The latest bulletin from the administration with an all-of-the-above energy policy:
The Environmental Protection Agency will issue the first limits on greenhouse-gas emissions from new power plants as early as Tuesday, according to several people briefed on the proposal. The move could end the construction of new conventional coal-fired facilities in the United States.
Ah, the world we live in:
In a bizarre case of political correctness run wild, educrats have banned references to “dinosaurs,” “birthdays,” “Halloween” and dozens of other topics on city-issued tests.
That’s because they fear such topics “could evoke unpleasant emotions in the students.”
OK, separation of church and state. I get it. Can't have the government trying to impose a religion on us. But so many of the complaints against religious impulses these days are too trivial to take seriously. I'm supposed to believe this is a threat against my religious freedoms?
Reporters gone wild!
In this politically charged climate, Wisconsin residents have gotten caught up in state politics with an intensity not seen in decades.
It's an issue this newspaper has covered extensively, including Sunday, when the Gannett Wisconsin Media Investigative Team broke a story exposing 29 circuit court judges who signed the petitions to recall Gov. Scott Walker.
One of my favorite political books is Virginia Postrel's "The Future and its Enemies." I was so impressed by it when if came out in 1998 that I bought copies for all my staff members so we could discuss it (that was back in the heady days when I still had a staff). Naturally, they just put them on their shelves and never read them.
Don't expect any help from the governor in choosing a presidential candidate:
Ever hear of the steamship Sultana? Most people haven't (including me, until I stumbled across an article about it this week), even though its demise marked the worst maritime disaster in Amercan history. (And here's a whole book about it.) On the night of April 27, 1865, the steamer was on the Mississippi River near Memphis, loaded with soldiers who were veterans of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. The boiler exploded, and more that 1,800 of the passengers died.
It's getting harder and harder for Sen. Lugar to put the residency controversy behind him:
Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar’s residency problems just grew more uncomfortable: He’s reimbursing the Treasury for erroneously billing taxpayers for a series of hotel stays in Indianapolis in recent years.
The cynical axiom (anthough a libertarian would say it is merely realistic) is that government can only go in one direction: bigger. Here's the exception that proves the rule:
KELLER -- Keller City Manager Dan O'Leary decided that someone from the top management ranks at City Hall had to go. So the person he laid off was himself.
