Current Affairs

How would you describe Evan Bayh? How about "sainted moderate" who is now going to "reap lobbying bucks"?

Note to Senate Democrats who have to run for re-election in 2012: Some of you may have blown your last chance:

Efforts to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law died a quick death in the Senate Wednesday, but the GOP got a consolation prize — a bipartisan fix to a tax-reporting requirement in the law that was widely panned by businesses.

The discussion continues on Mitch Daniels and his "truce on social issues." A Notre Dame professor takes exception to the National Review post and comes to Mitch's defense:

Is this the future?

News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch and a gaggle of tech and media chroniclers gathered Wednesday at the Guggenheim Museum in New York for a first look at the debut edition of The Daily, News Corp.'s experimental iPad "newspaper."

Even Democrats? It's a miracle

The Wall Street Journal seems almost giddy over the opportunity presented by this "constitutional moment":

Lots of interesting stuff in the latest Gallup poll, including this bit on health care:

And on Obama's proudest achievement, his signature healthcare legislation, only 13% like the idea of keeping it as is. Everyone else favors minor changes, major changes or tossing out the entire thing.

Guns can be picked up and used for good or evil, but they are morally neutral objects. Gun-control advocates always try to obscure this point as they strain mightily, without success, to connect the dots between bad gun acts and lawful gun ownership. So in commenting on efforts by some state legislators to ease a number of gun restrictions, The Journal Gazette just has to tie it to a recent murder:

Good move:

The much-maligned, color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System is about to be consigned to the proverbial dustbin of history.

Not that anyone is really paying attention.

First, they came for our toilets, and we had to put up with it. Next, they came for our light bulbs, and we were told to suck it up. Now, we're not allowed to have clean dishes, either: