Rapacious lawyers discover climate change, and you know the results can't be good:
From being a marginal and even mocked issue, climate-change litigation is fast emerging as a new frontier of law where some believe hundreds of billions of dollars are at stake.
South Bend officials feel like they've been mugged by Newsweek:
City leaders dismissed a new Newsweek list describing South Bend as one of the nation's 10 "dying" cities, and said they aren't worried it will hurt the city's reputation.
This one's for the "With friends like this, you don't need enemies" file, perhaps with the subcategory, "If you allow yourself to be lectured on conservatism by The Journal Gazette editorial page, you deserve what happens." Tea party activists are seeking to challenge Sen. Richard Lugar in the primary next year on the grounds that he is not sufficiently conservative. Now the senator is being defended vigrously by The Journal Gazette. Case closed!
Yes, Illinois, thank you very much. We would love to have your Jimmy John's:
I suppose Pointless, Extravagant Pile of Crap is out of the question:
We are one community, and our commitment to building a more attractive and competitive Fort Wayne and Allen County was strengthened with the decision to bring nearly all City and County government together in two downtown buildings.
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What should the community call the new government building at 200 E Berry?
The U.S. House yesterday voted mostly along party lines to repeal Obamacare. The measure will either fail in the Senate or get veoted by President Obama. Everybody knew that going in, but this was an important first step in keeping the debate going so that Obamacare is a major issue in the 2012 presidential race. And on the same day:
I was thinking about doing a "Hu's on First" parody, but I checked on line, and somebody already did it, way back in 'O2. Here it is, starring George Bush and Condi Rice
:Condi: Hu is the new leader of China.
George: That's what I want to know.
Condi: That's what I'm telling you.
George: That's what I'm asking you. Who is the new leader of China?
Condi: Yes.
George: I mean the fellow's name.
What are these "universal human rights" of which some of you Earthlings speak?
I wasn't planning to comment on President Obama's promise to "root out regulations that conflict, that are not worth the cost, or that are just plain dumb" because there's no point in debunking such outright hokum. If there's anybody alive who believes Barack Obama can be a deregulator, he probably shouldn't be let out of the house. But maybe there is value in stating the obvious:
