TIM CARNEY: Democrat-heavy IRS will always distrust Tea Party groups.

As long as we have a civil service workforce that leans Left, and as long as we have an income tax system that requires the IRS to police political speech, conservative groups can always expect special IRS scrutiny.

Which neatly explains why government should be smaller, leaner, and constitutionally limited to those functions that only a government can do.

LAWLESS IN OFFICE:

The problem is not the president’s men (and women). It is the president himself. He has no respect for the Constitution or for legal constraints on his power. He has presided over a scandal-ridden administration — Fast and Furious, Solyndra, the open bribery and abuse of parliamentary procedures to pass Obamacare, suing states seeking to uphold our immigration laws, enabling the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens simply if they’re accused of being “terrorists,” and now the use of government power to suppress dissent, persecute opponents, spy on the press and cover up the jihadist slaughter of Americans. Mr. Obama is a political thug masquerading as a progressive reformer.

Read it all.

More here.

JACK DUNPHY: The Right Way to Profile.

Though successful profiling focuses on behavior rather than race, we live in the real world where the threat to an El Al flight or to a soft target like the Boston Marathon is most likely from a Muslim male between 17 and 30 years of age. Officers searching for a potential terrorist from among a group of airline passengers or in a large crowd would be derelict in their duty if they failed to give a person who met that description a second look. When the statistics are added up — and you know these statistics are recorded in minute detail — the ethnic balance of those stopped and questioned will likely be out of sync with the overall population.

But none of this matters, of course, to those responsible for making security policy in America. Better to inconvenience every last passenger going through an airport, better to hoist paraplegics out of their wheelchairs so as to search them than focus attention on those who history teaches are most likely to blow up an airplane or fly it into a skyscraper. And better to let a few people get blown to bits and a few dozen others get maimed every so often than employ techniques that will prevent such horrors, albeit with the side effect of having members of the racial grievance industry get their backs up on television.

The threat of Muslim terror is not abating. How many more Americans will be killed before we get real about profiling?

KEENE, NH: where it's against the law to be a good samaritan.

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION is just plain stupid. No argument from me.

'SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER' -- from the Right.

NOW I'VE HEARD EVERYTHING: Murderers, rapists, and pedophiles are black. Disparate impact, baby.

Stupidity is a better word.

CLASS ACTS: three are, two aren't. Guess which is which.

COMING TO A VIRGINIA NEAR ME: "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, third time is enemy action."

Thanks to commenter Chuck Moss for the observation.

WHAT IT REALLY MEANS to be a 'labor bigwig'.

TO THE HORROR OF GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISTS, global cooling is here. That damned real world keeps refusing to cooperate with the alarmists.

"GOVERNMENT is now so huge, powerful and callous that citizens risk becoming proverbial serfs without the freedoms guaranteed by the Founding Fathers."

Read it all.

CICADAS: 17-year lawn aeration specialists.



And for your added interest, an albino cicada.



I've never seen one of them before.

CALIFORNIA BANS FIRE. Just not forest fire.

NEWT GINGRICH is On The Record: the IRS scandal, government bureaucracy, big government run amok, and more. Long, but well worth watching.

RON RADOSH: Obama’s Confused and Contradictory Defense Speech.

Speech translated: We'll do nothing in every way possible.

LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND STATISTICS:

[T]he primary basis for global-warming alarmism is unfounded. The Met Office has been making false claims about the significance of climatic changes to Parliament — as well as to the government, the media, and others — claims which have seriously affected both policies and opinions. When questioned about those claims in Parliament, the Met Office did everything feasible to avoid telling the truth.

The title is explained in the text.

TO THE SLAUGHTER: British lions come up lambs in Woolwich. That's the problem with statism; the populace is encouraged -- no, coerced -- into passivism.

DIVERSITY: We are of almost every race and gender, and we think exactly alike.

Linked from PowerLine.

DOES SEAWATER cause stupidity?