re: Northwest Indiana Politics: The Fears of Pete Visclosky...including Joel Phelps...

radar — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:34:26 -0000

The three Congressmen from Indiana who voted for Obamacare? Andre Carson, Joe Donnelly and Pete Visclosky. We should fire them, don't you think? BTW taking the quiz gives you their take on your political philosopy.

Re: Northwest Indiana Politics: Presidential Debate Live Blog

radar — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:45:35 -0000

Every single debate, the moderator gives more time to the Democrat...not surprising considering all of the networks hosting the debates lean left. But Candy was so obviously partisan that it was painful. When she stepped in to challenge Romney with what turned out to be a lie, that was the worst moment. He was on a roll about the President's failures and his lies concerning Benghazi.

(I wonder what Obama had to promise Hilary to get her to throw herself under that bus?)

With all the help from the moderator I think Obama came out about even, but the post-debate fact checking has likely given another small boost to Romney.

Re: Northwest Indiana Politics: Presidential Debate Live Blog

daltonsbriefs — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:55:26 -0000

Feel free to engage in the comments tonite

Re: Northwest Indiana Politics

radar — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:22:46 -0000

It is awfully hard to resist posting this:http://www.breitbart.com/Bi...

It seems pathetic that David Letterman keeps bringing in comedians to mock Mitt Romney while during the debate Barack Obama was unable to do a reasonable impersonation of a President. Remarkable how much society has changed since I first began paying attention to politics. I remember Woodward and Bernstein working hard to bring down Richard Nixon over the coverup of some idiots involved in political shenanigans. Now the President and his administration has been responsible for murders in the US and Mexico by providing assault weapons to drug gangs, covered up the terrorist plot to assassinate a US Ambassador and other Americans on the anniversary of 9/11, hindered the cleanup of the Gulf Oil Spill, deliberately determined to NOT enforce US law concerning illegal immigration and, well, I could go on and on.

Think of all the background information we do NOT know about the President and ask yourself, where are the Woodward and Bernsteins of this generation? Sadly, they are probably working overtime trying to spin information about Mitt Romney while the most radical President in history breaks the law and defies the Constitution. It would seem pretty hard to spin the first debate as anything other than a complete fiasco. If Barack Obama doesn't know the answers in advance or have a teleprompter available, he is revealed to be unable to defend his policies and incapable of describing a way out of the mess he's made of our nation.

Re: Northwest Indiana Political Thoughts

radar — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:55:10 -0000

Where do you get your information, outer space? We have over 8% unemployment and 23% of the workforce out of work, many of whom have given up. Obama's healthcare boondoggle is killing small businesses now and will be far worse in 2013. We have over 16 Trillion dollars in debt and Obama spends like a fleet of drunken sailors, borrowing it all and enslaving the future generations to his debt. Power costs have doubled and, if Obama is reelected they will skyrocket.

This economy is in a bad recession. For the first time in history our national credit rating has dropped from AAA to AA to AA minus, all under Obama. Obama's cronies have been richly rewarded along with Union officials while taxpayer money was used to prop up and partly nationalize automakers and financial institutions. Barack Obama and ACORN and the fiscally irresponsibility of the Democrats overseeing Freddie and Fannie led to the housing/stock market fiasco of 2008. It was Democrat policies that ruined the economy.

Now Mr. "transparent government and new way of politics" has brought Chicago-style corruption to the White House and the campaign. Barack Obama is the worst President in American history and we need him gone before America goes the way of nations like Greece and we find ourselves bankrupt and destitute with no easy way out.

Re: Northwest Indiana Politics: Public Education and Change Aversion

radar — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:45:53 -0000

I do believe in full school choice and charter schools. The way to grade teachers is to make schools compete on the marketplace of the community. Parents will choose to send their children to the schools where the best teachers and programs are available. Teachers Unions fear this, but good teachers should welcome it!

If schools have adequate wireless protections in place, which is easily accomplished, then BYOD can be safe for the school and students alike. Plenty of vendors (I am in the IT business, I know) provide web filtering and blocking to keep students from going to the wrong places or hogging bandwidth. Understanding that today's kids are practically welded to their cell phones/Ipads/etc. means that both providing and controlling wireless access is essential in today's society. If schools do not control the wireless environment, there will be students accessing sites while in class that are not appropriate. Dual-channel radios that broadcast on one channel and seek and block rogue connections with the other channel will become essential when schools catch up with the kids.

Teaching to the test is a way of dumbing-down education. Of course there should be standards. However, the basics of learning are not simply knowing the answers to test questions but understanding how to think critically and having a chance to see both sides of controversial issues in any field of study.

Elected board members have accountability to the voters so I vote for that.

