Politics and other nightmares

I like this screed from Mark Steyn via Instapundit:

It could happen here:

The Supreme Court, in a narrow 5-4 decision, has an upheld an injunction by a three-judge panel ordering California to release about 46,000 inmates -- more than one-fourth the state prison population -- over the next two years to relieve overcrowding.

Good for him -- Attorney General Greg Zoeller has joined the chorus of critics urging the Indiana Supreme Court to revisit its 3-2 ruling that "the right to reasonably resist an unlawful police entry into a home is no longer recognized under Indiana law."

Tons and tons of stuff out there about Mitch Daniels' decision not to run for president. I like this:

Those of you who like to note turning-point (or tipping-point) milestones might consider that history could look back on this year as a major one. Several major polls this year have recorded for the first time that a majority of Americans now favor legalizing gay marriage. Now add Gallup:

Now that Mitch Daniels seems almost ready to announce a presidential bid, people are scouring Lexis/Nexis to find evidence of conservative heresies. The search for his remarks on health care have so far produced only one damaging quote -- from a piece in the South Bend Tribune during his gubernatorial bid -- which seemed to indicate support for an individual health-care mandate.

Indiana got screwed. Under the original provisions of the Northwest Ordinance, Illinois would have had a boundary tangent to the southern tip of Lake Michigan, giving the state no Lake Michigan shoreline.

The JG today has this long story about how the franchise fees paid to the city indicate how the cable companies are doing. Comcast shelled out more than $376,000 for the first quarter, compared with about $343,000 from Frontier, which indicates Comcast nabbed some customers. In the pervious quarter, however, Frontier paid more than Comcast, so it probably had the most customers then:

What could possibly go wrong?

A western Indiana school district wants to give its bus drivers the authority to search students for weapons or drugs.

The Tribune-Star reports that the Vigo County School Corp.'s proposal would allow the drivers to search a student and the student's belongings if there is an immediate threat of harm or danger to those on the bus.

Somehow, this is not as shocking as it should be: