IT’S CLOWN CARS ALL THE WAY DOWN: IRS Agents As Bad With Guns As With Hard Drives. “According to a government audit, IRS Agents ‘Accidentally’ Discharged Guns 11 Times between 2009 and 2011. Some of those weapons discharges resulted in property damage or personal injury, claimed the report. In fact, agents accidentally fired their guns more times than they did intentionally, said the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.”

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: IRS Strikes Deal With Atheist Groups To Monitor Sermons And Homilies. Nothing creepy about that. . . .

THE CIA AND THE IRS: Public Servants Acting As Public Masters.

EPA document supports ~3% of atmospheric carbon dioxide is attributable to human sources

some fun stuff here: A brief history of climate panic and crisis… both warming and cooling

THIS is what the panic's over: White House Warns that Climate Change Could Reduce U.S. GDP in 2100 from $140.3 Trillion to Just $139 Trillion

Ed Driscoll

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Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as “bad luck.”

You know?

no no NO!  Im not avocating tha assasination of POTUS.  Or a king.  Talking here about the lawsuit.  The Donks are quick to forget.  Lawsuits by legislators against the president are nothing new. Many of the same Democrats attacking Speaker Boehner’s initiative happily joined all sorts of lawsuits challenging prior administrations. Some even sued Vice President Biden for failing to put an end to filibusters. What is potentially different here is that the House is seeking to challenge executive action as an institution. The interesting legal question is whether this is enough to make a difference. I’m skeptical, but it will be interesting to watch.

As an interesting sie show, these two articles hit Drudge  at the same time yesterday:

Obama to Republicans: 'Stop Just Hatin' All The Time' 

‘Nonpartisan’! Lois Lerner email bemoans right-wing ‘crazies,’ ‘assholes.’

As bad as the emails that have been released are, the ones they’re hiding must be just dreadful.

Ive long said the gubmint has three tasks:  defend the shores, deliver the mail and leave me the hell alone.  For quite some time it's at LEAST done the first two.  No longer.

Eugene Volokh:

I think, though, that the “Pilgrims = Illegal Aliens” equation illustrates the exact opposite. The whites immigrated to America — and took over the place. (I’m glad they did, but I can surely understand why the Indians might have disagreed.) Likewise, Jews immigrated to Palestine (adding vastly to the numbers already present), sometimes illegally — and eventually there were more Jews in some parts than Arabs, so Jews started running the place. Now Israelis are sensibly objecting to Palestinians’ asserted “right of return” to their and their parents’ homes, because if enough Palestinians are allowed to immigrate into Israel, they’ll start running the place.

The bottom line is that for all the good that immigration can do (and I’m an immigrant to the U.S., who is very glad that America let me in, and who generally supports immigration), unregulated immigration can dramatically change the nature of the target society. It makes a lot of sense for those who live there to think hard about how those changes can be managed, and in some situations to restrict the flow of immigrants — who, after all, will soon be entitled to affect their new countrymen’s rights and lives, through the vote if not through force.

I sometimes pose for my liberal friends a stylized thought experiment. Say that they live in a country of 3 million people (the size of New Zealand) where 55% of the citizens are pro-choice and 45% are pro-life (1.65 million vs. 1.35 million). Now the country is facing an influx of 1 million devoutly Catholic immigrants, who are 90% pro-life. If these immigrants are let in and become citizens, the balance will flip to 2.25 million pro-life to 1.75 million pro-choice (56% to 44% pro-choice); and what my friends might see as their fundamental human right to abortion may well vanish, perfectly peacefully and democratically.

It’s unlikely that any constitutional protection will stand in the way: Even constitutions can be amended, and new judges can be appointed. Nor can one rely on “education” or “assimilation” — what if the immigrants simply conclude that their views on abortion are just better than the domestic majority’s? I think many of the current residents may rightly say “We have nothing against Catholics; but we don’t want our rights changed by the arrival of people who have a different perspective on the world than we do.”

Letting in immigrants means letting in your future rulers.

If today’s immigrant wave were likely to vote Republican, all right-thinking people would be demanding deportations and a mile-wide belt of barbed wire and minefields along the border.

LIFE IN THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: Eleanor Holmes Norton says ‘you don’t have a right to know’ what’s going on in government.

THE TYPICAL AMERICAN HOUSEHOLD has seen its net worth decline by a third.

But look how these members of Congress have done.

 YOUR FEDERAL TAX DOLLARS AT WORK: A class for government workers on how to sound less Southern. Cancelled due to complaints of prejudice. “We’ve offered accent reduction training to foreign nationals for years. . . but this one obviously surprised some folks.”

But she cant afford birth control: POLITICAL ONANISM: Sandra Fluke’s biggest donor is … Sandra Fluke.

NOT THE SHARPEST KNIFE IN THE CONGRESSIONAL DRAWER: We Never Tried To Impeach Bush, Says Democratic Lawmaker Who Co-Sponsored Bush Impeachment Bill.

The law of unintended climate consequences at work – study says 23% of warming in Europe since 1980 due to clean air laws

Taking Keating’s $30,000 skeptic challenge seriously, part 1

an my fave: BREAKING: Senate report exposes the climate-environmental movement as being a cash machine controlling the EPA

War on Women, Clinton Style: Democrats must disavow a Clinton operative’s anti-woman remark.

Not So Smart: Think Progress Bites On Bachmann Satire As Real

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