Sports, music, arts, shop and etc? These are not just extra-curricular activities, they are the main focus of some kids. We need to realize that not all kids should go to college. Some should go to technical training or an arts school rather than a regular college. We are not all cookie-cutter people. Einstein flunked math! In the best schools, exceptional but unusual children will be identified and encouraged rather than cast to the wayside.

Re: Northwest Indiana Politics: Joel Phelps, Dan Coats and Ronald Reagan!!!

daltonsbriefs — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:42:18 -0000

I believe the disqus comments are back working again, my bad, in changing the template I must have deleted the code for disqus.

Re: Northwest Indiana Political Thoughts

Dominic Marten — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 09:35:48 -0000

This is a comic piece, correct? Did you just honestly write that this is the first time in three years the President has had to deal with problems overseas? Are you serious? Iraq, Afgahnistan, The Arab Spring, Blind Chinese dissidents etc etc.

Just typical. Another Republican that critisizes the President but cannot give us a single fact based reason why. Financial markets doubled, 900k jobs per month turnaround, 9+% GDP growth turnaround. 18 tax breaks for small business owners. Equal pay for woman. Affordable health care act that has stopped premiums increasing 15-30% per year to less than 4% the past two years. Over 1 billion in rebates from insurance companies to people like you and I just this year. Largest tax cut in US history for 95% of the population.

Are you really the editor? You are entitled to your opinion but not your own facts. Your blog is intellectually dishonest but I think you already know this.

Re: Northwest Indiana Political Thoughts

Eric Olson — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 08:58:57 -0000

Wow, talk about "thin skinned", threatening a lawsuit over "endorsements." Whatever happened to free speech.

As to endorsements:

Romney- because we need adult leadership in the white house.
Pence- offers the Best opportunity to build on Daniel's legacy.
Phelps- integrity over Maryland resident with questionable ethics.
Niemeyer- will stay and work for us in Indy.

Two hard working candidates: one in Lake County and one in Porter County, that deserve a shout out for their hard work and winning personalities that will serve their constituents well: Jerry Tippy and Joe Wszolek.

We have a lot of great candidates in this election and they deserve all the help we can offer them. Let's make a difference in November!

Re: United States Senate Primary Poll

Jpeor — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 01:34:23 -0000

thanks for the information http://reasonbellpundit.blo...

Re: Eric Krieg for Lake County Commissioner

derukugi — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:29:03 -0000

As long as the position of surveyor remains an elected one, let's try to get the BEST qualified candidate there is for the position.

Vote for ERIC KRIEG this November.

And remember what happened the last time the amateur APPRENTICE tried to wear the EXPERT'S hat!

http://tinyurl.com/y8vcbcl

Re: Candidates I REALLY LIKE - Part one. Joel Phelps for Congress!!!

Scott Sands — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:27:02 -0000

Thanks for your kind words.
--Joel4Congress campaign
http://www.facebook.com/joe...

Re: Why the West Loves Lying to Itself About Islam

Radarbinder — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:57:12 -0000

Please go read this link! Are there Islamists who do not believe in Jihad? Sure, but the general groupthink of Islamic-run nations is Sharia and Jihad. The Intifada is pounded into little Palestinian brains before they could theoretically ride the bikes they do not have because Islamic nations tend to be rulers and serfs. (The rulers watch porn, have mistresses and get drunk while in private, then come out in public and denounce the "Wicked Western Civilizations" and convince others to get a free ticket to paradise by becoming a human bomb). Islam is a religion of peace like Obama's policies have brought us peace and prosperity. Both are great big NOTs!!!

Re: Election cycle 2012 begins with SCOTUS ruling

Radarbinder — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 12:40:05 -0000

The Court got it wrong. Amazing! Obama's lawyers argued that it was a tax, not a mandate, so he owns it as a tax and it becomes another of his broken promises. He is the ultimate disaster as a President!

Re: Election cycle 2012 begins with SCOTUS ruling

TMLutas — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 23:19:13 -0000

That's very interesting as a proposal. It's really too bad that by assigning the winners of an election (the electors) to the results of the votes in polities outside an NPV state, the measure will violate the requirement that states have a republican form of government. Under this legislation, they would not and the only thing stopping a lawsuit on that basis is that the NPV has not come into effect.

Re: Election cycle 2012 begins with SCOTUS ruling

TMLutas — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 23:16:55 -0000

Usually it's the losing side that goes all Andrew Jackson on the Supreme Court. In this case it's the winning side. The President does not accept the judgment based on the grounds that he won. He continues to insist that it is not a tax.

With him simultaneously questioning the legitimacy of the Judiciary with this case and having a contempt of Congress fight over Fast & Furious regarding executive privilege, we are witnessing an executive simultaneously attacking the legitimacy of both of its coequal branches. When was the last time that happened?

