Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I’ve been a good girl today. I paid bills, cleaned the kitchen, set up appointments for various family members to do various activities, cleared some more stuff out of my in-boxes, and generally did not waste time. Now, though, I’m ready to sit back and “waste” some time by sharing
Continue readingThe IRS’s job is to collect the taxes that Congress demands the American people pay. Under Lois Lerner’s guidance, though, the IRS’s job, apparently, was to identify potential conservative targets for Department of Justice criminal investigations. Hmmm. PJMedia currently has running two excellent posts on the subject. The first is
Continue readingTo the extent this implies that the government itself is hiding behind the Bill of Rights, this poster isn’t quite right. An individual in the government, rather than the government itself, is pleading the 5th. Just because one works for the government doesn’t mean one gives up ones rights as
Continue readingLots of good stuff today, so I’m going to dive right in. As always, these aren’t in any particular order, so you may find interesting things buried halfway down the list. I’ve made the same point before, but I still like to see it come from Daniel Hannan and Jonah
Continue readingFor reasons that make no sense to me, in the past week my daily readership has almost trebled. I suspect a bot has targeted my site but, when I allow myself to pretend that it’s actual people checking out my site, I feel really quite good. And now let’s see
Continue readingPower corrupts; and when the IRS has absolute power, it’s corrupted absolutely. *** Three headlines at The Weekly Standard: (1) CBO Director: Obamacare ‘Creates a Disincentive for People to Work’; (2) AOL CEO: ‘Obamacare Is an Additional $7.1 Million Expense For Us’; (3) WSJ: ‘Limited Choices of Doctors and Hospitals’
Continue readingIt rained here yesterday, an event that was much more exciting even than the Super Bowl. We probably got just a quarter inch of rain, but for a drought-stricken region, even that is thrilling. There are storms lined up along the California coast . . . but that damned high
Continue readingLast night, I spent a few minutes watching Robin Williams’ 1981 appearance (his first) on Johnny Carson’s tonight show. It was very weird to look at it over a distance of 33 years. I remember watching it in real-time back in 1981, and thinking Williams was the funniest man I’d
Continue readingI haven’t been much of a Chris Christie supporter lately. In the beginning, I admired his ability to stand up to the teacher’s unions. Since then, I’ve decided that this was less a principled position and more a reflection of a highly aggressive personality. Outside of the unions, he’s too
Continue readingI’m off to lunch with two conservative friends (one I knew for years without either of us realizing the other was conservative), so I’m just going to throw these links at you. Take a deep breath, ’cause here goes: The 1950s study saying most Americans are mindless, Nazi-esque sadists was
Continue readingSometimes distance provides perspective. My travels meant that, rather than being enveloped by news as I usually am, I read it only intermittently, and often through the New York Times’ filter, since that was the only news to which I had access for many days at a time. The few
Continue readingThe IRS’s Lois Lerner, who bungled taking the Fifth the last time she appeared before Congress, is now set to return to Congress. Her lawyer has announced, however, that she’ll testify only in return for immunity, otherwise her lips are sealed. It seems to me that whether Congress takes her
Continue readingA few days ago, I commented about a profound problem with the Supreme Court decision striking down DOMA: before DOMA, we had a societal consensus that marriage was between one man and one woman. During DOMA, we had a law that said marriage was between one man and one woman,
Continue readingThe one good thing about bad news is that it brings out the best in good writers. You really must read Mark Steyn’s whole column about Obama’s East German spy state, but I can resist cherry-picking for the best of it: So we know the IRS is corrupt. What happens
Continue readingI’ve written before that the IRS’s aggression towards conservative groups and individuals is the worst presidential scandal in American history because it represents the first time a government agency, which falls under the executive’s control, has used its vast power to target people and groups that oppose the administration’s agenda.
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