back in college several of us would frequently say "the question isn't 'are you paranoid?' its 'are you paranoid ENOUGH?"

Consider the following recent comment from President Obama:

Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They’ll warn that tyranny always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices. Because what they suggest is that our brave, and creative, and unique experiment in self-rule is somehow just a sham with which we can’t be trusted.

In the context of the IRS scandal, how naïve does it seem to not maintain some form of healthy skepticism about the government? I don’t view government as “some separate, sinister entity that’s at the root of all our problems.” But I don’t view it as a nest of angels and demigods either.

Obama to Host Another Concert While Scandals Rage

"Other musical stars will perform in addition to King, including Billy Joel, James Taylor, Gloria Estefan, Jesse McCartney, Emeli Sandé, and Trisha Yearwood."

Words mean things.  A "witch hunt" conjurs up images of Salem and since we all know witches don't exist <wing, wink> it means chasing after things that don't exist.

Joe McCarthy's campaign is often referred to as a withc hunt.  It was not.  As we now know, Soviet agents had in fact infiltrated our government at all levels.  They existed.  Hence no witch hunt.

And now there's this: Cher Calls Benghazi Investigation a 'Witch Hunt'

Cher claims it's an effort to "get" Hillary.  And Hillary most surely exists, right?  So we can all now agree that Hillary is, in fact, a witch?

a reminder, or reference point, as Spring turns to Summer.

It wasn't just Patriots.  And it's not just the IRS.

Not Just the IRS: Federal Agencies Are Politicizing the FOIA Process, Too

Evidence Suggests EPA Gave Environmentalist Groups Preferred FOIA Treatment

The HHS is shaking down businesses over Obamacare: Is HHS Secretary Sebelius’s Solicitation of Private Industry Support for Obamacare Illegal, or Merely Unethical?

Remember the GM bailout?  Congressmen: Were Conservative Car Dealers Targeted for GM Closures?

Remember that voter fraud that doesn't exist?  True the Vote Founder: DOJ Scrutinized Us After IRS Filing

Remember the Teachers Union's that rioted in Wisconsin et al? Report: IRS Demanded Conservative Education Group Name Students

Things like musical instruments and airplanes are safe though, aren't they?  Flashback: President Obama Targeted Gibson Guitars, Boeing on Ideological Grounds

 Surely abortion activists played no part in this!  IRS Rejected Group on Behalf of Planned Parenthood

At least it's not ethnic: IRS Targeted Conservative Hispanic Outreach Group

How about "The Jews"?  Obama IRS Refused Tax Exempt Status to Christian and Pro-Israel Groups But Granted Nonprofit Status to Muslim Orgs

But they'll keep our medical records safe, right?  IRS Agents Stole 60 Million Medical Records, Legal Complaint Alleges

WHAT THE HELL DID YOU PEOPLE EXPECT WHEN YOU ELECTED A THUG FROM CHICAGO?????

and I think indicates the direction the SCOTUS will take end of term.

Justice Ginsburg: Roe v. Wade Was Too Sweeping, Says Prefers “Judicial Restraint”

aside from "I didn't know anything about it"

New paper finds climate models are getting worse rather than better

Dumbest POTUS ever.

Obama didn't know about Benghazi.

Obama didn't know about fast and furious.

Obama didn't know the IRS was targeting patriots while giving special treatment to subversives.

Obama didn't know about the AP wiretapping.

Obama didn't know Solyndra was insolvent.

But he knew within an hour that a third string NBA player came out of the closet and he knows inside of an hour about a twitter fight and  that is important enought to respond?

Impeachment.  Not gonna happen.  As bad as the IRS behavior has been (look for more on that soon) no actual law has been broken.  This is more an arguement against big government than it is for impeachement.  Bengazi?  More of the same.  Inept?  Of course.  Wrong?  Sure.  But not criminal and not rising to the level of a high crime or misdemeanor. 

Disagree with me?  Great.  Please cit the specific statute violated.

POTUS is ... um ... fond of using the "false choice" in his speeches.  Most of my classes have learned to recognize them.  Students occasionally stop me in the hall with "he did another last night."  Which is rewarding but I wish he'd just stop.

And to make matters worse, he's got Hillary doing it.  Her now infamous second question that followed, “Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided that they’d go kill some Americans?”: “What difference at this point does it make?” is rightly quoted as a reflection of the callousness toward finding out the truth about the death of four Americans. But the first question in some ways is even worse. By the time Secretary Clinton posed that either/or question in January, she had known for months from both intelligence reports and from the administration and State Department efforts to massage those reports, and from the efforts of diplomat Gregory Hicks and others to set the story straight, that the murders were preplanned assaults by an al-Qaeda affiliate. She knew that the attack was neither a “protest” nor “guys out for a walk” — but was still peddling scenarios that were simply untrue and designed to mislead.