Re: Tea Party vs. The Christian Right

James Slagley — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 23:06:22 -0000

Obama is a communist his agenda is the destruction of capitalism what the republican party does not need is conservatives talking like bleeding heart liberals God words no homosexual that does not repent will ente4r the kingdom of heaven and no christian who compromises Gods word will enter the kingdom of heaven because God is is true and every man is a liar and all liars will go to the lake of fire So Obama is not a christian and neither are those who claim to be Christians who vote for Obama are liars and not Christian

Re: Tea Party vs. The Christian Right

James Slagley — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 22:55:56 -0000

hi I am a Tea party Patriot from Randolph county Indiana and I wrote
your governor because Obama is trying to take credit for the jobs a
republican Governor made All Obama care will do is destroy what is left
of the jobs. Indiana is going republican and we feel we must help you
get Ohio republican because Obama must go. it is clear with all that he
has done he is a liar and if he is a christian the devil is a holy angel
people must learn who he really is and second what his hidden agenda is
to turn this country communist we are playing a movie for our area at a
close outdoor theater for the general public called called Agenda
grinding down America http://agendadocumentary.co...

Re: Election cycle 2012 begins with SCOTUS ruling

s e — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:12:31 -0000

The National Popular Vote bill would change existing state winner-take-all laws that award all of a state’s electoral votes to the candidate who get the most popular votes in each separate state (not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, but since enacted by 48 states), to a system guaranteeing the majority of Electoral College votes for, and the Presidency to, the candidate getting the most popular votes in the entire United States.

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The National Popular Vote bill ensures that every vote is equal, every voter will matter, in every state, in every presidential election, and the candidate with the most votes wins, as in virtually every other election in the country.

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When the bill is enacted by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes– enough electoral votes to elect a President (270 of 538), all the electoral votes from the enacting states would be awarded to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and DC.

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Every vote, everywhere, would be politically relevant and equal in presidential elections. There would no longer be a handful of 'battleground' states where voters and policies are more important than those of the voters in more than 3/4ths of the states that now are just 'spectators' and ignored after the primaries.

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National Popular Vote would give a voice to the minority party voters in each state. Now their votes are counted only for the candidate they did not vote for. Now they don't matter to their candidate.

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And now votes, beyond the one needed to get the most votes in the state, for winning in a state are wasted and don't matter to candidates. Utah (5 electoral votes) alone generated a margin of 385,000 "wasted" votes for Bush in 2004. 8 small western states, with less than a third of California’s population, provided Bush with a bigger margin (1,283,076) than California provided Kerry (1,235,659).

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With National Popular Vote, every vote, everywhere would be counted equally for, and directly assist, the candidate for whom it was cast.

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Candidates would need to care about voters across the nation, not just undecided voters in a handful of swing states. The political reality would be that when every vote is equal, the campaign must be run in every part of the country.

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The bill uses the power given to each state by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution to change how they award their electoral votes for President. Historically, virtually all of the major changes in the method of electing the President, including ending the requirement that only men who owned substantial property could vote and 48 current state-by-state winner-take-all laws, have come about by state legislative action.

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In Gallup polls since 1944, only about 20% of the public has supported the current system of awarding all of a state's electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes in each separate state (with about 70% opposed and about 10% undecided). Support for a national popular vote is strong among Republicans, Democrats, and Independent voters, as well as every demographic group in virtually every state surveyed in recent polls in closely divided Battleground states: CO – 68%, FL – 78%, IA 75%, MI – 73%, MO – 70%, NH – 69%, NV – 72%, NM– 76%, NC – 74%, OH – 70%, PA – 78%, VA – 74%, and WI – 71%; in Small states (3 to 5 electoral votes): AK – 70%, DC – 76%, DE – 75%, ID – 77%, ME – 77%, MT – 72%, NE 74%, NH – 69%, NV – 72%, NM – 76%, OK – 81%, RI – 74%, SD – 71%, UT – 70%, VT – 75%, WV – 81%, and WY – 69%; in Southern and Border states: AR – 80%,, KY- 80%, MS – 77%, MO – 70%, NC – 74%, OK – 81%, SC – 71%, TN – 83%, VA – 74%, and WV – 81%; and in other states polled: AZ – 67%, CA – 70%, CT – 74%, MA – 73%, MN – 75%, NY – 79%, OR – 76%, and WA – 77%. Americans believe that the candidate who receives the most votes should win.

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The bill has passed 31 state legislative chambers in 21 states. The bill has been enacted by 9 jurisdictions possessing 132 electoral votes - 49% of the 270 necessary to go into effect.
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