tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344374300333206615Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:34:24 +0000http://www.conservatibbs.com/noreply@blogger.com (Scott Tibbs)Blogger581125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344374300333206615.post-5321000667103897166Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:30:00 +00002012-06-01T04:30:02.762-04:00Christian Citizens for Life issued the following press release on May 28. BLOOMINGTON - Christian Citizens for Life announced today that it will be participating in the nationwide Stand up for Religious Freedom rally on June 8. The local rally will be at 12:00 p.m. on Friday, June 8, 2012 on the Monroe County Courthouse lawn. Earlier this year, President Obama announced that employers would be http://www.conservatibbs.com/2012/06/ccfl-to-participate-in-nationwide-stand.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Scott Tibbs)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344374300333206615.post-6459583029093400504Wed, 30 May 2012 08:30:00 +00002012-05-30T04:30:02.665-04:00"Don't talk about social issues! Talking about social issues hurts Republicans. All that does is stir people up. We have to focus on the budget, and also on jobs and the economy." We hear this nonsense every election, and while I disagree with the Republicans who are terrified of these discussions regarding whether they are helpful are harmful politically, that is not the point of this post. Thehttp://www.conservatibbs.com/2012/05/social-issues-and-republican-party.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Scott Tibbs)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344374300333206615.post-5454864262716926519Tue, 29 May 2012 08:30:00 +00002012-05-29T04:30:01.326-04:00So John Gregg has picked Vi Simpson as his running mate. On his web site, Gregg claims to be a "pro-life Democrat." Why, then, would Gregg pick someone who is so strongly in favor of abortion rights (and someone who has spoken at abortion-rights rallies) as his running mate? A liberal Democrat from Bloomington, Mr. Gregg? Really? What are you thinking? This certainly undermines Gregg's claim to http://www.conservatibbs.com/2012/05/thoughts-on-john-greggs-choice-for-his.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Scott Tibbs)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344374300333206615.post-8986828552095988384Mon, 28 May 2012 08:30:00 +00002012-05-28T04:30:01.662-04:00"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." -- John 15:13 http://www.conservatibbs.com/2012/05/memorial-day-2012.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Scott Tibbs)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344374300333206615.post-5082167846989125056Sun, 27 May 2012 21:30:00 +00002012-05-27T17:30:00.952-04:00In his editorial on May 24, Eugene Robinson whines that when Democrats attack Mitt Romney's time at Bain Capital, "they’re accused of being Bolsheviks who want to destroy capitalism" and points out that Republicans did it first. The implication - that Republicans got away with it. Except they didn't. Rush Limbaugh and others were very critical of Republicans who attacked Romney's economic record.http://www.conservatibbs.com/2012/05/gop-attacks-on-romneys-record.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Scott Tibbs)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344374300333206615.post-8675666262743100979Sat, 26 May 2012 22:30:00 +00002012-05-26T18:30:00.765-04:00This woman is evil. Pure, unmitigated evil. From the Associated Press: In an initial meeting with him, she said she had lied; there had been no kidnap and no rape and she offered to help him clear his record, court records state. But she refused to repeat the story to prosecutors because she feared she would have to return a $1.5 million payment from a civil suit brought by her mother against http://www.conservatibbs.com/2012/05/wanetta-gibson-is-rapist.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Scott Tibbs)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344374300333206615.post-8411710424542678868Fri, 25 May 2012 08:30:00 +00002012-05-25T04:30:00.779-04:00A letter to the editor on May 18 criticized the Herald-Times because a national news story the author thought important was "buried" deep in the paper. Anyone who has followed this blog or my comments on HeraldTimesOnline.com knows I have been very critical of the H-T over the years, but I do not think this is a fair criticism. Several years ago, the H-T decided to change its focus to http://www.conservatibbs.com/2012/05/front-page-focusing-on-local-vs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Scott Tibbs)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344374300333206615.post-1566676564993475082Thu, 24 May 2012 21:30:00 +00002012-05-24T17:30:01.085-04:00Dexter Pittman of the Miami Heat needs to be thrown out of the NBA. He is a thug and a criminal. The NBA doesn't need him and his kind. This is the kind of crap that the LA Fakers (especially Andrew "Felony Assault" Bynum) pull all the time. The NBA needs to send a message.http://www.conservatibbs.com/2012/05/nba-needs-to-send-message-to-heat.