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INDIANAPOLIS, IN -- The Indiana Chamber of Commerce spotted an early announcement of a new television comedy starring Saturday Night Live cast member Amy Poehler, to be based out of an Indiana civic office.

Hoping for a kind view of Indiana's political class, Chamber blogger Matt Ottinger laughingly begs the NBC sitcom, "Please don't make fun of us."

According to the NBC release on the show, Poehler's comedy isn't intended as a satire on national politics but instead offers a comedic take on how government works in an American town, said Michael Schur, who's executive producer along with Greg Daniels (of "The Office," NBC's other mockumentary-style comedy).

United States -- The Hall of Fame committee moved their schedule ahead this year in order to give the members of the LFS more time to read the nominees. The committee started reading and discussing classic works in August, and have agreed on the list of finalists below. All LFS members will be allowed to vote on this slate in July. The Best Novel winner will be chosen by our Full members (also in July) from a slate which will be nselected in the spring. This approach gives members time to read the Classic works before the rush to read the Best Novel nominees.

The following is the list of finalists for the 2009 Prometheus Hall of Fame award:

• Falling Free, a novel by Lois McMaster Bujold (1988);
• Courtship Rite, a novel by Donald M. Kingsbury (1982);
• "As Easy as A.B.C.," a short story by Rudyard Kipling (1912);
• The Lord of the Rings, a three-volume novel by J. R. R. Tolkien (1955);
  

INDIANAPOLIS, IN -- Foretelling? Likely not. Typos and sloppy? More likely. Regardless, the Indiana Newsroom, a service of the Indiana State website, is offering up a look into the future.

For example, their latest news release announces a sobriety checkpoint in Vanderburgh County.

For immediate release: Dec 26, 2008
Posted by: [ISP]
Contact: Sgt. Todd Ringle, PIO
Phone: 1-812-867-2079 or 1-800-852-3970
Email: tringle@isp.in.gov
State Police Schedule Sobriety Checkpoint for Vanderburgh County

Vanderburgh County - Sometime during this upcoming weekend, Indiana State Police, Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Department and Evansville Police will be conducting a sobriety checkpoint in Vanderburgh County. The exact location, date and time will not be released. Motorists that are not impaired can expect only short delays of 2-3 minutes while passing through the checkpoint.

Netherlands -- YouTube enthusiasts recently posted libertarian limericks for everyone's amusement. Try your hand at your own and email the LPIN at news@lpin.org.

CYBERSPACE, US -- Hey ladies, tired of talking politics with middle-aged guys with bad haircuts? Ms. Libby Belle agrees. The online figure believes so much that image can help spur a political movement to success that she <?> has started Libertarian Hotties.

The online social networking group has its own website, Lib Hotties, as well as its own Facebook site and MySpace page.

Libby Belle states the interest in forming the online community included using attractive pictorials of libertarian women to draw more support, while dispelling the "young white male with a bad haircut" image the party has long hosted.

ELKHART, IN -- Michiana Grassroots United, formerly the Michiana Ron Paul Group, will be meeting at the Elkhart Public Library to watch a public viewing of Washington, You're Fired, a documentary that puts the U.S. Constitution firmly in the spotlight and gives the term "clean-up" a new perspective.

The documentary takes a disturbing look at the last seven years of fundamentally flawed terror-related spy bills; show you how they collectively and negatively impact your civil liberties, and show you how to correct the problem from within your own local government. For instance, almost 500 cities, counties, and states, have enacted localized anti-PATRIOT Act legislation. You could be the next person to lead your community one step closer to the Constitution.

The movie will show at 6:00 p.m. (ET). RSVP at the Elkhart Meetup

The mission of The Future of Freedom Foundation is to advance freedom by providing an uncompromising moral and economic case for individual liberty, free markets, private property, and limited government.

Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality by Elizabeth Price Foley (Yale University Press, 2006); 287 pages, $35.00.

Most Americans have settled somnolently into the view that whatever laws are passed are all right because they’re the product of democracy. To be sure, there are small factions that are heard to argue, “The government has no business doing that!” with respect to issues that adversely affect them, but few people express opposition in principle to the vast array of authoritarian nanny-state enactments we get from federal, state, and local politicians.