Politics and other nightmares

Not exactly a brilliant campaign strategy:

AP)  PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Jon Huntsman is betting his entire presidential campaign on New Hampshire. And he's not trying to hide it.

It's conventional wisdom among many that the GOP took a drubbing in 2006 and 2008 because it had failed to be "sufficiently Republican," a sentiment summed up by Mike Pences's much quoted observation that "we did not just lose our majority, we lost our wasy. In recent years, our majority voted to expand the federal government's role in education by nearly 100 percent, created the largest new entitlement in 40 years, and pursued spending policies that created record deficits, national debt and rampant earmark spending.”

Yesterday I meant to comment on The Journal Gazette's Sunday editorial about Occupy Fort Wayne, but time slipped away from me. The piece is a rather hamfisted exercise in belaboring the obvious:

The obesity and nutrition police will be here tomorrow, and there will be a tastebud inspection at 0900:

Visiting an organic farm in Hawaii on Saturday, First Lady Michelle Obama said that “arugula and steak” was her “favorite” meal and expressed her view that American children need to “get their palates adjusted” so they will begin eating properly.

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It's not particularly shocking that friends of Margaret Thatcher suspect the new Meryl Streep movie of her life might be a "leftwing fantasy." That's about what you'd expect given the opinion Hollywood and the right have of each other. But the reason for the suspicion is interesting:

Universities of Michigan and Chicago law professor Catharine A. MacKinnon, 1998, on Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky:

A commentary in the Indiana Daily Student makes a good point about this state's deplorable ballot access procedures, making Indiana one of the five most difficult for indpendent and third-party candidates (along with Texas, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Georgia):

Breaking news isn't often my concern here, but this is big/bigger/biggest stuff:

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's health- care overhaul in a clash that will shape the 2012 election and spell out the extent of the federal government's power.

"Shrinking zone of privacy" question of the day: Should police be able to track you by placing a GPS unit on your car, without getting a warrant?

Thank goodness for small blessings: