Current Affairs

Another office older has "wandered off the Meet the Press reservation (love that phrase) and further blurred the line between politics with entertainment. Yes, it's President Obama,  sitting down to play Roses and Thorns with perhaps the four silliest people on television:

I think I might have called it quits after the first time:

A pilot escaped a plane crash Tuesday morning in Seymour, Indiana.

The crash happened just before 9 a.m. at Freeman Field. Police say the SE 5A single engine, World War I era bi-plane lost power approximately 50 to 60 feet off the ground and crash in a field just north of the runway.

The pilot, Phillip Krueger of Freetown, Ind., suffered only minor scrapes and bruises as a result of the crash.

Discussion of a VAT as a replacement for the income tax is a valuable part of the fiscal policy debate -- for one thing it would "broaden the tax base and make everyone pay for the welfare state that still has substantial political support." But I doubt the conclusion:

Never a cop around when you need one. Sometimes it's because of police ineptness:

The District police department policy on forcible entry caused a "deadly delay" as officers waited for a supervisor outside an apartment while a mother and her two young sons were being stabbed to death inside, according to a lawsuit filed by the woman's family.

What do you know -- some common sense from a Washington Post editorial:

The New York Times does an analysis of the Supreme Court that starts out trying to be scary (if you're a liberal, anyway):

In those five years, the court not only moved to the right but also became the most conservative one in living memory, based on an analysis of four sets of political science data.

Time magazine is asking the wrong question in its headline:

Cap and Trade is Dead (Really, Truly, I'm Not Kidding). Who's to blame?

It should be: Whom do we thank?

Now that evil, selfish conservatives are being beaten back by the benevolent, kind-hearted liberals so the downtrodden unemployed can start getting checks again, I have a question: Where is that line between compassion and heartlessness?

A bill advancing in Congress that would restore unemployment benefits for millions of Americans could help about 80,000 Indiana residents who have been out of work more than six months.

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Unilateral disarmament might bring peace, but it might not be the peace desired:

Sen. Richard Lugar on Wednesday became one of the first Republicans to back Elena Kagan's confirmation to the Supreme Court.

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He believes that in most cases, Congress should defer to a president's preference in nominations to appointed positions.

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So, a leftist group posted some video maliciously edited to make the mostly white Tea Party appear racist. That was followed quickly by a righty blogger posting some video maliciously edited to make a black Agricultrue Department employee appear racist. All the race-baiters are represented now, and the expected camps are saying the predictable things about the usual suspects.