Politics and other nightmares

This is disturbing:

 The Supreme Court has come up with a new regulation banning demonstrations on its grounds, two days after a broader anti-demonstration law was declared unconstitutional.

A shout-out for libertarianism from a conservative:

The only truly new political idea in the last couple thousand years is this libertarian idea, broadly understood. The revolution wrought by John Locke, Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, and the Founding Fathers is the only real revolution going. And it’s still unfolding.

I love a story with a happy ending:

Michael Monaghan has wanted to develop his property on Main Street in Hackensack, New Jersey, just a few miles away from Manhattan.  Yet the city twice denied two applications for banks to build on his land. 

Indiana revenue from gambling taxes is down and still falling, and I agree with this Journal Gazette editorial that the state should resist pressure to expand operations or give existing operations furthr tax breaks:

Nope, don't think I will, but thanks for asking politely:

Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) wants House members to stop referring to immigrants as "illegal" while debating immigration reform.

Well, here's a controversy you don't see every day:

The mural on the house is clearly a banana. But is it art? Or an advertisement?

That is the question facing a town in Indiana as it weighs whether or not the house  can keep its banana mural.

Ed Markey's comment that "budgeting is just arithmetic, not math" will likely be the chuckle of the day. But as Ed Morrissey points out:

There is a difference between math and arithmetic.  Unfortunately for Markey, he still gets even that wrong.

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Hyperbole of the day:

 After the U.S. Senate voted to pass the motion to proceed to floor debate on the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) claimed that this bill would solve illegal immigration and secure the border.

I know I've remarked more that once that this is the stupidest thing in Indiana law (since the repeal of the provision making us promise to use our fireworks out of state, anyway), but it's worth noting that the stupidity is apparently spreading:

A desperate descent into panic or a creative search for a solution?

ANTIOCH (CBS SF) – The shorthanded Antioch Police Department is enlisting the help of local garbage collectors and letter carriers to spot crime on city streets.