Hanging three or four ornaments on a dead piece of shrubbery does not make it a Christmas tree, even if President Barack Obama says it is. That is what the president did last week in announcing a “new” health care overhaul proposal.

BABY FIGHT – Lindsay Lohan has picked a fight – with a bunch of babies. Lohan filed a $100 million lawsuit last week against the makers of the E-Trade television commercials, which include digitally enhanced talking babies.

Gerald Ford, you’ve been punked. So have you, Dan Quayle, Larry Flynt, O.J. Simpson’s lawyer, Charles Manson and a host of other notable people.

We understand the feeling behind a proposed ballot measure that would require North Dakota lawmakers to promise to read a bill before they vote on it.

We’re certainly glad the issue of reducing the growing elk herd in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park finally has an end in sight. But the process has reminded us of what’s wrong with government these days.