Kole Hard Facts of Life

Election Notes #5, Precinct Results This is just a very thin scan of the precinct results that make me feel good, in response to a comment o...

No Spin, Indeed I was listening to Bill O'Reily today, because I wanted to self-flagellate for some private guilt. It was horrible! He w...

The Star Has It Wrong The Indy Star published an opinion on annexation this morning. It's the usual Star brand of milquetoast, taking n...

Election Notes, Part 4 Immediately after the election, I was pretty down on my results. I'm not used to losing, and while I accepted goi...

Glad I Fled Marion County, Part 8 The City-County Council Democrats showed where they have their priorities. From this morning's Star : ...

Check Your Premises Thanks to Jeff Pruitt for offering the thought provoking response to my previous post! I disagree with him at the most f...

Privatization Fears? Indiana's left blogosphere is suffering a heavy case of Chicken Little-ism right now over the growing number of pri...

Statewide Anti-Annexation PAC Formed I was delighted to learn that the statewide anti-forced annexation political action committee (PAC) is ...

The Decline of the American Comedy Club Accordingly, this is written in the most politically correct fashion I can muster. I think everybody...

US Foreign Policy, Iraq, and Intervention First things first: I was against the war in Iraq from the beginning. Agreed that Saddam Hussein w...

Post-Election Notes, Part 3 If you want to lose 30 pounds, run for statewide office like you mean it. This is not for everyone, and I certai...

Osborn's Recount This has been heavy on my mind for some time. Here are the basics: Steve Osborn, recently defeated Libertarian candidat...

Few Posts My apologies for the lack of posts. I'm still tyiping with 1.5 hands. The pins have been removed from my right hand and the pr...

Thanksgiving Reunion in Cle It was fun to get back to Cleveland for the extended weekend to visit family and to see many friends I haven...

One Out, One To Go About two weeks before the election, I had an accident had home. I tripped over the dog at the top of the stairs. As I be...

Charlie Rangel Attacks Your Civil Liberties When I first heard about it about a year and a half ago, I thought this miserable idea of Charli...

The Passing of a Giant Sadly, today we learn that Milton Friedman has died. From the AP report in the Indy Star : His theories won him a Nob...

Post-Election Notes, Part 2 A couple things have kept me from writing more reflections- the surgically repaired right hand that is useless f...

Weekend Wind-Down After two years of campaigning and general hyper-activity, the Koles and friends took off for the hills of Kentucky for a ...

Spoilers, eh? I hope! If Libertarian "took votes from" Republicans, let it be a lesson to the GOP that it isn't enough to give...