Politics and other nightmares

A belated happy Indpendence Day with some "final" words of wisdom from Calvin Coolidge, smarter than 99 percent of the politicians around today:

Question of the day: If Obama can unilaterally delay ObamaCare’s employer mandate, why wouldn’t he delay new border security measures too?

Today's "well, you get what you ask for" example is courtesy of Professor Cornel West, who is upset with President Obama because "black folks are being pushed to the back of the bus" while "our gay brothers and lesbian sisters" are "being pushed to the center." As Will Allen observes at NRO's "The Corner":

The abortion debate seems pointless and futile because a majority of Americans don't agree with the most zealous advocatesd of either side:

Regular readers know I've been arguing against a shield law for journalists for years, for many reasons, chief among them that the press can't be a very effective watchdog of the government if the government is allowed to define who the legitimate press is. James Taranto of The Wall Street Journal fills out that argument a little by putting it in historical context

Much has been written about the unanswered questions arising from the Supreme Court's DOMA decision, chief among them the status of people who got married where same-sex marriage is legal, in New York, say, but live where it's not, Indiana, for example. Do they or do they not qualify for federal benefits? Here's an unexpected twist:

Not exactly an uplifitng message for those hoping for a better life:

But I repeat myself -- another thoughtless political whine:

The filibustering Texas state senator who became an overnight sensation by temporarily blocking a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy said Monday that she might try to unseat Texas Governor Rick Perry in 2014.

And then, of course, they could campaign full-time:

"Perfect metaphor for the times" alert:

One of only a handful of a type of small bird from Asia to have been spotted in the U.K. in the past two centuries was thrilling twitchers off the northwest coast of Scotland earlier this week.

Then, tragedy struck. It flew into the blade of a wind turbine and was killed.