Let's put Michele Bachmann's politics aside for a moment and argue about that another day. The big story in the last few days has been how debilitating her migraine headaches might be:
One former top Bachmann staffer, who denied being a source of the Daily Caller report, told POLITICO the congresswoman's migraines were so prevalent that the entire office and campaign staff — even interns — knew about the problem.
You want to find an in-the-pen pal, you're on your own:
A federal court has upheld an Indiana Department of Correction policy that prohibits prisoners from advertising for pen-pals.
Indiana prison inmates had filed a class action suit against the state challenging the policy, claiming it violated their constitutional right of free speech.
If God really cared who won the Republican presidential primary, wouldn't he pick just one?
The nanny state is alive and well in Philadelphia:
Reason magazine's blog reports that our nation's crack security forces are protecting us all from the scourge of rogue lemonade stands.
Police in Georgia have shut down a lemonade stand run by three girls trying to save up for a trip to a water park, saying they didn't have a business license or the required permits.
Here's an editorial from yesterday's Journal Gazette that I found especially unsatisfying. The great bulk of it is merely a rehashing of the recent news story about new studies showing that global climate change and bacteria are endangering Indiana beaches -- details piled on details. OK, I get it -- our beaches are getting hotter and diritier. What do you want me to do about it?
We don't get to that until the penultimate sentence, this lonely little exhortation:
This is just telling members of Congress what they want to hear:
Ratings agency Moody's on Monday suggested the United States should eliminate its statutory limit on government debt to reduce uncertainty among bond holders.
The United States is one of the few countries where Congress sets a ceiling on government debt, which creates "periodic uncertainty" over the government's ability to meet its obligations, Moody's said in a report.
Reaction to President Obama's "don't call my bluff" warning is today's proof that we live in parallel universes. First, Charles Krauthammer:
President Obama is demanding a big long-term budget deal. He won't sign anything less, he warns, asking, “If not now, when?”
I think government offices should file their financial documents on time. And it's reasonable to have stiff penalties for those that don't. But I'm not sure it would be wise to give so much power to a state agency full of bureaucrats:
The State Board of Accounts is considering a controversial rule that would allow the agency to remove public officials from office if they fail to provide legally required financial documents.
A few days ago, the Christian Science Monitor had an article pointing out that the humble incandescent light bulb isn't really being "banned":
