Politics and other nightmares

Indiana isn't exactly a voter-friendly state. We don't even have a registration deadline reasonably close to Election Day, let alone the ability to register on the same day as voters can in some states. If you're not registered by the end of the business day on Monday, tough luck. Here's the Secretary of State's site with a link to the registration form. You can fill it in, print it and mail it in, but it has to be postmarked by Monday.

Speaking of the Senate race, an article in The American Spectator says Brad Ellsworth's Senate candidacy will be an important test: "Does Rahm Emanuel's strategy for turning red states blue still work in 2010 -- or has Rahm's boss turned those states red again?" In 2006, when George W. Bush's approval ratings had tanked, the GOP's reputation was in tatters and the war in Iraq was immensely unpopular, Ellsworth ran for the House as a pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, anti-illegal immigration Democrat.

The Tea Party movement is strong enough in Indiana, but on Monday it'll get a boost:

The cross-country Tea Party tour that kicked off with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaking in Nevada last weekend is coming to Evansville on Monday.

Amen:

Step back, and the real question isn't whether the agency has the authority to regulate the Internet - it's why the FCC has authority to regulate anything.

Well, of course they are:

I have a question about the new licensing rules for Indiana teachers that will put more emphasis on mastering the subjects they teach and less on courses about how to teach:

I don't know who will be angrier about this -- conservatives who think they're being suckered into climate-change legislation, or liberals who think their environmental concerns are being sold out:

The big, bad sheriff is going to clean up that nasty old Washington just like he did when he made Vanderburgh County safe for "Hoosier values."

"Let's Pretend" is getting a little out of hand. A woman in Elkhart County pretending to be a Health Department employee showed up at a restaurant:

Told you so:

As difficult as it was, passing the health care bill is only "a critical first step" in overhauling the system so that it "works for all Americans," President Obama told NBC's Today show.

It's always just a "first step" when government does something, and the program always ends up bigger, costlier, more instrusive and unconstitutional than when it started. "Works for all Americans" is