Politics and other nightmares

I think the bill requiring a doctor to tell a woman considering abortion that life begins at conception is wrong, for a lot of reasons, the main one being that legislators have no business declaring legal certainty over something about which there is no medical, philosophical or ethical certainty. But one of those reasons is not improper religious interference:

Jonah Goldberg, writing about Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani, pinpoints something that has also occurred to me lately:

Wow. Al Franken is funny again:

U.S. comedian Al Franken said Wednesday he plans to run for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota next year in a serious attempt to improve the lot of middle-class families.

Calling himself a "comedian by trade," and not a "typical politician," Franken made the announcement on the last day of his talk show on Air America Radio.

Well, here we go:

Smoking in passenger vehicles with children under age 13 would be against state law under legislation endorsed by an Indiana House Committee on Tuesday.

The House Judiciary Committee approved the bill 8-1 and sent it to the full, Democrat-controlled House, where its author, Democratic Rep. Charlie Brown of Gary, predicted it would pass. He said he was not sure how it would fare in the Republican-ruled Senate.

Via Doug at Masson's Blog: Indiana Senate Bill 94 would make changes to a lot of terms dealing with disabilities.

There is a proposal to move the date of Indiana's primary from May to March. Even if that happens, it won't make any difference, because of lot of other states are thinking about earlier elections, too:

I bow to no one in my scorn for John Edwards' politics. He's an idiot who has as much chance of being president as I have of being pope. But let's stay focused on the issues:

Rep. Dan Burton is at it again, or, rather, not at it again:

INDIANAPOLIS - U.S. Rep. Dan Burton missed 19 votes in the House last month, including a measure on financial aid for college students, because he was in California playing in the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic - a charity event he's attended 17 times since 1988.

A lot of feminist claptrap is being written about recent remarks by Justices Ginsburg and O'Connor. In fact, the subtitle of this article is "The female justices begin to reflect on feminism":

So, President Bush has revealed his $2.9 trillion budget, and it focuses heavily on defense and security, and upset Democrats will do their own version putting in their domestic-spening priorities, and even some Republicans are upset and blah, blah, blah:

The president's plan would permanently extend tax reductions that now are set to expire in 2010, a change that would reduce anticipated tax revenues by $1.6 trillion over the next 10 years. Democrats oppose him on that, too.