Now even though the BBC is pro- global warming prepare to have the Global Cooling Deniers claim the BBC is all wet and the people cited in the article weren’t peer reviewed or weren’t endorsed by Algore hisself.

I have avoided “inside the beltway” of any major US city after dark for at least 2 decades.

“He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposed not authorized by law, and to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner”.

The progressive-leaning investigative journalism group ProPublica says the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) office that targeted and harassed conservative tax-exempt groups during the 2012 election cycle gave the progressive group nine confidential applications of conservative groups whose tax-exempt status was pending.

It is especially interesting the timing of President Obama’s remark:

“Still, you’ll hear voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s the root of all our problems, even as they do their best to gum up the works; or that tyranny always lurks just around the corner. You should reject these voices. Because what they suggest is that our brave, creative, unique experiment in self-rule is just a sham with which we can’t be trusted.”

But then I’ve always said the President’s comedic timing is great…

And we wonder why the Middle East peace talks went no where…..

John Ross, Unintended Consequences, 1996

What they don’t talk about is that the European version of “Austerity” includes “increasing revenue” into the government which is itself a sham.

First, “increasing revenue” for the government is done by increasing taxes and fees. This removes more money from the economy the consumers could have spent elsewhere.

Second, removing consumer money from the economy means less money spent by the consumer which translates into less money to business, less payroll, less VAT and ultimately drives DOWN revenue into the government coffers thereby compounding the problem they’re supposedly trying to fix.

We hear this same language here, that we need to reduce spending and increase taxes to get the government’s checkbook straightened out. But don’t fall for it… I’m reminded of an Einstein quote:

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

But that’s what it is. So if we know this is what happens why do it? Think about what those motives could be for a moment…. there aren’t many options.

"It’s very scary to know there were guns one floor below me. I had no idea," said one of Goal’s co-workers, who described him as pleasant and a hard worker. "But knowing Bernard I’m not scared."

Seriously? Afraid of an airsoft gun? Oh, I know why…

They have a range of about 140 to 300 feet and can cause flesh wounds at a close range, sources said.

Who were the sources, the Inquirer? The Psychic Hotline? Or maybe the Brady Bunch?

Six Misdemeanor charges for airguns and they wonder why we don’t believe it when they say “no one is going to come take your guns”…

Right……

In the meantime, Bishop takes pawn.

The survey also shows that 67 percent of Arizona residents believe that the state needs to elect a senator with new ideas and interests, and just 21 percent think that McCain deserves a sixth term in the upper chamber.

New ideas, heck his ideas are just fine! if you’re a Democrat!

I hope Arizona Republicans are smart enough to retire McCain in the Primarys instead of having him lose to a Democrat. I’d wager Dick Lugar will make room for him on his park bench….

Alexander Hamilton to the first group of officers of the Revenue Marine, later the US Coast Guard.

But the abuses by Federal agencies are considerably harder to deal with as the Federal agencies have been consolidation their powers since Bill Clinton refused to rein in Janet Reno – not saying she was the first but one of the most notable at that level.

GW didn’t help much with the formation of Homeland Security which the Democrats only knocked until they were able to grab the reins for themselves. So this isn’t as much a Democrat or Republican thing as it is Statism vs Federalism. And though there are more Statists in the Democrat party there is certainly no shortage of them in the Republican party including a couple of recent failed Presidential contenders.

"The global temperature standstill shows that climate models are diverging from observations," says David Whitehouse of the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

"If we have not passed it already, we are on the threshold of global observations becoming incompatible with the consensus theory of climate change," he says.

via The Australian.