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Scott Tibbs)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344374300333206615.post-2975955054637312613Thu, 24 May 2012 08:30:00 +00002012-05-24T04:30:00.943-04:00Here is a reminder of an important reality:You cannot have party unity in a "big tent" party. If we are going to have a wide range of ideological perspectives in the GOP, then we have to expect there will be heated disagreements and debates about public policy. Sometimes, these debates will become bitter arguments. It is not realistic to expect people who have wide differences on public policy http://www.conservatibbs.com/2012/05/facing-reality-on-party-unity.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Scott Tibbs)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344374300333206615.post-5257117633642632408Wed, 23 May 2012 08:30:00 +00002012-05-23T22:12:39.055-04:00The Bloomington city council's social services funding committee met last week for a couple hours to hear proposals from the various social service agencies seeking a grant from the Hopkins fund. As is always the case, the proposals for funding came to more than the city had budgeted for grants, so the city will have to deny some of the requests and not fully fund others. This, of course, is why http://www.conservatibbs.com/2012/05/social-services-funding-committee-hears.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Scott Tibbs)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344374300333206615.post-6240899009984961114Tue, 22 May 2012 21:25:00 +00002012-05-22T17:25:00.533-04:00The nanny state ninnies are at it again. A ban on novelty lighters? Really? This is ridiculous. I have a better idea: Keep your nose out of everyone else's business!http://www.conservatibbs.com/2012/05/more-from-nanny-state-ninnies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Scott Tibbs)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344374300333206615.post-5345498699689490547Tue, 22 May 2012 11:50:00 +00002012-05-22T07:50:00.799-04:00Published in the Herald-Times, May 21, 2012. (Comments) To the editor: If the Bloomington City Council is going to have a social services funding program, then those funds should go to organizations that actually need it, not a national corporation with more than enough money to cover the "needs" of the local branch. Planned Parenthood and all affiliates nationwide had a combined excess of http://www.conservatibbs.com/2012/05/say-no-to-corporate-welfare-for-planned.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Scott Tibbs)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344374300333206615.post-4240649689502217377Mon, 21 May 2012 08:30:00 +00002012-05-21T04:30:00.568-04:00There is an elephant in the room regarding the Violence Against Women Act, one that neither political party seems interested in acknowledging it as they both seek to pass their versions of the bill: Why is the federal government inserting itself into what should be a matter handled by local law enforcement? Why is the U.S. Congress passing legislation that would be better handled by the fifty http://www.conservatibbs.com/2012/05/vawa-and-shameless-political.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Scott Tibbs)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344374300333206615.post-2350481257948087453Sat, 19 May 2012 12:00:00 +00002012-05-19T08:00:04.025-04:00The Congressman is correct in the substance of his proposal - pizza should not be classified as a vegetable. But the federal government has absolutely no business regulating school lunches.http://www.conservatibbs.com/2012/05/regulating-pizza.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Scott Tibbs)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344374300333206615.post-8793817058386417631Fri, 18 May 2012 08:30:00 +00002012-05-18T04:30:01.287-04:00On May 7, Joe Donnelly said this about Nancy Pelosi's upcoming trip to Indiana for a fundraiser: "I did not vote for her for Speaker." Actually, that's not true. Donnelly voted for Pelosi in 2007, and Donnelly also voted for Pelosi in 2009. So what is he basing this claim on? After he barely won re-election to his seat in Congress with a plurality, Donnelly voted against Pelosi's bid for a http://www.conservatibbs.com/2012/05/actually-joe-donnelly-did-vote-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Scott Tibbs)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344374300333206615.post-7782424933389131070Thu, 17 May 2012 08:30:00 +00002012-05-17T04:30:00.153-04:00When Republican voters in Indiana retired Richard Lugar by choosing Richard Mourdock to be the party's nominee for U.S. Senate, the wailing began almost immediately. The next day, the Herald-Times whined that the Indiana Republican Party had been taken over by "extremists" who threw out the moderate Lugar. This leads to two obvious questions. Are 60% of Indiana Republican primary voters http://www.conservatibbs.com/2012/05/thoughts-on-lugarmourdock-race.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Scott Tibbs)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344374300333206615.post-7235628079525573379Wed, 16 May 2012 08:30:00 +00002012-05-17T12:21:19.306-04:00When Barack Obama was running for the Illinois state senate in 1996, he took a position in favor of same-sex marriage and promised to fight efforts to block those marriages. When Obama ran for U.S. Senate in 2004, his views were more conservative, stating his opposition to same-sex marriage. That continues in 2008, when a high turnout of black voters in California helped pass Proposition 8 to http://www.conservatibbs.com/2012/05/barack-obama-flip-flops-on-same-sex.