Politics and other nightmares

You've got to love subsidized-housing bureaucrats. Every time a project becomes a crime-infested pesthole, one comes along and figures out what went wrong! This time, we'll correct all those mistakes, and we'll have a housing project that really works! Indianapolis Housing Agency chief Bud Myers is the latest one with the brilliant idea, winning the approval of a very unskeptical columnist:

Dan Quayle shows a little common sense:

Former vice-president Dan Quayle will not be strutting his way across the dance floor anytime soon — at least not on TV.

Quayle was invited to compete in the ABC series approximately four to six weeks ago, but declined the invitation immediately, Quayle's assistant confirmed to Access Hollywood.

Why do we crazy libertarians get all jazzed up over things like Los Angeles imposing a one-year moratorium on the construction of fast-food restaurants? asks Ezra Klein:

The Department of Homeland Security is getting a little overzealous:

One more reason to not be sad about missing the 2008 Olympics:

AP) 

Polishing up Beijing for the Olympics has extended to the city government telling residents what not to wear, advising against too many colors, white socks with black shoes, and parading in pajamas.

He has a point:

John Weaver,  for years one of John McCain's closest friends and confidants, has been in exile since his resignation from McCain's presidential campaign last year.    With the exception of an occasional interview, he has, by his own account, bit his tongue as McCain's campaign has adopted a strategy that Weaver believes "diminishes John McCain."

Ah, The Nation. In case you don't know that publication, think of the National Review, the Weekly Standard and the American Spectator all rolled into one but aimed at the left, on steroids, and with no internal governor to tell editors when they make the lunatic fringe sound reasonable. That magazine is offering some earnest advice to Barack Obama:

Guess they've solved all their problems in Bloomington:

The Bloomington Peace Action Coalition has announced that the Bloomington City Council will debate and vote on a resolution opposing an attack on Iran and calling on Congress to support a diplomatic resolution to allegations that the country is seeking to develop nuclear weapons.

So, John McCain has gone from "I will not agree to any tax increase" to "nothing's off the table":

Nobody who has ever run for the White House has been a shrinking violet. All politicians think mighty highly of themselves, and presidential candidates can be expected to have the biggest egos of all. But Obama sure does abuse the privilege:

Obama was waxing lyrical about last week's trip to Europe, when he concluded, according to the meeting attendee, "this is the moment, as Nancy [Pelosi] noted, that the world is waiting for."