Mark Levin wrote in his book Ameritopia that we are living in a post-constitutional period. With each new day, we see that our government is operating extra-constitutionally with its surveillance programs, IRS abuses, Benghazi, etc. Is this the beginning of the end of our constitutional republic?
Politics
The Forest from the Trees
Eric Cantor says in The Hill that he is going to spend a lot of time investigating the NSA leaker. In D.C., our “leaders” can’t see the forest for the trees. Mr. Cantor, this investigation is not what is important to us on the matter. But of course, you’re part of the problem.
Government’s Shakedown of Apple Worked
Juliet Eilperin has a piece on the Washington Post today titled “Former EPA head Lisa P. Jackson becomes Apple’s top environmental adviser.” The shakedown of Apple from last week worked. They will now become good corporate citizen and hire lawyers and former federal government employees.
What is Fair Government?
Instead of giving everyone access to the best, liberal governments always end up providing the worst/mediocre possible. This applies to ethics, healthcare, education, etc.
Obama’s snub of Thatcher Funeral Tells Us All We Need to Know
Many of us said that Obama is nothing but a socialist in moderates clothing while he was running. Most of us knew what he was about simply by listening to what he has said and looking at who influenced him. Clearly, he had a socialist/Marxist view.
Cut to today where the White House says they aren’t sending a representative to Britain for Margaret Thatcher’s funeral while having sent a delegation to the funeral of the Marxist dictator Hugo Chavez. Obama has clearly marked his views: Marxism over Freedom. Hopefully, everyone was watching.
Boston – DiFi’s comforting words
The Senator from California and chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee told ABC News “it it a terrorist incident… It could be foreign, it could be homegrown.”
Sheer brilliance. I’m sure the depth of your analysis comforts those affected by the tragedy.
And to think she is the one solving our problems.
Insider Trading Laws – Just for the People
Ever wonder how people of meager means go to Washington, D.C., make $160K +/- in one of the most expensive cities to live in or around, and come out millionaires? Well, ZeroHedge shows you how.
I guess insider trading laws are just for the little people.
The federal government is so corrupt. “Crony capitalism” is alive and well, only crony capitalism isn’t capitalism at all. We have allowed the liberals and progressives to corrupt our language in their attempt to demean the greatest economic philosophy in human history. Crony capitalism is bribbery and/or blackmail under the rules established by the political class to enrich themselves and their supporters. It only worsens the economic lives of those the progressives and liberals say they want to improve.
CPI
In reviewing my prior post, many low information Americans will point out that the CPI hasn’t risen that much so inflation isn’t as bad as my post infers.
Our government provides a CPI (consumer price index) that purports to prove inflation isn’t that bad. However, one simply needs to look at the things not included to understand the misleading nature. What’s not included? Well, food and energy. Why are they excluded?
The thinking is that these items are volatile and would result in wild swings in this index leading policymakers to make decisions based upon the short-term spike in the index. Further, the commodities underlying food and energy are included in the prices of items in the index so they will appear over time in the index’s value.
This is why the people often feel the index is out of touch with the reality they are experiencing at the pump and grocery store.
WA Post: Where’s the Correction/Apology?
Adam Kredo has an article at the Washington Free Beacon reporting that it was a Hamas rocket killed the son of a Gaza-based BBC reporter, not an Israeli airstrike as originally reported. The original report was carried by the WA Post.’
We will see a prominent correction to the story? You know the answer as well as I do.
Lindsay Graham/John McCain, You’re Offensive Idiots
The The Washington Examiner has an article on the Rand Paul’s filibuster and the response by the old GOP guard on the matter. The article provides that “Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., criticized Paul for posing the question. “I find the question offensive,” he said on the Senate floor this morning.”
Well Senator Graham, we, the GOP, find you offensive, and your seat is on our Tea Party radar.