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No place is safe

It was bad enough when the perverts found sites like Facebook.com and MySpace.com. Now the politicians are flocking there:

Look up Evan Bayh in the Congressional Directory and you'll find he's a second-term senator from Indiana who serves on the Intelligence and Armed Services Committees.

Check out Bayh on Facebook.com, and you get something akin to a politician channeling his inner teen.

Skeered yet, Hillary?

Joe Biden is running for president -- Yes, I am! Yes, I am! How can you doubt me? -- which is sure to send shock waves of delight through the lethargic voting populace. And he comes up with a brilliant strategy for getting the millions of votes from people who would rather have an overreaching government than a place to buy things at reasonable prices:

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No sweat for Souder

The GOP is apparently still worried only about three congressional races in Indiana -- keeping the seats for incumbents John Hostettler, Chris Chocola and Mike Sodrel:

The White House and top Republicans are nervously watching, fearful that if they can't win these districts in a state Bush carried with 60 percent of the vote, are prospects for preserving their majority bleak?

It's the war, stupid

So I guess Mr. Lieberman no longer has Joementum. Lamont made the war in Iraq THE issue, as Republican and conservative commentators have remarked over and over. But, since Lieberman voted 90 percent with Democrats, the war being his primary departure, and since those same Republicans and conservatives invested a lot in supporting him, it seems fair to say that the war was the issue for them, as well.

The lame non-lame duck

Doug Masson weighs in on Mark Souder's pledge to step down from Congress after 12 years and thinks the congressman's reasons for breaking that pledge are lame and self-serving. I've commented on the issue from time to time, including this post from almost a year ago. I can't say I greatly disagree with Doug, though I am philosophically more inclined to agree with Souder on More issues than I do with challenger Tom Hayhurst.

A very costly war

All you silly libertarians out there have probably been buying into the myth that once a tax is imposed, it never goes away:

The Spanish-American War has been over for more than 100 years, and now so is the tax imposed in 1898 to help fund it.

As of Tuesday, all phone companies selling long-distance phone service are legally required to eliminate the 3 percent federal excise tax on long-distance service, which had been established in 1898 as a luxury tax on wealthy Americans who owned telephones.

Mine and yours, never ours

The backlash against the Supreme Court's horrendous Kelo decision continues, and this has to count as a major victory:

The Ohio Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Wednesday that economic development isn't a sufficient reason under the state constitution to justify taking homes, putting a halt to a $125 million project of offices, shops, and restaurants in a Cincinnati suburb that officials said would create jobs and add tax revenue.

Drop the shield

Is the press now just another special interest looking our for its own?

A pair of Indiana lawmakers face a steep uphill climb for passage of a bill to shield reporters from having to disclose news sources, but it is a cause worthy of the struggle.

The Free Flow of Information Act, sponsored by Sen. Richard Lugar and Rep. Mike Pence, both Republicans, limits instances in which reporters could be forced to reveal sources.

Bayh's abortion sense

If your state requires parental notification before a minor can get an abortion, it seems logical to have a law preventing taking that minor across state lines to avoid the notification laws. Sen. Evan Bayh agrees, the only Democrat considering a presidential run who does:

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