Politics and other nightmares

I think The Journal Gazette's editorial page has discovered a new sin to pin on conservatives: hypocrisy by association. The JG doesn't think much of efforts by a local group to have Allen County Superior Court Judge Ken Scheibenberger thrown off the November ballot:

I've always admired people who are willing to pick themselves up time after time and still try to make something productive out of their lives, no matter how far down they are or how late in life they start the effort:

Is Evan Bayh looking smart for getting out so early, or what? A video from "Morning Joe:

We regularly run columns by Indiana Policy Review adjunct scholar Andrea Neal, and I usually find her conservative Hoosier common sense compelling. But she wrote something in her most recent column about wind power that bothered me. She is properly skeptical of wind power's potential, citing the Heritage Foundation's concerns that it is very costly and doesn't reduce our reliance on fossil fuels.

Time magazine wanders into the Hoosier state in search of an answer to it's headlined question, "How Barack Obama Became Mr. Unpopular":

A sense of disappointment, bordering on betrayal, has been growing across the country, especially in moderate states like Indiana, where people now openly say they didn't quite understand the President they voted for in 2008. The fear most often expressed is that Obama is taking the country somewhere they don't want to go.

It would be good news that an economic incompetent was leaving the White House if there  weren't so many of them left there:

Departing White House chief economist Christina Romer urged Congress on Wednesday to "finish the job of economic recovery" by pumping more cash into the economy through additional tax cuts for businesses and middle-class families, as well as fresh investments in the nation's infrastructure.

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I was hoping Mitch Daniels might be the first governor to just say no to the federal government, but it looks like that honor goes to Time Pawlenty:

Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty Tuesday ordered all state agencies to not to submit applications to any health care funding from the federal government related to the health care overhaul.

Any applications must be either required by law or approved by the governor's office.

I'll believe it when I see it:

Democrats want more economic stimulus. Republicans are unlikely to back new spending programs. The middle ground may be temporary tax cuts.

The basic idea would be to target the cuts to encourage businesses to hire more people and people to spend more money.

What in the world was this "businessman" thinking of?

TERRE HAUTE — The Ballyhoo Tavern today becomes the first smoke-free bar in Terre Haute, a move the business's manager says is a result of the desires of its customers.

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Roger Clemens has gone from baseball great (11-time All-Star, 354 wins, 4,672 strikeouts, certain Hall of Fame inductee) to sleazy drug-taking cheat in near record time: