Showing posts with label responsibility. Show all posts
Showing posts with label responsibility. Show all posts
Gene Healy: Obama's Flight From Responsibility
"Hey, don't look at me -- I'm just the president!" That's the common thread in President Obama's response to his recent scandal eruptions, from IRS harassment of Tea Partiers to his Justice Department's spying on AP reporters. Like everybody else, Obama learns about these things via cable news, according to press secretary Jay Carney. ... MOREMark Baisley: IRS, State And DOJ: The Three Stooges
A peak at our slapstick government. The recent testimonies before Congress have been reminding me of something for weeks and I just figured out what that is. I call it 90-degree humor; the kind of joke that starts out in one direction, then takes a sudden left turn, leaving you fallen-over laughing. For instance: “If you were to line up every ... MOREBill O'Reilly: Assessing Blame
Why Kerry looks at us in a daze. So there I am coaching third base for my 9-year-old son's little league team. Man on second, one out. The batter hits a ground ball to third, and the fielder promptly boots it, so I send the runner in to home plate. He's ahead of the ball -- and then, suddenly, the KID STOPS RUNNING! He's tagged out. We lose by ... MOREThe IRS Targeted Conservatives Because It Could
by Peter Suderman. The opening day excuse for the
IRS targeting conservative groups requesting tax exempt status was
that the IRS was facing an unusual influx of applicants. But that
turns out not to have been the case. Applications for tax exempt
501 groups didn’t surge in 2010. In fact, the
number of applicants was
down in every category from ... MORESteve Tobak: The Real Impact Of Political Correctness
People are defined by their deeds, their actions. Not their words. But the way we communicate can be both reflective of our behavior and an influence on it going forward. What we call political correctness, for example, reflects societal behavior, how our culture has changed. It also influences societal behavior. In that sense, it reinforces the ... MOREWhat If Nothing Or Nobody Is To Blame For Adam Lanza?
by Ron Fournier. What if there is nobody or nothing to blame for Adam Lanza's heinous acts? Other than Lanza, of course. What if school security and the school psychiatrist kept an eye on Lanza since his freshman year? The Wall Street Journal has a compelling narrative about the red flags addressed. What if he had a form of autism that has little or no ... MORECampaign To Legalize Pot Gets High-Profile GOP Support
by Gene Johnson. The campaign to legalize and tax marijuana for adults in Washington state is rolling as next month's vote approaches, with more than $1 million in new contributions reported since last week and a surprising endorsement Wednesday from Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Michael Baumgartner. The money, most of it from retired ... MOREBuilding Safely Without Government Building Codes
by Brian Phillips. Most people accept building codes as a necessary government intervention. One website states: "Codes provide minimum standards for building construction in order to safeguard the public’s safety, health, and welfare." Another website states: "If we searched we could find examples of people having built things that ended up falling on ... MOREShawne K. Wickham: 'Nullify' To Be Common Refrain In NH
Juries powers acknowledged in the Granite State. Criminal defense attorneys predict New Hampshire jurors routinely will be told they have the right to find someone innocent even if the state proves its case because New Hampshire has passed what appears to be the nation's first “jury nullification” law. Earlier this month, a Belknap County ... MOREArnold Ahlert: What Does A Police State Look Like?
On the future of progressivism. So, what does a police state look like? A police state is place where massive amounts of government corruption and/or incompetence are covered up by an equally corrupt and/or incompetent media. It is a place where a film-maker’s first amendment rights are secondary to the sensibilities of murderous ... MOREErica Martinson: Court Strikes Down EPA Pollution Rules
Court agrees federal bureaucracy goes too far. In a rebuke to the Obama administration, a federal court took a hammer Tuesday to a controversial EPA regulation aimed at forcing states to be “good neighbors” on air pollution. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said Tuesday that the EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule ... MORE
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