Some Things To Ponder

The IRS scandal is smoldering and will at some point turn toxic for those involved in some way.  The price they will likely pay will be heavy.  Quote: " The utter contempt the Obama administration shows toward the oversight powers of Congress, toward the millions of information technology-savvy Americans who grasp the lying and silly explanations provided by the administration, and  toward federal judges who have ordered serious explanations for presumably “destroyed” e-mails is breathtaking and appalling." http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/12/the_irs_scandal_is_not_going_away.html

A discussion about Big Government's relationship with its enablers, the progressive elites.  Quote: "Intellectually undemanding progressives, excited by the likes of Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) — advocate of the downtrodden and the Export-Import Bank — have at last noticed something obvious: Big government, which has become gargantuan in response to progressives’ promptings, serves the strong. It is responsive to factions sufficiently sophisticated and moneyed to understand and manipulate its complexity.  Hence Democrats, the principal creators of this complexity, receive more than 70 percent of lawyers’ political contributions. Yet progressives, refusing to see this defect — big government captured by big interests — as systemic, want to make government an ever-more-muscular engine of regulation and redistribution."   http://www.nationalreview.com/article/394080/government-strongest-and-richest-george-will 

This item speaks to AG Holder's meddling in the affairs of local and state policing.  He is trying to shift control from local and state jurisdictions to a centralized police power located in Washington, DC.  That is a scary proposition to say the least.  Quote: "Holder and his constitutional-scholar boss are not banging the civil-rights drum because they believe these are prosecutable cases. It is just a pretext for unleashing Justice Department community organizers on state and municipal police departments."  And, "Here is how the game works. Holder streams in behind a tragedy that Sharpton and Obama have demagogued. He announces a civil-rights investigation. Eventually, he backs down from the threat of an indictment in the individual case, never conceding that the supporting evidence was not there, usually citing some strawman injustice that has nothing to do with the matter at hand — in Florida, for example, it was “stand your ground” gun laws that purportedly needed reforming. But, the attorney general is pleased to add, the original civil-rights probe of the non-crime has metastasized into a thoroughgoing civil-rights probe of the state or local police department’s training, practices, and . . . drumroll . . . institutional racism." http://www.nationalreview.com/article/394116/whats-really-going-holders-civil-rights-crusade-against-police-departments-andrew-c

Quote: "Liberal myths propagated to generate outrage and activism, to organize and coordinate and mobilize disparate grievances and conflicting agendas, so often have the same relation to truth, accuracy, and legitimacy as a Bud Light commercial. Marketing is not limited to business. Inside the office buildings of Washington, D.C., are thousands upon thousands of professionals whose livelihoods depend on the fact that there is no better way than a well-run public-relations campaign to get you to do what they want. What recent weeks have done is provide several lessons in the suspect nature of such campaigns."  And, "If the mainstream narration of our ethnic, social, and cultural life is susceptible to error, it is because liberalism is the prevailing disposition of our institutions of higher education, of our media, of our nonprofit and public sectors, and it is therefore cocooned from skepticism and incredulity and independent thought. Sometimes the truth punctures the bubble. And when that happens — and lately it seems to be happening with increasing frequency — liberalism itself goes on trial.  Has the jury reached a verdict? Yes, your honor, it has. We find the defendant guilty. Liberalism is a hoax."   http://www.nationalreview.com/article/394108/liberalism-hoax-matthew-continetti/page/0/1

Would you say this man is a total hypocrite?  It is just one of those things liberal progressive can do without the PC punishment meted out for any white who does something similarly distasteful. http://teapartyupdate.com/which-black-liberal-called-whites-crackers-and-then-said-he-wasnt-being-racist/

George Burns