The Autocrat Accountants | National Review Online

The Autocrat Accountants | National Review Online: "Oddly enough, in recent days the most compelling testimony for this view of government has come from the president himself, who insists with a straight face that he had no idea that the Internal Revenue Service had spent two years targeting his political enemies until he “learned about it from the same news reports that I think most people learned about this.” Like you, all he knows is what he reads in the papers. Which is odd, because his Justice Department is bugging those same papers, so you’d think he’d at least get a bit of a heads-up."

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Center City Job Fair For Ex-Offenders Is Canceled After 3,000 Show Up « CBS Philly

Center City Job Fair For Ex-Offenders Is Canceled After 3,000 Show Up « CBS Philly: "The City of Philadelphia shut down a career fair for ex-offenders today after an unexpected crowd of thousands showed up, résumés in hand.

There were lots of disppointed [sic] job seekers and potential employers this morning."

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This makes me very sad. I have been feeling much more sympathy for convicts recently.

Report: IRS Deliberately Chose Not to Fess Up to Scandal Before Election | The Weekly Standard

Report: IRS Deliberately Chose Not to Fess Up to Scandal Before Election | The Weekly Standard: "The IRS commissioner "has known for at least a year that this was going on," said Myers, "and that this had happened. And did he share any of that information with the White House? But even more importantly, Congress is going to ask him, why did you mislead us for an entire year? Members of Congress were saying conservatives are being targeted. What's going on here? The IRS denied it. Then when -- after these officials are briefed by the IG that this is going on, they don't disclose it."

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George Will: Obama’s tapped-out trust - The Washington Post

George Will: Obama’s tapped-out trust - The Washington Post: "Leaving aside the seriousness of lawlessness, and the corruption of our civic culture by the professionally pious, this past week has been amusing. There was the spectacle of advocates of an ever-larger regulatory government expressing shock about such government’s large capacity for misbehavior. And, entertainingly, the answer to the question “Will Barack Obama’s scandals derail his second-term agenda?” was a question: What agenda?"

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Michael Barone: In defense of Jason Richwine and Charles Murray | WashingtonExaminer.com

Michael Barone: In defense of Jason Richwine and Charles Murray | WashingtonExaminer.com: "On the Economist blog a writer identified as W.W. defends the stigmatization of Richwine. He states blandly that “racism has always been predicated on falsification hypotheses about racial inferiority.” I think this is just plain wrong factually: Many people have hated Jews and Asians on the grounds that they tend to be unfairly superior in certain respects, including intelligence. But there’s something more wrong with this line of thinking. It assumes that if ordinary people get the idea that one group on average scores worse on intelligence tests then they will conclude that it’s justified to discriminate against all members of the group. Ordinary people — or at least ordinary Americans — know better than that. They have learned, from school, from work, from everyday life, that there is wider variation with each measured group than between measured groups. Some members of a racially or ethnically defined group that on average scores low on IQ tests score far above average. And some members of a group that on average scores high will score far below average. Ordinary people understand that it is irrational to discriminate according to race or religion or ethnic group, and that it is rational to judge individuals on their own merits. "

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IRS Official in Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Health Care Office - ABC News

IRS Official in Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Health Care Office - ABC News: "The Internal Revenue Service official in charge of the tax-exempt organizations at the time when the unit targeted tea party groups now runs the IRS office responsible for the health care legislation.

Sarah Hall Ingram served as commissioner of the office responsible for tax-exempt organizations between 2009 and 2012. But Ingram has since left that part of the IRS and is now the director of the IRS’ Affordable Care Act office, the IRS confirmed to ABC News today."

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Obama is the Ultimate Ad Hominem President « Commentary Magazine

Obama is the Ultimate Ad Hominem President « Commentary Magazine: "My thinking was when we beat them in 2012 that might break the fever, and it’s not quite broken yet. But I am persistent. And I am staying at it. And I genuinely believe there are Republicans out there who would like to work with us but they’re fearful of their base and they’re concerned about what Rush Limbaugh might say about them…

As a consequence we get the kind of gridlock that makes people cynical about government. My intentions over the next 3 ½ years are to govern."

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Again, if your theory of government is (1) government should be doing all these great things but (2) the opposition keeps stopping government from accomplishing them, then the logical conclusion is you don't think that there should be any opposition. In other words, you don't believe in democracy.

George Will: IRS scandal carries echoes of Watergate - The Washington Post

George Will: IRS scandal carries echoes of Watergate - The Washington Post: "Liberals, whose unvarying agenda is enlargement of government, suggest, with no sense of cognitive dissonance, that this IRS scandal is nothing more sinister than typical government incompetence. Five days before the IRS story broke, Obama, sermonizing 109 miles northeast of Cincinnati, warned Ohio State graduates about “creeping cynicism” and “voices” that “warn that tyranny is . . . around the corner.” Well."

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George Will: IRS scandal carries echoes of Watergate - The Washington Post

George Will: IRS scandal carries echoes of Watergate - The Washington Post: "Liberals, whose unvarying agenda is enlargement of government, suggest, with no sense of cognitive dissonance, that this IRS scandal is nothing more sinister than typical government incompetence. Five days before the IRS story broke, Obama, sermonizing 109 miles northeast of Cincinnati, warned Ohio State graduates about “creeping cynicism” and “voices” that “warn that tyranny is . . . around the corner.” Well."

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George Will: IRS scandal carries echoes of Watergate - The Washington Post

George Will: IRS scandal carries echoes of Watergate - The Washington Post: "his administration aggressively hawked the fiction that the Benghazi attack was just an excessively boisterous movie review. "

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Agree or disagree, George Will is always worth reading, if only for lines like this.

George Will: IRS scandal carries echoes of Watergate - The Washington Post

George Will: IRS scandal carries echoes of Watergate - The Washington Post: "“He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to . . . cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.”

— Article II, Section 1, Articles of Impeachment against Richard M. Nixon, adopted by the House Judiciary Committee, July 29, 1974"

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The Corner | National Review Online

The Corner | National Review Online: "“I think the Benghazi scandal starts with the Republicans looking in the mirror,” she said. Echoing a phrase from Snow White, she asked, ”‘Mirror, mirror, who’s the fairest of them all.’ They ought to ask, ‘Mirror, mirror, who cut the funding for diplomatic security across this world for Americans?’”"

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So, according to Boxer, something did go wrong in Benghazi. There is a there, there.

How Not to Cherry-Pick the Results of the Oregon Study (Ultrawonkish) - The Daily Beast

How Not to Cherry-Pick the Results of the Oregon Study (Ultrawonkish) - The Daily Beast: "About 90,000 people applied for the health insurance lottery (though selection was done at the household level). About 35,000 people won the lottery, and thus had the right to submit an application, but only about 60% of these lottery winners actually sent the application back. This ought to tell any common sense person a lot about the revealed preference for how much the uninsured value the coverage on offer."

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The Corner | National Review Online

The Corner | National Review Online: "MULLANE: The barbarity of abortion and its cold, mechanized destruction of human life when that life is at its most helpless. You know, assistant DA Ed Cameron put a Planned Parenthood abortion doctor on the stand to compare and contrast a “good” abortion clinic to the hell hole Gosnell was running. Cameron asks him, doctor, how many abortions have you performed in 30 years in practice? Without missing a beat the doctor said, “40,000.” It’s a stunning number. Think of the lives vanished by one man. And the national media yawn."

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Debate on report on immigration leads to scrutiny of Harvard dissertation | Inside Higher Ed

Debate on report on immigration leads to scrutiny of Harvard dissertation | Inside Higher Ed: ""Let us be clear that we believe in academic freedom as it is crucial to the functioning of a university. However, we also believe that putting forth claims of racial superiority based on inherent genetic advantage to be on par with those who have used pseudo-science throughout history to justify state-based hate," the letter says. "

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