Politics and other nightmares

Hillary Clinton talks tough:

So you're sitting in a bar, sipping a beer and minding your own business. But here come the police to roust you anyway:

During the sweep, authorities also conducted bar checks at the Bank Lounge at 1078 Kenmore Blvd., where patrons were arrested on drug charges, and at the Boulevard Lounge at 995 Kenmore Blvd., where liquor violations were issued against the liquor permit holder and several patrons were charged with drug offenses, Edwards said.

Another myth that won't die down:

Tuesday, April 22, is the national observance of Equal Pay Day, the day when individuals throughout the country recognize the wage gap between working women and men. Equal Pay Day is held annually in April to signify the point into a year that a woman must work to earn what a man made the previous year.

This should go over real well among Indiana Republicans:

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels elicited several hushed gasps and raised eyebrows late last week as he lectured a conservative crowd that it was "time to let Ronald Reagan go."

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Well, good luck with that:

And finally — and perhaps most importantly — McCain will rely on free media to an unprecedented degree to get out his message in a fashion that aims to not only minimize his financial disadvantage but also drive a triangulated contrast among himself, the Democratic nominee and President Bush.

The Evansville Courier & Press has an article comparing the renovation of the Memorial Coliseum and the possible renovation of Roberts Stadium in Evansville:

Cindy MCain has become the latest person to embarrass a presidential campaign. Evidently, she submitted a "family" recipe to a newspaper that actually turned out to be lifted from the Food Network:

Yeah, Obama sucked in the debate, but everybody who's pointing that out is missing the point that it doesn't matter:

Via Reason Online's Hit & Run, here's Rep. Barney Frank on his proposed marijuana decriminalization, sounding positively libertarian:

I would have said Evan Bayh is no Mike Pence, but he's sounding pretty good.

Here's Pence, responding to calls for him to back off from his no-pork pledge

Pence said this year he won't request money for projects in his Muncie-area district be included in next year's federal budget. Most spending bills include money for “earmarks,” which are specific projects identified by individual lawmakers.