Politics and other nightmares

Aha, an explanation perhaps for the bizarre behavior of Anthony Weiner:

It's do-or-die time for some Hoosier schools:

Eighteen Indiana schools, including two in Fort Wayne, have a lot riding on statewide test scores that will be released this summer. If the schools fail again — marking a sixth consecutive year of being on academic probation — the state could turn them over to private companies charged with spurring improvement.

Has the global warming climate change hysteria peaked?

The earth's climate is always changing, sometimes dramatically. During the medieval warming of a thousand years ago, temperatures were much higher than they are now; during the Little Ice Age six centuries later they were much lower.

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If you find yourself in trouble, and public safety agencies have to rescue you, well, that's what they're there for. But what if your peril is the result of acting like a damn fool?

Those who trigger such responses should be held to account if they knowingly create the circumstances from which they must be rescued.

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What if President Obama wrote an advice column?

Q Dear President Obama, My white shirt has chewing gum stuck to it. Any suggestions?

Vanessa Phelps, Stevenage, Herts.

A Let this be known. Where there is chewing gum, there shall always be a problem.

A judge has thrown out drunken driving counts against an Indianapolis cop who crashed into motorcyclists and killed him, essentially on a technicality, leaving him to face only one felony count of reckless homicide:

 The ruling dealt a blow to Prosecutor Terry Curry's efforts to show that Bisard was driving drunk when his police cruiser crashed into three motorcyclist Aug. 6 on the Northeastside.

This isn't too scary:

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has begun field testing new technology designed to identify people who intend to commit a terrorist act.

It's definitely a good day when a liberal columnist takes The New York Times to task for being so surprised that violent crime is now at nearly a 40-year low despite the recession followed by a very weak recovery:. Says Richard Cohen:

Political opportunism is to be expected, but they're abusing the privilege: Even longtime Washington insiders say they are struck by the brazenness with which Rebuplicans and Democrats are changing their rhetoric to woo senior voters.

Just a little over a year ago, Rep.  John Boehner (R-Ohio) took to the House floor to warn America of the perils facing seniors if Democrats' healthcare reform bill wasn't stopped.

It can get kind of tricky when you have two experts testifying in court who contradict each other, as happened in the case of Latisha Lawson, on trial for the murder of her 2-year-old son:

Another unanswered question is whether Lawson was sane at the time of Jezaih's death. Two doctors