Politics and other nightmares

Congressional Quarterly says Indiana is still likely to go Republican in the presidential race:

Well, here we go again. The details change every time the governor brings this up, but the essence of the plan -- using vice to fund virtue -- remains the same:

Keep using that First Amendment, bloggers, while you still have it:

There's a huge concern among conservative talk radio hosts that reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine would all-but destroy the industry due to equal time constraints. But speech limits might not stop at radio. They could even be extended to include the Internet and “government dictating content policy.”

There's that wonderful scene in "Back to the Future" in which Marty tells Doc Brown that in the 1980s, Ronald Reagan is president. Oh, yeah? Doc answers. "Who's vice president -- Jerry Lewis?" That's no more improbable than imagining who the next secretary of defense might be:

It is true that the old press (mainstream media, legacy media, whatever) absoultely tanked on the John Edwards story. Whether it's because of liberal bias, a death wish, sheer incompetence or some other reason is being vigorously debated elsewhere. But the Clinton people are making just a tad too much of it:

BetUS.com has new odds out, and it's Evan Bayh on top:

I missed the column in Sunday's JG by Mindy Waldron, an administrator with the county health department, but I heard Pat White talking about it on WOWO on my drive home yesterday, so I hunted it up. The department has gotten a reputation for being a bunch of rule-obsessed, meddling busybodies because of its apparent attempt to kill outdoor cooking by restaurants.

I've decided I want a federal government job. I want a nice title, a big office, a hefty salary and an army of bureaucratic fussbudgets I can send around the country to make people's lives miserable. I shall lobby to become the Tire Pressure Minister:

What's the opposite of "Speaksoftly and carry a big stick"?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush told Russia on Monday to end its military action in Georgia and said it appeared Moscow was trying to overthrow the elected government of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.

I told my cats last week to start behaving or face serious consequences. Can cats laugh? Putin can.

I haven't been in a lot of coffeehouses, so I'll have to take take Dave Beckham's word for it they're hotbets of liberal radicalism. Even if it is true, it's certainly because of the kind of people who go to coffeehouses, not because a bunch of sneaky progressives came up with brilliant business plans. So I don't think Beckham's solution is going to fuffill any great unmet need in Crown Point: