Not only “process as punishment” but process to gain power Every month, it seems, brings a new story of this presidency leveling the intimidating powers of the federal government against some law-abiding citizen. Now comes a terrifying tale of how the Federal Trade Commission, a governmental Goliath, crushes an average David—because it can. In March of this year, a small nonprofit in Cincinnati—the Music Teachers National Association—received a letter from
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November 18, 2013
President Asterisk … [Darleen Click]
It wasn’t just the IRS neutralizing the TEA Party-minded voters prior to the 2012 elections … In the home stretch of the 2012 presidential campaign, from August to September, the unemployment rate fell sharply — raising eyebrows from Wall Street to Washington. The decline — from 8.1 percent in August to 7.8 percent in September — might not have been all it seemed. The numbers, according to a reliable source,
November 17, 2013
Please, someone do an intervention on HuffPo’s Matthew Lynch [Darleen Click]
If this isn’t parody, Lynch is in serious need of a 5150. A lot has happened since then. I am loyal to the Democratic Party and to my president, but I am not blind, deaf or dumb. I recognize that Obama has made more than one controversial decision and rocked the boat a time or two during his presidency. Sure, he has committed his share of blunders and tripped over
October 17, 2013
President Prevaricator … [Darleen Click]
Chicago Tribune — Yes, really. Last spring, President Barack Obama said “there will still be, you know, glitches and bumps” in the rollout of the new system. But what we’re seeing now is no glitch or bump. There is a growing mountain of evidence that Obamacare has fundamental problems in design and implementation. The Community Organizer says Shut up … And now that the government is reopened and this threat
October 4, 2013
Holy moly! Barry-cades around the First Amendment rights of military personnel! [Darleen Click]
If you can’t find a crisis to use, manufacture one then use it to continue to force Christians from military service In a stunning development, some military priests are facing arrest if they celebrate mass or practice their faith on military bases during the federal government shutdown. “With the government shutdown, many [government service] and contract priests who minister to Catholics on military bases worldwide are not permitted to work
October 3, 2013
TNR Senior Editor Julia Ioffe yearns for Obama’s big stick or something … [Darleen Click]
Her naughty bits feel a tingle at the thought of Obama’s tanks blowing up heretic members of Congress . What is a president in a presidential constitutional republic to do when faced with an intransigent, bull-headed faction among his people’s representatives? Well, Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s first democratically elected president, was once faced with a similar situation exactly 20 years ago, in October 1993. The parliament, then called the Supreme Soviet,