Legislatures at Work

Jesus May Not Have the Votes to Become King of Poland

Lawmakers from Poland’s majority party, Law and Justice, have introduced a bill that would make Jesus Christ the honorary king of Poland, but the bill appeared doomed to defeat, at least without some kind of Christmas miracle.  Only 46 of…


Texas Bill Would Assist Blind Hunters

A bill introduced this week would help end long-standing discrimination against a group that until now has been unable to hunt effectively — blind Texans. I personally had not known that there were a significant number of blind hunters out…


Minnesota Charges Wife With Having Sex With Husband

Minnesota’s Department of Health is prosecuting LaRae Lundeen Fjellman, not for her recklessly unpronounceable name but for something much more serious: having sex with her husband. Fjellman was cited because she is a massage therapist and her husband, Kirk Fjellman,…




Canadians Pass $204 Billion Spending Bill by Accident

Bloomberg News reports this week that the Canadian government’s $204 billion budget package was passed in the House of Commons by accident, after legislators of the opposition parties forgot to stand up to debate it. Isn’t that what the Democrats…



Oklahoma Ends Tattoo Holdout

Caving in to the degradation of moral character so evident in the other 49 states, Oklahoma has finally legalized tattooing, passing legislation last week that ended a forty-year-old state ban on the practice.  Surprisingly, Oklahoma was the only state in…


Tangerangian Osculation May Not Exceed 4:59

The local government of Tangerang, a comically named suburb of Jakarta, Indonesia, has been trying to crack down on prostitution and address other moral issues for the past several years.  The Tangerangian city council’s laws first sparked protest in February…


Senator is Unclear “What a Trillion Is”

On Thursday, the U.S. Senate voted to (again) raise the government’s debt limit to nearly nine trillion dollars.  The government has been running huge deficits for the past few years and Congress has had to raise the limit every year…