Politics and other nightmares

On "Meet the Press" yesterday, moderator David Gregory was talking with Cardinal Francis George about the new people and seems more interested in American politics than Catholic teachings:

It's always a good time for a futile gesture:

I'm not quite following the reasoning in this editorial claiming that "Moving to land is not an expansion":

President Obama, on Michelle's influence:

First Lady Michelle Obama has played the role of Felix to her husband’s Oscar during their entire 20-year partnership, President Obama revealed.

“I had this little bachelor apartment that Michelle refused to stay in because she thought it was a little, uh . . . you know, pizza boxes everywhere,” President Obama says in April’s Vogue.

Juxtaposition of the day. I see this online . . .

The Journal Gazette editorial page is pleased that Republicans aren't using their overwhelming dominance of state government to, well, dominate overwhelmingly:

When Republicans won the governor’s office and built upon their legislative majorities in the General Assembly in last year’s election, independents and Democrats were rightly concerned that the overwhelming GOP control would end debate over key issues.

Pretty childish, huh?

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence Wednesday fired back at Ohio Gov. John Kasich over comments Kasich made earlier this week in Cincinnati needling Indiana.

Not exactly a shock, huh?

President Obama said during Tuesday comments on the federal budget that his goal was to fix the economy — not balance revenues with expenditures.

Here's an elected official with way too much time on his hands:

PERU, Ind. (AP) — A northern Indiana county commissioner wants to ban county workers from wearing jeans in the Miami County Courthouse, saying casual clothing is inappropriate in a government building.

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Rand Paul, modern-day Edmund Burke?

Speaking yesterday at a National Review breakfast, Sen. Rand Paul R-Ky. explained what he thought about the Tea Party movement vs. the Occupy Wall Street movement, as Jon Ward reports in the Huffington Post.