Politics and other nightmares

What a shock:

INDIANAPOLIS - A national expert says Indiana lawmakers face big logistical and financial challenges in implementing the federal health care overhaul.

If the president's panel on the deficits and debt say the country can't survive the VAT or some other new revenue scheme, just call them liars:

So, where would you rather be a prisoner? Guantanamo?

Now, most of the detainees, upwards of 80%, live in groups. In return for good behavior, the detainees get more privileges.
They are even Skyping now, according to Lt. Col. Andrew McManus, who is the deputy commander at GTMO's joint detention group.

Talk about signs of the times:

On the road leading to Dulles Airport outside Washington, DC there's a 10' x 11' road sign touting a runway improvement project funded by the federal stimulus. The project cost nearly $15 million and has created 17 jobs, according to recovery.gov.

A bunch of whiny readers is trying to stir up trouble in Indianapolis:

Dozens of readers stretched out with books on blankets and in lawn chairs on the American Legion Mall across the street from the main branch of the Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library, reading quietly to themselves to protest proposed budget cuts that could reduce hours and close library branches.

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A blow against censorship and for the First Amendment:

The Evansville Courier & Press has the same problem I do in grasping the difference between textbooks and school bus rides:

Indiana law providing for a free public education grows curiouser and curiouser. How could a school bus ride be essential to a uniform system of public education, but textbooks are not?

Pushed by advocates for veterans, the federal government has made it easier for veterans to get disability benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder. They will no longer have to document specific events like battles or roadside-bomb blasts -- as President Obama says, veterans on the battlefield shouldn't have to keep notes. But some of those advocates are now saying the new rule doesn't go far enough:

Thanks to a legal opinion from Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller, some of Indiana's Larry, Darryl and Darryl school corporations won't be able to do just anything for a buck:

Charging a fee to ride the bus to a public school violates the state's constitution, Indiana's attorney general said Monday.

Here's one of those "Who's on first?" situations. A judge has struck down a federal statute on grounds that it violates states' rights, and conservatives who normally complain about federal power are outraged, and liberals who usually love federal power are celebrating. Perfectly understandable considering the nature of the law in question: