Politics and other nightmares

President Hillary has our energy policy solved:

Finally, we can put the Spanish-American War behind us and move on with our lives:

Evan Bayh shows his "mellow demeanor" and "folksy Midwestern charm" off in Iowa but still has to explain his vote for the Iraq war to members of the Democratic base who just ain't buying it. For the most part, Bayh apparently was "remarkably non-ideological," sticking with the message that he has proven five times he can win in a Red State.

Yes, I'm sure a McCain-Clinton race would turn out exactly like this:

If Hillary Clinton squares off against John McCain for president in 2008, the race could very well come down to the wire, a new poll reveals.

You remember that old joke? The one with the punch line, "the evil of two lessers." Nothing like being scared to death of both candidates to induce a little nail-biting.

Why libertarians have lost their influence in the political debate:

Perhaps the most interesting fact in the Pew survey, however, was that less than 6 in 10 libertarians voted for Bush in 2004. While few libertarians seem to have deserted the president between 2000 and 2004, they are split roughly evenly between the two parties. The Pew survey finds 50 percent of libertarians identifying as Republicans, 41 percent as Democrats.

I know some of you are getting sick and tired of some of us who keep beating the political-correctness drum. We'll quit as soon as the political-correctness crowd keeps going off the deep end. Don' thold your breath.

Tuesday, the Boulder City Council will take up the matter of allocating public funding for a "hate hotline," which would give residents an opportunity to report incidents in which Boulderites use tactless language.

The day afer the primary, I did a rough estimate of Allen County voter turnout and came up with 15 percent. I just got off the phone with the Election Board, and the official results have been certified -- 16 percent. Given my math-challenged brain, I'm pleased to have been so close. But 16 percent is about as dismal a turnout as 15 percent.

I'm afraid someone is going to have to explain this one to those of us in the slow lane:

What was to have been a simple renewal of the historic Voting Rights Act has become snarled in the heated debate involving immigration issues.

Conservative House members tried Wednesday to end a requirement in the 1965 law that bilingual ballots and interpreters be provided in states and counties where large numbers of citizens speak limited English.

I can't decide which one of these is funnier (both strange and ha-ha meanings):

Howard Dean, explaining to the Christian Broadcasting Network

. . . that his party has a lot in common with the evangelical community. With the 2006 midterm elections creeping closer, CBN News sat down with Dean to discuss the Democrat's new outreach to conservative Christians.

Most political observers seem to have concluded that longtime Indiana Senate President Pro Tem Robert Garton lost in the primary mostly because he was an entrenched incument who thought he could get away with supporting outrageously generous perks for legislators. The possible effect of the highly organized effort of right-to-life forces for Garton's opponent, Greg Walker, is downplayed.