• You won’t believe it’s constitutional!

    A couple times a week, my liberal bias goes to feed at Talking Points Memo (among other places). Today there was a fascinating post about a Republican Congressman who changed the language of a bill that had already been passed by congress, as it waited for President Bush’s signature.

    That’s right kids, the bill that the legislature passed was different than the bill that the President signed into law.

    Pretty awesome, don’t you think?

    To be fair, it wasn’t a huge change… but is any change beyond the authority of one man? Heck, even the President doesn’t have the Constitutional authority of the line item veto anymore (there was a line item veto law on the books briefly during the Clinton administration, but it was struck down by the Supreme Court in 1998).

    The affair is discussed in greater detail here: Don Young v. The Constitution.

    Surely this isn’t really what happened. Surely this is a case of shoddy journalism… of the liberal media running amok.

    Then again, maybe not… here’s more from the Naples Daily News.

  • Dude! I’m totally playing with favicons!

    Check out mykauffman.com, and see the new “favicon.”

    Make sure you brace yourself… and prepare to be blown away.

    (I was going to use another exclamation point, but I was just too tired.)

  • A case of money well spent

    There’s lots of news about government gone bad, but I thought this was an interesting example of a little bit of good it can do… when it’s responsive to the needs of it’s people. (I heard this on our local NPR station this morning.)

    The story piqued my interest because I remember when school lunches in Pinellas whole-heartedly embraced the “ketchup as vegetable” philosophy of nutrition (I was one of the victims).

    Pinellas earns an ‘A’ in lunch

    In case you are one of those folks loath to follow links, I’ll help you out a bit… the story says Pinellas schools not only scored an “A” on a national survey of school lunches, it ranked number one in the nation (for healthy, nutritional lunches).

    It’s still not perfect, but it’s leaps and bounds better than the ’80s slop (Warning: may contain food like substance) my wife and I were exposed to.