Politics and other nightmares

Chris Chocola, former Indiana congressman and president of the Club for Growth, writes in the National Review that it's time to bring Richard Lugar home:

Talk about being in a tough spot -- having to depend on your adversary for help. After disputed signatures on his petitions were thrown out, Rick Santorum came up eight votes short of the number of signatures he needed in Congressional District 7. But state law still leaves him on the ballot unless at least three of the four members of the Indiana Election Commission vote to kick him off:

Wow. Grover Norquist certainly has a low opinion of the GOP presidential field:

Earlier this month, we learned that Ruth Bader Ginsburg wouldn't recommend our own Constitution as a model for other countries considering one, because, you know, it's really too old to be relevant today, and it doesn't guarantee nearly enough rights, and it's much too hard to change. That seemed to me to betray a complete ignorance of what a constitution should be -- a bedrock of principles upon which the law is erected.

In its "Weekly scorecard" feature on the Saturday editorial page, the Journal Gazette put this item on Richard Lugar in the Tossups catetory instead of the Losers category:

The senator’s lack of a true residence in Indiana is legal – but it looks bad in an election year, particularly after disclosures that taxpayers paid for his hotel rooms when he visited the Hoosier state.

It was William F. Buckley Jr. who said he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston telephone directory than by the 2,000 people on the faculty at Harvard. In that spirit:

Federal spending outrage of the day:

Hey, let's have a role-reversal party!

Conservative George Will says Republicans should knock off the war-mongering:

"We don't like your stinkin' law!"

"Oh, OK, never mind."

Indiana is one of 10 states seeking and receiving a waiver from the No Child Left Behind Act. Even more states are set to request the waivers:

I've had a nice thing or two to say about the ACLU recently. Wouldn't want to make a habit of that, though, so allow me to note with distaste that organization's astonishing and repugnant claim that President Obama's decision to mandate coverage for birth control does not violate the religious-liberty guarantee of the First Amendment: