In the frenzy of protest against Indiana's new religious freedom law some of the more outspoken have made fools of themselves. Gov. Dannell Malloy, D-Conn., announced a ban on state-funded travel to the state in the belief there was intention to discriminate against gays. Wake up, governor. Connecticut has a similar law on the books.

The new Edward M. Kennedy Institute dedicated by President Obama (also known as the Teddy Kennedy shrine) is costing taxpayers $38 million. Kennedy's liberal friends in the U.S. Senate are helping steer millions more in private money to the museum.

Barack Obama promised that his progressive, big government economic policies would jump start the economy. But Obama-economics was a failure. The U.S. economy produced $1 trillion less in 2014 than Obama promised in 2010.