Politics and other nightmares

This is good news for voters:

It was hardly a secret, and now it's official: Allen County Sheriff Ken Fries wants to succeed Tom Wyss in the Indiana Senate.

When I was in high school, Mickey D's was the second place I worked. I wasn't aware of anything called the "minimum wage," but I was smart enough to know I was just making chump change. But chumps back then took the change and were glad to get it, because that wasn't the job we intended to spend a lifetime in. Nowadays, the fast food workers are demanding a "living wage" in the form of a doubling of the minimum:

Obamacare is just one in a long list of big-government programs that don't work as advertised:

Peggy Noonan on the "low information leadership" of the Obama team:

Why the GOP base is getting more and more fed up with establishment Republicans:

House Speaker John Boehner has hired a high-profile immigration adviser, his office announced Tuesday, a surprising move that pro-reform and anti-reform advocates alike interpreted as a step toward reform.

USA Today reports, as if it's a bad thing, that Congress has passed fewer laws this year than at any point in the past 66 years. But the proper attitude about that is:

Given the thousands of laws and hundreds of thousands of regulations on the books already, why exactly should we egging Congress on further? There's certainly been no shortage of landmark legislation that has passed this century, almost all of it awful from virtually any perspective.

This is something I won't fault President Obama for:

“With the power vested in me, I grant Popcorn full reprieve from a future of stuffing and cranberry sauce.” — President Obama, Wednesday

I've been waiting for somebody to bring this up, and a New York University history professor does the honors:

Nor does Obama have to fear the voters, which might be the scariest problem of all. If he chooses, he could simply ignore their will. And if the people wanted him to serve another term, why shouldn’t they be allowed to award him one?

President Obama: I know an immigrant when I see one:

As I was getting a tour of DreamWorks, I didn't ask, but just looking at faces, I could tell there were some folks who are here not because they were born here, but because they want to be here and they bring extraordinary talents to the United States.

"Just by looking at faces." Think about that one for a few minutes.

Goody. Now I can look forward to something besides football and family arguments over leftovers and religion this Thanksgiving. There might be lectures on Obamacare: