Politics and other nightmares

Boy, somebody should nip this malfeasance in the bud before other politicians start imitating the idea:

A township trustee in northeastern Indiana won't be collecting any property taxes this year, saying the township has plenty of money in the bank.

I have a neighbor to whom I'm eternally grateful. As long as she lives there, I'll never have the worst lawn on the black. Same deal here:

It puts a strain on the whole family when Grampy gets grumpy, but, hey, it's a natural thing. A Journal & Courier columnist spots "Richard Lugar on an unfamiliar low road":

Lugar's guys ask whether the state treasurer, who keeps gaining in the polls ahead of the May 8 primary, is: "Incompetent? Careless? Tax Cheat?"

Stop thinking in terms of economic issues such as profit and loss, says a historian specializing in the American Revolution -- the postal service is a civic institution, not a business:

This is a worse nanny state intrusion than the "Here, Kid, eat this and go tell your mother she doesn't care enough about you to give you healthy food" lunchroom incident:

A proposal from the Obama administration to prevent children from doing farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism from rural-district members of Congress. But now it’s attracting barbs from farm kids themselves.

Feeling nice and safe today, are you?

Can the Tea Party beat Dick Lugar? Yes, it's quite possible, says Allysia Finley, a Wall Street Journal editorial writer and assistant editor of OpinionJournal.com

Scary:

Happy Earth Day!

Today is Earth Day, the annual bacchanalia of self abuse invented by the environmental movement to remind everyone that the human race is a pestilence upon this planet. It is a celebration by the self righteous for the hysterical.

The Indiana Supreme Court tackles the mo-ped/motorized bike confusion: