Politics and other nightmares

Quick, Give me Hillary Clinton's full name, including the middle one. Bet you anything your first answer was wrong.

I doubt that, A) we're quite on the verge of a "post-racial" America or that, B) Barack Obama is the person who will lead us there. But it's so overdue:

When Rep. Scott Reske, D-Pendleton, directed the words “racism” and “hate” toward Indiana House Republicans, reaction was swift. Rep. Jack Lutz, R-Anderson, accused Reske of playing the race card.

A friend who is no particular fan of the BMV wanted to make sure I passed along her experience. She went in to the New Haven branch to renew her driver's license on Friday. That involves taking the eye test, having a new photo taken, waiting behind whoever got there ahead of you. But she got in and out in under 10 minutes. She hasn't been that impressed by anything "Jaws" (being a bit of a shark fan).

The Tim Goeglein scandal came and went in a single day. Such is the digital age, several characteristics of which this story illuminates:

1. The blazing speed. It was 7:30 a.m. Friday when former News-Sentinel columnist Nancy Nall posted on her blog:

My, my, my. Tim Goeglein, director of the White House office of public liaison, is a plagiarist.

(Twenty times. That number is important later on, so remember it.)

I swear, every time there's a story about prison issues, there is a dunderheaded observation like this:

Think her appearance on our ballot will really be necessary come May?

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has filed necessary petitions to be on Indiana's May 6 primary ballot.

Clinton supporters led by Purdue student Amanda Morris turned in a box of signatures to the Secretary of State's office Wednesday.

Before a Democrat gets in the White House and destroys our economy with protectionist nonsense, more people should stand up and defend NAFTA:

His campaign claims a million jobs have vanished because of the deal. That sounds devastating, but over the last 14 years, the American economy has added a net total of 25 million jobs—some of them, incidentally, attributable to expanded trade with Mexico. When NAFTA took effect in 1994, the unemployment rate was 6.7 percent. Today it's 4.9 percent.

Woo-hoo!

In a close vote this afternoon, the Indiana Senate approved legislation that would allow paper pull tabs in bars and taverns.

Under the legislation, which was passed by a 26-21 vote, bars and taverns across the state would be allowed to offer pull tabs and other forms of low-stakes gambling. 

If you're one of Barack Obama's "hope for change" brigade, you really won't like this article:

"Cherchez la femme," advised Alexander Dumas in: "When you want to uncover an unspecified secret, look for the woman." In the case of Barack Obama, we have two: his late mother, the went-native anthropologist Ann Dunham, and his rancorous wife Michelle. Obama's women reveal his secret: he hates America.