Monday, April 07, 2014

DON'T PISS OFF the Scorekeeper (#19).
HARRY REID with his daily dose of abject stupidity.
AH, THAT 'TOLERANT' LEFT.
IRS AGENTS: No Liberal Groups Were Targeted.
NEW STUDY: Concealed carry deters murder.

It will sure as hell stop someone from murdering me....
ANDREW KLAVAN: My Great Idea for Radical Gay Hell.

Nah. Fascists have too much else in common.
RANDOM THOUGHTS from the retirement lane: I am always astounded by the number of drivers who are in such a rush to be at the next stop sign/stop light.
COLLECTIVE 'RIGHTS': Why is birth control not a “collective right,” to be decided for people by the community? After all, your reproductive decisions affect the community, not just you . . . .
YES, LET'S PROTECT WOMEN: inspect tanning salons more often than abortion clinics.

Political correctness.
OVERWHELMING PROOF of the failure of the Obama Doctrine that assumed that all foreign relations problems could be fixed with “smart power.”
THE NEW PITCHFORK PERSECUTORS: running afoul of the PC police. For all practical purposes, the politically correct Left has taken a page from the Islamic fascist playbook.
WILL OBAMA finally approve or reject the Keystone XL pipeline project? Not until after Canada gives up and goes with China....
SPRING LEAVES, Week Four: here's today's look at the arrival -- late -- of Spring 2014.


The flowering pear tree down the street has just begun to put out its spring blossoms. By next week, it should be in full bloom.

And yes, it's snowing (rain is just warm snow) today. About an inch has fallen so far. Last week's picture is here.
OBAMA moving again on equal pay. His own staff excluded, of course.

Only little people deserve an equal share of nothing.
THERE'S MONEY IN POLITICS? Who knew the law expressly limited that money to liberals?
THE UNAFFORDABLE CARE ACT for those of you lucky enough to remain employed:
Over the next decade ... large employers [will] pay between $4,800 and $5,900 more per employee than they otherwise would have without Obamacare.
Exit the “Affordable” Care Act.
THE CONSTITUTION guarantees you the right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. It does not guarantee you the right to not be offended.
BARACKALYPSE NOW: some gloom 'n doom to start your week.
WHERE CHARLES KOCH got Big-Government ideology wrong.
WHITE LIBERALS: We'll tell you who the racists are.
WELCOME TO THE LIBERAL GULAG:
A Mozilla executive was hounded out of his position at the firm he co-founded by a coalition of IRS criminals and left-wing campaigners resolved to punish him for having made a donation to a successful California ballot initiative that defined marriage in traditional terms; Adam Weinstein, whose downwardly mobile credibility has taken him from ABC to Gawker, called for literally imprisoning people with the wrong views about global warming, writing, “Those malcontents must be punished and stopped”; Mr. Weinstein himself was simply forwarding a dumbed-down-enough-for-Gawker version of the arguments of philosophy professor Lawrence Torcello; Katherine Timpf, a reporter for Campus Reform, faced a human barricade to keep her from asking questions of those attending a feminist leadership conference, whose organizers informed her that the group was “inclusive” and therefore she was “not welcome here”; Charles Murray, one of the most important social scientists of his generation, was denounced as a “known white supremacist” by Texas Democrats for holding heterodox views about education policy; national Democrats spent the week arguing for the anti-free-speech side of a landmark First Amendment case and the anti-religious-freedom side of a case involving the Religious Freedom Restoration Act; Lois Lerner, the Left’s best friend at the IRS, faces contempt charges related to her role in the Democrats’ coopting the IRS as a weapon against their political enemies; Harry Reid, a liberal champion of campaign-finance reform, was caught channeling tens of thousands of dollars to his granddaughter while conspicuously omitting her surname, which is also his surname, from official documents, cloaking the transaction, while one of his California colleagues, a liberal champion of gun control, was indicted on charges of running guns to an organized-crime syndicate.
Read it all.