1. Sharron Angle has launched a new website, which makes me wonder: who is the Real Sharron Angle? This is possibly the most egregious example of a would-be politician airbrushing their past..so far this election cycle. Given the low levels of ethical fidelity demonstrated by people running for elective office in the USA, I am sure that right now somebody is working to beat this...
2. The Home Secretary in the UK proposes to jail less prisoners because (a) it costs a lot of money, and (b) serves no useful purpose. Eegads. This sounds frightfully logical...this is not going to play well with those intellectually deficient voters for whom "hang 'em high" is much more than a movie title. How dare a politician issue sensible proposals for law enforcement and jurisprudence...doesn't Kenneth Clarke realize that you are supposed to bloviate about being "tough on crime" and then announce another slew of dumb-ass half-baked stupidities in order to show the intellectually deficient voters that You Are Doing Something? (shakes head)...
3. If you needed evidence that the presence of a written constitution in the USA guarantees precisely nothing in the way of individual rights to privacy, then this map showing which states engage in illegal surveillance is worth more than a cursory examination. That is, if you failed to notice the impact of the Patriot Act (which is still the living modern exemplification of the old saying that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel..).
4. We have Idiot Of The Week...step forward Rick Santorum. I guess there is no lower limit to some of the nonsense that this guy is capable of uttering:

"Obama is detached from the American experience. He just doesn't identify with the average American because of his own background. Indonesia and Hawaii. His view is from the viewpoint of academics and the halls of the Ivy league schools that he went to and it's not a love of this country and an understanding of the basic values and wants and desires of its people."

I'll leave it to the commenters on the linked blog posting to explain better than me why this paragraph is illogical, bloviating verbal wankery...
5. Once again, a political candidate who won a primary running as "different" from the mainstream is caught trying to disremember their past pronouncements. In this case, it is Rand Paul, who promoted the idea of an underground border fence, but now appears to be unable to recall these comments...