Politics and other nightmares

There goes France, out to the cutting edge again:

Ladies of Paris, you no longer have to fear arrest for wearing trousers in the French capital.

Heard a story once that may be apocryphal but is so good it should be true even if it isn't, so I've used it anecdotally in editorials several times. It's the one about the famous department store that got its start as a pushcart vendor whose owners, on achieving success, made a priority of having pushcarts outlawed. Now here's the real thing:

Skeeter-in-chief

Another green-energy fantasy crashes into reality:

REYNOLDS, Ind.— The town of Reynolds has one stoplight, one gas station, 533 residents, 150,000 pigs and was once touted as BioTown USA, a place where then-Gov. Mitch Daniels visited after taking office in 2005.

This does not compute:

As Barack Obama begins his second term in office, trust in the federal government remains mired near a historic low, while frustration with government remains high. And for the first time, a majority of the public says that the federal government threatens their personal rights and freedoms.

I really wasn't going to comment on this, but it's been getting international attention, and now even the governor has weighed in:

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has asked for a briefing on the case of the Connersville couple being prosecuted for illegally possessing a deer they rescued and tried to raise until it could be returned to the wild, but he said it appears conservation officers “acted appropriately.”

Hey, Rick, like the way you think, but we're way ahead of you:

Blatant disregard for the First Amendment:

Uh-huh:

New estimates from a Norwegian research project show meeting targets for minimizing global warming may be more achievable than previously thought.

Oh, really?

San Diego Police Chief, William Lansdowne said in an interview that the implementation of new gun laws could allow for the disarming of Americans within a generation.