1. Announce with great fanfare that citizen suggestions are being sought for a name for the new home of 40 city and county departments.
2. Flatly reject the name that got the overwhelming majority of citizen votes.
3. In a carefully worded announcement that omitted mention of the former mayor's name, Mayor Tom Henry said today the building will be known as “Citizens Square."
You could immediately grasp the flawed thinking behind President Bush's education policy just by its name: No Child Left Behind. That's an absurd, unachievable goal that can only be announced by a politician too long in the fantasy world in which government can do absoutely anything. Now comes President Obama to seek a change in the policy that would be even more delusional:
Still drowsy after the loss of an hour's sleep on DST weekend? Still eye-popping mad about the whole concept? This rant from six years ago should wake you up or calm you down, as the case may be:
New York Times legal commentator Linda Greenhouse analyzes Antonin Scalia's blistering dissents and wonders what "this smart, rhetorically gifted man thinks his bullying accomplishes?" She ventures the opinion that he cannot contain himself because he has become so furious and resentful at not getting all that much accomplished.
But Scalia had a better explanation in 2008 when The Wall Street Journal asked him if he viewed judicial dissent as a form of advocacy.
A righteous rant from Rand Paul, speaking to Kathleen Hogan, DOE deputy assistant secretary of energy efficiency:
“Light bulbs, refrigerators, toilets, you name it. You can't go around your house without being told what to buy,” Paul said. “You restrict my purchases. You don't care about my choices. You don't care about the consumer.
This is a proposed cut in state funding that hasn't been getting much attention. It's escaped mine, anyway. From a letter to the editor in the Indianpolis Star:
Is this naivete or wishful thinking?
Tim Pawlenty said the GOP field needs to avoid "wailing on each other" and that he doesn't plan to attack his Republican rivals in the leadup to the 2012 primaries.
Wisconsin isn't the only state being descended upon by imported protesters:
Union leaders predicted up to 25,000 would protest at the Indiana Statehouse today.
OK, we all know what the NPR guy said and why it embarrassed two people into quitting (or being forced out). But what about the video sting technique, that of people pretending to be what they're not? In one view:
