“Indiana” on The Daily Caller

In the increasingly Tea Party-dominated world of Republican politics, feelings of alienation and irrelevance have begun to set in among the social conservative movement. (more)

“When the people fear the government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”  It’s almost as if Thomas Jefferson could see November 2010 coming. (more)

Forty-three Memorial Days ago—four wars ago now—I was a second lieutenant artillery observer with the 9th Infantry Division’s Mobile Riverine Force in the Mekong Delta of South Vietnam. The day I set out for that incredible combat zone five months earlier, I began a journey to an unknown destination, a place inside myself I had not yet discovered. (more)

A U.S. Justice Department investigation uncovered new details about the scope of problems at a former state juvenile center in Indianapolis, including “a rampant sexual environment” and unnecessary strip searches. (more)

An Indiana Census worker has been arrested for the rape and assault of a physically handicapped girl. Daniel Miller, a volunteer worker for the U.S. Census was going through Pekin, Indiana asking questions of residents for the survey last Tuesday. Apparently on Saturday, at 4:30 a.m., Miller returned while heavily intoxicated and broke into one of the houses along his Census route. (more)

Pearl Carter and Phil Bailey, 26, have paid a surrogate mother £20,000 to have Mr Bailey’s child, which the couple plan to bring up together. (more)

Voters head to the polls in Indiana, Ohio and North Carolina Tuesday for primary elections. In the age of the Tea Parties and anti-incumbency sentiment, all three should give some insight into whether 2010 really will be a down-with-the-establishment year. (more)

As far as he has come, there’s still a long way to go for Brandon Crawford until he evolves from the oldest player in college to the oldest rookie in the NFL. (more)

The man who made perhaps the most famous shot in cinematic hoops history never played high school basketball. (more)

If this is an election year that’s supposed to bring a political sea change, why are so many ex-lawmakers dusting off their campaign signs and running to get their old jobs back? (more)

Around Butler University these days, it’s hard to tell fact from fiction, real from what might have been dreamed. (more)

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Republicans made major hay Tuesday out of the “news” (it was reported by the Washington Post today after several days of reporting by The Daily Caller and other news organizations) that Democrats may use the “Slaughter solution” to pass the health care bill. (more)

If U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts comes to his niece’s graduation at Butler University, it won’t be as the commencement speaker. (more)

Reps. Jeb Hensarling and Mike Pence, two conservative Republicans pushing a proposal for a spending limit amendment to the Constitution say they aren’t “naïve” in recognizing its poor chances of ratification. (more)

The National Football League is entering a new phase of the 2010 season, the player recruitment campaign will start on March 5 and there are new rules for this endeavor because the owners have decided to blow up the old collective bargaining agreement, a document that kept both owners and players relatively happy. (more)

Add one more name to the list of possible 2012 Republican candidates for president: Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels. (more)

He sang about small towns but might be considering a move to Washington, D.C. Grammy Award-winning rocker John Mellencamp may make a run for the Senate seat recently vacated by Democrat Evan Bayh. (more)

The rush to fill Sen. Evan Bayh’s seat in Indiana is on. (more)

Hoosier politics took an unexpected turn Monday night when Democratic Senate candidate Tamyra d’Ippolito accused the White House of conspiring with party officials to secretly draft Rep. Baron Hill to run against her. (more)