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Scott Tibbs)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344374300333206615.post-5781891182921571560Tue, 15 May 2012 08:30:00 +00002012-05-15T04:30:02.201-04:00This is an open letter to the Bloomington City Council Dear Councilors, In its most recent annual report, Planned Parenthood reported that the combined revenue of the national office and all affiliates was $1.0482 billion, while the expenses for the organization came to $1.0297 billion. This is an excess or revenue over expenses of $18.5 million. In addition, Planned Parenthood of Indiana http://www.conservatibbs.com/2012/05/no-corporate-welfare-for-merchants-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Scott Tibbs)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344374300333206615.post-9116329504742770915Mon, 14 May 2012 08:30:00 +00002012-05-14T04:30:01.443-04:00I have read several interesting articles on the price of video games, especially relating to how the casual game market has harmed the more traditional market. (See here, here and here.) I predicted games for the next wave of consoles would be sold via digital distribution, but the next consoles are going to have to deal with casual games in a way that has not been necessary before - games for http://www.conservatibbs.com/2012/05/video-games-too-expensive-to-survive.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Scott Tibbs)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344374300333206615.post-7631996191355472587Sat, 12 May 2012 12:30:00 +00002012-05-12T08:30:00.285-04:00Richard Lugar did not take his loss well, and here is some entertaining snark about his reaction to losing to Richard Mourdock this past Tuesday. (Hat tip: Hoosier Pundit.) I lost a lot of respect for Lugar in this campaign, from his desperate race-baiting to his shameful lies about Mourdock's property tax records. Lugar's campaign had been throwing mud since last fall, and it was obvious that http://www.conservatibbs.com/2012/05/richard-lugar-sore-loser.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Scott Tibbs)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344374300333206615.post-5914835646786252609Fri, 11 May 2012 08:30:00 +00002012-05-11T04:30:02.027-04:00The Avengers is the culmination of several Marvel films to bring these characters together in one big fight. Several Marvel movies have been building toward this since 2008: Thor, Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk and Captain America. The movie was not perfect, but it did not disappoint. I will not spoil the movie here. Any information in this review is already in the trailers. Here is one problem: http://www.conservatibbs.com/2012/05/movie-review-avengers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Scott Tibbs)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344374300333206615.post-8302725327028819490Thu, 10 May 2012 08:30:00 +00002012-05-10T04:30:02.826-04:00Primary Election Night 2012 was a sweet night, with Richard Mourdock defeating Richard Lugar and sending him into a long-overdue retirement. It was especially nice to see Scott Wells be defeated in his effort to return to the Monroe County Council. At the end of the night, two incumbents were re-nominated while Sophia Travis knocked Warren Henegar out of the race for county council. Henegar's http://www.conservatibbs.com/2012/05/2012-monroe-county-primary-results.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Scott Tibbs)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344374300333206615.post-2468565334346052718Wed, 09 May 2012 08:30:00 +00002012-05-09T04:30:03.451-04:00The Washington Post bemoaned a decision in Maryland that police cannot take DNA samples from people when they are arrested, using some strange logic in the process. I addressed the issue of DNA testing back in 2009 when the Indiana Legislature was considering it. It is important to remember that arrested is not the same as convicted, and we should be wary of the police setting up a database with http://www.conservatibbs.com/2012/05/washington-posts-strange-orwellian.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Scott Tibbs)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344374300333206615.post-4209064386086937028Wed, 09 May 2012 01:22:00 +00002012-05-08T21:22:56.529-04:00Waiting on precinct committeeman results. Right now my one of my opponents is leading me by 1 vote in absentee ballots. Totals are 7 to 6 to 2. We'll see how it goes with today's votes in the precinct. Delegate race right now are 413 to 287 to 216 with 3 people going for 2 spots on the ballot. I have 287. I may get to go to the convention, but we'll see. It's still very early.http://www.conservatibbs.com/2012/05/election-night-2012.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Scott Tibbs)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344374300333206615.post-8755048216166270129Tue, 08 May 2012 21:45:00 +00002012-05-08T17:45:00.053-04:00Michael Barone writes at Townhall: "Harvard and Warren say her claim to minority status had nothing to do with her being hired... The important thing is the Warren story illustrates the rottenness of our system of racial quotas and preferences." OK, I agree that any sort of racial preference is immoral. But if Warren was not given special treatment for her race, how does that prove anything? http://www.conservatibbs.com/2012/05/excuse-me-what-is-problem-here.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Scott Tibbs)0