Politics and other nightmares

Some conservatives are freaking out because they think Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scali a, in an interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News, is waffling on gun control and won't be as staunch a Second Amendment supporter as they had supposed he would be:

Juxtaposition of the day.

And this:

Is there anything Mayor Bloomberg doesn't think should be controlled by the state?

The nanny state is going after moms.

Mayor Bloomberg is pushing hospitals to hide their baby formula behind locked doors so more new mothers will breast-feed.

Happy 22nd anniversary to the Americans With Disabilities Act. Bet you didn't know how much that act is needed -- 19 percent of Americans are disabled. Of course, there's disabled, then there's disabled:

Anybody think these are going to be helpful?

The details regarding the highly-anticipated presidential and vice presidential debates of 2012 have been released. There will be four debates this election cycle – 3 of which will be presidential debates and 1 will be a vice presidential debate.

"Lord, what a world!" department:

The Indiana gubernatorial race is getting downright ugly, and someone should tell the candidates to cut it out:

Indiana Republicans opened a line of attack on Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Gregg on Tuesday with the argument that he spent too much of the state's money during his time in the General Assembly.

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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg may not have the stupidest gun-control plan ever uttered, but it'll do until the real thing comes along. "Disarm yourselves, or we'll stop protecting and serving you."

Let's hear it for Bush and Obama, the bipartisan spending machine!

Here's a clear case of unfairness, disenfranchisement of a group of voters that will have a clear disparate impact:

INDIANAPOLIS — Several Southwestern Indiana counties are among those that have caught the attention of election watchers for failing to purge their voter rolls of people who have died or left town.