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Can you recall hearing the Aesop's story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf? The moral of that story is to not cry out in fear when there is no danger for when there actually is we won't come to your rescue having been conditioned by your false alarms. Just as movies get redone to appeal to a contemporary audience and setting so should Aesop's fable about “crying wolf”.

I propose that we nee

One thing that has been on the agenda in all political circles for quite sometime is “education”. This has been increasingly so since the passage of Public Law 107-110 known as the No Child Left Behind Act. Lawmakers throughout Indiana and the nation are dumping more money into so-called education. However, I don't believe that money is being spent solely on education. Today I am going to discuss the differences between “education” and “training” and why you should object to y

When representing yourself in a court proceeding it is still a good idea, more accurately a great idea, to have counsel or, at a minimum, someone to watch over and assist you. I bring this to your attention today because I have a client who failed to appear for a hearing yesterday. According to my client he was to appear in court today at “I think 9:00”.

The hearing was set upon the Petition for Contempt filed by his former wife alleging he failed to pay child support. I

Senator Evan Bayh spent all last Friday at the White House with President Obama to draw attention to the importance of responsible fatherhood. He was the only member of the Senate invited to the home of the President for a series of special events focused on the vital role that engaged fathers play in molding their children into responsible, caring adults.

The Responsible Fatherhood Act, introduced by Bayh and cosponsored by then-Senator Barack Obama in the last Congr

I have long had a policy of not receiving documents prepared in Microsoft Word based upon the very sound reasons of size and compatibility issues. I also do not generate documents using MS programs because of the vast amount of computing resources that MS products use. As an example MS Works uses 97+% of the processor. From MS own support site comes this: “When you run Microsoft Works 2000 Word Processor, you may notice that CPU usage is at or near 100 percent. Microsoft has