Politics and other nightmares

This might be the most outrageous piece of statistical crap you'll see this year:

U.S. taxpayers are paying more to deal with climate change than for education or roads.

They never quit trying:

Two D.C. councilmembers said Thursday that they support some form of mandate that gun owners carry liability insurance, but they would have to overcome the objections of Mayor Vincent Gray for the District of Columbia to become the nation’s first jurisdiction to require such coverage.

Pretty much says it all, huh?

Whoops. Guess we have a little work to do:

Indiana didn’t just get an F in a state-by-state comparison of laws requiring outside groups to report their campaign spending.

The state got a zero.

David Axelrod asks how President Obama can know what mischief his underlings are creating when the government is just so darn big:

Personally, I wouldn't recommend following the first lady's advice:

Reaching across the aisle can be helpful not only in politics but also in the personal growth of recent college graduates, first lady Michelle Obama said in a commencement address at Eastern Kentucky University over the weekend.

Why don't they just go ahead and make it .00 -- that's what they'd really like to do:

WASHINGTON (AP) — States should cut their threshold for drunken driving by nearly half— from .08 blood alcohol level to .05_matching a standard that has substantially reduced highway deaths in other countries, a federal safety board recommended Tuesday. That's about one drink for a woman weighing less than 120 pounds, two for a 160-pound man.

"But the science is settled!" department:

An unusual medical brawl erupted on Tuesday when the influential Institute of Medicine issued a report questioning the basis of years of advice for Americans to cut their salt intake in half.

Not exactly shocking:

The federal government is better at creating low-paying jobs than Wal-Mart and McDonald's combined, according to a new report.

A lot of people on the right are chortling over The Associated Press' outrage, along the lines of, "Ha. How do you like your hero now, huh?" (See here, for example)